Thesis advisor: Ricco Siasoco / Hodge-Podge: A Collection of Literary Claptrap and Fictive Nonsensery is a collection of eight short stories. The stories are unrelated in terms of subject matter or style, but all fall within the broad confines of the author's world, conveniently. Titles: "The Kill"; "Hot Breath"; "Sorcery"; "A Failure of Understanding"; "Currency"; "Deserter's Execution"; "The Box"; "Commencement". / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

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Esta pesquisa propõe o conceito de \"cidade fictiva\", entendida como a cidade que nasce especificamente da construção estética literária. Tal conceito permite descobrir os alicerces da cidade na literatura a partir dos primeiros textos de criação literária do Ocidente (Enuma Elish, Epopéia de Gilgamesh), para detectar suas principais características e examinar omo estas constituem elementos de construção em contos contemporâneos rasileiros, chilenos e portugueses nos quais se percebe uma idéia de \"conto citadino\". O estudo da cidade fictiva estabelece alguns paradigmas observados em diversos textos, como: La Ciudad está Triste, do escritor chileno Ramón Díaz Etérovic; \"Timotu Kalu\", de Orígenes Lessa; \"Passeio Noturno I e II\", de Rubem Fonseca; e \"A tua véspera de Natal\", do escritor português David Mourão-Ferreira. Junto a esses paradigmas são estabelecidos alguns mundos possíveis da cidade fictiva, surgidos da análise comparativa entre os contos: \"Amor\", de Clarice Lispector, e \"La Elegida\", da chilena Lilian Elphick; \"Una señora\", do chileno José Donoso, e \"Sem Remédio\", de Luiz Ruffato; \"Busca\", de João Antônio, e \"A Bota\", do português José Rodrigues Miguéis. / This research paper puts forward the concept of \"fictive city\", understood as the city that is born specifically of literary aesthetic construction. This concept enables one to discover the foundations of the city in literature as from the earliest texts of literary creation in the West (Enuma Elish, the Gilgamesh Epic), in order to detect their main characteristics and examine how these constitute building blocks of contemporary Brazilian, Chilean and Portuguese tales in which an idea of \"tale from the city\" can be perceived. The study of the fictive city sets out certain paradigms, found in a number of different texts, such as La Ciudad está Triste, by Chilean author Ramón Díaz Etérovic, \"Timotu Kalu\", by Origenes Lessa, \"Passeio Noturno I e II\", by Rubem Fonseca, and \"A tua véspera de Natal\", by Portuguese author David Mourão-Ferreira. In addition to these paradigms, certain possible worlds of the fictive city are established, taken from a comparative analysis of the tales: \"Amor\", by Clarice Lispector, and \"La Elegida\", by Chilean Lilian Elphick; \"Una señora\", by Chilean José Donoso, and \"Sem Remédio\", by Luiz Ruffato; \"Busca\", by João Antônio and \"A Bota\", by Portuguese José Rodrigues Miguéis.

This PhD is part novel and part thesis. The novel, The Girl Upstairs (TGU), is in three parts. Parts one and two are included here in full. A synopsis of part three is included in the appendices. The thesis presents an original “action model” for Creative Writing (CW) called “fictive responsibility”. TGU can be treated as a case study, demonstrating the practical application of this new model. TGU follows a Bengali-Muslim family as they confront the wayward behaviour of Kifah Rahman, a feisty sixteen-year-old. Set somewhere in south-west England, Kifah’s misadventures start when she discovers an envelope discarded in a drawer. The address is her mother’s childhood home across the city, but she’s never heard of the addressee, Zubi Rahman. Kifah sneaks off school to investigate. Kifah’s clandestine visits incite rumours and soon Kifah is accused of tarnishing the family’s reputation. TGU confronts the difficult subjects of “honour”-based-violence (HBV), domestic violence and “crimes-of-passion”. By exploring different types of violence-against-women (VAW), TGU shows how perceived differences in, for example, “culture”, religion, or heritage, rather than dividing us, can present new ways to connect across moral values or lifestyles, ultimately promoting togetherness and empathy between different cultures. The thesis explores how the “political” relates to “literature” through the writer’s creative process, suggesting that all novelists are inherently politicised individuals and fictions are produced through an inherently politicised process. The significance of this is undermined by those who claim fiction writers just “make it up”. Failing to recognise the “politics of representation” that operates alongside invention in CW has contributed to the recent exacerbation around “cultural appropriation”. For some writers this presents a threat to “free” expression. For others, “free” expression must be treated with respect, especially when fictionalising characters that appear external to the writer’s own experience. Theoretical and conceptual analysis is drawn from cultural studies, ethnography, literary criticism and philosophy. Case studies include fictions with Muslim female characters in a post-9/11 setting. In addition to literary analysis, the thesis explores how “authenticity” interacts with an author’s perceived affiliation with characters or themes within the fiction.

