This thesis investigates the way that moral and aesthetic concerns about the relationship between fiction and reality are manifested in the work of particular novelists writing at different periods in the nineteenth century, Chapter One examines an early-century subgenre of the novel that features deluded female readers who fail to differentiate between fantasy and reality, and who consequently attempt to live their lives according to foolish precepts learned from novels. The second chapter deals with the realist aesthetic of W. M. Thackeray; focusing on the techniques by which his fiction marks its own relationship both to less realistic fiction and to reality itself. The final chapter discusses Oscar Wilde's critical stance that art is meaningful and intellectually satisfying, while reality and realism are aesthetically worthless: it then goes on the explore how these ideas play out in his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. / iv, 120 leaves ; 28 cm.

Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. This type of comedy is often represented by stereotypical characters, such as the fallen woman, the good woman and the young innocent maiden, all three of which I will investigate in this essay.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A group of well-to-do women formally organized the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Society with the goal to open kindergartens for children like Onis Williams. Reverend Oscar C. McCulloch, a social gospel proponent, was influential in organizing these women as well as several other Indianapolis charitable organizations. The clubwomen of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Society collected funds and goods from local businesses and wealthy businessmen to support their work; the clubwomen also hosted teas, parties, and an annual ball to raise money. At first, the women of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Society (hereafter IFK) opened kindergartens and distributed clothing to young children in the poorest districts of the city. Over time, however, IFK expanded to include adult programs, programs for children of all ages, and opened a teachers’ training school. This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter will focus on the Indiana Primary and Normal Training School, the teacher training school run by IFK. The second chapter will discuss the various social and academic programs available to Indianapolis children, including the actual kindergarten. The third chapter will focus on six different programs available to mothers whose children attended kindergartens and other programs. This thesis will show how some Indianapolis clubwomen used the teacher’s school, the kindergartens, and the programs for mothers of IFK to create a successful Progressive program that endured for nearly seventy years.

I denna uppsats undersöks likheter och skillnader mellan huvudkaraktärerna i Kerstin Thorvalls Det mest förbjudna (1976) och Martina Montelius Oscar Levertins vänner (2015) utifrån figurationen av den kvinnliga grotesken. Den kvinnliga grotesken är hon som gör ett spektakel av sig själv och omkullkastar hierarkierna genom att inte bete sig enligt den normativa kvinnorollen – hon är en emancipatorisk figuration som har möjlighet att trotsa rådande maktordningar. En komparativ närläsning görs av romanernas huvudkaraktärer utifrån fem valda aspekter: Den manliga blicken, Plikten som kvinna, Kladdet och den groteska kroppen, Skrattet och att göra ett spektakel av sig själv samt Sexuella begär och skam. Uppsatsens teoretiska begrepp hämtas i första hand från Anna Lundbergs Allt annat än allvar - Den komiska kvinnliga grotesken i svensk samtida skrattkultur (2008) och Mary Russos The female grotesque: risk, excess and modernity (1995). Avslutningsvis diskuteras hur båda romanerna skildrar kvinnliga utvecklingshistorier där huvudkaraktärerna bejakar sina inre grotesker och på så sätt undviker samhällets konventioner. Den kvinnliga grotesken har inte förändrats nämnvärt under de senaste 40 åren, utan de kvinnliga plikter och normer som upplevdes tryckande under 70-talet gör sig påminda än idag och den rebelliskt tvära attityden mot dessa är lika stark hos båda huvudkaraktärerna.

This thesis examines Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” as the product of Wilde’s long interest in critic Walter Pater’s literature and scholarship. From its first iteration published in 1889, through Wilde’s ongoing revision and expansion into the version commonly anthologized today, “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” is an evolving work that mirrors Wilde’s enduring relationship with the art and ideas of his former teacher. This relationship is explored in three contexts: Pater’s contribution to Wilde’s understanding of the Renaissance period; the steady influence of Pater’s ideas and persona on Wilde’s other major works from the period that saw the publication and revision of “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.;” and the particular influence of Pater’s Imaginary Portraits on the structure and themes of “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” Because of Pater’s extensive writings on art, and Wilde’s passionate interest in the subject, many of these intersections occur around the image of the portrait in Wilde’s work.

