Scholarship has firmly established that the short story cycle is well-suited to representations of community. This study considers eight North American examples of the genre: four by Canadian authors Stephen Leacock, Duncan Campbell Scott, George Elliott, and Alice Munro; and four by American authors Sarah Orne Jewett, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, and Joyce Carol Oates. My original idea was to discover whether there were significant differences between the Canadian and American cycles, but ultimately I became far more interested in the way that all of the cycles address community formation and disintegration. The focus of each cycle is a small community, whether a small town, a village, or a suburb. In all of the examples, the authors address the small community as the focus of anxiety, concern, criticism, and praise, with special attention to the way in which, despite its manifold failings, the small community continues to inspire longings for the ideal home and source of identity. The narrative feature that ultimately provided the critical framework for the study is the recurring presence of the metropolis in all of the eight cycles. The city, set on the horizons of these small communities, consistently provides a backdrop against which author and characters seem to measure and understand their lives. Always an influence (whether for good or bad), the city’s presence is constructed as the other against which the small community’s identity is formulated and understood. The relationship between small community and city led me to an investigation into the mythology of the small community, a mythology that sets the small community in opposition to the city, portraying the former as the keeper of virtue and the latter as the disseminator of vice. The cycles themselves, as I increasingly discovered, challenge the mythology by identifying how the small community depends, in large part, on the city for self-understanding. The small community, however, as an idea, and a mythic ideal, is never dismissed as obsolete or irrelevant.

This dissertation explores the reoccurrence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein within twentieth-century American novels. While the inaccurate 1931 film version by James Whale remains the best known adaptation of Frankenstein, I argue that Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Chuck Palahniuk return to Shelley’s 1818 novel to critique racist and misogynistic responses to anxieties about gender and racial power in the age of industrial consumer culture. In doing so, I extend existing scholarship on the American Gothic to demonstrate that The Professor’s House, Invisible Man, Beloved, and Fight Club represent a specifically Shelleyan Gothic tradition in twentieth-century American literature. My project draws upon influential feminist and postcolonial readings of Frankenstein and on the theoretical work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and later critics who have developed her theory to show how the twentieth-century novels echo themes and motifs from Shelley’s novel to critique the destructive effects of male homosociality. Each novel contains a protagonist that resembles Victor Frankenstein and responds to historically specific anxieties about gender, race, and industrial technoscience by creating a doppelgänger who enables participation in a homosocial bond that is initially empowering but proves destructive to women, racial minorities, and eventually the creature and creator figures themselves. My reading reveals unexpected similarities between Cather’s The Professor’s House and Palahniuk’s Fight Club. Cather’s novel appears to glorify Tom Outland as the ideal masculine hero but ultimately reveals him to be a monstrous doppelgänger who acts out the Professor’s oppressive impulses; similarly, Fight Club seems to romanticize the male violence instigated by the doppelgänger figure Tyler Durden but actually echoes Shelley’s critique of male homosociality as monstrous. My reading also reveals previously overlooked similarities between Invisible Man and Beloved, both of which feature a black protagonist who surprisingly resembles Victor Frankenstein by creating a doppelgänger to challenge his or her disempowerment by the structures of white male homosociality but end up emulating the destructive homosocial structures they critique. My dissertation shows how all of these writers share Shelley’s critique yet move beyond it by offering alternatives to the destructive cycle of violence, embodied in each case by a female figure who resists or reclaims the position of the abject other in the homosocial triangle.

