The Aesthetic Book of Decadent Literature, 1870-1914

Williford, Daniel Patrick University of California, Los Angeles 2015 해외박사(DDOD)

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This dissertation argues for a reading of English Aesthetic and Decadent literature within the context of the limited-edition, artistically produced aesthetic book. Within studies in print culture and the history of the book, late nineteenth-century England is an established center in the revival of fine arts printing owing to the influence of the Chiswick Press, the Daniel Press, the Kelmscott Press, the Doves Press, the Vale Press, and the Eragny Press. Yet little scholarly attention has been paid to the overlap of these efforts in artistic book design with the literature of the Aesthetic and later Decadent movements. In the first chapter, I argue that Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems (1870) was the first book of literature that sought to be a total art object, designed and illustrated by Rossetti himself. I also discuss Simeon Solomon's A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep (1871) as the first aesthetic book of symbolist literature that was based on Rossetti's Poems. The second chapter focuses on Aesthetic theorist Walter Pater's collaboration with the printer Charles Henry Olive Daniel in their production of An Imaginary Portrait (1894) as a limited-edition book. I suggest the way that Pater's story, within the context of Daniel's printed volume, can be read to show that people who had a highly-refined aesthetic sensibility often constituted a rare and even an elite psychological type. I show that his work frequently centers on representations of same-sex desire, and I suggest that Pater's Aesthetic theory is also a theory of queer personhood. The third chapter concentrates on Charles Ricketts's and William Llewellyn Hacon's Vale Press. I show that the aesthetic book has a particular valence when it is also a work of Decadent literature. Within Decadence as a literary movement, an ironic appropriation of Aestheticism allows a community of writers to portray same-sex desire as as a style of artifice against nature. Once Aestheticism becomes associated with effeminacy and psychological androgyny, the aesthetic book of Decadent literature becomes the model of a rare, refined, and collectible object that prefigures the community formation of queer outsider identities.

Henry James and Romantic Revisionism: The Quest for the Man of Imagination in the Late Work

Nutters, Daniel Rosenberg ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Temple University 2017 해외박사(DDOD)

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This study situates the late work of Henry James in the tradition of Romantic revisionism. In addition, it surveys the history of James criticism alongside the academic critique of Romantic-aesthetic ideology. I read The American Scene, the New York Edition Prefaces, and other late writings as a single text in which we see James refashion an identity by transforming the divisions or splits in the modern subject into the enabling condition for renewed creativity. In contrast to the Modernist myth of Henry James the master reproached by recent scholarship, I offer a new critical fiction -- what James calls the man of imagination -- that models a form of selfhood which views our ironic and belated condition as a fecund limitation. The Jamesian man of imagination encourages the continual (but never resolvable) quest for a coherent creative identity by demonstrating how our need to sacrifice elements of life (e.g. desires and aspirations) when we confront tyrannical circumstances can become a prerequisite for pursuing an unreachable ideal. This study draws on the work of post-war Romantic revisionist scholarship (e.g. Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Paul de Man) as well as French theory (e.g. Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida) and other traditions (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to challenge new instrumentalizing scholarly methodologies that aim to overcome the ironies of critical vision. I argue that James's man of imagination not only presents a critical agency that profits from criticism's penchant for ironic repetition but also a politics that can help us navigate the tension between artistic self-stylization and the social constraints intrinsic to the liberal rule of law.

Investigating the Impact of Response-Style Heterogeneity on the Measurement of Psychological Constructs

Adams, Daniel J ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

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The frequent use of self-report rating scale surveys in measuring psychological attributes makes the validity of this form of assessment an important consideration in social science research. One concern with this form of assessment is the possibility that respondents use the rating scale differently in responding to the items. Commonly, respondents display tendencies to over- or under-utilize rating-scale categories in a systematic way, tendencies referred to as response styles. A common example of a response style is one in which the respondent over-selects the extreme rating scale endpoints. When response-style heterogeneity is present and not accounted for, there is a potential for significantly biased estimates of the intended-to-be-measured psychological trait. In this dissertation, I consider two applications related to response-style interference with measurement of the psychological trait. The first application introduces the possibility that response-style heterogeneity at the individual respondent level as a source of person misfit. In this application I introduce a procedure for determining whether a given respondent is demonstrating a response style, as well as a model for clarifying the type of response style as well as the nature and amount of response-style heterogeneity in a population of respondents. The second application attempts to better understand the biasing implications of response styles on the estimated correlations between psychological traits. In this application, I extend findings from a previous study to demonstrate how certain test conditions can make the biasing effects of response style much greater than previously thought.