This thesis focuses on the transfer of Czech linguistic and cultural characteristics through English subtitles. Using four Oscar-nominated Czech films, it endeavours to explain to what extent English subtitles can influence and assist the understanding and artistic values of a Czech feature film when screened to a foreign audience. The paper is of a theoretical- empirical nature. Firstly, the parameters of audiovisual translation are described, together with the technical and linguistic features of subtitling, followed by a definition of culture-bound references categories. As part of the research, Western understanding and appreciation of Czech artistic heritage is summarised. The empirical part presents an analysis of culture- bound references transfer. Excerpts are taken from the Czech films The Wild Bees (Divoké včely), Up and Down (Horem pádem), Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále). The results of the analysis are contrasted with a survey on the reception of The Wild Bees film conducted with native speakers of English. Keywords audiovisual translation (AVT), subtitling, ideological and aesthetic reception, culture-bound references, Oscar, Czech feature film

Two Rooms, by Lee Blessings, was selected for performance at the University of New Orleans during the fall of 2015. I studied and portrayed the role of Lainie Wells as my thesis project. The purpose of my thesis was to research a character physically, psychologically, and emotionally as an actress and create a character through the eyes of Lainie Wells. The following is a brief breakdown of the structure of my written thesis: biography of Lee Blessing, hostage families and their mental state as it relates to the Iranian hostage crisis, mass media effects on Syria, The Hunt for Bin Laden, the rehearsal process, and a scored script including all actions and objectives; a review of my work, my own conclusions based on my process and character arc, photographs of my performance, a professional headshot along with my resume to highlight the significance to my work as an artist.

Many people remember Oscar Pistorius as the handicapped athlete given the opportunity to compete with non-handicapped racers. Thanks to his results, diligence and perseverance, he a model in society. His successful sports career was interrupted by a case that awoke the emotions of both foreign media and the Czech Republic. Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a house in Pretoria, South Africa. From a celebrated athlete who served as an example to others, in one day he became a man suspected of murdering his partner. Pistorius can be called a fallen sports hero who experienced great sports achievements and fame in his life, as well as police, court and prison investigations. With all this, pressure was exerted on him by the media that reported on the subject. This thesis intends to map the media image of Oscar Pistorius in selected online news servers iSport.cz and iDnes.cz, and to answer the question of how his representation in the media gradually changed during individual periods. The analysis should also demonstrate how the Pistorius' image changed after being found guilty. Through a qualitative content analysis, selected myths, frameworks, elements of celebrities typical of the representation of famous figures, will be interpreted in specific examples of selected texts and, last...

Lee Kar Man Ida. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-108). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 論文提要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.v / "Introduction The Victorian Age, the Literary Double and Freedom" --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter I --- Struggle against Restraints: Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde --- p.24 / Chapter Chapter II --- The Ambition to Transgress: Locating Freedom in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray --- p.52 / Chapter Chapter III --- Jekyll and Dorian: Impossible Mission to Achieve an Unrestrained Freedom against the Social Orthodoxy --- p.77 / Works Cited List --- p.101

