This study is an examination of the beast motif associated with Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. The motif has its origins in Joyce's earlier novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Ulysses the beast motif is related to Stephen's feelings of guilt and remorse over his mother's death and includes characterizations of Stephen as a fox, a dog, a rat, and a vampire. The motif consistently carries a negative connotation. Several literary sources for the imagery of the beast motif are apparent in Ulysses, including two plays by John Webster, a poem by Matthew Prior, medieval bestiaries, and a traditional Irish folk riddle. The study of the continuity of the beast motif in Ulysses helps to explain the complex characterization of Stephen Dedalus.

A two-dimensional (2-D) time-dependent cosmic ray modulation model is used to calculate the modulation of cosmic-ray protons and electrons for 11-and 22-year modulation cycles using a compound approach to describe solar cycle related changes in the transport parameters. The compound approach was developed by Ferreira and Potgieter (2004) and incorporates the concept of propagation diffusion barriers, global changes in the magnetic field, time-dependent gradient, curvature and current-sheet drifts, and other basic modulation mechanisms. By comparing model results with 2.5 GV Ulysses observations, for both protons and electrons, it is shown that the compound approach results in computed intensities on a global scale compatible to observations. The model also computes the expected latitudinal dependence, as measured by the Ulysses spacecraft, for both protons and electrons. This is especially highlighted when computed intensities are compared to observations for the different fast latitude scan (FLS) periods. For cosmic ray protons a significant latitude dependence was observed for the first FLS period which corresponded to solar minimum conditions. For the second, which corresponded to solar maximum, no latitude dependence was observed as was the case for the third FLS period, which again corresponded to moderate to minimum solar activity. For the electrons the opposite occurred with only an observable latitude dependence in intensities for the third FLS period. It is shown that the model results in compatible intensities when compared to observations for these periods. Due to the success of the compound approach, it is also possible to compute charge-sign dependent modulation for 2.5 GV protons and electrons. The electron to proton ratio is presented at Earth and along the Ulysses trajectory. Lastly, it is also shown how the modulation amplitude between solar minimum and maximum depends on rigidity. This is investigated by computing cosmic ray intensities for both protons and electrons, not only at 2:5 GV, but also up to 7:5 GV. A refinement for the compound approach at higher rigidities is proposed. / Thesis (M.Sc. (Space Physics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

A two-dimensional (2-D) time-dependent cosmic ray modulation model is used to calculate the modulation of cosmic-ray protons and electrons for 11-and 22-year modulation cycles using a compound approach to describe solar cycle related changes in the transport parameters. The compound approach was developed by Ferreira and Potgieter (2004) and incorporates the concept of propagation diffusion barriers, global changes in the magnetic field, time-dependent gradient, curvature and current-sheet drifts, and other basic modulation mechanisms. By comparing model results with 2.5 GV Ulysses observations, for both protons and electrons, it is shown that the compound approach results in computed intensities on a global scale compatible to observations. The model also computes the expected latitudinal dependence, as measured by the Ulysses spacecraft, for both protons and electrons. This is especially highlighted when computed intensities are compared to observations for the different fast latitude scan (FLS) periods. For cosmic ray protons a significant latitude dependence was observed for the first FLS period which corresponded to solar minimum conditions. For the second, which corresponded to solar maximum, no latitude dependence was observed as was the case for the third FLS period, which again corresponded to moderate to minimum solar activity. For the electrons the opposite occurred with only an observable latitude dependence in intensities for the third FLS period. It is shown that the model results in compatible intensities when compared to observations for these periods. Due to the success of the compound approach, it is also possible to compute charge-sign dependent modulation for 2.5 GV protons and electrons. The electron to proton ratio is presented at Earth and along the Ulysses trajectory. Lastly, it is also shown how the modulation amplitude between solar minimum and maximum depends on rigidity. This is investigated by computing cosmic ray intensities for both protons and electrons, not only at 2:5 GV, but also up to 7:5 GV. A refinement for the compound approach at higher rigidities is proposed. / Thesis (M.Sc. (Space Physics))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

This thesis is an analysis of the chiastic structure in the tenth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, Wandering Rocks, and how it relates to the chiastic elements in the novel as a whole. My reading of Wandering Rocks and Ulysses is designed to explain the contradiction between the episode's appearance of structural stability and the novel's consistent denial of unifying structures. Chiastic structure will be shown to reflect a formal process of simultaneous growth and decay that develops in the novel, and the reading of Wandering Rocks will establish how the pattern traces points of convergence between the novel's aesthetics and the organic processes that occur in the referential level of the text. While I argue that Wandering Rocks announces an inevitable loss of structural stability, the examination of its structure reveals formal principles that remain consistent throughout Ulysses .

