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Wadley, Meredith Lynne (University of Oregon, June , 1989)[more][less]Wadley, Meredith Lynne 2016-09-07T22:52:12Z 2016-09-07T22:52:12Z 1989-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20084 196 pages Short stories and selections of a novel in progress. en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US THOSE WHO WILL HAVE US Thesis / Dissertation
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Harris, Marcille Hurst (University of Oregon, June , 1935)[more][less]Harris, Marcille Hurst 2016-09-06T23:14:55Z 2016-09-06T23:14:55Z 1935-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20062 65 pages en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US sex role sex education school curriculum Human Growth PARENT-TEACHER ATTITUDES TOWARD SEX EDUCATION AND THE FILM, HUMAN GROWTH Thesis / Dissertation
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Ahland, Michael (University of Oregon, May , 2016)[more][less]Ahland, Michael 2016-06-07T20:57:49Z 2016-06-07T20:57:49Z 2016-05 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19944 Audio files en_US University of Oregon http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12456 A GRAMMAR OF NORTHERN MAO (MÀWÉS AAS’È); http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12456 https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/12456?show=full Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US Supplement to A Grammar of Northern Mao (MÀWÉS AAS’È) Recording, oral
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Mates, John William Benson (University of Oregon, August , 1973)[more][less]Mates, John William Benson 2016-05-27T22:44:40Z 2016-05-27T22:44:40Z 1973-08 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19922 229 pages en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US Chameleonidae Chameleomelleri visual sensory processing saccadic behavior visuomotor processing saccadic patterning Patterning of Eye Movements in the Chameleon Thesis / Dissertation
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Seraphin, Bruno (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Wojcik, Daniel Seraphin, Bruno 2016-02-24T00:35:44Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19733 This thesis is an ethnography of a grassroots network of nomadic “rewilders” who travel in the Northwest United States’ Great Basin region. They gather and replant wild foods in a seasonal round referred to as the “Sacred Hoop.” In five chapters, this work explores how “Hoopsters” generate, appropriate, use, and live into various narratives, here called “story-lines,” as they negotiate a meshwork of relationships with myriad overlapping human and non-human collectives. Special attention is paid to the Hoopsters’ land ethic, as well as their interactions with local Native communities. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Stories We Live: On the Hoop with Nomads of the Northwest Electronic Thesis or Dissertation 10000-01-01 M.A. masters Folklore Program University of Oregon
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Gooch, Christina (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Wooten, Stephen Gooch, Christina 2016-02-24T00:35:25Z 2016-02-24T00:35:25Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19732 Food studies offers a powerful lens through which to consider the complexity of travel, given the ways in which food can bring multiple perspectives to the table. The merging of food studies with the well-established tradition of study abroad, then, provides a platform for incorporating critical thinking and fresh perspectives into the discourse surrounding study abroad. How does food studies abroad reflect the opportunities and reify the concerns posed by study abroad in general? I explore this topic through a case study of a University of Oregon food studies abroad program, Food and Culture in Italy, looking specifically at students’ motivations, on-site experience, and perceived outcomes. I employ the lenses of identity, consumption, and experiential learning to discuss the trends that emerge from the data and conclude with a series of recommendations for moving thoughtfully and critically forward with food studies abroad programming. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Experiential learning Food studies Food studies abroad Study abroad Tourism Tourist gaze Food Studies Abroad: Identity, Consumption, and Learning in Italy Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.S. masters Environmental Studies Program University of Oregon
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Herndon, Robert (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Girvan, Erik Herndon, Robert 2016-02-24T00:35:05Z 2016-02-24T00:35:05Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19731 When looking at societies that are in transition from violence to peace, one of the major issues that is present is the need to reconcile with past adversaries. Political philosophy points to the need for the creation of a social contract that all groups can reach through reasonable agreements. This represents a political reconciliation between groups. This thesis classifies this idea as the need for cognitive reconciliation. The field of Social Psychology points to how negative emotions, or affect, can inhibit the use of reason. The field of Conflict Resolution asserts that there must also be a reconciliation on an emotional level as well. This thesis classifies this as the need for affective reconciliation. This project looks at a way to integrate the cognitive and affective forms of reconciliation into a single model. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Conflict Resolution Peacebuilding Reconciliation From Stable to Sustainable: An Integrated Model of Reconciliation in Transitional Societies Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.S. masters Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program University of Oregon
