In this dissertation I explore how the representation of space and self is articulated in the autofictional writing of the Colombian author Fernando Vallejo (Medellín, 1942), focusing on four texts: Los días azules (1985), El fuego secreto (1987), La Virgen de los sicarios (1994) and El desbarrancadero (2001). I particularly examine what textual strategies are used to convey this articulation, and what perceptions of space and self, as well as what conceptions of the city and the intellectual, inform these texts. Drawing on theory and criticism on autobiography and autofiction, I propose to read in Fernando Vallejo's writing a return of the author-subject -a return of the ‘real’- though that return is taken as an opportunity to explore, in a playful and ironic mode, the fictionality of the notions of subject and identity in the autobiographical text, and to examine the privileged role played by space in that exploration. On one hand, based on theoretical studies of the poetics of space, I seek to demonstrate that, since space is always relative to a point of view, to a certain position -physical, biographical and ideological-, its representation conveys more than just spatial meanings. I argue that as a product of the gaze of this fragmented subject, of this author who returns, -though not as a guarantor of the truth of what he writes-, space is not only signified, represented, but also functions as a signifying element, condensing cultural, aesthetic and ideological meanings; in sum, a world vision. On the other hand, I show that it is mainly in reference to past and present spaces that images of self, both ambiguous and multiple, are created in the texts. And these images, these self-figurations, which constitute individual creations as much as cultural and social products, reveal in Vallejo’s writing, not just a fictionalizing reconstruction of his personal past, but a critical reading of Colombia’s history, and what Vallejo sees as its disastrous present. In this sense, my contention is that, beyond referring to existing places outside the texts, through the use of proper names and with diverse degrees of mimetism, and thus creating the illusion of reality, or beyond acting as mere background, narrative space functions as a key element in the production of meaning in the texts by Fernando Vallejo examined here.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T23:01:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo8216_1.pdf: 9211131 bytes, checksum: bc9ca06f3e5f40d47c83bcf28be4040f (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O município de Pitimbu, situado no litoral sul da Paraíba, tem na pesca artesanal marinha uma das principais ocupações econômicas, com destaque para a do camarão, responsável pelo envolvimento, direto e indireto, de uma boa parcela da população local. Em função disso, procurou-se, com a execução deste trabalho, fornecer subsídios que permitam contribuir para um futuro ordenamento desta atividade no litoral de Pitimbu, mediante o conhecimento da bioecologia das espécies de camarão de importância econômica, estratégias de capturas, áreas de pesca, produção, situação ambiental da área costeira, importância sócio-econômica local, grau de organização dos pescadores etc. Para isso, foram realizados estudos biométricos e de determinação dos estágios gonadais com camarões peneídeos obtidos diretamente com os pescadores de arrastão de beira de praia, entre janeiro e dezembro de 2002. Além disso, foram efetuadas entrevistas formais e informais, com pescadores das diferentes modalidades de pesca de camarão em Pitimbu e com dirigentes de suas entidades representativas. Os resultados mostraram que em Pitimbu existem três modalidades de pesca camaroneira: a de arrastão de beira de praia, o arrasto motorizado e a com rede de espera, cada uma atuando em um local específico. Três espécies de importância econômica foram encontradas: Litopenaeus schmitti (Burkenroad, 1936), Farfantepenaeus subtilis (Pérez-Farfante, 1967) e Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862), dentre as quais L. schmitti apresentou as maiores medidas biométricas e X. kroyeri, as menores. As populações das três espécies foram constituídas, em sua maioria, por fêmeas, sendo compostas, predominantemente, por