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Speaking the body, representing the self : hysterical rhetoric on stage
No full textThis thesis centres on the twin discourses of hysteria and theatre, and contends that an
examination of hysteria, which is above all a performative disease, can illuminate our
understanding of performance on the public stage. My analysis of the history of
hysteria shows that our modern understanding of the condition developed out of the
interactions between the physician/analyst and the live body of the hysteric, with all its
symptomatic acts, this thesis, which has as its central concern the live body of staged
performance, uses the history of those interactions to re-centre attention on the
symptomatic acts of the performing body on stage, and on the process of reading such
acts.
Drawing its material from a number of stage performances from the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries - from the texts of melodrama such as The Dumb Man of
Manchester(l837) or The Bells (1871) through the work of the American actress
Elizabeth Robins in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1891) and her own play Alan's Wife
(1893) to modem texts such as Helne Cixous's Portrait of Dora (1976) - this thesis
reads those performances, and the relationship of those performances to their
audiences, through the lens of hysteria: using an understanding of hysteria to read
those texts anew and, in reverse, using the texts to develop, and critique, a model of
hysterical performance rhetoric.
Such a model, this thesis argues, with its very basis in a condition of rejection
of or failure to fit into the dominant discourses of society, is not limited in application
to performance texts which take hysteria as their subject. Instead it can be more
widely employed as a key part of a radical theatrical politics by those who today find
themselves silenced by the dominant discourses and values of our own era
The Three-Dimensional Heroine: The Intertextual Relationship Between Three Sisters and Hedda Gabler
No full textThis article reads Chekhov's play Three Sisters as a response to Ibsen's Hedda Gabler through an examination of the plays' possible intertextual relationship. The author discusses the historical context of both plays as well as their textology and staging directions
Det latterlige mørke
No full textProgram. Teaterforestilling vist 27., 28. februar og 1., 2., 5.-7. mars 2018 på Seilduken Scene 1Avgangsforestilling fra 3BA teater, med studentene Andreas Tønnesland, Hanna Maria Vea Grønneberg, Ingrid Unnur Giæver, Isabel Beth Toming, Iver Innset, Mats Moe, Jonas Jacobsen, Sunniva Du Mond Nordal. Skuespill av Wolfram Lotz, oversatt med regi og scenografi av Jonas Corell Petersen. Kostymedesign: Hedda Simonsen Lund. Foto: Stephen Hutto
Aleksandra Śląska as Hedda Gabler
No full textThe article focuses on an analysis of Aleksandra Śląska acting in TVP Theatre play Hedda Gabler (1974) directed by Jan Świderski. By taking part in this artistic undertak-ing, the actress joined the circle of outstanding Ibsen’s actors such as: Karol Adwen-towicz, Irena Solska, Anna Gostyńska or Wanda Siemaszkowa. Śląska, who played gen-eral’s daughter, was prepossessed by character’s ambiguity, intellectual and personal cu-riousness. The actress also saw the timeliness of Ibsen’s drama in regards to emancipa-tion of emotions. Świderski adapted the play written in 1890, referring to an idea of the traditional theater. He perfectly projected the elements of scenography and props, rele-vant from actor’s transformation point of view. Moreover, the director often used a character setup typical for stage theatre – facing forwards to the camera and backwards to the interlocutor. The author of this article points out both perfect changes to Ibsen’s text and the actress’ utilization of interpretation strategy – restrained and hushed play. By nuances, transmitted through an all seeing eye of the camera, she creates an internally rich character
Influence of rheology on the pumpability of mortar : P 2 Improved construction technology SP 2.4 Workability
No full textThe rheological and material parameters determining the pumpability of fresh self-compacting mortar have been studied in full-scale (70 m Ø 50 mm rubber hose and screw pump with max capacity 7 m3/h). Concrete pressure gradient over the hose length (dp/dx) and flow rate were measured to quantify pumpability. The rheological properties of the pumped mortars were measured with a ConTec BML viscometer. Finally, the rheological properties of the slip layer that occurs in vicinity of the wall of the hose during pumping was studyed as matrix phase (paste and filler < 0.125 mm) in a parallel plate rheometer.
Five different concrete mixes were investigated showing that slump flow is not suitable for differentiating pumpability. Interpretation of rheological data was, moreover, complicated since the measured values of plastic viscosity and yield stress were altered simultaneously from mix to mix.
The data imply that both yield stress and plastic viscosity govern pumpability. Increased plastic viscosity of mortar and paste was found to correlate with decreased mortar pumpability. No clear trends could be found for mortar yield stress. Increased paste yield stress was, however surprisingly, related to increased pumpability. The plastic viscosity seemed, however, to dominate yield stress when the two factors varied simultaneously within the given workability range. These parameters should, therefore, not be studied independently. Increased hysteresis area calculated from the paste measurements correlated well with reduced pump flow, also indicating a relation to the rheology of the slip layer.