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Peña, Jaime (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Payne, Doris Peña, Jaime 2016-02-24T00:34:37Z 2016-02-24T00:34:37Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19730 This dissertation constitutes the first attempt at describing the grammar of Wampis (Spanish: Huambisa), a language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. Wampis belongs to the so-called Jivaroan family of languages and is closely related to sister languages Awajun, Shuar, Shiwiar and Achuar. The grammar introduces the Wampis people and some aspects of their culture and history before analyzing the major aspects of the language from a grammatical perspective. Wampis possesses a complex prosodic system that mixes features of tone and stress. Vowel elision processes pervade most morphophonological processes. Nasalization is also present and spreads rightward and leftward through continuants and vowels. Every word in Wampis needs at least one high tone, but more can occur in a word. Morphologically, Wampis is a very rich language. Nouns and especially verbs have very robust morphology. Affixes and enclitics contribute different meanings to words. Some morphemes codify semantic categories that are not grammatically codified in many other languages, such as sudden realization, apprehensive and mirative modalities. An outstanding feature of Wampis is the pattern of argument indexation on the verb, which follows an uncommon pattern in which the verb agrees with the object (and not with the subject) if the object is a Plural Speech Act participant. Parallel to this pattern of argument indexation is the typologically uncommon pattern of object marking in Wampis, whereby a third person object noun phrase is not marked as an object if the subject is a first plural, second singular or second plural person. Wampis exhibits a nominative-accusative alignment. All notional objects (direct, indirect, object of applicative) are treated identically in the syntax. The preferred order is A P V. Wampis also possesses a sophisticated system of participant tracking, which is instantiated in the grammar via switch-reference markers. Another typologically uncommon feature of Wampis is the presence of a sub-system of switch-reference markers that track a participant that is not a subject. Throughout the twenty-one chapters of this grammar, other issues of Wampis related to different areas of phonology, morphology and syntax are also addressed and described from a functional and a typological perspective. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Amazonian Linguistics Jivaroan Languages Prosody Syntax Typology Wampis (Huambisa) A Grammar of Wampis Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Linguistics University of Oregon
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Gutierrez, Fernando (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Dou, Dejing Gutierrez, Fernando 2016-02-24T00:34:06Z 2016-02-24T00:34:06Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19729 Information extraction (IE) is the process of automatically transforming written natural language (i.e., text) into structured information, such as a knowledge base. However, because natural language is inherently ambiguous, this transformation process is highly complex. On the other hand, as Information Extraction moves from the analysis of scientific documents to the analysis of Internet textual content, we cannot rely completely on the assumption that the content of the text is correct. Indeed, in contrast to scientific documents, which are peer reviewed, Internet content is not verified for the quality and correctness. Thus, two main issues that affect the IE process are the complexity of the extraction process and the quality of the data. In this dissertation, we propose an improved ontology-based IE (OBIE) by providing solutions to these issues of accuracy and content quality. Based on a hybrid strategy that combines aspects of IE that are usually considered as opposite to each other, or that are not even considered, we intend to improve IE by developing a more accurate extraction and new functionality (semantic error detection). Our approach is based on OBIE, a sub-area of IE, which reduces extraction complexity by including domain knowledge, in the form of concepts and relationships of the domain, to guide the extraction process. We address the complexity of extraction by combining information extractors that have different implementations. By integrating different types of implementation into one extraction system, we can produce a more accurate extraction. For each concept or relationship in the ontology, we can select the best implementation for extraction, or we can combine both implementations under an ensemble learning schema. In tandem, we address the quality of information by determining its semantic correctness with regard to domain knowledge. We define two methods for semantic error detection: by predefining the types of errors expected in the text or by applying logic reasoning to the text. This dissertation includes both published and unpublished coauthored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Information extraction Logic Reasoning Ontology A Hybrid Approach for Ontology-based Information Extraction Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Computer and Information Science University of Oregon
