Thesis supervisor: Paul D. Windschitl. Includes bibliographic references (p. 73-81).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Statistics." Includes bibliographical references (p.37-38).

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The creation part of this thesis will take the form of four short stories. The first one is the story of Jonas. The day of his solemn vows, Jonas leaves the monastery after having seen a woman who has awaken in him a desire of freedom absent until then. The second tells the story of Denise, a waitress in a restaurant stuck in a feeling of deep solitude. She regains contact with the world through a cat that awakes in her the desire to share her life. The third story will be of Maryse, the woman whom Jonas saw. Maryse is a country girl who had left her small town to live with her fiance in the city. She leaves him to regain the purity and calm of her small country town. The last story is the story of Jean, Maryse's fiance. After she leaves, he goes looking for his missing cat, witch will lead him to Denise. / The notion of chance is omnipresent in the works of Milan Kundera. Concentrating mainly on three novels, La Valse aux adieux, L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'etre and L'Immortalite---where the author proposes a "Theory of chance"---this study focuses on the foundations and consequences of chance in the fictitious world of Kundera. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: l. [72]-75.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.

Inaug.-Diss.--Heidelberg. / Bibliography: p. 71-[73].

Aristotle endorses a very striking doctrine connecting necessity with what seems to be a non-modal notion -- that of 'being or happening always'. He also forges a connection between the idea of 'happening by chance' and 'happening neither always nor for the most part'. These two connections form the subject of this essay. My guiding aim is to provide an account of what the 'always/necessary' doctrine involves and of why Aristotle might have held it. Reflection on the nature of the connection between 'by chance' and 'neither always nor for the most part' throws light on what Aristotle means by 'happening always', and, in consequence, on the nature of the link between 'always' and 'necessary'; it also suggests that the basis of this link is to be found in Aristotle's general conception of the natural world as the object of explanation and knowledge. The primary texts upon which discussion of these connections must focus are <u>De Caelo</u> I. 12 and the analysis of chance in <u>Physics</u> II. 4—6. I discuss these two texts in turn, after a opening chapter which surveys the evidence for Aristotle's acceptance of the 'always/necessary‘ doctrine and considers the nature of the restrictions which he places on it. Chapter 2 comprises a translation of and commentary on <u>Cael.</u> I. 12, together with a translation and discussion of its companion chapter, I. 10. In Chapter 3, I examine the nature of Aristotle's argument in I. 12, and criticise various interpretations which see it as evidence that Aristotle's 'always/necessary' doctrine rests on a distinctive conception of possibility. The translation of and commentary on <u>Phys.</u> II. 4-6 (Chapter 4) are followed in Chapter 5 by a discussion of issues relating to the association of chance with 'neither always nor for the most part'. The final chapter returns to the question of the connection between 'always' and 'of necessity'.

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Même si le surréalisme au 21ème siècle est généralement jugé comme un mouvement dépassé dont les années les plus actives ont eu lieu dans l'entre-deux-guerres, c'est-à-dire de 1918 à 1939, il y a encore des échos et des rémanences du surréalisme aujourd'hui, longtemps après la fin apparente du mouvement. Le présent travail explore les oeuvres de Louis-René des Forêts, à savoir Le Bavard et La Chambre des enfants, par rapport aux oeuvres surréalistes, à savoir Nadja, le "Manifeste du surréalisme," et L'Amour fou, afin de déterminer dans quelle mesure les composantes du surréalisme telles que le hasard objectif, les attributs de l'esprit conscient et inconscient, l'irrationalité, et le jeu de la fiction et de la réalité font encore écho et restent présentes dans les oeuvres littéraires à présent. Les résultats de cette analyse indiquent que les oeuvres littéraires fictives d'aujourd'hui sont largement imprégnées de nombreuses composantes surréalistes dans certains cas directement et dans d'autres cas indirectement. / Master of Arts / Although Surrealism in the 21st century is generally considered to be an outdated movement whose most active years took place in the interwar period from 1918 to 1939, there are still echoes and afterglow of Surrealism today, long after the movement's apparent end. The present work explores the works of Louis-René des Forêts, Le Bavard and La Chambre des enfants, in relation to the Surrealist works, Nadja, le "Manifeste du surréalisme," and L'Amour fou, in order to determine the extent to which components of Surrealism such as objective chance, attributes of the conscious and unconscious mind, irrationality, and the interplay of fiction and reality still echo and remain present in fictional literary works today. The results of this analysis indicate that today's fictional literary works are largely infused with many Surrealist components, in some cases directly and in other cases indirectly.