Sehnsucht (longing) and alienation were two central themes of 19th century German Romanticism in literature, music and art. Franz Schubert was one of the great masters of the Romantic era to understand and express these intense emotions through his compositions. This paper discusses Sehnsucht and alienation in Schubert’s settings of the Mignon songs from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehjahre (Master William’s Apprenticeship). Mignon, a secondary character in this novel, is a prime example of one who experiences these emotions and whose principal medium of expressing herself is through her five songs. My thesis focuses on how Schubert portrays Mignon’s longing through use of dissonance, harmonic progressions, melodic contour and shifts in vocal register. / iv, 46 leaves ; 29 cm

This dissertation aims at providing a new critical edition of the fictitious Letters of the Courtesans attributed to Alciphron (late 2nd or early 3rd century AD). The first part of the introduction begins with a brief survey of the problematic dating and identification of Alciphron, followed by a general overview of the epistolary genre and the letters of Alciphron. The main part of the introduction deals with the manuscript tradition. Eighteen manuscripts, which contain some or all of the Letters of the Courtesans, are described and the relationship between them is analyzed based on complete collations of all the manuscripts. The conclusion, which is illustrated by a stemma codicum, is that there are four primary manuscripts from which the other fourteen manuscripts derive: Vaticanus gr. 1461, Laurentianus gr. 59.5, Parisinus gr. 3021 and Parisinus gr. 3050. The introduction concludes with a brief chapter on the previous editions, a table illustrating the selection and order of the letters in the manuscripts and editions, and an outline of the editorial principles. The guiding principle for the constitution of the text has been to use conjectural emendation sparingly and to try to preserve the text of the primary manuscripts wherever possible. The critical apparatus has been divided into a main apparatus below the text, which reports variant readings from the primary manuscripts and a small selection of conjectures, and two appendices which report scribal conjectures from the secondary manuscripts and conjectures by modern scholars with bibliographical references. A third appendix has also been added which lists all conjectures adopted into the  text. The parallel translation, which is accompanied by brief explanatory notes on names and places, is literal and serves as a complement to the commentary, which primarily deals with matters of textual criticism. In the commentary problematic passages are discussed, especially where an emendation has been adopted or where the present edition differs from previous editions. After the three appendices the dissertation ends with a bibliography.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, YEAR. / Title from screen (viewed on August 26, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jane E. Schultz, Jonathan R. Eller, Robert Rebein. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83).

Thesis (MA (Visual Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

In his writings, Bergson criticizes the scientific concept of time as a discontinuous and homogeneous succession. According to Bergson, scientific methods do not lead to an authentic knowledge of the reality which is inherently continuous and heterogeneous for him. The more we objectify and conceptualize the world, the more far away are we from being aware of it and actually grasping it. The reason for this distance or distortion is our intellect that always operates with a linear concept of time and always serves everyday conduct. Thus it works with the delusion of time that produces a useful but to some extent illusory knowledge. The question for this thesis is how inteligence or intellect meets with reality in spite of their different nature. What makes it possible to connect our practical needs with reality. Is the world we are living in, the world of our practical life, real or just an illusion of reality? And how can we understand the meaning of our scientific cognition in this sense?

xx, 800 p. : music. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Despite the immense popular and critical response given to the Harry Potter narrative and phenomenon, little has been written about the music for the Harry Potter films. I establish that the aesthetic differences that viewers perceive between the different Harry Potter films are largely due to the musical approaches of composers John Williams, Patrick Doyle, and Nicholas Hooper over the course of four director/composer collaborations for the first five films. This study provides a rare opportunity to examine the work of different composers for a continuing narrative. Moreover, when we explore how music is used in varied ways within the films, we see how each musical approach shapes film visuals into the narrative that the filmmakers sought to convey; when the music changes, the story changes. Music creates the geographic, cultural, and temporal landscapes that draw us in to Harry's 'muggle' and magical worlds. Music defines the way we perceive Harry's emotional experiences of love, joy, loss, and death, and also defines the philosophical perspectives on the nature of evil and its conquest. Sometimes, the music provides clues to the mystery long before visuals and dialogue address them, and musical relationships (with visuals and within the music itself) allow us to perceive the properties and powers of magic and humanity that may otherwise transpire unseen. Music also plays a role in the types of humor that are represented in the films--from socially-sanctioned transgressions, to macabre, to bawdy, deadpan, and caricature. However, while the core narrative themes in the films are closely related to the main themes in Rowling's original novels, an examination of how Rowling's descriptions of musical events compare with representations of these events in the films reveals that Rowling created a more nuanced social landscape (especially with regard to gender) than is re-contextualized with music in the films. / Committee in charge: Marian Smith, Chairperson, Music; Anne McLucas, Member, Music; Mark Levy, Member, Music; Carl Bybee, Outside Member, Journalism and Communication

