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: Legacy of Slavery and Black-White Wealth Inequality in the Southern United States; The Black-White wealth gap has been a significant topic of research among social scientists studying inequality. Research on the racial wealth gap has emphasized two variables with which to measure wealth: home and business ownership. This body of research often examines relatively contemporary factors that influence racial wealth inequality. However, less attention has been paid to historical influences. Less research has assessed associations between the peculiar institution of slavery and contemporary racial wealth disparities. Because patterns of inequality are shaped over long periods of time, the historical institution of slavery is one element that likely has important implications for the racial wealth disparities we see today. Of course, wealth creation is about the accrual of assets. Yet the literature suggests that since the time of slavery African American efforts to accumulate capital have often been systematically limited. This project aims to explore the extent to which the institution of slavery has shaped the development of contemporary levels of economic capital among Black versus White Americans. The project uses data collected from the 1860 historical census, the Census Bureau's Characteristics of Businesses: 2007, and the Census Bureau's 2007 American Community Survey. Building on prior research, I examine the association between the presence and magnitude of slavery in counties in the Southern United States and black/white differences in home and business ownership. Preliminary results show that net of other factors a historically higher slave density in a county is associated with a decrease in black business and home ownership. Conversely, for whites, an increase in slave density is associated with an increase in business and home ownership. Hence, social scientists should be attuned to how the long reach of historical institutions may be implicated in contemporary patterns of economic inequality., Submitted Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester 2017., Date of Defense: April 6, 2017., Keywords: Durable Inequality, Race, Slavery, Social History, Sociology, Wealth Inequality, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Daniel Tope, Professor Directing Dissertation; Patricia Warren, University Representative; John Reynolds, Committee Member; John Taylor, Committee Member.

: Legal Structure, Globalization, Domestic Development, and Political Institutions; This dissertation investigates the determinants for scores in the EFW Area 2: legal structure and security of property rights. To fill out this gap of the existing literature on the determinants of the legal structure, I find that both the level and change in globalization and domestic development are positively associated with the level and change in the legal structure and security of property rights in the cross section and panel data analysis. Moreover, the level and change of political institutions exert a positive impact on the level and change of legal structure and security of property rights after controlling for globalization and domestic development. Furthermore, both the identity of the colonizer and the condition of the colony are one of the important determinants across colonies for legal structure and security of property rights. The post-independence states retain their colonial heritage, which affects the current legal structure and security of property rights., Submitted Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Economics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2014., Date of Defense: June 20, 2014., Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Patrick L. Mason, Professor Directing Dissertation; Adrian Barbu, University Representative; Thomas W. Zuehlke, Committee Member; R. Mark (Robert Mark) Isaac, 1954-, Committee Member.

: Legal and Illegal Bribery; This is a 3 paper dissertation dealing with money in politics. Chapter 1 uses a unique dataset of Congressional committee activity to test Procedural Cartel Theory. It finds that though campaign contributions have little effect on roll-call voting, they do have a significant affect on legislator activity in the committee process. Chapter 2 uses survival modeling to determine the rate at which other states will adopt international legislation. It finds that the United States was able to pressure other states into joining an international anti-Bribery Regime within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and that the states that were the most economically and politically interdependent with the United States ratified the treaty faster than those states that were less economically and politically interdependent with the United States. Chapter 3 utilizes an unsupervised learning technique called K-Proto analysis to determine the sectoral composition of campaign contributions from Fortune 500 executives and board members by party. It finds that there are strong partisan biases in different sectors of the economy. Additionally, it shows that within each sector there is significant variation in partisanship by the amount of the contribution being made., A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Political Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., July 5, 2021., Campaign Finance, International Relations, Political Economy, Political Science, Procedural Cartel Theory, Research Methods, Includes bibliographical references., Sean Ehrlich, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jonathan Grant, University Representative; Charles Barrilleaux, Committee Member; Mark Souva, Committee Member.

