In this master work, we investigated the feasibility of a magnetic resonance measurement technique using magnetic nanoparticle dispersions in both liquid and solid form. The implementation is realised as a coplanar waveguide operating in the frequency range of 0.5 - 20 GHz and an electromagnet producing a static magnetic field of strength up to 1.2 T. The Gilbert magnetic damping factor is determined for polymer composites of magnetic nanoparticles and the gyromagnetic ratio is determined for both nanoparticle dispersions in liquid form and polymer composites.

Thèse en recherche-création. / Morel est un roman social qui raconte l’évolution de la ville de Montréal au cours du 20e siècle, en particulier des quartiers Centre-Sud et Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, à travers la vie familiale et professionnelle d’un personnage fictif, Jean-Claude Morel, de sa naissance durant la Grande crise jusqu’à l’année 2018. En tant qu’ouvrier travaillant aux grands projets d’ingénierie urbaine qui ont transformé Montréal (gratte-ciels, métro, autoroutes, échangeurs, tunnel Louis-Hippolyte- La Fontaine, stade olympique), Morel est une victime collatérale de la modernité à laquelle il contribue : la destruction du Faubourg à M’lasse, les expropriations en vue de la construction de l’autoroute Notre-Dame, la désindustrialisation et l’embourgeoisement ont pour effet de le repousser toujours plus loin vers l’est et de briser sa famille, alors que son métier exigeant et dangereux brise son propre corps. Morel remet en question la manière de raconter la vie d’un homme et de faire le récit d’une ville en faisant de la chronologie l’enjeu principal de sa forme, par un constant jeu d’analepses et par un télescopage temporel, la fin d’un chapitre se poursuivant au début du suivant, bien que l’action se déroule dans des lieux et un temps différents. Ainsi, ce roman est aussi une « fiction de l’histoire » en ce qu’il interroge les caractéristiques communes entre la fiction et la science de l’histoire : la narrativité, la focalisation, l’ancrage documentaire, et la chronologie au premier chef. /// Gilbert La Rocque, Montréal et la modernité pourrie est un essai littéraire dans lequel je m’investis comme écrivain pour faire dialoguer ma pratique d’écriture avec celle de l’écrivain montréalais Gilbert La Rocque (1943-1984). Auteur de six romans et d’un téléthéâtre entre 1970 et 1984, La Rocque, bien qu’il ait bénéficié de son vivant de la reconnaissance de ses pairs en tant que romancier et éditeur, demeure une figure négligée par les études littéraires québécoises. Cet essai a pour but de le recadrer dans l’écosystème littéraire de son époque en analysant comment sa représentation de Montréal est une manifestation du « catastrophisme [qui] se trouve au cœur même de la modernité québécoise » (Pierre Nepveu, L’écologie du réel), principalement à travers les figures de la ville en tant que « monstre-avaleur » et que nécropole dont les habitants sont des parasites, des insectes et des vermines. Le concept de modernité québécoise est interrogé dans une perspective historique, des représentations de Montréal au 19e siècle jusqu’à la Révolution tranquille où le Québec achève son « entrée dans la modernité » (Marcel Fournier). Les œuvres de La Rocque sont étudiées en fonction de diverses tendances qui animent la littérature québécoise durant la modernité propre à ses années de production : la littérature engagée ayant un « sujet- nation » comme protagoniste, les romans autoréférentiels de la modernité de l’écriture (Jean Fisette) et les romans de l’écrivain mettant en scène une institution littéraire professionnalisée, manifestations d’une « modernité avancée » spécifiquement québécoise qui, chez Gilbert La Rocque, étant donné l’omniprésence de la mort de la putréfaction dans son œuvre, est synonyme de modernité pourrie. Essai libre qui construit son propos dans la spéculation propre à la création littéraire universitaire (Jean-Simon DesRochers), Gilbert La Rocque, Montréal et la modernité pourrie peut être considéré comme un essai-découverte (Gérard Bessette) qui n’est pas sans rappeler les œuvres que consacre Victor-Lévy Beaulieu à ses influences. / Morel is a social novel that recalls the evolution of the city of Montréal throughout the twentieth century, in particular the working-class neighbourhoods of le Centre-Sud and Hochelaga- Maisonneuve, via the personal and professional life of Jean-Claude Morel, who was born during the Great Depression. The eponymous Morel, a construction worker, participates in major engineering works that change the face of Montréal (including sky-scrapers, the métro, highways, interchanges, the Louis-Hyppolite-La Fontaine tunnel, and the Olympic Stadium), and is also a collateral victim of the modernity he helps shape: the destruction of the Faubourg à M’lasse, the expropriations ahead of the construction of the Notre-Dame highway, the city’s deindustrialization and the gentrification push him further East and break up his family, while his dangerous and strenuous profession breaks his body. Morel questions the way we tell a character’s story and the history of a city by making chronology its key formal issue, through constant use of analepses and “temporal telescoping” between chapters, where the action at the end of a chapter is continued in the beginning of the next, even though the time and location of the action may differ. The novel is, therefore, a “fiction of history”: it questions those characteristics shared by fiction and by the discipline of history alike, such as narrativity, focalization, documentation reliability, and first and foremost chronology. /// Gilbert La Rocque, Montréal and the Rotten Modernity is a literary essay in which, as a fiction writer myself, I enter into dialogue with the work of Montréal writer Gilbert La Rocque (1943- 1984). Having published six novels and a television play published between 1970 and 1984, La Rocque gained recognition among his peers as a critical writer and editor, and yet he remains a marginal figure in Québec literary studies. This essay attempts to reframe him into his generation’s literary ecosystem by studying how his representation of Montréal is a manifestation of the “catastrophism at the heart of Québec’s modernity” (Pierre Nepveu, L’écologie du réel), mostly though the figures of the city as a “swallowing monster” and a necropolis inhabited by a population of parasites, insects, and vermin. The concept of Québec’s modernity is discussed within an historical perspective, from the representation of Montréal in nineteenth literature to the Quiet Revolution, when Québec finalizes its “entry in modernity” (Marcel Fournier). La Rocque’s novels are influenced by the various literary movements that evolved in Québec literature throughout the particular modernity of his fifteen years of production: militant literature with a “character-nation” as a protagonist, autoreferential novels characteristic of the writing modernity (Jean Fisette), and “writer novels” depicting the professionalization of Québec’s literary institution. All are manifestations of a specifically Québécois “advanced” or “late modernity”, which, considering the omnipresence of death and decay in La Rocque’s novels, is a modernity synonymous with putrefaction. This freely composed essay with the characteristic speculation of creative writing in University (Jean-Simon DesRochers) can be considered as an essay-discovery (Gérard Bessette) that resembles Victor-Lévy Beaulieu’s series dedicated to the authors that influenced him.

