title: Spoken in God Faith: Narrators in The Raj Quartet

contributor:
Dale, James
English

abstract: Paul Scott died on the 1st of March, 1978, leaving a legacy of thirteen published novels, some published poetry, and several plays and essays in manuscript form. He enjoyed some fame during his life; however, it has only been in the past five years that readers have gradually been giving the novelist the attention that his work merits. The present study examines Scott's method of narration. The quartet explores the relation between the British and India in the period 1942-47, adopting as central metaphors the rape of Daphne Manners in the Bibighar Gardens and the attack on a missionary teacher, Edwina Crane, and her assistant on the road to Diprapur. The tale emerges through a variety of forms and voices, all of them the recollections of several people who were involved either directly or indirectly in these events. Chapter One examines the role of an unnamed investigator, the stranger, operating almost twenty years later, as the controlling narrator of the whole quartet. It also shows his desire to view critically the British Raj as a failure of liberalism. The remaining chapters focus in turn on three of the most important contributors to the stranger's story: Sarah Layton, Guy Perron and Barbie Batchelor. Scott has deliberately chosen these narrators as voices of integrity and faithfulness in an increasingly uncertain world for it is they who will sustain human relationships when the framework of a liberal humanist world crumbles.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Voices Against The Wind: Barbara Batchelor and Others

contributor:
Aziz, Maqbool
English

subject:
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: This thesis will explore the theme of the middle-aged women in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet and the reasons they are so important to the theme of colonialism. Scott seems to use these women as metaphors for the British colonial experience: each in her own way demonstrates a unique facet of the raj. Even more so than the male administrators (whom one would have thought were pivotal to this particular experience), the women dominate the novels. Each embodies an aspect of the problems arising from within the colonial experience that is not resolved by the battling male population.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Influence of Gerrard Manley Hopkins on the Poets of the 1930's

contributor:
Ferns, John
English

subject:
English
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: Many modern poets have acknowledged the influence of Gerard Manley Hopkins upon their work. This thesis examines the poetry of four such poets, the "Auden group" of the 1930's-- W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice-- to determine the character and extent of this influence. This study illustrates the ways in which Hopkins' example taught the Auden group how to use the raw materials of poetic tradition to create dynamic, vital verse that explores the full potential of the English language. All four poets borrowed Hopkins' technical innovations, as well as some of his images, yet they did not simply imitate Hopkins. More than just superimposing Hopkinsian techniques onto modern themes, they assimilated what they gained from Hopkins into their own styles, different from Hopkins and each other; the most important lesson that they learned from Hopkins was that the quality to be prized above all was individuality. Through an analysis of the work of these four representative poets, it may be seen that Hopkins has made a considerable impact on the direction in which modern poetry has developed.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Some Historical and Descriptive Aspects of the Canadian Steel Industry

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Contributions to the Theory of Continuous Modules

contributor:
Muller, Bruno J.
Mathematics

subject: Mathematics Mathematics

abstract:
A module M is called continuous if (i) every submodule of M is essential in a summand of M, and (ii) if a submodule A is isomorphic to a summand of M, then A is itself a summand of M.

Injective and quasi-injective modules play an important role in module theory and continuous modules are a generalization of these concepts. Many of the important properties that hold for (quasi-) injective modules, still hold for continuous modules, and it is often more convenient to work with the above two conditions rather than the notion of (quasi-) injectivity.

This thesis deals with several important aspects of the theory of continuous modules. We give a decomposition theorem for continuous modules and, as a corollary, obtain a partial generalization of a result of Matlis and Papp. We also answer the open question: When is a finite direct sum of indecomposable continous modules continuous modules is also examined.

The main chapter deals with the concept of continuous hulls. We give an appropriate definition, explicitly describe the continuous hulls for the classes of uniform cyclic modules, and of non-singular cyclic modules over commutative rings, and exhibit them by concrete examples. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of continuous hulls for arbitrary cyclic modules over a commutative ring is also given. In our opinion, these results constitute an important development, since these first steps towards establishing the existence of continuous hulls should stimulate further research, and since the since the knowledge of their existence should prove valuable in related investigations.

Finally, we study in detail commutative rings for which every continuous module is quasi-injective. It is shown that this property holds true for large classes of rings such as noetherian ones, and semi-primary ones whose Jacobson radical has square zero. We characterize several other classes of rings with this property. Many examples are provided throughout the thesis which show the existence of continuous modules (and hulls) which are not (quasi-) injective.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Writing Ambivalence: Imperialism and Race in Dorothy Richardson's Deadlock

contributor:
Granofsky, R.
English

abstract: Recent scholarship has emphasized the predominant influence of imperialist race ideology on the literary establishment of nineteenth-century Britain. Almost no significant criticism of imperialism or its assumptions about race may be observed in Victorian literature. During the early twentieth century, however, this situation altered as imperialist ideology began to unravel rapidly. Thus, most authors of the modernist period reproduced imperialism's assumptions about race, but, unlike their immediate predecessors, they also contested the validity of these assumptions. This project will explore the ambivalent treatment of issues of race in Dorothy Richardson's novel Deadlock (1921). The novel challenges the imperialist assumption that cultural differences are manifestations of underlying racial differences, especially when this assumption establishes the racial superiority of Europeans. And yet, the novel naively exhibits racial stereotypes and also defends imperialist strategies for governing the racial Other.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Isolation and Connection in the Life and Selected Works of Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

contributor:
Ferns, H. J.
English

abstract:
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone" ("Loneliness"). This definition of the human condition by Orson Welles, the celebrated American actor and producer, aptly sums up the paradoxical nature of human experience: isolation and connection. In psychoanalysis, object relations theorists, in particular, have formulated ideas about the nature of the infant's early attachment to the mother, or primary care-giver, and its role in the development of a healthy ego. In essence, object relations theorists posit that an early, secure emotional attachment enables the individual to pass through maturational stages of development that decrease the emotional dependence on care-givers, allowing separation and the ability to form other significant bonds.

This study examines the theme of isolation and connection in the life and selected works of the contemporary British novelist Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, by applying the methods of some influential psychoanalytic thinkers, notably Anthony Storr, who has written extensively on the nature of creativity and the relationship between the internal and external world of the artist. A psychoanalytic discussion of St. Aubin de Terán's narratives as autobiographical acts is relevant because of the extent to which she has used her creative energies in a search for both personal and artistic identity. I concentrate on the three novels Keepers of the House (1982), Joanna (1991) and Nocturne (1992) because I believe them to be her strongest works. Written over a ten year period, they show a clear development in St. Aubin de Terán's exploration of isolation and connection as having both positive and negative possibilities and consequences.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Protagonist's Response to Power and Language in the Dystopian Novel

contributor:
Granofsky, Ronald
English

abstract: This thesis explores the role of the protagonist in response to power and language in the dystopian novel. I attempt to show that a novel may be classified as dystopian if it fulfills certain factors that posit language and discourse as fundamental devices of power. These three main factors are as follows: the establishment of an official, totalitarian language, evidence of opposing discourses, and the representation of the protagonist as a figure who deconstructs social reality. My primary texts are Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Analysis of the Role of TRF1 and SMG6 in Telomere Length Maintenance

contributor:
Zhu, Xu-Dong
Biology

subject:
Telomere length
TRF1 phosphorylation
hEst1A ( SMG6)
C.elegans SMG-6
Cell Biology
Cell Biology

abstract: TRF1, a shelterin protein, is a negative mediator of telomere length maintenance. Phosphorylation has been shown to play an important role in modulating TRF1 function. T137 and S249 of TRF1 have been indentified to be candidate phosphorylation sites in vivo, and one of my thesis objectives was to examine their role in regulating TRF1 function. Both T137 and S249 have each been changed to either alanine (nonphosphorylatable) or phosphomimic mutation. The TRF1 mutants were introduced into a TRF1-depleted cell line. Southern analysis revealed that neither T137 nor S249 of TRF1 is involved in telomere length maintenance. Immunoprecipitation studies showed that T137 and S249 are not required for TRF1 interaction with TIN2. In vitro gel-shift assays indicated that T137 and S249 are not important for TRF1 binding to telomeric DNA. Taken together, these results suggest that T137 and S249 may not be required for TRF1 function in telomere length maintenance. Human Est1A has been suggested to play a role in telomere length maintenance. To identify the domain of hEst1A involved in telomere length maintenance, a number of deletion constructs were generated and retrovirally introduced into HT1080 cells. Southern analysis revealed that the RID domain may positively regulate telomere length maintenance whereas the first 220 amino acids at the N-terminus may be a negative mediator of telomere length maintenance. In S. cerevisiae, Est1 recruits telomerase to telomeres in a Tel1- (homolog of ATM) and MRX-dependent manner. To assess whether atm-1 and smg-6 may function in the same genetic pathway of regulation of telomere length in C.elegans, the single mutant strain atm-1(gk186) was crossed with three of smg-6 mutant strains (tm1308, ok1794 and r896) to generate double mutants. Southern analysis revealed that deletion of ATM-1 or SMG-6 (tm1308) results in telomere shortening, suggesting that atm-1 and smg-6 may function in the same genetic pathway to regulate telomere length maintenance.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Deathscapes: Memory, Heritage and Place in Cemetery

contributor:
Cannon, Aubrey
Badone, Ellen E.F.
Michelaki, Kostalena
Anthropology

subject:
Mortuary archaeology
cemetery history
Hamilton
heritage
phenomenology
Archaeological Anthropology
Archaeological Anthropology

abstract:
This thesis explores the relationship between landscape and experience in understanding the historical trajectory of cemeteries, their ongoing role in living communities and their contribution to heritage and memory. It constructs a phenomenological history of Hamilton Cemetery, established in 1848 in Hamilton, Ontario, using a combination of material, archival and ethnographic research, in addition to visual media and statistical analyses. In tracing the physical transformations of this cemetery, as a result of fluctuating levels of maintenance, neglect and destruction, it is evident that cemeteries are implicated in the social processes constructing attitudes towards death, the dead, memory and the past.

