梁佩嫦. / 手稿本 (cops. 283 複印本) / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院語文學部. / Shou gao ben (cops. 283 fu yin ben) / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-75). / Liang Peichang. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan yu wen xue bu. / 引言 --- p.1-3 / Chapter 第一章 --- 『物色』的定義及溯源 --- p.4-85 / Chapter 甲 --- 定義 --- p.5-27 / Chapter 乙 --- 溯源 --- p.28-85 / Chapter 1 --- 詩經中的即物起興 --- p.28-47 / Chapter 2 --- 屈宗辭賦中的景物　 --- p.48-69 / Chapter 3 --- 漢賦中情景之結合 --- p.70-85 / Chapter 第二章 --- 《文選》「物色賦」四篇分析 --- p.86-171 / Chapter 甲 --- 宗玉《風賦》 --- p.95-118 / Chapter 乙 --- 潘岳〈秋興賦〉 --- p.119-138 / Chapter 丙 --- 謝惠連〈雪賦〉　 --- p.139-152 / Chapter 丁 --- 謝莊〈月賦〉 --- p.153-171 / Chapter 第三章 --- 六朝賦「物色」選例　　 --- p.172-263 / Chapter 甲 --- 時代喪亂的寫照 --- p.175-188 / Chapter 1 --- 曹丕〈感物賦〉 / Chapter 2 --- 王粲〈登樓賦〉 / Chapter 3 --- 鮑照〈蕪城賦〉 / Chapter 乙 --- 佛老思想的反映 --- p.189-201 / Chapter 1 --- 孫綽〈登天台小賦〉 / Chapter 2 --- 湛方生〈風賦〉〈懷春賦〉等 / Chapter 3 --- 謝靈運〈山居賦〉 / Chapter 丙 --- 描述隱居山林　 --- p.202-206 / Chapter 1 --- 潘岳〈閒居賦〉 / Chapter 2 --- 陸倕〈歸田賦〉 / Chapter 丁 --- 記敘羈旅官遊 --- p.206-221 / Chapter 1 --- 陸機〈述思賦〉等 / Chapter 2 --- 謝靈運〈歸塗賦〉 / Chapter 3 --- 鮑照〈遊思賦〉 / Chapter 4 --- 江淹〈去故鄉賦〉等 / Chapter 戊 --- 抒發生離死別 --- p.222-246 / Chapter 1 --- 曹丕〈柳賦〉等 / Chapter 2 --- 陸機〈思親賦〉等 / Chapter 3 --- 江淹〈別賦〉〈恨賦〉 / Chapter 4 --- 梁簡文帝〈秋興賦〉〈臨秋賦〉、梁元帝〈蕩婦秋思賦〉 / Chapter 己　 --- 應制酬唱 --- p.247-263 / Chapter 1 --- 二曹〈愁霖賦〉〈喜霽賦〉等 / Chapter 2 --- 謝朓〈七夕賦奉護軍命作〉 / Chapter 3 --- 庾信〈春賦〉 / Chapter 第四章 --- 「物色」與六朝人生活與風尚的關係 --- p.264-307 / Chapter 甲 --- 貴遊風氣 --- p.264-285 / Chapter 乙 --- 登山臨水，巖棲山居 --- p.226-301 / Chapter 丙 --- 構築庭園　 --- p.302-307 / Chapter 第五章 --- 六朝賦中「物色」的技巧 --- p.308-371 / Chapter 甲 --- 設色 --- p.310-326 / Chapter 乙 --- 練字 --- p.327-357 / Chapter 丙 --- 音律 --- p.358-371 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結論 --- p.372-388 / 注釋 --- p.1-60 / 參考書目 --- p.61-74