: Legally Resilient Signatures; Digital signatures are essential to Internet applications and more generally electronic commerce. However, they are subject to various attacks that lend them impractical for some legal applications. In this thesis we consider technologies, which can be used for digital applications in a legally resilient way. We introduce two signature schemes, which combine current biometric research along with digital signature schemes. In order to show the limitation of the human signature, we first introduce a scheme that has an inherent flaw we have deemed the 'fax-copy' attack. By addressing the ability to photocopy a human signature, we strengthen our scheme by allowing a human signature to be encompassed by the digital signature. The second scheme, which we entitle the 'Signet signature scheme', withstands the 'fax-copy' attack and binds a human signature to a digital signature in a legally resilient way., Submitted Note: A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Computer Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Science., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2005., Date of Defense: April 11, 2005., Keywords: Digital Signatures, Legal Tradtions, Biometrics, Handwritten Signatures, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory committee: Mike Burmester, Professor Directing Thesis; Breno de Mederios, Committee Member; Lois Hawkes, Committee Member; Alec Yasinsac, Committee Member.

: Legend of Saladin from Book to Screen; In this dissertation, I investigate the representations of Saladin in English textual representations from the medieval period to the present, beginning with the romance, King Richard in the fourteenth-century codex, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates 19.2.1, the Auchinleck Manuscript, and continuing to Kingdom of Heaven, a modern Hollywood film. Representations of Saladin are key to helping us understand how the Muslim is characterized in Western popular culture, and how, in contemporary times, those depictions might influence public policy. I argue that American views of Islam are a cultural legacy from Britain due, not only to common language, but also because of the United States' role as a former colony of Great Britain. The representations of Islam as a spiritual and economic threat--through one of its central figures--have a long history and continue to persist because, despite an increasingly global culture, the West has failed to resolve a relationship with Muslim countries that is not dependent upon a binary of superiority and inferiority, of power and opposition. The figure of Saladin has become cultural shorthand in both the East and West for a vision of a region unified by Islam and antagonistic towards the Christian Other., Submitted Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2011., Date of Defense: July 5, 2011., Keywords: Auchinleck, King Richard, Mark Twain, Piracy, Saladin, Walter Scott, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Elaine Treharne, Professor Directing Dissertation; Peter Garretson, University Representative; David Johnson, Committee Member; Daniel J. Vitkus, Committee Member.

: Leisure time interests and leisure time participation of 309 young adults, Tallahassee, Florida, 1953-54

: Leisure time interests and leisure time participation of 357 non-university young adults, Tallahassee, Florida, 1953-54

: Leninist Concepts of Social Responsibility and Truth as Philosophical Foundations for Dissidence; My thesis starts by looking at Lenin's interpretation of Marxism. The Leninist ideas of a tangible reality, the rejection of social democratic compromise and the importance of social responsibility as well as personal responsibility for political action. These ideas that facilitated the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia can be paralleled to the ideas later used by anti-government activists. I examine the sociopolitical environment of the Soviet Union following Stalin's death in 1953. With Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin a new era began across the Eastern Bloc. Using Václav Havel and his interpretation of Jan Patočka's phenomenology I create a wide schema for what is, and ultimately what creates a political "dissident." Phenomenology examines the way individuals interpret first person experiences, and what meaning they then apply to those experiences. Arguably the tyrannical environment of the Eastern Bloc shaped its own opposition. I then present the work of several Russian "dissidents" to first show the truly Leninist roots of their work, and then illustrate that this "dissidence" is not a national movement, rather it was shaped by oppression. Thus "dissidents" are forced to politically act because they have learned to from their own history. The foundations of the Bolshevik revolution necessitated radical political action because of an overwhelming social responsibility. The concept of a world unified proletariat revolution can be modernized to a concept of a world wide dissident movement against tyranny., Submitted Note: A Thesis submitted to the Department of Russian and East European Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2011., Date of Defense: March 23, 2011., Keywords: Dissidence, Leninism, Marxism, Vaclav Havel, Binary Categories, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Nina Efimov, Professor Directing Thesis; Lisa Wakamiya, Committee Member; Jonathan Grant, Committee Member.