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-11T12:45:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vera Lucia da Silva Azeredo Pereira Barretto.pdf: 326063700 bytes, checksum: 735e663ee454115277d7e27f66ae8b79 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-11T12:45:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vera Lucia da Silva Azeredo Pereira Barretto.pdf: 326063700 bytes, checksum: 735e663ee454115277d7e27f66ae8b79 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-28 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This research project sets out to investigate how brands as addressors in the sports fashion universe organize their discourses so as to exhibit new ways of life in stores. In situ observation is the basis for an endeavor to understand the discursive mechanisms — enunciatory, thematic, figurative and plastic — deployed to foster belief in these enunciations as verdictive, so that credibility leads to their being taken up as life aspirations. Discursive strategies and types of interaction are mapped, and these constructions are then systematized in a typology comprising types of interactions and types of store and consumer. The choice of stores in the sportswear segment is motivated by the action of these addressors, which transcend the role of proposing forms of dress to present contemporary ways of urban life, in a move aligned with the growing importance of everyday physical activity for people who live in São Paulo. Observation leads to a corpus consisting of four stores — Track&Field, Adidas, Nike and Asics — which together form the sports quadrilateral of Rua Oscar Freire, São Paulo’s emblematic upmarket shopping street. The theoretical and methodological foundations range from the semiotics of Greimas, particularly as developed in Landowski’s sociosemiotics, highlighting sensitivity, visibility, public versus private, and the role of interactions in the apprehension and construction of meaning; to Oliveira’s developments regarding enunciations in discursive interactions, meaning apprehended in action, esthesia, and syncretism; and the semiotic contributions to marketing, brand management and consumer behavior studies of Floch, Pezzini, Cervelli, Semprini, Ceriani, and Ciaco. The analysis of store plasticity follows research on window displays by Oliveira and Demetresco. The investigation shows that the discourses of sports brands across all communication channels evidence a certain distancing from the concept of sports linked solely to performance and a tendency to highlight values closer to people’s everyday lives such as well-being, health, fashion, and beauty. Brands in this segment enunciate ways of living that reiterate these values as lifestyles, and when these lifestyles are displayed in the valuable space of a store on an iconic street like Rua Oscar Freire they acquire prescriptive force, leading individuals to believe in the need to adopt and appropriate this axiology as essential to their participation in contemporary urban life. The study also aims to link semiotics to brand management and visual merchandising, offering a rigorous scientific framework for brand communication strategies / Esta pesquisa investiga como os destinadores marcas, no universo de moda esportiva, organizam seus discursos de maneira a expor nas lojas novos modos de viver a vida. A partir da observação in loco, busca-se compreender quais são os mecanismos discursivos empregados — enunciativos, temáticos, figurativos e plásticos — para fazer crer nesses enunciados como veridictórios, de modo que, credíveis, passam a ser seguidos como lema de vida. Mapeadas as estratégias discursivas e os tipos de interação, essas construções são sistematizadas numa tipologia tanto dos tipos de interações, quanto dos tipos de lojas e de consumidores. A escolha por lojas do segmento de sportswear é motivada pela ação desses destinadores, que ultrapassa o papel de propor modos de vestir e passa a apresentar modos de viver a vida urbana na contemporaneidade, movimento alinhado à crescente importância da atividade física no cotidiano, recortado no estudo do paulistano. A observação levou a um corpus constituído pelas lojas: Track&Field, Adidas, Nike e Asics, que juntas formam o quadrilátero esportivo da Oscar Freire, rua emblemática do consumo paulistano. A fundamentação teórica e metodológica é da semiótica de Greimas, particularmente seu desenvolvimento na sociossemiótica de Landowski, com aprofundamentos do sensível, visibilidade, público e privado e ao papel das interações na apreensão e construção do sentido; as elaborações de Oliveira acerca da enunciação nas interações discursivas, do sentido apreendido em ato, da estesia e do sincretismo; as contribuições semióticas ao marketing, à gestão de marcas e ao consumo de Floch; Pezzini; Cervelli; Semprini; Ceriani e Ciaco. A análise da plasticidade das lojas seguirá estudos sobre vitrinas de Oliveira e Demetresco. A investigação apontou que os discursos das marcas de moda esportiva, nas diversas mídias, evidenciam um certo afastamento do conceito do esporte ligado apenas à performance e passam a dar visibilidade a valores de bem-estar, saúde, moda e esteticidade aproximando-se do cotidiano dos indivíduos. As marcas desse segmento enunciam modos de viver de maneira a reiterar esses valores como estilos de vida que, ao serem apresentados no espaço valorizado de uma loja de rua icônica, ganham força de prescrição, levando o indivíduo a acreditar na necessidade de adoção e apropriação dessa axiologia como aspecto essencial para sua inserção na vida da urbe contemporânea. Esse estudo promoveu uma aproximação entre semiótica, gestão de marcas e visual merchandising, oferecendo um arcabouço científico rigoroso às estratégias comunicacionais das marcas