153 research outputs found
Dream Songs and Nightmare Songs: The Balance of Style in the Later Poems of John Berryman
No full textThere can be no doubt that John Berryman was one of the most original poets in recent decades. Of course, it is almost too common for contemporary writers to represent the “adversary culture,” and certainly there has been no shortage of writers seeking surreal energy in the unconscious. In these respects, the Berryman of 77 Dream Songs (1964) was no more than a man of his age, just as the Berryman of The Dispossessed (1948) was a man of what we now see was a different poetic age. What is unique in Berryman is neither his pose nor his failure, but the style of his later poems, the curious amalgam of disgruntled or disillusioned voices, the clash of erudition and vulgarity, the angry dislocutions of language (“Crumpling a syntax at a sudden need,” Sonnet 47), the dialogue form of a divided self pushed to schizophrenic limits. In Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, (1956) and more especially in 77 Dream Songs, Berryman’s style enacts the madness enforced by what he came to see as the cursed fate of life in a world gone mad. Very much a poet on the cutting edge of life, Berryman managed with this style a precarious balance which could not last long. The later “Dream Songs” collected in His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968), are spiritually and stylistically a different work, flatter, more mechanical, less rigorously selected, and more openly autobiographical
The politics of praise : influence and authority in John Berryman\u27s poetry
No full textTHESIS 6817This thesis is a reappraisal of John Berryman?s achievement that stresses his poetry?s critical agency over and against the prevailing tendency to describe it in narrow confessional terms. Questioning the received view of him as an author of autobiographical self-obsession, it surveys the range of Berryman?s ideological engagements, from The Dispossessed (1948) to Delusions, Etc. (1972), in an attempt to provoke a broader and more engaged sense of his profile to counter the typical academic and popular transmission of Berryman which tends toward a reduction of the worldly possibilities presented by his work. The evolution of what began as an analysis of the Berryman/Yeats relation into an account of the American poet?s cultural politics is outlined in the introduction, w?here Berryman?s unpublished essay ?The American Intellectual and the American Dream? (1947) is cited as a central text in this study?s re-negotiation of his place in twentieth- century American poetic history and criticism. The ideological significance of Berryman?s early advocacy of Yeats is examined in more detail in the first chapter, however, where the transadantic site of the Berryman/Yeats relation is interpreted as the ground for an evaluation of Berryman?s interrogation of the authority of American exceptionalism. Including a discussion of the relationship between patrilinear theories of influence and exceptionalist understandings of American literary culture, this chapter provides a framework for the analysis of Berryman?s poetry and its reception offered in subsequent chapters
Responsive socio-cultural contexts: Supporting five year olds to become literate in a second language.
No full textLearning one's own indigenous language and culture as a second language learner within formal mainstream education settings can pose many challenges, especially for students who have been raised in the dominant first language and who are just beginning school. This paper discusses a Māori language resource used by a Māori immersion teacher to respond to these challenges. This resource utilises community support to develop students' phonological awareness while simultaneously increasing their oral language. This study shows that within a relatively short period of time, students' phonological knowledge improved along with their confidence and ability to speak in Māori. With these skills they were then able to progress more successfully to becoming literate in Māori, their second language
Erratum: Berryman et al (2018)
No full textIn the article by Berryman N, Mujika I, Arvisais D, Roubeix M, Binet C, Bosquet L. Strength training for middle- and long-distance performance: a meta-analysis. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2018;13(1):57–63. doi:10.1123/ijspp.2017-0032, there were errors in an author’s name and with 2 author affiliations: (1) Iñigo Mujika was incorrectly spelled as Inigo Mujika, (2) Mujika’s second affiliation (School of Kinesiology, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile) was absent, and (c) University of Poitiers was incorrectly spelled as University or Poitiers. The online version of this article has been corrected. We apologize for these errors.</jats:p
Relational Responsive Pedagogy, Teachers and Māori students Listening and Learning from each other
No full textThis thesis examines the culturally responsive and relational pedagogical practices of a group of teachers in one Phase four Te Kotahitanga school. It then considers the influences of these pedagogies on four Māori students.
The thesis begins by seeking to understand the two different worldviews in Aotearoa/New Zealand (a Western worldview and a Māori worldview) and some of the discourses that have emerged in the shared Māori and colonial history of this country. It examines kaupapa Māori as both a movement of resistance to the dominant Western worldview that came with colonisation; and a movement of revitalisation to Māori ways of knowing and understanding the world that began to be lost at the same time. It focuses on Te Kotahitanga as a kaupapa Māori response in secondary schools.
The collaborative storying of teachers and Māori students in a Te Kotahitanga school alongside their data of practice and achievement are discussed and examined. Shifts across three levels of the school are identified and understood alongside the Te Kotahitanga professional development cycle. These understandings are discussed in relation to Māori metaphors. The overall implications of Māori metaphors in relation to the research questions are then considered.
This thesis concludes with considerations and implications for others in addressing the on-going educational disparities of Māori students in mainstream educational settings in New Zealand
Let's learn from Europe's mistakes
No full textHugh Morgan ignores the cost of the intolerant policies he proposes, write Philomena Murray and Adam Berryman
HUGH MORGAN’s call to ban dual citizenship is either a poor taste contribution to the Melbourne Comedy Festival or a genuine and disturbingly ill-informed view of Australian society. It is of considerable concern that an Australian business leader has pandered to the ill-informed by promoting xenophobic national chauvinism.