This thesis will explore Hamilton Cemetery’s past to examine the role of commemorative activities, grave visitation, vandalism, recreational activities and heritage. The period from 1848-1950 was one of active use and maintenance of the cemetery landscape, with the frequency and recentness of burial dictating a high level of reverence and maintenance. Between 1950 and 1990, treatment of the cemetery is better characterized by the emergence of vandalism, limited use of the space, and increasing cumulative decay. Finally, from 1990 to the present there has been a resurgence of interest in the cemetery and a transition back into active management and maintenance recognizing its value to local heritage and ecology.

From their emergence as pragmatic, formalized social spaces constructed for the dead, to the saturation of the medium and a demographic shift resulting in neglect, to revitalization as a heritage-based collective past, cemeteries represent dynamic components of the landscape.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "The Thing Beneath The Semblance of The Thing": Virginia Woolf's Concept of Reality

contributor:
Blewett, David L.
English

abstract:
This thesis undertakes a co-ordinated study of the public and private writings of Virginia Woolf with the purpose of defining her concept of reality as presented in her major novels.

The topic is subdivided into four categories which are discussed in four chapters under the following headings: Sex, Time, Life and Love, and Death. In each chapter extracts from the private papers of Virginia Woolf are! compared with her public writings in order to clarify such key concepts as "moments of being" and "androgyny".

The thesis itself is cyclical in that it begins and ends with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's sexual beliefs and the ways in which these inform the lifework. It is certain aspects of this discussion (the link between sex and death, for example) which make an original contribution to the continuing revaluation of the lifework of Virginia Woolf and of her place among Modernist writers.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Virgil Thomson on Modern Music: Critical Writings in the New York Herald Tribune 1940-1954

contributor:
Rapoport, Paul
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
The critical writings of the American composer Virgil Thomson have long been regarded as some of the most perceptive, engaging and informative of this century. The reasons for this are many; not only was Thomson a competent reviewer of performances and a convincing commentator on historical and socio-economic aspects of the modern musical world, but his writing style was invariably compelling. While his words have been disseminated to a large audience through articles in many periodicals and magazines, his writings in the New York Herald Tribune (1940-1954) displayed his ideas most visibly. Of the hundreds of articles and reviews that Thomson wrote for this newspaper, those which discuss modern music and issues affecting its composition and performance may be considered of paramount importance, since it is here that he reaffirms his most passionate convictions.

The first chapter of this thesis presents a discussion of the state of music and music criticism between 1920 and 1940, and examines Thomson's principal critical writings prior to his work on the Herald Tribune (focusing on his book The State of Music and his writings in Modern Music). Chapter Two examines Thomson's large collection of Sunday articles on modern music. Many of the concerns that arise here illustrate his fundamental views about contemporary composition and performance institutions. The third chapter discusses articles which expose his convictions on the nature of music criticism, as well as ones which demonstrate the evaluative criteria that he employed in his performance reviews. In Chapter Four, Thomson's success as a critic in light of the aforementioned material is evaluated, and his alleged French/American bias is considered. Chapter Four is followed by a brief conclusion which reveals Thomson's primary goal as critic: to promote, interpret, and explain modern music.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Necessity, Possibility, and the Revolutionary Landscape: D.H. Lawrence and the Search For a possible England.

contributor:
Ross, Michael
English

abstract: The study is meant to show the evolution of D.H. Lawrence's vision in a discussion which moves from his first novel, The White Peacock, through his Mexican novel, The Plumed Serpent, before ending with Lawrence's last novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the physical landscape as it relates to the possibility of psychological and spiritual revolutions in Lawrence's characters. An argument is presented to illustrate that the first novel fails to make any serious attempt at upsetting conventional English cultural, emotional, and psychological standards, while The Plumed Serpent is able to attack, and destroy, many of these same standards largely because it is set in a "revolutionary landscape" which is not subject to the many "necessary conditions" Lawrence perceived in England. The return to the English landscape in Lady Chatterley's Lover is shown to represent a synthesis between the two earlier novels insofar as it recognizes both necessary and possible worlds. By emphasizing emotional and psychological, rather than political and social reorganization, the final novel brings a modest, but significant and authentic, revolution into the distinctly unrevolutionary English framework.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Problems of Exchange Control in Canada

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Beyond, Beside, and Between the Acts: Woolf, Derrida, and the Politics of a Middle Voice

contributor:
O`Connor, Mary
English

abstract: In this thesis, I examine the discourses of Virginia Woolf and Jacques Derrida each from the perspective of the other in an attempt to discuss the insights and limitations of each theory. I begin by considering each writer's version of what I will call the middle voice, a notion that serves as the point of departure for my examination of the linguistic processes of graft and disengagement in both Woolf and Derrida. Turning to the philosophical and political problems that arise when these writers put their versions of the middle voice into practice, I discuss their mutual desire (and inevitable failure) to oppose and displace totalization. Despite the similarity of these projects, however, I argue that they arise from distinct relations to subjectivity and, as a result, different imperatives. Next, I consider the (non)principle that permits and enables these notions (that is, the ungraspable because always already divided origin and the decentralizing or (self)effacing self): the logic of supplementarity. This logic allows me to interrogate further the faulty unity that masks a duplicity by showing how Between the Acts disrupts and deconstructs limits of representation. Finally, I reconsider the middle voice, this time from Emile Benveniste's position, thus re-turning, once again, to the problem of totalization; I "end" by proposing a pragmatic (but necessarily problematic) praxis, which combines both a Derridean and a Woolfian approach, and that yields a discourse which promises both a critique of totalization and a political vision.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: States in ⁹⁶Tc populated in the (α,n) reaction

contributor:
Johns, M.W.
Physics

subject: Physics Physics

abstract:
The levels of odd-odd ⁹⁶Tc were investigated using the ⁹³Nb(α,n)⁹⁶Tc reaction at alpha beam energies of 14 and 18 MeV. The experiments involved singles, gamma-gamma coincidences, neutron-gamma coincidences, excitation functions, gamma-ray angular distributions, measurements of the gamma-ray linear polarization coefficients and electron internal conversion coefficients. At 14 MeV a rich level structure was established involving low-lying states of low and medium spins and both parities. The position of the positive parity sextet of levels resulting from the coupling of an odd g₉/₂ proton to an odd d₅⁄₂ neutron was clarified to be: 7⁺ ground state, 34.4 keV (4⁺), 35.6 keV ((2)⁺), 36.4 keV (3⁺), 45.3 keV (5⁺) and 49.3 keV (6⁺). The measurements performed with 18 MeV beam revealed an extensive high-spin positive parity level structure extending in excitation energy up to ~ 3 MeV and populating levels of spin up to 13. Spin and parity assignments are given with a high degree of confidence to most of the 105 energy levels. These states are connected by 251 gamma-ray transitions. Attempts have been made to relate this level structure to those of other nuclei in the nass 100 region.

A new method of spin assignment using the maxima of the excitation functions following the (α,n) reaction has been proposed. A theoretical justification for this apparently empirical method is developed using the Hauser-Feshbach formalism. This theory also gives a strong theoretical basis for a method of spin assignment based on the ratio of gamma-ray intensities obtained at two beam energies.

Theoretical estimates of attenuation coefficients for angular distributions following (Heavy Ion, xn) reaction are provided. These involved modifying existing methods to make them applicable to nuclei with high spin ground states.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Problem of a Modern Apologetic and its Relation to the Historic Christian Faith

subject:
Christian Theology
Religion

abstract: Bachelor of Divinity (BD)


title: Some Considerations in the Trade of the Western Union (United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands)

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: The Steel Company of Canada, Limited : a descriptive and financial analysis of a company prominent in the development of the Canadian iron and steel industry

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Aviation in Canada

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Lumbering, Supply and Demand

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Women Making Music in Canada: Issues of Cultural Identity that Influence Compositional Styles and Strategies

subject: Music Music

abstract:
It is essential that Canadian ethnic music multiplicities be recognized within intercultural, intracultural and transcultural contexts and to acknowledge that categories of social class, race, ethnoculture and gender are influenced by geographic location, historical location and opportunity. Women musicians, such as Cathy Babyak (On-Yon Taiko), Brenda MacIntyre (Spirit Wind) and Zainab Amadahy (Spirit Wind), inhabit multiple spaces as a result of their historical and political heritage, their familial history and their social and economic environment. Experiencing the music-making of these women, hearing their words and expanding my understanding of their music through emic sources gave me the tools to develop a theoretical approach to articulate their standpoint.

