While documentation of the work of a select group of modernist landscape architects of the mid-twentieth century is available, little is known about the professional contributions of transitional landscape architects active in the period following World War II. Using selected projects framed by existing literature covering contemporary social, economic, political, and artistic influences, this study examines the career of one such transitional figure, Sidney Nichols Shurcliff (1906-1981). Project descriptions and analysis measure the scope of Shurcliff's work and the degree to which he contributed to the discipline and its transition to modernism, thereby augmenting the history of landscape architecture practice.

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[pt] A presente dissertação tem por objetivo analisar o caso de Margarida Hirschmann, acusada de traição à pátria e aliciamento de militares em função de sua atuação na Auri-verde, uma rádio de conteúdo pró-Eixo durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hirschmann atuou como locutora dessa rádio e, segundo a justiça militar brasileira, foi responsável por pronunciamentos em português destinados aos pracinhas da FEB, que tinham como objetivo abalar o moral das tropas e convencê-los à deserção, apelando para mentiras e terror psicológico diante da conjuntura de conflito bélico. Ao ser capturada, Hirschmann é trazida ao Brasil, processada e julgada. Durante esse período, é notado grande interesse da mídia de massa brasileira por seu caso e, principalmente, por sua aparência em conjunto com os crimes que cometera. A bela espiã, apelido cunhado pelos próprios jornais e revistas da época, é condenada a 20 anos de reclusão. Enquanto esteve presa, deu uma série de entrevistas onde negava reiteradamente o caráter político de seu caso e engendra o que convém chamar de construção imaterial da diferença, destacando sua própria situação em relação às demais mulheres em situação de cárcere na recém-construída Penitenciária Feminina da Capital Federal. Essa construção imaterial da diferença tem como base uma série de estereótipos de gênero em diálogo com o contexto socio-histórico em que o caso aconteceu e, principalmente, em diálogo com uma determinada moral sexual e ideal de feminilidade presentes na construção da mulher moderna. Serão utilizados como fonte jornais e revistas da época, o processo-crime de Hirschmann diante da justiça militar brasileira e a bibliografia que trata da historiografia das mulheres e problemas de gênero. / [en] This dissertation analyzes the case of Margarida Hirschmann, accused of treason and military persuasion due to her performance on Auri-verde, a pro-Axis content radio during World War II. Hirschmann acted as the announcer of this radio and, according to the Brazilian justice, was responsible for pronouncements in portuguese destined to the Brazilian military force (FEB), that had as objective to shake the morale of the troops and to convince them to desertion, appealing to lies and psychological terror during war. When captured, Hirschmann is brought to Brazil and judged by the Military Justice. During this period, the Brazilian mass media shows great interest for her case and, especially, for her appearance along with the crimes she allegedly committed. The beautiful spy, nicknamed given by the newspapers and magazines of the period, is condemned to 20 years of imprisonment. While in prison, she gives a series of interviews where she repeatedly denies the political motivation behind the case and engenders an immaterial construction of the difference, highlighting her own situation in relation to the other women in jail in the newly built Feminine Penitentiary of the Federal Capital in Rio de Janeiro. This immaterial construction of the difference is based on a series of gender stereotypes in dialogue with the socio-historical context in which the case takes place and, mainly, in dialogue with a certain sexual morality and ideal of femininity present in the construction of the modern woman. Newspapers and magazines will be used as the main sources for this dissertation, along with the text of the process of Hirschmann before the Brazilian military justice and the bibliography that discusses the historiography of women and gender problems.

