Dissertation (D.M.A.) Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Ladislav Kubik, Florida State University, College of Music. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 8-20-2007). English words by Wilfred Owen printed as text preceding score. Document formatted into pages; contains 90 pages. Includes biographical sketch.

Why is it that, at a time when countless state officials are apologizing for historic wrongs and insisting that Canada has entered a period of reconciliation, many settlers continue to act towards indigenous peoples with unabated aggression and resentment? This thesis attempts to explain the continual reproduction of settler colonialism through an investigation of the processes involved in the formation of settlers as political subjects. Developing a Butlerean account of the subject, the author suggests that settlers are produced through colonial regimes as political subjects with deep and often unacknowledged investments in the reproduction of systems of oppression that provide for their material and psychic position of privilege. While the instability inherent in such systems ultimately threatens settlers themselves – as seen in the collapsing North American middle class – the fragility and precarity experienced by settlers who are targeted by neoliberal reforms often leads them to reinvest in, and aggressively defend, those very systems of power as a matter of subjective continuity. The author’s inquiry into these issues emerges from his own experience as a settler, and as an attempt to understand what motivates the aggression and resentment that many elements within his own community direct towards indigenous peoples. Because of these motivations, much of this thesis is grounded in discussions about the ways in which the author’s home community, in the southern Ontario riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, is predicated in ongoing acts of colonization. From burial ground reclamations, to mob violence, to the problems inherent in combatting white supremacy without at once critiquing settler colonialism, each of the examples brought forward in this thesis attempts to analyze why this community of settlers seemingly throbs with a collective anger and indignation that is continually directed at the Saugeen Anishinaabek. / Graduate

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Scholars have viewed African American texts written in the years between 1950 and 1960 as espousing confrontation, protest, and resistance. Although fruitful in identifying large writing trends, much of that scholarship narrowly defines what writing during that time accomplished, leaving out important writers whose writing does not fit the mold. One such writer is Owen Vincent Dodson (1914-1983), who published Boy at the Window in 1951. The novel uses modes of drama including song and call-and-response to invite reader sympathy and identification with characters, and eventually provides reader the opportunity to participate in creating meaning. Dodson's novel subtly combats racism by inviting readers to identify with its young, African American protagonist.

The origin of the Smoot family is traced to thirteenth century Holland when a vassal of the Count of Holland chose the name Smout. The family, after conspicuous service, entered the ranks of the nobility and gained a coat of arms. William Smoot contracted to perform fifty days service in the Colony of Virginia in 1633. Impressed by the new land, he settled in America.His decendent and the subject of this biography was born on February 17, 1815, in Owenton Franklin County, Kentucky, to George Smoot and Ann Rowlett who named their infant son Abraham Owen Smoot after an illustrious uncle, Colonel Abraham Owen. Young Abraham was so ill as a child that when he was nine years of age, burial clothes were prepared for his death which seemed imminent. Providence ruled otherwise. The young boy had a strong desire to live and find the true church. On March 22, 1835, at the age of twenty years, he was baptised by by Elder David Patten who in the confirmation promised Smoot that he would become strong and healthy which he did steadily from that date.After being placed in charge of a local branch, Smoot was ordained an Elder on February 26, 1836 and labored as a missionary companion to Elders David Patten and Warren Parrish. He also labored as a missionary with Wilford Woodruff with whom he journeyed to Kirtland to go through the Temple where he was ordained a Seventy on December 20.The Prophet Joseph sent Smoot back to the southern states to regain his health and to lead a company of southern saints to Missouri. Before starting south, he was promised in a Patriarchal Blessing pronounced by Joseph Smith Senior that he would recover his health and gain wisdom and fame among the saints and the Lord's protection while among his enemies. A Baptist Deacon who opposed Smoot in one of his public meetings of the journey was suddenly stricken dead.