Epoxy resin is an important engineering material in many industries such as electronics, automotive, aerospace, etc not only because it is an excellent adhesive but also because the materials based on it provide outstanding mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Epoxy resin has been proved to be an excellent matrix material for the nanocomposites when including another phase such as inorganic nanofillers. The properties of a nanocomposite material, in general, are a hybrid between the properties of matrix material and the nanofillers. In this sense, the thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties of a nanocomposite may be affected by the corresponding properties of matrix material. When the sonication is used to disperse the nanofillers in the polymer matrix, with the dispersal of the nanofillers, there comes some modification in the matrix as well and it finally affects the properties of nanocomposites. In this regard, we attempted to study the thermal, mechanical, and dynamic properties of EPON 862 epoxy resin where ultrasonic processing was taken as the effect causing variable. Uncured epoxy was subjected to thermal behavior studies before and after ultrasonic treatment and the cured epoxies with amine hardener EPICURE 3223 (diethylenetriamine) after sonications were tested for mechanical and dynamic properties. We monitored the ultrasonic processing effect in fictive temperature, enthalpy, and specific heat capacity using differential scanning calorimetry. Fictive temperature decreased whereas enthalpy and specific heat capacity were found to increase with the increased ultrasonic processing time. Cured epoxy rectangular solid strips were used to study the mechanical and dynamic properties. Flexural strength at 3% strain value measured with Dillon universal testing machine under 3-point bending method was found to degrade with the ultrasonic processing. The storage modulus and damping properties were studied for the two samples sonicated for 60 minutes and 120 minutes. Our study showed that the 60 minutes sonicated sample has higher damping or loss modulus than 120 minutes sonicated sample.

Esta pesquisa propõe o conceito de \"cidade fictiva\", entendida como a cidade que nasce especificamente da construção estética literária. Tal conceito permite descobrir os alicerces da cidade na literatura a partir dos primeiros textos de criação literária do Ocidente (Enuma Elish, Epopéia de Gilgamesh), para detectar suas principais características e examinar omo estas constituem elementos de construção em contos contemporâneos rasileiros, chilenos e portugueses nos quais se percebe uma idéia de \"conto citadino\". O estudo da cidade fictiva estabelece alguns paradigmas observados em diversos textos, como: La Ciudad está Triste, do escritor chileno Ramón Díaz Etérovic; \"Timotu Kalu\", de Orígenes Lessa; \"Passeio Noturno I e II\", de Rubem Fonseca; e \"A tua véspera de Natal\", do escritor português David Mourão-Ferreira. Junto a esses paradigmas são estabelecidos alguns mundos possíveis da cidade fictiva, surgidos da análise comparativa entre os contos: \"Amor\", de Clarice Lispector, e \"La Elegida\", da chilena Lilian Elphick; \"Una señora\", do chileno José Donoso, e \"Sem Remédio\", de Luiz Ruffato; \"Busca\", de João Antônio, e \"A Bota\", do português José Rodrigues Miguéis. / This research paper puts forward the concept of \"fictive city\", understood as the city that is born specifically of literary aesthetic construction. This concept enables one to discover the foundations of the city in literature as from the earliest texts of literary creation in the West (Enuma Elish, the Gilgamesh Epic), in order to detect their main characteristics and examine how these constitute building blocks of contemporary Brazilian, Chilean and Portuguese tales in which an idea of \"tale from the city\" can be perceived. The study of the fictive city sets out certain paradigms, found in a number of different texts, such as La Ciudad está Triste, by Chilean author Ramón Díaz Etérovic, \"Timotu Kalu\", by Origenes Lessa, \"Passeio Noturno I e II\", by Rubem Fonseca, and \"A tua véspera de Natal\", by Portuguese author David Mourão-Ferreira. In addition to these paradigms, certain possible worlds of the fictive city are established, taken from a comparative analysis of the tales: \"Amor\", by Clarice Lispector, and \"La Elegida\", by Chilean Lilian Elphick; \"Una señora\", by Chilean José Donoso, and \"Sem Remédio\", by Luiz Ruffato; \"Busca\", by João Antônio and \"A Bota\", by Portuguese José Rodrigues Miguéis.