Though born a century apart, American poets Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath share several similarities: Both were born in New England, both fought for their rights by writing, and both broke new poetic ground.          In this thesis, I look at their poetry through a movement in space, which begins with the poets’ precarious position as societal outliers and ends with ascension. I examine what crossing the threshold meant to them, physically and metaphorically, and how it is mirrored in their poems, I look at how the physical space in which they wrote color their poetry, I examine windows as a space of transit, and finally I take a closer look at the shape ascension takes in selected poems. I propose this road, this movement in space, is mirrored in both Dickinson’s and Plath’s poetry.      I use as my method deconstruction, to uncover hints and possibilities. I scan letters and journals, biographies and memoirs. As my theoretical framework, I use Walter Benjamin’s ideas about the threshold as a place of transit, as well as his thoughts about the flaneur as the observer of the crowd, both of which are presented in The Arcades Project. To further examine the threshold as a space for pause, reconsideration, retreat, or advance, I rely on Subha Mukheriji and her book Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces. I further use Gaston Bachelard’s seminal The Poetics of Spaceto investigate the poets’ response to the physical space in which they wrote. I look at ascension through the prism offered by the ideas of Mircea Eliade as presented in Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities.

It is the purpose of this thesis to present the research, planning, and actual production procedures of the play entitled Harriet, as written by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. This is the production which was originally done by Gilbert Miller at Henry Miller's Theatre in 1943 with Miss Helen Hayes in the title role.

