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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
No full textBibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas
Tradução de poesia: Emily dickinson segundo a perspectiva tradutória de Augusto de Campos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014Esta dissertação, a partir da perspectiva teórica e prática de Augusto de Campos quanto à tradução de poesia, visa analisar sete de suas traduções dos poemas da norte-americana Emily Dickinson, publicadas na obra Emily Dickinson: não sou ninguém, em 2008. O trabalho foi dividido em três capítulos. O primeiro tratados principais elementos que constituem a poética de Dickinson, bem como das traduções brasileiras de suas obras. Como embasamento teórico foram utilizados Gilbert e Gubar (1984), Donoghue (1969), Sewall (1963) e Daghlian(1987), dentre outros autores. O segundo capítulo tem como objetivo apresentar Augusto de Campos como poeta e como tradutor, com ênfase nos seus comentários sobre tradução, visando compreender sua prática tradutória. O terceiro capítulo analisa as traduções de sete poemas de Dickinson realizadas por Augusto de Campos e busca identificar a relação entre a teoria e a prática do tradutor. Essa análise, de caráter discursivo, além do plano formal e sintático, se concentra no plano semântico dos textos, tendo em conta que não possui a pretensão de realizar qualquer tipo de julgamento prescritivo.Abstract: This dissertation, from the perspective theoretical and practical of Augusto de Campos about the poetry translation, analyzes seven of his translations of the North-American poet Emily Dickinson, published in the book "Emily Dickinson: não sou ninguém", in 2008. This work contains three chapters; the first presents the main elements that constitute the Dickinson's poetry, as well as the Brazilian translations of her poems. It has, as theoretical support, author slike: Gilbert and Gubar (1984), Donoghue (1969) Sewall (1963) and Daghlian(1987). The second chapter aims to approach the main remarks of Augusto,highlighting his activity as poet and as translator, aiming to understand his practice of translation. The third chapter analyses the Augusto's translations of seven poems of Dickinson and try to identify the relationship between the theory and the practice of the translator. This discursive, besides the formal and syntactic field focuses on the semantic field of the poems, without any kind of prescriptive judgment
With specimens of song: a tradução da rima de Dickinson
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da TraduçãoA presente investigação propõe um estudo da poesia de Emily Dickinson no que diz respeito à sua tradução para o português. Sobretudo, há uma preocupação com questões eufônicas, que evidenciaram a poesia de Emily Dickinson, e vêm desafiando os tradutores brasileiros. O escopo da pesquisa se limitará à preocupação com a rima, mais especificamente, a de final de verso. A proposta é gerar uma discussão acerca das traduções de José Lira e Aíla de Oliveira Gomes, colocando em evidência algumas das estratégias que estes empregaram para responder aos desafios de traduzir a rima na poesia de Dickinson. Tal discussão será fundamentada nas observações sobre a rima nos poemas de Dickinson, particularmente propostas no livro Positive as Sound de Judy Jo Small. This present investigation proposes a study on the poetry of Emily Dickinson regarding its translation into Brazilian Portuguese. Overall, the focus of the study relies on the sound effects that have highlighted the poetry of Emily Dickinson and have been challenging Brazilian translators. The scope of this research is limited to what concerns rhyme, more specifically the end rhymes. The proposition is to generate discussion about the works of Brazilian translators José Lira and Aíla de Oliveira Gomes, focusing on the strategies they found to meet the challenges of translating rhyme in the poetry of Dickinson. Such discussion will be based upon the observations of Judy J. Small on her book Positive as Sound about rhyme in the poems of Dickinson
Critical Librarianship with Emily Drabinski @ Kapi'olani Community College
No full textEmily Drabinski is an academic librarian, author, and teacher working in New York City. She holds the position of Coordinator of Library Instruction at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and is a part-time faculty member at Pratt Institute's School of Information. She was a 2014 Library Journal Mover & Shaker Advocate, and winner of the Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year in 2015 for her article "Towards a Kairos of Library Instruction." [text via Wikipedia]This recording is of Emily's presentation on Critical Librarianship, held at Kapiʻolani Community College on February 23, 2017.