The Influence of Particulate Matter and Methane on Regional Air Quality and Climate in the United States and India

Cusworth, Daniel Harvard University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2018 해외박사(DDOD)

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Ab Initio Investigations of Gas Adsorption on Buckybowls

Burrill, Daniel J University of Pittsburgh ProQuest Dissertations & 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

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Hansel und Gretel

Nichols, Joshua Daniel ProQuest Dissertations & Theses The University of 2021 해외박사(DDOD)

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Hansel und Gretel, a symphonic poem for wind ensemble, is an original musical composition based on the innovations of the symphonic poem genre. This work is written for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets (in B-flat), bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, two alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, three trumpets, four horns, two trombones, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, double bass, timpani, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, snare drum, bass drum, and large gong. It is divided into four movements. The form is very similar to the Romantic Era symphony, consisting of an Introduction–Allegro, Adagio, Scherzando, and Finale. Due to the flexibility of the wind ensemble genre as having a primarily educational instrumentation, parts such as flute, clarinet, euphonium, and tuba can be doubled. The work is semi-programmatic, following the adaptation of the narrative of “Hansel and Gretel” as a traditional fairy tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 in Grimms' Fairy Tales. The composition features elements of absolute music, in that there are no strict leitmotifs nor other explicit mentions of characters, programmatic development of character themes, or literal-musical verbosity, such as a guillotine in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. All themes are original and do not intentionally quote other works, though moments of musical parody pervade the work (e.g., Dies irae in movement two, Stravinsky's Danse sacrale (L'Elue) from Le Sacre du printemps in movement three).All examples provided in the appendix are given in transposed pitch (unless otherwise indicated).

Equality and Migration: Essays on Mobility, Citizenship, and Exclusion

Sharp, Daniel Eugene ProQuest Dissertations & Theses New York Universit 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

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This dissertation explores the various ways in which considerations of egalitarian justice constrain how states may permissibly regulate emigration, immigration, and naturalization. It argues that considerations of relational equality provide powerful reasons to rethink actually existing regimes for managing mobility in general and the immigration and naturalization policies of affluent states in particular. Relational egalitarians, I argue, ought to be concerned to minimize where possible hierarchies of power and status. Yet, state’s immigration policies, individually and collectively, regularly create such disparities. To this end, I advance three core arguments. First, I contend that well-off states’ immigration restrictions accord the citizens of well-off states a troubling form of asymmetric power over the disadvantaged. This creates an objectionably unequal relationship between citizens and disadvantaged immigrants. Second, I show that the importance of tempering and minimizing power and status inequalities within states requires recognizing a robust right to emigrate. Making this right to emigrate effective requires that states cooperate to institute a system of migration management which admits of a right to immigrate of a limited sort. Finally, I show that relational equality powerfully constrains how states ought to shape their citizenship and naturalization policies: negatively, conferring citizenship on some but not others creates a social status hierarchy between citizens and immigrants; positively, conferring citizenship equally on all is a uniquely suitable way for the state to demonstrate an attractive form of equal public treatment for whose settled within its jurisdiction. While considerations of equality generally militate in favor of greater openness, a full theory of migration would need to take into account a range of other important values. In order to demonstrate how such values might be taken into account, I explore one of the legitimate reasons that states may seek to limit migration—namely, to protect the ability of the state’s residents to pursue their located projects over time. While I agree that the value of people’s located projects can provide a legitimate reason to regulate migration, I show that this argument can only justify exclusion when certain demanding conditions are met. The upshot, I argue in the conclusion, is a distinctive vision of how states may collectively manage migration, which offers an attractive middle-ground position between open borders on the one hand and a discretionary right to exclude.

