В данной магистерской диссертации исследуются окказионализмы, созданные Терри Пратчеттом, в сопоставлении с их русскими эквивалентами. Рассматриваются способы конструирования окказиональной лексики в оригинале и переводе романов «Мор, ученик Смерти» и «Мрачный жнец», определена частотность использованных способов перевода. В русле существующих теорий эквивалентности доказана зависимость используемого способа перевода от степени семантической нагруженности индивидуально-авторского онима или реалии, а равно от типологической принадлежности каждой окказиональной единицы. / This master's thesis studies the occasional words created by Terry Pratchett as compared to their Russian equivalents. The ways of constructing occasional words in English and Russian variants of the novels "Mort" and "Reaper Man" are considered, the frequency of the applied translation methods is defined. Within the existing theories of equivalence, the dependence of the applied method of translation on the degree of semantic meaningfulness of the individual author’s word is proved, as well as on the typological peculiarities of each occasional lexeme.

El inicio del segundo gobierno de Fernando Belaunde Terry determinó un nuevo periodo en las telecomunicaciones del Perú. La devolución de las emisoras de televisión a sus dueños, el surgimiento de la señal cromática y la tecnología vía satélite permitieron integrar a la población nacional a través de su frecuencia. El interés mundial en los espectáculos televisivos más los lucrativos y los beneficios comerciales impulsaron a Panamericana Televisión a negociar la realización del certamen Miss Universo 1982 en coproducción con la televisión norteamericana, gracias al apoyo del Estado, el cual decidió aprovechar el acontecimiento para lograr un ambicioso comercial turístico del país. No obstante, el acontecer nacional estaba marcado por un efervescente clima de disconformidad ante la situación de crisis económica y política que afrontaba el Perú. Esta coyuntura generaba una profunda movilización social en contra de la gestión gubernamental. En ese sentido, el certamen internacional sería interpretado por varios sectores de la población como una forma de eludir la difícil realidad nacional mediante el entrenamiento. La presente tesis es un análisis del uso político de las telecomunicaciones a inicios de la década de los 80, de la forma como el espectáculo funge como un medio para la promoción e integración a través de la tecnología televisiva venidera.

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1938 H63

A new technique to qualitatively measure distortion in dynamically controlled audio systems using non-stationary noise sequences is explored and compared to traditional methods based upon stationary test signals. This technique can easily be adapted to give a qualitative measure of distortion as a function of the perceived Sound Pressure Level (SPL).

El transcurso de la agendacion y adopción de una política social no es un proceso sencillo. El presente estudio toma el caso de la política de población/planificación familiar adoptada en 1985 durante la restauración de la democracia con el gobierno de Fernando Belaunde Terry. Previamente, se analizará el proceso por la cual atraviesa los intentos de la política de población durante los gobiernos militares de Velasco Alvarado donde se asienta una ideología anti – imperialista pro natalista y Morales Bermúdez donde se permite una mayor apertura en temas de planificación familiar. Los presentes gobiernos no han sido analizados previamente desde un enfoque de política comparada en torno al tema de planificación familiar. Asimismo, la política de planificación familiar intercede en asuntos demográficos, morales, salud y libertad individual, los cuales son fundamentales para el rol del Estado. Finalmente, el presente estudió busca mostrar que los siguientes factores fueron determinantes para la adopción de la política de población: el régimen político, las ideologías y los actores sociales durante dichos gobiernos. / Tesis

De nos jours, les propriétés sensorielles des matériaux font l'objet d'une attention croissante tant au point de vue hédonique qu'utilitaire. Notre thèse s'inscrit dans une recherche visant à établir les bases d'une approche métrologique instrumentale permettant la caractérisation des similarités visuelles entre textures «de même nature». Notre objectif spécifique a été de faire le lien entre une évaluation métrologique instrumentale des textures «lumineuses» produites par des surfaces texturées colorées et une évaluation basée sur des tests psychophysiques réalisés par des observateurs humains. Ces tests psychophysiques ont consisté en des épreuves de classement d'images texturées colorées biphasées suivant un critère de contraste visuel. Les données de classement collectées ont été analysées à l'aide de deux approches statistiques. La première considère l'ajustement d'un modèle factoriel à effets fixes aux statistiques des rangs moyens. La seconde approche est basée sur l'ajustement aux données d'une extension du modèle de Mallows-Bradley-Terry (MBT), sous-classe du modèle de Babington Smith. L'estimation des paramètres des modèles de MBT par le maximum de vraisemblance a été résolue à l'aide d'algorithmes MM et une évaluation par une méthode MCMC du vecteur des scores. Un test d'hypothèse basé sur une statistique du rapport de vraisemblance évaluée par une méthode de Monte Carlo a été proposé pour décider entre l'hypothèse de discernabilité perceptive des textures et celle de non discernabilité. Les résultats obtenus par les deux approches montrent que la qualité sensorielle de contraste visuel se présente bien comme un continuum sensoriel que l'on peut quantifier en construisant perceptivement une échelle de discernabilité.