Between 1960 and 1992, American artist George Tsutakawa (1910 – 1997) created more than sixty fountain sculptures for publicly accessible sites in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. The vast majority were made by shaping sheet bronze into geometric and organically inspired abstract forms, often arranged around a vertical axis. Though postwar modernist artistic production and the issues it raises have been widely interrogated since the 1970s, and public art has been a major area of study since about 1980, Tsutakawa's fountains present a major intervention in North America's urban fabric that is not well-documented and remains almost completely untheorized. In addition to playing a key role in Seattle's development as an internationally recognized leader in public art, my dissertation argues that these works provide early evidence of a linked concern with nature and spirituality that has come to be understood as characteristic of the Pacific Northwest. Tsutakawa was born in Seattle, but raised and educated primarily in Japan prior to training as an artist at the University of Washington, then teaching in UW's Schools of Art and Architecture. His complicated personal history, which in World War II included being drafted into the U.S. army, while family members were interned and their property confiscated, led art historian Gervais Reed to declare that Tsutakawa was aligned with neither Japan nor America – that he and his art existed somewhere in-between. There is much truth in Reed's statement; however, artistically, such dualistic assessments deny the rich interplay of cultural allusions in Tsutakawa's fountains. Major inspirations included the Cubist sculpture of Alexander Archipenko, Himalayan stone cairns, Japanese heraldic emblems, First Nations carvings, and Bauhaus theory. Focusing on the early commissions, completed during the 1960s, my study examines the artist's debts to intercultural networks of artistic exchange – between North America, Asia, and Europe – operative in the early and mid-twentieth century, and in some cases before. I argue that, with his fountain sculptures, this Japanese American artist sought to integrate and balance such binaries as nature/culture, intuition/reason, and spiritual/material, which have long served to support the construction of East and West as opposed conceptual categories. / Graduate

Chez les historiens qui se sont consacrés à l’étude de l’Allemagne contemporaine, plusieurs considèrent qu’en perpétrant un crime aussi barbare que la Shoah, le Troisième Reich a provoqué une « rupture de civilisation » (Zivilisationsbruch) au sein de l’histoire occidentale. En règle générale, ces spécialistes ont réfléchi sur le sens ainsi que sur les implications historiques et philosophiques de cet événement pour le monde contemporain. Peu d’entre eux, toutefois, se sont intéressés au pendant de cette « rupture de civilisation » : le processus de « recivilisation » qui a été à l’œuvre dans la société ouest-allemande au cours des premières décennies d’après-guerre. Caractérisé par le rejet de la violence et du militarisme, par la restauration des normes élémentaires de la civilité ainsi que par l’importance croissante accordée à des valeurs telles que la démocratie et le respect des droits de la personne, ce processus permet en grande partie d’expliquer comment, en à peine deux décennies, les Allemands de l’Ouest ont réussi à édifier un État stable et démocratique sur les ruines d’une dictature génocidaire. En étudiant la présentation du Décalogue dans les catéchismes catholiques, ce mémoire cherche à déterminer le rôle attribué aux prescriptions morales de nature religieuse dans le processus de « recivilisation » de la société ouest-allemande. Il se propose de montrer qu’au cours des années 1950 et 1960, les catéchismes catholiques publiés en RFA ont présenté de plus en plus d’indices d’une volonté que l’on pourrait qualifier de « recivilisatrice ». Ces indices ont surtout pris la forme d’une attention grandissante aux questions relatives à la guerre et à la paix, d’un assouplissement dans la présentation de l’autorité parentale et de l’adoption d’une conception de l’autorité civile fondée désormais sur l’accomplissement de devoirs civiques plutôt que sur l’obéissance aux supérieurs hiérarchiques. / Among scholars who have studied contemporary Germany, many consider that by perpetrating such a barbaric crime as the Holocaust, the Third Reich caused a “rupture of civilizationˮ (Zivilisationsbruch) in the history of the Western world. These experts have reflected on the meaning as well as on the historical and philosophical consequences of the Holocaust for the contemporary world. However, very few of them have examined the other side of this “rupture of civilizationˮ, i.e. the “recivilizingˮ process that occurred in West German society during the first postwar decades. Characterized by the rejection of violence and militarism, the restoration of elementary norms of civility and the growing importance attached to civic values such as democracy and human rights, this process explains how, within barely two decades, West Germans succeeded in building a stable and democratic state on the ruins of a genocidal dictatorship. Using the presentation of the Decalogue in the Catholic catechisms, this master’s thesis examines the role attributed to religious moral norms in the “recivilizingˮ process of West German society. It intends to show that during the 1950s and 1960s the Catholic catechisms published in the FRG presented numerous signs of a “recivilizingˮ will, which consisted in a particular attention to issues of war and peace, an updated view of parental authority and the adoption of a conception of civil authority based on the fulfilment of civic duties rather than on sheer obedience to hierarchy.

