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The Poetics Of Perception: A Semantic Analysis Of The Short Fiction Of Ambrose Bierce, Cathy N. Davidson

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

What I propose, therefore, is not really a new kind of criticism but a new emphasis, a criticism which combines the extensionally oriented theories and experimental findings of general semantics with many of the basic techniques of close, analytical explication of literary texts. I propose to "extend" semantic literary theory to a particular body of literature, specifically to the fiction of Ambrose Bierce.

"A Semantic Analysis of the Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce" is therefore justified because literary criticism has not dealt comprehensively with Bierce, because literary criticism has not dealt comprehensively with general semantics, because--as I think my study …

The Délie Of Maurice Scève: A Study Of Its Structural Dynamics, Margaret Spanos

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The poetry of Maurice Scève is now beginning to receive both the interest and the serious criticism it deserves. His Délie in particular is finally being extricated from the dubious critical issues imposed by three and a half centuries of near oblivion and the verdict of obscurity pronounced against it from the start. The general trend in Scève criticism has been away from philosophical or mystic speculations in favor of a new appreciation of the intensely personal lyrical quality and contemplative richness of the poetry of Délie....[Such] criticism has contributed, and will continue to contribute, valuable insights into this …

Hydrogeology And Geomorphology Of Two Structurally Dissimilar Terranes In Pennsylvania, Stephen J. Kowall

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Eight watersheds in Pennsylvania, draining areas of uniform climate and lithology, but different geologic structure, were studied for their geomorphic, geologic, hydraulic, and hydrologic characteristics.

Low streamflow characteristics, defined by base-flow recession curves, and streamflow duration, for 25 summer months, show that streams in the folded and faulted Valley and Ridge province have stronger base-flow regimes than those in the relatively undeformed Appalachian Plateau.

The separate effects of geologic structure and lithology on groundwater regimes can be evaluated quantitatively on the basis of a single geomorphic parameter, the hypsometric integral. In the study area the integral is seen to be …

Kinetic Studies Of Ammonia-Oxygen Flames, David Emlyn Hughes

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Since the early interest of Henry in burning ammonia with electric sparks, the literature of ammonia oxidation has been extensive. The major efforts have been industrially related and concern themselves with catalytic oxidation and its mechanism. The flame oxidation of ammonia has attracted more modest interest because of the relative poorness of ammonia as a fuel. Lunge, for example, found that an ammonia-air flame would hardly burn at room temperature and could be maintained only with constant heating. This dissertation concerns itself with the mechanism of the flame oxidation of ammonia and therefore the reactions that transform ammonia and oxygen …

Julio Cortázar's Final Del Juego: A Translation And Critical Study, Alfredo Villanueva

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

When I came into contact with Cortázar's work for the first time, what impressed me the most was his ability to present ideas of mine about the nature of reality which I had never dared to express. I suppose many a work of criticism begins as a personal confrontation between critic and writer, leading to a cooler recollection of ideas which the critic feels he must organize and express in visible form. In my case, the shock of recognizing in a Cortázar a kind of outspoken alter ego led to the desire to study his literary output and become a …

The Danzig Churches: A Study In Late Gothic Vault Development, Helene C. Kaplan

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

A meaningful investigation of the Danzig Late Gothic sacral architecture can be achieved only by a close look into the changing political and social conditions in the city.

All the medieval churches of Danzig belong to the rare monuments of the Middle Ages whose original plans are preserved in a most remarkable work written by Bartel Ranisch (1648-1701), a man whom we may truly call the first art historian of Danzig. Without Ranisch’s work, the thirteen churches and four monasteries would have been impossible to describe, and their exact plans but a guess of historians.

However, an historical interest in …

The Role Of The Budget Bureau In Truman's Domestic Legislative Program; An Examination Of Atomic Energy Control, Military Unification, Housing, And Civil Rights, Peter E. Piccillo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The role of the Budget Bureau in the domestic legislative program of Harry S. Truman began in the latter years of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long before his death, Roosevelt had lost the ability to lead Congress in the direction of liberal domestic reform legislation. He did, however, retain the power of his style, and maintained a majestic image of leadership and accomplishment. In hopes of regaining the legislative initiative after the war had been won, Roosevelt campaigned in 1944 on a platform of victory overseas and an “Economic Bill of Rights” at home. With the death of …

