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The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the narrative strategies within the family unit in Harriette Arnow's novel, The Dollmaker. The analysis of the narrative strategies reflected in family stories offered insight into how family members are "identified" or bonded to the family unit. A critical construct was proposed using Kenneth Burke's theories of substance, identification and consubstantiality for the analysis of family narratives as a means of familial identification.Four narrative themes were isolated which typified the storytelling activity in the family.The analysis revealed patterns of language, images and related rhetorical dimensions which affected the process and degree of familial identification. The analytical tool developed for this study was demonstrated to be of considerable utility when applied to a literary artifact. Further refinement of this tool would result in a more workable instrument for analyzing the storytelling activity which permeates the family unit.

A recurrent premise of post-war criticism is that World War II marked the end of the American working class novel. This thesis challenges this assumption and argues that the working class novel redeveloped throughout the 1940s and 1950s in response to major social, political, economic and cultural changes in the United States. A prime justification for the obituary on the working class novel was that after 1945 the United States no longer had class divisions. However, as the first two chapters of this study point out, such a view was promulgated by influential literary critics and social scientists who, as former Marxists, were keen to distance themselves from class politics. Insisting that the working class novel was hamstrung by a dogmatic Marxist politics and a fealty to social realism, these critics argued that the genre's relevance depended on the outdated politics and conditions of the 1930s. As such they were able to use literary criticism as a means of justifying their own ambiguous politics and deflecting any close scrutiny of their accommodation with the post-war liberal consensus. In a close examination of four writers in the subsequent chapters it is shown that, in fact, working class writers were extremely successful in adapting to post-war conditions. Harvey Swados, in his novel On the Line (1957) and in his journalism, provides crucial insights into the effects of the transition from a Fordist to a post-industrial society on the identity of the industrial worker. In The Dollmaker (1954) Harriette Arnow dramatises an important migration from the rural South to Detroit during World War II which exposes the ways in which American capitalism was able to diffuse a national working class identity. Chester Himes' novel If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), and his experiences as an African American writer in the 1940s, highlight the intersections between race (and racism) and class in the United States. Hubert Selby, in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1957), undermines the hegemonic ideology of post-war consumerism by drawing attention to the poverty and violence in an urban working class community. All these writers share a common concern with continuing, and re-developing, the dynamic and heterogeneous tradition of American working class cultural production.

Pirmą kartą Lietuvoje nustatytas bendras fenolkarboksirūgščių kiekis Achillea millefolium L. vaistinėje augalinėje žaliavoje. Taip pat pirmą kartą nustatytas populiacinis bei morfologinis kiekybinės rūgščių sudėties kintamumas Lietuvos natūraliose augavietėse augančių kraujažolių augaluose. Nustatytas bendras fenolkarboksirūgščių kiekis žolės 70 proc. etanoliniuose ekstraktuose vidutiniškai siekė 58,690±4,279 mg/g. Taip pat nustatyta, kad A. millefolium augalinėms žaliavoms būdingas ženklus fenolkarboksirūgščių sudėties rodiklių kintamumas, tiesiogiai priklausantis nuo augalo morfologinės dalies. Bendras fenolkarboksirūgščių kiekis žiedų žaliavose vidutiniškai siekė 58,029±3,492 mg/g. Lapų žaliavose vidutiniškai sukaupiama 102,150±7,50 mg/g, tai yra beveik du kartus daugiau nei žiedų ir žolės žaliavose, stiebuose - 22,722±2,928 mg/g. Nustatytas ženklus fenolkarboksirūgščių kiekinės sudėties įvairavimas tarp tirtų kraujažolių cenopopuliacijų. Vaistinės žaliavos bandinių grupėje bendras rūgščių kiekis skirtingose cenopopuliacijose kito nuo 33,490 iki 86,474 mg/g, žieduose - nuo 40,240 iki 73,022 mg/g, lapuose - nuo 74,110 iki 150,176 mg/g, stiebuose - nuo 15,605 iki 43,381 mg/g. Atlikus statistinę analizę norint palyginti tirtų bandinių grupių vidurkius, tirtose žaliavose nustatyta statistiškai reikšmingų skirtumų. Eksperimentinių duomenų sklaidai apibūdinti apskaičiuoti bandinių grupių variacijos koeficientai (žolės – 26,29 proc., žiedų – 19,03 proc., lapų – 23,25 proc... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / For the first time ever in Lithuania, the general amount of phenolcarboxylic acids was measured in the raw plant material of Achillea millefolium L. medicinal plants. The population and morphological variance of the quantitative content of the acids in yarrow plants growing in the natural habitats of Lithuania was also determined for the first time. The overall amount of phenolcarboxylic acids was determined to be 58,690±4.279 mg/g in 70 percent ethanol extracts of the herb. It was also determined that significant variability exists in indicators of the phenolcarboxylic acid content of A. millefolium plants. This is directly dependent on the morphological part of the plant. The total average of the phenolcarboxylic acids content in flowers was 58,029±3,492 mg/g. The total average in leaves was 102,150±7,50 mg/g, almost two times higher the content found in the flowers and herbs. The average acids content accumulated in stems was 22,722 ± 2,928 mg/g. Determinated sign variability of the content of phenolcarboxylic acids in the investigated cenopopulations of yarrow. The total acids content of different cenopopulations in the raw plant materials of yarrow ranged from 33,490 to 86,474 mg/g, in flowers - from 40,240 to 73,022 mg /g, in leaves - from 74,110 to 150,176 mg/g, in stems - from 15,605 to 43,381 mg/g. Statistical comparison of sample group averages found statistically significant differences between sample group averages. The dispersion of the experimental data was... [to full text]

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rhode Island, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-168).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Title taken from PDF title screen (viewed October 5, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-256).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-256). Also available via the World Wide Web.