La simulation d'écoulements dans des géométries complexes nécessite la création de maillages parfois difficile à réaliser. La méthode de pénalisation proposée dans ce travail permet de simplifier cette étape. En effet, la résolution des équations qui gouvernent l'écoulement se fait sur un maillage plus simple mais non-adapté à la géométrie du problème. Les conditions aux limites sur les parties du domaine physique immergées dans le maillage sont prises en compte à travers l'ajout d'un terme de pénalisation dans les équations. Nous nous sommes intéressés à l'approximation du terme de pénalisation pour une discrétisation par volumes finis sur maillages décalés et colocatifs. Les cas tests de vérification réalisés attestent d'un ordre de convergence spatial égal à 2 pour la méthode de pénalisation appliquée à la résolution d'une équation de type Poisson ou des équations de Navier-Stokes. Enfin, on présente les résultats obtenus pour la simulation d'écoulements turbulents autour d'un cylindre à Re=3900 et à l'intérieur d'une partie d'un assemblage combustible à Re=9500. / The simulations of fluid flows in complex geometries require the generation of body-fitted meshes which are difficult to create.The penalty method developed in this work is useful to simplify the mesh generation task.The governing equations of fluid flow are discretized using a finite volume method on an unfitted mesh.The immersed boundary conditions are taken into account through a penalty term added to the governing equations.We are interested in the approximation of the penalty term using a finite volume discretization with collocated and staggered grid.The penalty method is second-order spatial accurate for Poisson and Navier-Stokes equations.Finally, simulations of turbulent flows around a cylinder at Re=3900 and turbulent motions in a rod bundle at Re=9500 are performed.

Orientador: Carlos Eduardo Ornelas Berriel / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T22:22:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WitezeJunior_Geraldo_M.pdf: 905275 bytes, checksum: b3695ea6baf8a1fc1789c9c7a4e9cf06 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar as relações entre a utopia e o romance "Dom Quixote". Mais especificamente a hipótese testada é a de que o governo de Sancho Pança na ínsula Baratária poderia ser entendido como uma utopia. Para tanto busca-se primeiramente delimitar o significado da utopia, discutindo as suas transformações ao longo da história desde sua origem no Renascimento. Além disso examina-se a sua percepção como gênero literário e como corrente de pensamento, recorrendo à diferenciação entre utopia e utopismo. Como o significado da utopia mudou após as críticas de Marx e Engels, procura-se esclarecê-las através de uma análise direta da obra dos dois pensadores, estabelecendo uma diferença entre os escritos de Marx, os de Engels e as interpretações marxistas posteriores. Após o percurso teórico sobre a utopia é feita uma breve discussão bibliográfica perpassando pelos principais nomes da crítica literária cervantina para, na sequência, analisar o texto de "Dom Quixote", em especial as partes da obra diretamente relacionadas ao governo de Sancho. / Abstract: The objective of this work is to study the relationship between utopia and the novel "Don Quixote". More specifically, the hypothesis tested is that the government of Sancho Panza in the insula Barataria could be understood as an utopia. To this end we first seek to delimit the meaning of utopia, discussing its transformations throughout history since its origins in the Renaissance. Furthermore we examine it perception as a literary genre and as a current of thought, using the distinction between utopia and utopianism. Because the eaning of utopia has changed after the criticism of Marx and Engels we sought to clarify the through a direct analysis of two thinkers' work making a difference between the writings of Marx, Engels and later marxist interpretations. After the theoretical course on utopia, we do a brief bibliographical discussion perpassing the top names in Cervantes literary criticism in order to thereupon analyze the text of "Don Quixote", specially the parts of the work directly related to the government of Sancho. / Mestrado / Historia e Historiografia Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

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Esta pesquisa procura situar a análise do sistema de crédito na apresentação categorial de O Capital de Karl Marx para, a partir daí, problematizar alguns aspectos da crítica marxiana à sociedade baseada no valor. O primeiro deles diz respeito às dificuldades surgidas na explicação da reprodução ampliada do capital social total com a abstração do Estado no curso de toda análise ali efetuada, rebaixado ao detalhe da condição de faux frais da produção capitalista. Tal rebaixamento é questionado então a partir dos problemas derivados da aceitação acrítica, por parte de Marx, do conceito smithiano de trabalho \"improdutivo\". Com isto, retoma-se a crítica de Rosa Luxemburgo como forma de sugerir uma proposta para a resolução daquelas dificuldades a partir da reinserção do aparato estatal militarizado e das dívidas públicas nacionais, formadas por acumulação de capital fictício, na dinâmica de reprodução permanente dos pressupostos da acumulação primitiva como condição necessária da autoreprodução do valor. Tal inserção, finalmente, permite vislumbrar novos patamares críticos em relação aos supostamente necessários \"benefícios civilizatórios\" da modernização. / This research intents to situate credit system analysis in Karl Marx\'s Capital conceptual presentation and, therefore, discusses some questions about Marxian critical aspects of \"value based society\". First of them concerns difficulties that appears with the abstraction of the State in the total social capital amplified reproduction analysis. Marx would have reduce the State to the condition of faux frais of the capitalistic production in the course of his analysis. In my opinion, such consideration about the role of the State came since the issues from an uncritical acceptation by Marx of the smithian concept of \"unproductive\" labor. Therefore, we recover, necessarily, to the Rosa Luxemburg\'s critics to proposal an answer in face of these troubles inserting military state apparatu\'s and its public national debts. They would have been made up of fictitious capital accumulation, through the permanent reproduction dynamics of the presuppositions of the previous accumulation\'s as a necessary condition of the value\'s self reproduction. This reintroduction, at last, allows discern a new critical horizon about civilizatory \"necessary by suppose\" benefits of the modernization process.