Geology Of The Suapure River Area, Nw Guiana Shield, Venzuela, Vicente Mendoza

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In the Suapure River area, NW Guiana Shield (Venezuela), crops out the Cedeño Supergroup which is a Precambrian lithologic volcanic-plutonic unit that includes the Cuchivero Group (Caicara Formation rhyolitic rocks, Santa Rosalía biotite granites and San Pedro leucogranites) and the Suapure Group, (Pijiguao leucogranites and Parguaza rapakivi granites). Radiometric ages by Rb-Sr whole rock isochron method (Hurley and others, 1973) for these rocks are as follows: 1490 m.y. for Parguaza rapakivis; 1875 m.y. for Santa Rosalía and San Pedro granites; and >1750 m.y. for Caicara rhyolitic rocks. Ortho-quartzites of Roraima Group and Cinaruco Formation unconformably overlie the Parguaza rapakivis.

The …

Geology And Structure Of The Serra Do Mar In Eastern Sao Paulo, Brazil, Peter Rideg

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Detailed geologic mapping in the Serra do Mar region of eastern São Paulo, Brazil, enables the definition of two northeasterly trending Precambrian lithologic complexes in heretofore undifferentiated crystalline complex rocks. These two complexes are the Suzano Complex and the Itatinga Complex, separated one from the other by the large Cubatão fault zone.

The Suzano Complex is divided into three formations: the Oropó schist, the Iupeba gneiss, and the Paranapiacaba gneiss. The Itatinga Complex is divided into four formations: the Biritiba-Mirim migmatite, the Jurubatuba migmatite, the Itapanhaú gneiss, and the Guarujá migmatite. Numerous late and post-tectonic granitic bodies occur intrusive into …

Esthetics Of Dedalus And Bloom: Nineteenth Century Roots, Structural Metaphors, And Resolutions, Marguerite Harkness

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in Portrait, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through Ulysses the evolution of the esthetic and its counter-traditions in the esthetics represented …

An Empirical Estimation Of A Cost Function For Elementary And Secondary Education, Alexander Bradley Holmes

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Recent court cases, such as the California case of Serrano v. Priest, have revived interest in the question of equal educational opportunity. While The Supreme Court ruled that, in effect, education is not a right guaranteed under the Constitution and thus financing education on the basis of a local property tax is not unconstitutional, the provision of equal educational opportunity is still very much a live public issue, at least on the state level. The institution of the Fleischmann Commission in New York State to study educational financing with the mandate that "removing (educational) inequities deserves top priority" is …

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Deor, The Ruin And The Wanderer, Gary I. Rubin

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

With Bartlett and Huppé on which to rely, I will deal with three Old English poems: Deor, The Ruin, and The Wanderer. It is my belief that if we subject these poems to the kinds of analysis suggested by Bartlett and Huppé, we will be able to see that rhetoric is a determining factor in theme and structure. The elusive nature of the poems, their seeming illogic at times, may well be explained by the fact that the audience did indeed know the theme, the message, of the poem and that the delight of the poem was …

Developmental Morphology Of Calothrix Parietina (Nägeli) Thuret [= Gloeotrichia Echinulata (J.E. Smith) Richter], Kutbul Rahman Khan

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Drouet (1973) on a morphological basis and the present author in his laboratory and field studies on the life gyre (cycle) and developmental morphology have shown that Gloeotrichia echinulata (J.E. Smith) Richter and Calothrix parietina (Nägeli) Thuret are the same species. According to International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (1972), C. parietina takes taxonomic priority.

In this alga, the akinetes (spores) are not the major means of over-wintering. Short hormogones and filaments of the form known as C. parietina are actually the common winter forms.

There is a direct relationship between different temperatures (10, 15, 21° C) and the frequency of …

Generality Of Learning Differences In Mice Genetically Selected For Differences In Brain Weight, Craig Jensen

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Mice selected for high, medium, and low brain weight were raised in an enriched environment and tested on open field, active avoidance, water maze, operant discrimination, and passive avoidance tasks. Mice from one foundation stock yielded mice with high and low brain weight. The control groups for this selection were composed of one group of medium brain weight mice subjected to stabilizing selection and a heterogeneous group of mice which was not subjected to any selection. The mice in the two control groups were derived from the same foundation stock as the high and low brain weight mice. In addition, …

An Investigation Of The Satellite Poems In Melville's Clarel, William H. Wasilewski

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Though critics have completely disregarded their presence (Arvin, for example), or relegated them to a minor position, the satellite poems are one of the most important devices that Melville uses in Clarel. Forty-five in number (if one includes the bits of song that are present), they appear in a variety of forms at strategic points within the work. Melville, for example, introduces bawdy lyrics, a recitative, love songs, hymns, variations of the nursery rhyme and the traditional ballad, chants, a mystical inscription, several boisterous drinking songs, and a dirge.