For over 2000 years, miners extracted lead from the moorland of southeastern Peak District. By the early twentieth century the landscape underwent an economic and demographic transformation, as local authorities and heritage groups have ‘naturalised’ the industrial landscape of the southern Peak District, presenting it as a pastoral idyll. These preservation policies occlude the industrial remains by sanitising its diverse past, providing only a partial telling of the landscape. This thesis is about critically assessing these on-going preservation policies, by rethinking the idea of heritage through current cultural geography ideas of landscape, heritage and remembering. Therefore, this thesis argues for an enacted landscape that is perceived and practiced in many ways. This thesis aims to do three things. First, to critically rethink heritage practices of English rural landscapes. Second, to recover the lost ‘minor histories’ of a landscape through a presentation of alternative landscape histories. Third, to contribute to creative methods of landscape research by using an ethnographic approach of oral history, aural recordings, and personal drawing to the study it. The outcome is a constellated and entangled analysis of the rural landscape that recovers the forgotten stories and challenges the authorised heritage discourse of the English rural landscape.

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Magister Artium - MA / This study focuses on how we can interpret political meanings embedded in Gladys Mgudlandlu’s work by concentrating on her landscapes, murals, and portraits during the period of the 1960s – 1980s. The core of my thesis is to question whether the artwork of Mgudlandlu was political. The thesis argues that Mgundlandlu’s talents and interventions have been overlooked and undermined. Engaging with a deep analysis of the context in which Mgudlandlu lived and worked, a visual analysis of her paintings and a discussion on the meaning of her life and work from various vantage points across time substantiates the above argument. The study engages with three fundamental approaches. Firstly it approaches Mgudlandlu’s work through how it is articulated and historicized as part of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa before 1994. Here I disrupt the idea that her work was out of touch with reality and that her work was of a naivety that isolated herself from the struggles of black people. I further argue that her work transcends the norms and expectations of black artists during this period. Her work in many ways challenges stereotypes and broke social conventions by painting landscape: something which was mostly associated with older white male artists. Thus I advocate for a reconsideration of her work by revisiting her landscape painting which carries most of the weight of my argument regarding Mgudlandlu’s political stand. My second approach is to explore the production and process of her work by concentrating on cultural workshops and their role in South African art during the apartheid period. Mgudlandlu’s creation and production process was very different from her counterparts which is explored through a careful analysis of Mgudlandlu’s paintings.

This thesis deals with the perception and representation of spirits and landscape among Tibetan Buddhist laity in Ladakh, Himalayan India. It contrasts the conventions of Tibetan textual description of places with stories told by Ladakhi Buddhist laity, with a focus on the role played by local spirits and deities. It argues that while textual representations employing the unified and symmetrical imagery of the maṇḍala – a schematic representation of the palace of a divinity – depict the landscape as it might be known to a transcendent observer, stories about places and the spirits associated with them (lhande in Ladakhi) point to an indeterminate, fragmented and culturally unbounded world that has yet to be integrated within any single system of knowledge. This world is pieced together from multiple sources and truth claims, and from the imperfections inherent in ordinary perception; but the inconsistencies and uncertainties involved in this are not usually apparent, and are only made manifest in illness, experiences of disorder and encounters with spirits at night. These persistent uncertainties can be overcome in ritual contexts, in acts of writing or through the invocation of the faculty of divine vision: the palatial image of the maṇḍala is used to counteract the presence of the night outside. This thesis draws attention to the often overlooked role played by the limitations of perception and knowledge in understandings of landscape, and is intended to partly bridge a disciplinary divide by reconstructing the invisible context within which textual representations are created and employed.