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Baldwin, Thomas (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Steck, Daniel Baldwin, Thomas 2016-02-24T00:33:50Z 2016-02-24T00:33:50Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19728 In a semiconductor, negative charge is carried by conduction-band electrons and positive charge is carried by valence-band holes. While charge transport properties can be understood by considering the motion of these carriers individually, the optical properties are largely determined by their mutual interaction. The hydrogen-like bound state of an electron with a hole, or exciton, is the fundamental optical excitation in direct-gap materials such as gallium arsenide and cadmium telluride. In this dissertation, we consider charged excitons, or trions. A bound state of an exciton with a resident electron or hole, trions are a relatively pure manifestation of the three-body problem which can be studied experimentally. This is a subject of practical as well as academic interest: Since the trion is the elementary optical excitation of a resident free carrier, the related optical processes can open pathways for manipulating carrier spin and carrier transport. We present three experimental investigations of trion-based optical processes in semiconductor quantum wells. In the first, we demonstrate electromagnetically induced transparency via the electron spin coherence made possible by the trion transition. We explore the practical limits of this technique in high magnetic fields. In the second, we present a direct measurement of trion and exciton oscillator strength at high magnetic fields. These data reveal insights about the structure of the trion's three-body wavefunction relative to that of its next excited state, the triplet trion. In the last, we investigate the mechanism underlying exciton-correlated tunneling, an optically-controllable transport process in mixed-type quantum wells. Extensive experimental studies indicate that it is due to a local, indirect interaction between an exciton and a hole, forming one more example of a trion-mediated optical process. This dissertation includes previously published co-authored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. excitons gallium arsenide quantum wells trions Trion-based Optical Processes in Semiconductor Quantum Wells Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Physics University of Oregon
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Pack, Justin (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Mann, Bonnie Pack, Justin 2016-02-24T00:33:17Z 2016-02-24T00:33:17Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19727 In my dissertation, I argue that the neoliberalization of higher education results in the university becoming less and less a place of wonder, self-cultivation and thinking and instead more and more a place to specialize, strategize and produce. This is a result of the volatile infusion and mixing of the logic of calculative rationality at work in consumer capitalism with the logic of scientific instrumental rationality already hegemonic in academia. This adds to the demands of the academic world of production the demands of the world of consumption. Now the academic (and also the student) is interpellated not only as a producer of knowledge but also as an object of consumption (to be consumed by others). These new pressures, previously kept at a distance from academia, explosively accelerate the already rapid process of rationalization of which science is already a key part and increasingly structure higher education as a field of strategic action in which students no longer have the time to think and to develop good judgment. I worry this undermines the opportunity for students to develop into good citizens that can truly think critically and judge carefully. Thinking and judgment are, according to Arendt, the only things that can save us if the powerful machines of science or capitalism begin to work in ways they should not. Arendt saw Nazi Germany use the newest science and the best economic management to systematically kill six million Jews. She saw the disturbing inability of the populace and the intellectuals to capably resist the Nazi machine once it got rolling. I argue than unless checked, neoliberalization threatens to turn the university into a place that discourages thinking and the development of judgment in favor of hyperspecialization and strategic action. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Hannah Arendt Neoliberalism Research University Thoughtlessness Academics No Longer Think: How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Philosophy University of Oregon
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Denning, Catherine (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Mondloch, Kate Denning, Catherine 2016-02-24T00:32:47Z 2016-02-24T00:32:47Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19726 This thesis addresses reenactment and archival practice in the work of Sharon Hayes, a mid-career multi-media artist renowned for her use of archival documents to pose questions about history, politics, and speech. I do this through analyses of two of Hayes’s projects: the series In the Near Future (2005-2009) and a series of projects the artist refers to as “love addresses.” While these projects appropriate and repeat historical documents, Hayes’s work is especially interesting for the way it emphasizes difference over authenticity and explores the ways meaning shifts across temporal, geographic, and social contexts. In contrast to scholars who argue that Hayes’s practice is nostalgic and serves to decontextualize and depoliticize history, my thesis argues that the pedagogical aspects of Hayes’s work and her performative engagements with historical material are deeply political and contextual. My thesis demonstrates that Hayes’s distinctive contribution is to model historical agency and imagine alternative futures. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. archival practice contemporary art feminism performance art queer studies reenactment Departing from History: Sharon Hayes, Reenactment and Archival Practice in Contemporary Art Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Department of the History of Art and Architecture University of Oregon
