Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 1997.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-04-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:32:23Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mattos_ac_me_arafcl.pdf: 518042 bytes, checksum: 7415bc8263824e0679bb0d9ae2dcd697 (MD5) / Este trabalho analisa a formação do tecido discursivo em duas obras da ficção portuguesa pós- 1974 – A árvore das palavras (1997), de Teolinda Gersão e A manta do soldado (1998), de Lídia Jorge – por meio do exame da configuração do espaço e do tempo, entendidos em sua ligação fundamental, o cronotopo artístico-literário. Investiga, ainda, a relação entre essas obras e os discursos histórico e social, bem como o processo de construção da identidade de suas narradoras, enfatizando os procedimentos discursivos de que se lança mão nas duas obras para que o discurso narrativo reflita as questões da diegese, como as tensões que emanam de seu espaço e tempo ou os conflitos íntimos das narradoras. São examinados os procedimentos parodísticos, o uso do discurso indireto livre, o processo de desmascaramento de mitos ideológicos e a apropriação de outras linguagens, como a cinematográfica / By addressing two Portuguese literary works post-1974: A árvore das palavras [The tree word] by Teolinda Gersão and A manta do soldado by Lídia Jorge – this study analyzes the formation of the discursive structure in those novels by examining the configuration of space and time under their fundamental link - the artistic literary chronotope. This work also investigates the relationship between those narratives and the historical and social discourses, as well as their narrators’ process of identity construction by emphasizing the discursive procedures that are used by these novels in order to reveal the diegesis issues, like the tension that emanates from its space and time, or the narrator’s intimate conflicts. The parodic procedures are examined as well as the use of the free indirect discourse, the process of debunking ideological myths and the appropriation of other languages such as the cinematic one

Planning and design of stormwater facilities (including best management practices and low impact development) involve the calculation of peak flows and runoff volumes. Rainfall-runoff models are frequently utilized to estimate this information. A userriendly rainfall-runoff tool (LIDIA) was developed using Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Office Excel. This research showed comprehensive guidelines on how to setup a model in LIDIA and reported the first evaluation of LIDIA using field data. LIDIA hydrologic module was tested using 10-minute rainfall, land cover, soil series, land cover management, and runoff data from two small watersheds in North Mississippi. Eleven storm events, over a period of seven months were used for the one evaluation site and 11 storm events were used for the second case study. Overall the development and results of LIDIA tool showed in this study are positive in keeping the enhancement of the model.

The dissertation deals with the evolution and current state of literary reportage in the Czech Republic, Poland and France. It puts literary reportage in media context with emphasis on history of the genre and its main representatives, it maps the current state of literary reportage in selected countries, authors, and themes of their texts. It analyzes the factors that affect the work of literary reporters.This thesis in its theoretical part relies on academic publications about the genre of reportage in each state in relation to Polish School of Reportage and its attributes. It also examines the usage of fictional components that affects trustworthiness of literary reportage. The practical part of the thesis is then dedicated to analysis of the reportage Spánek do oběda a zábava do rána by polish reporter Lidia Ostałowska in order to show what kind of impact literary techniques can have on form and content of reportage. To do so, it uses the method of narratological analysis and the concept of narrative gaps. In the end, the findings from the field of the genre are applied in my own authorial reportage called Nantes. Voda, plyn a oheň.