The Concept of "Self" in some plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Beckett, Osborne, and Pinter

Berge, Marit The British Library 1978 국내박사

Marital satisfaction and mental health of couples with children with chronic health conditions

Berge, Jerica Mohlman University of Minnesota 2004 해외박사(DDOD)

Research has shown that couples with children with chronic health conditions report more marital dissatisfaction and depressive symptoms than parents of healthy children. However, much of the research has been based on a single person's report, does not look at processes over time, and is non-theoretical. This study aimed to address the limitations in previous research by using longitudinal data, self-report data from both mothers and fathers, and a theoretical framework to ground the research. Couples (173 mothers and 150 fathers) of 173 children between the ages of 12 and 30 months with chronic physical health impairments were studied. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used with an existing longitudinal data set. It was hypothesized that there would be an association between the severity of a child's chronic health condition, a parent's perception of the negative impact of the chronic condition and relative changes in marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms in each parent. The results for mothers indicated that relative decreases in marital satisfaction over time were influenced by mothers' perceptions of the negative impact of their child's chronic condition on the family. Also for mothers, the association between the severity of the child's chronic condition and depressive symptoms approached statistical significance, suggesting that the severity of the child's chronic condition influenced relative increases in mothers' depressive symptoms over time. For fathers, previous reports of depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction influenced relative increases in their depressive symptoms and relative decreases in marital satisfaction over time.

Arts, Leisure, and the Construction of "Gentlemanly" (Shi 士) Identities in 7th-14th Century China

Berge-Becker, Zachary Columbia University ProQuest Dissertations & These 2023 해외박사(DDOD)

Historians regularly conceive of "gentlemen" (shi 士) in 7th-14th century China as men belonging to an elite social stratum, defined by their study of the classical and literary canons, participation in the civil service examinations, officeholding in the imperial bureaucracy, engagement in various literary or intellectual undertakings, hereditary status from a patriline, or connection to certain marriage, kinship, or friendship networks. This dissertation seeks to expand as well as complicate this perception of "gentlemen" as a social category, by understanding the label as referring not to an elite social stratum but to an identity, internalized and enacted in a variety of ways by men in low and high social positions alike. Using this framework to analyze the construction of "gentlemanly" identities in various arts and activities that served as leisure for some and livelihoods for others, this dissertation reveals a significant expansion in the repertory of signals and strategies used to create and perform "gentlemanly" identities in these fields, reshaping what it meant to be a "gentleman" in middle period China.Each chapter draws upon extensive source material from libraries, digital databases, and museums, to examine processes of identity construction and presentation in a series of different arts or activities in which both the "gentlemanly" and "non-gentlemanly" participated: painting, music making, practicing medicine, divining, farming and gardening, fishing and woodcutting, and playing the board game weiqi 圍棋 (also known as go). In each of these fields, between the 7th and 14th centuries, new "gentlemanly" identity signals were constructed to distinguish the "gentlemanly" sort from social categories like "artisan" (gong 工) that they viewed as inferior. New kinds of "gentlemen" like the "qin-zither gentleman" (qinshi 琴士), "painting gentleman" (huashi 畫士), and "classicist physician" (ruyi 儒醫) emerged; older labels like "recluse" (yinshi 隱士) expanded to encompass a wider variety of ways of living. New offices and titles at court were created that could signal membership in "gentlemanly" communities despite a close connection with arts like medicine or painting. And beyond these labels, men developed new "gentlemanly" identities through distinct modes of engagement in the respective field: the way one divined others' fates, the strategies one used to win a board game, the metaphysical elements and ideals expressed in one's art and discursive artistic judgments, the tools one didn't use when fishing, and so on. These identity signals were situational, and each chapter draws upon examples of disagreement or doubt over the inclusion or exclusion of certain men as "gentlemen" to explore instances in which such signals were performed with varying degrees of efficacy.In my conclusion, I discuss the connection between many of these "gentlemanly" identity signals and an emerging form of social snobbery that I call the "discourse of 'gentlemanly' expertise." In the 7th century and earlier, if the "gentlemanly" sort compared themselves to "artisans," it would almost certainly be based on what they did. However, around the 9th-13th centuries, the "gentlemanly" sort became more actively involved (or vocal about their involvement) in the arts, and started to contrast their own practice and appreciation of these arts more actively with the (ostensibly inferior) practice and appreciation of "non-gentlemanly" sorts. In doing so, they began to define and distinguish themselves not by what they did, but by how they did it. They did not stop with simply articulating "gentlemanly" practices as different but equally good; they asserted that their practices and products were superior, claiming expertise in these fields on the basis of their ethical values, cultural norms, aesthetic preferences, and abstract knowledge of the cosmos and the ineffable "Way" (Dao 道). I argue that, ironically, this snobbish discourse of social distinction actually made it increasingly possible for people earning a livelihood in various arts to enact "gentlemanly" identities, by associating symbolic capital with the demonstration or depiction of "gentlemanly" modes of engagement.By focusing on the increasing number of ways in which "gentlemanly" identities were constructed and performed in 7th-14th century China, this dissertation offers insight into how individuals and groups made decisions of inclusion or exclusion, offered or obtained access to resources, and developed a sense of self and place in society. In doing so, it enriches our understandings of both the social forces shaping the middle period Chinese social world, and the individuals and groups who inhabited it.