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Fernandez, Inara (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Hindery, Derrick Fernandez, Inara 2016-02-24T00:32:28Z 2016-02-24T00:32:28Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19725 This thesis seeks to understand the intersection of cultural identity and food security in a country that has had a difficult time feeding its people. The discourse on food in Guatemala, in the realm of development and international studies, maintains a focus on the lack thereof. Moreover, the author examines the food traditions and beliefs people in Guatemala feel are important as well as the obstacles they face in realizing food self-sufficiency. Many Guatemalans have an intimate connection with their land, and unequal land distribution hinders farmers’ abilities to access the foods they most value. In addition to this, the unfolding sustainable development agenda has resulted in biofuel projects that threaten the livelihoods of many rural farmers. Through interviews with chefs, agricultural workers, and agricultural commodity traders, the author pieces together the differing perspectives of various stakeholders to present a complex mosaic of Guatemalan foodways. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Agriculture Food Studies Gastronomy Guatemala Control and Continuity: Sustainability, Land Rights, and the Politics of Food in Guatemala Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Department of International Studies University of Oregon
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Jiang, Shangpu (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Dou, Dejing Jiang, Shangpu 2016-02-24T00:32:13Z 2016-02-24T00:32:13Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19724 Machine learning and data mining have provided plenty of tools for extracting knowledge from data. Yet, such knowledge may not be directly applicable to target applications and might need further manipulation: The knowledge might contain too much noise, or the target application may use a different representation or terminology. In this dissertation, we study three problems related to knowledge management and manipulation. First, given a knowledge base (KB) automatically extracted from the text, we explore how to refine it based on the dependencies among the possible KB instances and their confidence values. Second, when the target application to which we want to apply our knowledge uses a different schema, we explore how to translate the knowledge based on the mapping between the schemas. Sometimes, the mapping between two schemas can be discovered automatically, so the third problem we consider is whether we can find the mapping more accurately using the corresponding knowledge contained in the two schemas. We notice that a large fraction of data and knowledge can be represented in relational models, which can be formalized with first-order logic. Moreover, uncertainty is a common feature existing in these problems, e.g., the confidence values associated with the KB instances, the probabilistic knowledge rules to be translated, or the schemas not perfectly aligned with each other. Therefore, we adopt statistical relational learning, which combines first-order logic with probabilistic models, to resolve these problems. In particular, we use Markov logic networks (MLNs), which consist of sets of weighted first-order formulas. MLNs are a powerful and flexible language for representing hard and soft constraints of relational domains. We develop the MLN formulations for each of these problems, and we use the representation, inference and learning approaches in the literature with certain adaptations to solve them. The experiment results show that MLNs successfully provide solutions to these problems or achieve better performances than the existing methods. This dissertation includes previously published and unpublished coauthored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Knowledge Base Refinement and Knowledge Translation with Markov Logic Networks Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Computer and Information Science University of Oregon
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Meyer, Julianne (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Gilman, Lisa Meyer, Julianne 2016-02-24T00:31:49Z 2016-02-24T00:31:49Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19723 The FisherPoets Gathering is an annual event where expressive art performed exposes the explicit and implicit gender dynamics of the occupation of commercial fishing. Through these performances, women tackle gender issues that bridge the gap between the fishing industry and the event. Through performance and interactions with fellow female FisherPoets, the women validate themselves as fishermen and comment on the behavior of their male colleagues. These performance-based expressive art forms enable them to address the fishing industry’s gender power dynamics and begin to make social change. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. commercial fishing fisherpoet folk poetry gender occupational folklore performance Words Carried in with the Tide: Boundaries of Gender in FisherPoetry Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Folklore Program University of Oregon
