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Jane Arnold interviews short story author Sylvia Watanabe
No full textShort story author Sylvia Watanabe talks about why she moved from Hawaii to Michigan, her book "Talking To The Dead", and her novel in process. Watanabe is interviewed by librarian Jane Arnold for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Letter From Matthew Arnold to Smith
No full textabstract: Concerning Arnold's request for financial help from the Literary Fund for a talented young poet, who has submitted a petition.Curator's Note: Handwritten note on recto reads: " Poet. Head Master of Rugby. Mathew Arnold Heller Coll- Removed from Arnold, Matthew Poems Macmillan, 1885 ADC.Creation Date Details: Undated range is the author's lifespan.Provenance: From the Heller Collection
Selected letters of Matthew Arnold
No full textSelected Letters of Matthew Arnold is a collection of 216 letters by the Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-88). The letters are arranged chronologically and grouped under four headings that represent stages in Arnold's adult life and career: "The Young Poet, 1844-51 " "The Married Poet and Inspector of Schools, 1851-57," "The Professor of Poetry and Literary Critic, 1857-67," and "The Critic of Society and Religion 1867-88." In these letters, Arnold, who wrote no autobiography, tells the story of his life and expresses his intimate views on a variety of subjects. In order to include the largest possible selection of interesting letters from both previously published and unpublished sources, some of the letters are given in part while others are given in their complete form. Along with the most important letters from the 1895 edition by G. W. E. Russell - principally made up of letters to family members - and the 1932 edition of letters to Author Hugh Clough by Howard F. Lowry, this new collection incorporates many significant letters from other sources, including 49 previously unpublished letters. Most of the Russell and Lowry letters have been newly edited, using the manuscript collections at Yale University and Balliol College, Oxford
Carl King interviews Albert and Willis Arnold
No full textCarl King, at right, interviews brothers Albert and Willis Arnold, old-timers of Cortez and Palma Sola. Carl Kind was the author of Model-T Days, the story of his family's arrival in Florida in the early 1920s and his work as a real estate binder boy during the Great Florida Real Estate Boom. He did many oral interviews for the Manatee County Historical Society. [Source: Warner papers, Eaton Florida History Collection
Oral history interview with Arnold Cooper, 2008 Apr. 15
No full textArnold Cooper is a graduate of the Purdue School of Chemical Engineering [BS 1955] and MS Industrial Management 1957. He also received a DBA in 1962 from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He talks about teaching and research in the areas of entrepreneurship and strategic management. A prolific author and member of the Academy of Management he has served on the Indiana Employment Commission. Among his many honors and awards are an Honorary Doctorate from Purdue, inaugural member Fellows of Strategic Member Society, Sagamore of the Wabash. He was a founding member of the Purdue University Teaching Academy Executive Council and a Louis A. Weil Professor Emeritus. Quote: Entrepreneurs tend to be enormously optimistic and dont see themselves as taking high amounts of risk
The Poetics of Loss: A Theological Reading of Selected Works of Matthew Arnold
No full textThe Poetics of Loss: A Theological Reading of Selected Works of Matthew Arnold is one Catholic theologian\u27s attempt to make sense of the mysterious, and possibly troubling, claim that Arnold is a serious theological thinker. If the author finds this claim mysterious, it is not least because Arnold\u27s poetry engages and relies on a `poetics of loss,\u27 which the author defines as Arnold\u27s felt sense of isolation, disintegration, and hopelessness as he observes the Sea of Faith retreating. Despite what must be to the Catholic theologian Arnold\u27s troubling and troubled existential, religious, and socio-historical commitments, however, the author argues that Arnold\u27s poetry is precisely where Arnold is most theologically significant, relevant, and compelling. This is in contradistinction to those critics who locate Arnold\u27s theological significance in his religious prose writings. The author\u27s theo-poetic retrieval of Arnold is aided by a close reading of Karl Rahner\u27s Poetry and the Christian and Priest and Poet, which he then applies to Matthew Arnold\u27s The Buried Life
Our universe : accident or design?
No full textThe curriculum vitae of Prof. David L. Block. He delivered the Sir Arnold Theiler Memorial Lecture during Faculty Day, University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science on the 26 September 1997 at Onderstepoort, South Africa. Professor Block is the author of the books Starwatch and Our universe: accident or design?http://www.aboutentertainment.co.za/database/david_b.ht
The challenges of estimating potential output in real time
No full textPotential output is an estimate of the level of gross domestic product attainable when the economy is operating at a high rate of resource use. A summary measure of the economy's productive capacity, potential output plays an important role in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)'s economic forecast and projection. The author briefly describes the method the CBO uses to estimate and project potential output, outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages of that approach, and describes some of the challenges associated with estimating and projecting potential output. Chief among these is the difficulty of estimating the underlying trends in economic data series that are volatile, subject to structural change, and frequently revised. Those challenges are illustrated using examples based on recent experience with labor force growth, the Phillips curve, and labor productivity growth.Economic development ; Economic conditions
The Aesthetic Motives in the Philosophical Anthropology of Arnold Gehlen
No full textThe author of the article reconstructs the aesthetic motives in Arnold Gehlen’s project of philosophical anthropology. The first part of the essay presents the process of emerging of artistic creativity from ritual-presenting actions. In the second part author elaborates the conception of abstract art, which Gehlen treats as a specific laboratory in which artists explore the possibilities of deep, previously undiscovered layers of human perception.The author of the article reconstructs the aesthetic motives in Arnold Gehlen’s project of philosophical anthropology. The first part of the essay presents the process of emerging of artistic creativity from ritual-presenting actions. In the second part author elaborates the conception of abstract art, which Gehlen treats as a specific laboratory in which artists explore the possibilities of deep, previously undiscovered layers of human perception
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