The Old English Apollonius of Tyre survives as only a fragment of a popular medieval romance which is recorded in numerous Latin manuscripts. Approximately half the story is missing; therefore, studies of this prose romance are usually restricted to linguistic and stylistic analyses. Hence this study focuses on the word order of phrases and clauses and on features of style apparent in the Old English version, with comparison to the Latin source where significant divergences occur.

This thesis proposes a multimodal systemic functional model for adaptation. Its aim is to provide the analyst with wider insight into the process(es) of adaptation but also with a complex yet manageable apparatus which enables comparison and articulation of these comparisons over and above intersemiotic boundaries. The model has been applied to the case example of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and seven different film adaptations. / Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities / Department of Chinese

Winnie Verloc's role in "The Secret Agent" has received little initial critical attention. However, this character emerges as Conrad's hero in this novel because she is an exception to what afflicts the other characters: institutionalism. In the first chapter, I discuss the effect of institutions on the characters in the novel as well as on London, and how both the characters and the city lack hope and humanity. Chapter II is an analysis of Winnie's character, concentrating on her philosophy that "life doesn't stand much looking into," and how this view, coupled with her disturbing experience of having looked into the "abyss," makes Winnie heroic in her affirmative existentialism. Chapters III and IV broaden the focus, comparing Winnie to Conrad's other protagonists and to his other female characters.

The central figure in The Awakening, Edna Pontellier, is shown in this thesis to pursue a narcissistic flight from existential reality. Following a review of contemporary criticism, Edna Pontellier's narcissism is discussed in connection with her sexuality and suicide. Sources cited range from biographies of Kate Chopin to scholarly articles to the works of modern psychologists. The emphasis throughout the thesis is on the wealth of interpretations that currently exist on The Awakening as well as the potential for further -study and interpretation in the future. Rather than viewing The Awakening as a purely feministic novel, it is stressed that The Awakening can transcend such categorization and be appreciated on many levels.

Albert Camus a lui-même distingué trois phases dans son Œuvre : celle de l’absurde : (la prise de conscience du non-sens de la vie conduit Camus à l’idée que l’homme est « libre de vivre sans appel », « quitte à payer les consciences de ses erreurs » et doit épuiser les joies de cette terre. La vie accepte le non-sens du monde et trouve le bonheur au sein même de l’absurde. Camus affirme que l’absurde n’est ni dans l’homme ni dans le monde, mais dans leurs présences communes, dans leur « confrontations » et le définit comme « l’indifférence à l’avenir et la passion d’épuiser tout ce qui est donné »), celle de la révolte : (la révolte est considérée par lui comme la seule position tenable face à l’absurde. Elle figure avec la liberté et la passion, comme une solution valable et capable d’assurer la justice. Elle seule peut assurer une action affective capable de dépasser la stérilité et l’angoisse créées par l’absurde), celle de l’amour : (Camus entend par là, l’amour de l’homme, tel qu’il est, avec ses forces et son intelligence et aussi avec ses limites et ses faiblesses. Camus exprime son affection et sa solidarité envers l’homme. Ce n’est plus seulement un humanisme classique qui s’affirme, plus seulement une position morale, mais une position d’homme sensible. Camus recherche encore à s’approcher de ces « quelques choses », de cette « part obscure » qui est en tout homme, et en lui-même en particulier). Cette étude interroge sur la remarquable prose camusienne qui touche au premier plan la question de l’Homme qui progresse et modifie au fil des années ; l’attachement au service d’une justice relative aux hommes dont l’idée n’est pas séparable de celle du bonheur ; l’adhésion à une éthique humaine et humaniste qui n’est que pour pousser l’esprit humaine à la perfection. Son art n’est pas « une réjouissance solitaire ». Camus formule son exigence envers l’Homme car l’art est le moyen de l’expression d’une communion entre les hommes. / Albert Camus himself distinguished three phases in his work: that of the absurd (awareness of non-meaning of life led Camus to the idea that man is ‘’ free to live without appeal’’, take a risk to pay the consciences of his errors and must exhaust the joys of this earth. Life accepts the non-sense of the world and finds happiness in even the absurd. Camus says that the absurd is not in man nor in the world, but in their common presences, in their ‘’ confrontation’’ and defines it as ‘’ indifference to the future and the passion to exhaust all that is given’’), that of the revolt: (revolt is considered by him as the only tenable position to face the absurd. It appears with the freedom and passion, as a valid solution and capable of ensuring justice. It alone can assure emotional action capable of overcoming unproductiveness and anxiety created by the absurd), that of the love (Camus meant here the love of man as he is, with its forces and intelligence as well as its limitations and weaknesses. Camus expresses his affection and solidarity towards man. This is not only a classical humanism which expresses itself, not just a moral position, but the position of a sensitive man. Camus still tries to approach these ‘’ few things’’ this ‘’obscure part’’ which is in every man, and himself in particular. This study examines the remarkable prose of Camus that concerns the issue of man, who progresses and changes over the years; attachment to the service of justice, relating to man whose idea is not separable from that of happiness; adherence to human and humanist ethics which are pushing the human mind to perfection. His art is not ‘’ a solitary joy’’. Camus formulates his expectation from man because art is the way of expression of communion between people.