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Parzuchowski, Kimberley (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Johnson, Mark Parzuchowski, Kimberley 2016-02-24T00:31:27Z 2016-02-24T00:31:27Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19722 My dissertation explores the role of narrative in the cultivation of empathy for ethical attitudes and behaviors. I begin by exploring an uncommon view of human nature, concluding that we are not autonomously individualistic rational deciders but ultrasocial moral intuitionists. Our intuitions are developed through our social engagements and the moral imagination. Intersubjective relations run deep in our psychology and provide the basis by which we shape the meaning of our lives as individuals in communities. It is because of this that we need to reconsider and redesign our moral cultivation programs both for the child-rearing years and throughout adult life. I look at empathy, the means of our mutual understanding, care, and help, as a key site for moral cultivation. I explicate the neurophysiological bases of empathy, both conscious and unconscious. Empathy is on the continuum with very primitive, automatic mirroring systems, which through varying levels of mimicry facilitate social cognition and moral insight and action. It is thus the ideal means of cultivating a skillful morality. Empathy enables us to enter the worlds and feelings of others in rich and full-bodied ways and so can reveal others in their full subjectivity. Such experiences can incite empathic regard and compassionate action, but empathy, like all of our psycho-social capacities, requires cultivation to develop its skillfulness in practice. Narrative is an obvious means of cultivating empathy because it is humanity’s primary meaning-making structure, utilizing the empathic imagination to seduce us into the inner worlds of others. Through narrative dramatizations of experience, we learn to see and feel from another’s point of view, sensitizing us to their inner states and outward behavior. Such sensitivity can facilitate improving our moral attitudes and action by dislodging preoccupation with self-concern and instigating higher regard for others. In narratives we can imaginatively practice various moral actions, witnessing possible results. Reflective engagement can then bring the moral insights of these imaginative experiences to life in our practical worlds by attuning us to what is morally salient. Narrative engagement is thus a natural and vital part of shaping empathic moral perception for compassionate action. By reading and feeling with others reflectively, we can expand empathy for the pluralistic communities in which we live, make meaning, and grow. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Empathy Intersubjectivity Mirror Neurons Moral Imagination Moral Perception Narrative The Enchantment of Ethics: Empathy, Character, and the Art of Moral Living Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Philosophy University of Oregon
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Romero Montano, Luz (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Taylor, Analisa Romero Montano, Luz 2016-02-24T00:31:09Z 2016-02-24T00:31:09Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19721 In this dissertation, I argue against the idea that literary works that portray drug-trafficking, or “narconovelas,” are mere apologias for drug-trafficking and governing failures unique to Colombia and Mexico. In order to problematize that statement, it is necessary to understand how drug-trafficking and its policies started, changed over time, and came to shape our contemporary practices of citizenship and our sense of justice. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of “governmentality”, I argue that a political reading of narconovelas will help us to rethink categories of governmentality such as governed subjectivities, governed bodies and inhabited spaces. In narconovelas, these categories reveal the construction of a criminal otherness, which is portrayed as antagonistic to an ideal middle-class model of citizen. In other words, readers of “narconovelas” do not learn about “narcoculture” or drug-trafficking but paradoxically about the markers of a middle-class citizen: “well spoken,” educated, able to control his/her own pleasures, conservatively dressed, and responsive to the disciplining of security dispositifs. In the first part of this dissertation, I explain how the opium policies and wars in China during the 19th century as well as the colonialist efforts of the United States established a precedent for the governing of drugs on a global level. Colombian and Mexican governing of drugs is linked not only to that precedent but also to the neoliberal ways of the governing of drugs. The second part of this work contains the literary analysis. I found that feminine subjectivities are constructed by highlighting the differences between a middle-class woman and a subaltern woman, and the body of the criminal is constructed based on distinctions of social class; in addition, the micro-politics for the representation of bodies derive from the colonial assumption that bodies can be owned, abused and disposed. I also found that narconovelas reverse our understanding of the center and the periphery; some novels even depict a transforming sense of citizenship by reimaging the inhabited spaces. With this work, I demonstrate that cultural production and in particular the narconovelas reinforce, challenge or remain ambiguous to the various biases that shape contemporary categories of governmentality such as gender, body and space. This dissertation is written in Spanish. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Citizen Criminal Governmentality History of Drugs Narcoliteratura Representation of Drug trafficking Gubernamentalidad y Construcción de Sentidos de Ciudadanía y Criminalidad en la Narcoliteratura Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Romance Languages University of Oregon