Made into Strangers: An Account of Social Alienation

Brinkerhoff Young, Daniel Walter ProQuest Dissertations & Theses New York Universit 2022 해외박사(DDOD)

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In this dissertation I offer a new and systematic account of the concept of social alienation, rooted in a reading of Karl Marx and Frantz Fanon. In doing so, I overturn the dominant received understanding of alienation, both in popular and in critical social thought. Usually, alienation is taken to consist entirely of an individual's disposition towards any aspect of their life. But alienation in the tradition represented by Marx and Fanon, I argue, is primarily about the objective character of people's social relationships, and their response to it. This concept of social alienation is a way of articulating a sense in which people can be strangers to one another—"strangers" not in the sense of merely not knowing one another, but in the sense of lacking the right kind of basis to justify caring about one other for the other's own sake. People caring about one another in this way is a certain social good of community—the third, I argue, in the French Revolutionary trio, "liberte, egalite, fraternite"—and social alienation is the absence of this good. In this absence, the default is instead for people to disregard one another's value or treat one another merely as tools.However, according to this account of social alienation, these deficient relationships do not come just from bad individual behavior. Rather, we are made into strangers from one another by certain social forces—indifference and instrumentalization are actually baked into our patterns of social interaction. One example (from Marx): competitive market arrangements pit us against one another in pursuit of livelihood and desirable work. Another (from Fanon): racist social conditioning trains us to unconsciously treat certain people as worthy of being instrumentalized. Certain social conditions, therefore, rob us of this important good of community: community in which people experience others caring for them as valuable for their own sake, and to be able to see themselves as directly contributing to the lives of others for their own sake. Furthermore, when we relate to people as strangers in this sense, we experience those social bonds as constraining, a form of unfreedom.In Chapter 1, I develop an interpretation of Marx's early texts on alienation, arguing that his guiding question on alienation is what kinds of social and political structures allow individuals to be justified in treating others as ends in themselves, rather than as 'strangers.' Even Marx's famous discussion of alienated or estranged labor, I argue, is really about the character of the social relationships involved. In Chapter 2, I offer original arguments for Marx's conviction that overcoming alienation is in fact a form of freedom, and I reconstruct an ideal of freedom within social interdependence inspired by socialist and feminist traditions. In Chapter 3, I argue that Fanon takes up and develops this concept of social alienation to understand the character of social relationships in a racist society. Fanon innovates the concept in order to understand how racist ideology and practice create new forms of alienation that are internalized in the psyche, with monstrous and destructive results.

The Impact of Cytoplasmic Capping on Transcriptome Complexity

del Valle-Morales, Daniel E The Ohio State University ProQuest Dissertations & 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

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Policies and Planning for Low-Carbon Power Systems

Olsen, Daniel Julius Burle University of Washington ProQuest Dissertations & 2019 해외박사(DDOD)

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Mitigating the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change is a pressing global concern which will require steep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases, including from power systems. In line with over a century of research into environmental economics, private industry has little incentive to provide enough emissions reductions unless induced to do so by effective public policy. There has been considerable research into energy and environmental economic policies, as well as into the technical potential for power systems to be planned and operated for lower carbon emissions, but so far the literature lacks an intersection of these two areas. This dissertation is intended to fill that gap, by presenting detailed technical models of power systems embedded within policy design problems for lowering carbon emissions. Four policy design models are proposed in detail:i) Electrification of transportation will likely lead to large increases in at-home vehicle charging, which can stress residential distributions systems that were not planned for this level of peak evening demand. The deployment of home energy management systems will tend to shift loads towards traditional off-peak hours, but may end up creating new local peaks. How can distribution system operators manage the transition of their customers to more electrified transportation and price-responsive load scheduling?ii) Power systems present one of the most practical opportunities for quick emissions reductions, as fuel-switching on the back-end can significantly reduce emissions with no change in the quality or quantity of power delivered to consumers. However, many power systems are operated at minimum fuel cost and allow carbon dioxide to be emitted for free, or have a price on emissions that is ineffective in driving deep decarbonization. How can we design a carbon tax rate that achieves a given emissions reduction target at minimum cost increase?iii) Much of the world's primary energy consumption is ultimately induced by the consumption of secondary energy within buildings. If we are designing new campus-scale energy infrastructure, which energy conversion and storage equipment should we install to meet our target target for induced emissions? If we only have control of equipment choices via building codes, what are the relative efficiencies of these less direct policy measures?iv) Grid-scale energy storage is often touted as the answer to the problem of the intermittency of renewable generation. However, if installed in current power systems and operated without regard for marginal emissions rates, it is likely to increase carbon emissions. If we mandate an 'emissions neutrality constraint'-the impact of storage operation on power systems cannot be to increase emissions-how does this change power system emissions, operating costs, and investment in grid-scale energy storage?The use of these policy design approaches in broader-scale decarbonization models is discussed, and several more projects in the same vein are proposed for future work.