In this thesis, I employ transcultural standpoint and other methodological approaches to understand how these women inhabit multiple spaces. In particular, transcultural standpoint, as a tool, enables me to problematize and explicate everyday life and the influence of music-making in order to determine how Babyak, MacIntyre and Amadahy communicate the social relations that they experience and how the values of their communities and heritages enter into, complement, complicate and shape the structure and organization of their musicmaking. Elements of these value systems are discovered through an analysis of three songs: "Hiryu Sandan Gaeshi," 'co-composed' by On-Yon Taiko, "Love Peace Reflections" by Brenda MacIntyre and "Celebrating Red & Black" by Zainab Amadahy.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Other-Writing" in Selected Texts by Daphne Marlatt

contributor:
Hyman, R.
English

abstract:
Language is loaded. Entire ideologies can hide themselves within the contextual meaning of one small word - "mankind" for example. Daphne Marlatt is a poet who attempt to write against our patriarchally imbued language to find an "other" space, a woman-space, within which to write. This thesis attempts to unveil the strategies that Marlatt uses to find this "other writing" by investigating poems from her earlier works (leaf leaf/s, Net Work) , her long poem "How Hug a Stone," and her widely unstudied collaboration with Betsy Warland, "Reading and Writing Between the Lines." I conclude with a discussion on the philosophical and political problems faced by any writer who attempts to write "otherly."

This is by no means either a comprehensive or a conclusive study. The nature of both Marlatt's work and any study that attempts to investigate "other" language systems is anti-cohesion and against conclusions. Therefore, the gaps remain in my text to encourage, as Marlatt does, a reading that is conscious of the language structures that encode our understanding.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Unwholesome Fiction: James Joyce's APorlrail of the Artist as a Young Man through Mikhail Bakhtin and The Dialogic Imagination

contributor:
Adamson, Joseph
English

abstract:
The following thesis examines James Joyce's A Portrait of the Arlist as a young Man through the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin as expounded in The Dialogic Imagination. The theory is not so much applied to the novel as it is compared to the practice, a rather Bakhtinian course to follow since he attempts to base his theory on what the novel does rather than on what he thinks it is. The first chapter introduces a few important Bakhtinian precepts necessary to his understanding of the novel, noting especially-implicity and explicitly-their similarity to the thinking of Jacques Derrida.

The second chapter deals with the problematic narrative position adopted by Joyce in Portrait, examining its implications and concluding that Joyce writes with a comic sensibility for which he has yet to receive due credit. The comic author not only searches for laughter, but also engages in a serious questioning of any discourse with aspirations to authority. Though Portrait is sometimes funny and often ironic, it always questions the discourse that surrounds it; Bakhtin stresses the fundamental correspondence between the comic and the questions it engages, and this correspondence in Portrait is traced here.

In chapter three the thesis explores the various language systems that invade the novel and contribute to its heteroglot composition and stylistic unity. After a brief discussion of what "stylistic unity" entails, a number of different language systems are identified, though only two are examined at length: the "common" languages with which Stephen aligns himself at different moments in the novel; and the "expected" literary horizon that dialogizes the book, both from within and from without.

In the fourth and final chapter the implications of Stephen's attempts to define himself through language are examined. Stephen's self undergoes a number of changes in the course of the novel, changes reflected in the manner of the narrative stylization, but changes that are also seen in the way Stephen himself views language. From mastered he gradually turns to master, and the conflict within himself and between himself and the author leads to a Portrait that ends (or rather does not) with no definition at all.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Critical Appreciation of the Amatory Epigrams of Dioscorides

contributor:
Murgatroyd, Paul
Classical Studies

subject: Classics Classics

abstract: The amatory epigrams of Dioscorides have been largely ignored by scholars. The bulk of the comment that his erotic poems have received has concerned the text; little has been written in way of appreciation of the poetic craft of the epigrammatist. In this thesis I have focused on developing a critical appreciation of the amatory epigrams of Dioscorides. I have devoted each chapter to one of the thirteen epigrams of Dioscorides, with the exception of chapters four, seven and eight. In these chapters I have dealt with the epigrams which seem to have been written in the same tradition. The chapters break down as follows: chapter one deals with A.P. 5. 138; chapter two 5. 55; chapter three 5. 54; chapter four 12. 37 and 5. 56; chapter five 12.42; chapter six 12. 14; chapter seven 5. 53 and 193; chapter eight 5.52 and 12. 170; chapter nine 12. 171; chapter ten 12. 169.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "The Grand Elixir:" Swift, Anatomy, Immortality, and the Self-Reflexive Text

contributor:
Walmsley, Peter
English

abstract:
When Swift, In "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.," imagines the fate of his works, his lament sounds suspiciously like that of the Modern Author of A Tale of a Tub. Swift's anxiety regarding his literary longevity extends throughout his corpus, from the Tale and Gulliver's Travels to the "Verses," indicating that this was indeed a real concern for him. Swift's attempt to avoid that fate involves his representation of the carnival-grotesque body, embodying Bakhtin's "material bodily principle" (Rabelais and His World, p.18), which insists on the ambivalence of the representation -- the degredation of the body enables its regeneration. By including the body, its functions, and its decay in his literature, Swift effectively creates a great deal of controversy regarding such a representation. This controvesy is what keeps the works in the critical arena.

The critical arena was important to Swift. While he may have been anxious about the new criticism being propounded by the Moderns, Swift also recognized that without that arena, his works would be "sunk in the Abyss of Things" (Tale, p.32). For Swift, this criticism involves dialogue, and with it a form of dialogism, which, in Bakhtin's sense, allows the existence, not only of multiple worldviews, but of multiple interpretations of texts. This multiplicity causes controversy, which generates conversation, and through that conversation, Swift hopes to attain literary immortality.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Early Work (1916-1938) of Austin Clarke

contributor:
John, Brian
English

abstract:
Austin Clarke dedicated himself to the ideal of an independent Irish literature in English. This dedication had two principal consequences for his work: he developed a poetic style appropriate to expressing the Irish imagination, and he found inspiration in the matter of Ireland, in her mythology and folklore, in her literary, artistic and religious traditions, and in the daily life of modern Ireland. The basic orientation of Clarke's work determines the twofold purpose of this thesis. It seeks to provide a clarifying background for his poetry, drama and fiction up to 1938; and, in examining the texts in their proper context, it seeks to reveal the permanent and universal aspects of his achievement.

Clarke's early development in response to the shaping influence of the Irish Revival is examined in the opening chapter. His initial interest in heroic saga is considered, but, principally, the focus is on his effort to establish stylistic links between the Anglo-Irish and the Gaelic traditions, an effort that is seen to culminate with his adoption of assonantal verse as an essential element in his poetic technique.

In the second chapter, the emphasis shifts to the thematic consequences of Clarke's involvement with Ireland. His understanding of Irish tradition is discussed, and, in particular, the origins and nature of his imaginative preoccupation with the culture of early Christian Ireland are examined. What emerges is that Clarke perceives a permanent tension in the Irish mind between the Christian and the pagan viewpoints, a conflict of values that he termed the drama of conscience.

The conflict informs each of the major texts analysed in the remainder of the thesis. Pilgrimage and Other Poems, discussed in the second chapter, reveals the recurrence of the tension between the Christian and the pagan traditions in the course of Irish history. Clarke's early plays and novels, which are the focus of the third chapter, relate the conflict to the culture of medieval Ireland. The fourth chapter examines Clarke's own experience of the conflict as it is presented in Night and Morning. In the recognition that the drama of conscience remains a vital element in Clarke's imagination after 1938, the thesis concludes by indicating the main lines of continuity between the earlier and the later work.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Vocabularies of Identity in Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Burney's Evelina

abstract:
The sense of personal identity is one that has developed historically with relation to language. Expression of self, in order to be accurate, must involve non-verbal articulation to some extent. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759 - 1767) and Frances Burney's Evelina (1783) are examplar texts in this kind of enquiry: both texts are very much concerned with the accuracy of self-expression and the relationship between self and other(s). Criticism, especially of Tristram Shandy, has tended to focus on his text as unique and incomparable; for this reason, I have chosen to examine it in comparison with another (perhaps more conventional - at least in style) text. Criticism of Burney's work has tended to focus on the comparison of the author (through reference to her diaries) with that of her fictional heroines; I will focus here on Evelina.

The limitations of linguistic expression are hampered by misinterpretation in these two texts; both seek to redress the limitations of language by expanding the possibilities of expression to include the variations of gesture, by imbuing words with feeling and by otherwise incorporating into the textual format of the novel a sense of identity -- not only the identity of the characters in the fiction but also, to some extent, of the actual readers who are required to participate in the fiction through the act of reading itself.

The notion of the division between mind/soul and body is reflected in the concern regarding the discrepancy between words and meaning. In this sense, creating a vocabulary of identity consists of assembling both words and gestures to reflect both mind and body more accurately: the ideal of the "proper balance" between reason and feeling in all areas of consciousness can thus be seen to mirror the ideal of identity itself, which is the marriage of complementary forces within an indivisible consciousness.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Gentle Anarchy in the Novels of Ethel Wilson

contributor:
Coldwell, Joan
English

abstract: This thesis examines Ethel Wilson's five novels as works that question the organization of twentieth-century, western society, especially as that organization pertains to women. Each novel is dealt with in a separate chapter, and each chapter explores the author's gently anarchic treatment of social attitudes. The family, which is the central unit of organization in our society, is disrupted ·in Wilson's presentation of it. This disruption is the focal point of my discussion. Human commitment has most often been regarded by critics as Wilson's central concern. Wilson, however, is concerned not simply with human commitment, but with female response in the "web" of humankind. She writes stories about women -- their strengths, their weaknesses, their silences. This thesis gives voice to the feminist aspects of Wilson's that, to date, have been kept silent.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Shadowy Godgame: Collectors, Collecting, and Collections in Robert Kroetsch's Alibi and The Puppeteer

contributor:
Hyman, Roger
English

abstract:
The phenomenon of collecting has been a popular metaphor in Canadian literature throughout its history, but particularly in the literature of the last thirty years. However, there has been little corresponding critical attention. In this thesis, I study how the treatment of the collector/collecting/collection nexus in Alibi and The Puppeteer by Robert Kroetsch, a central figure in the (disputed) Canadian postmodernist movement.