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Carroll, Anna (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Pyle, Forest Carroll, Anna 2016-02-24T00:30:37Z 2016-02-24T00:30:37Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19720 This dissertation reconsiders sacred tropes in the Romantic poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and John Keats within the context of ascetic performances and written saints’ lives. I argue that reading these poets as ascetic figures helps us to better understand Romantic isolation as a deeply social engagement, for an ascetic rejects his social milieu in order to call for the sanctification of a corrupt community. Asceticism redraws the lines of Romantic immanent critique of nineteenth-century England and newly explains the ghostly afterlives of poets whose literary personae transcend their biographical lives. Furthermore, this study takes up the ways in which the foundational ascetic tropes of Romantic poetry bind the major poets together in an impenetrable canon of writers with holy vows to poetry and to each other. My readings examine different kinds of ascetic vocation at play in the work of each poet, and I ultimately argue that this traditional support for the Romantic canon demands that we reconsider our critical attachments to Romanticism as the beginning of a secular literary tradition. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Asceticism Keats Romanticism Shelley Wordsworth Holy Ghosts: Romantic Asceticism and Its Figural Phantoms Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of English University of Oregon
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Savenko-Moore, Anastasia (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Presto, Jenifer Savenko-Moore, Anastasia 2016-02-24T00:30:16Z 2016-02-24T00:30:16Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19719 This thesis explores Orphic mythologemes and tropes in Marina Tsvetaeva’s works in order to identify whether they create a personalized semantic system in her oeuvre. I review such themes as the “supernatural powers” of the archetypal poet, the descent to the underworld, the return from the dead, and the dismemberment and subsequent appearance of Orpheus’s head. I study in detail the trope of the severed head in Tsvetaeva’s poetics and her understanding of poetry as Land with its physical and metaphysical realms. I discuss a question: which persons might Tsvetaeva have associated with Orpheus? I examine the guises of the lyrical “I” and its associations with mythological or literary personae. I argue that Tsvetaeva demonstrated resistance and opposition towards the Orphic/Apollonian paradigms; above the authority of the "archetypal poet Orpheus" she introduced and established the authority of the Genius who leads "poets with a history." en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Blok Mythologemes Orpheus Tsvetaeva Orphic Mythologemes in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Oeuvre Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program University of Oregon
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Fowler, Daniel (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Herman, Victoria Fowler, Daniel 2016-02-24T00:29:51Z 2016-02-24T00:29:51Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19718 Functional characterization of synaptic proteins is often precluded by compensation not only among converging signaling pathways but also between structurally and functionally similar genes. One such gene family, the synaptic cell adhesion molecules (SynCAMs), contains four nearly identical members of which SynCAM1-3 are highly localized to excitatory synapses. SynCAMs have been demonstrated to have a clear synaptogenic potential when ectopically presented, either artificially or by overexpression, to developing neurons both in vitro and in vivo. Despite these observations, conflicting reports from gain- and loss-of-function experiments prevent the development of a cohesive functional model for SynCAMs in excitatory synapse formation. To overcome potential SynCAM functional redundancy and simultaneously compare effects of SynCAM knockdown and overexpression in cultured rat hippocampal neurons, I developed a tool for efficient multi-gene knockdown using artificial microRNAs. I then applied this tool with a novel analysis method which I call Mosaic Expression with Differentially Localized Reporters (MEDLR). Using MEDLR, I uncover novel synaptic phenotypes due to SynCAM1-3 knockdown which suggest SynCAM1-3 function redundantly through postsynapse-specific mechanisms to regulate excitatory synapse number and size. This dissertation contains both published and unpublished co-authored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. The SynCAM Family of Cell Adhesion Molecules Function Redundantly to Shape the Excitatory Synapse Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Biology University of Oregon
