Through a comparison of Tennessee Williams’ Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Neil LaBute’s Steph in reasons to be pretty, this thesis explores the ways in which the female position has both changed and remained relatively the same over the course of the last sixty years.

Esta tese teve como objetivo concretizar a edição de texto fidedigno e anotada de A poetagem bonita, obra idealizada por Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), segundo se depreende de indicação do autor modernista no Fichário Analítico, manuscrito preservado em seu Fundo pessoal, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP). A obra, não levada a termo, previa a reunião de artigos de crítica literária, divulgados em periódicos nos anos de 1920 e 1930, tematizando a poesia de vanguarda. Os artigos, localizados e organizados pela pesquisa, oferecem uma reflexão do autor sobre a produção poética no modernismo. A pesquisa se propôs a realizar uma avaliação crítica do material, detectando os principais temas abordados e as linhas de força do pensamento estético de Mário de Andrade; pretendeu ainda ampliar o conhecimento da produção modernista. / This thesis aims to research, organize, and prepare the critical edition of articles of literary criticism by Mário de Andrade that focus predominantly on Brazilian Modernist poetry, published in the 1920s and 1930s. These articles are relevant to studies of Brazilian Modernism because they bring to light Mário de Andrade\'s critical reflection on the movement, in the heat of the \"first moment of Modernism.\" This dissertation has a twofold aim: it establishes a reliable and annotated edition of a proposed collection of essays of criticism by Mário de Andrade, whose history and general outline are preserved in the writers archives, and proceeds to undertake a critical study of the material. By bringing greater visibility to documents that are now to be found in Mário de Andrade\'s library and papers, which have been deposited in the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo, this dissertation contributes to expanding our understanding of the historical reception of Brazilian Modernism.

Esta tese teve como objetivo concretizar a edição de texto fidedigno e anotada de A poetagem bonita, obra idealizada por Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), segundo se depreende de indicação do autor modernista no Fichário Analítico, manuscrito preservado em seu Fundo pessoal, no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP). A obra, não levada a termo, previa a reunião de artigos de crítica literária, divulgados em periódicos nos anos de 1920 e 1930, tematizando a poesia de vanguarda. Os artigos, localizados e organizados pela pesquisa, oferecem uma reflexão do autor sobre a produção poética no modernismo. A pesquisa se propôs a realizar uma avaliação crítica do material, detectando os principais temas abordados e as linhas de força do pensamento estético de Mário de Andrade; pretendeu ainda ampliar o conhecimento da produção modernista. / This thesis aims to research, organize, and prepare the critical edition of articles of literary criticism by Mário de Andrade that focus predominantly on Brazilian Modernist poetry, published in the 1920s and 1930s. These articles are relevant to studies of Brazilian Modernism because they bring to light Mário de Andrade\'s critical reflection on the movement, in the heat of the \"first moment of Modernism.\" This dissertation has a twofold aim: it establishes a reliable and annotated edition of a proposed collection of essays of criticism by Mário de Andrade, whose history and general outline are preserved in the writers archives, and proceeds to undertake a critical study of the material. By bringing greater visibility to documents that are now to be found in Mário de Andrade\'s library and papers, which have been deposited in the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo, this dissertation contributes to expanding our understanding of the historical reception of Brazilian Modernism.

We discuss the pole placement problem for single-input or multi-input control models of the form _x=Ax+Bu. This is the problem of determining a linear state feedback of the formu=F xsuch that in the closed-loop system _x= (A+BF)x, the matrixA+BFhas a prescribed set of eigenvalues. We analyze the conditioning of this problem and show that it is an intrinsically ill-conditioned problem, and especially so when the system dimension is large. Thus even the best numerical methods for this problem may yield very bad results. On the other hand, we also discuss the question of whether one really needs to solve the pole placement problem. In most circum- stances what is really required is stabilization or that the poles are in a specified region of the complex plane. This related problem may have much better conditioning. We demonstrate this via the example of stabilization.

We discuss the pole placement problem for single-input or multi-input control models of the form _x=Ax+Bu. This is the problem of determining a linear state feedback of the formu=F xsuch that in the closed-loop system _x= (A+BF)x, the matrixA+BFhas a prescribed set of eigenvalues. We analyze the conditioning of this problem and show that it is an intrinsically ill-conditioned problem, and especially so when the system dimension is large. Thus even the best numerical methods for this problem may yield very bad results. On the other hand, we also discuss the question of whether one really needs to solve the pole placement problem. In most circum- stances what is really required is stabilization or that the poles are in a specified region of the complex plane. This related problem may have much better conditioning. We demonstrate this via the example of stabilization.