indivíduos jovens, não havendo deslocamento de classes de tamanho e peso. A maioria das gônadas das fêmeas de L. schmitti encontrava-se nos estágios I e II. Em Pitimbu, só a pesca de camarão através de arrastão de beira de praia, ocorre o ano todo, sendo a que mais contribui com a produção total deste crustáceo na região. A produção estimada para o município em 2002 foi de 74,5 ton, com 41,4 ton provenientes dos arrastos de beira de praia. A comercialização deste crustáceo é feita, principalmente, com atravessadores e a sobra dos arrastões de beira de praia, sem nenhum valor econômico, é distribuída às pessoas carentes do local e de regiões próximas. É comum, nos arrastões de beira de praia, a presença de adolescentes atuando nesta atividade, para ajudar no sustento de suas famílias, os quais contam com o apoio dos pescadores profissionais. Situações de conflito ocorrem, eventualmente, quando pescadores de rede de espera e de arrastos motorizados atuam na mesma área. A atividade camaroneira parece ser suficiente para sustentar as famílias dos pescadores, principalmente as dos arrastões de beira de praia. Os camarões miúdos, oriundos dos arrastões de beira de praia, são comercializados, preferencialmente, com os pescadores de peixe de linha de mão, para serem usados como iscas vivas. Vários impactos ambientais, notadamente supressão de vegetação de mangue, vêm ocorrendo no litoral de Pitimbu, que, de forma direta ou indireta, terminam afetando a atividade pesqueira. Além disso, a desorganização dos pescadores e de suas entidades de classe, e a falta de um envolvimento maior dos órgãos públicos governamentais, constituem problemas que precisam ser urgentemente sanados

Submitted by Israel Vieira Neto (israel.vieiraneto@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-04T17:34:48Z No. of bitstreams: 2 DISSERTAÇÃO Lucilene dos Santos.pdf: 10057943 bytes, checksum: 487d4e94f2325e876643a0f22bf56873 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T17:34:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 DISSERTAÇÃO Lucilene dos Santos.pdf: 10057943 bytes, checksum: 487d4e94f2325e876643a0f22bf56873 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-26 / CNPq / Os granitoides estudados (plutons Serra Branca - GPSB e Coxixola - GPC) intrudem ortognaisses e migmatitos paleoproterozóicos a arqueanos, e rochas supracrustais Neoproterozóicas. Os GPSB, sienogranitos leucocráticos, equigranulares, contendo localmente enclaves de granitos porfiríticos (GPC) e dioritos, compreendem intrusão alojada em terminações extensionais de zonas de cisalhamento NE-SW transcorrentes sinistrais, ramificações da zona de cisalhamento Coxixola (ZCC), destral com direção E-W. Os GPC compreendem quartzo sienitos, quartzo monzonitos e sieno a monzogranitos, porfiríticos, deformados no estado sólido, com anfibólio de composição ferro - edenita, edenita e Mg - hornblenda. Enxames de enclaves máficos, quartzo dioritos a quartzo monzonitos, ocorrem orientados na direção E - W. A fO2 varia de intermediária (GPSB) a elevada (GPC). Estimativas de temperaturas liquidus utilizando saturação em zircão, variam entre 836 °C - 893 °C (GPC) e 783 °C - 843 °C (GPSB). Os granitoides estudados mostram valores fortemente negativos de εNd(t) e idades modelo (TDM) paleoproterozóicas. U-Pb em zircão por SHRIMP definiu uma idade de 560 ± 5 Ma para os GPSB, e por LA-ICP-MS definem idades de 573 ± 3 Ma para um dique de leucogranito que corta os GPC e de 580 ± 7 Ma para os GPC. Os GPSB são ricos em SiO2 (> 70%), levemente peraluminosos, com padrões ETR fracionados, mostrando profundas anomalias negativa de Eu, e padrões Spidergram com depressões em Nb, Ta, Sr, P e Ti. São classificados como granitoides trans-alcalinos ferrosos, tipo-A pós-orogênico. Os GPC mostram teores intermediários de SiO2 de 55-67 %, são metaluminosos, magnesianos, tipo-I mostrando padrões de ETR fracionados e caracterizados pela ausência ou anomalias fracamente positivas de Eu, e padrões Spidergram com depressões em Th, Nb, Ta, Ti. Assinaturas isotópicas e geoquímicas sugerem que os granitoides estudados foram originados pela mistura de magmas gerados pela fusão de crosta paleoproterozóica ou arqueana e pequena fração de material Neoproterozóico em diferentes épocas da história evolutiva da ZCC.