Mahalo to Hawaiʻi Library Association for sponsoring the event. Video recording provided by the UHM LIS Alumni Group
Computing a correlation length scale from MFLL-OCO2 CO2 differences, and accounting for correlated errors when assimilating OCO-2 data
No full textThis dataset contains code and data used in 'A new exponentially-decaying error correlation model for assimilating OCO-2 column-average CO2 data, using a length scale computed from airborne lidar measurements' by David F. Baker, Emily Bell, Kenneth J. Davis, Joel F. Campbell, Bing Lin, and Jeremy Dobler, submitted to Geoscientific Model Development.
In particular, the MATLAB script used to compute the autocorrelation spectrum of Multi-functional Fiber Laser LiDAR (MFLL) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) column CO2 differences (in Section 2.2 of the paper) is given here as file
comp_MFLL_OCO2_autocorrl_spectrum.m
along with the needed MFLL and OCO-2 CO2 data for each of the six flights analyzed (as described in Section 2.1 of the paper) in files:
20160727_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20160805_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20170215_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20170308_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20171022_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20171027_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20160727_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20160805_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20170215_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20170308_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20171022_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
20171027_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5
The MFLL data given here was downloaded in late 2018 in the form of L1b files (calibrated radiances), as described in Bell et al (2020).
In the second part of the paper, different error correlation models are presented and applied to the averaging of OCO-2 column CO2 data. The original bias-corrected OCO-2 data, in the form of daily OCO-2 version 10 "Lite" files, have been from obtained from NASA's GES DISC data repository, here:
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/OCO2_L2_Lite_FP_10r/summary?keywords=OCO2_L2_Lite_FP
The bias-corrected column CO2 retrievals, their uncertainties, and other parameters needed for this analysis were extracted from these
"Lite" files and saved to daily files, which have been packaged up in the following compressed tarball:
OCO2_XCO2_2014_2020.tar.gz
These daily files are read in and averaged across 2-second and 10-second spans (as described in Section 3.5 of the paper), using the different error correlation models outlined in the paper. The code that implements these averages is given in the following two FORTRAN programs:
Make_OCO2_2sec_averages.f90
Make_OCO2_10sec_averages.f90
which need the following list of days having good OCO-2 data:
OCO2_dates.txt
Program "Make_OCO2_2sec_averages.f90" averages the OCO-2 data across a 2-second (~13.5 km long) span along the groundtrack, collapsing the relatively thin data swath into a one-dimensional data record, upon which the one-dimensional averaging models describe in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the paper may be applied. Program "Make_OCO2_10sec_averages.f90" implements these averaging models, which average the 2-second averages across longer, 10-second (~67.5 km) spans. Please see the manuscript for more information on the data and methods provided here
Transatlantic Romanticism: The English Romantics and American Nineteenth−Century Poetic Tradition
No full textThis thesis explores the Romantic origins of nineteenth-century American poetic tradition; it looks at the relationship between the English Romantics and major nineteenth-century American poets. My research focuses on the Romantic lines of continuity within nineteenth-century American poetry, identifying them as central to the representation of American cultural and literary identities. American poets shaped their art and national identity out of a Romantic interest in their native nature. My study particularly explores the diverse ways in which major American poets, of this time, reacted to, adapted and reformulated Romantic ideals of nature, literary creation, the mission of the poet and the aesthetic category of the sublime. It traces connections and dialogues between American poets and their Romantic predecessors, including Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. This thesis is inspired by the strong and abiding academic interest in Romantic studies, and aims to advance new readings of nineteenth-century American poetry in a transatlantic literary and cultural context. It attempts to cover a wide range of nineteenth-century key poetic works in relation to Romantic visions, ideals and forms. Developing a chronological line of enquiry, my thesis highlights the paradox of writers seeking to establish an original, distinctive American literary canon while still heavily deriving ideas and techniques from other, non-American sources.
