Abstract This thesis attempts to examine the function of disguise used in Defoe¡¦s Moll Flanders. I will relate Terry Castle¡¦s studies on masquerade and disguise as an inspiration for my discussion so as to explore disguise in the novel on three levels. Clothes as well as language as a manipulable sign system manifested in masquerade become a useful means for Moll¡¦s physical disguise. The often-debated problem of Moll¡¦s penitence is brought out and explored in terms of spiritual disguise. The Editor¡¦s Preface that prescribes an authorized interpretation of Moll¡¦s story is considered a meta-narrative disguise that intends to mask Moll¡¦s criminal autobiography as a moral tale. Therefore, the novel as a whole can be seen as an arena for competition between Moll¡¦s disguise and the Editor¡¦s meta-narrative disguise. For this reader, Moll¡¦s disguise eventually hijacks Defoe¡¦s novel and defeats the meta-narrative disguise. The thesis is composed of four chapters. The introduction presents the overall structure in a nutshell. Chapter One explains how disguise functions in masquerade and its relation to play and transgression. In Chapter Two, to enrich the discussion, Goffman¡¦s idea on ¡§impression management¡¨ is employed to explore Moll¡¦s physical disguise in everyday life. In Chapter Three, the insincerity of Moll¡¦s repentance is brought out and discussed as Moll¡¦s spiritual disguise. In Chapter Four, the Editor¡¦s Preface, which seems an appendage to the novel is seriously examined and regarded as a meta-narrative disguise for it involves a dispute of how a reader should read the novel.

Denna självständiga studie behandlar en musikalisk djupdykning i den första satsen av Oskar Böhmes trumpetkonsert op.18 i f-moll. Genom en musikteoretisk, grafisk och praktisk analys av satsen fördjupar jag mig i musiken på ett annat sätt än att som musiker bara spela den och kan därigenom förhoppningsvis ta till mig musiken på ett djupare plan. / <p>Bilaga: 1 CD</p><p>Oskar Böhmes trumpetkonsert op.18</p><p>Filip Svensson- trumpetsolist</p><p>Ejmunds Sinfonietta</p>

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I detta självständiga arbete gör jag en omfattande analys av första satsen i Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs verk Flöjtkonsert i d-moll. I mitt arbete har jag studerat kompositörens liv och samtid, gjort en teoretisk analys av Allegrot i flöjtkonserten samt analyserat min övningsteknik och med hjälp av relevant litteratur fått nya verktyg till själva instuderingsprocessen av detta stycke.

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Denna kandidatuppsats handlar om den österrikiske tonsättaren Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) och hans pianosonat i a-moll, D 845. Mer specifikt har sonaten i fråga analyserats, med syftet att göra en tolkning av den i synnerhet och Franz Schuberts konstnärskap i allmänhet, utifrån ett perspektiv där Schuberts roll och relation till musikhistorien och idéhistorien undersöks. För att få bättre förståelse för musiken har Schuberts liv, samt några av hans sånger och idéer som kan ha påverkat honom, studerats. Jag har även gjort en analys av verkets fyra satser, där jag tittat på sonatens genomgående teman och motiv. På så sätt har jag försökt tolka musikens underliggande mening. Förhoppningen är att kunna skapa inblick i Schuberts mänskliga erfarenhet och en medvetenhet om vad han vill säga med sin musik, samt att detta ska hjälpa mig i min förståelse och tolkning av musiken. Intentionen är också att det ska vara till hjälp för alla som önskar ta del av Schuberts musik mer på djupet eller låta sig inspireras av den. Resultatet av undersökningen har inneburit en djupare förståelse för Schuberts musik, och i synnerhet för just denna sonat.

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I den här uppsatsen analyseras Henryk Wieniawskis violinkonsert i d-moll, Op. 22, sats 1. Syftet med studien är en djupdykning i satsens grundstruktur: funktionsanalys, formanalys, motivanalys, sonatform samt en beskrivning av min instuderingsprocess. Jag guidar läsaren genom verket och kommenterar parallellt mina konstnärliga val. Studien påvisar att verket genomsyras av en kammarmusikalisk dominans såväl som det innehåller en genomgående violinistisk naturlighet som tydligt återspeglar Wieniawskis gedigna personliga violinkännedom.

The objective of this thesis was to model the Fuzz Face , a transistor-based guitar distortion effect, digitally at the circuit level, and explore how changes in the discrete analog components change the digital model. The circuit was first simulated using SPICE simulation software. Typically outputs and how they changed based on transistor gains were documented. A test circuit was then constructed in lab to determine true transistor gains. An analog Fuzz Face circuit was then constructed, and physical parameters were recorded. A digital model was then created using MATLAB. Capacitive filtering effects were found to be negligible in terms of the guitar signal and were not modeled. The transistors were modeled using the Ebers-Moll equations. A MATLAB algorithm was written to produce Fuzz Face type distortion given an input guitar signal. The algorithm used numerical techniques to solve the nonlinear equations and stored them in a look-up table. This table was used to process the input clips. The sound of the Fuzz Face was not perfectly modeled, but the equations were found to provide a reasonable approximation of the circuit. Further study is needed to determine a more complete modeling equation for the circuit.

This thesis argues that all subjects are constructed through discourse or ideology and are incapable of acting or thinking outside the limits of that discursive or ideological construction. Based on Louis Althusser¡¦s theory, ¡§individuals are always-already subjects,¡¨ living in ¡§the system of the ideas and representations which dominate the mind of a man or a social group.¡¨ This Marxist notion serves as the point of departure for the thesis, which defines a subject¡¦s imaginary relation to the world. For Defoe and Swift, their ideological subjection to ¡§the system of the ideas and representations¡¨ is presented in their narratives, which relate the respective subject¡¦s imagination to the world in the eighteenth century. The first chapter begins with Ian Watt¡¦s critique of the eighteenth century individualism, which demands domestic alienation. It argues that if Gulliver¡¦s misanthropy loses its moral dimension, his domestic alienation is questionable. As Gulliver¡¦s counterpart, Crusoe bases his autonomy upon nonreciprocal human relationships, and his self-claimed omnipotence, under constant threats, is false and illusory. The second chapter modifies Helene Moglen¡¦s dualistic interpretation of Crusoe¡¦s consciousness and analyzes his internal contradictions from the perspective of Hegelian dialectics. The course of establishing the colonial hierarchy in Robinson Crusoe further exposes the dialectical reality of colonial tension and contradiction, which also lends itself to interpreting the triangular relationships among the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver, and the Yahoos in Gulliver¡¦s Travels. In the third chapter, the focus of concern shifts to the representation of sexual other. Though Roxana and Moll are constructed to emulate Crusoe and embody the female versions of economic autonomy, these two female-based narratives, Roxana and Moll Flanders, bring to light the paradoxes of eighteenth-century male subjectivity that discriminates men from women in terms of domesticity and individualism. While Roxana is further commodified to be enlisted in the service of imperialist ideology to mask the reality of colonial aggression and imperialist expansion, the same sleight of substitution also underlies Swift¡¦s systematic attacks on women in his Irish Tracts and misogynist poems. Lastly, the fourth chapter aims to bring these two categories of difference together. Through Swift¡¦s and Defoe¡¦s imagination, the racial other and their sexual counterpart enter into a metaphorical alliance. Thus Defoe¡¦s Amazon and Swift¡¦s Yahoo trope not only synthesize what are considered two discrete and separate categories of discrimination, but also demonstrate that their creations of race and gender derive from the same source of reference.