Regarding the larger framework of the poem proper, the satellite …

Potential Output And Sources Of Economic Growth In The Indian Economy, 1950-51 To 1964-65, N. R. Murthy

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The study of potential output and the sources of economic growth has become in the last fifteen years an important part of economic literature. Most of the studies on potential output and the sources of economic growth have been carried out mainly for the United States, some Western European countries and Canada. There is a small number of such studies on the less developed economies. In fact, there are no studies on potential output and sources of economic growth in the Indian economy. The present study is an attempt to fill in this gap.

This chapter attempts to present an …

Part I: Search For A Correlation Between Molecular Structure And Mesogenicity. Part Ii: Cotton Effects Of Α,Β-Unsaturated Diesters, Robert L. Tuggey

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Part One of this work is a correlation of molecular structure with mesophase formation and stability. Since it has been established that mesogenic compounds are linear, rigid, and contain polarizable electron density, the synthetic approach restricts molecular structure to include these properties. In order to correlate mesomorphism with molecular structure, the central groups and terminal substituents were systematically altered, and electronic and steric factors are discussed in relation to mesophase formation and stability. Some p-substituted phenyl esters of acetylenedicarboxylic, fumaric, maleic, mesaconic, cyclohexanedicarboxylic, and benzoic acid were prepared. It was found that deviation from linearity decreased mesophase stability. On the …

Painted And Decorated Floors On The Greek Mainland And Crete In The Bronze Age, Ethel S. Hirsch

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The colorful painted plaster decoration on the walls of the Bronze Age palaces and mansions of Crete and Mycenae is a well known architectural feature. It is less widely known that a great many stucco floors were painted as well. This probably is because the information regarding these floors is scattered through the archaeological reports and seldom receives separate treatment. Only in an article by G. Rodenwaldt, "Mykenische Studien," in JdI, XXXIV, 1919, 83-106, and in the chapter by R. Hackl, "Die Fussboden," in Tiryns II, 222-237, are decorated floors treated as a separate artistic entity. The Rodenwaldt article …

Studies Of Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra Of Simple Gases, Pang-Dow Foo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The spectra of ethylene and deuterated ethylene molecules have been photographed in the first order of a 21-foot vacuum ultraviolet spectrograph. The background continuum was provided by a xenon discharge lamp excited by a 2450 Mc/sec microwave diathermy unit. The exposure time varied from 30 minutes to four hours depending upon the slit width. Wavelength standards were provided by atomic emission and absorption lines of impurities present in the light source and also by carbon monoxide emission.

Recognition Latency To Intersecting And Non-Intersecting Memory Sets, Michael Hanley

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The present series of studies was intended to investigate the effect of presenting an item in both long and short-term memory sets. The Sternberg, the Atkinson, and the Murdock models make different predictions about what would be expected to occur in this situation. Besides these theoretical considerations, the present series of studies may also help to explain the inconsistencies which exist between studies in which both long and short-term set must be retained. Serial position effects were also investigated in conjunction with the intersecting of the long and short-term sets. Serial position results are of theoretical importance because exhaustive scanning …

The Structure Of Finnish Shamanic Therapy, Matt T. Salo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study is concerned with the structure of the traditional shamanic therapy in the rural Finnish society of the past one hundred years. The emphasis is on the organization of the most salient dimensions of the shaman-client interaction and their causal antecedents.

As a secondary objective, an evaluation is made of the utility of oral narratives for anthropological research into shamanism. The kinds of information they provide, the lacunae and biases they possess are discussed.

The primary sources of the study consist of oral narratives, such as memorates, belief stories, legends and rite descriptions, from Finnish archives and from the …

The Interaction Of Clay Minerals With Distilled Water And Saline Solutions At Elevated Temperatures, Coran L. Blatter

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Clay minerals and feldspar were reacted with distilled water and natural and artificial sea water at 90° and 200°C for up to sir weeks and at 3500 C for three days. The data show that silica is released by clay minerals as a result of the dissolution of a disturbed surface layer. The amount of silica released by the clay minerals is dependent upon the temperature, the solution composition T (distilled vs. saline) and the solid:solution ratio.

