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William Blake and the visionary poetry of the law.
No full textPhDThis dissertation examines the meaning of law in Blake's work. I argue that Blake's poetry
intersects with contemporaneous challenges to the traditional model of the ancient constitution,
a debate which I present as a conflict between custom and code. Blake's support for the French
Revolution's overthrow of the customary systems of the ancien regime is countered by his
nervousness about the rights-based discourse advanced by leading radical intellectuals such as
Thomas Paine, a belief that the new systems which they proposed merely re-stated those which
they sought to replace within an even narrower compass.
Law is also a contested ground within radical political discourse of this period; although the
dominant proposals advocated the enshrinement of fundamental rights and the codification of
law, there was also a tendency towards a more enthusiastic radicalism These millenarian
groups, emerging from antinomian heresy, rejected the notion of life being framed within a set
of moral laws. I argue that Blake cannot easily be placed in either group; his work exhibits a
fidelity to the redemptive potential of law, coupled with a real concern that to define freedoms
in legal terms serves to limit rather than to liberate.
Blake's work thus engages with a problem of the period: how to understand the new
discourses of law. The customary account of the ancient English conunon law is predicated on
the idea that it is codified, yet not written down; secular, though grounded in divine principle.
These ambivalences are exploited by Blake in his poetic exploration of the law in the 1790s. In
his nineteenth-century epics, Blake finds increasing help in dissenting religion's reconstruction
of a radicalized Jesus. Through this radical prophetic voice, Blake is able to construct a
redemptive legality founded on a deinstitutio-nalized Christianity, a constitutionalism that is
also recovered from the conventional customary account
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Faith, feeling and gender in the writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake
No full textThis thesis examines David Hartley’s Observations on Man (1749) and elucidates how Hartley’s mechanical approach to mind, his conception of emotion, and the religious status he awards the body were newly relevant after 1791. In this way it identifies a ‘Hartlean culture’ within the Romantic period and seeks to explore how such an intellectual climate influenced the radical writers William Blake (1757–1827) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). Blake and Wollstonecraft were acquainted with the famous bookseller Joseph Johnson, who republished Observations on Man in various forms and versions between 1775 and 1801. They also had an association with Johnson’s circle; the Hartlean concepts found throughout their work evidence Hartley’s latent popularity within intellectual culture, as well as the writers’ engagement with contemporary philosophical ideas. I propose that the renewed curiosity in Hartley during the 1790s reveals a specific religious and revolutionary culture wherein non-conformist views about Christianity and new ideas about the body, emotion and women flourished. Such a cultural moment renders Hartley a particularly important figure for debate since he integrated progressive values about equality and faith alongside advancing understanding of anatomy and mind. Hartley identified how God and happiness could be found physically within each person. He did this by combining a complex theory of vibrations and theory of association, where the body and mind functioned mechanically through a person’s feelings of pleasure and pain. These feelings manifested as physical vibrations and eventually led every person to desire goodness until finally, they can become ‘Godlike’ themselves. Hartley’s amalgamation of Christian and new theoretical concepts appealed to Blake and Wollstonecraft, and was much unlike the approach of Joseph Priestley who abridged Observations in 1775 to promote a wholly ‘scientific’ text. In this way, we can see resonances between Hartley, Blake and Wollstonecraft, even if they existed in different cultural contexts. In rethinking Blake and Wollstonecraft through Hartley, I offer new insights into their feminism. In particular I attend to how Hartlean culture enabled these writers to re-imagine gender and emotion: Wollstonecraft reinstates the female experience back into Hartlean concepts in order to promote women’s emotional potential and what she understands as the special power of the female-female bond. Blake responds to both Wollstonecraft and Hartley with his elevation of the feminine, one that envisions new potential for both sexes, emotionally and spiritually. In both cases, the writers share a fascination for the image of the female saviour, and they use terminology and concepts found in Hartley’s work to communicate their views. In being attentive to the shared vocabulary and ideas of these three writers’ works, this thesis highlights the importance of David Hartley and Hartlean culture for the field of Romantic Studies. It also illuminates Observations on Man as a vital contribution to the intellectual context of the 1790s
Comments on "The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)" by A.S. Gale and perspectives on the systematics of the Asteroidea
No full textBlake, Daniel B., Mah, Christopher L. (2014): Comments on "The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)" by A.S. Gale and perspectives on the systematics of the Asteroidea. Zootaxa 3779 (2): 177-194, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.
