Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 604-638).

This thesis attempts to explain some essential aspects of the literature of Henry Miller by concentrating on an explication of three terms as they apply to Miller's novels. The thesis does not take a stance involving a certain critical "distance", that is, it does not deal with an evaluation of the success or failure of his vision, nor with the validity or invalidity of his world. This, I maintain, has been done to excess by most critics of Henry Miller. The thesis indicates in the opening chapter the major outlines of the literary tradition to which Miller belongs, specifically the American romantic-transcendentalist tradition. Further, though not specific reference is made to this tradition in subsequent chapters in describing the movement toward mysticism apparent in Miller's later novels. The main portion of the thesis details the significance of three major terms, apocalypse, creation, and process, as elements which encompass the overall development of Miller's literature. The thesis attempts to show that these terms indicate an unconscious development in the author of a mystical vision or insight where the works themselves serve as a working out of the author's growing understanding of his inner awakening. The final chapter accounts for Miller's later non-fiction as illustrative of his arrived position. Miller has reached a particular kind of "cosmic consciousness" and he regards his life as a parable of the progress of everyman from unconscious unification with all-things (childhood), through knowledge (manhood), to a new stage of conscious unification with the world (maturity). The period intervening between childhood and final spiritual insight is that detailed by his six major novels, which might generally be characterized as a trial by fire or a trip through the hell of the alienated modern world. This thesis, then, is an exposition of the development of the artist through his art. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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Texte remanié de : Thèse de doctorat : Études anglaises : Brest : 1998 : Quête d'identité et histoire dans l'oeuvre de Neil M. Gunn. / Bibliogr. p. [195]-209. Index.

Thesis--Université de Paris IV, 1973. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-774) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009. / Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed July 16, 2010) Matthew Roudane, committee chair; Pearl McHaney, Wayne Erickson, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-88).

This study investigates the impact of employing the Miller cycle on a high specific power downsized gasoline engine by means of Early Intake Valve Closing (EIVC) and Late Intake Valve Closing (LIVC). This investigation assesses the potential for the Miller cycle to improve fuel economy at part load points, as well as high load points with significantly elevated boost pressures (Deep Miller) of up to 4 bar abs. The impact of geometric Compression Ratio (CR) and Exhaust Back Pressure (EBP) has also been investigated. The knock mitigating qualities of Deep Miller have been assessed, and its ability to increase maximum engine load explored. Low Speed Pre-ignition (LSPI) and autoignition tendencies with reduced coolant flow rates and with aged and new fuels have also been studied. This study comprises both experimental and analytical studies. A Ricardo Hydra single cylinder thermodynamic engine was developed and used for the experimental component of the study. This engine features a high specific power output (120kW/l) cylinder head from the Mahle 1.2l 3 cylinder aggressively downsized engine. The analytical component was carried out using a 1-dimensional GT-Power model based on the Ricardo Hydra experimental engine. A Design of Experiments (DoE) based test plan was adopted for this analytical study. The experimental study found that EIVC was the optimal strategy for improving fuel economy at both part-load and high-load conditions. LIVC yielded a fuel economy penalty at part-load operations and a fuel economy improvement at high-loads. The unexpected part-load LIVC result was attributed to the engine breathing dynamics of the experimental engine. The analytical study found moderate LIVC to be the optimal strategy at lower speeds, unless compensation for the increased degree of scavenging experienced with EIVC was compensated for, in which case EIVC was optimum. At higher speeds EIVC was found to be optimum regardless of whether or not compensation for scavenging was employed. It was generally found that less sensitivity to EBP was exhibited the more extreme the EIVC and LIVC. It was also found that a higher geometric CR could be tolerated with extreme EIVC and LIVC, and a fuel economy benefit could be obtained through the elevation of Geometric CR.

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This study examines the coherency of David Miller’s immigration argument in favour of a state regulated immigration policy. It is an internal critique where Miller’s empirical understanding of immigration is questioned by an empirical analysis using external concepts taken from the substantive realist thinker’s Bonnie Honig and Marc Stears as well as Raymond Geuss. From Honig and Stears the theoretical tool of framing “the real” is used to claim that there are many national identity narratives. According to Clara Sandelind’s empirical research institutional narratives are more compatible with immigration than cultural ones. Miller on the other hand asserts that a liberal national identity that is culturally based is compatible with regulated immigration. Then according to the analysis with the second theoretical tool self-interest, which assumes a strife for power and security, the alleged problem of Miller’s theory is that it underestimates the conflict between national identity and immigration. The vertical relationship of power between insiders and immigrants gives insiders a national self-interest to exclude outsiders in order to preserve their national privilege. Miller’s conception of a quite allowing immigration policy therefore does not cohere with a more realistic interpretation of the political reality.