The role of midwife has been an integral part of the culture of childbirth in Queensland throughout its history, but it is a role that has been modified and reshaped over time. This thesis explores the factors that underpinned a crucial aspect of that modification and reshaping. Specifically, the thesis examines the factors that contributed to the statutory regulation of midwives that began in 1912 and argues that it was that event that etched the development of midwifery practice for the remainder of the twentieth century. In 1859, when Queensland seceded from New South Wales, childbirth was very much a private event that took place predominantly in the home attended by a woman who acted as midwife. In the fifty-threeyears that followed, childbirth became a medical event that was the subject of scrutiny by the medical profession and the state. The thesis argues that, the year 1912 marks the point at which the practice of midwifery by midwives in Queensland began a transition from lay practice in the home to qualified status in the hospital. In 1912, through the combined efforts of the medical profession, senior nurses and the state, midwives in Queensland were brought under the jurisdiction of the Nurses' Registration Board as "midwifery nurses". The Nurses' Registration Board was established as part of the Health Act Amendment Act of 1911. The inclusion of midwives within a regulatory authority for nurses represented the beginning of the end of midwifery practice as a discrete occupational role and marked its redefinition as a nursing specialty. It was a redefinition that suited the three major stakeholders. The medical profession perceived lay midwives to be a disjointed and uncoordinated body of women whose practice contributed to needless loss of life in childbirth. Further, lay midwives inhibited the generalist medical practitioners' access to family practice. Trained nurses looked upon midwifery as an extension of nursing and one which offered them an area in which they might specialise in order to enhance their occupational status and career prospects. The state was keen to improve birth rates and to reduce infant mortality. It was prepared to accept that the regulation of midwives under the auspices of nursing was a reasonable and proper strategy and one that might assist it to meet its objectives. It was these separate, but complementary, agendas that prompted the medical profession and the state to debate the culture of childbirth, to examine the role of midwives within it, and to support the amalgamation of nursing and midwifery practice. This thesis argues that the medical profession was the most active and persistent protagonist in the moves to limit the scope of midwives and to claim midwifery practice as a medical specialty. Through a campaign to defame midwives and to reduce their credibility as birth attendants, the medical profession enlisted the help of senior nurses and the state in order to redefine midwifery practice as a nursing role and to cultivate the notion of the midwife as a subordinate to the medical practitioner. While this thesis contests the intervention of the medical profession in the reproductive lives of women and the occupational territory of midwives, it concedes that there was a need to initiate change. Drawing on evidence submitted at Inquests into deaths associated with childbirth, the thesis illuminates a childbirth culture that was characterised by anguish and suffering and it depicts the lay midwife as a further peril to an already hazardous event that helps to explain medical intervention in childbirth and, in part, to excuse it. The strategies developed by the medical profession and the state to bring about the occupational transition of midwives from lay to qualified were based upon a conceptual unity between the work of midwives and nurses. That conceptualisation was reinforced by a practical training schedule that deployed midwives within the institution of the lying-in hospital in order to receive the formal instruction that underpinned their entitlement to inclusion on the Register of Midwifery Nurses held by the Nurses' Registration Board. The structure that was put in place in Queensland in 1912 to control and monitor the practice of midwives was consistent with the policies of other Australian states at that time. It was an arrangement that gained acceptance and strength over time so that by the end of the twentieth century, throughout Australia, the practice of midwifery by midwives was, generally, consequent upon prior qualification as a Registered Nurse. In Queensland, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, the role of midwife remains tied to that of the nurse but the balance of power has shifted from the medical profession to the nursing profession. At this time, with the exception of a small number of midwives who have acquired their qualification in midwifery from an overseas country that recognises midwifery practice as a discipline independent of nursing, the vast majority of midwives practising in Queensland do so on the basis of their registration as a nurse. Methodology This thesis explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. The historical approach underpins this research. The historical approach is an inductive process that is an appropriate method to employ for several reasons. First, it assists in identifying the origins of midwifery as a social role performed by women. Second, it presents a systematic way of analysing the evidence concerning the development of the midwifery role and the status of the midwife in society. Third, it highlights the political, social and economic influences which have impacted on midwifery in the past and which have had a bearing on subsequent midwifery practice in Queensland. Fourth, the historical approach exposes important chronological elements pertaining to the research question. Finally, it assists the exposure of themes in the sources that demonstrate the behaviour of key individuals and governing authorities and their connection to the transition of midwifery from lay to qualified. Consequently, through analysing the sources and collating the emerging evidence, a cogent account of interpretations of midwifery history in Queensland may be constructed. Data collection and analysis The data collection began with secondary source material in the formative stages of the research and this provided direction for the primary sources that were later accessed. The primary source material that is employed includes testimonies submitted at Inquests into maternal and neonatal deaths; parliamentary records; legislation, government gazettes, and medical journals. The data has been analysed through an inductive process and its presentation has combined exploration and narration to produce an accurate and plausible account. The story that unfolds is complex and confusing. Its primary focus lies in ascertaining why and how midwifery practice was regulated in Queensland. The thesis therefore explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. Limitations of the study The limitations of the study relate to the documentary evidence and to the cultural group that form the basis of the study. It is acknowledged that historical accounts rely upon the integrity of the historian to select and interpret the data in a fair and plausible manner. In the case of this thesis, one of its limitations is that midwives did not speak for themselves but were, instead, spoken for by medical practitioners and parliamentarians. As a consequence, the coronial and magisterial testimonies that are employed constitute a limitation in that while they reveal the ways in which lay midwifery occurred, they relate only to those childbirth events that resulted in death. Thus, they may be said to represent the minority of cases involving the lay midwife rather than to offer a broader and perhaps more balanced picture. A second limitation is that the accounts are recorded by an official such as a member of the police or of the Coroner's Office and are sanctioned by the witness with a signature or, more often, a cross. It is therefore possible that the recorder has guided these accounts and that they are not the spontaneous evidence of the witness. Those witnesses and the culture they represent are drawn predominantly from non- Indigenous working class. Thus, a third limitation is that the principal ethnic group featured in this thesis has been women of European descent who were born in Queensland or other parts of Australia. This focus has originated from the data itself and has not been contrived. However, it does impose a restriction to the scope of the study.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-85).

