This thesis studies Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 using Critical Discourse Analysis as the primary tool. It argues that the narrative develops through the supporting characters’ actions, and the different societal discourses of hegemony, otherness and class struggle they represent. Basing the analysis on Althusserian and Gramscian ideas and discussing citizen’s transformation from subjects to individuals, this study concludes that although a subject may be power-less and wary, it is by learning to act through being given information through discourse that personal development occurs.

The purpose of the following essay is to examine various works of fiction featuring time travel and their underlying common theme. The main focus of the essay is the novella The Time Machine by H. G. Wells and the short story ”A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, but a number of other texts from various different periods in time are also taken into account, mainly to provide a background for the analysis of the chosen texts. The essay is written based on the assumption that there are two distinct subcategories of time travel fiction. There is a significant difference in time travel literature written before and after The Time Machine: mainly because this work was written in a period when the concept of 'time' was changing in the public mind, due to the scientific and cultural advances in the fields of physics, philosophy and psychology. The conclusion of the study is that all examples of time travel fiction (or at least those brought up in this essay) share a common theme, namely the relation to the alien and the uncanny. Furthermore, the analysed texts seem to be firmly rooted in their respective era. Older time travel fiction in particular demonstrates that time travel is used as an alienating effect on the traveller, who is transported (willingly or not) into an unfamiliar time and is hopelessly lost in an inescapable situation. The alienation theme lives on in more modern examples of the narrative as well, but since the introduction of the The Time Machine, the time travelling protagonists have a way of fighting back against the alienation, by trying to take control of their unfamiliar situation. / Syftet med följande uppsats är att undersöka olika litterära verk innehållande tidsresor, samt det underliggande gemensamma motivet. Uppsatsens huvudfokus är kortromanen The Time Machine av H. G. Wells och novellen ”A Sound of Thunder” av Ray Bradbury, men ett antal andra texter från olika tidsperioder tas också i beaktande, främst för att tillhandahålla en bakgrund för analysen av de utvalda texterna. Uppsatsen är baserad på antagandet att det i tidsreselitteraturen finns två distinkta underkategorier. Det finns en väsentlig skillnad i  de verk som publicerades före respektive efter The Time Machine, vilket främst beror på att denna text skrevs i en tid då föreställningen om vad 'tid' är var på väg att förändras i det publika medvetandet, med anledning av de vetenskapliga och kulturella landvinningarna inom fysik, filosofi och psykologi. Studiens slutsats visar att all tidsreselitteratur (eller åtminstone de exempel som tas upp i uppsatsen) har ett gemensamt tema, nämligen relationen till det främmande och det kusliga. Vidare tycks de analyserade texterna vara tydligt förankrade i sina respektive tidsperioder. Äldre tidsreselitteratur i synnerhet använder sig av en alienerande effekt på resenären, som förflyttas (frivilligt eller ej) till en främmande tid och blir hopplöst förlorad i en ofrånkomlig situation. Alienationstemat lever vidare även i mer moderna tidsreseexempel, men sedan The Time Machine publicerades har de tidsresande protagonisterna möjligheten att slå tillbaka mot alienationen genom att försöka (och ibland till och med lyckas) att ta kontroll över den obekanta situationen.

Indiana University, Purdue University- Indianapolis / Current models of public intellectualism rely upon arbitrary and oftentimes elitist criteria. The work of Corey Robin, when combined with that of Antonio Gramsci, provides a reproducable, and scalable, series of tests for consideration of indivduals as public intellectuals. This work takes author Ray Bradbury as an example of public intellectuals who are often missed using current schemas . Bradbury serves as a test case of public intellectualism in the early Cold War period in the United States based upon this new formulation. It examines Bradbury’s work in light of the historical situation in which Bradbury operated, his work’s comparitive arguments in relation to contemporary intellectuals, and reviews some of the influence Bradbury exerted on future generations.

In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451. The plot is set in a fictional, North American future. This essay aims to show that what is considered normal regarding fundamental values such as knowledge, love, and respect in this imaginary future society is different from what was considered normal in North America in the 1950s when Bradbury wrote the book. The norms differ to such an extent that it is possible to claim that Fahrenheit 451 is set in a new episteme. Episteme is a term used by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. It designates a time in which society has an underlying understanding of what is considered normal. According to Michel Foucault, the year 1953 when Bradbury wrote the book, belonged to the episteme of Modernity. This essay aims to illustrate that in the future fictional society of Fahrenheit 451, the norm regarding some aspects of the culture has changed to the extent that there is reason to call the era a new episteme, and that a proper name would be the episteme of Ignorance. This name signals the lack of regard for knowledge in the society of Fahrenheit 451. This essay's analytical tools are Michel Foucault’s terms, theories, and concepts.  Keywords: Episteme, Michel Foucault, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, knowledge, ignorance, norms, power.

