Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009. / Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 23, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-151). Also issued in print.

Habilitationsschrift--Kiel. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-234).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in French." Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-442).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 1970. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [92]-95).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008. / A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Psychology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Directed by Williams Cowling; submitted to the School of Nursing. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 17, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-237).

Thesis (Doctoral)--Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie, U.F.R. sciences de l'homme, spécialité langue et littérature française, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Background: This thesis examines the impact of dream or wish fulfilment on seriously ill children and their families. Dream or wish fulfilment is operationalised as the actualisation of a seriously ill child’s wish by a charity that provides desired experiences. Anecdotal reports suggest that the experience of having a dream or a wish fulfilled can provide seriously ill children and their families with a sense of hope and time away from illness. However, little empirical research has been conducted in this area. This thesis reports the impact of dream fulfilment on the psychosocial well-being of ill children and their families. The research questions are: what is the experience of having a dream fulfilled for the child? What is the impact of dream fulfilment on the family? Methods: A constructivist grounded theory methodology was adopted, using theoretical sampling to recruit families from across the UK. Twenty-one families were interviewed, including 15 dream recipients, 8 siblings, and 24 parents. Analysis followed the grounded theory methodology of simultaneous data collection and development of theory, resulting in analytic interpretations of participants’ worlds. Results and Conclusions: This thesis reports for the first time a theory and accompanying theoretical model, that explain the impact of dream fulfilment on families’ lives. The generated theory suggests that dream fulfilment was conceptualised as an alternative milestone in seriously ill children and their families’ lives. Additionally, the dream experience shifted perceptions of illness by providing instances and experiences where illness did not underscore family life. Findings additionally suggest that the dream fulfilment process provided families with ill children, who often felt excluded and stigmatised from services, with a period of much needed support. Findings also highlight the unintended negative consequences of dream fulfilment. Implications for Dreams Come True, and other dream and wish fulfilment organisations are discussed.

This thesis considers time and narrative play in dream poems and framed narratives. It begins with a chapter on the history of time perceptions and time-telling, and explores how ideas about time influenced medieval writers. It also surveys some modern views on the history of time-measurement a nd its influences on culture and the collective consciousness. Chapter two, after analysing the treatment of time in the Roman de la Rose, surveys some of the ways in which modern criticism has evaluated and conceived the genre of secular dream literature that developed from the Roman de la Rose. Chapter three examines the innovative use of the convention of beginning a poem with a seasonal opening and theorises that this becomes a `language' open to adaptation and variation. Chapter four looks in detail at Froissart's L`Orloge amoureus and discusses the clock as a new object which, contrary to the views of cultural historians, was embraced by medieval writers, religious and secular, to symbolise a range of virtues, qualities and ideas. I argue that the clock inspired creativity rather than heralding a rationalisation of the mind that would stifle imaginative responses to this new technology. Chapter five explores metafictional and self-reflexive devices in Froissart's Joli Buisson de Jonece and Chaucer's House of Fame. I consider how these texts play with narrative time and sequence by writing the genesis of the text into the poem. Finally, chapter six examines ideas of closure in medieval dream poetry and looks specifically at the reciprocity and inconclusiveness of the Judgement poems of Guillaume de Machaut. Because the second poem reverses the decision of the first poem, it brings into question the authority of the text and the unity of the authorial voice.

109f. / Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-04-11T19:30:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Luiz Leiteseg.pdf: 692922 bytes, checksum: 81625d94160efba2255205bb4ced4753 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Alice Ribeiro(malice@ufba.br) on 2013-05-02T16:05:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Luiz Leiteseg.pdf: 692922 bytes, checksum: 81625d94160efba2255205bb4ced4753 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-02T16:05:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Luiz Leiteseg.pdf: 692922 bytes, checksum: 81625d94160efba2255205bb4ced4753 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / O presente trabalho estuda os sonhos no candomblé, sua natureza importância e simbologia, entre indivíduos do candomblé ketu baiano e do xangô pernambucano. O trabalho utiliza como base teórica os pressupostos daquela que se convencionou a chamar de ´nova antropologia onírica`, termo cunhado por Barbara Tedlock em artigo de mesmo nome publicado no Dreamg: journal of association for study of dreams, em 1991. Para a ´nova antropologia onírica`, o sonho é analisado como evento comunicacional compartilhado capaz de remeter aos aspectos culturais de um grupo em estudo. Dá-se atenção ao contexto em que o sonho é narrado, ao sistema interpretativo da própria cultura em estudo a à experiência individual do sonhador. Realizamos, então, uma exposição do candomblé: de sua origem como religião africana a sua organização social e litúrgica como culto afro-brasileiro. Com base nos pressupostos da nova antropologia onírica, analisamos os sonhos colhidos em campo a partir das categorias encontradas durante a pesquisa: natureza dos sonhos, sonhos iniciáticos, sonhos sexuais, sonhos e ebós, os ´sonhadores mensageiros` e a forma dos orixás em sonhos. Ainda expomos alguns casos mais completos, onde pudemos analisar os sonhos em uma de suas principais funções: a de chamamento religioso. / Salvador