Healthy ageing in the absence of neurodegenerative diseases is accompanied by a variety of perceptual and cognitive changes, which can occur on various distinct but interacting levels. Much research has been devoted to understanding how basic cognitive functions such as working memory and attention change with age. However, only more recently has age-related changes on perceptual functions been investigated, thus less is understood. My thesis aimed to address this gap in the literature, by exploring age-related changes in visual perception, specifically changes related to visual temporal processing of natural and biological stimuli. Also investigated was the extent to which age-related changes in perceptual and cognitive functions affect each other. Chapter 2 investigated the time course of visual processing of natural scene categorisation in older adults. Younger, young-old and old-old adults performed a go/no-go task, in which they had to respond to images of animals whilst ignoring images of landscapes. The results showed that the temporal processing of complex scenes is impaired in healthy older adults and this deficit becomes more pronounced with increasing age. Chapter 3 assessed whether age-related decline in biological motion perception is mediated by impaired attentional abilities. Younger and older adults performed a series of tasks assessing biological motion perception and visual attention. The results indicated that age-related changes in biological motion perception are not driven by general attentional decline. Lastly, Chapter 4 explored whether age-related changes in biological motion and attention tasks can be explained by differences in the allocation of attention. Younger and older adults performed a conjunctive visual search, and two biological motion tasks, while their eye movements were being tracked. The results illustrated that differences in the allocation of attention cannot explain age-related differences found on biological motion perception and attention tasks. Overall, my findings provide substantial evidence to suggest that both visual perceptual and cognitive abilities change with healthy ageing. However, my results also indicate that certain aspects of these two functions remain relatively preserved in older adulthood.

The interaction of agricultural fertilizer application and a drought-to-flood transition in 2012-2013 set up conditions for a watershed-scale experiment on nutrient dynamics. The region-wide drought in 2012 left surface soils disconnected from stream networks and restricted nutrient use by crops, resulting in an unusually large nitrogen pool stored in the soil column through the winter. The wet conditions in the Midwest in spring of 2013 mobilized the unused fertilizer from the landscape into the stream network. A six-week period of extremely high in-stream nutrient concentrations followed. This study analyzes results of three synoptic sampling campaigns in the Iowa-Cedar River Basin in 2013 to quantify patterns in nitrogen dynamics. I estimate nutrient spiraling metrics by interpreting the fertilizer mobilization from the landscape to the stream as a constant rate nutrient addition at the scale of the entire watershed—a vital scale on which to understand these processes, but for which costs and logistics of standard experiments are prohibitive. Results of this study compare patterns in dilution and uptake across spatial and temporal scales, and bound feasible explanations for hydrologic and reactive function in each reach of the network.

There is a need to understand the spatial distribution of soil taxonomic classes, the spatial distribution of potential biological soil crust, and soil properties related to wind erosion to address land use and management decisions in arid and semi-arid areas of the western USA. Digital soil mapping (DSM) can provide this information. Chapter 2 compared multiple DSM functions and environmental covariate sets at three geographically distinct semi-arid study areas to identify combinations that would best predict soil taxonomic classes. No single model or type of model was consistently the most accurate classifier for all three areas. The use of the “most important” variables consistently resulted in the highest model accuracies for all study areas. Overall classification accuracy was largely dependent upon the number of taxonomic classes and the distribution of pedons between taxonomic classes. Individual class accuracy was dependent upon the distribution of pedons in each class. Model accuracy could be increased by increasing the number of pedon observations or decreasing the number of taxonomic classes. Potential biological soil crust level of development (LOD) classes were predicted over a large area surrounding Canyonlands National Park in Chapter 3. The moderate LOD class was modeled with reasonable accuracy. The low and high LOD classes were modeled with poor accuracy. Prediction accuracy could likely be improved through the use of additional covariates. Spatial predictions of LOD classes may be useful for assessing the impact of past land uses on biological soil crusts. Threshold friction velocity (TFV) was measured and then correlated with other, easier-to-measure soil properties in Chapter 4. Only soils with alluvial surficial rocks or weak physical crusts reached TFV in undisturbed conditions. All soil surfaces reached TFV after disturbance. Soils with weak physical crusts produced the most sediment. Future work on wind erosion in the eastern Great Basin should focus on non-crusted/weakly crusted soils and soils formed in alluvium overlying lacustrine materials. Soils with other crust types are likely not susceptible to wind erosion. Threshold friction velocity in undisturbed soils with weak physical crusts and undisturbed soils with surficial rocks was predicted using a combination of penetrometer, rock cover, and silt measurements.

This Masters of Landscape Architecture investigates the occurrence of small, temporary urban voids in inner northern Melbourne. The study asks whether these spaces operate as Public Domain (Hajer & Reijndorp 2001) and uses the concept of

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Damie Stillman, Dept. of Art History. Includes bibliographical references.