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The relationship between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British propaganda of the First World War
No full textPhDThis thesis resituates the war-writing of Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur
Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells in relation to official British propaganda
produced during the First World War. Examining these authors' institutional
connections with propaganda that was authorised by the British government locates
some of their texts within a network of materials that were deployed to justify
Britain's involvenlent in the war. The British government, via the War Propaganda
Bureau, approached major literary figures to assist in its plan to compete
vigorously with Germany to win American support. Positioning Ford's condemnation
of Prussian culture within this institutional context reveals that his officially
commissioned books functioned as a part of the larger yet-covert government
project to influence American intellectual opinion. Although wary that Kipling's
chauvinism might offend some readers, the British government reprinted and
distributed his denunciations of the 'Hun'. Kipling was given access to censored
letters from Indian soldiers in order to assist him in depicting the Imperial forces as
united. The result, The Eyes of Asia (1918), was a set of fictional texts by Indian
soldiers celebrating French and English civilisation in contrast to German barbarism.
In addition to official propaganda, these authors produced pro-war stories, poems, and
articles independent of direct government commission. Conan Doyle's formal call for
men to volunteer to defend their country, and his public denunciations of German
atrocities, were followed by his recruitment of Sherlock Holmes to repel a possible
German invasion ("His Last Bow" (1917)). Adding to his support for the war in his
journalism and war-time fiction, Wells was appointed the Head of Enemy Propaganda
for the newly formed Ministry of Information. He resigned almost immediately
following disagreements over government strategy. This project situates historically
and examines critically these authors' differing roles in relation to British propaganda
efforts during the First World War
Thomas Bernhard as Nestbeschmutzer, criticisms of society and self in Wittgenstein’s Neffe, eine Freundschaft and Holzfalien, eine Erregung.
No full textMy thesis will aim to explore the later prose work o f Thomas Bernhard, in order to
examine the author as a Nestbeschmutzer. The Nestbeschmutzer is an author who
writes critically o f his/her own country, and my thesis will aim to investigate exactly
how Bernhard fulfils this role. However, this investigation will not just be a
straightforward examination of themes, as the Nestbeschmutzer author is bome out of
a specific political, social and historical environment and must therefore be placed in
this context. The Nestbeschmutzer is a product of the German speaking literary world
and is typically concerned with an examination of the legacy of the war and a
confrontation of the problems the war poses for the present generation. They aim to
challenge and provoke members of society into dealing with the issues of the past and
accepting some responsibility for their role, or the roles of their ancestors during the
war years.
Arising as they did from certain historical circumstances, I will endeavour to
briefly explain these circumstances, which prompted their literary assaults on society.
I will also give a brief history of the Nestbeschmutzer literary movement itself, and
Bernhard’s controversial role in it, concentrating mostly on the reception of his most
controversial text Heldenplatz, and the scandal which it prompted.
The main body of my thesis will concern the criticisms levelled in the
novellas. I have chosen the novels Holzfallen eine Erregung and Wittgenstein’s Neffe,
eine Freundschaft, as both were written during the turbulent eighties, further
reinforcing the importance of historical and social influence on the author. I have
identified three main strands of criticism present in Bernhard’s other novellas, and
seek to investigate if they are present in the novellas under study. These are a
criticism of state, culture and the handling of the Nazi past. I also wish to explore a
very interesting characteristic o f both novellas, namely the presence of the author in
the text as a character. Both have also largely escaped critical attention; therefore an
analogy o f them could yield interesting results. From the above, I intend to examine
how Bernhard made his attacks on society and prove that he truly was a
Nestbeschmutzer.
I will then investigate the legacy of Thomas Bernhard in brief, and explore his
influence on the Austria of today. This will include a study of expert opinions of the
work of Bernhard, and end in a conclusion which proves his importance to the world
of literature, and indeed to the world at large, beyond a doubt
The Blackshaw Chord. Crime fiction, literary fiction: why the demarcation?
No full textMy thesis is in two parts: Part 1 a novel, Part 2 a critical rationale. The novel examines abuse in a range of manifestations – parental power; alcohol; the press; corporate power – all of which combine to perpetrate a catalogue of abuse against my protagonist. But it is the completely innocent protagonist who is perceived as the abuser. The novel quite deliberately has the feel of a crime story although the only serious crime is off-the-page and not connected with any of the characters or locations. This is intentional. The critical rationale seeks to investigate the classification of crime fiction and literary fiction with crime in it, and attempts to examine where the demarcation appears. Much of the critical rationale examines my novel in this regard. Initially I was looking at the debate from the point-of-view of non-whodunnit crime, but my research took me increasingly towards literary authors who have moved into mystery writing, such as, Kate Atkinson, Susan Hill, John Banville (Benjamin Black) and Joanne Harris. I refer to several novels from the crime genre and from novels which occupy a ‘hinterland’ whereby crime is a major element of the narrative but where they are not regarded as crime fiction. I have researched the shelving policies of the local library and bookshops, and interviewed writers with regard to where they wish their work to be placed. I have also considered briefly what is genre and why hinterland novels are placed somewhere outside the classification of any genre. Where appropriate I have quoted from published authors with regard to their position in this debate, and have used four main novels to discuss the development of my novel - John Brown’s Body; Psycho; Rebecca and Brighton Rock
Competition between wild and captive-bred Penaeus plebejus and implications for stock enhancement
No full textThe mechanisms that drive density dependence are rarely studied in the applied context of population management. We examined the potential for competition for food and shelter and the resulting demographic density dependence to influence how well populations of the eastern king prawn Penaeus plebejus Hess can recover following marine stock enhancement programmes in which captive-bred juveniles are released into the wild. Specifically, manipulative laboratory experiments were used to quantify the differential effects of competition for food and competition for shelter on survival of wild and captive-bred P. plebejus as densities were increased and as each category of P. plebejus (wild or captive-bred) was supplemented with the alternate category. Increasing population densities when food and shelter were limited lowered survival for both categories. When food was limited, survival of both categories was unaffected by addition of the alternative category. Adding wild P. plebejus to their captive-bred counterparts when shelter was limited under laboratory conditions resulted in significantly higher mortality in captive-bred individuals. In contrast, adding captive-bred P. plebejus to wild individuals under these conditions did not affect wild P. plebejus. We conclude that if the current results can be extended to wild conditions, competition for shelter may lead to the loss of captive-bred P. plebejus, thereby reducing the intended outcomes of stock enhancement. This highlights the importance of investigating interactions between wild and captive-bred animals prior to stock enhancement to predict long-term outcomes and identify situations where stock enhancement could be an effective response to the loss of populations or recruitment limitation
Mass spectrometric identification of polycycloaddition of arylchlorocarbenes and fluorenylidene to buckministerfullerene
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Human Rights and Globalization: Is the Shrinking World Expanding Rights?
