56 research outputs found
On the Possession of Truth in Fiction: A.S. Byatt's Confrontation with the Role of the Author
No full textWhen Possession’s protagonist, a post-structuralist/deconstructionist scholar named Roland Michell, finds and takes drafts of a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, A.S. Byatt re-opens the longstanding debate concerning the ownership of truth and an author’s role in textual interpretation, ultimately asking: Who owns the meaning of a text? And even more so, why? The act of theft from the private world of an author (and the journey it spurs) allows Possession to coincide with pre-formalist notions about the author—that the author and their life is central to the meaning of their work—despite a dominant knowledge of formalism, new criticism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction in the contemporary timeline. However, Possession’s three-and-a-half-page postscript chapter unravels a novel-length endorsement of pre-formalist notions, affording the novel a neutral existence that does not condemn nor encourage reliance on the biography of the author. As a result, this essay finds that the novel acts as a means for readers to identify two fundamental ideas about authorship and to witness a regressive transition from a post- to pre-formalist literary approach. In fact, by depicting the common occurrence of exchange to curate an author’s belongings (despite their passing), Possession even suggests that the reconfiguration of the author is a response to capitalist commodification. And so, by utilizing the theories of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, this essay argues how Possession shows the role of capitalism and consumerism in the contemporary approach to literature
Upconversion in molecular hetero-nonanuclear lanthanide clusters in solution
No full textUp until now restricted to solid state chemistry and nanoparticles, upconversion (UC) phenomena by which low energy photons are piled up to engender higher energy emission, are progressively entering the field of molecular probes with a handful of molecular/supramolecular discrete complexes. Here we show that nonanuclear lanthanide complexes respresent a new class of solution state UC materials, and are straightforwardly crystalized from LnCl3.6H2O salts, triethylamine and acetylacetone, retaining their structural integrity in solution. For a composition of one Tb per eight Yb the nonanuclear clusters display a very efficient upconversion phenomenon with Tb luminescence in the visible region upon 980 nm NIR excitation of Yb. An unprecedented value of 1.0×10-7 was obtained for the UC efficiency at only 2.86 W/cm2, demonstrating these new molecular clusters to be up to 26 times more efficient than the best current molecular systems, the UC being observed down to a concentration of 10 nM
The songs
No full textThe author exposes and analyzes the four songs attributed to Anchieta, which are representative of the different genres and styles of song that were cultivated in court circles in the years around 1500. All are preserved uniquely in the Palace Songbook (the Cancionero Musical de OPalacio, often abbreviated simply Palacio or CMP).Peer reviewe
The life of Juan de Anchieta
No full textIn the present attemp to piece together Anchieta's life, and the place of his extant works within it, the author draws as much as possible on primery documentary source material, from payment documents to correspondence by the composer as well as royal ambassadors and members of the royal family he served, and accounts by contemporary chroniclers.Peer reviewe
Panel. Sound, Vision, Print
No full textFaulkner\u27s Gramophone: The Disembodied Sounds of As I Lay Dying / Peter N. Miller, University of VirginiaText wasn’t the only thing being printed during the modernist period. By 1926 over one-hundred million gramophone records were being printed each year. The gramophone not only impacted the economics of modern cultural production, the device—by transferring “live” sounds into a “dead” physical medium—also challenged contemporary understandings of the nature of writing and voice. My paper examines the gramophones (“graphophones”) of As I Lay Dying—most strikingly the one clutched by the “new” Mrs. Bundren in its final scene—to locate Faulkner’s novel and his aesthetic procedures within this matrix of concerns about mediated voice and textuality.Significant Shape / Serena Blount, University of AlabamaOver the first decade of William Faulkner’s career, he produced an abundance of texts in an abundance of styles. There is consistency among these early works, however, in Faulkner’s persistent attention to the text as printed artifact as he demarcates its inscribed status through evolving methods, while meditating upon literary “speech” as a product thereof. Finally his stylistic variety becomes concentrated in the idea of an idiomatic spectrum emanating from a single source, highlighted through manipulations of its printed status as inscribed, and offering a fully developed position on the author/text relationship.William Faulkner\u27s Illustrious Circles: Double-Dealing Caricatures of Style and Taste / Mary A. Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin UniversityThe interlocking circles of William Faulkner’s friends and acquaintances from the 1920s into the 1930s first fed his literary and visual imagination, and arguably enough, he aspired as much to be a visual artist and poet as a writer in prose. No mere catalogue of well-known influences, this talk seeks to trace out ongoing, developing networks among Faulkner’s “illustrious circles” of global artists and book illustrators. In pursuing the lines of parody and circles of exchanges in caricature, sketch, and homage around Faulkner by prominent tastemakers, I ask how visual/textual works by and about Faulkner, and the celebrity culture of caricature itself, may have led his own hand and eye for visual art to be increasingly displaced onto the material culture of his books. In Venn diagram fashion, these artistic and commercial circles converge in the most intriguing of ways around Faulkner’s most hyped violation of style and taste: Sanctuary (1931)
Progressive ataxia and hearing loss (left) in a 23-year-old man. A clinico-pathological conference