: Leo Politi, author-illustrator; "One modern author-illustrator who has done his work almost exclusively in children's literature is Leo Politi. One of the prominent author-illustrators, he is the recipient of the Caldecott Award for the artist creating the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the United States during the year 1949 and the runner-up for this award in two other years. In an attempt to find out what makes his work outstanding, books he has written and illustrated were read and evaluated to determine the dominant theme and quality of his stories, the style of his illustrations and the degree to which the illustrations and stories are suited to each other. Except for two of the books illustrated by Politi that were not accessible, all the books written by other authors and illustrated by him were studied to determine how well the illustrations fit the purpose and mood of the text. Politi's publications were analyzed to determine how prolific he has been and the nature of his contribution to children's literature"--Introduction., Typescript., "August, 1959.", "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Sciences.", Advisor: Sara K. Srygley, Professor Directing Paper., Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-62).

: Leo XIII and the Development of 20th Century Catholic Theology; This dissertation considers the theological writings of Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (1810-1903), better known to history as Pope Leo XIII. During his papacy (1878-1903), Leo began many important new traditions which have had a lasting impact on the development of the Catholic theological tradition. While most scholars tend to focus on Leo’s social teaching, as expressed in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, I show that Leo made considerable contributions in other key areas. Further, Leo’s papacy represents a critical lynch-pin in the development of the modern Catholic church. In particular, I argue that his call for the revival of Thomas Aquinas as a key theological voice to respond to the challenges of the Enlightenment (Ch. 1), his arguments about the prudential use of the historical critical method of biblical studies (Ch. 2), and his numerous statements on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the modern state (Ch. 3) have all led to lasting and considerable theological developments. By drawing attention to Leo’s work in these areas, I show that he is not merely a figure of history, but one whose teachings and arguments still reverberate within the Catholic church. In addition, by giving a more complex treatment of the context of his writing and the wider scope of his theology, I problematize some of the common characterizations of Leo as a “conservative” pope., A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., March 30, 2020., 20th century Catholic theology, Aeterni Patris, Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus, Vatican II, Includes bibliographical references., Aline H. Kalbian, Professor Directing Dissertation; Mark A. Souva, University Representative; Sumner B. Twiss, Committee Member; John E. Kelsay, Committee Member; Martin T. Kavka, Committee Member.

: Leonard Bernstein's and Roger Englander's Educational Mission; This thesis is an examination of the 1961-62 season of New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts with special emphasis on contributions made by director/producer Roger Englander in concert with Leonard Bernstein. The Young People's Concerts are contextualized in the American tradition of orchestral concerts targeting children (especially by the New York Philharmonic), and connections between radio broadcasts of high culture content and early television programming are examined, particularly in light of the dominating media personalities of Walter Damrosch and Arturo Toscanini. Also, the Young People's Concerts are explained as a new media manifestation of American music appreciation programs and explained in the context of 1960s television. The developmental processes for the 1961-62 Young People's Concerts is explored with special emphasis placed on the collaborative professional relationships that made these programs a success. The technology for producing and televising the 1961-62 Young People's Concerts is outlined and explained. In addition, the production ideals of Leonard Bernstein and Roger Englander are clarified along with a discussion of the lasting impact of the Young People's Concerts on American culture and musicians and how the show evolved after Bernstein and Englander., Submitted Note: A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2009., Date of Defense: March 30, 2009., Keywords: Music and Television, Leonard Bernstein, Music Appreciation, Roger Englander, Young People's Concerts, New York Philharmonic, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Michael E. Broyles, Professor Directing Treatise; Charles E. Brewer, Committee Member; Frank D. Gunderson, Committee Member.