To isolate and study various components of a nuclear reaction, elaborate equipment must be developed to aid in this process. This thesis presents the design and implementation of an ultra-high slew rate Bradbury-Nielsen gate driver circuit with high-voltage input isolation. This design will be used in a multi-pass time-of-flight isomer spectrometer and separator application integrated into an overall instrument called the Oak Ridge Isomer Spectrometer and Separator (ORISS). The output drive signals of this circuit are transmitted through a vacuum feed-through system to supply the necessary signals to the Bradbury-Nielsen gate contained within the vacuum. A differential driving signal with a 100-V magnitude and switching times on the order of nanoseconds is presented in this design. The “on time” of this signal is comparable to the amount of time required for it to transition states, creating complex design constraints. The implementation of this design is based on a 4-layer printed circuit board and the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components.

These documents supplement the previously deposited Murray and Tillett working paper: “Cataloging Theory in Search of Graph Theory and Other Ivory Towers. Object: Cultural Heritage Resource Description Networks.” http://hdl.handle.net/10150/136270. A different version of Fig 8, “FRBR Paper Tool Diagram Elements And Graphs” is included. Documents not referenced in the paper include: “Modeling The Superwork Issue,” which models the concept of a Work composed of other Works two ways; “Progressive Disaggregation,” which demonstrates the recursive process by which simple resource and descriptions composed of other descriptions are resolved to elementary graph structures; and “Serial Publication,” which highlights the pedagogical and IT system guidance role that FRBR resource description diagrams can play with respect to complex publishing phenomena. A “Find & Navigate” diagram element has been introduced in the serial publication diagram as a theoretical necessity with practical implications. The elements provide a consistent means for depicting the linking functions provided by identifiers, name and subject authority records, and prescribed and arbitrary relationships. The tables and legends found on the right side of the diagram suggest how diagram components may be expressed as “triple” style statements for implementation-minded readers.

The purpose of this essay is to analyze award-winning author Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 through the lens of postmodernism. The focus will be on identifying symbols and signs of the hyperreal when it comes to freedom of speech, censorship, and technology through Jean Baudrillard’s orders of simulacra from his book Simulacra and Simulation. The images of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian society in Fahrenheit 451 are analyzed, as well as the main characters and their relationship to technology, books, censorship, and freedom of speech. This essay also argues that the hyperreal is relevant today and has been throughout history if knowledge is suppressed or controlled by society as presented in Fahrenheit 451.

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This thesis examines the relationship between Cold War science fiction fix-up novels and social cycle theory. The study engages with textual, cultural, and comparative analysis to elucidate and analyze links between the fix-up novel format, a cyclical conception of human history, and the Cold War setting of the construction and publication of three SF novels. The objects of this study are three Cold War era fix-up novels with origins in World War II pulp science fiction magazine short stories: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, City by Clifford D. Simak, and A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. The project examines these three novels alongside the reflective nature of the fix-up novel format, the authors' interactions with social cycle theory, and the Cold War cultural considerations of ideological instability and the threat of annihilation. By examining these works through the lens of retroactive continuity, social cycle theory, and the Cold War cultural imaginary, this thesis demonstrates the complex interplay between literature, culture, and history, and the ways in which SF authors have used their works to engage with the pressing concerns of their time. / Master of Arts / The Cold War era novels The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, City by Clifford D. Simak, and A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. share origins in pulp science fiction magazine short stories. These authors consolidated and revised previously published short stories to produce these works, known as fix-up novels. These three fix-up novels interact with representations of human progress as cyclical or non-linear. This project examines how the Cold War setting of the authors may have influenced science fiction authors' conceptions of human progress as cyclical. This thesis studies how the revision process of creating fix-up novels combined with the transition from World War II to the societal anxieties of the Cold War may have impacted the cultural messages of these novels.

L'objectif général de notre projet est d'étudier les capacités d'adolescents de 14 à 17 ans à interpréter une nouvelle littéraire difficile. Des rencontres avec 39 élèves nous ont permis de collecter nos données par l'intermédiaire de la méthode de la pensée à voix haute et de l'entretien semi-dirigé. Nous avons effectué une analyse de ces données grâce à la méthode de l'analyse de contenu. Plus précisément, nous avons d'abord regroupé les élèves dans des profils d'interprètes selon leurs interprétations du texte Dragon (Bradbury, 1986). Nous avons ensuite étudié le lien entre l'interprétation proposée par chacun d'eux et leur recours à des éléments du texte ou à des connaissances personnelles pertinentes pour interpréter. Enfin, nous avons dégagé le lien entre le degré global de compréhension et la plausibilité des interprétations avancées pour chaque profil créé. Globalement, nos résultats convergent vers les observations suivantes : 1) les élèves qui ont proposé les interprétations les plus plausibles sont ceux qui se sont le plus appuyés sur des éléments du texte et sur des connaissances personnelles pertinentes; 2) les élèves dont la compréhension des enjeux centraux de l'histoire était adéquate ont, de façon générale, formulé des interprétations pertinentes pour expliquer le non-dit; 3) les élèves qui n'ont pas cerné le genre du texte lu ont eu plus de difficulté à le comprendre et à l'interpréter. Ces résultats montrent l'importance d'enseigner aux élèves des stratégies métacognitives polyvalentes à utiliser pour la compréhension et l'interprétation de textes de tous genres, notamment le retour au texte et l'utilisation de connaissances personnelles. De plus, nos résultats suggèrent un travail en classe de français sur des textes peu communs afin d'élargir l'expérience de lecture des élèves et les préparer à surmonter les défis générés par les singularités des textes.