No full textAs part of the scientific program honoring Robert 5. Knighton, M.D., a clinical pathological conference was conducted by Dr. Jose Bebin. Following presentation of the protocol, comments from several discussants included diagnoses of a primary neoplastic process in the brain stem, angioma of the pons, neoplasm or cyst of the posterior fossa, possible angioma on the left side of the brain stem, a viral cerebellitis, an ependymoma, or a medulloblastoma. Together with the case presentation the author offers autopsy findings and a discussion and review of the literature
The question of charity: Melville's experiments in "Fellow-feeling"
No full textCritiquing common nineteenth-century practices of charity as perpetuating paternal authority and hindering mutual confidence between subjects, Melville offers an alternative: "fellow-feeling." But an examination of three of Melville's texts suggests that the author could only successfully represent "fellow-feeling" within specific contexts. Reading "fellow-feeling" in light of Judith Butler's notion of shared precarity allows for an understanding of Melville's radical vision of ethical relations between the self and others. This paper examines "Bartleby, The Scrivener," The Confidence Man and Moby-Dick as Melville's experiments in "fellow-feeling," delineating the circumstances necessary to create potential for "fellow-feeling," the ways in which Melville fully realizes and represents "fellow-feeling," and the implications of "fellow-feeling" as an affective, philosophical, and political force
Ascocorticium in Ohio
No full textAuthor Institution: Cincinnati Water Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OhioA collection of the fungus Ascocorticium anomalum (Ell. & Harkn.) Schroet., was made in Ohio, on Nov. 4, 1961, by Harry Knighton and W. B. Cooke, in Hobey's Hollow, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County. This fungus was named after comparison with 15 other collections of this species from four herbaria in the United States. It is suggested that Basidiomycetes might have arisen from a genus like Ascocorticium, where the amount of sterile tissue is reduced in comparison with the amount of ascogenous tissue
The Role of Diet in Disease Prevention and Management
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.Objective – The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate specific diets that have demonstrated, through research, efficacy for treating specific diseases. The diets that will be discussed are: Anti-cancer and vegetarian for cancer prevention and active cancer, low carbohydrate diet for cancerous tumor growth suppression, Paleolithic for diabetes and metabolic syndrome and the FODMAP and IgG food sensitivity elimination diets for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn’s and Ulcerative colitis. Basic Procedures – The databases used for searching peer reviewed research and articles were PubMed and Google Scholar®. Main articles searched were studies that targeted diets for particular disease conditions. Articles and journal entries selected were published within the past 22 years with most articles being in the past 10 years. Main Findings – There are many tentative dietary suggestions based on known compounds in food to have anti-cancer effects. Epidemiological studies of populations in India and Asia who follow a vegetarian diet due to religious convictions show efficacy in preventing certain types of cancer. The Paleolithic diet is efficacious in reversing Type II Diabetes and metabolic syndrome based on the anti-inflammatory and low glycemic index foods consumed. Despite the high amounts of saturated fat in the diet, the Paleolithic diet can lower cardiovascular disease markers. The FODMAP diet is beneficial for managing symptoms of IBS and IBD. IgG food sensitivity testing and elimination of sensitive foods can eliminate and/or reduce IBD flare ups. No studies were found to support a cure for IBD with IgG food sensitivity elimination or any other diet. Principal Conclusions - No specific diet for cancer has been double blind, randomized and placebo control tested for efficacy to date. However, it is important that diets that restrict sugars and refined carbohydrates should be recommended as cancer cells proliferate in a high glucose environment. Paleolithic diets are suggested as a beneficial diet for Type II Diabetes, 3 metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease risk factors. The FODMAP diet is efficacious in the treatment of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. However, its use in IBD may be beneficial for some patients. Food IgG sensitivity elimination is beneficial for IBD
More than Tweedledee and Tweedledum: How the Characterization of Twins in Victorian Fiction Affects Representation in Contemporary Literature
No full textabstract: This literary analysis thesis determines the relationship between twin characterization in Victorian novels and contemporary literature. Using Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-glass as foundational works for twin characterization with the Freudian definition of doubles as uncanny, this thesis analyzes the following twin tropes: the trickster twins, twins separated into binaries of “good” or “whole” and “damaged” or “evil,” male twins where one dies and the other marries the woman they both love, and female twins associated with shared supernatural appearance and abilities. These tropes are identified in Victorian works including Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins and Wilkie Collins’ Poor Miss Finch, then demonstrated in contemporary sources including Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, Kim Edwards’s novel The Memory-Keeper’s Daughter, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, and Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining. Ultimately, this thesis analyzes these tropes of twin characterization in 19th-century and contemporary literature from a variety of genres to demonstrate how the fin de siècle fears of cultural degradation, explored through duality using the vehicle of twin characters, remain as pervasive influences in today’s literature with similar concerns about individual identity
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