Owen Glendower led the last military struggle of the Welsh against the English crown for Welsh independence and nationalism. The failure of the Glendower rebellion established the supremacy of English rule over Wales. For six hundred years the status of Wales as a principality of the crown has not been seriously challenged. This paper will show how widespread the idea of "Welshness" was in 1400 and how much support existed for Wales as an independent nation. Welshmen sought to move from the status of a medieval, tribal principality to a position of an independent nation capable and ready to stand with other national in the world. The role of leadership that Owen Glendower assumed in the final rebellion against the English king, Henry IV, lifted him from a popular Welsh prince to an historical legend.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:54:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edenilson Mikuska.pdf: 802856 bytes, checksum: 3869582c82ab2454c08d9fba691f684e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The subject of this study is the self-theorization in the novel Fanny Owen (1979) by Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa-Luís. The self-theorization occurs when literature looks at itself in a movement of self-reflexivity. Fanny Owen herself is entirely a self-theorization exercise. Her work is a fictional treatment of biographical facts related to historical personalities – mainly to the writer Camilo Castelo Branco, to his friend José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães, and to Fanny Owen, daughter of the British Colonel Hugh Owen , who had a leading role in the Portuguese Civil War (1828 -1834) . These three characters are involved in a love triangle. The narrative presents as a background the cultural context dominated by the Romantic movement, which has notable influence on the characters, especially on Fanny and Jose Augusto, readers of literature – mainly of Lord Byron. Given the importance that the theme of the literature appears in Fanny Owen, it seemed appropriate to allocate it in the subgenre "novel of reading", concept created by German theorist Volker Rollof. The novel of reading is that work whose reading of literature by its characters featured prominently in the plot. Such a condition of the work herein studied favors our approach of the self-theorization theme, since this category of novels, when addressing the relationship between reader and literature reading, necessarily establishes a discussion on the literary phenomenon. However, self-theorization also appears at other levels in this novel. It occurs through the narrator, who at several moments uses strategies in an attempt to be confused with the empirical author and that, moreover, mind-wanders about the art of writing. It also occurs when it portrays the writer Camilo Castelo Branco as a writer in training. Chapter I addresses specifically the self-theorization theme and reflections supported by theoretical contributions from Jonathan Culler, Antoine Compagnon, David Lodge, Umberto Eco, Lelia Pereira Duarte and Karin Volobuef. In Chapter II, it begins the study of the novel Fanny Owen discussing its main themes: the romantic culture, which appears portrayed in panorama along the plot, and the love triangle, which I analyze in accordance with the ideas of Denis de Rougemont and René Girard. The third chapter deals specifically with the self-theoretical mechanisms in the novel Fanny Owen. / O presente trabalho tem como tema a autoteorização no romance Fanny Owen (1979), da escritora portuguesa Agustina Bessa-Luís. A autoteorização ocorre quando a literatura volta o olhar sobre si mesma, num movimento de autorreflexividade. Fanny Owen é integralmente um exercício de autoteorização. A obra dá tratamento ficcional a fatos biográficos relacionados a personalidades históricas – principalmente o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco, seu amigo José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães, e Fanny Owen, filha do coronel inglês Hugh Owen, o qual teve destacado papel na Guerra Civil Portuguesa (1828-1834). Temos então estes três personagens envolvidos num triângulo amoroso. A narrativa apresenta como pano de fundo o contexto cultural dominado pelo movimento romântico, que tem notável influência nos personagens, principalmente em Fanny e José Augusto, leitores de literatura – sobretudo, de Lord Byron. Dada a importância com que o tema da literatura aparece em Fanny Owen, pareceu-me cabível alocá-lo no subgênero ―romance de leitura‖, conceito criado pelo teórico alemão Volker Rollof. O romance de leitura é a obra em que a leitura de literatura pelos personagens aparece com destaque na trama. Tal condição da obra ora estudada oportuniza a abordagem do tema da autoteorização, já que tal categoria de romances, ao tratar da relação entre leitor e leitura de literatura, estabelece necessariamente uma discussão sobre o fenômeno literário. No entanto, a autoteorização aparece também em outros níveis neste romance. Ocorre através do narrador, que em diversos momentos lança mão de estratégias na tentativa de ser confundido com o autor empírico e que, além disso, é dado a divagações sobre a arte da escrita. Ocorre também na medida em que retrata o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco como escritor em formação. O capítulo I aborda especificamente a autoteorização e conta com reflexões amparadas pelos aportes teóricos de Jonathan Culler, Antoine Compagnon, David Lodge, Umberto Eco, Lelia Pereira Duarte e Karin Volobuef. No capítulo II, começo o estudo do romance Fanny Owen, discutindo seus temas principais: a cultura romântica, a qual aparece retratada em panorama ao longo do enredo, e o triângulo amoroso, que analiso segundo as ideias de Denis de Rougemont e René Girard. O terceiro capítulo trata especificamente dos mecanismos autoteorizantes em Fanny Owen.

Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Philosophy, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Ce mémoire s'intéresse à la problématique de l'espace fantastique. Ce paramètre sous-estimé se révèle à la fois l'un des principaux facteurs d'égarement du lecteur et l'une des avenues les plus révélatrices des mécanismes du texte. L'analyse se fonde sur un corpus fantastique d'appartenance belge, regroupant des textes de Thomas Owen (« La Truie » et « 15.12.38 ») et de Jean Ray (« Dürer, l'idiot », « Le Dernier Voyageur » et « Le Psautier de Mayence »). Cette étude examine d'abord l'importance de l'adéquation réaliste de ces espaces. Elle rassemble les données topographiques que renferme le corpus et elle en analyse les paradigmes en vue de circonscrire les principaux lieux d'ouverture. Ne découvrant que des descriptions lacunaires, elle y discerne une stratégie de saturation du cadre qui raffermit les assises réalistes tout en disséminant un flou essentiel dans la configuration des lieux. Le mémoire s'attarde ensuite aux parcours des différents protagonistes pour y révéler une constante, celle du rétrécissement de la topographie jusqu'à l'exiguïté de l'espace du phénomène. Cette constatation entraîne un questionnement au sujet de l'habitabilité du fantastique, qui découvre un double mouvement, d'abord d'invasion et de contamination, puis de résistance. Cette propension explique l'impossibilité de l'habiter et détermine un rapport particulier au monde, qui désigne l'espace fantastique comme étant l'une des instances du phénomène. Partant de ce constat, l'étude se penche sur les caractéristiques des principaux décors de formation fantastique pour y déceler une forme particulière de théâtralisation, une tendance à réifier les personnages ainsi qu'un usage singulier de la luminosité. Dans le but de déterminer plus avant les ramifications du processus, le mémoire emploie les notions « d'embrayeur » et de « débrayeu r» pour y relever une caractéristique fondatrice, l'hétérogénéité. Il précise ensuite leur contribution à la conception de l'espace et différencie leurs divers usages. L'étude détaillée de ces procédés fondamentaux conduit à l'analyse des aberrations spatiales, des indéterminations et des jeux de repères spatiaux. Finalement, l'analyse focalise sur les spécificités textuelles de ces espaces et s'attarde aux figures et aux tropes qui les marginalisent. Ainsi, l'antithèse et l'oxymore, la comparaison, la répétition, l'énumération et l'effet de liste, l'onomastique, le doublet négatif, la prétérition rhétorique, les effets de retardement et les figures du vide, les trous et les absences définissent la singularité de ses paramètres. Par la suite, l'analyse du paysage « sensible », tablant sur les personnifications, dévoile l'une des stratégies essentielles de ces textes. En dernier lieu, l'étude du paysage « senti » examine la contribution des sollicitations « sensuelles » à la constitution de ces espaces. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Égarement, Espace, Fantastique, Hétérogénéité, Jean Ray, Thomas Owen, Littérature belge.

This study is based on the Owen-Wendt-Rabel and Kaelble method¡Aand we using several substrates which's surface energy is already known to determind the surface eneygy of liquid. We measure the contact angle of the liquid on the substract to calculate the dispers part and the polar part of the surface enerfy. And then we compare the system with different sets of substrates and choose one proper set to be the standard substrates.Finally we test the system by several common liquid which¡¦s surface energy is already known,and measure the surface energy of liquid crystal. In this study,we found that the surface energy of the liquid crystal on an alignment layer is anisotropy,and discuss requirements of the standard substrate.