(in English): This thesis is devided into three parts. In the fist part, the development of literary discourse in Japan between Meiji and postwar period is described, with emphasis on the development of literary character and Subject in a work of literature. The second part theoretical apparatus for studiying and analyzing literary character is introduced, using contemporary literary theory. In that part relationship between literary character and its subject is also included. In the third part, these findings are applied on a specific literary works of Japanese postwar literature, on which development and changes of literary character are observed. The three analyzed works here are Kamen no kokuhaku by Mishima Yukio, Tanin no kao by Abe Kōbō and Man'en gan'nen no futtobōru by Ōe Kenzaburō.

Al término de la guerra civil el régimen franquista encomendó a los tribunales ordinarios la tarea de normalizar el país, contribuyendo a la consolidación del nuevo Estado al tiempo que fiscalizaban la vida cotidiana de la población. El estudio de la delincuencia común de posguerra permite conocer la relación de las clases desfavorecidas con ese Estado, los conflictos e interacciones entre iguales, el grado de aceptación mostrado hacia las autoridades y sus políticas, así como la respuesta ofrecida desde el poder, materializada en sentencias judiciales y prácticas represivas análogas. Las convulsiones provocadas por la guerra civil en España tuvieron su continuación amplificada, a nivel europeo, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Este conflicto y su posguerra acarrearon penuria material, racionamiento, mercado negro, crisis de valores y con ello, la generalización de unas condiciones de vida y una perturbación social cuyos efectos inmediatos se dejaron sentir en el aumento de la delincuencia. / When Spanish Civil War ended francoist regime assigned the task to normalize the country to ordinary courts. This fact contributed to consolidation of the new state and at the same time supervised population everydary life. The research on postwar common delinquency allows to know the relationship between the poorest classes and the state, the conflicts and interactions among equals, the level of popularity shown towards authorities and their policies as well as the response offered from the power which was materialized in sentences and some other repressive practices. Convulsions that were provoked by Spanish Civil War had an extended continuity, at European level, after Second World War. The former conflict and its postwar brought poverty, rationing, black market, crisis on values and the generalization of life conditions and social disturbance whose immediate effects could be felt in an increasing delinquency.

Chez les historiens qui se sont consacrés à l’étude de l’Allemagne contemporaine, plusieurs considèrent qu’en perpétrant un crime aussi barbare que la Shoah, le Troisième Reich a provoqué une « rupture de civilisation » (Zivilisationsbruch) au sein de l’histoire occidentale. En règle générale, ces spécialistes ont réfléchi sur le sens ainsi que sur les implications historiques et philosophiques de cet événement pour le monde contemporain. Peu d’entre eux, toutefois, se sont intéressés au pendant de cette « rupture de civilisation » : le processus de « recivilisation » qui a été à l’œuvre dans la société ouest-allemande au cours des premières décennies d’après-guerre. Caractérisé par le rejet de la violence et du militarisme, par la restauration des normes élémentaires de la civilité ainsi que par l’importance croissante accordée à des valeurs telles que la démocratie et le respect des droits de la personne, ce processus permet en grande partie d’expliquer comment, en à peine deux décennies, les Allemands de l’Ouest ont réussi à édifier un État stable et démocratique sur les ruines d’une dictature génocidaire. En étudiant la présentation du Décalogue dans les catéchismes catholiques, ce mémoire cherche à déterminer le rôle attribué aux prescriptions morales de nature religieuse dans le processus de « recivilisation » de la société ouest-allemande. Il se propose de montrer qu’au cours des années 1950 et 1960, les catéchismes catholiques publiés en RFA ont présenté de plus en plus d’indices d’une volonté que l’on pourrait qualifier de « recivilisatrice ». Ces indices ont surtout pris la forme d’une attention grandissante aux questions relatives à la guerre et à la paix, d’un assouplissement dans la présentation de l’autorité parentale et de l’adoption d’une conception de l’autorité civile fondée désormais sur l’accomplissement de devoirs civiques plutôt que sur l’obéissance aux supérieurs hiérarchiques. / Among scholars who have studied contemporary Germany, many consider that by perpetrating such a barbaric crime as the Holocaust, the Third Reich caused a “rupture of civilizationˮ (Zivilisationsbruch) in the history of the Western world. These experts have reflected on the meaning as well as on the historical and philosophical consequences of the Holocaust for the contemporary world. However, very few of them have examined the other side of this “rupture of civilizationˮ, i.e. the “recivilizingˮ process that occurred in West German society during the first postwar decades. Characterized by the rejection of violence and militarism, the restoration of elementary norms of civility and the growing importance attached to civic values such as democracy and human rights, this process explains how, within barely two decades, West Germans succeeded in building a stable and democratic state on the ruins of a genocidal dictatorship. Using the presentation of the Decalogue in the Catholic catechisms, this master’s thesis examines the role attributed to religious moral norms in the “recivilizingˮ process of West German society. It intends to show that during the 1950s and 1960s the Catholic catechisms published in the FRG presented numerous signs of a “recivilizingˮ will, which consisted in a particular attention to issues of war and peace, an updated view of parental authority and the adoption of a conception of civil authority based on the fulfilment of civic duties rather than on sheer obedience to hierarchy.