The predicted pressure losses were 5-7 times higher than the measured values. This indicates that one or more of the premises of the Buckingham-Reiner equation are erroneous in these tests, like inhomogeneous fluid and slippage.
The existence of a plug is due to yield stress which was observed in both matrix and mortar. The combination of instrumented steady state pumping, concentric viscometre, parallel plate viscometer and visualized boundary flow rate were used to estimate slip layer thickness. The modified Buckingham Reiner equation resulted in slip zone thickness in the order of 0.6 – 1 mm. The thicknesses were not sensitive to variations in matrix yield stress, whereas plastic viscosity had a major effect as shown in plots of slip zone viscosity vs slip zone thickness. At the slip zone thickness corresponding to the matrix rheology, the calculated specific viscosities (Pa•s/m) were all similar to the lowest values reported by Kaplan (2001). The average rates of shear in the thinnest slip zone were estimated to be as high as 1000 [s-1]. This is much higher than those used in the parallel plate viscometer [100 s-1] and future parallel plate viscometre test made in conjunction with studies of this kind should be carried out to 1000 [s-1].
Based on a few flow profile calculations and comparison with visualized profiles it seems reasonable to assume that the rheological properties of the concrete are not constant, but vary over the cross section of the tube and possibly also along the tube due to factors such as tixotropic behaviour, possibly shear thickening, stiffening, wall effects and/or segregation under shear.
Some investigations of effect of pumping on compressive strength were made by measuring strength on cubes made from concrete before and after pumping. These showed negligible effects of pumping on strength.
Further research recommendations are given.© Copyright SINTEF Building and Infrastructure 201
Influence of rheology on the pumpability of mortar : P 2 Improved construction technology SP 2.4 Workability
No full textThe rheological and material parameters determining the pumpability of fresh self-compacting mortar have been studied in full-scale (70 m Ø 50 mm rubber hose and screw pump with max capacity 7 m3/h). Concrete pressure gradient over the hose length (dp/dx) and flow rate were measured to quantify pumpability. The rheological properties of the pumped mortars were measured with a ConTec BML viscometer. Finally, the rheological properties of the slip layer that occurs in vicinity of the wall of the hose during pumping was studyed as matrix phase (paste and filler < 0.125 mm) in a parallel plate rheometer.
Five different concrete mixes were investigated showing that slump flow is not suitable for differentiating pumpability. Interpretation of rheological data was, moreover, complicated since the measured values of plastic viscosity and yield stress were altered simultaneously from mix to mix.
The data imply that both yield stress and plastic viscosity govern pumpability. Increased plastic viscosity of mortar and paste was found to correlate with decreased mortar pumpability. No clear trends could be found for mortar yield stress. Increased paste yield stress was, however surprisingly, related to increased pumpability. The plastic viscosity seemed, however, to dominate yield stress when the two factors varied simultaneously within the given workability range. These parameters should, therefore, not be studied independently. Increased hysteresis area calculated from the paste measurements correlated well with reduced pump flow, also indicating a relation to the rheology of the slip layer.
The predicted pressure losses were 5-7 times higher than the measured values. This indicates that one or more of the premises of the Buckingham-Reiner equation are erroneous in these tests, like inhomogeneous fluid and slippage.
The existence of a plug is due to yield stress which was observed in both matrix and mortar. The combination of instrumented steady state pumping, concentric viscometre, parallel plate viscometer and visualized boundary flow rate were used to estimate slip layer thickness. The modified Buckingham Reiner equation resulted in slip zone thickness in the order of 0.6 – 1 mm. The thicknesses were not sensitive to variations in matrix yield stress, whereas plastic viscosity had a major effect as shown in plots of slip zone viscosity vs slip zone thickness. At the slip zone thickness corresponding to the matrix rheology, the calculated specific viscosities (Pa•s/m) were all similar to the lowest values reported by Kaplan (2001). The average rates of shear in the thinnest slip zone were estimated to be as high as 1000 [s-1]. This is much higher than those used in the parallel plate viscometer [100 s-1] and future parallel plate viscometre test made in conjunction with studies of this kind should be carried out to 1000 [s-1].
Based on a few flow profile calculations and comparison with visualized profiles it seems reasonable to assume that the rheological properties of the concrete are not constant, but vary over the cross section of the tube and possibly also along the tube due to factors such as tixotropic behaviour, possibly shear thickening, stiffening, wall effects and/or segregation under shear.
Some investigations of effect of pumping on compressive strength were made by measuring strength on cubes made from concrete before and after pumping. These showed negligible effects of pumping on strength.
