Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Tristan"”.
-
The Dissonant History of Tristan and Isolde
… traces the historical evolution of the story of Tristan and Isolde through three distinct phases, highlighting the transformation of the story from a feudal version to a post-feudal rendition infused with courtly love doctrines and notions of Christian love. It examines the early versions of the …
-
Bhabha scattering in e⁺e⁻ collisions at TRISTAN
… the AMY detector at the KEK e⁺e⁻ storage ring TRISTAN. The study is based on a data sample of 79.7 <i>pb⁻¹</i> integrated luminosity. The differential cross section of Bhabha scattering has been measured. The measured cross section is found to agree fairly well with the Standard Model of the …
-
Study of photon production in e + e - collisions at Tristan
… the AMY detector at the KEK e+e- storage ring TRISTAN.
-
The role of the woman in Gottfried's Tristan : a literary-sociological study
… of Isolde, in particular, in the medieval epic TRISTAN - not TRISTAN AND ISOLDE as many call it. In an attempt to understand the role of the woman in Gottfried von Strassburg's TRISTAN, the woman in medieval society and literature was examined in order to ascertain whether Gottfried was …
-
Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… Brontë's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette, Flora Tristan's memoir from her travels to Peru, Pérégrinations d'une paria, and Toru Dutt's novella, Le journal de Mlle d'Arvers are the focus of this study. Brontë's heroines, Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe, Tristan's champion of the oppressed, "the pariah," …
-
The Critical Reception of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in the English-Speaking World
… in as many places, as Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. History shows that during the latter half of the 19th century spirited discussion and outright debate follwed the work to every new city that dared to produce it. This paper will focus on the critical reception of the Wagner's …
-
Holocene climate and environmental dynamics on the Tristan da Cunha island group, South Atlantic
… sediment sequences were retrieved from the Tristan da Cunha island group in the central South Atlantic. These sequences were analysed with a multiproxy approach including pollen analysis, measurements of total carbon, nitrogen and sulphur, mineral magnetic measurements and detailed …
-
Scandinavian and other influences on the Tristan story, with special consideration of the Morholt episode
<p>The story of Tristan and Isolde was long a favorite of medieval poets. This is attested by the numerous versions which have survived and the many manuscripts in which these various versions are preserved. It is also apparent that portions of the story must have possessed a long oral tradition …
-
Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
Tristan da Cunha, a small island in the South Atlantic, is perhaps best known today as the remotest inhabited island in the world. Historical scholarship relating to the island has either focused on its supposed insularity, or has completely elided it in the broader thematic and theoretical studies …
-
Diet of the Tristan rock lobster Jasus tristani following the 2011 soya spill at Nightingale Island
The spiny lobster Jasus tristani inhabits the Tristan da Cunha Island archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean 2,400km from the West coast of South Africa. It is commercially exploited across the archipelago and is the main economic source of income for the local government as it accounts for nearly …
-
Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of 'Beowulf', 'The Shahnameh' and 'Tristan'
… von Strassburg’s Middle-High German poem, 'Tristan' (c.1210), as it delves into the cataclysmic aftermath of their corporeal confrontation. At the core of this study of three linguistically and geographically different, yet thematically contiguous texts, lies the significance of corporeality …
-
La Tavola Ritonda tra intrattenimento ed enciclopedismo
… (beginning of the 14th century) of the Prose Tristan, a 13th century French compilation, in the outline of the Italian medieval literature. The Prose Tristan achieved for the first time the merging of the Arthurian world with the legend of Tristan and Iseult and it quickly became a very …
-
"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… of these texts are responses to the Old French Tristan romance and both deny the sexual ambiguity of the Tristan figure by reconfiguring the equation of male body and masculinity that is typical of courtly romance. Chretien is motivated by the disjunction between clerical and chivalric paradigms …
-
Impacts of the introduced house mouse on the seabirds of Gough Island
… of Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta and Tristan Albatross Diomedia dabbenena chicks in 2000/01. Video cameras recorded six fatal attacks by mice on live, healthy Atlantic Petrel chicks in 2004. Crude estimates of annual breeding success were 47%, 7% and 7% in 2003, 2004 and 2006, …
-
Comparative breeding biology of the Northern Rockhopper penguin Eudyptes moseleyi on Gough and Nightingale Islands
… 85% of the global population breeds at the Tristan da Cunha archipelago (Tristan, Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands) and nearby Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean. The population on Gough Island declined by 50-60% between 1982 and 2005, but in the Tristan da Cunha …
-
"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
… second chapter focuses on the episode from the Tristan romances where Tristan disguises himself as a leper in order to create a conceivable story for Isolde to tell when she is brought to trial for adultery. Tristan and Isolde manipulate Mark and deceive him in order to keep their affair a …
Page 1 of 8