In the introductory chapter, raise some key issues of the collecting phenomenon, which leads to a discussion of the incorporation of collecting and its issues in texts by Canadian authors. I give a brief reading of collecting in John Richardson's Wacousta, which I suggest is the Ur-novel for collecting in Canadian literature. After Richardson, I turn to Kroetsch and his concept of postmodernism, before proposing to argue that the characters in Alibi and The Puppeteer collect as a means of playing "god." In Chapter One, I give a close reading of the character Deemer, who is the primary figure of the godgame. Chapter Two consists of readings of Deemer's opponents in the game. To conclude the thesis, I discuss the use of collecting in other novels by Kroetsch, and I finish with some general observations on collecting.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Graven Lives of Hagar and Daisy: Images of Feminine Depression in Laurence's The Stone Angel and Shield's Stone Diaries

abstract:
Canadian women's writing illustrates a pathology that, while not of nationalist origins, is gender-specific. Female characters in works such as the eerily similar Stone Diaries by Carol Shields, and The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence, suffer in fact, from feminine depression, an often debilitating condition which women today experience in epidemic proportions.

Current reseal"ch into women's depression focuses on Self-in-Relation theory. This theory departs from traditional theories of developmental psychology deriving from the work of Freud and his followers, theories which were developed by, for and about men and subsequently adapted to accommodate women. Self-in-Relation researchers reject the Freudian focus upon separation and autonomy, particularly from the mother, as developmental goals. They favour a model which proposes that a woman's identity and subsequent state of mental health depends upon the dynamics that occur within all significant relationships. Self-in-Relation theory, unlike object-relations theories which highlights feminine "otherness," emphasizes growth and continued existence within relationship. It identifies patriarchy and its devaluing of emotions and feminine economic skills as catalysts to depression in women. Self-in-Relation researchers suspect that depression in women, is, in fact, a normal reaction to abnormal social conditions. Depression, according to this view, is part of the feminine experience.

Theories of depression, based on the Self-in-Relation model, describe its four elements as follows: loss, not of an object/lover, but of relational potential; inhibition of action and assertiveness; inhibition of anger and aggression; and low self-esteem. The first three elements contribute to the fourth which then increases the likelihood of further loss. Depression in women involves an ongoing cycle.

Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel suffers from dysthymia, a long-term, low-grade form of depression. Rather than being a Hecate-like figure as she is often described, Hagar is a victim of relational and, therefore, social circumstance. Her motherlessness contributes to her depression only in that it deprives her of a positive relational context and commits her to a growth-stifling relationship with a puritanical, domineering father whose influence she internalizes. Hagar exhibits the four elements of depression in her relationship first with her father, then with her husband and her sons Hagar's capacity for caring, which is really a feminine strength, becomes a liability when both she and others deny its value. Only after meeting Murray Fernley Lees, who acts as a narrative therapist, is Hagar able to experience the kinds of relationships with others that can alleviate her depression. Although she is not really "cured," the novel's life-affirming ending suggests that, had she lived longer, she might have been.

Like Hagar, Shields' Daisy Goodwill Flett suffers from depression. Hers, however, is characterized by one major and two lesser episodes. The narrative style of the novel reflects Daisy's mental state which is one characterized by chronic disconnection from others, a disconnection which Daisy, attributing to her loss of her mother, describes as "orphanhood." Daisy's plunge into depression following the end of her self-fulfilling career as a gardening columnist speaks to the "separation of home and workplace," a condition which contributes to feminine depression. The remainder of her life evinces the Self-in-Relation theorists' contention that depression is part of the experience of being a woman in patriarchy.

Despite Hagar and Daisy's similar conditions, events at the end of Hagar's life suggest that she meets with more success than Daisy in dealing with her depression. An examination of their fathers' spiritual influences upon them suggests an explanation for this difference. Hagar's unfortunate relationship with a hard, unbending father arguably provides her with a strategy for making sense of her life. Her Calvinist heritage figures in both the cause and the "cure" for her depression. Daisy's chronic disconnection and the influence of an eccentric, self-centred father leaves her, on the other hand, virtually defenceless.

Despite their differences, Hagar and Daisy's life stories exemplify a condition common to women in our patriarchal society. Depression is the result of women's attempts to survive, not in the wilderness of which Atwood's 1972 book of criticism, Survival, speaks, but in a society which is in many ways, a wilderness for women. Just as Self-in-Relation is a work in progress, so too should be the study of feminine depression which is prevalent in Canadian women's literature.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Industrial Accidents

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PHYSICIAN IN SCHNITZLER'S AND CHEKHOV'S WORKS

contributor:
Chapple, Gerald
German

subject:
German Language and Literature
German Language and Literature

abstract:
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) were both writers as well as physicians. The latter profession had a significant influence on their works, which is evident in the frequent use of the doctor figure in their plays and prose works.

What distinguishes Schnitzler and Chekhov from other writers of the fin-de-siècle, is their ability to clinically observe psycho- logical and social problems. Schnitzler's and Chekhov's works contain "diagnoses" made by their doctor figure.

This study examines the respective qualities of a spectrum of six major types. There are mixed, mainly positive and mainly negative types of doctor figures, ranging from the revolutionary type down to the pathetic doctor figure and the calculating type.

Dealing with differences as well as with similarities, the thesis concludes by showing how the characterization of the doctor figure sheds light on the authors that created them.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Agricultural Credit In Canada

subject:
Political Economy
Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: The Autistic Mr. Dick of David Copperfield

contributor:
Ferns, John
English

abstract:
This thesis opens by arguing that Mr. Dick, the companion of Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield, exhibits the full range of traits justifying a diagnosis of autism. For a diagnostic tool by which to assess autism, the discussion relies on the standard benchmarks of this disorder set by the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This is the first study to recognize Mr. Dick's characterization as autistic.

A diagnosis of autism challenges some earlier scholars who have argued that Mr. Dick suffers from one form or another of schizophrenia. The shortcomings of a diagnosis of schizophrenia in his case are discussed. The portrayal of Mr. Dick's behaviours, the progression of his condition over time, and his responsiveness to certain programs of care all point to autism as the most credible diagnosis of Mr. Dick's disability.

Though the medical establishment formally recognized autism only in 1943, retrospective diagnoses of some individuals of the nineteenth century are canvassed to illustrate that autism existed in London (and elsewhere) in Dickens' time. How Dickens may have become aware of individuals with this condition is discussed.

The portrayal of Betsey Trotwood as caregiver for Mr. Dick shows the influence of "moral therapy," a relatively new treatment in that era for those deemed insane. Dickens' affirmation of this therapy is traced in other of his writings as well. It is shown that Dickens' depiction of Mr. Dick's life, and the progress he makes through the course of the novel, challenge the widely held assumption of the day that domestic settings were inferior to institutions in eliciting improvement in individuals who were mentally impaired.

Dickens' moral vision in David Copperfield bodies forth as endorsing a heterogeneous mixture of individuals in the community, including those with serious cognitive impairments, for the novel illustrates how Mr. Dick's disability allows him to achieve what no one else in the novel can accomplish-a reconciliation of Dr. and Mrs. Strong.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Progress Toward Deity and The End of Time: Concepts of Theology and Eschatology in the Works of Isaac Asimov

contributor:
Steinacher, Mark
Divinity College

subject: Religion Religion

abstract:
History has shown story and myth to be powerful communicative tools. This is no less true of modem myths, particularly the genre of science fiction (or "SF"). Isaac Asimov, a major contributor to the genre, used the framework of SF to develop concepts regarding the progress of humanity. In this thesis, two of these concepts will be explored.

The first subject is that of godhood, or deity. Christian theology and SF espouse two very different definitions of God. The former is biblically based, while the latter subscribes to Asimov's promotion of "teleological anthropology". This progressive doctrine helps to clarify the source of conflict between Christian theology's view of God, and that advocated by SF.

The second concept is that of eschatology. The study of "last things" or "end times" is confusing even when Christian views are the only ones being considered. To alleviate this confusion, many of eschatology's most frequently used terms will be defined from a biblical and theological basis. SF's views of the future and eschatology are also considered, once again highlighting Asimov's contributions. Special attention will be paid to Donald A. Wollheim's model of "future-history", a framework that proves helpful in systematizing Asimov's thought and lasting legacy. Wollheim's model helps to polarize Asimov's implicit ideology of "evolutionary eschatology", a system of thought which provides a context for the doctrine of teleological anthropology.

