Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Tandy Warnow. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-12-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:55:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mesquita_mc_me_assis.pdf: 369808 bytes, checksum: 18ebed3362d72e57b7120e9521fe7209 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho apresenta uma leitura do romance histórico Lealdade (1997), de Márcio Souza, que mostra a trajetória do protagonista Fernando Simões Correia em busca de sua identidade. O enredo relembra episódios do século XIX, na província do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro, quando a região combatia por sua independência. Assim, a luta pela identidade cultural que se estabelece na província dá-se paralelamente àquela do protagonista: ao lado do embate entre a identidade e a alteridade que vemos registrado na narrativa histórica da região, vemos o protagonista pender ora à identificação com o “outro”, ora ao afastamento dele, encarando-o como inimigo. A chegada da Corte portuguesa ao Brasil (1808) e a invasão de Caiena pelo exército português (1809) são fatos históricos que alteram a identificação que o protagonista, nascido em Belém, tem com os portugueses ou com os paraenses. Os procedimentos intertextuais, como aquele estabelecido com a trilogia do escritor gaúcho Érico Veríssimo, por exemplo, são destacados nesta leitura. / This essay presents an analysis of the historical novel Lealdade (1997), written by Marcio Souza, which shows the protagonist Fernando Simões Correia in search of his identity. The plot remembers episodes of the nineteenth century, in the province of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro, when the region was fighting for its independence. Thus, the fight for cultural identity that is established in the province occurs parallely to protagonist’s fight: there is the fight between identity and otherness, recorded in the historical narrative of the region, and a pendulum with the protagonist that sometimes has a identification with the other and sometimes he gets away from him, facing him as an enemy. The arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family to Brazil (1808) and the invasion of the Portuguese Army in Caiena (1809) are historical facts that change the identity of the protagonist, born in Belém-PA, has with the Portuguese or the people who were born in Pará. Intertextual procedures, such as that established with the trilogy of the Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo, for example, are featured in this reading.

Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound: new studies appear almost every year, each claiming new research and new insights, while affirming that there are enough records for a documentary life. In this thesis, I argue that no biography of Shakespeare is possible due to insufficient material, that most of what is written about Shakespeare cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until Samuel Schoenbaum’s Documentary Life (1975). The thesis therefore is concerned with demythologising Shakespeare by exposing numerous “biogra-fictions.” I begin by reviewing the history and practice of biography as a narrative account of a person’s life based on primary sources. Next I assess the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare identifying the gaps, e.g. there is no record that he spent any of his childhood in Stratford or ever attended school. A historical review of writing about Shakespeare demonstrates that there were no serious attempts to reconstruct his life during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merely some comments and unverifiable anecdotes. I demonstrate that the greatest Shakespearean scholar, Edmond Malone, realised that no narrative account of Shakespeare’s life was possible. I show how the earliest biographies of Shakespeare emerged in the 1840s in line with the Victorian need to identify national heroes. Schoenbaum’s deeply flawed study has greatly influenced academics who have followed his structure and myths in their own biographies. My analysis of the contrasting descriptions of Shakespeare’s relationships with Southampton and with Jonson demonstrate that the very limited biographical material can only be expanded through speculation and inference. Finally, I propose that study of Shakespeare’s life should be confined to discrete topics, starting from a sceptical examination of primary sources. Any attempt at an account of his life or personality amounts, however, merely to “biografiction”.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine upper secondary students’ attitudes towards historical feature films and documentaries as teaching materials in history education. A survey was cunducted with 133 students. The students were asked for advantages and disadvantages with films and documentaries, what knowledge they might gain from watching, and the films trustworthiness as a teaching aid. The result shows that the students generally are positive towards the usage of film in history education and consider films to be a good complement to other teaching methods, especially documentaries. They are considered more trustworthy than feature films, despite being regarded as a more tedious genre. On the other hand, both feature films and documentaries are said to increase an interest in history. The knowledge mentioned by the students are primarely factual knowledge. However, a few answers indicate that film also can help develop students historical literacy, visualise historical events, and time periods. Students’ trust for the feature films’ nar-rative and the documentaries’ objectivity are quite high. Paradoxically, the majority of the stu-dents claim to question whether the films’ content is historically correct or not.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / The purpose of this study is to examine current world history textbooks to distinguish the points of emphasis, to examine the leading articles in professional historical publications to ascertain what broad areas have concerned the historians, and to compare the findings.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The problem of this dissertation is to survey interpretively Taylor's writings concerning the New Testament in order to assess his major contributions to New Testament studies. The method of survey and appraisal precludes hazarding a premature conclusion as to what may eventually be his most enduring contribution. This study is a pioneering effort. Nothing of a similar nature covering Taylor's work is known to exist. It has been undertaken with the permission of Dr. Taylor. The method is that of library research. It involves three major stages. First, following a sketch of Taylor's professional career (Chapter II), Chapter III ("Taylor's Biblical Methodology") investigates three of his basic presuppositions -- the relationship of God and history, the nature of the Scriptures, and the goal of N.T. study -- and ten of his highly characteristic formative conclusions (i.e., "interpretation need not imply distortion"). Secondly, Chapter IV surveys Taylor's writings in order to establish the areas of his most evident contribution. Thirdly, in Chapter V five areas of emphasis--Synoptic criticism, form-criticism, Soteriology, life of Jesus research, and Christology--are examined over against a selectively determined background of contemporary N.T. scholarship. Chapter VI summarizes the conclusions of this study. The degree of contribution is assessed according to a finding of either a "possible" (lower probability resulting from more apparent vulnerabilities and less scholarly acceptance) or a "probable" contribution [TRUNCATED]