Ecocritical theology relates to American fiction as it connects nature and spirituality. In my development of the term “neo-pastoral” I begin with Virgil’s Eclogues to serve as examples for spiritual and nature related themes. Virgil’s characters in “The Dispossessed” represent people’s alienation from the land. Meliboeus must leave his homeland because the Roman government has reassigned it to their war veterans. As he leaves Meliboeus wonders why fate has rendered this judgment on him and yet has granted his friend Tityrus a reprieve. Typically, pastoral literature represents people’s longing to leave the city and return to the spiritual respite of the country. When Meliboeus begins his journey he does not travel toward a specific geographical location. Because the gods have forced him from his land and severed his spiritual connection to nature he travels into the unknown. This is the starting point from which I develop neo-pastoral threads in contemporary literature and discuss the alienation that people experience when they are no longer connected to a spirit of the land or genius loci. Neo-pastoralism relates Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope and the expansion of the narrative voice of the novel to include the time/space dialogic. Neo-pastoral fiction shows people in their quest to find spirituality in spite of damage from chemical catastrophic events and suggests they may turn to technology as an ideological base to replace religion. The (anti) heroes of this genre often feel no connection with Judeo-Christian canon yet they do not consider other models of spirituality. Through catastrophes related to the atomic bomb, nuclear waste accidents, and the realization of how chemical pollutants affect the atmosphere, neo-pastoral literature explores the idea of apocalypticism in the event of mass annihilation and the need for canonical reformation. The novels explored in this dissertation are John Updike’s Rabbit, Run; Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49; Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer; Don DeLillo’s White Noise; Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead; Toni Morrison’s Paradise; and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

This submission comes in two parts; the written dissertation, Contemporary art: the key issues, and the exhibition Melbourne - Moderne. When taken together they present a discourse on the conditions facing contemporary art practice and one artist’s response to these conditions in the context of Melbourne 2003-2007. (For complete abstract open document)

This dissertation presents a holistic framework for approaching fantastic school stories: that is, narratives which feature the protagonist’s education in magic. This three-part framework attends to the ways in which the fantastic school story subgenre draws upon the characteristics and possibilities of the school story genre, fantastic literature, and representations of education – in which a hidden curriculum is always inherently present – to create unique opportunities for representing and foregrounding issues and structures within educational institutions and the relationship between education and power. Employing this lens allows for a more nuanced and complex consideration of the impact of fantastic elements in these narratives, examining the ways in which such elements exaggerate, embody, or enforce underlying ideologies and norms and offer encouragement to readers to interrogate these aspects of the text and the mundane educational experiences they encounter. This framework is then used to analyse representative texts in the subgenre and explicate the hidden curriculum of each: ideologies of immutable gender and identity in Jane Yolen’s Wizard’s Hall; the use of testing as a gatekeeping measure to reinforce Pureblood supremacy in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series; the prerequisite of economic capital to access education, undermining the myth of post-secondary studies as social mobility, in Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles; the violence of imperial educational institutions in Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy; and the vocational habitus of witchcraft, including gendered divisions and expectations of personal sacrifice, on the Discworld in Terry Pratchett’s “Tiffany Aching” quintet. This framework and these illustrative analyses, by explicating the structures underlying the protagonists’ education and the ways in which they are thereby limited, participate in the projects of developing an emancipatory approach to children’s literature and in consciousness-raising regarding hidden curricula in education. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Texts in the fantastic school story subgenre – that is, narratives about a young person learning how to use magic, often at a school – are a valuable opportunity to explore the relationship between power and education. Here, I present a three-part approach for reading these texts which looks at how these narratives combine elements of the school story genre, fantasy literature, and representations of education to create a unique format. This unique format makes it easier for readers to see underlying structures and issues in education by making familiar elements feel unfamiliar through the addition of magic. I then use this three-part approach to analyse fantastic school stories by Lev Grossman, Terry Pratchett, Patrick Rothfuss, J.K. Rowling, and Jane Yolen. Reading the texts through this lens brings forward issues related to education like gate-keeping, socioeconomic status, imperialism, and gendered norms and divisions.