These two areas of discussion hold intriguing ramifications for the Christian gospel and its applications. This thesis will conclude with an attempt to define the gospel as it relates to the task of theology. Building on this foundation, some potential adaptations will be drawn together as responses to the challenges raised by the previous discussion with SF, concluding with suggestions for adapting the gospel to new contexts.

abstract: Master of Theological Studies (MTS)


title: POETIC WORKS: SOLIFIDIANISM AND POETIC VOCATION IN SPENSER, HERBERT AND MILTON

contributor:
Cain, T.H.
English

abstract:
The central aim of this thesis is to suggest some of the ways in which a tension between the Protestant doctrines of vocation and justification by faith shape the poetry of Spenser, Herbert and Milten. I argue that the Protestant poet displays a fundamental ambivalence toward his own art, which he views as simultaneously inspired and fallen. The Protestant theology of vocation provides a sanction for divine poetry, while solifidian dogma tends to repudiate human works, including poetry. The Protestant poet is therefore engaged in a struggle to define a stance that balances, reconciles or synthesizes these two tendencies, and the poem is the scene of that struggle. He expresses misgivings about the efficacy of language, thereby casting doubt on the reliability of his own poetry, but also claims (or aspires to) divine authority for his craft.

In my treatment of Spenser I suggest that Book I of The Faerie Queene constitutes a successful defence of poetic vocation, while the self-doubting or self-accusatory stance associated with solifidianism becomes more prevalent in Book VI. Herbert's defence of poetic vocation consists, paradoxically, in a gradual surrender of authorship to God. I take Milton's prophetic claims, or at least aspirations, more or less for granted, and focus on the strategies he employs to undercut his own art and medium and suggest its, and his, fallen nature.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Nonlinear Behaviour of Panel Buildings

contributor:
Drysdale, R. G.
Heidebrecht, A. C.
Civil Engineering

subject:
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

abstract:
Although panel buildings have been constructed since before World War II, there is very little known about their ultimate capacity when subjected to lateral loads. The existing methods of analysis and design are based on tests conducted on isolated vertical and horizontal joints, and empirical relationships derived from these experiments.

Very little attention has been paid to the influence of joint behaviour on the response of an assembly of panels. The studies of the overall behaviour of panel buildings which have been done by constructing mathematical models for panel assemblies, have not in general devised realistic models for the joints.

Since the joints are weaker than the panels they connect, and because failure in almost every case occurs in the joints, a realistic joint representation is very important if a true prediction of lateral load response of panel buildings is to be provided.

In this work an attempt has been made to develop a realistic model for both the horizontal and the vertical joints of the assemblies of panels forming the shear walls in panel buildings. In determining the joint model, joint details as well as existing experimental information and on-site construction techniques (and possible imperfections) were taken into account. The mathematical model was based on the finite element method of analysis. Due to practical limitations of computer storage and computation time, modifications had to be made to reduce the total number of elements used to simulate the panel assemblies.

The results confirmed the immense importance of the realistic modelling of joints, and also illustrated the susceptibility of horizontal joints to failure due to the redistribution of gravity loads during lateral loading. It was shown that the method is capable of predicting the ultimate lateral load capacity of panel buildings.

Recommendations were made regarding an acceptable limit for drift to height ratio (Δ/H) for panel construction. Factors of safety against collapse were also established based on the maximum allowable lateral loads to which an assembly of panels could be subjected without compromising the overall integrity of the structure, or incurring minor local failures.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Transition to Democracy in Iberia: A Comparative Analysis of Democratic Genesis

contributor:
Stein, Michael
Political Science

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Symbolism of Evil in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

contributor:
Rapoport, P.
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique contains a musical representation of evil that is rooted in a long history of the concept of evil in Western culture. This concept has varied with time and ideological change, giving rise to a rich and complex symbolism of evil which would have influenced Berlioz in his compositional choices and can still inform our own interpretations of the symphony. It is the perpetuation of past symbolisms of evil that makes this possible.

This thesis contextualises the Symphonie fantastique in relation to the Western cultural symbolism of evil, exploring a number of areas of this symbolism, tracing the history in which they are founded, and identifying how they manifest themselves in the symphony and might influence an interpretation of the work.

The symbolisms of deviation and disorder are reflected in the deviation from musical rules, the use of chaotic music, and the musical intimation of bodily disorder. The body itself, in its correlation with sex and juxtaposition with "civilised reason," provides a symbolism of evil which can be read in the corporeal nature of the music, particularly its reliance on dance rhythms. The body is also implicated in the symbolism of malconformation in which the ugliness associated with evil and the grotesque can be identified in many aspects of the music. The symbolism of triviality in this symphony is problematic in relation to the otherness associated with evil, particularly the feminine other.

Not only does the symphony reflect these symbolisms of evil, it also contributes to their perpetuation, assisting in their establishment as a seemingly natural corollary of evil. That the symbolism might not correlate with our current concept of evil makes it important that we recognise the context of the symbols, the morality that they reflect and the vilifications they naturalize.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Collective Monologues of Cyberspace: Egocentric Speech & The Internet

contributor:
Savage, A.
English

abstract:
Multimedia computing offers a way of producing and integrating a variety of media in a variety of electronic forms. Creating multimedia requires a new repertoire of compositional skills and hence requires a reconstituted creative process. Currently, the most significant and fastest growing multimedia application is the Internet.

The prevailing critical approach to hypertexts centres on theories of discursive communities based on the works of Bakhtin, Foucault and others. Thus, David Mayer, of the Brown University Storyspace Cluster refers to cyberspace as "a pile of dead letters which awaits your perusal. Each letter contains its own distinct voice, while together, they create the whole of your reading." Similar analogies include "a library with all the books thrown on the floor". While the discursive community models appear to work, just what exactly comprises each community, "the community," or McLuhan's "Global Village"?

Recent work in Cultural Studies stresses the importance of developmental psychology as it pertains to theorizing the production and consumption of popular culture. Since the production and consumption of Internet communication is inherently and predominantly language based, the intent of this work is to examine Internet communication through the theories of L.S. Vygotsky and Jean Piaget. Piaget and Vygotsky attempt to describe the way in which people, especially children, accompany a multiplicity of tasks with self-directed speech: i.e., thinking out loud. The theorists differ primarily in regard to the use of such speech by adults. Piaget contends that this behaviour disappears before adolescence while Vygotsky maintains that adults continue to think out loud given the appropriate setting. Piaget's phrase, collective monologue, refers to the effect on a listener of a group of people thinking out loud simultaneously.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: DER TEUFEL DES DOKTOR FAUSTUS: ZUR DEUTUNG DES BÖSEN IM FAUST-ROMAN VON THOMAS MANN

contributor:
Schulte, H.
German

abstract:
This thesis analyses Thomas Mann's concept of evil, in his novel Doktor Faustus, as opposed to the traditional theological concept. According to Thomas Mann, evil is a loss of humanity evolving in the course of history. He portrays German Nazism as based of inward, speculative tendencies of the German mind which can already be found in the work of Germany's reformer Martin Luther. The evolution of abstract thought and inward culture towards a new barbarism is traced through four centuries of German history. For Thomas Mann, Protestant theology, with its mystic tendencies, played a decisive part in this development.

As an artist effected by the crisis of culture, Thomas Mann describes how evil became the instrument of overcoming its stagnation. Thomas Mann's epic technique reveals the omnipresence as well as the genesis of evil in history. Adrian Leverkühn, the central figure of the novel, becomes the all-inclusive paradigm; the modern Faustus, who in order to find God, makes a pact with the devil.

Finally, Thomas Manns humanistic principles and their religious foundations are developed. His call for a 'religiously tinted humanism' to prevent future isolation and alienation is shown as consistently valid.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Herakles in Attic vase-painting of the Peisistratean period

contributor:
Slater, W.J.
Classical Studies

subject: Classics Classics

abstract:
During the second half of the sixth century B.C., the popularity of Herakles scenes in Attic vase-painting reached a peak. New scenes were developed, old scenes gained variants. This phenomenon was noticed by John Boardman who used it as the background to a novel theory, that Peisistratos and his sons were deliberately using Herakles as a propaganda tool to further their own interests, and moreover, that in this program there was some association of Peisistratos with Herakles, Furthermore, he argued that certain Herakles scenes reflected specific events from Peisistratos' Career. This theory was developed in several influential articles in the 1970's, and subsequently attracted many followers. In this thesis however I shall argue that the theory is seriously flawed, so much so that it must be considered untenable.

The thesis will begin by setting out Boardman's side of the argument. First, the developments in the iconography of Herakles are laid out (Chapter One), then Boardman's (and his followers') interpretations of them (Chapter Two). A critical examination of the theory follows. The statistical evidence is not as supportive of Boardman's theory as he suggests (Chapter Three), nor do the developments occur in ways that would necessarily confirm his interpretation (Chapter Four). No more supportive are the historical events taken to lie behind the images (Chapter Five). The possible mechanisms for the transmission of the needed influence from the Peisistratids to the vase-painters create another major problem area (Chapter Six). A variety of other factors also argue against the political interpretation (Chapter Seven). As a result of the failure of this interpretation, a different explanation must be found for Herakles' popularity during this era (Conclusion).

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A New Aesthetic of Closure: The Non-Linear Cosmologies of Henry Kreisel and Toni Morrison

contributor:
O`Connor, Mary
English

abstract:
The Judaeo-Christian mythic tradition postulates a universe with absolute limits in both time and space, as typified by the biblical books Genesis and Revelations. In the first chapter of my thesis I examine the way in which works of literature written from within this tradition necessarily have definite endings characterized by a return to a state of unity and an end to narratable incidents. Such endings may be interpreted as an affirmation of Apocalypse and of the eventual end of linear (and narrative) time.