: Leptin, Adiponectin, and Insulin in Women with PCOS, and the Effects of Apple Polyphenols and Exercise; Purpose: The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the correlations of adiponectin, leptin, the adiponectin:leptin (A/L) ratio, insulin, BMI, glucose, insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR), and waist circumference in women with PCOS, and (2) to examine the effects of an 8 week supplement of 75 g of dried apples daily and twice a week moderate intensity resistance exercise on these parameters. Methods: Baseline data for 26 women diagnosed with PCOS were analyzed. Of these 26 subjects, 13 completed the intervention study. In a 2X2 factorial design using apples and exercise, 70 g Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats was used as the control for the dried apples since it contained similar amounts of fiber and energy. Exercise consisted of twice a week full body routines, using 3 sets of 12 repetitions maximum (12RM). SPSS for Windows, Version 15.0 software was utilized to calculate and determine descriptive statistics, t-tests, Pearson correlations, and one way ANOVA. Results: In subjects with a BMI > 25 (n=13), insulin, HOMA-IR, and leptin were significantly higher (p<0.05), while adiponectin and the A/L ratio were significantly (p<0.05) lower than in the subjects with a BMI < 25 (n=13). In the correlational analyses of the data for all subjects at baseline (n=26), results were as expected in accordance with the literature. Adiponectin and leptin were significantly negatively correlated, but this correlation did not persist after controlling for BMI. There was a trend (p=0.058) towards a negative relationship between the A/L ratio and HOMA-IR (n=26). When separated by BMI, this relationship was not significant in the lean group (BMI <25, n=13), but in the obese group (BMI>30, n=8), the A/L ratio and HOMA-IR were significantly negatively correlated (p=0.048). In the intervention study, fasting serum glucose increased from baseline to endpoint in the cereal groups with and without exercise. Conclusions: The lean women with PCOS in this study did not exhibit the expected negative relationship between A/L ratio and HOMA-IR, suggesting a possible genetic polymorphism in their adipocytes. In terms of the intervention, this study found that 75 grams of dried apples and moderate intensity resistance exercise twice a week did not have any significant effect on any of the parameters measured other than a rise in fasting blood glucose associated with cereal intake in this study group (n=13). More subjects are required to meet the effect size necessary to assess correlations with confidence as well as to determine if the interventions have an effect on the outcomes., Submitted Note: A Thesis submitted to the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science., Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2008., Date of Defense: August 15, 2008., Keywords: Lean PCOS, Apple Polyphenol, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Adiponectin to Leptin Ratio, Obese PCOS, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Maria Spicer, Professor Directing Thesis; Mike Overton, Committee Member; Dan McGee, Committee Member.

: Lepton Assignment Problem for the Decay of Higgs to Z Bosons to Four Leptons; Within the past year, strong evidence has arisen suggesting the existence of the Higgs boson, a particle whose associated Higgs field is thought to provide mass to fundamental particles. The Higgs boson is experimentally produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by colliding together two protons. In the decay channel that we study, the protons create a Higgs boson, which then decays into two Z bosons, each of which decays into two leptons; symbolically, pp -> H -> ZZ -> 4l. The analysis that attempts to discard unrelated background data depends upon correctly assigning the leptons to their associated Z bosons. This problem is known as the lepton assignment problem. We propose a solution involving the use of a discriminant function calculated with a Bayesian Neural Network that depends on five kinematically-derived input variables., Submitted Note: A Thesis submitted to the Department of Physics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2013., Date of Defense: March 26, 2013., Keywords: Higgs, lepton assignment, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Harrison Prosper, Professor Directing Thesis; Todd Adams, Committee Member; Simon Capstick, Committee Member.

: Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 46; This treatise identifies elements of large-scale unity in Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 46. The prelude genre has evolved through history from its use as an introductory piece into a piece with diverse styles and forms. Largely due to the impact of Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, composers began composing preludes as short independent character pieces that were meant to stand alone. Chopin's was the first collection of 24 preludes that seemed to make more sense as a large-scale piece rather than 24 individual pieces. Auerbach wrote her 24 Preludes with a distinct concept of large-scale unity. This treatise explores the use of direct quotation, two half-step motives, and musical elements of narrative to show the large-scale unity in this piece., Submitted Note: A Treatise submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2010., Date of Defense: April 1, 2010., Keywords: Musical Narrative, 24 Preludes, Lera Auerbach, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Alexander Jimenez, Professor Directing Treatise; Alice-Ann Darrow, University Representative; Corinne Stillwell, Committee Member; Greg Sauer, Committee Member.

