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Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
"The day of the great writer is gone for ever": Author surrogacy in Martin Amis’s Money and J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime.
No full textThis study focuses on the use of author surrogacy in the novels Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis and Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee. It addresses the connection between their use of author surrogacy and their comments on what scholars classify as the postmodern cultural condition. Both authors have written themselves into their novels with a different purpose but both used strikingly similar themes to incorporate this purpose, although the stress on these themes varies. Authorial power, the distinction between the real and the imagined, and the fading line between high- and lowbrow culture are examples of the topics discussed in this study with regards to author surrogacy and the postmodern cultural condition. This study concludes that, through their use of author surrogacy, J.M. Coetzee mainly aims to critique, while Martin Amis satirises postmodern culture.
Keywords: Amis, author surrogacy, authorial power, Coetzee, fact-fiction distinction, high- and lowbrow culture, postmodern cultural condition
O doświadczeniu obcości języka w twórczości J.M. Coetzeego. Słowo wstępne
No full textThe present foreword refers to the address delivered by J.M. Coetzee on the occasion of conferring upon him by the University of Silesia the doctor honoris causa degree. Particular attention is paid to his thoughts on the role of English in the world of today. The author of the foreword shows that reflection on language in general and its role in moulding one’s identity in present in the Nobel laureate’s works, including his most recent novels. Further into the foreword, the author briefly discusses text reprinted in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne: the already mentioned address by J.M. Coetzee, the conversation with the Author, and an article devoted to his works written by Robert Kusek.The present foreword refers to the address delivered by J.M. Coetzee on the occasion of conferring upon him by the University of Silesia the doctor honoris causa degree. Particular attention is paid to his thoughts on the role of English in the world of today. The author of the foreword shows that reflection on language in general and its role in moulding one’s identity in present in the Nobel laureate’s works, including his most recent novels. Further into the foreword, the author briefly discusses text reprinted in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne: the already mentioned address by J.M. Coetzee, the conversation with the Author, and an article devoted to his works written by Robert Kusek
O doświadczeniu obcości języka w twórczości J.M. Coetzeego : słowo wstępne
No full textThe present foreword refers to the address delivered by J.M. Coetzee on the occasion of conferring upon him by the University of Silesia the doctor honoris causa degree. Particular attention is paid to his thoughts on the role of English in the world of today. The author of the foreword shows that reflection on language in general and its role in moulding one’s identity in present in the Nobel laureate’s works, including his most recent novels. Further into the foreword, the author briefly discusses text reprinted in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne: the already mentioned address by J.M. Coetzee, the conversation with the Author, and an article devoted to his works written by Robert Kusek
Controlling the high temperature mechanical behavior of Al alloys by precipitation and severe straining
No full textThe aim of this work was to investigate the influence of the precipitate distribution on the microstructure and on the room and high temperature mechanical properties of an age-hardenable aluminium AA6082 alloy following severe straining by high-pressure torsion (HPT). With this goal, specimens in the as-cast and T6 peak-aged conditions were processed by HPT using 0.5, 1 and 5 turns at room temperature. At high strain levels (?>100), similar saturation grain sizes (~250 nm), high-angle boundary fractions (~80%) and hardness values (Hv~160) were obtained for both initial conditions. Grain refinement led to significant strengthening and to good ductility values at room temperature. Analysis by TEM and EDS elemental mapping revealed that HPT processing of the as-cast condition led to fracture of the stable ?-phase into many small precipitates located preferentially along grain boundaries and triple junctions. By contrast, HPT processing of the T6 peak-aged specimens revealed a partial dissolution of the needle-shaped nanoprecipitates. The different evolutions of the precipitate distributions following straining in the as-cast and peak-aged conditions gave rise to dramatic differences in the mechanical properties and the operative deformation mechanisms at warm temperatures. These results provide evidence that the high temperature mechanical behavior of age-hardenable Al alloys may be conveniently controlled by altering the precipitate distribution followed by severe straining
Interface effects on the fracture mechanism of a high toughness aluminum composite laminate
No full textThe microstructure and the mechanical properties of a multilayer composite
laminate based on aluminum 7075 and 2024 alloys produced by hot roll-bonding were
examined. The composite laminate has been tested at room temperature under impact
Charpy tests, three-point bend tests and shear tests on the interfaces. The toughness of
the post-rolling tempered and T6 treated composite laminate, measured by impact
absorbed energy in the crack arrester orientation, was more than twenty times higher
than that of the monolithic Al 7075 alloy and seven times higher than that of Al 2024
alloy. The outstanding toughness increase of the composite laminate in the post-rolling
tempered and T6 treated condition is mainly due to the mechanism of “interface predelamination”.
By this fracture mechanism the interfaces are debonded before the main
crack reaches them, warranting delamination in all interfaces. Therefore, delamination
and crack renucleation in every layer are responsible for the improvement in toughness.Financial support from CICYT (Project MAT2003-01172) is gratefully acknowledged.
C.M. Cepeda-Jiménez and J.M. García-Infanta thank the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science for a Juan de la Cierva contract and a FPI fellowship respectively. We also thank L. del
Real-Alarcón for the welding work, F.F. González-Rodríguez for assistance during hot rolling
and J. Chao-Hermida for assistance with the Charpy impact test.Peer reviewe
Skin-Friction Measurements on Mathematically Generated Roughness in a Turbulent Channel Flow
No full textEngineering systems are affected by surface roughness, however, predicting frictional drag has proven to be challenging. The present work takes a systematic approach by generating and manufacturing surfaces roughness where surface statistics, such as rms, skewness and power-spectral density can be controlled. The frictional drag on these surfaces is measured in a turbulent channel flow facility
Influence of the alumina thickness at the interfaces on the fracture mechanisms of aluminium multilayer composites
No full textThree aluminium multilayer composites based in fifteen alternate layers of Al 6082 and pure Al 1050 have been produced by hot roll-bonding. Alumina layers of three different thicknesses were grown at the interfaces by an anodizing process. The influence of alumina thickness on the toughness of the multilayer laminates has been studied. These laminate composites have been tested at room temperature under Charpy impact test, three point bending test at low strain rate and shear tests on the interfaces. All three laminates exhibited higher impact toughness than the as-received Al 6082 alloy being highest for the one with the thicker alumina layer. The fracture mechanism of the laminate materials was shown to depend on the alumina thickness and on the imposed strain rate during the mechanical tests. At low strain rate, intrinsic toughening mechanisms were dominant, while at high strain rate extrinsic mechanisms like delamination were also activated increasing the impact toughness.Financial support from CICYT (Project MAT2003-01172) is gratefully acknowledged. C.M. Cepeda-Jiménez and J.M. García-Infanta thank the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science for a Juan de la Cierva contract and a FPI fellowship respectively.Peer reviewe
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