Robert Owen's opening speech, and his reply to the Rev. Alex. Campbell, in the recent public discussion in Cincinnati, to prove that the principles of all religions are erroneous, and that their practice is injurious to the human race. Also, Mr. Owen's Memorial to the republic of Mexico, and a narrative of the proceedings thereon ... for the purpose of establishing a new political and moral system of government, founded on the laws of nature, as explained in the above debate with Mr. Campbell.

References: U.S.IANA, no. O.166.

The use of animation to promote student learning about the importance of mental well-being for tertiary study success

It is now widely acknowledged that student mental well-being is a critical factor in the tertiary student learning experience and is important to student learning success. The issue of student mental well-being also has implications for effective student transition out of university and into the world of work. It is therefore vital that intentional strategies are adopted by universities both within the formal curriculum, and outside it, to promote student well-being and to work proactively and preventatively to avoid a decline in student psychological well-being. This paper describes how the Queensland University of Technology Law School is using animation to teach students about the importance for their learning success of the protection of their mental well-being. Mayer and Moreno (2002) define an animation as an external representation with three main characteristics: (1) it is a pictorial representation, (2) it depicts apparent movement, and (3) it consists of objects that are artificially created through drawing or some other modelling technique. Research into the effectiveness of animation as a tool for tertiary student learning engagement is relatively new and growing field of enquiry. Nash argues, for example, that animations provide a “rich, immersive environment [that] encourages action and interactivity, which overcome an often dehumanizing learning management system approach” (Nash, 2009, 25). Nicholas states that contemporary millennial students in universities today, have been immersed in animated multimedia since their birth and in fact need multimedia to learn and communicate effectively (2008). However, it has also been established, for example through the work of Lowe (2003, 2004, 2008) that animations can place additional perceptual, attentional, and cognitive demands on students that they are not always equipped to cope with. There are many different genres of animation. The dominant style of animation used in the university learning environment is expository animation. This approach is a useful tool for visualising dynamic processes and is used to support student understanding of subjects and themes that might otherwise be perceived as theoretically difficult and disengaging. It is also a form of animation that can be constructed to avoid any potential negative impact on cognitive load that the animated genre might have. However, the nature of expository animation has limitations for engaging students, and can present as clinical and static. For this reason, the project applied Kombartzky, Ploetzner, Schlag, and Metz’s (2010) cognitive strategy for effective student learning from expository animation, and developed a hybrid form of animation that takes advantage of the best elements of expository animation techniques along with more engaging short narrative techniques. First, the paper examines the existing literature on the use of animation in tertiary educational contexts. Second, the paper describes how animation was used at QUT Law School to teach students about the issue of mental well-being and its importance to their learning success. Finally, the paper analyses the potential of the use of animation, and of the cognitive strategy and animation approach trialled in the project, as a teaching tool for the promotion of student learning about the importance of mental well-being.

A pedra da lua: contos de Machado de Assis reunidos em Papéis avulsos e Várias histórias

Machado de Assis, nas coletâneas de contos intituladas Papéis avulsos e Várias histórias, faz repetidas alusões à ficção e ao fazer ficcional, o que leva a pensar na possibilidade da escolha intencional de um eixo temático que percorra as narrativas, permitindo que sejam lidas na compreensão dessa intencionalidade, o que confere ao conjunto uma característica autorreferencial. As evocações de Diderot, Merimée e Edgar Allan Poe nessas famílias de contos situam literariamente um entendimento da ficção que a distingue do engano e da fraude, ao mesmo tempo em que não nega sua força e variedade de usos, enquanto supõe futuros e por vezes obscuros caminhos para os prazeres da sensação estética. No decorrer desta Tese procuro provar que o autor escolhe a narrativa curta para discorrer sobre o fazer ficcional, sendo esse tema um a mais dentre outros, apuradamente ordenados em camadas que não apenas se superpõem, mas interpenetram e reafirmam variadas vertentes de fios narrativos. Machado conta histórias, enquanto trata do próprio ato de contar, dos efeitos e da necessidade da ficção enquanto isso, reafirma-a como instrumento para a intelectualidade, num mundo onde a objetividade cartesiana já não supõe os olhos como fiéis receptores da realidade, mas precisa de outras maneiras de ver e de sentir

Monitoring report: sand dune reconstruction and restoration, at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

The Plan for Sand Dune Reconstruction and Restoration (and Biological Assessment) at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (ABA Consultants, April 1, 1992) described reconstruction of dune contours and biological restoration with native dune plants to be carried out over the 8 acre site formerly occupied by the marine labs (prior to the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 1989). The plan called for annual reports in letter form which would present data on plant abundance, a short narrative description of changes on the site, progress towards recovery of the plant community, and assessment of progress based on restoration goals and further steps to be taken. This monitoring report [dated April 25, 1994] addresses those points and also contains a summary of other activities integral in dune restoration -- education, public participation, school and conservation organization field trips, as well as the associated activities of restoration, plant collecting, propagation, and weed control.