This thesis investigates the reception and creation of post-1960 Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, through an examination of the key BD journals of the period, namely, Pilote (1959-1989), L'Echo des savanes (1972-present) and (A Suivre) (1978-1997). The BDs considered as representative of these magazines are not only contextualised socio-historically as cultural artefacts of the period, but are also analysed as texts. This thesis also considers the historical processes of the institutionalisation and intellectualisation of the BD in France and Belgium in a bid to understand the current cultural status and popularity of Franco-Belgian BD. In terms of reception, I focus mainly on the critical reception of BD. In terms of creation I focus particularly on the work of three authors, Claire Bretécher, Christian Binet and Benoît Peeters, concentrating on a personal aesthetic appreciation rather than a general public appreciation of their work. After a structural introduction to the thesis, I discuss certain significant aspects of pre-1960 BD history. In particular, I highlight the political suspicion in which children's illustrés were held in the immediate post-war period. I then suggest specific cultural and historical reasons, which explain BD's transition from frowned-upon illustrated children's material in the 1950s to its welcomed reception as a medium capable of meaningful adult commentary in the 1970s. This introductory chapter concludes with a summary of the key events marking BD's cultural institutionalisation in France and Belgium. This summary particularly emphasises the State intervention of the 1980s, which definitively recognised post-1960 BD as a national asset. In chapter one, I discuss the field of BD criticism, and investigate, in three sub-sections, the contents and context of the main critical trends such as they developed in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s-1990s. I argue that the decisive process of BD's intellectualisation was inaugurated with the establishment of the CBD (Club des Amis de la bande dessinée) in 1962.

Community gardening in cities is increasing, driven by social interaction and food security. City soils are sinks for heavy metals; including neurotoxic lead (Pb). Exposure routes are primarily through inhalation/ingestion of soil, or second by ingestion of plants that have accumulated Pb. This research evaluates soil at three Liberty City, Florida sites estimating risk of Pb exposure through primary and secondary pathways. Soil cores were collected from Liberty City, and red Malabar spinach (Basella rubra) was grown in Pb soil treatments in a greenhouse. Total soil Pb levels and plant tissues were measured after acid digestion, by ICP-OES. In Liberty City, two sites had hotspots with areas of elevated soil Pb levels. Plants grown on Pb contaminated soil all accumulated statistically significant Pb concentrations. Therefore, there is a potential risk of Pb exposure to residents in Liberty City by exposure in hotspot sites through both the primary and secondary pathways.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-09-24T16:37:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FLAVIO CARREIRO DE SANTANA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2007..pdf: 12837167 bytes, checksum: 493e34e5376d3c339f3792a0f65c2fef (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-24T16:37:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FLAVIO CARREIRO DE SANTANA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2007..pdf: 12837167 bytes, checksum: 493e34e5376d3c339f3792a0f65c2fef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Cidade, memória, passado, representações, transformações materiais e suas implicações simbólicas, eis algumas das preocupações dessa narrativa escrita que pretende ser, antes de tudo, uma incursão científica pela qual convidamos o leitor a percorrer conosco. Motivados por tais interesses, esta incursão pretende apresentar os resultados de nossa pesquisa referente às representações criadas para as transformações materiais e simbólicas vividas em Pombal - Pb, entre 1930 e 1950. Enquanto problematizações, procuramos entender se estas transformações sofridas no espaço urbano pombalenses foram vividas e lembradas de forma coletiva, quais as alterações mais representativas e que ficaram presentes na memória dos nossos narradores, e quais as lembranças e sentimentos dessas pessoas pata com o acontecimento pesquisado. Paia tanto, buscamos explorar tais significações a partir das falas de seus antigos (re)memoradores, possibilitadas peio emprego metodológico da história orai Consoante às evidências orais também foi possível perceber outras representações criadas para o mesmo acontecimento e diversas daquelas, através de evidencias escritas enunciadas peio discurso oficial da Câmara Municipal, bem como pelas representações agenciadas peia historiografia local. Neste sentido, nossos narradores enunciaram representações sobre tais transformações ocorridas em Pombal menos como uma experiência marcada peia pessoalidade e idealizações de progresso, e mais como significações envoltas em estranheza e exclusão social provocadas por essas transformações materiais. Para tanto, as narrativas da memória dos nossos antigos (re)memoradores puderam reconstruir e reinventar no presente, práticas culturais compartilhadas socialmente. São representações criadas para a cidade naquele instante de suas transformações materiais e simbólicas, compondo pela oralidade outros cenários, personagens, tramas e apropriação dos espaços pombalenses. / City, memory, past, representations, materiai transformations and its symbolic questions arc some concerns of me written narrative presented here, ft intends to be a scientifical path through which we invite the reader to walk with us. Moved by these interests, this path intends to present the results of our research related to representations generated by symbolic and material transformations experienced in the municipality of Pombal, State of Paraíba between 1930 and 1950. As analytical issues, we seek to understand if those transformations happened in the urban space in the municipality of Pombal were experienced and are recalled collectively, what are the more significant changes which we kept in the memories of our narrators and which are the memories and feelings of those people related to the events under study. By using the methodology of oral history, we explored the meanings constructed in the memories of old people. According to oral evidence, it was also possible to observe other representations created about the same event than those in the written document constructed by official discourse of the Munieipiialy Board and the local historiography, in this sense, our narrators told representations about transformations happened in Pombal which were less a personal experience and idealizations of progress and more meanings attached to the íèeiing of social exclusion. The memories of old people reconstruct in the present some cultural practices shared in the past. They are representations about the city in that historical moment and its material and symbolic transformations, construction through oraliry other sceneries, people, stories and uses of space.