: Les Confrères Et Les Pères; This is a study of the practice of the Roman Catholic priesthood and a history of French missionaries in the United States. From 1789 to 1865—from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of the American Civil War—hundreds of Catholic priests and seminarians migrated from France to the United States and assisted in the establishment of new dioceses and church parishes stretching west from Maryland to Kentucky, and south from Missouri to Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama. They thought of themselves as missionaries in a "New World" composed of "heretical" Protestants and "indifferent" Catholics. In the course of their evangelistic endeavor, however, missionaries realized just how difficult it was to practice the priesthood in accordance with what they learned in French seminaries and what they knew Rome expected of them. They recognized just how uncomfortable it felt to serve as transnational arbiters of Catholic beliefs and practices between French, Roman, and American interests. This collective feeling of operating in-between ideal standards of the priesthood and actual circumstances of foreign missions convinced many missionaries of their vocational inadequacies and pastoral deficiencies. It also precipitated changes in the direction of the Catholic Church in the United States from a strictly Tridentine model of devotion and clerical authority to a transnational process dependent upon the everyday negotiations of priests and laypeople. The decision of French missionaries to justify the institution of slavery and support the Confederate cause of war, in particular, represented the reorientation of missionary Catholicism away from strictly European sources of authority and toward regional and national trends in American culture and politics., Submitted Note: A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Religion in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2007., Date of Defense: March 27, 2007., Keywords: Protestant-Catholic Relations, Roman Catholicism, Transnational Religion, American South, Church History, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: John Corrigan, Professor Directing Dissertation; Sally Hadden, Outside Committee Member; Amanda Porterfield, Committee Member; Amy Koehlinger, Committee Member.

: Les Costumes Grotesques by the Larmessin Family; This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of Les Costumes Grotesques, a group of one-hundred black and white single-figure etchings of elegantly-posed characters wearing or composed of items related to a specific occupation, profession, or trade. The Costumes Grotesques was initiated by Parisian printmaker Nicolas I de Larmessin in 1688 and expanded in the years after Nicolas I’s death by his wife, brother, and associate. From the first to the last, these prints are itemized illustrations of seemingly every imaginable consumer object that was crafted, sold, and utilized for the purposes of enhancing early-modern life. In dressing these characters in work-related goods, the creators of the Costumes prints connected their figures—quite literally—to the processes, tools, and products of manufacture. In some, characters are dressed in twelve signs of the zodiac, in masks, in explosives, and in plans of military fortifications, thus expanding the ensemble’s subject matter to include many other types of professions aside from artisanal expertise. In dressing these characters in occupation-related items, the creators of the Costumes prints connected their figures—quite literally—to the processes, tools, and products of manual and intellectual labor. The existing literature on the Costumes Grotesques has clarified issues of attribution, established the individual prints that comprise the ensemble, and has identified possible influences on its conceit. Yet a study of the place the Costumes ensemble occupies, in its broader historical context and the specific visual culture in which it was created, has yet to be explored. Similarly, issues concerning the extent of its publication, circulation, and reproduction by other printmakers require further scrutiny. In this dissertation I argue that the Costumes Grotesques delighted audiences with its detailed, encyclopedic, and imaginative renderings of occupational tools and products, while also entertaining viewers with subtle (and, often, not so subtle) critiques of the monarchy and the pretensions of aristocratic culture. Throughout the ensemble are references to the specific period of Louis XIV’s reign in which they were created: an era marked by the monarch’s war-mongering, which threatened the nation’s economic health, and by the gradual dimming of the splendor of Versailles, which was no longer the site of festivities on the scale they had been at the start of the monarch’s reign. At the same time, I suggest, the Costumes celebrated numerous important achievements, accomplishments, and contributions of the French monarchy. In the chapters of my dissertation, I provide the first substantial definition of the Costumes Grotesques as a monument. I also analyze the production and circulation history of the ensemble, and examine the compositions of all known surviving original and pirated editions of the Costumes that have been preserved in US and European print repositories. By comparing the composition of editions of variants to those comprising the distinct publication phases identified in previous scholarship, I reveal the complexity of the ensemble’s circulation, and determine the place that variants, which were produced soon after the ensemble’s initiation, occupied in its production history. Other chapters focus on the question of sources for the Costumes Grotesques. A number of themes emerge and overlap in these three chapters, such as the increasing permeability of the boundary that had previously separated the court from the public sphere, and the complex public perception of Louis XIV’s reign at the end of the century., Submitted Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester 2017., Date of Defense: April 19, 2017., Keywords: 17th century, France, Larmessin, Louis XIV, printmaking, trades, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Robert Neuman, Professor Directing Dissertation; Reinier Leushuis, University Representative; Jack Freiberg, Committee Member; Stephanie Leitch, Committee Member.