This theoretical framework cannot, however, account for the approaches to closure evidenced in literature of atrocity: the unprecedented nature of the event narrated necessitates a total re-evaluation or replacement of interpretive models. Thus we see structural innovations built around radically new interpretive strategies in the writings of post-Holocaust Jewish authors faced with the inapplicability of the Judaeo-Christian paradigm as a model for understanding. Of special relevance is Emil Fackenheim's concept of Tikkun Olam ("mending of the world") , which searches--and reconfigures--Jewish tradition in creating a uniquely Jewish response to the Holocaust. The practical implications of this paradigm shift, particularly as manifest in Henry Kreisel's The Betrayal, forms the focus of the second...

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: STOLEN THUNDER: THE ADAPTATIONS OF JOHN DENNIS

contributor:
Morton, R.
English

abstract:
Although he has always been a controversial figure, John Dennis has recently gained credibllity as a critical thinker. As a dramatist, however, he has few proponents; his eight plays were unsuccessful and have not been regarded with much interest since their first appearance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This thesis removes the dust from his three adaptations, Iphigenia, The Comical Gallant and The Invader of His Country, and looks at how the plays correspond to his dramatic principles.

All three of the pieces are clearly designed to support Dennis's critical ideas, but in each case there are inconsistencies between the theory and practice which contradict his thinking. Chapter one compares Iphigenia with a popular pseudo-classic tragedy of the period, Cato, to see how Dennis's criticisms of Addison's work compare to his own attempt at the style. In chapter two, I concentrate on the reasons behind the adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies, and specifically Dennis's justification for turning The Merry Wives of Windsor into The Comical Gallant Chapter three deals with the arguments against Shakespeare's tragedies during Dennis's age, and examines the critic's conviction that The Invader of his Country improves upon Coriolanus. In each chapter the adaptations are analysed in comparison to the originals, with emphasis placed on the most striking alterations.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Boulez's Structuralist Aesthetics of Music

contributor:
Hartwell, Hugh
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
Pierre Roulez is an innovator in music not only because of his experiments in composition, but also because of his aesthetics of music. presented in a series of writings dating from the mid 1950s to the 1970s. His aesthetic system, inspired in part by the structuralist school of literary criticism, is logically derived and wide in scope. However. its general outlines have never been presented in an independent scholarly work. That is the purpose of this thesis.

The presentation of Roulez's aesthetics, which makes up the body of this thesis, is preceded by three introductory chapters which situate him within the evolutionary process of music history. and examine his artistic connection with the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. The next three chapters progress from the organization of basic materials in Chapter four (Morphology), through higher levels of structure in Chapter Five (Syntax). and Chapter Six (Form), Special attention is given to the concept of Alea in Chapter Seven. The problem of translating Boulez from French to English is also dealt with, with a view to establishing a consistent vocabulary of terms with which to describe his theories of music. In an attempt to flesh out Boulez's abstract theories, analyses of musical examples, either taken from Boulez's writings or from his music, are given. in order to demonstrate his aesthetics.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Fabric of the Story: Reading the Cloth in Emaré

contributor:
Savage, Anne
English

abstract: At the beginning of the Middle English romance Emaré, there is a description of a "cloth pat was wordylye wroghte" (1. 38) by the "amerayle dowgter of hepennes" (1.109). This cloth is present throughout the whole story in the form of a robe that is worn by the central character in the romance, Emaré. This thesis examines the presence of the cloth in Emaré by exploring the origin of the cloth both as a product of the Oriental world and as a textile created by a woman. A discussion of the perceived threat that the Orient posed to the stability of life in Europe during the Middle Ages and the way this threat is represented in romance provides a framework for looking at the cloth as a representation of the Orient in Emaré. The cloth is also a representation of the feminine in the romance because it was embroidered by a woman. An exploration of the idea that this cloth and the images depicted on it may be read as the text of the daughter of the Emir which she has written with a needle and thread, suggests that the Emperor's shaping of the cloth into a robe serves the purpose of "translating" this feminine -- and Oriental -- text. Since both the Orient and the feminine were considered Other in the Medieval period, this act of "translation" seems to be an attempt to control the Other. However, the idea that the cloth retains some of its Otherness even after it has been reshaped is a point of departure for questioning the nature of romance, specifically the way in which it allows for varied interpretations of the representation of the Other.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Optimal Tolerance Allocation

contributor:
Siddall, J. N.
Mechanical Engineering

subject:
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

abstract:
This thesis addresses itself to one of the most general theoretical problems associated with the art of engineering design. Viewed in its entirety the proposed approach integrates the relation between the design and production engineers through the theory of nonlinear optimization. The conventional optimization problem is extended to include the optimal allocation of the upper and lower limits of the random variables of an engineering system. The approach is illustrated by an example using a sequence of increasingly generalized formulations, while the general mathematical theory is also provided. The method appears to offer a practical technique provided a satisfactory cost function can be defined.

The thesis presents an analytical approach to full acceptability design conditions as well as less than full acceptability or scrap design conditions. An important distinction between the design and the manufacturing scrap has been introduced and illustrated through examples.

The space regionalization technique is utilized to estimate the system design scrap. Optimization strategies are introduced to the mathematically defined upper and lower limits of the regionalization region. This region is then discretized into a number of cells depending upon the probabilistic characteristic of the system random variables.

The analytical approach exhibited does not rely explicitly on evaluation of partial derivatives of either the system cost objective or any of its constraints at any point. Moreover, the technique could be applied to engineering systems with either convex or nonconvex feasible regions. It could also be exercised irrespective of the shape of the probabilistic distributions that describe the random variables variation.

Industrially oriented design examples are furnished to justify the applicability of the theory in different engineering disciplines.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Against Metaphor: Stephen Bateman's A Christall Class as Spiritual Politics

contributor:
Silcox, Mary
English and Cultural Studies

abstract: I am interested in how A christall glasse takes up the notion of Reform - how Bateman both deploys and writes against the notion of reform: multiply political, epistemological, spiritual, linguistic. Writ small in this one text are signs of the tectonic cultural shifts that resulted from England's separation with Rome. In content Bateman's book is concerned with ridding the English spiritual imagination of any vestigial faith in the popish church; and through the form of A christall glasse, Stephen Bateman works to instruct his audience in a new kind of reading as a means of rhetorical persuasion. In this thesis, I hope to successfully demonstrate how A christall glasse deploys medieval modes of expression to articulate a position on late 16th-century Reformist ideas, a position that seeks to move away from the practice and traditions of Roman Catholicism towards a Protestant and monarchical envisioning of Christianity in England. In its expression, however, one can detect, within A christall glasse, a degree of anxiety surrounding the instability of meaning and truth generated by such reform, by the shaking of the foundations of how faith is understood and politically organized in England which this book, in its small way, performs. I will be reading A christall glasse as a text which is at once dependent upon devices of the emblem genre while at the same time uneasy about the visuality of the form.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Crafting of Concealment: A Comparative Study of the Typescript and Text of Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

contributor:
York, Lorraine
English

abstract:
Margaret Laurence confesses in Dance on the Earth: A Memoir that she felt compelled to write about something that women's published writing was lacking. Her novels are self-consciously about "Physical reality ... ordinariness, dirt, earth, blood, yelling [and] a few messy kids" (Laurence 130). In an interview with Michel Fabre she contends that "there are certain things I can get at only through women .... Also there are a great many male novelists and it is about time more women wrote about women" (Woodcock 204). The Stone Angel is just such a novel. Laurence's novel, It celebrates the , "- female and in so doing becomes a paradigm of Hélène Cixous's "writing with a difference."

The stone Angel is a novel in which Laurence purposefully invites readers into the world of women. In so doing, the narrative offers a discourse which affirms a confessional, personal and sometimes neurotic female subject position. Such a position in The Stone Angel becomes a locus of power. Nonetheless, there is a marked tension between the typescript and the novel. Admittedly, some of Laurence's deletions are the result of a refinement in her craftsmanship and scholarship. However, many of the deletions have a much broader implication and reveal Laurence's internal struggle. These deletions are most compelling and expose Laurence 's insecurity in writing from a female subject position.

This thesis will compare the typescript of The stone Angel to the published version. The purpose of such an examination is two-fold. First, the disparities between Laurence's private work and the product she presents to a public audience illustrate the gender confinement Laurence experienced as a woman writing in the early sixties. Second, the degree to which societal/cultural constraints informed Laurence's authorial censorship cannot be ignored. To my mind, Hagar Shipley's uneasiness with a shifting private/public world offers a glimpse of the tension with which Laurence herself was struggling.

The introduction presents the very private, shy Margaret Laurence and her work habits. Chapter One is an overview of the existing criticism of the text of The Stone Angel, particularly articles which relate to themes in this thesis. The second chapter explores the tension between the private and public spheres in the text and the themes which make The Stone Angel an example of Hélène Cixous's écriture féminine and a model of feminist literature. Chapter Three outlines the deletions and the corresponding entries in the published text. The fourth chapter examines the disparity between the typescript's and the novel's entries relating to religion. Chapter Five focuses on the treatment of death, motherhood and sex in the typescript and the text. Such an arrangement of topics is in truth a false separation, for all the themes are connected and impact on one another with a kind of synergistic energy. Nonetheless, the divisions are meant to be a way to better understand Laurence, the typescripts and Hagar.