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-05-22T19:34:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebisottidornelas.pdf: 1984615 bytes, checksum: be8ee6306dbf0bfe5a77968a2802f00e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-05-22T21:41:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebisottidornelas.pdf: 1984615 bytes, checksum: be8ee6306dbf0bfe5a77968a2802f00e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-22T21:41:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebisottidornelas.pdf: 1984615 bytes, checksum: be8ee6306dbf0bfe5a77968a2802f00e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-06 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente estudo tem como objetivo descrever e analisar Construções de Movimento Fictivo do Português do Brasil (CMF), do tipo “A estrada vai até a praça...” e “A veia percorre toda a extensão do braço...”. Tais construções utilizam um verbo de movimento associado a um tema estático. Como base teórica, utilizamos pressupostos da Linguística Cognitiva (TALMY, 2000; LANGACKER, 1987, 1999, 2008; FAUCONNIER, 1997; FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2002) e dos Modelos de Gramática Baseados no Uso (LANGACKER, 1987, 1999, 2008; GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; GOLDBERG; JACKENDOFF, 2004). Como aporte metodológico, elegemos instrumentos da Linguística de Corpus(SARDINHA, 2004; SILVA, 2008), que forneceram condições para a formação de um corpus específicos das CMF, com 536 ocorrências. A análise subsequente revelou dois padrões formais mais produtivos: (1)[XSNEYVM(ZSP)] (...o cabelo(SNE)ia(VM)até o pé(SP)) e (2) [XSNE YVM ZSN] (A artéria vertebral(SNE) (...) percorre(VM)o restante da coluna(SN)). O padrão (1), com variações, apresentou 34 tipos e 372 ocorrências; o padrão (2), com variações, 16 tipos e 164 ocorrências. Postula–se que a motivação cognitiva das CMF advémdo processo de mesclagem conceptual entreum domínio de experiência de movimento e outrorelacionado visualmente à extensão, o que promove um escaneamento visual da extensão. Essa motivação faz com que, no polo semântico–pragmático, as CMF evoquem uma matriz dominial caracterizadora de espaço físico, focalizando domínios conceptuais de área, dimensão, localização, formato, posição e direção. Pragmaticamente, possuem função descritiva, possibilitando a reconstrução mental da cena estática em questão. Quanto ao ambiente discursivo, as CMF se encontram em maior número nos gêneros ficção e acadêmico e estão relacionadas a tópicos conversacionais como anatomia, turismo, geografia, urbanismo, construção, vestuário e explicação de rotas, que têm como centro a descrição de trajetórias ou outros objetos que são conceptualizados como trajetórias.Assim, nossa análise coloca as CMF como mais um nódulo na rede de construções do PB e procura contribuir com a descrição de nova rede – a rede construcional do movimento. A análise das CMF traz à tona a atuação da mesclagem conceptual na formação de novas construções. Atesta, ainda, a relevância da abordagem da linguagem corporificada proposta pela Linguística Cognitiva e a visão da língua como inventário de construções moldadas pelo uso discursivo. / The present work aims at describing and analyzing the Fictive Motion Constructions of Brazilian Portuguese(FMC) such as “A Estrada vaiaté a praça…” and “A veiapercorretoda a extensão do braço…”. These constructions use a motion verb with a static theme. As theoretical basis we use the constructs of Cognitive Linguistics (TALMY, 2000; LANGACKER, 1987, 1999, 2008; FAUCONNIER, 1997; FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2002) and the Usage–based Models of Grammar (LANGACKER, 1987, 1999, 2008; GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; GOLDBERG; JACKENDOFF, 2004). For methodology, we chose Corpus Linguistics instruments (SARDINHA, 2004; SILVA, 2008) that provided conditions for the construction of a specific corpus, containing 536 examples of FM constructions. The analysisledustotwomain formal patterns: (1) [XNPSYVM (ZPP)] (...o cabelo(NPS)ia(VM)até o pé(PP)) e (2) [XNPS YVM ZNP] (A artéria vertebral(NPS) (...) percorre(VM)o restante da coluna(NP)). The first one and its variations presented 34 types and 372 occurrences; the second one, and its variations, 16 types and 164 occurrences. It’s assumed thatCMFs cognitive motivation comes from conceptual blending processes which integrate an experience of motion domain to a visual domain