This thesis examines the treatment of Native American and Jewish American characters in four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories: “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (1920), “The Passionate Eskimo” (1935), “May Day” (1930), and “The Hotel Child” (1931). Little critical attention has been given to these stories even though they illustrate Fitzgerald’s awareness of the negative ramifications of culturally destructive views and an exploration of new culturally pluralistic ideas. In these stories, Fitzgerald undermines common ethnic stereotypes and demonstrates tension between the intolerance of the American public and the fear of immigrant influence. Fitzgerald is able to re-image the representation of members of these groups and show the evolution of his views on ethnicity and culture. In conclusion, this thesis argues that these stories reveal Fitzgerald’s interest in supporting some level of cultural pluralism and his need to tolerate, if not accept, the differences in the beliefs and cultures in America.

Theatre artists and acting teachers throughout history have sought to find and create presence. By combining modern sports science with an understanding of systems of actor training I have suggested an approach that makes presence a trainable skill. My coach Dr. Scott Sonnon, developer of the Circular Strength Training System, has refined modern sports science to emphasize the development and maintenance of flow-state. This state allows the athlete to respond openly and freely within a constantly changing situation.By combining my life long study of acting with my eight years of work with Coach Sonnon I am developing a system to teach actors the skill of cultivating flow. This work will enhance the actor's presence and ability to handle the stress of performance while developing a strong, supple, and coordinated psychophysical instrument. Video of examples of the exercises can be found in the accompanying materials.This work was created in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac.

The financial crisis of 2008 has been the most significant global economic phenomenon of the new century. Sudden and largely unanticipated, this crisis nonetheless marks the latest in a series of financial panics that forms a welldocumented feature of finance capitalism stretching back to the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637 and beyond, including such notorious crises as the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the Railway Shares panics of 1837 and 1847, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and Black Monday in 1987. These and other crises have fostered a complex and diverse intellectual response - particularly since the South Sea Bubble - that has included interventions not only from economists and economic historians, but poets, dramatists, novelists, and others. This raises the question of whether the novel’s contribution to our wider understanding of financial crises has been fully acknowledged and assessed. In this thesis, the complex and shifting relationship between literary and non-literary responses to financial crisis is explored through an examination of the ideas of political economists, philosophers, journalists, financiers, and others, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Lord Overstone, Walter Bagehot, Herbert Spencer, Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Schumpeter, and J.M. Keynes, that situates their theories alongside readings of novels of financial crisis from the 1850s onward.

