Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Mestrado em Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2011. / Submitted by Elna Araújo (elna@bce.unb.br) on 2012-06-19T21:44:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_LucianaArrudaAlves.pdf: 774845 bytes, checksum: 04f3edfc96d2ea66bf241e26f22f4b05 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Ferreira de Souza(jaquefs.braz@gmail.com) on 2012-06-20T11:34:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_LucianaArrudaAlves.pdf: 774845 bytes, checksum: 04f3edfc96d2ea66bf241e26f22f4b05 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-06-20T11:34:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_LucianaArrudaAlves.pdf: 774845 bytes, checksum: 04f3edfc96d2ea66bf241e26f22f4b05 (MD5) / Essa pesquisa concentra resultados das investigações realizadas durante o curso de mestrado acerca da obra O Passado de Alan Pauls e sua especificidade diante da produção literária legitimada pela crítica. O que fizemos foi realizar um estudo acerca dessa especificidade, suas particularidades e de questões relevantes na estrutura narrativa da obra na tentativa de perceber em que aspectos esse texto de Pauls se edifica e se institui como uma romance pós-moderno ou da contemporaneidade. Aqui procuraremos mostrar a relação entre tempo e linguagem na construção da experiência dos personagens Rímini e Sofía e como essa mesma linguagem age enquanto jogo de sentidos no espaço de narração para encenar, dramatizar e experienciar paixões dos protagonistas no enredo. O que se tornou evidente, no entanto, para nós é que a narrativa é construída da oscilação do presente e do passado – ora transitando pelas ações desencadeadas pelos personagens num momento presente, ora transitando pelas memórias desses personagens num tempo passado – onde essa oscilação vem a criticar o próprio modo de feitura narrativa na relação entre o real e o ficcional. Contudo, a margem temporal da narrativa não é dada ao leitor de modo marcado e o tempo está dissolvido no texto entre o que se é e o que se foi ou ainda no que poderia ter sido. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This research focuses results of investigations carried out during the master’s course about the work of Alan Pauls, The Past, and its specificity on the legitimacy of literary criticism. What we did was to conduct a study on this specificity, its peculiarities and relevant issues in its narrative structure in an attempt to find ways in which this text of Pauls is built and established as a post-modern or contemporary novel. Here we will show the relationship between time and language in the construction of the experience of the characters Rimini and Sofia and how this same language acts as play in the space of narration to staging, dramatizing passions and experience of the protagonists in the plot. What became evident to us is that the narrative is constructed of oscillation of the present and the past – sometimes passing by the actions triggered by the characters in the present moment, sometimes passing through the memories of the characters in scenes of a past time – where this oscillation has been criticizing his own way of making the narrative in the relationship between the real and fictional. However, the temporal scope of the narrative is not given to the reader so marked and the time is dissolved in the text between what is and what it was or what might have been.

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Sensory pollution from artificial night-lighting and anthropogenic noise have increased at a dramatic rate over the last several decades. Alterations to the sensory environment have been found to affect wildlife in a wide variety of ways including behavioral changes, physiological responses, changes in species interactions, and altered community structure. Increased levels of light and noise pollution can originate from many sources including roads, energy development and infrastructure, and urbanization. Even remote or protected areas are not immune to the effects of increased sensory disturbances with 63 percent of protected areas within the United States found to have been exposed to a doubling of background noise levels due to anthropogenic activity and skyglow, the scattering of artificial light by the atmosphere, extending hundreds of kilometers from the source. Despite a large body of work investigating the effects of light or noise pollution acting alone, relatively few studies have examined the effects of both stimuli acting together even though they frequently co-occur. Better understanding how these stressors, especially when present simultaneously, are affecting ecosystems is critical to ongoing mitigation and conservation efforts. In Chapter 1, we investigated the effects of increased levels of light and noise pollution, both singularly and in tandem, on pinyon mouse (Peromyscus truei) activity and body condition. Using a full factorial study design allowed us to isolate the effects of both stimuli when acting alone as well as any potential interactions between the two when both were present. We used standard trapping methods across a gradient of light, noise, and both combined while also accounting for variations in moonlight, vegetative structure, and weather. We found that an increased level of artificial night-lighting resulted in lower trap success of pinyon mice while there was no effect of noise on trap success. There was no effect of elevated light levels on body condition but there was a negative effect of noise on body condition early in the season. Later in the season, neither light nor noise influenced body condition. No interactive effects between light and noise were found. In Chapter 2, we studied the effects of anthropogenic light and noise, singularly and in tandem, on species richness and community structure using camera traps in a manipulative field experiment. We investigated these effects at both the species level and the taxonomic level (nocturnal mammals, diurnal mammals, lagomorphs, birds, mesocarnivores, and ungulates). We showed that both light and noise pollution did alter species richness and that these effects can differ depending on the scale of observation. Increased levels of night-lighting had a scale-dependent effect on species richness such that increases in light levels had a negative effect on richness at the camera level, but light-treated sites had the highest estimated cumulative richness. In contrast, noise was found to have a negative effect on richness for birds. When both stimuli were present, the addition of night-lighting mitigated the effects of noise for birds. For community structure, noise-treated sites were the most dissimilar from other treatments, indicating that increased levels of anthropogenic noise likely have the largest effect on community structure in this study. We also found evidence of a possible rescue effect of light that counteracts the negative effect of noise. That is, combined treatment sites were significantly dissimilar from both light and noise sites but not from the control sites. Together, our results provide evidence that alterations to the sensory environment from anthropogenic activity can affect wild animal populations in multiple ways. As human development increases to meet the demands of growing human populations, more ecosystems will be exposed to increased levels of sensory disturbance, making the understanding of how these changes affect wildlife critical to ongoing conservation efforts.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur pedagogerna arbetar med matematikundervisning i förskolan. Undersökningen är kvalitativ och metoden är deltagande observation, med fyra observationer på förskola. Det insamlade materialet analyserades sedan genom en tematisk ansats och sammanställdes till observationstabellen för vidare analys. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten är baserad på Alan Bishops (1997) sex matematiska aktiviteter: räkna, leka, designa, mäta, lokalisera och förklara. För att undersöka pedagogers arbete, förbereda oss två frågeställningar som bygger på arbetet. Resultaten visade att pedagogerna dagligen använde Bishops matematiska aktiviteter i förskolans matematikundervisning.

