Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies (cited also as the “Bradbury Center” or the “Center”) is a single author archive, museum, and outreach center housed in the Institute for American Thought, located in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. This dissertation employs a case study methodology to explore the complex issue of single author archive management and sustainability as it applies to the Bradbury Center by extending the research process beyond working with primary sources and published materials. The applied research project unfolded in two phases. The first involved an intensive four-day on-site consultation in which five professional archivists and preservation experts from across the Midwest visited the Bradbury Center and examined its collections and policies. Following their visit, the consultants prepared recommendations concerning artifacts, manuscripts, correspondence, physical layout, access, operational procedures, processing priorities, and environmental/climate control for artifacts. The on-site consultation team also informed objectives, goals, and strategies for addressing the preservation needs of the Center’s vast and varied collections, aiding in systematically moving forward with curatorial initiatives, and planning for general organizational development. The second research phase involved site visits to five peer institutions to tour facilities, interview directors and archivists about best practices, and established a plan for adapting these practices to the Bradbury Center. Findings from both research phases inform the Bradbury Center’s immediate and long-term plans for center staff, fundraising, spatial expansion and renovation, and the Center’s strategy for identifying key constituencies as it endeavors to serve a broad spectrum of public and academic audiences through various outreach and programming initiatives. Upon completion of the case study field research, a formal report was prepared. That report serves as the cornerstone for this applied dissertation. Additional chapters cast a vision for the Bradbury Center and address potential opportunities to serve the Indianapolis region by tapping into tourism markets, conventions, and local cultural festivals and celebrations while also developing into an international research hub as the sole entity that preserves the material legacy of Ray Bradbury. The introductory chapter situates the Bradbury Center within the legacy of the central figure of the Center—Ray Bradbury.

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Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-05-12T12:54:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 YURE DE FREITAS PIRES.pdf: 1239854 bytes, checksum: d8a54fb67c48c869478b3188e1d826ef (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T12:54:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 YURE DE FREITAS PIRES.pdf: 1239854 bytes, checksum: d8a54fb67c48c869478b3188e1d826ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-15 / This work contributes to the definition and understanding of the science fiction that both lacks clarification and definition for many admirers or not, both scholars and readers, for confusing a science fiction with other styles, those arising from fantasy, horror, realism, realism Fantastic, among many others. We draw a time line with three works of science fiction to more effectively demonstrate a regency of his art about facts that permeate a reality and imaginary, a science and a literature. Such works as What are The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1984 by George Orwell and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. In addition to the portrayal here as functions that differ from the elements inherited from other literary genres and their transmutations, a question of an element for man throughout his evolutionary process, a war. We use war as the most defining of scientific and technological progress, banks are broadly defined in these three works. And finally, about these requirements, what is more inherent in science fiction is its feedback between the real and imaginative, imaginative and real. / Este trabalho vem colaborar para uma compreensão a mais da ficção científica por leitores a fim de que não confundam a ficção científica com outros estilos, já que essa ficção advém da fantasia, horror, realismo, realismo fantástico, entre diversos outros sedimentos. Traçamos uma linha temporal com três obras de ficção científica para demonstrar, com mais eficiência a regência de sua arte sobre fatos que permeiam a realidade e o imaginário, a ciência e a literatura. São objetos de estudo as A Guerra dos Mundos de H. G. Wells, 1984 de George Orwell e As Crônicas Marcianas de Ray Bradbury. Além de retratar aqui as funções que se diferenciam dos elementos herdados de outros gêneros literários e suas transmutações, cunhamos a questão de um elemento chave para o homem em seu processo evolutivo, a guerra. Usamos a guerra como maior definidor do progresso científico e tecnológico, os quais são amplamente descritos nestas três obras. E por fim, sobre esses requisitos, o que mais é inerente à ficção científica é sua retroalimentação entre o real e imaginativo, imaginativo e real.

Esta dissertação busca analisar como o romance Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury lida com seu contexto histórico e qual é a resolução simbólica sugerida para o problema por ele apontado. Para tanto, traçaremos paralelos entre o cenário político-social da sociedade fictícia do romance e os Estados Unidos entre 1945 até 1953, data de sua publicação oficial. / The purpose of this research is to analyze how the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, deals with its historical context and which is the symbolic resolution suggested for the issues noted. Therefore, parallels will be drawn between the political-social scene described in its fictional society and that of the United States from 1945 until 1953, the novels official publication date.

Esta dissertação busca analisar como o romance Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury lida com seu contexto histórico e qual é a resolução simbólica sugerida para o problema por ele apontado. Para tanto, traçaremos paralelos entre o cenário político-social da sociedade fictícia do romance e os Estados Unidos entre 1945 até 1953, data de sua publicação oficial. / The purpose of this research is to analyze how the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, deals with its historical context and which is the symbolic resolution suggested for the issues noted. Therefore, parallels will be drawn between the political-social scene described in its fictional society and that of the United States from 1945 until 1953, the novels official publication date.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009. / Title from screen (viewed on September 30, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jonathan R. Eller, William F. Touponce, Stephen L. Fox. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70).

This thesis studies Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 using Critical Discourse Analysis as the primary tool. It argues that the narrative develops through the supporting characters’ actions, and the different societal discourses of hegemony, otherness and class struggle they represent. Basing the analysis on Althusserian and Gramscian ideas and discussing citizen’s transformation from subjects to individuals, this study concludes that although a subject may be power-less and wary, it is by learning to act through being given information through discourse that personal development occurs.

Indiana University, Purdue University- Indianapolis / Current models of public intellectualism rely upon arbitrary and oftentimes elitist criteria. The work of Corey Robin, when combined with that of Antonio Gramsci, provides a reproducable, and scalable, series of tests for consideration of indivduals as public intellectuals. This work takes author Ray Bradbury as an example of public intellectuals who are often missed using current schemas . Bradbury serves as a test case of public intellectualism in the early Cold War period in the United States based upon this new formulation. It examines Bradbury’s work in light of the historical situation in which Bradbury operated, his work’s comparitive arguments in relation to contemporary intellectuals, and reviews some of the influence Bradbury exerted on future generations.

In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451. The plot is set in a fictional, North American future. This essay aims to show that what is considered normal regarding fundamental values such as knowledge, love, and respect in this imaginary future society is different from what was considered normal in North America in the 1950s when Bradbury wrote the book. The norms differ to such an extent that it is possible to claim that Fahrenheit 451 is set in a new episteme. Episteme is a term used by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. It designates a time in which society has an underlying understanding of what is considered normal. According to Michel Foucault, the year 1953 when Bradbury wrote the book, belonged to the episteme of Modernity. This essay aims to illustrate that in the future fictional society of Fahrenheit 451, the norm regarding some aspects of the culture has changed to the extent that there is reason to call the era a new episteme, and that a proper name would be the episteme of Ignorance. This name signals the lack of regard for knowledge in the society of Fahrenheit 451. This essay's analytical tools are Michel Foucault’s terms, theories, and concepts.  Keywords: Episteme, Michel Foucault, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, knowledge, ignorance, norms, power.