In his Wilfrid Brookes Memorial Lecture last week, Morgan said: “Because citizenship is one of the most important elements in personal identity, a person who is a citizen of two countries has at least the beginning of a bipolar disorder.” He went on to claim that this “bipolarity” is a symptom of divided loyalties, and represents a threat to our national survival due to our strategic vulnerability. He managed to conflate citizenship, identity and security - without grasping the complexities of any of them - and in so doing offends those who deal with a mental illness in their lives.
It might be instructive to look at European experiences with immigration and citizenship - as it is clear that non-European Union immigrants do not have an easy time there. These experiences should be avoided in Australia.
Germany had, until recently, always denied that it was an immigrant country and citizenship was traditionally difficult to obtain. Recent reforms have addressed this but even now, dual citizenship is not generally permitted. Many immigrants now entitled to German citizenship are reluctant to take it up due to their experience of social exclusion there. For the millions of people living without German citizenship, this severely inhibits their ability to be incorporated into society.
Andrew Robb, parliamentary secretary to Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone, has called for citizenship tests for new Australians, requiring them to demonstrate their English language skills and knowledge of Australia’s values, customs, laws and history, as “successful integration is overwhelmingly in the interests of migrants and the broader community”. The Dutch have recently introduced such a test, and the Germans are considering doing the same.
In France, on the other hand, citizenship is comparatively easy to obtain. Dual citizenship is permitted but there is a fundamental assumption that French citizenship implies an absolute identification with the state. This refusal to acknowledge ethnic and cultural diversity results in de facto exclusionism, as the socioeconomic condition of ethnic minorities in France lags far behind the national standard. The French assimilationist model of incorporation, despite its equitable citizenship provisions, has led to problems of social exclusion and ethnic tensions manifest in the riots of late 2005.
What Morgan effectively proposes is that Australia takes the least successful aspects of the German and French models and applies them in an Australian context. If these European examples are anything to go by, the result would be a social disaster.
Unfortunately, none of this is particularly new. We have seen an increasing number of political and business leaders weighing into the debate on Australian values, calling for a reassessment of multiculturalism as our model of immigrant incorporation. These attitudes tend to undervalue our diversity. Morgan calls for social and political coherence, but this requires tolerance and not homogeneity or symbols imposed on us by someone who values being rich in monetary terms and not in societal ones.
Morgan argues that the historical development of European nation states was aided by their ability to attract skilled workers. This is true, and is in fact still quite relevant, as many Western countries - France, Germany and Australia included - are dealing with a demographic deficit; we are an ageing population. We in Australia would feel the pinch if immigration were to stop.
So how do we attract immigrants? The Morgan formula is to tell them that they cannot have dual citizenship and must relinquish official connections with their country of origin: we need skilled workers but we don’t want to give them rights. We are supposed to urge our new citizens to drop their links with their country of origin so that we can deal with what he refers to as our “strategic position”.
It is notable that Morgan’s lecture was delivered at Deakin University, home to the Research Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, which was founded to “explore the role of citizenship and human rights in reinvigorating civil society, responding to oppression and inequality and strengthening democracy”.
Universities are committed to advising and promoting understanding of other countries. One way to do this is to draw on our ethnic communities, using their personal and professional links with their countries of origin.
The fact remains that we are a multi-ethnic society and it has recently been estimated that Melbourne has the broadest representation of ethnicities of any city in the world, with a staggering 180 languages.
In other parts of Morgan’s lecture, he attacks postmodernism, cultural studies and gender studies. It’s one thing to criticise postmodernism, but another altogether to suggest that there is no social cost to the exclusionist values that he is promoting. •
Philomena Murray is director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Adam Berryman is writing a PhD at the university on EU immigration policies. This article first appeared in the Age.
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Statistical techniques for text classification based on word recurrence intervals
No full text© World Scientific Publishing CompanyWe present a method for characterizing text based on a statistical analysis of word recurrence interval. This method can be used for extracting keywords from text, and also for comparing texts by an unknown author against a set of known authors. We also use these methods to comment on the controversial question of who wrote the letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament.M. J. Berryman, A. Allison and D. Abbot
Population politics in the fascist era : Austria's 1935 population index
No full textLaws regulating immigration and citizenship in interwar Austria were part of a European trend of population politics in fascist and authoritarian states in the 1930s. A new proposal in 1935 for a population index, including identity cards for every person residing in Austria, was modelled on Italian legislation and signalled a shift towards totalitarian models of population management. While Austria’s population index system was never implemented before Austria’s annexation to Nazi Germany in 1938, it corresponded nonetheless to a broader pattern of fascist and authoritarian population policy across Europe in the interwar era. Official and public debates about the proposed population index reveal the dual aims of Austrian policy and opinion makers: first, to facilitate greater surveillance of citizens and non-citizens; and second, to reduce the number of Jews in Austria either through restricting immigration or by precluding Jews already residing in Austria from being naturalised. This connection between racism, migration and citizenship in the Austrian case illustrates the convergence of different strands of population politics as fascist and authoritarian states attempt to forge new citizens. Moreover, the interwar Austrian case highlights the interplay between exclusionary practices of nationalism and citizenship and successive waves of mass migration during the twentieth century. My article places the Austrian case within these broader processes of citizenship and state building in early twentieth-century Europe, but parallels could also be drawn with other post-imperial or post-colonial states
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