Notre étude se propose de mettre au jour le dynamisme et la vie de procédés métathéâtraux proprement français qui ont pu paraître en sommeil pendant plus de deux siècles.À partir de pièces reposant sur les jeux de spécularité au sein du fonds dramatique du Siècle d’Or et de celui du théâtre français du dix-septième siècle, elle compare d’abord dans ces deux corpus les modalités de spécularité ainsi que les emprunts et aménagements français en la matière afin d’essayer de comprendre leurs causes et de dégager les archétypes formels, sémantiques et enfin scénographiques spécifiquement français. Elle révèle ensuite les facteurs qui ont permis à ces procédés de retrouver une nouvelle vigueur dans le théâtre français au vingtième siècle, tout en étudiant les changements opérés dans ces structures spéculaires et en repérant les tendances dominantes de la modernité à cet égard. Alors qu’un mouvement parallèle de remise à l’honneur des jeux spéculaires se remarque sur la scène espagnole du vingtième siècle, elle met enfin en lumière le fait que malgré la langue, ce sont les pièces spéculaires françaises qui ont inspiré maints pays d’Amérique latine dont Cuba, où l’activité théâtrale se signale par un étonnant dynamisme, de puissantes dramaturgies. Elle expose aussi évidemment sur les raisons de cet intérêt différencié pour le procédé, et pour sa pratique par des auteurs français, de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique.En partant d’un concept nouveau recouvrant sept formes majeures de spécularité dramatique et permettant d’établir une typologie examinant leurs modalités françaises de création et de fonctionnement, cette thèse se donne donc pour but de retracer et mettre au jour les transferts et les métamorphoses qu’a subis, depuis ses origines jusqu’au vingtième siècle, ce que nous avons nommé le « théâtre à son miroir français », afin de dégager l’universalité non seulement de ces formes mais aussi et surtout de certaines de leurs significations et de leurs réalisations scéniques. / Our study aims to reveal the life and dynamism of the genuinely French meta-theatrical devices that may have seemed dormant for more than two centuries.It is based on plays which are founded on mirror dynamics, chosen within the drama of the Spanish Siglo de oro and the French seventeenth century theatre. It first compares the modalities of the specular mechanisms and the French borrowings and adjustments in both these corpuses in order to try and understand their causes and to bring out the formal, semantic and stage archetypes that are specifically French. Then it sets out the factors that enabled these devices to undergo a revival in the French theatre of the twentieth century, while studying the changes that appeared in the specular structures and identifying the dominant modern tendencies that characterize these structures. Although it is true that the mirror dynamics are also brought to life on the twentieth century Spanish stage, this study finally reveals that it is the French specular plays – though the language would indicate otherwise – that inspire many countries in South America including Cuba where the dramatic creativity finds its originality in its surprising dynamism and its powerful dramatic arts. This study also brings out the reasons that explain such a distinct interest of Latin American playwrights for the device and for its practice in the French theatre. This thesis produces a new concept covering seven major specular theatrical forms, which enables the establishment of a typology to study the French modalities of creation and operation. Its purpose is to retrace and reveal what transfers and metaphors « the theatre at its French mirror », as we chose to call it, has undergone, from its origins to the twentieth century, in order to bring out the universality not only of these forms but, most of all, of some of their meanings and stage achievements.

