Esta dissertação constitui uma análise do nacionalismo presente na obra do poeta escocês Robert Burns. Observando conceitos sobre nação e nacionalismo, investigando a invenção e manutenção de tradições, e traçando momentos históricos importantes para a formação da identidade nacional, é nosso objetivo analisar poemas e canções de Burns em busca de elementos que constroem uma imagem da Escócia como nação. / This dissertation presents an analysis of the nationalism in works of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. By dealing with concepts related to nation and nationalism, by investigating the invention and preservation of traditions, and by pointing out historical events which may have been influential to the shaping of the national identity, our goal is to analyse poems and songs by Burns in search of elements that build an image of Scotland as a nation.

Esta dissertação constitui uma análise do nacionalismo presente na obra do poeta escocês Robert Burns. Observando conceitos sobre nação e nacionalismo, investigando a invenção e manutenção de tradições, e traçando momentos históricos importantes para a formação da identidade nacional, é nosso objetivo analisar poemas e canções de Burns em busca de elementos que constroem uma imagem da Escócia como nação. / This dissertation presents an analysis of the nationalism in works of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. By dealing with concepts related to nation and nationalism, by investigating the invention and preservation of traditions, and by pointing out historical events which may have been influential to the shaping of the national identity, our goal is to analyse poems and songs by Burns in search of elements that build an image of Scotland as a nation.

Robert Kroetsch, a contemporary Canadian novelist, poet, and critic, can often be found investigating systems of ordering: he examines their contrasting characteristics of symmetry and arbitrariness; necessity and inanity; their potential to be both banal and surprising. My thesis on Robert Kroetsch's aesthetic comprises twenty-six chapters, each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. Kroetsch's work has increasingly come to be affiliated with the "language poets"; his absorption with system invariably leads him back to the nature of the linguistic sign, and the possibilities and limitations of significance. For example, both Kroetsch's most recent novel, What the Crow Said, and "The Sad Phoenician," a long poem in which he reflects upon his identity as a writer, focus on the alphabet. In Crow, the nature of the alphabet as a paradoxically enabling and confining structure is explored thematically; in "Phoenician," the alphabetization of stanzas forms the enabling and confining structure of the text. Thus, the form of my thesis responds to those of Kroetsch; it is a form which becomes, finally, a thesis in itself. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

Robert Whytt was born in Edinburgh on the 6th of September, 1714. His father was a member of the Scottish Bar, and his mother was Jean, daughter of Anthony Murray of Woodend in Perthehire. The family is usually said to be derived from the noble French family of Le Blancs, "their armorial bearings being nearly similar", but Seller in his Memoir of Whytt states that the Whytts probably "represent the Witts of Friesland, one of whom, Witta the son of Wicte the grandfather of Hengist and Horsa, according to the probable conclusion of Professor Simpson in his very ingenious memoir entitled "The Catstane", lies buried beneath a gigantic monolith of greenstone on the banks of the Almond, but a few miles from Edinburgh".

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The purpose of this study is to investigate Harley's activities in the years from 1710 to 1713, a short but extremely important period of Harley's life. Emphasis will be placed on Harley as a parliamentary and party leader and on the personal and political connections that made him successful as both.

This thesis has two primary objectives. The first is the presentation and the evaluation of various critical dicta regarding Browning's prowess as a thinker. The second is an attempt to recast Browning's religious and philosophical attitudes into the terms of evolutionism and skepticism.

This is a book about the forty-four years my father has spent as a veterinarian. The book begins with his life growing up on a Nebraska farm and describes how he decided to become a veterinarian. I detail some of the most memorable times in his life, such as serving as a veterinarian in the Air Force and starting out in private practice. Readers will be introduced to some of the characters he has met along the way -- both human and animal -- and to controversies in the ever-changing world of veterinary medicine.