Upon immersing clay minerals in artificial sea water to which silica had been added and heating to 90° C, either silica dissolution or …

Joyce Mansour's Ça And Histoires Nocives: Translations And Critical Interpretations, Karin Ilona Pohlmann

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

One of the most distinguished and singular adherents to the Surrealist credo in literature is the contemporary French writer and poet Joyce Mansour, who, by virtue of her extensive literary production has unquestionably become one of the most widely read creative figures within the Surrealist mode. The purpose of my dissertation is precisely that of assessing the importance of Joyce Mansour within the Surrealist movement, by an analysis and interpretation of the inception and development of two of her literary works: Ça and Histoires Nocives.

In the course of the study, my critical perspective will be guided by a …

Education For Revolution; Pamphlets And The Politicization Of French Society, 1787-1789, James Harvey Ojala

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Historians, long in the habit of looking upon the French Revolution as the "beginning" of the modern world, have concentrated their attention on the spectacular events of 1789 and later and have neglected in comparison the history of the years immediately preceding the Revolution. This imbalance between our knowledge of the Revolution and what we know of the events that led up to it has distorted our perspectives of the period. Consequently, the discontinuities of the era have been overemphasized while the importance of the continuities have been inaccurately minimized. In addition, despite the fact that the French Revolution is …

Resistivity Anomalies For Ferromagnetic Metals At Curie Points, Der-Ruenn Su

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

We have investigated the resistivity anomalies of ferromagnetic metals at the Curie point using the itinerant model. The nature of these resistivity anomalies is related to phase transitions of second kind. Current theory describing these anomalies is based on the localized model of the magnetic electrons in ferromagnetic metals. There is an ansatz in solid state physics that if the magneto-resistance can be explained by the realistic itinerant model, the localized model should give the same result.

In this work, we use the itinerant model to treat the spin correlation function. Using the second quantization techniques of field theory, the …

"Singer Of Love" : The Fiction Of John Hawkes, Donald David Blake

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

...Thus Hawkes has dramatized and stressed the sexual relationships between men and women. In so doing he clearly diverges from the "traditional" treatment accorded the theme of love in American fiction. Hawkes's fiction does not ignore sexuality or stigmatize it; his novels dwell on it. Eros -- a love relationship based on sexuality -- is the most satisfying relationship available to two human beings dwelling in a stark "lunar landscape.” And though it is clear that Hawkes holds no special affection for the institution of marriage -- Sonny and Kate are unmarried, and Cyril and Fiona love in spite of …

Social Reform In The Burned-Over District: Rochester, New York As A Test Case, 1830-1854, James Logan Mcelroy

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In the decades following 1820, a variety of social reform crusades swept western New York. Although none of these crusades was peculiar to New York, this region somehow seemed more receptive to them than any other section of the country. The region's responsiveness to reform movements and religious enthusiasm earned it both the unique title of “Burned-over District" and a prominent place in historians’ accounts of antebellum reform. While some scholars have remained content to describe the activities and ideas of the reformers, others have probed the social foundations of the movements in an attempt to discover what motivated people …

Thunder Without Lightning : Working Class Discontent In The United States, 1929-1937, Robert S. Mcelvaine

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In nature, thunder cannot exist without lightning. In the political realm, however, the two are separable. Rumblings of discontent can, and often do, occur without the firebolt of revolution.

The depression of the 1930s was a decade of thunder on the left in the United States. The working class became increasingly conscious of itself and discontented with the existing socio-economic system. The peals were always there, and they often reached crescendos. Yet the full force of the tempest never broke upon America in the thirties. The pages that follow explore the thundering and seek to explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt …

The Figure Of The Child In Selected German Novellen Of The Nineteenth Century, Frank Peter Strozyk

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The primary focus in this study will at all times be on the significance of the child for an understanding of a particular Novelle. However, this study will also attempt to draw certain parallels between the authors of this time span and to show what themes—in relation to the child—predominate in the Novelle.

The child in a Novelle can function in many ways: 1) the child can be merely a biological product of a certain sex and age having certain physical characteristics; 2) he can be exposed to physical dangers such as cold, hunger, and beatings; 3) he can be …

The Individual And Society In The Novelas De La Primera Época Of Benito Pérez Galdós, Clark M. Zlotchew

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Throughout his career, Galdós' preoccupation with the relationship between the individual, and the society in which he lives, remains constant. The interaction between society, and the members who compose it, can be observed at times as confrontation, at other times as cooperation, compromise, or submission of the individual to society. A close reading of the novels of Galdós suggests that he had his own personal vision of what society, and life in society, signified. In this vision, "society" embraces all the elements of the varied groupings of a collective nature in which the individual finds himself or herself, and consists …