En la tesi doctoral "La recepció de Heinrich Böll a Espanya" s'analitza el procés de divulgació a Espanya de l'obra de l'escriptor alemany contemporani que s'hi ha reeditat més vegades, i se'n proposa una periodització. L'estudi se centra en dos àmbits: la recepció externa de Böll (editorials que se n'ocupen, reaccions de la crítica i el món acadèmic); i l'anàlisi textual d'una selecció de traduccions seves al català i al castellà. En el primer apartat es parteix d'un enfocament sociològic i es compara la recepció espanyola i catalana amb l'alemanya; en el segon es pren com a base el model de la lingüista Juliane House per a l'avaluació de traduccions (que parteix també de la comparació amb els originals), adaptant-lo a l'estudi de textos narratius de ficció. S'ha intentat relacionar aquests dos enfocaments d'anàlisi sempre que les metodologies aplicades ho han permès. El treball no parteix d'un ànim avaluatiu, sinó descriptiu. / En la tesis doctoral "La recepción de Heinrich Böll en España" se analiza el proceso de divulgación de la obra del escritor alemán más veces reeditado en este país y se propone una periodización de ese proceso. El estudio se centra en dos ámbitos: la recepción externa de Böll (editoriales que se ocupan del autor, reacciones de la crítica y del mundo académico); y el análisis textual de una selección de traducciones de obras suyas al catalán y al castellano. En el primer apartado se parte de un enfoque sociológico y se compara la recepción española y la catalana con la alemana; en el segundo se toma como base el modelo de la lingüista Juliane House para la evaluación de traducciones (que parte también de la comparación con los originales), adaptándolo al estudio de textos narrativos de ficción. Se ha intentado relacionar ambos enfoques de análisis siempre que las metodologías aplicadas así lo han permitido. Este trabajo no parte de un ánimo evaluativo, sino descriptivo. / The doctoral thesis "The reception of Heinrich Böll in Spain" analyzes the spreading process of the work of the most published contemporary German writer in this country, and proposes a periodization for it. The work is based on two wide fields of study: on the one side the 'external reception' of the process (role of publishers and reactions of literary criticism, scholars and of the academic world) and on the other side the 'textual analysis' of some in Catalan and Spanish translated works of the author. For the first area a sociological perspective is adopted and the Spanish and Catalan processes are compared with the German one, for the second area the Juliane House model for translation quality assessment is used (which is also based on textual comparison) and adapted for the analysis of fictional narrative texts. I have attempted to relate the two perspectives of analysis as far as the methodological procedures have allowed it. My work does not pursue an evaluative aim, rather a descriptive one.