: Les Figures Maternelles dans l'Oeuvre de Gisele Pineau; Gis'le Pineau a 't' d'crite comme une nouvelle voix guadeloup'enne dans le mouvement de la Cr'olit'. Comme les repr'sentants de ce mouvement, elle s'attache ' inscrire le peuple de son 'le au c'ur de son 'uvre litt'raire et utilise un langage parsem' de cr'ole et un style cr'olis'. Sans pour cela renier son appartenance ' la Cr'olit', Pineau insiste cependant que son projet d''criture, son combat, est ailleurs: dans l'humain, et plus pr'cis'ment dans l'expression de la condition f'minine. Les personnages de Pineau sont en effet presque toujours des femmes guadeloup'ennes qui 'voluent dans l'espace de son 'le mais aussi en France m'tropolitaine ou bien encore dans le va-et-vient entre les trois p'les majeurs qui ont fa'onn' le pass' et la culture des Antilles: l'Afrique, les Antilles et la France. Les voix masculines n'en sont pas absentes, et jouent parfois un r'le crucial, mais elles sont pour la plupart filtr'es par les voix f'minines. La litt'rature des Antilles exprime avant tout une qu'te identitaire. Chez Pineau, et d'autres 'crivaines antillaises, cette qu'te s'articule souvent autour de la maternit'. C'est ce que nous proposons d'explorer dans cette 'tude. Nous d'montrerons que la figure maternelle s'affirme dans l'adversit': elle n'est plus cantonn'e au refus de soi et de la maternit'. Cependant, nous 'tablirons que l'image de la m're biologique demeure probl'matique: sa qu'te identitaire inachev'e, elle reste distante, voire absente, en particulier dans la relation m're/fille. La m're biologique est n'anmoins d'mystifi'e et le lien ' la m're est inscrit comme essentiel dans la recherche identitaire de la fille. Mais nous verrons que c'est le lien que la m're de substitution et la m're spirituelle vont tisser avec leurs filles qui devient le lieu privil'gi' de la construction identitaire., Submitted Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Modern Languages in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2008., Date of Defense: May 30, 2008., Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Antoine Spacagna, Professor Directing Dissertation; Peter Easton, Outside Committee Member; Aimée Boutin, Committee Member; Lori Walters, Committee Member.

: Les Hommes sans Dieu; When Edmund Burke declared in 1790 that the French Revolution was made up of an atheistic "cabal" of philosophers, he initiated what would remain a stereotype of the revolutionaries for not only the duration of the Revolution, but for the next two centuries and continuing--the claim that atheism was a key component of the French Revolution and its ideals. When the Revolution radicalized three years later in response to counterrevolution and war, violence against priests, churches, and practicing Catholics escalated exponentially, culminating in a spectacular Festival of Reason where the Revolution appeared to make Burke a prophet. This "atheism" reigned supreme only briefly, and within months the term "atheist" was used to brand certain radicals as immoral aristocrats and traitors, leading to their deaths on the guillotine. This dissertation examines atheism as a state-of-being, ideological concept, and political tool during the eighteenth century in France and attempts to answer several questions regarding the role of atheism during the French Revolution. What did it mean to be an atheist during this period? Was there an atheistic strain in the ideology of the Revolution? Were there atheists involved within the political sphere--speaking in the National Assembly and Convention, participating in the Jacobin clubs and municipal government, acting as representatives-on-mission, and spreading atheism around the nation? Was the dechristianization movement specifically an atheistic phenomenon? Finally, how did the fear of atheism become a tool for not only counterrevolutionaries, but the leaders of the French Revolution itself? Ultimately, atheists prove to be present and accounted for, but only as a small minority, with atheism itself being mostly a specter used as a rhetorical tool by various factions for spreading fear and distrust., Submitted Note: A Dissertation submitted to the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2014., Date of Defense: March 31, 2014., Keywords: Atheism, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Politics, Religion, Revolution, Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references., Advisory Committee: Darrin McMahon, Professor Directing Dissertation; John Corrigan, University Representative; Rafe Blaufarb, Committee Member; Ed Gray, Committee Member; Charles Upchurch, Committee Member.