LOPES, Guilherme Sobreira. Microanomia e valores humanos: contribuições para compreensão do comportamento antissocial. 2015. 103f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2015. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-05-04T12:20:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_gslopes.pdf: 854978 bytes, checksum: 8a831e0a43311b1815c2dc0e3ac5facd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-05-05T10:51:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_gslopes.pdf: 854978 bytes, checksum: 8a831e0a43311b1815c2dc0e3ac5facd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-05T10:51:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_gslopes.pdf: 854978 bytes, checksum: 8a831e0a43311b1815c2dc0e3ac5facd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Anomie is a condition of the social structure characterized by the absence or weakening of social norms. At the individual level, is the state of decompensation or imbalance on the prioritization of personal values front to social values. In this sense, a psychological construct appears to be particularly associated with anomie: human values. This dissertation aimed to evaluate the value basis of anomie and its relations with antisocial behavior. Therefore, two studies were performed. Study I aimed to evaluate the relationship between value decompensation between low congruence values and demographics. Participated of this study 1147 students of primary and secondary school and college city of João Pessoa - PB, aged between 10 to 45 years (m = 16.1, SD = 4.5, and 64.8% between 11 and 17 years ) with majority women (60.1%), Catholic (60.6%) and from public schools (52.1%). They answered the Basic Values Questionnaire - QVB and demographic issues. The application of the instruments occurred in schools and universities. The results indicated that microanomie does not depend of social class, but varies according to gender and age group. Study II aimed to test the hypothesis of consistency and compatibility of human values and evaluate the microanomie in samples of general population and imprisoned. To do so, two samples were considered. The first included 994 individuals from the general population, aged between 14 to 56 years (m = 21.7, SD = 6.3, and 49.8% between 18 and 25 years), mostly female (50.6%), heterosexual (87.6%) and Catholic (49.5%). The second included 762 prisoners aged between 19 to 66 years (m = 29.6, SD = 8.5, and 49.5% between 19 and 27 years), predominantly male (71.9%), heterosexual (87 7%) and Catholic (42.1%). The first sample responded to the QVB and demographic issues. The sample of incarcerated answered the QVB and 73 items that addressed different facets of their lives, namely: prison history, educational profile, employment profile, family structure, experiences in the prison system, mental health indicators and demographic questions. The results confirmed the hypothesis of consistency and compatibility. On the other hand, the assumptions related to the comparison of microanomie levels in the general population and prisoners were refuted. This study brings contributions to the understanding of antisocial behavior and to the development of theoretical models. / Anomia é um estado patológico da estrutura social caracterizado pela ausência ou enfraquecimento das normas. Em nível individual, é o estado de desequilíbrio valorativo referente à priorização de valores pessoais frente a valores sociais. Neste sentido, um construto psicológico parece estar especialmente associado à anomia: os valores humanos. A presente dissertação teve por objetivo avaliar as bases valorativas da anomia e suas relações com os comportamentos antissociais. Para tanto, realizaram-se dois estudos. O Estudo I tem como objetivo avaliar a relação entre os desequilíbrios valorativos de baixa congruência e aspectos demográficos. Participaram do estudo 1147 estudantes de ensino fundamental, médio e universitário da cidade de João Pessoa – PB, com idades entre 10 e 45 anos (m = 16,1; dp = 4,5, sendo 64,8% entre 11 e 17 anos), sendo a maioria feminina (60,1%), católica (60,6%) e da rede pública (52,1%). Estes responderam ao Questionário de Valores Básicos – QVB e a questões demográficas. Os resultados indicaram que a microanomia independe da classe social, mas varia conforme a gênero e a faixa etária. Apresentam-se questões teóricas e metodológicas que podem explicar os dados. O Estudo II objetivou testar a hipótese de congruência e de compatibilidade dos valores humanos e avaliar a microanomia em amostras da população geral e encarcerados. Para tanto, contará com duas amostras. A primeira contou com 994 indivíduos da população geral, com idades entre 14 e 56 anos (m = 21,7; dp = 6,3, sendo 49,8% entre 18 e 25 anos), majoritariamente feminina (50,6%), heterossexual (87,6%) e católica (49,5%). A segunda contou com 762 encarcerados com idades entre 19 e 66 anos (m = 29,6; dp = 8,5, sendo 