La première partie de cette thèse est consacrée aux problématiques liées à la modélisation markovienne de la courbe de variance forward. Elle est divisée en 3 chapitres. Dans le premier chapitre, nous présentons le cadre général de la modélisation de type HJM-Markov pour la courbe de variance forward. Nous revisitons le cadre affine-markovien modélisation et nous l'illustrons par l'exemple du modèle de Bühler. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous proposons un nouveau modèle pour la courbe de variance forward qui combine les caractéristiques des deux versions (continue et discrète) du modèle de Bergomi 2008, sans se réduire ni à l'une ni à l'autre. Un des avantages de ce modèle est que les prix des futures et options sur VIX peuvent être exprimés comme des espérances de fonctions déterministes d'une variable aléatoire gaussienne, ce qui réduit le problème de la calibration à l'inversion de certaines fonctions monotones. Dans le troisième chapitre, on propose une méthode d'approximation pour les prix d'options européennes dans des modèles à volatilité stochastique de type multi-factoriels lognormal (comprenant le modèle présenté dans le deuxième chapitre, les modèles de Bergomi et le modèle de Scot 1987). Nous obtenons un développement d'ordre 3 de la densité du sous-jacent par rapport au paramètre de la volatilité de la volatilité. Nous présentons aussi une méthode de réduction de variance de type "variable de contrôle" pour la simulation par la méthode de Monte-Carlo qui utilise l'approximation explicite que nous obtenons de la fonction de répartition de la loi du sous-jacent. La deuxième partie de cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude des propriétés de monotonie des prix d'options européennes par rapport aux paramètres du CIR dans le modèle de Heston. Elle est divisée en deux chapitres. Dans le premier chapitre (cf. chapitre 4), nous donnons quelques résultats généraux sur le processus CIR. Nous montrons d'abord que les queues de distribution d'une combinaison du CIR et de sa moyenne arithmétique se comportent comme des exponentielles. Nous étudions ensuite les dérivées de la solution de ce processus par rapport aux paramètres de sa dynamique. Ces dérivées sont données comme solutions d'équations différentielles stochastiques, qu'on résout pour obtenir des représentations de ces dérivées en fonction des trajectoires du CIR. Le chapitre 5 est consacré à l'étude de la monotonie du prix d'un Put européen par rapport aux paramètres du CIR et à la corrélation dans le modèle de Heston. Nous montrons que, sous certaines conditions, les prix d’options européennes sont monotones par rapport aux paramètres du drift du CIR. Nous montrons ensuite que le paramètre de la volatilité de la volatilité joue le rôle de la volatilité si on prend la variance réalisée comme sous-jacent. En particulier, les prix d'options convexes sur la variance réalisée sont strictement croissants par rapport à la volatilité de la volatilité. Enfin, nous étudions la monotonie du prix du Put européen par rapport à la corrélation. Nous montrons que le prix du put du Put est croissant par rapport à la corrélation pour les petites valeurs du Spot et décroissant pour les grandes valeurs. Nous étudions ensuite les points de changement de monotonie pour les courtes et longues maturités / The first part of this thesis deals with issues related to the Markov-modeling of the forward variance curve. It is divided into 3 chapters. In the first chapter, we present the general framework of the HJM-type modelling for the forward variance curve. We revisit the Affine-Markov framework, and illustrate by the model proposed by B"uhler 2006. In the second chapter, we propose a new model for the forward variance curve that combines features of the continuous and discrete version of Bergomi's model model Bergomi (2008), without being reduced to either of them. One of the strengths of this model is that the prices of VIX futures and options can be expressed as expectations of deterministic functions of a Gaussian random variable, which reduces the problem of calibration to the inversion of some monotonic functions. In the third chapter, we propose an approximation method for pricing of European options under some lognormal stochastic volatility models (including the model presented in the second chapter, Bergomi's model2008 and Scot model 1987). We obtain an expansion (with respect to the the volatility of volatility parameters of order 3) of the density of the underlying. We also propose a control variate method to effectively reduce variances of Monte Carlo simulations for pricing European optionsThe purpose of the second part of this thesis is to study the monotonicity properties of the prices of European options with respect to the CIR parameters under Heston model. It is divided into two chapters. In the first chapter (see Chapter 4), we give some general results related to the CIR process. We first show that the distribution tails of a combination of the CIR and its arithmetic mean behave as exponential. We then study the derivatives of the solution process with respect to the parameters of its dynamics. These data are derived as solutions of stochastic differential equations, which solves for the representations of these derivatives based on trajectories of the CIR. Chapter 5 is devoted to the study of the monotony of the European price of a put with respect to parameters of CIR and correlation in the Heston model. We show that under certain conditions, prices of European options are monotonic with respect to the parameters of the drift of the CIR. We then show that the parameter of the volatility of volatility plays the role of volatility if we take the realized variance as the underlying. In particular, prices of (convex) options on realized variance are strictly increasing with respect to the volatility of volatility. Finally, we study the monotony of the European Put prices with respect to the correlation. We show that the price of the put is increasing with respect to the correlation for small values ​​of Spot and decreasing for large values. We then study the change points of monotonicity for short and long maturities

