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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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La traduction fictive : motifs d’un topos romanesque (1496-1617) / Fictitious translations : patterns of a novelistic device, 1496-1617

Watier, Louis 09 December 2017 (has links)
Une traduction fictive (ou pseudo-traduction) est un texte qui, ayant été directement écrit dans une langue, se présente comme traduit d’une autre, réelle ou imaginaire. Peu étudié jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle, le cas n’en est pas moins fréquent, illustré par un bon nombre de romans célèbres : Don Quichotte, les Lettres persanes, Le manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, Le château d’Otrante, parmi d’autres. Pendant longtemps on a tenu pour négligeable la fiction de la traduction, la considérant comme un procédé inoffensif, un amusant artifice littéraire. Convention souvent assumée de manière explicite par les auteurs qui y recourent, le phénomène n’a encore été que peu envisagé dans sa dimension historique. C’est donc à retrouver les raisons de l’émergence d’un tel motif dans le genre romanesque et à décrire les moments de sa formalisation topique que l’on voudrait s’attacher. L’enquête, qui remonte aux premiers romans médiévaux pour aboutir à leur dernier retentissement dans l’œuvre de Cervantès, s’apparente ainsi à une généalogie, au sens rigoureux que lui donnait Nietzsche, puisqu’il s’agit de réinjecter l’histoire dans un lieu commun, de redynamiser ce que la tradition a figé en un canevas immédiatement reconnaissable. / A fictitious translation (or pseudo-translation) is a text written in a peculiar language but introduced as a real or imaginary translation in a foreign language. While such fictitious translations did not go through frequent studies until the end of the twentieth century, they are quite common and regularly illustrated by many famous works, among which Don Quijote, Le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse and The Castle of Otranto to name a few. For long translation as fiction has only been considered as literary device to entertain. Hence, this attitude towards the fictitious translation may partially explain why such literary phenomenon was never perceived within its historical context, notwithstanding it was explicitly used as a literary convention by many authors. Therefore, we should devote ourselves to discern the motivations that drove the emergence of pseudo-translation in the novel ’genre. Besides, it is also important to highlight the course it took to finally become known as topos. From this perspective, this research, which is a genealogical one as defined by Nietzsche, explores the role of translation from the first medieval novels to their last echo in Cervantes’s work; in an attempt to reinject a historical dynamic in a common place long unchanged.
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Examining the unique security features of a credit card with the aim of identifying possible fraudulent use

Budhram, Trevor 09 1900 (has links)
The use of credit cards has become a way of life in many parts of the world. Credit cards have also created many new opportunities for criminal activity. It is in this light that organizations such as VISA International have explored a variety of security alternatives by constantly reviewing security measures that may be applied to cards and devote considerable resources to the maintenance of security systems and programmes. These programmes mandated by the association, include uniform card standards, security standards for manufactures, embossing and encoding of cards, standards for mailing the cards and credit background investigations of applicants. These standards assist investigators in examining counterfeit cards and distinguish a counterfeit card from a genuine card. The constant reviewing of security features and methods by the association is to create a card that is technically difficult to alter or counterfeit. / Criminology / M.Tech. (Forensic Investigation)
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Examining the unique security features of a credit card with the aim of identifying possible fraudulent use

Budhram, Trevor 09 1900 (has links)
The use of credit cards has become a way of life in many parts of the world. Credit cards have also created many new opportunities for criminal activity. It is in this light that organizations such as VISA International have explored a variety of security alternatives by constantly reviewing security measures that may be applied to cards and devote considerable resources to the maintenance of security systems and programmes. These programmes mandated by the association, include uniform card standards, security standards for manufactures, embossing and encoding of cards, standards for mailing the cards and credit background investigations of applicants. These standards assist investigators in examining counterfeit cards and distinguish a counterfeit card from a genuine card. The constant reviewing of security features and methods by the association is to create a card that is technically difficult to alter or counterfeit. / Criminology and Security Science / M.Tech. (Forensic Investigation)
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Bernstein, das "Preußische Gold" in Kunst- und Naturalienkammern und Museen des 16. - 20. Jahrhunderts