49,5% entre 19 e 27 anos), majoritariamente masculina (71,9%), heterossexual (87,7%), católica (42,1%). A primeira amostra respondeu ao QVB e a questões demográficas. A amostra de encarcerados respondeu, além do QVB, a 73 itens que abordaram diferentes facetas da vida dos detentos, a saber: histórico prisional, perfil educacional, perfil laboral, estrutura familiar, experiência no sistema carcerário, indicadores de saúde mental e, por fim. , questões demográficas. Os resultados confirmaram as hipóteses de congruência e compatibilidade. Por outro lado, as hipóteses relacionadas à comparação dos níveis de microanomia em indivíduos da população geral e encarcerados foram refutadas. Propõem-se possíveis explicações teóricas e metodológicas. O presente estudo traz contribuições para a compreensão do comportamento antissocial, possibilitando o desenvolvimento de modelos teóricos.

By taking learning as the axis of scholarship, personal and social epistemologies have a common ground: experience and reflective action. I am not considering learning as a vehicle whose success is measured to the extent that a portion of the external world is appropriated, but as a qualitatively different way to see, understand and handle experience. A scholarship of learning is tightly bound to the experiential roots of objects of study that keep on changing in individual and collective histories. Therefore, a scholarship of learning is not a set of context-free skills but a complex process of transformation of its practitioners’ identity and agency over themselves and their object of study. Such two-fold construction orientates a discipline no less than the ways of knowing, acting and being of those engaged in its investigation. I propose that the object of study of Modern Languages and Cultures should be literacy in the multilayered symbolic codes (some of which are tacit) that make intercultural interchanges intelligible and effective. The scope of this dissertation, however, is restricted to the investigation of deep learning in literacy. My thesis is that Modern Languages and Cultures should not be limited to objects of study, such as language, discourse, texts, films, etc. but has to include the processes of agentification of the learner and making sense of his or her experience in a foreign language and culture. I advocate the investigation of the experiential roots of language and culture in a scholarship of learning which seeks to integrate research and education, on the one hand, and language and content, on the other. Experience and learning are subjective-objective processes, and so I advise the epistemological revaluation of subjectivity. I propose that subjectification (i.e. the construction of the subject) is not only relevant for human development and social well-being, but is a source of knowledge in the Humanities.

The teachers' use of motivational strategies is generally believed to enhance student motivation, yet there is scant empirical evidence to support this claim. This classroom-oriented investigation focused on how the motivational practices of EFL teachers in South Korea related to students' L2 motivation and motivated classroom behavior. In a first phase, the motivation of over 1,300 students was measured by a self-report questionnaire, and the use of motivational strategies by 27 teachers in 20 different schools was examined with a classroom observation instrument specifically developed for this investigation, the Motivation Orientation of Language Teaching (MOLT). The MOLT scheme, along with a post hoc rating scale completed by the observer, was used to assess the teachers' use of motivational strategies. The MOLT follows the real-time coding principle of Spada and Frohlich's (1995) Communication Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) scheme but uses categories of observable teacher behaviors derived from Dornyei's (2001) motivational strategies framework for foreign language classrooms. The results indicate that the language teachers' motivational practice is directly linked to increased levels of the learners' motivated learning behavior and their motivational state. In a second phase, three high- and three low-motivation learner groups (selected from the initial sample) were compared in order to uncover the students' interpretations and understandings of the quality of their L2 instructional contexts in relation to their motivation and motivated classroom behavior. Results based on quantitative and qualitative data (which were obtained using three new instruments specifically designed for this study) indicated that the motivational practices coexisting with different levels of motivation were woven into the contents and processes of L2 instruction and instruction in general. These contents and processes seemed to stem from teachers' and students' beliefs about what counts as learning in the L2 classroom and what is the best way to learn an L2.