Hagar, despite or perhaps because of her marginalization, becomes a symbol of a new way of knowing, a new way of seeing things - a symbol of the feminine. Because of Laurence's manipulation of idiom and discourse, Hagar Shipley offers immediate access to readers because she is everyone's Grandmother; in many ways Hagar is every woman. In Laurence's own words:

If Hagar in The Stone Angel has any meaning, it is the same as that of an old woman anywhere, having to deal with the reality of dying. On the other hand, she is not an old woman anywhere. She is very much a person who belongs in the same kind of prairie Scots-Presbyterian background as I do, and it was, of course, people like Hagar who created that background, with all its flaws and its strengths. (Heart of a Stranger 18)

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Herbert Read As A Twentieth-Century Romantic Poet

contributor:
Bishop, Alan
English

abstract: Herbert Read's avowed aim to "rehabilitate" Romanticism resulted in a literary criticism which defended his own practice as a poet. While his poetry was Romantic in its concentration on the imagination and the power of Nature, it demonstrated a serious problem with the Romantic ideal of the expression of the self. His war poetry, as the poetry of a significant shaping experience, can be seen as demonstrating, with a particular clarity, that difficulty in all three phases: the poetry written during the War, the poetic summation of the Great War in The End of a War, and finally the poetry written in reaction to war from 1936 onward. Read's reluctance to confront the matter of confessional expression in poetry is clearly demonstrated in his poems that take as subject the world beyond war. A constant theme in this poetry, free of concern with war, is the conflict between reason and imagination; a conflict which resolves itself into the paradox of a Romantic denial of the self.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and the Aesthetic Theory and Practise of William Hogarth

contributor:
King, James
English

abstract: Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy in many wetys follows the same aesthetic principles that English painter William Hogarth displays in his work and discusses in his treatise The Analysis of Beauty. The affinities between Hogarth's and Sterne's aesthetic methodologies have been noted--but not subjected to close examination--by modern scholars. This thesis explores some of the similarities between the two men: their rejection of neoclassical convention, their attempts to transcend the boundaries of their respective mediums, their ultimate recognition of the intrinsic differences between literature and art and of the limitations and advantages peculiar to each, and their espousal of rococo values: Hogarth in his moral progresses and In his Analysis of Beauty, and Sterne in the narrative structure of Tristram Shandy. Sterne acquired from Hogarth illustrations to Tristram Shandy, confesses his admiration for the painter's method of characterization, and commended and borrowed freely from his Analysis. This evidence strongly suggests (but cannot conclusively prove) that Hogarth influenced Sterne's narrative methodology in Tristram Shancty. Even if Sterne did not consciously and deliberately incorporate Hogarth's aesthetic principles into his novel, the many analogies between the techniques used by the two men reveal much about the general aesthetic movement taking place in the eighteenth-century; a movement in which they played an important part. It is hoped that this thesis will raise further questions regarding the relationship between Sterne's Tristram Shandy and William Hogarth, a relationship which might be more significant than previously supposed.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Bartók Analysis: A Critical Examination and Application

contributor:
Hartwell, Hugh
Music

subject: Music Music

abstract: Several types of analysis have been applied to the music of Béla Bartók. This thesis provides a summary of the work of the major Bartók authors, along with a critical examination of their methods. The methods described are then applied to the second movement of Bartók's Divertimento, where their appropriateness is tested on a work for which little analysis has been published. After all of the procedures are applied to the movement in isolation, a synthesis of the various methods is postulated, and a comprehensive analysis is presented, combining the most effective facets of the techniques of the featured authors. A final section considers the usefulness of each of the methods for this work, as well as for general analysis of the work of Bartók.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Perverted Humanity: The cautionary Monsters of Beowulf

contributor:
Lee, A. A.
English

abstract:
This study examines the metaphorical language of Beowulf, presenting the monsters of the poem (Grendel, his Mother, and the Dragon) as symbols of perverted ideals of humanity. ( Through a close reading of the descriptions and actions of these creatures, the paper emphasizes the artistic skill with which the Beowulf poet contrived his masterpiece. The use of both human and inhuman epithets to characterize the monsters proves the conflicting and ambiguous identities with which the poet imbued them. By detailing the various facets of these ambiguities! the thesis underscores the importance of maintaining a polysemous interpretation of the poem.

The thesis treats each of the monsters individually and in detail. It is argued that the synthesis of human and inhuman identities establishes the creatures as exaggerated, monstrous examples of human evil. Grendel represents the evil thane whose primary goal is the destruction of the fraternal loyalty of the dryht-system. The female monster becomes a perversion of the role of the queen or peace-weaver who instead of promoting respect and tolerance seeks war and violence.The dragon, finally, is viewed as a metaphorical extension of evil human kingship. His avaricious hoarding of treasure and his failure to obey the laws he himself is meant to enforce as king make the worm a parody of good rule. Through the examination of these figures, then, the importance of proper human conduct is emphasized. The poet uses these creatures as cautionary figures as a means of describing the necessity of virtue to humanity.

The contribution to knowledge made by this study is two-fold. First, the close reading is meant to underscore the poet's conscious use of metaphorical language. As well, the very object of that metaphorization, the monsters, become important signs of universal human evil.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Bank Rate and Open Market Operations

subject: Political Economy

abstract: For nearly a century the financial world has been accustomed to experiencing wide and frequent fluctuations in the bank rate. However, since 1932, when the Bank of England's discount rate was pegged at 2 per cent. - at which figure it was maintained for seven years - low and stable rates have became accepted phenomena throughout the world. The old flexibility of the bank rate, which for generations in England was the traditional policy of the Bank, is gone, to be supplanted by a rigid and inflexible figure, drastically imposed. This thesis will attempt an investigation into the reasons for and results: of this change in policy.

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: The Modern Legislator

contributor:
Goldstein, Marshall
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Tobac-no! A Grade Six Smoking Prevention Curriculum Unit

contributor:
Elliott, Digby
Dover, Leslie Van
Teaching

subject: Teacher Education and Professional Development

abstract:
Smoking is still the leading cause of death and illness in Canada today (Wong, 1990). The process of addiction begins for many as early as 12 years of age (Health Canada, Canadian Association for School Health, Canadian Council on Smoking and Health, Heart and Stroke Foundation, 1991), and currently, only 3% of people ever begin smoking beyond their teens. King and Coles (1992) established that by age 15,22% of males and 29% of females are occasional or regular smokers. These and other statistics clearly establish that smoking is a major health care concern. In order to effectively reduce or eliminate this problem, the root causes or determinants of smoking behaviour must first be recognized. The various demographic, socioeconomic, personality and biologic factors (Flay, d'Avernas, Best, Kersell & Ryan, 1983) must be addressed by comprehensive strategies which include the goals of promotion, prevention, intervention and support. These goals should be achieved by means of appropriate instruction, social support, support services and physical environmental intervention (Council for a Tobacco-Free Ontario [CTFO], 1991; Garcia, d'Avernas & Best, 1988).

The focus of this paper is instruction, which is defined to include a well developed curriculum, relevant teaching and learning materials and appropriate teacher preparation. The principles of a Social Influences Approach are applied to the development of TOBAC-NO!, a grade six smoking prevention curriculum unit for the Hamilton Board of Education.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Jurgen Habermas' Conception of Legitimation Crisis

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: The purpose of this thesis is two fold. First of all it demonstrates clearly and precisely exactly what Jurgen Habermas understands by a legitimation crisis and secondly it demonstrates how fundamentally this conception rests upon background assumptions which are not always made explicit. To this end the thesis delves into Habermas' understanding of advanced capitalism, his understanding of the concept of rational-legal legitimacy and finally it shows how the conclusions he reaches are fundamentally based upon his reconstruction of historical materialism and the notion of a colonization of the life-world that he ultimately derives from this reconstruction. In the end it will be demonstrated that a thorough understanding of the concept of legitimation crisis cannot be achieved without reference to Habermas' reconstruction project and in this regard he remains firmly in the Marxist tradition.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Place Elsewhere: Displacement in Frank McGuinness' and Michael Longley's Response to the Northern Irish 'Troubles'

contributor:
John, Brian
English

abstract: To date, Northern Ireland's Frank McGuinness and Michael Longley have received meagre critical attention from scholars. Although it has often been assumed by certain artists and critics that the mixing of art and politics is merely a tool for propagandists, McGuinness' plays, Carthaginians and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, and Longley's poems concerning the Troubles illustrate a healthy intersection of literature with politics. This thesis attempts to analyze how these writers use displacement or imaginative distance as a strategy for illuminating the political and cultural contexts of the North. This indirect engagement in its myriad of forms reflects McGuinness and Longley's quest for a creative realm of displaced perspectives--a place elsewhere. Longley and McGuinness write about their own conscious experiences and those of their various communities through frameworks that are mythically, historically, geographically, and intertextually remote. Both artists seek to render conditions in Northern Ireland symbolically and, thereby, circumvent political ideologies and posit alternative visions to conflict and violence.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: William Golding's Pincher Martin: A Study of Self and its Terror of Negation