This thesis proposes a legal and organizational approach to better understand processes of modernisation and the emergence of nationalist conflict. Theories of nationalism tend to be significantly influenced by state-centred and rather abstract positivist interpretations of law. Legal perspectives that have proposed understating law in relation to findings developed through the empirical study of law, such as legal realism or legal pluralism, have questioned positivist conceptions of law, emphasising the historical processes that created such conceptions of law, and the relationship between legal praxis and conceptions of society. Presumptions about personhood and society such as those influencing nationalist conflict may not be unrelated to legal existence and legal practice. Social actors’ interpretations of law, and the capacity of social authorities to mobilize human and material resources in defence of certain conceptions of law, may have been able to influence legal and political histories of European states, as well as the national or regional identities that would develop in relation to legal recognition and legitimate exercise of types and degrees of social powers. The historical study of Spanish and Basque nationalisms, although generally involving constant references to law – especially to constitutional law and to the fueros – tends to overlook the influence that social actors’ perceptions of legal order may have had in shaping the emergence of nationalist conflicts. Often, the focus is directed towards factors related to ethno-linguistic features or political ideologies. This thesis studies a historical puzzle, one that appears to have been influenced by legally defined entities, that have influenced the legal and political history of the state, and that may have influenced the development of a Basque-Spanish nationalist conflict: the different jurisdictional and ideological paths followed by key social majorities in Navarre and Euskadi between 1876 and 1936 after at least a century of displaying a rather similar position in regards to the state.

Despite more than a century of anthropological research, the origins of reindeer domestication remain elusive. A range of theories has been proposed as to the identity/identities of the first people(s) to tame reindeer for human use, and of the conceptual origins of reindeer husbandry (e.g. as an alternative to cattle, horses, dogs, etc.). While only a few of these theories still have adherents, none can be said to be demonstrated. This thesis seeks to contribute to the solving of this question by examining the origins of reindeer terminology--those words in the the many circumpolar languages for 'tame reindeer' and 'wild reindeer'. Examining data in nearly three hundred (mostly-northern) languages and dialects, the author hopes to determine which vocabulary is native to the peoples who use it and which terms are borrowed from other sources; these borrowings may mirror the transmission routes of reindeer husbandry as a form of economy. When plotted on maps, the linguistic data give credence to the most popular anthropological theory of the origins of reindeer domestication.