Inaug.-Diss.--Leipzig. / Vita. Bibliography: p. [5]-6.

Proefschrift--Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen. / Bibliography: p. [136]-140.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1950. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-99).

This thesis aims to promote living locally through interdisciplinary exchange between art and food. Through the integration of artist studios, food shops, galleries, and a farmers’ market, this project endeavours to defi ne a new relationship between art, craft, food, and marketplace. Two theories are argued in this thesis: fi rst, that there exists a need in today’s society for people to forge stronger relationships with their local communities; and second, that integrating food and art benefi ts each programme respectively, as well as the community. This thesis is located in the small liberal arts community of Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. By situating the project in an existing heritage building on Bridge Street, it refocuses urban life back to the downtown core and addresses current trends of businesses migrating to the periphery.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris III. / Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The critical attention that has been given to Vita Sackville-West’s travel literature has primarily focused on the relationships between these texts and the novels of Virginia Woolf on account of the intimate relationship that existed between the two writers. I argue in this paper that Sackville-West’s travel accounts are worthy of study in and of themselves. This report explores the ways that the genre of travel literature was changing in the early twentieth century through Vita Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran (1926). Critics such as Marie Louise Pratt have noted that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British travel accounts had been used as a way to transmit technical knowledge of, and authority over, the East. Sackville-West’s text throws this tradition of the genre into question through its focus on the traveler’s subjectivity. Working from Michel de Certeau’s ideas regarding railway travel and incarceration, I want to demonstrate that the traveler’s subjectivity is augmented by her position as a passenger in various modes of mobility. Ultimately I argue that the privileging of imagination and subjectivity over scientific knowledge found in Passenger to Teheran unravels the traditional epistemology of travel writing which positions the traveler as an authority figure on the East, and instead positions Sackville-West as a traveler-aesthete. This shift in the role of the travel writer reveals that while Pratt’s description characterizes some travel writing, Sackville-West’s travel project is more concerned with discovering the creative potential that travel can stimulate in the mind rather than purporting to reveal facts about the outside world. / text

Numerical analyses of two different geotechnical problems, namely a bridge abutment and a geosynthetic reinforced embankment are presented in this thesis. Settlement, bearing capacity and slope stability are the major factors that need to be considered in the design of a foundation near a sloped fill. In this thesis, the behaviour of a small scale model footing located near the shoulder of a sloped fill was investigated numerically. Single and multiple layers of geogrid were used to reinforce the sloped fill, and their effects on the load-deformation behaviour and bearing capacity of the footing were explored. The analyses showed 80%, 168%, 295% and 375% maximum improvement in the ultimate bearing capacity with 1, 2, 3 and 4 reinforcement layers respectively. This maximum improvement depends on the embedment depths of the reinforcement layers below the foundation and the suggested optimal depths are discussed. Typically, greatest improvement in ultimate bearing capacity with a single layer of reinforcement was obtained when the reinforcement was at a depth between 0.50 and 0.75 times the foundation width. Similarly, highest ultimate bearing capacity with 2 reinforcement layers was predicted when the spacing between them was 1.0 times the width of the foundation. However, higher settlement was estimated at failure for the reinforced sloped fill than the unreinforced one. The second problem investigated was the three-dimensional (3D) analysis of Sackville embankment, a geosynthetic reinforced embankment on soft soil. Previous analyses using two-dimensional (2D) numerical modelling of Sackville embankment indicated potential 3D effects affecting the performance of this embankment. Therefore, 3D analysis incorporating geometric variations of Sackville embankment foundation soil, anisotropic model for fluid flow, mobilization of geotextile stresses in minor direction and the boundary effects (lateral directions) were taken into account in this analysis. The predicted performance of Sackville embankment were compared with the field data and the previously reported 2D analysis results in terms of vertical and horizontal displacements and excess pore pressures in the foundation soil, and geotextile stresses, strains and displacements. Better overall predictions of the Sackville embankment performance was obtained from this 3D analysis than the previous analysis reported in the literature.

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ix, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / My dissertation analyzes the overlooked short works of authors and auteurs who do not fit comfortably into the conventional category of modernism due to their subtly experimental aesthetics: the versatile British author Vita Sackville-West, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Bowen, and the British emigrant filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. I focus on the years 1920-1923 to gain an alternative understanding of modernism's annus mirabulus and the years immediately preceding and following it. My first chapter studies the most critically disregarded author of the project: Sackville-West. Her 1922 volume of short stories The Heir: A Love Story deserves attention for its examination of social hierarchies. Although her stories ridicule characters regardless of their class background, those who attempt to change their class status, especially when not sanctioned by heredity, are treated with the greatest contempt. The volume, with the reinforcement of the contracted short form, advocates staying within given class boundaries. The second chapter analyzes social structures in Bowen's first book of short stories, Encounters (1922). Like Sackville-West, Bowen's use of the short form complements her interest in how class hierarchies can confine characters. Bowen's portraits of classed encounters and of characters' encounters with class reveal a sense of anxiety over being confined by social status and a sense of displacement over breaking out of class groups, exposing how class divisions accentuate feelings of alienation and instability. The last chapter examines Chaplin's final short films: "The Idle Class" (1921), "Pay Day (1922), and "The Pilgrim" (1923). While placing Chaplin among the modernists complicates the canon in a positive way, it also reduces the complexity of this man and his art. Chaplin is neither a pyrotechnic modernist nor a traditional sentimentalist. Additionally, Chaplin's shorts are neither socially liberal nor conservative. Rather, Chaplin's short films flirt with experimental techniques and progressive class politics, presenting multiple perspectives on the thematic of social hierarchies. But, in the end, his films reinforce rather than overthrow traditional artistic forms and hierarchical ideas. Studying these artists elucidates how the contracted space of the short form produces the perfect room to present a nuanced portrayal of class. / Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English; Michael Aronson, Member, English; Mark Quigley, Member, English; Jenifer Presto, Outside Member, Comparative Literature