abstract: Pincher Martin describes the genesis of a preternatural world and then this world's gradual disintegration as its lonely creator, the novel's protagonist, embarks on an unwilling voyage of discovery to the dark wellsprings of self. While occasionally touching on matters pertaining to the novel's structure, each chapter of this thesis concentrates on tracing the development of this theme. Chapter I details the miracle of creation that proceeds from self's inscrutable essence, the role of association in this process, and the nexus between creation and self's survival after the body's death. Chapter II begins to articulate the novel's central irony: from within the same dark core of self responsible for the salvation of the first ordered creation, a second order, formed out of memory and destructive of its precursor, gradually begins to emerge. Chapter II also shows how reason 'assists in the rebirth of psycho-physical self, and,.; ,how by seeking to lend solidity and order to the created artifice, methodical reason pits itself against spontaneous revelation. Chapter III considers the collapse of self's artifice beneath the weight of accumulating realization. It also discusses how reason becomes inadequate and finally goes awry as self divides into components operating at cross-purposes. The Hindu sources of Golding's notions of subjective and objective reality -- together with his protagonist's final agonies in the teeth of not-being -- are the subjects of Chapter IV. In the final section of the thesis, the relationship of chapter fourteen to the novel's structure and theme is examined, and Pincher Martin is discussed within the context of Golding's first four novels.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: THE UNIFYING FUNCTION OF HUMOUR AND COMEDY IN NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

contributor:
Petrie, Graham
English and Cultural Studies

abstract:
Nicholas Nickleby is not traditionally considered to be amongst Dickens' greatest works, however, it has never been extensively examined on its own terms and in its own context since it is usually fragmented within a larger argument. In order to appreciate fully the literary integrity and artistic vitality of Nicholas Nickleby, it is essential to recognize the purposeful integration of its internal dynamics of humour with its externally defined elements of Comedy. The examination of humour necessitates an internal analysis of the novel since humour expresses itself in such details of the work as themes, tone, style, language, narration and characterization. Comedy, on the other hand, can only be studied when the novel is approached as a whole because it is manifested in the traditional literary structure and conventions of the genre.

This dissertation recognizes humour and Comedy as serious literary devices which are an integral part of Dickens' ability to 'teach and delight' as he presents his tragi-comic world view. Humour can be basically defined as the enlightening and entertaining process by which a character or situation is simultaneously perceived from various alternative perspectives. Freud furthers this definition by asserting that true humour requires an atmosphere of negative 'affect' so that one is

struck by the juxtaposition of both emotion and point of view which causes the impact and import of the humour to be intensified. The cyclical nature of the genre of Comedy complements this humour because it explores alternative emotional states and perspectives as it moves the protagonist through various hardships and returns him to a state of prosperity and happiness. In conclusion, it is only when these essential elements of humour and Comedy are understood in Nicholas Nickleby that the novel can be given its rightful place among Dickens' greatest literary achievements.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Hacking Hackers: Ethnographic Insights into the Hacker Subculture-Definition, Ideology and Argot

contributor:
Shaffir, William
Sociology

subject: Sociology Sociology

abstract:
While media presentation of hackers and other members of the "computer underground" tend to be pejorative, such representations are often based solely on the viewpoints of "outsiders." As such, society is presented with an image of the hacker subculture that fails to examine the meanings hackers attribute to their activities. Employing symbolic interactionist theory and taking an ethnographic approach to understand the experiences and activities of hackers, this thesis has sought to examine and analyse various characteristics of the hacker subculture. Information pertaining to how hackers define themselves and their activities, the principles underlying the hacker ideology and the distinctive elements of the hacker language constituted the main focus of this thesis. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with self-defined hackers and fieldwork was undertaken to collect data on and off the Internet during hacker meetings and interactions, and from hacker news groups, web sites, and subcultural publications.

Findings from this thesis reveal that the hacker subculture is quite complex and is socially constructed through small-group interactions in various local subcultures that, while dissimilar in some respects, identify with characteristics of the transnational hacker subculture. Along with the application of role labels, adopting the hacker ideology and argot serve as identifying traits, which are used to situate different subcategories of hackers within the subculture in terms of their status, skill and the perceived ethics of their activities. Condemning "inaccurate" media portrayals of their subculture, imputing labels to others within the subculture to differentiate between "good" and "bad" hackers, invoking the hacker ideology as a vocabulary of motive, and linking their perspective to outsiders viewed favourably by the public, all serve as ways of managing the stigma attached to hackers' deviant public identity. A number of other theoretical and substantive findings, as well as recommendations for future research, are presented.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Critical Survey of Contemporary South African Poetry: The Language of Conflict and Commitment

abstract:
The thes is concentrates on South African poetry from 1960 to the present. It closely examines a selection of poems by Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Pascal Gwala, Wopko Jensma, Oswald Mtshali, Arthur Nortje, Cosmo Pieterse, Sipho Sepamla, and Wally Serote, among others. The body of the thesis discusses these poets' contributions to poetry about prison, exile, and township life.

The thesis focuses on the struggle between various polical, racial, and cultural groups for hegemony over South Africa's poetic development. Such issues as language, ideology, and censorship are explored insofar as they in! .luence t:ne content and structure of the poetry. This body of poems, sadly, is little studied in North America. The thesis presents an introduction to and a survey of the major tendencies in South African poetry and, in part, attempts to relate the poetry's role in expressing the commitment of these poets to the ending of apartheid and the eventual resolution of the conflict for freedom.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The role of civic organizations in the development of civil society: The experience of four Christian social concern groups in Hong Kong

contributor:
McLaughlin, N.
Sociology

subject: Sociology Sociology

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "A Love-Song to Our Mongrel Selves": Migration, Dislocation, and the Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Subject in the Writing of Salman Rushdie

contributor:
Szeman, lmre
English

abstract:
This thesis is an exploration of the emergence and development of a new cosmopolitan ethic of belonging in three of Salman Rushdie's novels that speak most effectively to the reality of being a "global soul". In warning of the dangers inherent in binaristic and fundamentalist thinking, emphasizing the necessity of creating alternative hybrid spaces of cultural contact, and re-inscribing notions of "self' and "home," Rushdie articulates a global citizenship that accounts not only for the recognition of a universal human condition, but also for the valuing and preservation of multiple and diverse cultural localities.

Chapter One offers a theoretical framework for examining pertinent, contemporary considerations of issues of identity, alterity, history, authenticity, and belonging. It also addresses the rise of a reclaimed and redeployed form of cosmopolitanism that diverges from a traditional, Stoical vision of world citizenship and challenges the assertion that the global and the local are distinct, unrelated entities. Chapter Two focuses on The Satanic Verses as a novel that, far from exclusively imagining the birth of Islam, addresses significant questions about the nature of the migratory self and the trials and opportunities presented by postmodern uncertainty and the entrance of "newness" into the world. Chapter Three examines The Ground Beneath Her Feet as a testament to the need to establish moorings and create "home" in unexpected places in times of fragmentation and disorientation. Finally, Chapter Four turns to Fury, Rushdie's most recent novel, to explore the loss and redemption of self, and the need for basic human interconnectivity in an age of simulated realities and mass consumer culture.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: State and Revolution: Hegel, Marx, and Lenin

contributor:
Goldstein, Marshall N.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This thesis explores three theories of the state's role in shaping civil consciousness, as they are presented in the writings of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and V.I. Lenin. The immediate purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the essential features of these theories, and, in particular, to use this comparison as a means to better understanding the problematic relationship between Marx and Lenin.

For Hegel, the state is not to be understood in the usual liberal fashion, simply as a coercive instrument, but, rather, as the objective standard of rationality in the world and the repository of what Hegel calls "ethical life". The state, as it is described in Hegel's Philosophy of Right, represents the abolition of the conflict between private life and the community which is typical of bourgeois society. This is accomplished, to Hegel's mind, by the intervention of the state's mediating structures.

Against Hegel, Marx demonstrates in his "Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State" that it is not the ostensibly universal state which is the basis of civil society's rationality, but egoistic civil society which is the basis of the inherently irrational state. The purpose of the state, thought Marx, is not to engender universality in civil society but simply to represent the sectional interests of classes within civil society, and the interests of private property. For Marx, the reconciliation of the individual with the community occurs not under the tutelage of the state, but with the reabsorption of the state into civil society.

Lenin's State and Revolution affirms Marx's belief in the contingency of the state upon class interests; however, its theory of socialist revolution also demonstrates Lenin's belief in the capacity of the state to alter civil consciousness. Thus, while being nominally Marxist, Lenin's theory of the revolutionary state contains elements more typical of Hegel. To the extent that Lenin's theory attributes capacities to the state which Marx rejected in his critique of Hegel, Marx's explicit critique of Hegel provides grounds for questioning Lenin's claim to the torch of Marxism.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Study of D. H. Lawrence's Treatment of Women in the Short Story

contributor:
Shrive, N.
English

abstract:
This thesis examines, through a study of theme, characterization and plot, D. H. Lawrence's portrayal of women in his short stories. The study concentrates on a selection of stories that reflect particular patterns and trends of the female character.

In general, there are three patterns that are easily identifiable. The first pattern depicts the trapped woman, who always remains trapped in an unhappy situation. The second pattern involves the woman who tries to escape an unhappy situation but is destroyed because of her attempt to abandon a dissatisfying life. The third pattern presents the seemingly "successful" couple, and yet, the only reason for their successful relationship is ,that the woman is subordinate to the power of the man.

We find in these patterns evidence that indicates that Lawrence repeatedly uses the female to secure the authority of the male. The fact that the subordination of the female characters in Lawrence's short stories is neither explored nor explained within the fiction, ultimately detracts from the success of the works.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)