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 THAIS LUNA RODRIGUES TORRES.pdf: 660665 bytes, checksum: 8f961e13b65f2d01cab5cea62a59db92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-16 / This academic study seeks to analyze the choices made by the translators of Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce, during the translation process to Portuguese language in Brazil. We intend to study the technical procedures and procedural choices of translation, performed by Houaiss, Bernardina and Antonio Galindo employed in the act of translation, through a comparative method. We also intend to identify the effect that shines the essence of the work, which reflects on the reader´s understanding, and as the translation interferes in the transference process between the source language and the target language, for this, we will consider the concepts regarding to the aesthetics of reception suggested by Jauss (1982). Thus, the first chapter will present an overview of the translation history at different times and worlds in order to contextualize its appearance and how the research was carried out in this area and what contributions scholars and theorists have left as a legacy in order to make that currently discussion possible. The second chapter will deal with the translation as a complex phenomenon, and examines the difficulties faced by translators, possible solutions relating to the translation of technical procedures, and the loss and loyalty and the translator´s feelings regarding to this task. It also shows that this translation process involves much more that the transfer of meanings. The third chapter will discuss how the reception of the three translations of Ulysses was accepted in Brazil, including a comparative analysis of these translations, which will be observed in the choices of the translators, possible losses and direction changes. Finally, the reception of Ulysses based on assumptions made by Jauss and his seven theses developed to explain the receptivity of a literary work. / Este trabalho procurará fazer uma análise das escolhas feitas pelos tradutores da obra Ulysses (1922) de James Joyce, na tradução da obra para a língua portuguesa no Brasil. Pretende-se estudar, utilizando-se de um método comparativo, os procedimentos técnicos e as escolhas processuais de tradução realizados por Houaiss, Bernardina e Antônio Galindo, empregados no ato tradutório. Procura-se aqui também, buscar o efeito que transluz da essência da obra, que reflete na compreensão do leitor, e como a tradução interfere nesse processo de transferência de sentidos entre a língua fonte e a língua alvo, considerando concepções sugeridas pela estética da recepção segundo Jauss (1982). Assim, o primeiro capítulo irá apresentar uma síntese da história da tradução em diferentes períodos e mundos, a fim de contextualizar seu surgimento e como se desenvolveu a pesquisa nesse âmbito e quais contribuições os estudiosos e teóricos deixaram como legado para que fosse possível essa discussão atualmente. O segundo capítulo tratará da tradução como um fenômeno complexo, e examinará as dificuldades encontradas pelos tradutores, as possíveis soluções referentes aos procedimentos técnicos de tradução, e a questão da perda e fidelidade e o sentimento do tradutor diante desse processo tradutório que envolve muito mais do que a simples transferência de significados. O terceiro capítulo será discutido como se deu à recepção das três traduções da obra no Brasil, incluindo uma análise comparativa dessas traduções, em que serão observados as escolhas dos tradutores, possíveis perdas e alterações de sentidos. E por fim, a recepção da obra Ulysses baseada nas premissas de Jauss e suas sete teses desenvolvidas para explicar a receptividade de uma obra.

The central project of this dissertation concerns itself with the port city, a recurrent setting of the modernist novel. It also seeks to investigate what lies behind the fact that the setting of the port city often coexists with the telling of stories about a malleable or exchangeable self or personal identity. Beginning with an understanding of modernity as a destructive whirlwind, I proceed to trace the various literary modernists who have used the port city as a space that might let one gain some shelter--or even benefit--from that storm. This dissertation begins with the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer before moving through Pound's translation of that poem and Melville's Moby-Dicky. It looks also at Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet as key examples of the modernist port city novel. These texts occupy a broad swath of chronology and their settings cover a wide area geography. When combined with the diverse national backgrounds of these authors, this range of time, place, and cultures intends to demonstrate both the pervasive nature of the crisis modernity provokes in our sense of identity and the persistent appeal of the port city as a space in which to grapple with this crisis.

At the time of his death in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant was widely regarded by his contemporaries as one of the great Americans of his age. Along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, his name was frequently included among the most accomplished heroes of the then still-young republic. Both nationally and internationally Grant was widely regarded as one of the world’s great military leaders. He was elected to the presidency of theUnited Statesduring one of the most divisive epochs in American history and won a decisive electoral victory to earn a second term. In his final years he embarked on a comprehensive world tour to great personal acclaim as well as the acknowledgement of this nation’s ascendancy as a world power. And literally hours before his death, he completed a literary work that stands today as one of the finest pieces of writing in American military history. Yet today, the remembrance of U.S. Grant bears little resemblance to the one he enjoyed among his contemporaries. As noted in a recent biography of Grant, his reputation has fallen into “disrepair.” In current popular memory, mention of Grant’s name frequently invokes images of a drunk, a failed and corrupt presidency, and a “butcher” who gained victory inAmerica’s great Civil War only as a result of superior resources and manpower. The intent of this study is to examine the evolution of Grant’s reputation from the American Civil War to recent times. It is intended to tell the story the storytellers told about Grant and how his reputation developed and was forged in popular memory. During his lifetime, this will include the study of a multitude of sources including newspaper accounts, political cartoons, diaries, and letters that reflected prevailing thought about Grant. In the years since his death, research will focus on those numerous factors that shape reputation. These will include delving into historical scholarship, literature, changing cultural nuances, political influences, and the wide range of popular entertainment vehicles so important in shaping public remembrance, to conclude with the suggestion that Grant’s reputation has been miscast in this nation’s popular memory.