The character of the detective in Victorian literature and entertainment seems to be a paradox: tasked with surveillance but enacting it via disguise and other performative and even theatrical hallmarks. Scholars have often read the detective as an extension of the panoptic state, as a policing figure whose investigative work is undertaken through surveillance. How, then, are we to explain why Victorian detectives are so performative, which seems hardly compatible with surveillance? In this dissertation, I look beyond surveillance as the detective’s main function, towards the process of detection overall—which I demonstrate is completed through the detective’s use of performance and involves the manipulation of spectacle and evaluation of audience expectations. In redefining detection as a performative practice, I look at four different cases in which Victorian fictional detectives rely on a specific performance practice, style, or tradition to complete their detective work. The first two chapters establish the embeddedness of performance within the practice of detection, focusing on feats of non-theatrical performance by detectives who rely on and cultivate spectacle around them. In Chapter One, I analyze Dickens’s detectives, Mr. Nadgett of Martin Chuzzlewit and Inspector Bucket of Bleak House: conjuror figures who rely on controlled concealment, illusionistic demonstrations, and enthralling revelations to crime-solve, in a way that will win the favor of the Victorian public. In Chapter Two, I detail how Sherlock Holmes borrows the spectacular conventions of Victorian scientific performance to legitimize his own “Science of Deduction” as a discipline. The third and fourth chapters examine cases in which the feats of performance undertaken by detectives demonstrate the ways that detection is essential to the practice of performance—and that performance itself is not only a logical act, but also an interactively educational one. In Chapter Three, I analyze the practices of “lady detective” characters who have had prior careers as professional actresses and use the acting skills they cultivated on the stage to un-spectacularize themselves, achieving a level of invisibility that allows them mobility, access, and information. In Chapter Four, I look at two stage detective characters who are themselves performing roles: Hawkshaw in Tom Taylor’s The Ticket-of-Leave Man and Gripper in W.S. Gilbert’s A Sensation Novel. I analyze how these plays showcase the detective’s acting to refocus the ways that the actor is doing detection—that is, the ways in which, through performance, the theater is able to disseminate news and critique institutions of power, like the police itself.

As a consequence to Gilbert and Sullivan's famed Carpet Quarrel, two operettas with decidedly "exotic" themes, The Nautch Girl; or, The Rajah of Chutneypore, and Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress were presented to London audiences. Neither has been accepted as part of the larger Savoy canon. This thesis considers the conspicuous business atmosphere of their originally performed contexts to understand why this situation arose. Critical social theory makes it possible to read the two documents as overt reflections on British imperialism. Examined more closely, however, the operettas reveal a great deal more about the highly introverted nature of exotic representation and the ambiguous dialogue between race and class hierarchies in late nineteenth-century British society.

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Ce mémoire veut contribuer à l'avancement de la recherche sur la propriété foncière au Québec. Pour ce faire, nous étudions la propriété foncière de la Seigneurie Rigaud-Vaudreuil, en Beauce. L'intérêt de ce choix provient d'une importante découverte d'or dans la vallée de la rivière Gilbert, au milieu du XIXe siècle. Ce mémoire a donc comme objectif d'analyser les effets d'une activité minière sur la propriété foncière d'une région en cours de développement agricole. Nous nous sommes servi des archives de la famille DeLéry, propriétaire de la seigneurie depuis 1772, des archives du Bureau de la publicité des droits de Beauceville, des actes notariés de différents notaires et des registres des ventes et procès-verbaux des shérifs de Beauce pour constituer une importante banque de données sur la propriété foncière de la vallée de la rivière Gilbert. Ce mémoire aborde, entre autres, les stratégies foncières des différents agents fonciers, la création et la dispersion géographiques du marché foncier et de lotissement de la propriété foncière. Le contexte historique de cette étude est des plus intéressants puisque c'est pendant cette période que l'on assiste à l'abolition du régime seigneurial au Canada et à l'implication graduelle du gouvernement canadien, puis québécois, au niveau des droits miniers. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

This thesis provides an overview of the engagement with the material culture of Assyria, unearthed in the Middle East from 1845 onwards by British and French archaeologists. It sets the artistic discovery of Assyria within the visual culture of the period through reference not only to painting but also to illustrated newspapers, books, journals, performances and popular entertainments. The thesis presents a more vigorous, interlinked, and widespread engagement than previous studies have indicated, primarily by providing a comprehensive corpus of artistic responses. The artistic connections between Britain and France were close. Works influenced by Assyria were published, exhibited and reviewed in the contemporary press, on both sides of the English Channel. Some artists, such as Gustave Doré, successfully maintained careers in both London and Paris. It is therefore often meaningless to speak of a wholly ‘French’ or ‘British’ reception, since these responses were coloured by artistic crosscurrents that operated in both directions, a crucial theme to be explored in this dissertation. In Britain, print culture also transported to the regions, away from large metropolitan centres, knowledge of Assyria and Assyrian-inspired art through its appeal to the market for biblical images. Assyria benefited from the explosion in graphical communication. This thesis examines the artistic response to Assyria within a chronological framework. It begins with an overview of the initial period in the 1850s that traces the first British discoveries. Chapter Two explores the different artistic turn Assyria took in the 1860s. Chapter Three deals with the French reception in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter Four concludes the British reception up to 1900, and Chapter Five deals with the twentieth century. The thesis contends that far from being a niche subject engaged with a particular group of artists, Assyrian art was a major rediscovery that affected all fields of visual culture in the nineteenth century.