Synthesis of a Middle Pennsylvanian soft-bodied fauna from western Illinois
No full textCollection and examination of thousands of concretions from the Francis Creek Shale (Middle Pennsylvanian) of Fulton County, in western Illinois, has revealed a diverse euryhaline (Essex) assemblage of the Mazon Creek biota. Previous studies suggested the Essex fauna of western Illinois is of low diversity; however forty-one species are described here, including two new species of cnidarians (Solmacula fodina and Circularia gelataforma). The fauna is represented by cnidarians, polychaete worms, non-annelid worms, arthropods, a holothurian, numerous chordates (mainly fishes), and problematic fossils. Many species had been previously known only from the Mazon Creek area of northern Illinois. In an examination of 67 localities containing fossiliferous concretions from Illinois and Missouri, abundances and ranking were culled to determine the dominant animals for the Essex fauna. For western Illinois, represented in the analyses by a single strip mine and a newly discovered outcrop, the top ten dominant organisms or groups are Essexella asherae Foster, Belotelson magister (Packard), coprolites, Tullimonstrum gregarium Richardson, Esconichthys apopyris Bardack, indeterminate animals, trails, Etacystis communis Nitecki and Schram, Strobeus cf S. primigenius Conrad, and fish parts. The Fulton County concretions lack most of the benthic organisms found in the Mazon Creek area.The fauna is significant because, as a whole, it compares well with modern tropical estuaries. For the first time, the Mazon Creek biota is subdivided into various groups representing environments of a general estuary. Lower paleoestuarine settings are recognized in western Illinois and they are best represented by the Sun Spot Mine. Fossils from this mine are dominated by euryhaline, planktonic, nektonic, or semi-nektonic animals (medusae, fishes, crustaceans, and problematic), with a small diverse group of benthonic forms (mainly crustaceans and some polychaetes). All of the animals in this group are members of the Essex fauna and most are predators or carrion feeders. Inferred stenohaline groups (barnacles, the horseshoe crab Paleolimulus, and crustaceans) are recognized, with many species of limited distribution, restricted to the lower paleoestuary.Stratigraphic sections at several locations in Fulton County revealed that the Francis Creek Shale consists of laminated light gray silty mudstone, siltstone, and thin bedded sandstones, and large sandstone complexes and sandstone channels. The Francis Creek lithofacies displayed in these sections are similar to the thick facies that contains the Mazon Creek biota in northern Illinois. The basal portion of the Francis Creek ranges from a dark gray, pyritic, fossiliferous shale, not seen in the northern area, to a gray silty to sandy mudstone that grades upward into interlaminated shales and fine-grained argillaceous sandstones. This unit contains occasional vertical burrows, flaser bedding, and ripple marks. Fossiliferous concretions are restricted to the basal, light gray silty mudstones and are unevenly distributed.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:04:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Farrington memorial : a sketch of the ancestors and descendants of Dea. John Farrington ... to which is appended the genealogy of his wife, Cynthia Hawes.
No full textIncludes index.Second edition edited by Mrs. E.F. Southworth, A.R. Farrington, J.H. Bunce.Compiled by Daniel Farrington, John F. Blake, Anna E. Farrington, Rev. C.M. Blake.Mode of access: Internet
Measurement of the Xi(-)(b) and Omega(-)(b) baryon lifetimes
No full textUsing a data sample of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1, the Ξ−b and Ω−b baryons are reconstructed in the Ξ−b → J/ψΞ− and Ω−b → J/ψΩ− decay modes and their lifetimes measured to be
τ(Ξ−b) = 1.55+0.10−0.09 (stat) ± 0.03 (syst) ps,
τ(Ω−b) = 1.54+0.26−0.21 (stat) ± 0.05 (syst) ps.
These are the most precise determinations to date. Both measurements are in good agreement with previous experimental results and with theoretical predictions
Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale (1992-1997) (04). Conférence de Daniel Cordier (1) - face B
No full textSéminaire organisé et enregistré par l'IHTP (Paris), entre 1992 et 1997 ; sous la direction de Jean-Pierre Azéma et Dominique Veillon. Conférence de Daniel Cordier
The Evolution of Blake's 'Vala/The Four Zoas': its formation, collapse and regeneration
No full textThis thesis deals with an important but still imperfectly understood aspect of Vala/The Four Zoas - - how the manuscript of the poem evolved. The entire crystallization of the manuscript of Val a/The Four Zoas is here understood as the gradual regenerative process of a poem which collapsed as a result of a fatal structural failure. The seriousness of this collapse rests on the fact that the earliest Vala, which was concerned with the Fall and Judgement of the cosmic Man, evolved as a comprehensive summary of the fragmentary myths in Blake’s early works. The formation and collapse of the earliest Val a is identified as analogous to the rise and fall of the myth of Ore. The thesis is in two parts. Part I has three chapters, focusing respectively on Ore's origin, the gradual formation of Ore's myth, and its completion and disintegration. Part II begins with a Preliminary Argument outlining the five stages of the evolution of Vala/The Four Zoas. Detailed discussion on each stage follows. Stage 1 is concerned with the first regenerative process, the genesis of Night I as a Preludium. During stage 2 this Preludium is converted into Night I, and is paralleled with the following Night in terms of myths of Fall and Creation. Stage 3 focuses on fluctuations of the myth, the achievement of a basic structure for Nights I-VIIa, and a contest between the formula of Four Zoas versus the idea of Spectre and Emanation. Stage 4 discusses the complicated evolution of Nights VIIa-IX, in which Blake struggles to realize the original significance of the culmination of Ore's myth. Stage 5 brings about the final transformation of the poem, including its development towards the structure of Blake’s myth as found in Jerusalem
Frowning Babe or Brightening Glance? Blake and Yeats\u27s Particular Uses of Metaphor
No full textThe first significant evidence of Blake\u27s influence on Yeats was the three volume edition of Blake\u27s works published by Bernard Quarich and edited by Richard Ellis and W. B. Yeats in 1893. Within the history of Blakean criticism, the volume is unique. It is the product of Ellis and Yeats\u27s occult viewpoints combined with enthusiastic but imperfect scholarship. The first two interpretative volumes of the edition, entitled The System and The Meaning, include extreme restatements of other nineteenth-century interpretations, as well as several disposable ideas that reveal more about the editors\u27 viewpoints than Blake\u27s own. Among the most outlandish is their claim that Blake actually was Irish, an interpretation based more on Yeats\u27 nationalism than external evidence. The third volume, entitled The Works, takes great liberties with the Blakean text, rewriting and improving substantial sections of Blake\u27s corpus. On the other hand, the Quarich edition was the first widely printed anthology that included exact reproductions of the entire plates to several longer poems in addition to the text, as they had originally been published
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