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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
181

After the end of the line: apocalypse, post- and proto- in Russian science fiction since Perestroika

Fouts, Jordan January 2007 (has links)
This thesis examines concepts of history and culture in six texts published between 1986 and 2006, as they relate to the loss of Russia’s future, according to Mikhail Epstein, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, paired by decade in three chapters, are Vladimir Voinovich’s Moscow 2042 (1987) and Andrei Bitov’s “Pushkin’s Photograph” (1989); Andrei Lazarchuk and Mikhail Uspenskii’s Look into the Eyes of Monsters (1998) and Tat’iana Tolstaia’s Slynx (2000); and Sergei Luk’ianenko’s “Girl with the Chinese Lighters” (2002) and Aleksei Kalugin’s “Time Backwards!” (2005). Though the authors are typically associated with different genres, all works make use of the cognitive estrangement characteristic of science fiction to forge a parable of current conditions, and thereby gain new insight into questions of history and culture. Given the nature and mood of the fall of Communism, apocalypse (or utopia, another end to history) is the dominant myth informing these visions, a further heuristic tool of science fiction. Through the conventions of the genre, notably the novum (Darko Suvin’s term for a new element shaping the imagined world) and its counterpart in Epstein’s kenotype (an expression of new social phenomena), the works typify their respective periods of perestroika, the post-Soviet 1990s and the early twenty-first century, as well as imagine social alternatives that move toward Epstein’s concept of a proto- era, a future for Russia after the future. What emerges from a unified study of these texts is the value their authors find in the tools of science fiction for renewing imagination and coming to terms with the unknown. To recognize the enduring potential of the future, its incompleteness and unknowability, is to challenge the very idea of the end of time – be it apocalyptic, utopian or postmodern. / Cette thèse examine les concepts de l’histoire et de la culture en six textes publiés entre 1986 et 2006, en relation avec la perte du futur Russe, selon Mikhail Epstein, suite à l’écroulement de l’Union Soviétique. En trois chapitres, les écrits sont classés par décennies comme suit : Moscow 2042 de Vladimir Voinnovich (1987) et Pushkin’s Photograph d’Andrei Bitov (1989); Look into the Eyes of Monsters d’Andrei Lazarchuck et Mikhail Uspenskii (1998)et Slynx par Tat’iana Tolstaia (2000); Girl with the Chinese Lighters par Sergei Luk’ianenko (2002) et Time Backwards! d’Aleksei Kalugin (2005). Malgré le fait que les auteurs sont habituellement associés à différents genres, l’ensemble de ces textes se servent de la caractéristique d’aliénation cognitive que la science fiction apporte afin de forger une parabole des conditions courantes, et ainsi acquérir un nouvel aperçu dans l’histoire et la culture. Étant donné la nature et l’athmosphère de la tombée du Communisme, l’apocalypse (ou l’utopie, autre fin à l’histoire) est le mythe dominant qui informe ces visions, un outil d’apprentissage supplémentaire de la science fiction. A travers la convention du genre, notamment le novum (terme utilisé par Darko Suvin pour décrire un nouvel élément formant le monde imaginaire) et son contrepartie kenotype d’Epstein (une expression d’un nouveau phénomène social), les écrits exemplifient leurs périodes respectives de perestroïka, les années ’90 post-Soviet et le début du vingt-et-unième siècle, ainsi qu’imaginer des alternatives sociales qui se rapprochent du concept de proto-era d’Epstein, un futur pour la Russie après le futur. Ce qui émerge d’une étude unifié de ces textes est la valeur que les auteurs trouvent aux outils de la science fiction pour renouveler l’imagination et venir à terme avec l’inconnu. De reconnaître le potentiel résistant du futur, l’incomplet et l’incon
182

Aziatchina; the controversy concerning the nature of Russian society and the organization of the Bolshevik party.

Schiebel, Joseph, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: l. [254]-262.
183

Indian apparel consumption : a cross-cultural comparison of first generation Indian and the second-generation Indian American females /

Kaur, Jatinder. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-67). Also available on the World Wide Web.
184

Why states cooperate over shared water : the water negotiations in the Jordan River Basin /

Jägerskog, Anders, January 2003 (has links)
Diss. Linköping : Univ., 2003.
185

Europeans in South-East Asian cities : Singapore and Batavia, 1865-1905.

Osborn, Wendy Margaret. January 1971 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (B.A.Hons. 1971) from the Dept. of History, University of Adelaide, 1971.
186

The meaning of "other tongues" in Acts 2 an alternative suggestion /

Zerhusen, Robert Heinrich. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Th. M.)--Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-198).
187

Crises of self and other-- Russian-speaking migrants in the Netherlands and European Union

Willett, Gudrun Alyce. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 2007. / Thesis supervisors: Florence E. Babb, Rudolf Colloredo-Mansfield. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-267).
188

Het vraagstuk van de Hindoe-kolonisatie van den archipel

Bosch, F. D. K. January 1946 (has links)
Rede--Leyden (Aanvaarding van het hoogleeraars-ambt in de oude geschiedenis en archaeologie van Nederlandsch-Indië) 1946. / Bibliography included in Aanteekeningen (p. 36).
189

June 17, 1953 a fifty-year retrospective on a German Cold War tragedy, 1953-2003 /

Cromeens, Martha Grace. Rust, Eric C., January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238).
190

Pursuing the bottom line : how the Middle East will be affected by an aging America /

Bergey, Stephen E. January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs )--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007. / Thesis Advisor(s): Lonney, Robert. "September 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 19, 2007. AD-A473 711. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-83). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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