Dans le sillage des guerres totales et des génocides du XXe siècle sont apparus des ouvrages d’un genre nouveau : les témoignages. Ils sont le fait d’hommes et de femmes survivants d’une violence politique extrême qui, endossant le rôle de témoins, ont entrepris de faire connaître leur expérience au plus grand nombre en rendant compte par écrit des sévices endurés. Leur mission : attester ce qu’ils ont vu et subi, rendre hommage aux disparus, initier un questionnement sur les mécanismes ayant conduit au meurtre de masse, et opposer aux tentatives de destruction de l’humain et de sa culture une réflexion sur le vivre-ensemble et la dissolution toujours possible des liens sociaux les plus fondamentaux. Le corpus légué par ces témoins constitue l’objet d’étude de cette thèse de doctorat, qui poursuit un double objectif : décrire, sur la base d’une lecture minutieuse des textes, partiellement assistée d’outils d’analyse textométriques, les principales caractéristiques du genre, et poser les jalons d’une histoire du témoignage et de sa réception, publique et critique, à partir de récits faisant état d’expériences aussi diverses que celles du feu pendant la Grande Guerre, de l’univers concentrationnaire sous le régime nazi et de la violence coloniale en Algérie. Comprendre ce qui spécifie génériquement ces textes au-delà de la diversité des œuvres et des événements dont elles sont issues, suppose de dégager le projet commun qui les sous-tend et les constitue en lignée, étant entendu qu’un genre ne se définit pas en fonction de critères ontologiques immuables. Il apparaît dans des circonstances socio-historiques précises, et se déploie à un niveau d’interférences sémiotiques qui justifie cette double approche, philologique et historique. / Books of a new kind appeared out of the total wars and genocides of the twentieth century – testimonies. They are written by male and female survivors of extreme political violence, who, taking on the role of witnesses, decided to share their experiences with others by writing of the suffering they had undergone. Their mission consists in testifying what they saw and experienced, paying tribute to those who did not survive, questioning the mechanisms which led to mass murder, and opposing to the attempts to destroy human beings and their culture a reflection about living together and the ever-present possibility of the most fundamental social relationships falling apart. The corpus left by these witnesses is the object of study of this PhD dissertation, which has two aims: to describe, based on a close reading of the texts, partially aided by the tools of textometric analysis, the main characteristics of the genre, and to create the basis of a history of testimonies and their public and critical reception, using accounts which reveal such diverse experiences as trench warfare during the World War One, the concentration camps of the Nazi regime, and colonial violence in Algeria. In order to understand the generic specificity of these texts going beyond the diversity of the works and the events they proceed, it is necessary to define the underlying common project which forms a tradition, given that a genre is not defined according to unchanging ontological criteria. It appears in precise socio-historical circumstances, and is situated at a level of semiotic interference which justifies this dual philological and historical approach.