related to the extension described. This integration promotes a visual scanning of this extension. The conceptual motivation allows the FMC to evocate, in its semantic–pragmatic pole, a space qualifier conceptual matrix which focuses on area, dimension, location, shape, position and direction domains. In pragmatic dimension, FM constructions have descriptive function and make possible the mental reconstruction of static scenes. About discursive environment, we found great number of FMC in genres academic and fiction. They are also related to conversational topics such as anatomy, tourism, geography, urbanism, construction, clothing and routes explanations, because these topics have, as its central subject, trajectories or extensions conceptualized as trajectories. Therefore, our analysis locates FMC as a specific construction standard inside the construction network of Brazilian Portuguese. Besides, our work aims at contributing for the description of a new construction network, related to movement verbs. The analysis of FMC brings out the role of conceptual blending at new constructions building. It also attests the relevance of Cognitive Linguistics embodied language approachand the vision of language as an inventory of constructions shaped in discourse.

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Die durch die franquistische Historiografie verzerrte Darstellung der geschichtlichen Ereignisse im Spanien des 20. Jahrhunderts betrifft besonders den spanischen Bürgerkrieg und die unmittelbar darauf folgenden Jahre. Durch den „Pakt des Vergessens“ wurde die Aufarbeitung dieser Zeit mit ihren grausamen Verfolgungen Andersdenkender und der Jahre des Hungers zunächst erschwert und so drohten die geschichtlichen Ereignisse dem tatsächlichen Vergessen anheim zu fallen (vgl. Macher 2002). Der Roman „Pa Negre“ und seine gleichnamige filmische Literaturadaption leisten einen Beitrag gegen dieses Vergessen, besonders für die unter Franco unterdrückte katalanische Minderheit. Indem sowohl Emili Teixidor, der Autor des Romans, als auch Agustí Villaronga, der Regisseur der gleichnamigen Filmadaption, die Geschichte der „Verlierer“ erzählen, zeichnen sie ein Bild des ganz gewöhnlichen faschistischen Alltags der 40er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, in denen in Spanien die neue, franquistische Ordnung installiert wurde. „Pa Negre“ ist die Geschichte eines 11-jährigen Jungen, dessen Unkenntnis der Umstände ihn mit unschuldigen Augen auf die Welt der Erwachsenen schauen lässt, wodurch er Korruption, Irrationalität und Heuchelei entlarvt. Aus den Widersprüchlichkeiten, in die die Menschen seiner Umgebung verstrickt sind, zieht er seine eigenen Schlüsse. Stück für Stück entfernt er sich von seiner Familie, um die Atmosphäre aus Unsicherheit und erzwungenem Schweigen hinter sich lassen zu können. So wie viele andere in seinem Land zog er sich in das innere Exil zurück (vgl. Glenn 2012). In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden der Film und seine Literaturvorlage hinsichtlich der Unterschiede und der Gemeinsamkeiten in den Ausdrucksweisen des Filmregisseurs und des Romanautors und hinsichtlich der Merkmale fingierter Mündlichkeit miteinander vergleichen. Nach einer Einleitung geht es im 2. Kapitel zunächst um die theoretischen Grundlagen für eine Analyse der Dialoge des Romans und des durch die Produzentin des Films zur Verfügung gestellten Drehbuchs hinsichtlich der in ihnen vorhandenen Merkmale von Mündlichkeit bzw. der zu erwartenden Probleme und Tendenzen bezüglich der fingierten Mündlichkeit bei der Anfertigung der deutschen Untertitel zum Film und der Übersetzung eines Kapitels des Romans. Ausgehend vom Modell des Nähe/Distanz-Kontinuums von Koch und Oesterreicher (2011) wird dabei näher auf die Aspekte der Nähesprache in der deutschen und katalanischen Sprache eingegangen. Insbesondere wird ein Überblick über die diasystematischen Varietäten des Katalanischen und eine kurze historische Darstellung der diatopischen Varietäten und ihrer Rolle im Standardisierungsprozess in Katalonien gegeben. Im 3. Kapitel werden der Film und der Roman als Gegenstand der Untersuchung vorgestellt und historisch eingeordnet. Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den Ausdrucksweisen beider Werke werden auf der Grundlage theoretischer Betrachtungen zur Filmadaption untersucht. Das 4. Kapitel ist der Analyse der in den beiden Werken zu findenden Merkmale von Mündlichkeit und den Problemen und Lösungen bei der Übersetzung dieser Merkmale gewidmet.