Creep show suivi de "Je est des autres" : de l'esthétique borderline chez Marie-Sissi Labrèche

Dans Creep show, un narrateur présente ses creeps, les malades de son entourage, des schizophrènes inadéquatement nommés, afin de les ramener à la vie par ses mots. En se souvenant de certains moments où la folie se manifestait à lui, il veut déterrer ses ensevelis, les faire parler en leur prêtant son écriture. Dans un récit morcelé pouvant évoquer une galerie de portraits en mouvement, les protagonistes sont présentés comme des monstres, des rêveurs ou des sources d’inspiration selon le moment relaté par un narrateur affecté qui se replonge littéralement dans un passé s’échelonnant entre l’enfance et l’âge de dix-huit ans. Portant autant sur la maladie mentale que sur la honte et la peur des mots, Creep show est un texte sur le silence et l’impuissance, sur l’incapacité de nommer adéquatement la folie ; il s’agit d’un court récit de dix-sept scènes encadrées par un prologue et un épilogue où l’écriture d’un traumatisme se vit comme une histoire d’amour. L’essai intitulé “Je est des autres.” De l’esthétique borderline chez Marie-Sissi Labrèche décrit la genèse d’une esthétique « borderline ». Dans une approche à la fois psychanalytique et narratologique, fondée sur les concepts de la mélancolie, du kitsch et de la crypte, l’analyse tente de montrer quel type de construction thématique et formelle soutient cette esthétique. À partir d’éléments représentatifs de l’univers de Marie-Sissi Labrèche (la question de la limite, la pulsion de mort, le rapport au corps et l’instabilité), l’essai s’intéresse à la façon dont la narratrice de Borderline (2000) donne à lire une identité sédimentaire, un autoportrait masqué-fêlé, où « Je est [des] autre[s] ». En regard de ces éléments, l’hypothèse d’une machine textuelle fonctionnant – thématiquement et formellement – dans et par l’instabilité et l’altérité oriente la réflexion vers l’idée d’une écriture du trauma qui pourrait représenter une tentative de réappropriation identitaire passant par l’esthétique dite « borderline ».

By indirections find directions out : thinkable worlds in Abbott and Vonnegut

This thesis is concerned with the interaction between literature and abstract thought. More specifically, it studies the epistemological charge of the literary, the type of knowledge that is carried by elements proper to fictional narratives into different disciplines. By concentrating on two different theoretical methods, the creation of thought experiments and the framing of possible worlds, methods which were elaborated and are still used today in spheres as varied as modal logics, analytic philosophy and physics, and by following their reinsertion within literary theory, the research develops the theory that both thought experiments and possible worlds are in fact short narrative stories that inform knowledge through literary means. By using two novels, Abbott’s Flatland and Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan, that describe extra-dimensional existence in radically different ways, respectively as a phenomenologically unknowable space and as an outward perspective on time, it becomes clear that literature is constitutive of the way in which worlds, fictive, real or otherwise, are constructed and understood. Thus dimensions, established through extensional analogies as either experimental knowledge or modal possibility for a given world, generate new directions for thought, which can then take part in the inductive/deductive process of scientia. By contrasting the dimensions of narrative with the way that dimensions were historically constituted, the research also establishes that the literary opens up an infinite potential of abstract space-time domains, defined by their specific rules and limits, and that these different experimental folds are themselves partaking in a dimensional process responsible for new forms of understanding. Over against science fiction literary theories of speculation that posit an equation between the fictive and the real, this thesis examines the complex structure of many overlapping possibilities that can organise themselves around larger compossible wholes, thus offering a theory of reading that is both non-mimetic and non-causal. It consequently examines the a dynamic process whereby literature is always reconceived through possibilities actualised by reading while never defining how the reader will ultimately understand the overarching structure. In this context, the thesis argues that a causal story can be construed out of any one interaction with a given narrative—underscoring, for example, the divinatory strength of a particular vision of the future—even as this narrative represents only a fraction of the potential knowledge of any particular literary text. Ultimately, the study concludes by tracing out how novel comprehensions of the literary, framed by the material conditions of their own space and time, endlessly renew themselves through multiple interactions, generating analogies and speculations that facilitate the creation of new knowledge.

O poeta enquanto vidente: Novalis e a romantização da linguagem

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A função do melodrama em alguns contos queirozianos

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Un passo indietro al Decameron e os limites intangíveis do Novellino

The narratives of Decameron, composed by Giovanni Boccacio in the 14th century, possess a popular content carefully tied together by a formal structure capable of concentrating sophisticated techniques. The present paper revisits some relation possibilities between Decameron and Novellino, an anonymous work from the 13th century, composed on the basis of fables and stories gathered mainly from the oral tradition. Our aim is not to demonstrate a genealogy of the prose and of its freedom to recover narrative situations but to reflect, by means of examples of great reverberation, on the strategies developed to make elements from the ancient tradition highly functional in the literary tradition, according to the formal resources available in each period.

