Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 35).

Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2007. / Vita. Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 35).

The thesis, entitled The Pain, Hunger, and Birth of Epiphany in the Novels of Toni Morrison, is divided into three chapters. The introduction discusses some of the traditional uses of the word “epiphany” in literature and then proceeds to define the ways in which Morrison’s characters experience epiphanical journeys. Furthermore, Morrison’s development of the idea plays a fundamental role in the structure and unification of all of her novels. The first chapter compares the texts Love and Sula and charts the progression of pain from external, communal, and inherited to internal, individual, and isolationist. In both Love and Sula, death and the body are irrelevant, and it is only when characters learn to dispel pain and disregard the body that they can truly experience an epiphany. Chapter two discusses Paradise in detail and describes the role of food in allowing or preventing characters’ spiritual awakenings or transcendence. Food and the way it is consumed, prepared, grown, and perceived are inextricably linked to characters’ journeys to epiphany. The third chapter compares the novels Jazz and Song of Solomon and illustrates the ways in which perceptions of pain and food are translated to younger generations. It also raises questions of generational sterility and degeneration as well as conveys ideas of stunted or aborted growth and truncated epiphanies.

This study examined origins of possible selves and the role of Epiphanies. Specifically, of interest was whether there are demographic or self-regulatory differences in possible selves derived from different origins. The sample consisted of 411 participants, with age ranging from 17 – 95. The data was taken from two previous research studies on possible selves. The first research question examined the origins of possible selves. Results indicate that possible selves are derived from Epiphany experiences along with internal and external influences, such as another person, or a particular event. The second research question determined whether there were any demographic, ethnic, or cultural differences in the origins of possible selves. Results showed age, cohort, and socioeconomic status had effects. The final research question addressed whether there were differences in the domains of possible selves derived from various origins. Results indicated differences in domains however there were no clear patterns. The first hypothesis was that possible selves derived from an Epiphany would be considered more important than those derived from other origins. This hypothesis was not supported. The second hypothesis was that hoped-for possible selves were more likely to be derived from an Epiphany experience than feared selves. This hypothesis was supported. The second hypothesis also stated that possible selves derived from an Epiphany were more likely to be balanced than selves derived from other origins and this was supported for feared selves only. Finally, the third hypothesis stated that there would be self-regulatory differences between selves derived from Epiphanies compared to other origins but this was not supported. Taken together these findings show that the origins of possible selves are important and especially those derived from epiphany. The role of an Epiphany on the formation and implementation of possible selves paves the way for important prevention programs aimed at promoting healthy development and promoting an individual’s well being.

The aim of this thesis was to investigate trope usage in videogames, including the emergence of undiscovered ‘videogame’ tropes, and to create a new model for videogame categorisation using these tropes. This model serves to complement genre as a means of distilling videogame contents. The investigative work formed two parts, initially considering how videogames use existing rhetorical tropes such as metaphor as expressive and communicative devices and secondly to analyse videogames as a source of shared literary tropes. Each shared literary trope was validated as a common form of expression (referred to simply as 'common form'), where its presence was proven in a substantial sample of videogames. Common forms were gathered through a wide-ranging investigation of ten mainstream genres one at a time and in isolation to arrive at a pool of genre-specific common forms. The most closely related forms combined, with the help of relationship modelling techniques. A set of common forms capable of representing the contents of any videogame was reached. The result is a powerful hierarchical content model allowing a game to be described in terms of its common form usage profile. Common forms can effectively describe games which span several genres and differentiates between games which appear similar on the surface e.g. within the same genre hence aiding effective classification. Common Forms were proven to exist on a number of different hierarchies ranging from those specific to a particular game, to a game type (genre) and even to those which are universal and hence can be observed within any modern videogame. Finally, it was possible to see the very core or 'heart' of the functioning videogame, the never-ending competition between player resources such as energy, ammunition or shields, the 'player status' and the threats, challenges or obstacles the game's systems throw at the player, the 'game status'. The model does have considerable potential for application in educational settings such as college and university game development or appraisal classes and further development and testing would provide an effective tool for industry use.

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This essay examines the protagonist of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” (1922), Laura, and her experiences of events that are made insignificant by the rest of the narrative. Gérard Genette’s narratological theory and the concept of epiphany is put forward in the theroertical framework in order to preform this investigation. Morris Beja’s and Liesl Olson’s studies of the epiphany in modernist literature assists the investigation. Thus, with the support of Genette’s narratological theory and the concept of epiphany, this essay examines epiphanic moments in “The Garden Party”. It will also study how these moments transfer on to the reader through multimodal techniques. This argument is supported by Joseph Conrad’s preface to The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’.