: Les Proverbes au conte de Bretaigne: A critical edition and study; This dissertation provides a modern critical edition of Les Proverbes au conte de Bretaigne. Previous published versions are uncritical; lacking the rigor of twentieth century scientific editions, any linguistic study, conventional diacritics, and textual clarification. These proverbs (or, more exactly, sententia) are so original they deserve a surer basis for further study., First the scholarship already devoted to this corpus of gnomic material is reviewed. Then relevant features of the scribal and authorial language are isolated to indicate the approximate date of copy and composition, and the region of France wherein copyist and poet originated. Versification is discussed in a separate chapter., The text, fifty-four strophes, each consisting of two tercets which introduce a current pithy saying, is here edited according to texual principles and supplemented by a rendition into modern French. Appended are photographic reproductions of the unique manuscript, BN 19152., Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: A, page: 1796., Major Professor: Joseph L. Allaire., Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

: Les quartiers immondes d'Haïti; Se servant exclusivement des romans de l’écrivain contemporain haïtien Lyonel Trouillot, ce travail présente les bidonvilles en Haïti, caractérisés actuellement par la vulnérabilité aux catastrophes naturelles et des conditions de vie infrahumaines, comme l’évidence des inégalités sociales qui pèsent de tout leur poids sur les misérables des quartiers marginalisés en Haïti. Divisé en cinq chapitres, il étudie principalement les facteurs sociaux qui contribuent à faire de la vie dans les bidonvilles haïtiens une véritable lutte quotidienne désespérante. Le premier chapitre fournit des informations sur l’évolution des bidonvilles en Haïti afin de placer cette problématique dans un cadre mondial ainsi que de situer Trouillot et son œuvre dans leur contexte socio-historique haïtien. Ce chapitre présente aussi les théories majeures dans lesquelles s’inscrit notre analyse et, en même temps, met en évidence l’intérêt de notre travail, ses questions de recherche et sa méthodologie. Le deuxième chapitre se consacre entièrement à la représentation du profil matériel du bidonville haïtien dans les romans de Trouillot. Il lit les particularités stylistiques utilisées par l’auteur pour présenter les bidonvilles haïtiens comme lieux de relégation spatiale. Le troisième chapitre étudie la représentation du profil psychologique de la population bidonvilloise haïtienne chez Trouillot. Il explore essentiellement les murs de la précarité auxquels se heurtent tous les jours les laissés-pour-compte des bidonvilles en Haïti. Le quatrième chapitre examine les facteurs socio-historiques et conjoncturels qui génèrent les conflits de classe remarqués aujourd’hui dans la ville haïtienne. Enfin, dans le dernier chapitre, les informations recueillies sur notre objet d’étude sont analysées pour répondre à nos questions de recherche initiales, et pour aussi ouvrir la voie à des études supplémentaires sur les représentations fictives du bidonville haïtien. Mots-clés : bidonville haïtien, marginalisation et exclusion sociales, Lyonel Trouillot, Haïti, A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy., April 21, 2020., Includes bibliographical references., Martin Munro, Professor Directing Dissertation; Rafe Blaufarb, University Representative; Jeannine Murray-Román, Committee Member; Aimee Boutin, Committee Member; Vincent Joos, Committee Member.

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