Book Summary: The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition is the largest, most comprehensive reference publication on American Music. Twenty-five years ago, the four volumes of the first edition of the dictionary initiated a great expansion in American music scholarship. This second edition reflects the growth in scholarship the first edition initiated. At eight volumes, it provides greatly expanded coverage, particularly in the areas of popular music, cities and regions, musical theater, opera, concert music, and music technology, as well as the musical traditions of many ethnic and cultural groups.

This study focuses on a series of late-century works by women writers that incorporate facets of theatrical performance into the printed book. Literary drama was a common genre of the Victorian and Edwardian period, used by writers such as Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold to elevate drama to the status of literature, a term synonymous with the printed page and the experience of reading. However, this project examines a series of women writers who, in contrast, used this hybrid form to challenge the assumed superiority of text. The values ascribed to the printed page—that it was a disembodied enterprise unattached to the whims of its audience or the particularities of its author—were antithetical to the experiences of women writers, whose work was often read in the context of their gendered bodies. My study proceeds chronologically, reading the literary dramas of five writers—George Eliot, Augusta Webster, Katharine Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper (writing under the pseudonym “Michael Field”), and Elizabeth Robins—alongside changes in print practice and theatrical staging as well as evolving discourses about “literariness.” I argue that these women allude to theatrical performance in the text to show that the page always bears the physical traces of its authors and its audience. Each chapter blends book studies with performance studies, showing the way the form of a work invites particular responses from its readers. Overall, this project has two goals: one, to recover marginalized texts by women writers and revise narratives about the period to incorporate these pieces; and two, to span the scholarly chasm between Victorian poetry and drama and demonstrate, instead, the mutually constitutive relationship of these two art forms.

"September 2002" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-209) Outlines an evaluation procedure for stratigraphic trap exploration by employing sequence stratigraphy, 3D seismic data visualisation and quantitative risk analysis with case studies in an actual exploration basin.

Ce mémoire illustre les recherches que j'ai menées pendant les sept dernières années. Depuis ma thèse, mon activité a visé à explorer le transport quantiques dans différents types de nanostructures hybrides. Dans ces structures, il s'agit de combiner des conducteurs comportant différents ordres électroniques ou bien différentes dimensionalités. Une des idées principales qui ont guidé mes recherches est d'implémenter des expériences de pensée de transport quantique en utilisant de tels systèmes. Mon travail s'est décliné autour de trois thématiques distinctes : la coexistence entre l'ordre ferromagnétique et l'ordre supraconducteur, l'électronique de spin moléculaire et l'effet Kondo dans les boîtes quantiques. Le premier chapitre a pour but de mettre en exergue la richesse des nanotubes de carbone pour l'élaboration de structures hybrides. Au chapitre 2, je présente l'expérience d'injection de spin dans les nanotubes et la replace dans son contexte général. Dans le chapitre 3, je détaille les expériences de mesures de bruit que j'ai menées récemment. Les chapitres 1, 2 et 3 sont indépendants. A la fin des chapitres 2 et 3, je détaille les développements immédiats des études présentées. Je conclue enfin en indiquant les perspectives de mon travail, essentiellement reliées à la mesure directe des aspect dynamiques de nano-circuits hybrides.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Zurich, 1995. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-88).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1952. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 485-499).

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