nÃo hà / A narrativa, como tipo textual, tem sido praticada por escritores literÃrios hà muito tempo. O gÃnero conto, especificamente, encontrou preferÃncia em muitos deles, inclusive na Modernidade, e a teoria literÃria nÃo o deixou de fora de seus estudos. Entre os procedimentos narrativos estudados pela teoria, encontra-se a epifania, cuja concepÃÃo à a do escritor irlandÃs James Joyce, a qual se distancia da acepÃÃo original â da religiÃo â e se direciona para o Ãmbito literÃrio. O objetivo desta pesquisa à proporcionar uma perspectiva crÃtica sobre a relaÃÃo entre a brevidade tanto do gÃnero conto quanto dessa concepÃÃo de epifania. A partir do levantamento bibliogrÃfico da teoria literÃria, centrado em tÃtulos que apresentam alguma aproximaÃÃo com a temÃtica e com o conceito joyceano, esta pesquisa concentra-se em torno da especulaÃÃo sobre a presenÃa de procedimentos epifÃnicos em contos modernos e contemporÃneos. A concisÃo do conto comportaria adequadamente a fugacidade da epifania? Essa confluÃncia de brevidades revelaria, entÃo, como a epifania pode estar contida em um conto? Para buscar tais respostas, buscou-se uma delimitaÃÃo dos conceitos de conto e de epifania, a partir de teÃricos da Literatura, e, em seguida, uma anÃlise comparativa de trÃs contos escritos no sÃculo XX que apresentam epifania em seus enredos, a saber: "Amor", de Clarice Lispector; "Olhar", de Rubem Fonseca; e "Axolotle", de Julio CortÃzar. / The narrative, as a type of text, has been practiced by literary writers for a long time. The short story genre, specifically, was preferred by many of them, even in Modernity, and literary theory has not left it out. Among the narrative procedures considered by the theory, there is the epiphany, as was conceptualized by Irish wirter James Joyce, dissociating itself from the original religious sense, and aiming at the scope of literary studies. The goal of this research is to provide a critical perception on the relation between the brevity of the short story genre and of this epiphany concept. From the bibliographic survey of literary theory, centered on titles which present certain approximation to the theme and to the joycean concept, this reasearch focus on the speculation on the presence of epiphanic procedures in modern and contemporary short stories. The hypothesis raised is that a correlation exists between the short story and epiphany, for the concision of the genre would properly contain the fugacity of the procedure. Therefore, the confluence of these brevities would reveal how the epiphany can be enclosed in a short story. To that end, this paper sought a delimitation of the concepts of short story and epiphany from Literature thinkers followed by a comparative analysis of three short stories namely: "Amor", by Clarice Lispector; "Olhar", by Rubem Fonseca; and "Axolotle", by Julio CortÃzar.

After the performance improvement rate in single-core processors decreased in 2000s, most CPU manufacturers have steered towards parallel computing. Parallel computing has been in the spotlight for a while now. Several hardware and software innovations are being examined and developed, in order to improve the efficiency of parallel computing. Signal processing is an important application area of parallel computing, and this makes parallel computing interesting for Ericsson AB, a company that among other business areas, is mainly focusing on communication technologies. The Ericsson baseband research team at Lindholmen, has been developing a small, experimental basic operating system (BOS) for research purposes within the area of parallel computing. One major overhead in parallel applications, which increases the latency in applications, is the communication overhead between the cores. It had been observed that in some signal processing applications, it is common for some tasks of the parallel application to have a large data size but a small code size. The question was risen then, could it be beneficial to move code instead of data in such cases, to reduce the communication overhead. In this thesis work the gain and practical difficulties of moving code are investigated through implementation. A method has been successfully developed and integrated into BOS to move the code between the cores on a multi-core architecture. While it can be a very specific class of applications in which it is useful to move code, it is shown that it is possible to move the code between the cores with zero extra overhead.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plays an important role in many scientific applications, ranging from designing more effective boat engines or aircraft wings to predicting tomorrow's weather, but at the cost of requiring huge amounts of computing time. Also, traditional algorithms suffer from scalability limitations, making them hard to parallelize massively. As a relatively new and promising method for computational fluid dynamics, the Lattice Boltzmann algorithm tries to solve the scalability problems of conventional, but well-tested algorithms in computational fluid dynamics. Through its inherently local structure, it is well suited for parallel processing, and has been implemented on many different kinds of parallel platforms. Adapteva's Epiphany platform is a modern, low-power manycore architecture, which is designed to scale up to thousands of cores, and has even more ambitious plans for the future. Hardware support for floating-point calculations makes it a possible choice in scientific settings. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the performance of the Lattice Boltzmann algorithm on the Epiphany platform. This is done by implementing and testing the lid cavity test case in two and three dimensions. In real applications, high performance on large lattices with millions of nodes is very important. Although the tested Epiphany implementation scales very good, the hardware does not provide adequate amounts of local memory and external memory bandwidth, currently preventing widespread use in computational fluid dynamics.