Two aspects of solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are described in the thesis. The preconditioning of the algebraic systems arising from the Finite Element Method discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations is complex due to the saddle point structure of the resulting algebraic problems. The Pressure Convection Diffusion Reaction and the Least Squares Commutator preconditioners constitute two possible choices studied in the thesis. Solving the flow problems in time-dependent domains requires special numerical methods, such as the Fictitious Boundary method and the Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formulation of Navier-Stokes equations which are used in the thesis. The problems examined in the thesis are simulations of experiments conducted in liquid Helium at low temperatures. These simulations can be used to establish a relationship between vorticity and new quantity pseudovorticity in an experiment-like setting.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis examines Mark Twain’s use of the dialectic between the characters Huck and Jim to illuminate Jim’s humanity in the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Over the course of their adventure, Huck learns that Jim is a human being and not property. This realization leads Huck to choose to assist Jim in his escape from captivity, and risk eternal damnation according to his religious beliefs. Huck’s decision is driven by the friendship that develops between him and his fellow fugitive on their adventure. Jim’s kindness and stewardship also provide a stark contrast to the treachery of the characters on the banks of the river. Twain thus crafts a message that slavery and race discrimination are wrong without taking the tone of an abolitionist, combining an amusing children’s story with a profound social message. Although definitive proof of his intention to do so has never been found, human friendship is the sliver of common ground Twain used to reach across the profound racial gap in the United States in the late 19th century. The analysis takes place in four parts: (1) a comparison of AHF to other nineteenth century works that featured slavery to establish it as unique among those works; (2) an analysis of the aforementioned dialectic from a modern text of the novel featuring previous deleted parts from the early manuscript; (3) a review of the critical response to the novel which reveals that if Twain was trying to send a message of racial equality, he was not doing so overtly; and (4) a conclusion in which I posit that Twain found a creative solution to a social problem and cite critical discourse that notes Twain’s course of action. This yielded a work that was both more widely read and timeless than a work that confronted slavery directly. Chapters one, three and four utilize critical dialogue and history from print and digital sources. Jane E. Schultz, Ph.D., Professor

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta uma nova formulação implícita e totalmente acoplada para o problema de escoamentos tridimensionais com corpos rígidos suspensos. Esta é a principal contribuição deste trabalho. A formulação foi implementada em C mais mais e testada para o problema de sedimentação de uma partícula esférica. Os resultados indicam comportamento físico plausível apesar de serem limitados por inacurácia de malha. O programa resolve numericamente as Equações de Navier-Stokes acopladas com as Equações da Dinâmica de Corpo Rígido usando o Método de Elementos Finitos. O acoplamento entre os domínios fluido e sólido é feito pela Técnica do Domínio Fictício, que evita a geração de malha a cada passo de tempo. O escoamento tridimensional sem partículas também é estudado neste trabalho e é a base para a formulação do escoamento com partículas. / [en] This work presents a novel implicit and fully coupled formulation for the problem of 3D flows with suspended rigid bodies. This is the main contribution of the work. The formulation was implemented in C plus plus and tested for the sedimentation problem of one spherical particle. The results indicate plausible physical behavior in spite of being limited by mesh accuracy. The software solves numerically the Navier-Stokes Equations coupled with Rigid Body Dynamics Equations using the Finite Elements Method. The coupling between fluid and solid domains is done by means of the Fictitious Domain Technique, which avoids mesh generation for every time step. The 3D flow of non particulate flow is also studied in this work and is the basis for the particulate flow formulation.

In this study I apply social constructionism as propounded by Vivian Burr (1998) to show that although J. K. Rowling uses stereotypes in the Harry Potter series as a reflection of how gender is constructed across a wide range of societal institutions in contemporary Britain, she created complex characters who on an individual level subvert social constructs and thereby offers her readers alternatives to culturally defined concepts of gender. I explore the all-pervasive social phenomenon of gender and examine how it is constructed in present-day Britain and reflected in the series (bearing in mind that the first book was published in 1997 and the last one in 2007). My analysis of female and male characters in the books, and their interpersonal relationships, shows that Rowling's often tricky portrayal of femininities and masculinities gives us an honest view of teenagers’ lives and contemporary gender relations in an ever-changing, complex world. / English Studies / M. A. (English)