Submitted by Rosana Moreira (rosanapsm@outlook.com) on 2018-08-22T20:22:43Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertacao_DesacordosTeoricosFilosofia.pdf: 629038 bytes, checksum: fbf07a8526fd7a52db00d338b40453a0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Edisangela Bastos (edisangela@ufpa.br) on 2018-08-27T18:49:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertacao_DesacordosTeoricosFilosofia.pdf: 629038 bytes, checksum: fbf07a8526fd7a52db00d338b40453a0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T18:49:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertacao_DesacordosTeoricosFilosofia.pdf: 629038 bytes, checksum: fbf07a8526fd7a52db00d338b40453a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-08 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar influência da filosofia da linguagem no debate Hart-Dworkin e a tentativa de sua superação através da teoria dos planos de Scott Shapiro enfocando os desacordos teóricos. Este objetivo é buscado sempre pela mistura ou dialética de dois elementos ou dimensões. Em primeiro lugar, a exploração dos argumentos existentes na teoria do direito. Em segundo lugar, a relação destes argumentos com aqueles apresentados em campos da filosofia da linguagem. Nossa hipótese é a de que o estudo deste debate e desta relação nos mostra que a teoria dos desacordos de Dworkin é a melhor explicação do problema, mas, ao mesmo tempo, as teorias adversárias escolhidas utilizam de diversos elementos metodológicos que representam avanços que foram realizados na filosofia geral, como a perspectiva dos planos proposta por Michael Bratman. Tentamos demonstrar esta hipótese por meio da análise de quatro autores e suas influências. Estes autores são Ronald Dworkin, H. L. A. Hart, Jules Coleman e Scott Shapiro. Por meio desta análise, esperamos demonstrar como os fundamentos das teorias propostas foram se modificando da filosofia da linguagem para outros campos e qual é o estado da teoria do direito com este avanço. Como resultado, defendemos que a hipótese está certa e que mesmo sem ter a melhor capacidade explicativa, as novas teorias do direito precisam ser melhor analisadas e seus ganhos melhor considerados. / This work has as general objective to analyze the influence of philosophy of language on the Hart – Dworkin Debate and the overcoming tried by the planning theory of Scott Shapiro, focusing the theoretical disagreements. This objective is always sought by the mixture of two elements. In the first place, the exploration of the existing arguments in legal theory. Secondly, the relation of these arguments to those presented in fields of general philosophy. Our hypothesis is that the study of this debate and relationship show us that Dworkin's theory of disagreements is the best explanation of the problem, but at the same time the opposing theories chosen are using several methodological elements that represent advances that have been made in general philosophy, such as the perspective of the plans proposed by Michael Bratman. We attempt to demonstrate this hypothesis through the principal analysis of four authors and their influences, namely Ronald Dworkin, H.L.A. Hart, Jules Coleman, and Scott Shapiro. Through this analysis we hope to demonstrate how the foundations of the proposed theories have been changing the focus from philosophy of language to other fields and which is the state of legal theory with this advance. As result, we defend the point that the hypothesis is right and even without the best explanatory capacity, the new theories of law need to be better analyzed and their earnings better considered.

This thesis examines the status of caricature in the literary culture of early-nineteenth- century Britain, with a focus on the novel. It shows how the early-nineteenth- century novel developed a variety of literary forms that negotiated and remade caricature for the bourgeois literary sphere. Case studies are drawn primarily from the published writings and manuscript drafts of Thomas Love Peacock, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Walter Scott. The first chapter elucidates the various meanings and uses of 'caricature' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the term was more ambiguous and broadly applied than literary criticism and print history have acknowledged. I counter the assumption that the single-sheet satirical print was central to conceptions and practices of caricature in this period, giving examples of the textual, dramatic, and real-life 'caricatures' that were more often under discussion. The second and third chapters consider the unstable distinction between textual caricature and satirical characterisation in early-nineteenth-century literary culture. They explain how the literary construction of textual caricature developed from two sources: Augustan rulings against publishing satires on individuals, and caricature portraits as a pastime beloved of genteel British society. I argue that Peacock and Austen adapted forms of 'caricaturistic writing' that were conscious of the satirical literary work's relation to caricature. Subsequent chapters turn to the thematic uses of caricature in the early-nineteenth- century novel. In the fourth chapter, I uncover the significance of caricature to deformity in Mary Shelley's fiction, presenting evidence that her monsters' disproportion was inherited from the 'real-life' caricatures diagnosed in philosophical and medical texts of the eighteenth century. The final chapter traces ideas about caricature through the writings of Walter Scott, and finds that Scott conceived of exemplary graphic and textual caricatures as artefacts of antiquarian interest.

