Proust and Eliot: An Intertextual Reading

Defining intertextuality as “the reader’s perception of relationships between one work and others, which either preceded or followed it” (Riffaterre), this essay sets out to highlight compelling similarities between Proust’s novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, and the fictional works of George Eliot. The emphasis is on affective memory (involuntary memory and emotional templates), ethical considerations (empathy and compassion), and the kind of self-reflexive reading both writers encourage through a complicit narration that implicates the reader. They show readers how emotional memory constitutes the essence of their personal history, thus anticipating modern research in psychology and the neurosciences. In doing so, they make us aware that there are no insurmountable barriers between fictional worlds and ours. In conclusion, this intertextual reading of two novelists from different centuries and cultures has confirmed that these insights are still valid today

Strategy and Spell: Art as Infrastructural Change

The essay “Strategy and Spell: Art as Infrastructural Change” is an investigation of the performative force art spaces have on the field of art and on various infrastructures at large. It is also a strategic proposition on how to envision a position for action and from which to gain leverage within the current neoliberal global context. Drawing from contemporary art, design and media theory on systemic thinking, and the post-contemporary time complex, the essay reflects on two personal projects: the exhibition space casamata (2014–2017), and the project TRAMA, developed for the 33rd São Paulo Biennial – Affective Affinities (2018). Favoring a speculative approach that tackles large-scale problematics and collective organization, it demonstrates how there are many potentialities contained in exhibition spaces and how such potentialities could, through an understanding of a contemporary art megastructure and art practice as infrastructural change, operate new experiments for the art system

Doctor of Philosophy

dissertationNumerical studies of sea and lake breezes are reviewed and gaps in our current understanding of these thermally-driven circulations are discussed. A numerical sensitivity study is conducted using large-eddy simulations to determine the dependence of sea- and lake-breeze speed and length scales to variations in the land-surface sensible heat flux, offshore background wind, initial atmospheric stability, and lake diameter. This study is the first to test the dependence of sea- and lake-breeze characteristics to variations in these geophysical variables using a three-dimensional large-eddy simulation capable of explicitly resolving boundary-layer turbulence and vertical motion near the sea-breeze front. This study provides new understanding on the sensitivity of sea and lake breezes to variations in the land-surface sensible heat flux, opposing background wind, and lake diameter as well as the complex interactions that occur among these geophysical variables. For the first time, the daytime life cycle of sea and lake breezes in the presence of variations in these variables is simulated, in contrast to many earlier studies that focused primarily on the mature midafternoon sea-breeze circulation. Significant spatial variability in the intensity and vertical structure of lake and sea breezes is noted in the large-eddy simulations. The critical value of an opposing wind at which a sea or lake breeze is destroyed by synoptic-scale pressure gradients is approximately 20% lower in this study than that documented in earlier numerical studies. The depth of sea and lake breezes has also been found to be highly sensitive to the magnitude of the opposing background wind. Finally, the results of this study show that lake breezes for small and medium-sized lakes evolve much differently than sea breezes during the afternoon due to a limited quantity of cool air over the lake

Art of kente: history, designs, and drafts

Kente is a traditional ceremonial strip-woven cloth made by the Asante and Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. This thesis examined the history, patterns, design elements, symbolism, and evolutionary changes of the kente textile tradition. Basic weaving information, illustrations, and color photographs necessary for the understanding of kente were provided. The thesis also analyzed weaving drafts for the creation of kente-like cloth on a contemporary Western style floor loom

О возможности применения нейтронно-активационного анализа на золото для решения практических задач на примере золоторудного месторождения Эльдорадо (Енисейский кряж)

Применение нейтронно-активационного анализа как одного из новых геохимических методов дает положительные результаты в оконтуривании участков локализованного оруденения. Особенности распределения золота характеризуют процессы становления месторождения

Idealized large-eddy simulations of sea and lake breezes: sensitivity to lake diameter, heat flux and stability

ManuscriptIdealized large-eddy simulations of lake and sea breezes are conducted to deter mine the sensitivity of these thermally-driven circulations to variations in the land-surface sensible heat flux and initial atmospheric stability. The lake-breeze and sea-breeze metrics of horizontal wind speed, horizontal extent, and depth are assessed. Modelled asymmetries about the coastline in the horizontal extent of the low-level onshore flow are found to vary as a function of the heat flux and stability. Small lake breezes develop similarly to sea breezes in the morning, but have a significantly weaker horizontal wind speed component and a smaller horizontal extent than sea breezes in the afternoon

My Old Penobscot Home : \u27Way Down in Maine

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The Pivotal Position of Henry V in the Rise and Fall of Shakespeare's Prose

The essay traces the proportion of prose in Shakespeare's plays, identifying genre and chronology as the two major variables influencing the rise and fall over time

Eu estava espionando meu vizinho quando

O ensaio é parte da obra Eu estava espionando meu vizinho quando, realizada entre Outubro de 2013 e Maio de 2015, e apresentada recentemente como comunicação oral performativa no 3º Simpósio LAVITS - vigilância, tecnopolíticas e territórios, no Rio de Janeiro. A obra constitui-se também de uma série de vídeos editados, capturados de madrugada, do vizinho da artista. Neste presente texto, a partir dos conceitos de dispositivo e vigilância distribuída de Fernanda Bruno e Anne Marie Duguet, performatividade, de Ana Bernstein e Eleonora Fabião, eescritos próprios em diferentes tons, a artista elabora uma investigação teórica e prática acerca da performatividade do ato de olhar e procura expandir o ato performativo em sua possibilidade de escrita

Proust and Eliot: An Intertextual Reading

Defining intertextuality as “the reader’s perception of relationships between one work and others, which either preceded or followed it” (Riffaterre), this essay sets out to highlight compelling similarities between Proust’s novel, A la recherche du temps perdu , and the fictional works of George Eliot. The emphasis is on affective memory (involuntary memory and emotional templates), ethical considerations (empathy and compassion), and the kind of self-reflexive reading both writers encourage through a complicit narration that implicates the reader. They show readers how emotional memory constitutes the essence of their personal history, thus anticipating modern research in psychology and the neurosciences. In doing so, they make us aware that there are no insurmountable barriers between fictional worlds and ours. In conclusion, this intertextual reading of two novelists from different centuries and cultures has confirmed that these insights are still valid today