An introductory chapter outlines the historical and cultural framework of the Anglo-American literary relationship, focussing on its sensibilities, tensions and affinities. Chapter two considers how Bryant and Longfellow reformulated the Romantic pastoral tradition in their representations of American landscape, which helped toward shaping a peculiar national poetic canon. Through examining Emerson’s poetic achievement in the light of the Romantic tradition, chapter three challenges Emersonian claims of originality and self-reliance. Chapter four addresses Whitman’s Romantic preoccupations and interests alongside his groundbreaking innovations manifested in his attitudes towards nature, human body and urban landscape as well as his experiments with poetic language and form. Chapter five attempts to interpret the seeming idiosyncrasy of Dickinson’s work in the light of the poet’s dialogues with her Romantic precursors. Above all, this study examines how Romanticism worked upon the minds and art of nineteenth-century American poets, aiming to provide refreshing interpretations of nineteenth-century American poetry in the context of the broader transatlantic Romantic tradition
Emily, or, The history of a natural daughter : in two volumes.
No full textAdvertisements facing t. p. of v. 1 and on last 2 pages of v. 2.Novel.Mode of access: Internet
Modulation of human airway barrier functions during Burkholderia thailandensis and Francisella tularensis Infection: Running Title: Airway Barrier Functions during Bacterial Infections
No full textThe bronchial epithelium provides protection against pathogens from the inhaled environment through the formation of a highly-regulated barrier. In order to understand the pulmonary diseases melioidosis and tularemia caused by Burkholderia thailandensis and Fransicella tularensis, respectively, the barrier function of the human bronchial epithelium were analysed. Polarised 16HBE14o- or differentiated primary human bronchial epithelial cells (BECs) were exposed to increasing multiplicities of infection (MOI) of B. thailandensis or F. tularensis Live Vaccine Strain and barrier responses monitored over 24–72 h. Challenge of polarized BECs with either bacterial speciescaused an MOI- and time-dependent increase in ionic permeability, disruption of tight junctions, and bacterial passage from the apical to the basolateral compartment. B. thailandensis was found to be more invasive than F. tularensis. Both bacterial species induced an MOI-dependent increase in TNF-α release. An increase in ionic permeability and TNF-α release was induced by B. thailandensis in differentiated BECs. Pretreatment of polarised BECs with the corticosteroid fluticasone propionate reduced bacterial-dependent increases in ionic permeability, bacterial passage, and TNF-α release.TNF blocking antibody Enbrel® reduced bacterial passage only. BEC barrier properties are disrupted during respiratory bacterial infections and targeting with corticosteroids or anti-TNF compounds may represent a therapeutic option
Consumptive death in Victorian literature: 1830 - 1880.
No full textPhDVictorian medical men, writers, relatives of the dying and consumptive sufferers
themselves seized on the narrative potential of representations of the disease in a
variety of ways.
I argue that both medical and lay writers subscribed to a common set of beliefs
about the disease and that medical knowledge, moreover, shared a common
narrative way of knowing and understanding it. I analyse aspects of general
clinical expository texts, including accompanying illustrations, showing how a
narrative knowledge of death and the tubercular body was elaborated.
Furthermore, I show how documents used in the compilation of medical statistics
on the cause of death were fundamentally narrative through their reliance on case
narratives.
It is demonstrated that Dickens uses a seldom noticed consumptive death and
decline to offset his heroine's development in Bleak House, in ways similar to
those developed in Jane Eyre. Similarly, it is shown that Mrs Gaskell's use of a
consumptive alcoholic 'fallen woman' unsettles her account of her heroine in Mary
Barton. George Eliot's 'Janet's Repentance' is analysed, showing how the
psychological struggle between an orientation towards life or death is played out
across both alcoholism and consumption. I also examine how consumption
presents a narrative opportunity whereby plots involving setbacks in love are
resolved through women's consumptive deaths in popular fiction by Rhoda
Broughton,Ladv Georgiana Fullerton and others. Through an examination of the Journal of Emily Shore and accounts of other actual
deaths, I illustrate how experiences and accounts of consumptive deaths were
structured and rendered intelligible through reliance on beliefs encountered in both
fiction and medicine. In conclusion, the thesis alerts readers to the presence of
signifiers of consumption in Victorian texts, showing how various narrative
strategies are integral to any understanding of representations of its dying victim
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
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