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In this thesis I examine the evolving social and personal attitudes about marriage and love as depicted in George Eliot's Middlemarch by arguing that Eliot anticipates modern marriages by critiquing traditional Victorian marital values. For the purposes of this analysis, the applicable aspects of modern marriage are sexuality, shifting gender roles, and a dismissal of social class as the major factor in choosing a partner. In order to achieve this end, I apply close textual analysis as well as a New Historical approach to examine how Middlemarch is conditioned by its historical context.

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Zugl.: Augsburg, Univ., Diss.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1934. / Without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 215-238.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1934. / Without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 215-238.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze various aspects of quality of life and to determine if there is a difference in quality of life offered by a conventional ileostomy versus a continent ileostomy. An instrument was developed to measure several factors thought to influence quality of life as well as several structural/demographic variables. This instrument was designed for persons with a conventional ileostomy and was modified for persons who had undergone conversion surgery from conventional to continent ileostomy. Analysis of variance was performed to determine differences in quality of life for persons with a conventional, conversion, or original continent ileostomy. In addition to an overall quality of life measure, measures for specific areas: self esteem, family relationships, marriage relationships and a composite measure, were tested. No difference was detected for the three types of ileostomy for these variables. Analysis of variance was also performed on variables measuring specific aspects of life such as social activities and travel. This identified several differences in the ileostomy types which the analysis of the more general variables failed to detect. Those who had conversion surgery from conventional to continent ileostomies answered each question twice, comparing life with no ileostomy to life with a conventional, then comparing life with a conventional ileostomy to life with a continent. Three analyses were performed on the resulting data: sign test, chi-square test, and Fisher's exact test. The use of these three tests showed differences in results concerning quality of life and differences in the statistical power of the tests. Both aspects are discussed. Significant improvement in quality of life for almost every aspect tested was seen for this group. Finally, principal component analysis was applied to the set of variables measuring specific aspects of quality of life and several new variables developed from the resulting factors. Analysis of variance was performed on these, as well as the original quality of life measures to determine which of the structural/demographic variables had an effect on quality of life.

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The research’s object is formed by the work of the American photographer Brooke Shaden, through which we seek for connections between photography, its historical establishment in pictorialist and photomontage movements, and painting, specifically in the contributions of cubist, dadaist and surrealist art, with the concept of visual montage as the guiding thread. The knowledge about syntax and semantics of the visual language enables the acquisition of consciousness that is linked to reading and writing with images. In this way, the research travels from imagery thinking to the dialogue between visual codes, from poetics to metalinguistic production, exploring the dual role of researcher-artist. The understanding of contemporary photography as an interdisciplinary language leads us to an understanding of the notions of montage as a procedure and as a philosophy of art. Through the concepts of intersemiosis (in which language is produced) and intersemiotics (in which language is analyzed), the production of a photographic series results as the unfolding of scientific research, as creative, expressive and poetic articulation of possibilities among theoretical modes procedures. / A fotografia é uma forma de texto, que, no lugar de palavras, é composto por elementos visuais, os quais assumem diferentes formas e carregam possibilidades significativas diversas. O estudo é concebido na esfera das linguagens fotográfica e pictórica, em suas dimensões sensível e intelectual. Assim, arte e pensamento são compreendidos como caminhos que se entrelaçam às leituras imagéticas, seus diálogos e suas instâncias de produção, composição, representação e significação – os quais se desenvolvem por meio da criação artística, de suas linguagens próprias e de suas práticas, aproximando, dessa forma, os campos da poética visual à produção de conhecimento. O corpus da pesquisa é formado pelo trabalho da fotógrafa norte-americana Brooke Shaden, sobre o qual buscamos conexões entre a fotografia, seu estabelecimento histórico nos movimentos pictorialista e da fotomontagem, e a pintura, especificamente nas contribuições da arte cubista, dadaísta e surrealista, tendo como fio condutor o conceito de montagem visual. O conhecimento sobre sintaxe e semântica da linguagem imagética viabiliza a aquisição do caráter consciente que se atrela à leitura e à escrita com imagens. Dessa maneira, a pesquisa percorre do pensamento visual ao diálogo entre códigos imagéticos e da poética à produção metalinguística, explorando o duplo papel de pesquisadora-artista. A compreensão da fotografia contemporânea como linguagem interdisciplinar nos leva ao entendimento acerca das noções de montagem como procedimento e como filosofia da arte. Por meio de conceitos da intersemiose (em que se produz linguagem) e intersemiótica (em que se analisa a linguagem), a produção de uma série fotográfica resulta como desdobramento da pesquisa científica, como articulação criativa, expressiva e poética das possibilidades dentre os modos teóricos e procedimentais abordados.

My master’s thesis consists of a screenplay adaptation of the Eighteenth Century novel The Excursion by Francis Brooke, as well as an Introduction that details the writing process of the main text. In order to prepare this manuscript, I began with a study of both Francis Brooke and her novel as part of Dr. Judith Slagle’s Eighteenth Century British Novel course and developed my work to completion through independent research on and application of my findings on the screenwriting genre. The concluding product is a three-act screenplay which maintains the original period setting, speech, and costuming while adding such contemporary elements as 20th century music. Such a combination of time periods enables the stillness of the page to become the action of the screen even as it highlights the universal themes of Brooke’s original text.