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This thesis explores the ways in which the television adaptations of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries become more homogenized during the adaptation process, thus contributing to an implied exclusivity from which Alloy, Inc.—the media and marketing company that owns these products—might benefit. This paper points out the ways in which the three products become structurally similar to one another during the adaptation process through the implementation of soap opera conventions. An exploration of consumption and class in each of the three works reveals an emphasis on class-based exclusivity in the adaptation process. Finally, a focus on portrayals of race within the source texts and their respective adaptations reveals the ways in which African American characters are presented as invisible, outsiders, or antagonists, thus creating products that become more exclusive on a race basis.

This diploma thesis focuses on the sociolinguistic analysis of the language of female characters in a play, musical and film. The theoretical part summarizes sociolinguistic literature and it also scrutinizes the current findings of the influence of gender, social class and identity on language. These concepts are discussed both from linguistic and sociological point of view. The practical part is aimed at the analysis of woman's language in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and its two adaptations, the musical My Fair Lady and the film Pretty Woman. It deals with the change of the main characters that become representatives of upper social class. The change is discussed diachronically in terms of language, especially pronunciation, lexis, grammar and style, but also in terms of identity and social class.

The domain-specific language allows for describing problems of a concrete domain, for which the language is created. This fact implies that a number of languages of this kind grows with a number of problem domains. The use of domain-specific languages brings a necessity to pretty-print these languages, where the concept of pretty-printing consists of code formatting and syntax highlighting. One of tools that allow for creating domain-specific languages is the Xtext framework, which offers only a limited range of tools that are able to define a configuration for pretty-printing. Moreover, these tools are hardly understandable because they are confusing and requires knowledge of Xtext's internals. Thus this thesis introduces a new way of pretty-printing domain-specific languages. The way is based on declarative definition of formatting rules. Furthermore, this thesis helps a user to create formatting rules by utilizing nontrivial heuristics.

本文以解除神話性(de-mythicization) 的概念開啟對童話(fairy tales)的討論，認為必須加入歷史、文化、政治與物質等層面的解說才能擺脫童話中被添加的神話性並豐富童話的閱讀。接著以物質文明的角度切入女性主義經常閱讀的文本—貝侯的《灰姑娘》 (1697) 與電影《麻雀變鳳凰》(1990)，探討物質文明在兩個文本中所扮演的重要角色。 貝侯所擁護的現代主義(modernism)促使其改寫法國民間故事(folktales)，並在文中加入了大量的十七世紀法國當代物質文明，企圖重新塑造出新一代的法國文學。因此，貝侯的《灰姑娘》並非一般人所熟知的麻雀變鳳凰典型，而是一個關於恢復她貴族身分的故事。在貝侯筆下所塑造出來的灰姑娘與當時的時代背景息息相關：一個世故、聰明與積極的女性，試圖脫離她的苦難，並非大家所熟知的好心的、被動的、順從的灰姑娘形象。 電影《麻雀變鳳凰》則提供不同時代灰姑娘形象的對照。延續維多利亞時期在地化的灰姑娘形象，Vivian成為最低下的灰姑娘—流鶯。她由麻雀變鳳凰的經歷除了說明不同時代對美的詮釋與期待亦呈現出八零年代不同的灰姑娘形象：一個同時具有性感與善心的女性。 在美國，男子氣概的研究始於八零年代。因此本文以Edward的男性氣概為出發點，探討八零年代的物質文明，並以此看出對於男性的期待都建構在他的所有物，如轎車、總統套房以及馬球等等。此外，Edward身為男性灰姑娘與神仙教父的身分在本章皆有所探討。 最後必須闡明的是，物質文明並不見得能涵蓋所有的層面，尤其是在集體意識與個人偏好的部分，是無法找到一個平衡點的。本文僅能就現有的資料加以觀察與解析，以期達到較全面的觀察。 / To de-mythicize a fairy tale means to discover its cultural, historical and political aspects and therefore, in my thesis, it helps to distinguish Perrault’s Cendrillon (1697) from other Cinderella variants. My thesis approaches Perrault’s Cendrillon in a materialist method: with the employment of the late seventeenth-century French material culture, Cendrillon is transformed into a modernized literary fairy tale about her restoration to her original social status. This French Cinderella is quite distinct from the traditional rags-to-riches Cinderella story since Perrault champions a modernism with which he intends to change the future of the French literature. The film Pretty Woman (1990) is to serve as a contrast and to elucidate the idea that different eras make different Cinderella stories. The Cinderella in the Anglophone world is getting more and more debased and the Americanized Cinderella is the most debased ever, the street walker. Her rags-to-riches transformation manifests the social expectations toward in the eighties toward what a woman should be and possess. On the other hand, there is another side of the story in the film. On Edward’s part, I am going to approach the material culture via American masculinities in order to illustrate what a man should be and have. Besides, Edward also plays the roles of the male Cinderella and the fairy godfather in the film. The two roles Edward plays will be further developed in my thesis. The materialist approach has its own limits: it cannot include the conformist and the individualist aspects and I thus fail to incorporate it in my thesis.