No full textA review of:
The Globalization of Human Rights. Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003.
and
Globalization and Human Rights. Edited by Alison Brysk. Berkely: University of California Press, 2002
Altered expression of signalling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) receptors in T cells from lupus nephritis patients - a potential biomarker of disease activity.
No full textObjectives. The aim was to investigate whether the signalling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) signalling pathways contribute to LN and whether SLAM receptors could be valuable biomarkers of disease activity.
Methods. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 30National Research Ethics Service SLE patients with biopsy-proven LN were analysed by flow cytometry. Clinical measures of disease activity were assessed. The expression of the SLAM family receptors on T-cell subpopulations [CD4, CD8 and double negative (DN) T cells] was measured and compared between lupus patients with active renal disease and those in remission.
Results. The frequency of CD8 T cells expressing SLAMF3, SLAMF5 and SLAMF7 was significantly lower in LN patients who were in remission. In contrast, these subsets were similar in patients with active renal disease and in healthy individuals. Patients with active nephritis had an increased percentage of circulating monocytes, consistent with a potential role played by these cells in glomerular inflammation. Changes in the frequency of DN T cells positive for SLAMF2, SLAMF4 and SLAMF7 were observed in lupus patients irrespective of the disease activity. We detected alterations in the cellular expression of the SLAM family receptors, but these changes were less obvious and did not reveal any specific pattern. The percentage of DN T cells expressing SLAMF6 could predict the clinical response to B-cell depletion in patients with LN.
Conclusion. Our study demonstrates altered expression of the SLAM family receptors in SLE T lymphocytes. This is consistent with the importance of the SLAM-associated pathways in lupus pathogenesis
Narrative History of the Knickerbocker Magazine
No full textThis thesis presents for the most part a narrative history of the Knickerbocker Magazine. The author has tried to bring out the type of periodical that the Knickerbocker belonged to, and something of its aims and influences. This has been done mainly by showing the material which filled the pages of the Magazine and also by taking into consideration the contributors and the editors of this periodical. | This paper was compiled chiefly from original sources. A short bibliography at the end of this thesis will show in how far the author has depended on secondary sources. One of the chief difficulties which the author encountered was to select from a wealth of material in the Magazine those things which would best bring out the point in question. Another man might have selected a different sort of material. In that the personal element played an important part.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Helping children think: Gaze aversion and teaching
No full textLooking away from an interlocutor's face during demanding cognitive activity can help adults answer challenging arithmetic and verbal-reasoning questions (Glenberg, Schroeder, & Robertson, 1998). However, such `gaze aversion' (GA) is poorly applied by 5-year-old school children (Doherty-Sneddon, Bruce, Bonner, Longbotham, & Doyle, 2002). In Experiment 1 we trained ten 5-year-old children to use GA while thinking about answers to questions. This trained group performed significantly better on challenging questions compared with 10 controls given no GA training. In Experiment 2 we found significant and monotonic age-related increments in spontaneous use of GA across three cohorts of ten 5-year-old school children (mean ages: 5;02, 5;06 and 5;08). Teaching and encouraging GA during challenging cognitive activity promises to be invaluable in promoting learning, particularly during early primary years
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The evolving role of managers and non-manager professionals in a dispersed change management context: issues and implications
No full textThis study carries forward earlier research by the author into the management of change and the evolving role of managers and professionals who now find themselves involved or implicated in the process of organisational change. The conceptual focus for the study is the dynamic interplay between the structures that are generating the distribution of change management responsibility and the freedom of social actors to make intentional choices and decisions about how they will or will not assimilate that responsibility into their role, and the consequential effects this produces for them and the change process. The case study method was employed to investigate the roles of managers and professionals in two contrasting organisations: one a large Primary Care Trust, the other, a small Research and Technology company. A total of forty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with a non-probabilistic sample of managers and professionals in both organisations. The data were supplemented by observation and an in-depth analysis of documentary data sources which were used to define and describe the substance and context of the change processes under investigation. Analysis of qualitative data was based on a modified grounded theory approach. The findings suggest there are challenges to the sustainability of rational, centred, top-down, hierarchical models of change management when they are confronted by the discontinuities and instabilities of contemporary change scenarios where hierarchy and status are arguably less meaningful and important and where control and certainty become more problematical. Arguments are made that senior managers, as change strategists, may have to learn to modify or even discard existing models of directive control. Instead, they will look to make second-order interventions that generate the receptive contexts for successful change
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