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Mark Gibbons Interview, November 1, 2018
Full text linkMark Gibbons discusses his nearly 15-year friendship with Butte, Montana poet Ed Lahey, author of The Blind Horses and The Thin Air Gang. Gibbons talks about first meeting Lahey in 1996 at the Garden City Reading Series in Missoula, and how much in awe he was of Lahey’s talent and presence. Gibbons describes how author Roger Dunsmore facilitated Gibbons’ first meeting with Lahey at Lahey’s home in Montana, and how that quickly grew into a mutual friendship. Gibbons touches on Lahey’s struggles with alcoholism and mental illness, and notes that he knew Lahey towards the end of his life when he was getting more of his work published. Gibbons recalls Lahey’s struggles with manganese poisoning which causes severe tremoring during his final years. He also discusses Lahey’s writing style, which was a unique voice characteristic of living in Butte, Montana. Gibbons notes how many poets such as himself and Sheryl Noethe were inspired by Lahey’s work.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/edlahey/1008/thumbnail.jp
Style and reader response: minds, media, methods Linguistic approaches to literature ;, v. 36./ edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons, David Peplow, Sheffield Hallam University.
No full textChapters are based on presentations held at the Style and Response: Minds, Media, Methods conference in Sheffield, England.Includes bibliographical references and index."Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts. Contributions to the book investigate discourse types such as contemporary literature, poetry, political speeches, digital fiction, art exhibitions, and online news discourse. The volume also exemplifies the variety of empirical approaches in reception research, with contributors drawing on a range of methods including discussion groups, interviews, questionnaires, and think-aloud protocols with data analysed from both online and offline sources. Style and Reader Response makes an important contribution to an emerging paradigm within stylistics in which verifiable insights from readers are used to generate new models and new understandings of texts across media, with each essay demonstrating the centrality of empirical research for theoretical, methodological, and/or analytical advancements within and beyond stylistics"--Responding to style / Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons & David Peplow -- Interpretation in interaction : on the dialogic nature of response / David Peplow & Sara Whiteley -- Modelling an unethical mind / Jessica Norledge -- Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception : the oppositional reader in political discourse / Sam Browse -- A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction / Julia Vaessen & Sven Strasen -- "Why do you insist that Alana is not real?" : visitors' perceptions of the fictionality of Andi and Lance Olsen's 'There's no place like time' exhibition / Alison Gibbons -- Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction : an empirical approach / Isabelle van der Bom, Lyle Skains, Alice Bell, & Astrid Ensslin -- Evaluating news events : using appraisal for reader response / Martine van Driel -- In defence of introspection / Peter Stockwell -- Reading the readers : ethical and methodological issues for researching readers and reading in the digital age / Bronwen Thomas -- Extra-textuality and affective intensities : moving out from readers to people, places, and things / Hugh Escott -- Postscript : toward a reconciliation of empirical traditions in the investigation of reading and literature / Moniek M. Kuijpers.1 online resource (vi, 236 pages)
Author Gail Gibbons Holds Open Book, circa 1988
No full textAuthor Gail Gibbons is shown holding open a book titled, Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons. The book was published in 1988. (circa 1988 or after)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1980/1142/thumbnail.jp
On the interpretive effects of double perspective in genitive constructions
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Speech of Hon. Charles Gibbons: delivered at National Hall, October 5th, 1860, in reply to the speech of the Hon. W.B. Reed, on the presidential question, and in vindication of the Peoples\u27 Party.
Full text linkGibbons was also the author of The truth plainly spoken (1865)--cf. M521.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-pamphlets/1068/thumbnail.jp
Food selection by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus annamensis), northern Cambodia
No full textTropical regions have extremely high plant diversity, which in turn supports a high diversity of animals. However, not all plant species are selected by animals as food sources, with some herbivores selecting only specific plants as food as not all plants have the same nutrient make up. Animals must select which food items to include in their diets, as the amount and type of nutrients in their diet can affect lifespan, health, fitness, and reproduction.
Gibbon populations have declined significantly in recent years due to habitat destruction and hunting. Northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon (Nomascus annamensis) is a newly described species, and has a limited distribution restricted to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons play an important role in seed dispersal, yet little is currently known about this species, including its food selection and nutritional needs. However, data on food selection and nutritional composition of selected food items would greatly inform the conservation of both wild and captive populations of this species.
This study aims to quantify food selection by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons by investigating the main plant species consumed and the influence of the availability of food items on their selection. The study also explores the nutritional composition of food items consumed by this gibbon species and identifying key plant species that provide these significant nutrients.
A habituated group of the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons with five members located in northern Cambodia was studied for 12 weeks during the dry season, and focal animal sampling was used to observe individual feeding behaviours. Four main activity categories were recorded including resting, feeding, travelling and socializing. Phenological data was recorded from transect lines, and plant densities from 20 vegetation plots inside the home range of this group of gibbons were also measured. Seventy-four plant samples from 20 tree and liana species that were consumed by this group of gibbons were collected for nutritional analyses. These samples were initially dried in sunlight, and then oven dried before levels of protein, total non-structural carbohydrates, lipids, fibres and condensed tannins were measured at the Nutritional Ecology Lab at Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York.
The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon individuals spent most of the time resting, followed by feeding, travelling and socializing. Their main diet was fruit, supplemented with young leaves, flowers, mature leaves, and occasionally insects. Individuals selected food from 37 plant species, but predominately fed on just 16 of these species. The three most-consumed species were fruit from Ilex umbellulata (tree), Ficus. sp (liana), and young leaves from Lithocarpus elegans (tree). There was a significant relationship between feeding time and the availability of flowers, indicating that flowers were actively selected for when present. However, there was no significant relationship between feeding time and the availability of fruit or young leaves. Only a small number of plants bore fruit, with very low densities in the home range of this gibbon study group, but these plants produced a large abundance of fruit. These findings clearly indicate that fruit is the main diet for northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in the dry season, with young leaves, flowers, mature leaves and insects acting as secondary food sources. The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons selected only a small number of specific plants in their territory for food sources, indicating that any selective logging targeting these plant species would reduce food availability, and restrict the diet of these animals.
Fruits consumed by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons were rich in carbohydrates and lipids, while young leaves were richest concentration of protein. Mature leaves had a high moisture content, whereas flowers contained condensed tannins more often than other plant tissues. All plant tissues consumed had similar amount of fibres. Generally, the food items consumed had higher concentrations of carbohydrate than protein or lipids. The overall diet of this group of gibbons was low in lipids. These results indicate that northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon consumed food items with high concentrations of carbohydrate, and only selected a few food sources with high level of protein.
Overall, these findings have contributed important knowledge that can be used for long-term conservation of this gibbon species. There are a small number of key food species in the home range which need special protection. The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons consumed food items from different plant species, and as a consequence, all plant species selected play an important role for nutritional requirements by this gibbon species. When considering feeding requirement by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons for captive breeding programs, diets should include fruit, which is rich in carbohydrates, and young leaves, which have high levels of protein
Gibbons (Floyd Phillips) Papers, 1900-1940
Full text linkFloyd Gibbons was an author, journalist, and radio personality. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1887 and died in 1939. He was on the staff of the Chicago Tribune starting in 1912 and was a war correspondent during World War I. Papers contain correspondence, columns, comic strips, manuscripts of his writings, radio scripts, recordings, news clips, photographs, and Gibbons family memorabilia.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/1262/thumbnail.jp
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