En este estudio profundizaremos en la percepción de la mujer en los autores de documentos históricos de los viajes de Cristóbal Colón en América durante la conquista. Intentaremos descubrir el porqué de la escasa aparición de la mujer en dichos documentos, exploraremos la alteridad y la corporeidad en Crónicas de Indias de finales del siglo XV.

Kobayashi Takiji's (1903-1933) Kanikōsen (The Crab Cannery Ship, 1929), the outstanding work from the proletarian literary movement, experienced an influx of new adaptations into various mediums during the years that preceded and followed the "Kanikōsen boom" of 2008. This thesis focuses on two manga adaptations that provide readers with starkly different takes on the original story. Using theories by Scott McCloud and Azuma Hiroki, I first attempt to draw parallels between the form of manga and that of the novel. Then, I examine the manner in which the most explicitly political content of the novel is adapted into the manga versions. Through this examination of form and content, it becomes apparent that, despite their differences, both adaptations reinforce a vague, individualist-humanist ideology that undermines the notions of class consciousness and class struggle that are central to the narrative of Kanikōsen. This diminishing of the explicitly "Red" aspects of the original reflects the Japanese public's general aversion to politics that has persisted since the early 1970's until this day.

This thesis examines Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s writing published between 1920 and 1932. To date, biographers and scholars have largely failed to carefully examine and understand Zelda’s publications. During this period Zelda critiques the materialism and generational lack of respect she finds in the North in her articles, while using her imagination to discuss the possibilities of the South in her short stories. All of her works during these years culminate in her novel, Save Me the Waltz, in which much of her life and return to the South is mirrored by her heroine, Alabama Knight. This thesis examines Zelda’s publications in this 1920 to 1932 period in order to reveal her perception of the society she had become a part of when she married F. Scott Fitzgerald and to understand the transition in her desire to at first fit in to the Northern society that expected her to be the flapper and celebrity wife, and then later to find success and self-expression in a return to the South.

Les nouvelles réglementations concernant les usages de produits phytosanitaires et la prise en compte de l'environnement (pollution, biodiversité) en agriculture ont conduit à la mise au point de méthodes d'identification de plantes (culture et adventices) par une gestion spécifique des adventices par imagerie. Afin de disposer d'un outil performant permettant l'évaluation de ces méthodes d'identification reposant sur une analyse spatiale de la scène photographiée, un modèle de simulation de scènes agronomiques a été mis au point. Prenant en considération certaines caractéristiques agronomiques d'une parcelle cultivée, ce modèle permet de simuler une vérité terrain dont les paramètres - la spatialisation de la culture, le taux d'infestation, la distribution des adventices - sont contrôlés. La scène agronomique ainsi créée subit ensuite une transformation projective afin de simuler la prise de photographie et, ainsi, de prendre en compte tous les paramètres nécessaire à la création d'une image. Ce modèle a ensuite été validé à l'aide de comparaison statistique avec des données réelles. De nouveaux algorithmes spatiaux basés sur la Transformée de Hough et utilisant l'alignement en rang de la culture ont également été développés. Trois méthodes basées sur une analyse en composante connexe, une estimation de contours et une méthode probabiliste ont été mises en œuvre et exhaustivement évaluées à l'aide du modèle développé. Les résultats obtenus sont de très bonne qualité avec une classification correcte de la culture et des adventices supérieure à 90% et pouvant atteindre 98% dans certains cas. Enfin, pour ce modèle, une approche spectrale a également été explorée afin de dépasser les limitations imposées par les méthodes spatiales. Une extension 3D a été apportée à ce modèle afin de permettre la simulation de la réflectance bidirectionnelle (BRDF) des plantes et du sol à l'aide des modèles PROSPECT et SOILSPECT. La transformation d'une information spectrale en une information couleur RGB, la prise en compte de filtres optiques ou la création de données multispectrales sont également discutées.