Hinrichs, Kerstin 24 March 2010 (has links)
Bernstein, in seiner natürlichen Form und auch kunstvoll bearbeitet, gehörte zu den raren und wundersamen Dingen, mit denen Naturgelehrte und Fürsten ihre Mineraliensammlungen, Raritäten-, Kunst- und Wunderkammern und Naturalienkabinetten gerne bestückten. Geschenke aus diesem seltenen Stein waren chwillkommen. Besonders geschätzt wurden Zufallsbilder und Bernsteine mit pflanzlichen und tierischen Einschlüssen (Bernsteininklusen). Einschlüsse von größeren Tieren, wie Fröschen, Eidechsen und Fischen, wurden künstlich hergestellt. Die Echtheit dieser Inklusen wurde zunächst jedoch nicht angezweifelt. Der Platz des Bernsteins in diesen frühen musealen Einrichtungen war, wie der jedes anderen Sammlungsgegenstandes, nicht fest und endgültig. Er war eng an die Entwicklung des Sammlerwesens geknüpft und abhängig vom Wissen ihrer Betreiber über das Universum im Allgemeinen und über den Bernstein im Besonderen. Wobei die persönliche Wertschätzung, die dem Bernstein entgegengebracht wurde, eine wichtige Rolle spielte. Die Sammlungen bildeten und bilden bis heute die Grundlage für die wissenschaftliche Erforschung des Bernsteins und darüber hinaus für die Erforschung der Erdgeschichte. / Carefully worked pieces of naturally occurring amber were seen as rare and wondrous objects by scientists and rulers who avidly collected them to add to their mineral or art collections or their curiosity and specimen cabinets. Gifts of this rare stone were very well received. Amber inclusions containing plants and animals were particularly sought after. Amber pieces containing larger creatures such as frogs, lizards and fish were produced artificially and their authenticity was not, at least initially, doubted. However the place of Amber in these early museum-like settings, was not, as was the case for all other objects in these collections, definitively guaranteed. Its position was closely linked to the development of collectors and dependent on its owner’s knowledge both more generally about the world and about amber in particular; the individual view that collectors took about the worth of amber therefore played an important role. These collections provided and still provide the basis for scholarly research of amber and beyond that of geology.
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Attitudes towards the Past in Antiquity. Creating Identities : Proceedings of an International Conference held at Stockholm University 15-17 May 2009

Alroth, Brita, Scheffer, Charlotte January 2014 (has links)
This volume brings together twenty-eight papers from an International conference on attitudes towards the past and the creating of identities in Antiquity. The volume addresses many different approaches to these issues, spanning over many centuries, ranging in time from the Prehistoric periods to the Late Antiquity, and covering large areas, from Britain to Greece and Italy and to Asia Minor and Cyprus. The papers deal with several important problems, such as the use of tradition and memory in shaping an individual or a collective identity, continuity and/or change and the efforts to connect the past with the present. Among the topics discussed are the interpretation of literary texts, e.g. a play by Plautus, the Aeneid, a speech by Lykurgos, poems by Claudian and Prudentius, and of historical texts and inscriptions, e.g. funerary epigrams, and the analysis of the iconography of Roman coins, Etruscan reliefs, Pompeian and Etruscan frescoes and Cypriote sculpture, and of architectural remains of houses, tombs and temples. Other topics are religious festivals, such as the Lupercalia, foundation myths, the image of the emperor on coins and in literature, the significance of intra-urban burials, forgeries connected with the Trojan War, Hippocrates and Roman martyrs.
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Unknown provenance : the forgery, illicit trade and looting of ancient near eastern artifacts and antiquities

Conradie, Dirk Philippus 05 1900 (has links)
The archaeology of the region, referred to in scholarly lexicon as the Ancient Near East, is richly endowed with artefacts and monumental architecture of ancient cultures. Such artefacts, as a non-renewable resource are, therefore considered to be a scarce commodity. So also is the context and the provenance of these objects. Once an object’s provenance has been disturbed, it is of no further significant use for academic research, except for aesthetic value. Historically, as well as in the present, we see that humans have exploited this resource for various reasons, with very little regard given to provenance. The impact of forgery, illicit trade and looting are the greatest threat to the value of provenance. Contrary to some arguments, collectors, curators, buyers, looters and certain scholars play a significant role in its destruction. This research reveals to what extent unknown provenance has become a disturbing problem in the study of archaeological artefacts. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.Th. (Biblical Archaeology)

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