A SÉRIE CONTOS DA MEIA NOITE : Textos literários transmutados para televisão.

Este trabalho enfoca o processo de transmutação do conto literário para a televisão, utilizando a série Contos da Meia Noite [CMN], produzida e exibida pela TV Cultura de São Paulo uma emissora da Fundação Padre Anchieta. Inicialmente, busca-se conceituar a noção de Conto, e em seguida, faz-se um levantamento da veiculação do primeiro ano da série, o que totaliza o corpus de 89 programas. O objetivo deste trabalho é o de compreender a especificidade dos CMN enquanto uma proposta de transmutação do literário para o televisivo. Para isso é adotado, além de uma entrevista semi-estruturada com Fernando Martins - um dos realizadores da série o procedimento de análise de conteúdo, que detalha: o texto de abertura, a oralização e os créditos finais de uma amostra formada por 10 programas. Com isso, pode-se considerar nesta nova proposta de transmutação a possibilidade televisiva de manter a autoria da narrativa curta e seu estilo original estabelecido pelo suporte livro.(AU)

A SÉRIE CONTOS DA MEIA NOITE : Textos literários transmutados para televisão.

Este trabalho enfoca o processo de transmutação do conto literário para a televisão, utilizando a série Contos da Meia Noite [CMN], produzida e exibida pela TV Cultura de São Paulo uma emissora da Fundação Padre Anchieta. Inicialmente, busca-se conceituar a noção de Conto, e em seguida, faz-se um levantamento da veiculação do primeiro ano da série, o que totaliza o corpus de 89 programas. O objetivo deste trabalho é o de compreender a especificidade dos CMN enquanto uma proposta de transmutação do literário para o televisivo. Para isso é adotado, além de uma entrevista semi-estruturada com Fernando Martins - um dos realizadores da série o procedimento de análise de conteúdo, que detalha: o texto de abertura, a oralização e os créditos finais de uma amostra formada por 10 programas. Com isso, pode-se considerar nesta nova proposta de transmutação a possibilidade televisiva de manter a autoria da narrativa curta e seu estilo original estabelecido pelo suporte livro.(AU)

A SÉRIE CONTOS DA MEIA NOITE : Textos literários transmutados para televisão.

Este trabalho enfoca o processo de transmutação do conto literário para a televisão, utilizando a série Contos da Meia Noite [CMN], produzida e exibida pela TV Cultura de São Paulo uma emissora da Fundação Padre Anchieta. Inicialmente, busca-se conceituar a noção de Conto, e em seguida, faz-se um levantamento da veiculação do primeiro ano da série, o que totaliza o corpus de 89 programas. O objetivo deste trabalho é o de compreender a especificidade dos CMN enquanto uma proposta de transmutação do literário para o televisivo. Para isso é adotado, além de uma entrevista semi-estruturada com Fernando Martins - um dos realizadores da série o procedimento de análise de conteúdo, que detalha: o texto de abertura, a oralização e os créditos finais de uma amostra formada por 10 programas. Com isso, pode-se considerar nesta nova proposta de transmutação a possibilidade televisiva de manter a autoria da narrativa curta e seu estilo original estabelecido pelo suporte livro.(AU)

Teaching stylistics: analysing cohesion and narrative structure in a short story by Ernest Hemingway

The main aim of this article is to propose an exercise in stylistic analysis which can be employed in the teaching of English language. It details the design and results of a workshop activity on narrative carried out with undergraduates in a university department of English. The methods proposed are intended to enable students to obtain insights into aspects of cohesion and narrative structure; insights, it is suggested, which are not as readily obtainable through more traditional techniques of stylistic analysis. The text chosen for analysis is a short story by Ernest Hemingway comprising only 11 sentences. A jumbled version of this story is presented to students who are asked to assemble a cohesive and well-formed version of the story. Their (re)constructions are then compared with the original Hemingway version. Much interest, it is argued, lies in the ways in which the students justify their own versions in terms of their expectations about well-formedness in narrative. The activity is also intended to encourage students to see literary texts as a valuable means of providing insights into the subtleties of linguistic form and function.

The doctrine of predestination, truly and fairly stated : confirmed from clear Scripture evidence, and defended against all the material arguments and objections advanced against it, to which is prefixed, a short and faithful narrative of a remarkable revival of religion, in the congregation of New-Londonderry, and other parts of Pennsylvania, as the same was sent in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Prince of Boston /

Mode of access: Internet.

Battle fields and camp fires of the Thirty-Eighth : an authentic narrative and record of the organization of the Thirty-Eighth Regiment of Wis. Vol. Inf'y, and the part taken by it in the late war, a short biographical sketch of each commissioned officer, and the name, age at time of enlistment, nativity, residence and occupation of every enlisted man, with notes of incidents relating to them /

Reprint. Originally published: Milwaukee : Daily Wisconsin Printing House, 1866.