A travers une enquête réalisée auprès de plus de 2 400 étudiants provenant de 19 filières différentes, nous avons étudié l'outil Internet comme outil révélateur d'une identité réelle, non pas tant à travers les différentes expressions identitaires que le sujet utilise et les différents territoires virtuels qu’il emprunte qu’à travers les raisons qu’il invoque pour s’y connecter. Partant de l’hypothèse selon laquelle le cyberespace est non seulement un espace de communication et d’interaction, mais aussi un espace psychologique, c'est-à-dire un espace symbolique et un lieu d’expression identitaire, notre travail a pour objectif de déterminer les motivations profondes qui se greffent ou qui se substituent à celles que l'individu évoque habituellement pour justifier sa connexion. Le cadre théorique pluridisciplinaire, qui constitue les deux premières parties de notre travail, se situe au confluent de trois approches. La première porte sur l’étude du territoire en tant que facteur constitutif de l’identité individuelle et collective. La seconde s’articule autour des travaux centrés sur l’étude du concept d’identité, limitée à celle du sujet et de son fonctionnement psychologique. La troisième met l’accent sur les travaux qui concernent la mise en place et la pratique des médias informatisés, et plus spécifiquement d’Internet, ainsi que sur les transformations sociétales qu’elles génèrent et la plasticité identitaire qu’elles révèlent.Notre enquête occupe la troisième partie de notre travail. Elle nous a permis, d’une part, de recueillir les réflexions de nos sujets, autour de quatre thèmes : la représentation qu’ils se font d’Internet, les craintes ou les espoirs que ce nouvel outil de communication leur inspire, les incidences sociales qu’il est susceptible d’engendrer, et les modifications spatiales qu’il peut générer. Et, d’autre part, d’étudier l’outil Internet comme médiateur-réflecteur dans le processus de la construction identitaire et les mécanismes psychologiques qu’il révèle. / Through a student survey carried out from more than 2 400 people in 19 different college courses, we analyzed the Internet as a tool revealing real identity, nothing so much as the different identity expressions and virtual territories a subject can use, than the reasons he invokes for connecting to the Internet. Starting from the hypothesis that the cyberspace is not only a communication and interaction space, but also a psychological or symbolic one, as well as an identity expression place, our work aims to determine the deeper motives which come along or replace the motivations the individual puts forward to justify his connection. The multidisciplinary theoretical frame of the two first parts of our work is at the junction of three approaches. The first one is based upon the territory study as a constituent factor of the individual and collective identity. The second one deals with the study of identity concept works, restricted to the individual scope and his psychological mode. The third one stresses upon works about the setting up and practice of computer-mediated communication, more specifically the Internet, as well as, consequently, the generated societal mutations, and the brought out plasticity of identity.Our survey is developed in the third part of our work. It enabled us on the one hand, to gather our students’ thoughts according to four themes: their own representation of the Internet, their fears or hopes about this new communication tool, the social impact it could generate, and the space transformations it could cause. On the other hand, to study the Internet tool as a mediator / reflector in the identity building process and psychological mechanisms it brings out.