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The elegies of Ted Hughes
No full textThe purpose of this study is to make the case that Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the pre-eminent elegists writing in English in the latter half of the twentieth century. Whilst his poetry has been widely criticised for its apparent preoccupation with violence and death, it is puzzling that the links these topics have in common with elegy have never been clearly verified. This might be because Hughes's elegies do not appear to bear the characteristics frequently associated with traditional poetic laments; however, as this study shows, closer scrutiny reveals not only many similarities, but also acts of resistance within the broader scope of elegy. Drawing on both established and contemporary critical debates surrounding Hughes and elegy, this study undertakes a comprehensive reading of the poet's major works from The Hawk in the Rain to Birthday Letters, whilst also paying attention to limited editions of his verse, including Recklings, Capriccio and Howls & Whispers. Posthumous publications, including the Collected Poems. Selected Translations and Letters of Ted Hughes, are accounted for. so that (alongside the chronological reading of the poems) Hughes's development as an elegist is fully realised. One of the aims of the thesis is to demonstrate that the poet's elegies are unified in presenting what I term the ‘actual'; that is to say, that Hughes does not fabricate sensations or forge experiences that purport to be beyond the realm of recognisable human endeavour. This I term his 'unfalsifying dream’. This is striking because quite often traditional elegies appear to present the opposite: a language which is ๐mate and images which are close to beatifying the deceased, putting them at a remove from human experience and existence. 'The Hawk in the Rain' is used to illustrate Hughes's theoretical position, especially in the case of his earlier war elegies and the circumstances of Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary. He is both the observational, seemingly dispassionate poet (the hawk), capable of a detaching himself from the experience he wishes to relay in his verse, and yet, he is also the wanderer 'in the rain, one who is immersed in the momentous instant of his own language and experience. Like his personas, Hughes is divided. He is complicit with many of elegy's practices and traditions, but he is also a reformer and renovator of elegy, writing invigorating verse which brings the realities of mortality closer to the reader. In doing so, he reaffirms the significance of life and how this life might be better lived in closer harmony to poetry and contemporary ecological urgencies. 'The Elegies of Ted Hughes' aims to prove that far from being just a 'poet of nature', Hughes has been an exemplary elegist in our own time
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My Maine piece by author Ted Gup who describes with tenderness and humor his m
No full textMy Maine piece by author Ted Gup who describes with tenderness and humor his morning ritual of removing mice from the live traps in his cabin and walking them to a clearing for release back into nature
Ted Pelton Reading and Workshop
No full textAuthor Ted Pelton recites the mythology of the trickster Woodchuck, which includes tales of Woodchuck\u27s creation by God, his assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and his inexplicable habit of carrying a very personal possession in a box, in this February 20th, 2008 edition of the Rooftop Poetry Club podcast
Ted Conover, 33rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTed Conover is the critically-acclaimed author of Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes; Whiteout; Coyotes: A Journey Across the Border with America’s Mexican Migrants; and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work is The Routes of Man, which explores the ways roads are changing the world
Bootstrapping an interactive information extraction system for FlyBase curation
No full textWe describe an adaptive information extraction (IE) system designed to
aid the curation of papers about fruit fly genomics for incorporation
into FlyBase. FlyBase employs a team of about eight curators who fill
in prespecified IE templetes (called proformas) for each gene and
allele discussed in a given paper with curatable information
associated with it. The normal approach to curation is to load the PDF
of the paper into a tool such as Acroread and to use the `Find'
function to search for repeated mentions of an entity of interest. The
relevant information is then typed into the appropriate template
fields. Templates are then checked for consistency and automatically
integrated into the database.
We have developed PaperBrowser, a tool designed to make it easier for
curators to locate relevant information. The tool takes the PDF
version of the paper as input and rerenders it as SciXML, a standard
developed at Cambridge for representing the logical structure of
scientific articles in a fashion amenable to text mining. The basic
SciXML is augmented by a gene name recogniser and anaphora
resolution module so that PaperBrowser is able to highlight gene names
in the paper and to provide a navigation bar which allows the curator
to jump to specific mentions of a given gene in the various sections
of the paper. Alternatively, the curator can select a specific gene
mention and the browser will highlight all the noun phrases which are
anaphorically linked to that gene mention. These anaphoric links can
either be coreferential, or associative to the gene's products or
components, such as proteins or RNA.
User-based evaluation of PaperBrowser in comparison to the use of
Acroread, with FlyBase curators undertaking the task of finding the
set of genes and alleles for which templates should be constructed,
has demonstrated that curation is 20\% faster at no cost to accuracy
when using PaperBrowser. PaperBrowser uses a conditional random field
model to perform gene name recognition bootstrapped from training data
derived automatically via information in FlyBase. The anaphora
resolution algorithm is unsupervised but uses information from the
Sequence Ontology augmented with lexemes from UMLS to identify noun
phrases referring to gene products and components. The PDF extraction
tool uses a commercial OCR package augmented with a seed-based machine
learning technique to learn the mapping from font and format
information to the logical structure of the paper. Papers describing
the complete processing pipeline, intrinsic evaluation of the
individual components and user-based experiments, along with test
datasets are available from the FlySlip Project websit
Fire and Rescue Operations. Engine House #21, Toledo, Ohio, 1984
No full textFrom the Ted J. Ligibel Collection, a 1984 view of the all-brick historic Toledo Fire Department, Engine House #21 on South Detroit Avenue and Glendale Avenue in South Toledo. A Sohio Service Station is visible behind the buildings. Terms associated with the photograph are: historic buildings | fire stations | Fire and Rescue Operations. Engine House #21 (Toledo, Ohio) | Author Toledo (Ohio). Department of Fire and Rescue Operations | Glendale Avenue (Toledo, Ohio) | 1474 South Detroit Avenue (Toledo, Ohio) | Sohio Service Station (Toledo, Ohio) | service station
Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device
No full textAn account of parameter setting during grammatical acquisition is presented in terms of Generalized Categorial Grammar embedded in a multiple default inheritance hierarchy, providing a natural partial ordering on the setting of parameters (Briscoe, 1997a). Experiments reported show that several experimentally effective learners can be defined in this framework capable of reliably acquiring a grammar from a sequence of triggers drawn from one of 70 full languages (or the 200+ more restricted subset languages of these full languages). Evolutionary computational simulations of evolving populations of such language learners/users suggest that: 1) languages evolve towards greater learnability, interpretability and/or expressivity; 2) learning procedures evolve towards more efficient variants depending on the linguistic environment of adaptation. The reciprocal evolution of language learning procedures and of language creates a genuinely coevolutionary dynamic, despite the relative speed of ..
Ted Harrison
No full textPhotograph - Artist Ted Harrison visits with children at the Athabasca Public Library, Athabasca, Albert
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No full textPhotograph - Artist Ted Harrison visits with children at the Athabasca Public Library, Athabasca, Albert
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