Alan Moore's graphic novels mark a shift in the way graphic novels are read, written, and studied. This thesis explores what makes his novels compelling and see what examples of postmodern thought occur in Moore's construction of human sexuality and modem culture. Additionally, it examines graphic structures to see how pictures and words impact every level of the text. It investigates three of his more established novels: From Hell, Lost Girls and Watchmen. Secondary sources come from a diverse background of philosophical, literary, psychological, and artistic theory. This study implements these sources to decipher Moore's work by finding similar moments in the different texts and construct a possible model for the postmodern graphic novel and argues that Moore should be considered one of the major contributors and innovators to the medium of graphic novels.

For a year and a spring semester, I have been in the works of a school music project. I set out to make a record of ten self-penned songs. Along the length of the project, I would discover musicians and recording artists. I notated my songs on a staff and recorded demos to assist players of drums, electric bass, French horn, and violin. I play guitar, percussion, synthesized instruments, and do all of the singing on Brown Study, the record's title. The technology used to create the songs include a Tascam 2488 (home digital recording device), computers, printers, cell phones and i-phones, amplifiers, microphones and headphones, and a drum machine. This is my first attempt at collaborating with other musicians. At the defense I will be presenting 4 songs: "Runaway," "Lonely Heart," "Topsy Turvy," and "Friendliest Advice." Each song has a particular history and story to tell containing influences and aesthetic philosophies. My gift is to be shared with whoever will listen upon completing and distributing the full-length album.

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This thesis concerns the practice of ‘psychogeography’ in London, England, and the ways in which psychogeographic writings provoke in city-dwellers an acute sense of disorientation, as though the everyday were otherworldly. My study is intended as a response to Guy Debord’s claim that ‘psychogeography’ investigates “the precise laws […] of the geographical environment” on “the emotions and behaviour of individuals” (Debord qtd. in Coverley 88): any revolutionary enterprise must point to the future, the very notion of which can only be imprecise and un-empirical – psychogeography is not necessarily an exception. I argue that for Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair, the psychogeographic imperative is rather to imagine the implosion of Londonscape as it is well known, since only spatial structures that thus unravel may offer mystical insights that are, as yet, unspoiled by neoliberal/Thatcherite politics and the accompanying ambition to re-vamp English history in a nostalgic light. This study presents psychogeography not simply as a strategy of political resistance but as a visceral and metaphysical experience; it draws upon SF theories of worlding and the philosophical notion of Dasein to address some concerns that have arisen in post-imperial Britain, such as the desire to define English identity, i.e., ‘Englishness.’ / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation studies Alan Moore’s and Iain Sinclair’s use of psychogeography to examine the city of London. Psychogeography is an implosive, fragmented writing style that estranges the meaning of the urban everyday. Subject to psychogeographic depiction, London becomes a city altogether foreign, if not to say fantastical. I argue that psychogeography is both a strategy of political resistance and a visceral experience – one that could influence common ways of reading English history and culture (i.e. ‘Englishness.’)

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