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Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-05-16T12:26:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Maria Gomes.pdf: 880349 bytes, checksum: b794d1f6df5ec4831c5aaf9de86c81b5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Alda Lima da Silva(sivalda@ufba.br) on 2013-05-28T18:35:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Maria Gomes.pdf: 880349 bytes, checksum: b794d1f6df5ec4831c5aaf9de86c81b5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-28T18:35:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Maria Gomes.pdf: 880349 bytes, checksum: b794d1f6df5ec4831c5aaf9de86c81b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / A dicotomia arte elevada e arte popular industrial foi, em grande parte, o elemento que opôs os movimentos modernista e pós-modernista no século XX. Se o modernismo caracterizou-se por se posicionar politicamente contra a cultura de massa, vista como representativa do capitalismo burguês, o pós-modernismo apresenta-se numa relação mais flexível com a indústria de massa. A arte contemporânea mistura elementos provenientes da indústria cultural serializada com textos da herança clássica ocidental, através de práticas intertextuais, intersemióticas e paródicas. Quando mistura o elemento industrial ao objeto canônico, a arte pós-moderna enfraquece a dicotomia popular / erudito, diluindo as fronteiras que separam os objetos em classes hierárquicas de alta e baixa cultura. Dentre as artes pós-modernas o romance contemporâneo tem papel fundamental na diluição dessa fronteira, pois, através da experimentação intersemiótica e da renovação das formas narrativas, põe em funcionamento uma intensa prática auto-reflexiva que problematiza a nossa forma de compreender a experiência e força a ultrapassagem de modelos estéticos estabelecidos. A inserção de referências a obras de arte dos vários períodos da arte clássica ocidental (Antiguidade Greco-Romana, Renascimento, Barroco, Neo-Classicismo) funciona como contraponto ao desconforto, inquietação, fragmentação e multiplicidade da vida moderna, por trazerem à tona modos de representação de tempos em que o homem era a medida de todas as coisas do mundo. O romance espanhol Corazón tan blanco do escritor Javier Marías é um caso de narrativa romanesca que movimenta signos tanto da indústria da imagem ? televisão, cinema e vídeo ? quanto da tradição clássica da pintura ocidental. As pinturas de Velásquez e Rembrandt, as gravuras de Dürer, o drama shakespeareano Macbeth conferem erudição ao romance e insuflam o diálogo arte clássica e romance popular na representação do mal-estar e perplexidade do homem diante do indiferente e opressivo mundo contemporâneo. / Salvador

Made available in DSpace on 2009-05-14T21:06:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CPDOC2008MariaAngelicaAlmeidadeMeira.pdf: 5497009 bytes, checksum: 6ae6285e0ac395c856ef22edf711c9a5 (MD5) / Submitted by Suemi Higuchi (suemi.higuchi@fgv.br) on 2009-05-14T21:06:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CPDOC2008MariaAngelicaAlmeidadeMeira.pdf: 5497009 bytes, checksum: 6ae6285e0ac395c856ef22edf711c9a5 (MD5) / This work aims at studying the visual arts panorama in the State of Pará between the 1940’s and the 1980’s departing from local painter and ceramist Ruy Meira (1921-1995). Meira, a member of a distinguished family of politicians and intellectuals in Northern Brazil, played a pivotal role in the ripening of the artistic métier in Pará, having been fundamental to the establishment of many important artistic and intellectual sociability networks, and having synthesized, in his artistic trajectory, the history of the absorption of the main currents of modern art in Pará. In order to study Meira’s artistic and social personality, we searched for support in his personal archive, which contains some important material, most of it unpublished, ranging from active and passive correspondence to pictures and exhibitions catalogues. / Este trabalho busca estudar o panorama das artes plásticas no Estado do Pará entre as décadas de 1940 e 1980 a partir da figura de Ruy Meira (1921-1995), pintor e ceramista paraense. Meira, membro de uma destacada família de homens públicos e intelectuais nortistas, desempenhou papel central no amadurecimento das artes no Pará, seja por ter sido fundamental para o estabelecimento de importantes redes de sociabilidade artístico-intelectuais, seja por ter, em sua trajetória artística, sintetizado a história da absorção das principais vertentes da arte moderna no Pará. Para estudar a personalidade artístico-social de Meira, buscamos apoio no arquivo pessoal do artista, que contém importante material, em boa parte inédito, constituído de correspondência ativa e passiva, fotografias e catálogos de exposição.

2 Mgr. Jan Petružela Alfréd Radok and His Stage Practices Analysis of the Production of Devil's Circle Abstract Alfréd Radok (1914- 1976) started his second term at the National Theatre (1954-1960) with two moderate productions, in which he, due to the Stalinist régime, suppressed his creative power. However, the following season Radok came with the production of Devil's Circle (1953), schematic play by Hedda Zinner about the Leipzig trial (1933), in which he found his essential topic - to grasp the Zeitgeist and manifest a universal mechanism of totalitarian power and trumped-up political trials. In this production, staged in the period of mild political "thaw", Radok managed to bring back to the Czech theatre modern stage directing practices and re-established the position of stage director, which was reduced in the previous years by the dogmatic aesthetics of socialistic realism. The production of Devil's Circle (prem. December 21, 1955) at the Estates (then Tyl's) Theatre, warmly received by audience as well as critics, renewed and developed for that time unprecedented, though historically verified principles: imaginative, non-descriptive theatre with a meaningful overlap, strict approach to acting with an emphasis on realistic, civil-like expression, interpretation of dramatic sitution, intense work...