Scandals and abstractions: 1980s finance and the revaluation of American culture

La Berge, Leigh Claire New York University 2008 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation reveals how the burgeoning force of transnational finance became contested ground of representation in 1980s American culture. Using recent work in political economy, the project examines three areas of 1980s cultural production in which finance marks the intersection of changing social relations and aesthetic forms. The first section examines how finance was theorized in political economy as a return of a form of capitalism last seen in the 1920s. I argue that the representation of finance in political economic work as temporal form of value provides a basis for narrative analysis. Secondly, through a reconstruction of theories of postmodernity and post-industrialism, I explore why finance has eluded cultural theorization. Under what conditions did production expire as a grounding trope of theoretical discourse, and how does finance as a theoretical form occupy an interstitial ground between Marxism and post-structuralism? Thirdly, and most substantially, I follow the representation of finance in cultural production as financial objects and practices proliferated in cultural texts. My title, Scandals and Abstractions: 1980s Finance and the Revaluation of American Culture suggests the two ways that 1980s finance has been memorialized: the infamous Wall Street scandals of 1980s print culture and, more recently, as a problem of abstraction in social theory. Reading the vernacular and theoretical together allows me to trace the transformation of finance into a cultural form. I introduce the term "financial masculinity" as an optic of narrative analysis in order to examine how realist and postmodern novels offer competing visions of the relationship between finance and gendered and racialized violence. Finally, I relate the changing form of cultural production under increased media consolidation to the depiction of finance in popular film.

Alban Berg의 <Piano sonata Op.1>분석 연구

한아름 경성대학교 대학원 2013 국내석사

In this paper, I looked at how Berg‘s musical usage has been expressed through Piano Sonata Op.1. First, in terms of formality, this Sonata is a simple piece. The music is composed of 4 movements, these are an Exposition, a Development, a Recapitulation and a Coda. This is a classic Sonata-Allegro style. Even though the music was written by Schönberg in 1908, it is still bound by the classic outline. Second, because the music is composed in B minor, it sounds atonal. The first theme is made with b minor but the second theme is made with A major. Then the song ends with regular mode. This shows that the music is still bound by the classic Sonata-Allegro style. Third, in terms of harmony, an extreme chromatic scale and atonality are present throughout the entire piece. Fourth, Berg's early work in Piano Sonata Op.1 is repetitive. It modifies the theme tune using A, B, and C of imitation, dislocation, distortion, reduction and expansion. It shows Wagner's Leitmotiv which uses flows of music to maximize rhythm. The use of such melody with counterpoint or repeating techniques contributes to the unity as a whole in this piece. So far, I have learned that the Piano Sonata Op.1 is still bound by the classic form and harmonized with atonality, delineation of passion, and romance. In this paper, analysis of Berg's formation of atonal music, I hope that I can help you understand Berg‘s music. Berg’s music shows new possibilities for the contemporary music in the 20th century to move forward by keeping the classic form while showing atonality and description of passion and romance. I sincerely hope that this paper will help those who learn Berg‘s music and his works so that they can improve their understanding and playing of his music.