Further research recommendations are given
The hiudden selves of Ibsen's heroines, 1991
No full textIbsen's social realistic plays focus particularly on the problem of women. The three plays discussed in this thesis are A Doll's House. Ghosts and Hedda Gabler. These plays are important because they ponder the question of the feminine consciousness in response to the limitations imposed by society. In a more general sense, they are also representatives of the fundamental conflict between the individual and society. Ibsen found his most memorable symbols of the heroic spirit in modern day women who must repress their individ-ual desires in order to survive in society, but who none-theless, strive to release their spirit of individuality. Hence, the heroism of the female protagonists rests in their constant struggle towards self-realization in spite of hindering husbands and stifling social ideals. An examination of the women protagonists�Nora Helmer in A Doll1s House, Helen Alving in Ghosts. and Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler�reveals the development of Ibsen's argument, and eventually, his indictment of a society that perpetuates false ideals
Influence of rheology on the pumpability of mortar : P 2 Improved construction technology SP 2.4 Workability
No full textThe rheological and material parameters determining the pumpability of fresh self-compacting mortar have been studied in full-scale (70 m Ø 50 mm rubber hose and screw pump with max capacity 7 m3/h). Concrete pressure gradient over the hose length (dp/dx) and flow rate were measured to quantify pumpability. The rheological properties of the pumped mortars were measured with a ConTec BML viscometer. Finally, the rheological properties of the slip layer that occurs in vicinity of the wall of the hose during pumping was studyed as matrix phase (paste and filler < 0.125 mm) in a parallel plate rheometer.
Five different concrete mixes were investigated showing that slump flow is not suitable for differentiating pumpability. Interpretation of rheological data was, moreover, complicated since the measured values of plastic viscosity and yield stress were altered simultaneously from mix to mix.
The data imply that both yield stress and plastic viscosity govern pumpability. Increased plastic viscosity of mortar and paste was found to correlate with decreased mortar pumpability. No clear trends could be found for mortar yield stress. Increased paste yield stress was, however surprisingly, related to increased pumpability. The plastic viscosity seemed, however, to dominate yield stress when the two factors varied simultaneously within the given workability range. These parameters should, therefore, not be studied independently. Increased hysteresis area calculated from the paste measurements correlated well with reduced pump flow, also indicating a relation to the rheology of the slip layer.
The predicted pressure losses were 5-7 times higher than the measured values. This indicates that one or more of the premises of the Buckingham-Reiner equation are erroneous in these tests, like inhomogeneous fluid and slippage.
The existence of a plug is due to yield stress which was observed in both matrix and mortar. The combination of instrumented steady state pumping, concentric viscometre, parallel plate viscometer and visualized boundary flow rate were used to estimate slip layer thickness. The modified Buckingham Reiner equation resulted in slip zone thickness in the order of 0.6 – 1 mm. The thicknesses were not sensitive to variations in matrix yield stress, whereas plastic viscosity had a major effect as shown in plots of slip zone viscosity vs slip zone thickness. At the slip zone thickness corresponding to the matrix rheology, the calculated specific viscosities (Pa•s/m) were all similar to the lowest values reported by Kaplan (2001). The average rates of shear in the thinnest slip zone were estimated to be as high as 1000 [s-1]. This is much higher than those used in the parallel plate viscometer [100 s-1] and future parallel plate viscometre test made in conjunction with studies of this kind should be carried out to 1000 [s-1].
Based on a few flow profile calculations and comparison with visualized profiles it seems reasonable to assume that the rheological properties of the concrete are not constant, but vary over the cross section of the tube and possibly also along the tube due to factors such as tixotropic behaviour, possibly shear thickening, stiffening, wall effects and/or segregation under shear.
Some investigations of effect of pumping on compressive strength were made by measuring strength on cubes made from concrete before and after pumping. These showed negligible effects of pumping on strength.
Further research recommendations are given.© Copyright SINTEF Building and Infrastructure 201
Reflections of a few: Experiences of Black male special education teachers
No full textAn exhaustive body of empirical research has examined the experiences of Black male educators. However, the experiences of Black male special education teachers remain largely unexplored, in spite of the urgent need for more Black men in this role. An interview study with 10 Black male special education teachers was conducted to explore their experiences, roles, challenges, and supports. Participants described different experiences and reasons for becoming a special education teacher and the roles they assume beyond their primary role as teachers. The challenges that the participants mentioned were related to their relationships with administrators, colleagues, and parents, and being perceived as a disciplinarian. The participants reported that their colleagues presume that one of their primary roles as Black male teachers is to discipline other students, specifically Black students, even to the point of interrupting their own teaching. At the same time, Black male special education teachers often had additional nonacademic roles such as sports coaching. This may reinforce colleagues’ failure to treat Black male special education teachers as valuable members of the teaching team who can aid with content instruction. Participants also described a need for additional supports and professional development opportunities to successfully fulfill their different roles. All of these experiences affect study participants’ morale and are, therefore, likely to affect the recruitment and retention of other Black male special education teachers. Further implications for research and practice are provided in the concluding chapter.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Christopher Cormier, accepted the attached license on 2019-12-11 at 16:44.The student, Christopher Cormier, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-12-11 at 16:52.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-12-12 at 14:32.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14803 on 2020-08-25 at 17:38:13Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-27T00:46:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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