This thesis examines the role of Scots language verse translation in the second-generation or post-war Scottish Renaissance. The translation of European poetry into Scots was of central importance to the first-generation Scottish Renaissance of the nineteen twenties and thirties. As Margery Palmer McCulloch has shown, the wider cultural climate of Anglo-American modernism was key to MacDiarmid’s conception of the interwar Scottish Renaissance. What was the effect on second-generation poet-translators as the modernist moment passed? Are the many translations undertaken by the younger poets who emerged in the course of the nineteen forties and fifties a faithful reflection of this cultural inheritance? To what extent are they indicative of a new set of priorities and international influences? The five principal translators discussed in this thesis are Douglas Young (1913-1973), Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975), Robert Garioch (1909-1981), Tom Scott (1918-1995) and William J. Tait (1918-1992). Each is the subject of a chapter, in many cases providing the first or most extensive treatment of particular translations. While the pioneering work of John Corbett, Bill Findlay and J. Derrick McClure, among other scholars, has drawn attention to the long history of literary translation into Scots, this thesis is the first extended critical work to take the verse translations of the post-MacDiarmid makars as its subject. The nature and extent of MacDiarmid’s influence is considered throughout, as are the wider discourses around language and translation in twentieth-century Scottish poetry. Critical engagement with a number of key insights from theoretical translation studies helps to situate these writers’ work in its global context. This thesis also explores the ways in which the specific context of Scots translation allows scholars to complicate or expand upon theories of translation developed in other cultural situations (notably Lawrence Venuti’s writing on domestication and foreignisation). The five writers upon whom this thesis concentrates were all highly individual, occasionally idiosyncratic personalities. Young’s polyglot ingenuity finds a foil in Garioch’s sharp, humane wit. Goodsir Smith’s romantic ironising meets its match in Scott’s radical certainty of cause. Tait’s use of the Shetlandic tongue sets him apart. Nonetheless, despite the great variety of style, form and tone shown by each of these translators, this thesis demonstrates that there are meaningful links to be made between them and that they form a unified, coherent group in the wider landscape of twentieth-century Scottish poetry. On the linguistic level, each engaged to some extent in the composition of a ‘synthetic’ or ‘plastic’ language deriving partly from literary sources, partly from the spoken language around them. On a more fundamental level, each was committed to enriching this language through translation, within which a number of key areas of interest emerge. One of the most important of these key areas is Gaelic – especially the poetry of Sorley MacLean, which Young, Garioch and Goodsir Smith all translated into Scots. This is to some extent an act of solidarity on the part of these Scots poets, acknowledging a shared history of marginalisation as well as expressing shared hopes for the future. The same is true of Goodsir Smith’s translations from a number of Eastern European poets (and Edwin Morgan’s own versions, slightly later in the century). The translation of verse drama by poets is another key theme sustained throughout the thesis, with Garioch and Young attempting to fill what they perceived as a gap in the Scots tradition through translation from other languages (another aspect of these writers’ legacy continued by Morgan). Beyond this, all of the writers discussed in this thesis translated extensively from European poetries from Ancient Greece to twentieth-century France. Their reasons for doing so were various, but a certain cosmopolitan idealism figures highly among them. So too does a desire to see Scotland interact with other European nations, thus escaping the potentially narrowing influence of post-war British culture. This thesis addresses the legacy of these writers’ translations, which, it argues, continue to exercise a perceptible influence on the course of poetry in Scotland. This work constitutes a significant contribution to a much-needed wider critical re-assessment of this pivotal period in modern Scottish writing, offering a fresh perspective on the formal and linguistic merits of these poets’ verse translations. Drawing upon frequently obscure book, pamphlet and periodical sources, as well as unpublished manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland and the Shetland Archives, this thesis breaks new ground in its investigation of the role of Scots verse translation in the second-generation Scottish Renaissance.