알반 베르크의 보수적·낭만적 성향에 관하여 바이올린 협주곡을 중심으로

Berg, Alban 한양대학교 대학원 2001 국내석사

알반 베르크는 쇤베르크, 베베른과 더불어 12음기법 음악을 창출한 『제 2비엔나 악파』의 일원이다. 그러나 베르크는 다른 두 작곡가와 다르게 그의 초기음악 시기, 심지어는 12음음악 시기에도 슈만과 말러에게서 이어받은 낭만적 특징들을 보여주고 있다. 그의 마지막 완성작인 바이올린 협주곡에서 베르크는 3화음을 내포하고 있는 12음음열을 사용하며 그것과 함께 민요와 코랄을 교대로 사용한다. 본 논문은 이 베르크의 12음음악에서 다음과 같은 점을 살펴봄으로써 그 안에 나타나는 보수적인 면모를 찾아보고자 하였다. 첫째, 12음음열의 조성적 함축, 둘째, 12음음열의 다양한 적용방법, 셋째, 고전적 악구구조와 대칭적인 형식, 넷째, 바하 코랄의 베르크식, 바하식의 화성화의 교대, 다섯째, 전 악장을 통한 음악적 재료의 순환기법 등이다. 베르크의 바이올린 협주곡은 그의 낭만적, 보수적 면모를 볼 수 있는 가장 대표적인 곡 중의 하나이다. 본 연구를 통하여 이 곡은 새로운 양식과 과거의 양식과의 조화를 위한 끊임없는 경향을 보여주고, 또한 대조되는 음악적 재료들을 조합하여 곡 전체에 통일성을 부여하는 그의 창조적인 천재성과 기법이 잘 드러나는 곡이라는 것을 알 수 있었다. Alban Berg is one of the members of the『Second Viennese School』 with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, which created the twelve-note technique. Unlikely with the other two composers, Berg preserved Romantic features of Schumann and Mahler in his earlier and even in his dodecaphonic periods. In his last complete work, Violin Concerto(1935), Berg alternately employs the folk tune and chorale with the resources of a twelve-tone series, albeit one with strong triadic implications. This paper focused on the conservative characters in his twelve-tone work through examining: tonal implications of the twelve-tone series; various ways of employing twelve-tone series; classical phrase structure and symmetrical form; alterations of the harmonizations of J. S. Bach's chorale both in Berg's and Bach's style; cyclical reprise of the same material in all movements. The study shows that the Violin Concerto is one of the representative works to study Berg's Romantic and conservative features. The Concerto provides Berg's constant tendency of the connection between the new style and that of the past, and also it displays his inventive genius and easy mastery of the unifying technique with the contrastive materials throughout the work.

Alban Berg의 "Sieben fruhe lieder"에 나타난 旋律의 有機性에 關한 分析硏究

Berg, Alban 曉星女子大學校 1988 국내석사

Alban Berg의 Vilion Concerto에 관한 분석 연구 : 12음 기법을 중심으로

조신혜 嶺南大學校 1987 국내석사

Alban Berg의 sting quartet 'Lyric suite'에 나타난 음열 분석 연구

김 신미 계명대학교 대학원 1997 국내석사

From a spoken to a written language : the introduction and development of literary Urmia Aramaic in the nineteenth century

Murre-Van den Berg, H. L H.L. Murre-van den Berg? 1995 국내박사