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Metaphor and "metaphysic" : the sense of language in D.H. Lawrence
Full text linkThis study contributes to the contemporary debate about the language
of D. H. Lawrence concentrating on metaphor as the necessary vehicle
of Lawrence's 'metaphysic'. The focus is on the different levels of
attention to language in his work, and to Lawrence's responsiveness to
the levels of metaphor within language. Lawrence is seen here as one
who, in the Heideggerean sense, 'poetically thinks'. The texts
outlined below are given special consideration, representing a
particular body of language and thought within Lawrence's oeuvre
Chapter 1 outlines the purpose of the study and establishes the
Importance of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Paul Ricoeur on language,
specifically metaphor, in setting up the necessary philosophical
context for discussion of Lawrence. Chapter 2 addresses the selfconsciously
metaphorical language of the nominally 'discursive'
essays, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the
Unconscious, underlining Lawrence's alertness to the efficacy of
metaphor rather than a referential or conceptual idiom. Fresh emphasis
is given to Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious as a central text in
the language debate. The insights afforded by these essays make it
possible to move to the fiction and, in chapter 3, to Women in Love.
Here the thesis builds on Lawrence's philosophical understanding of
the concept 'metaphor': in this novel, principally through a
consideration of 'love', Lawrence is seen to pull metaphor away from
its merely rhetorical status. Chapter 4 examines the different mode
and language of The Rainbow focusing on its more enveloping, less
'frictional', medium. By chapter 5, called 'Lawrence and Language',
the philosophical questions which emerge from a reading of these texts
can be addressed more explicitly. Finally, a conclusion underlines the
difficulties of talking about language stressing the importance,
implicit throughout, of reading Lawrence on his own terms. The
conscious and subliminal levels of metaphor within Lawrence's language
have been seen to bear his thought. What philosophy generally explains
analytically, Lawrence's language communicates metaphorically
Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
Methodological Issues and Challenges in the Production of Official Statistics: 24th Annual Morris Hansen Lecture
No full textIncluding: comments by Brown, comments by Eltinge, and Rejoinder to Reviewers’ Discussion by Pfeffermann
D. H. Lawrence and the Avoidance of Darwinian Tragedy
Full text linkDarwin’s theories helped both to destroy D. H. Lawrence’s early Christianity, and to shape the latter’s beliefs in the primacy of the organic, of non-rational forces, and of the animality of man – even though Lawrence soon saw materialism as begging more questions that it answered. He therefore reinterpreted Darwinism in social terms, and contextualised it on the one hand by the individual’s imperative to flourish on his/her own terms, and on the other by a divine, eternally-creative principle. Individuals’ failure to achieve flourishing in the face of Darwinian-social imperatives are seen by him as tragic in proportion to the magnitude of their attempt, yet always on a limited scale, and wholly contextualised by the comedic, eternal life-generating principle. The same applies to the degeneration of civilizations and even of species, which will always be replaced by more vital forms. Lawrence is therefore firmly amongst those writers whose understanding of Darwinian evolution fits into a comedic rather than a tragic world-view, in contrast to his great novelistic predecessor Thomas Hardy. Yet, in the case of the social Darwinist character, Gerald Crich in Women in Love, the comedic vision struggles to contain the novel’s tragic treatment of his death
The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence
No full textThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence is a focused exploration of the whole of the author’s life and writing career. Combining biographical detail and close readings of works in different genres, the book illuminates the complexities of Lawrence’s writing through a careful, questioning approach to biographical sources and recent scholarship. Andrew Harrison provides original insights into Lawrence’s relationship to working-class experience, his anti-suffragist feminist views, his reaction to the Great War, his responses to racial and cultural difference, his attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and sexual identity, and much more
Total synthesis of millingtonine and incargranines A and B
Full text linkBiomimetic synthesis is the branch of synthetic organic chemistry which attempts to
learn from nature into order to solve the challenges of chemical synthesis. This thesis
describes application of biomimetic principles to the total synthesis of three
phenylethanoid alkaloid natural products: incargranine B; millingtonine and
incargranine A. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the area. Specific
introductions can be found at the start of each chapter.
Chapter 1 introduces the concept of biomimicry and provides a brief overview of the
development of the underlying concepts and terminology. The major biosynthetic
pathways involved in the production of incargranine B, millingtonine and incargranine
A (shikimic acid, ornithine alkaloids) are also introduced.
Chapter 2 discusses the synthesis of incargranine B. Biosynthetic analysis of this
dimeric alkaloid led us to question its structural assignment and suggest a structural
revision. This speculative reassignment was validated through a biomimetic total
synthesis of our proposed structure. Incargranine B was successfully prepared in a
longest linear sequence of six steps, forming three new rings, four bonds and three
contiguous stereocentres in a single biomimetic domino condensation/Mannich/SEAr
sequence.
Chapter 3 describes the synthesis of millingtonine. We proposed that millingtonine is
biosynthetically related to incargranine B through a divergent/re-convergent network
of pathways. Synthetic exploration of this hypothesis culminated in the total synthesis
of millingtonine and discovery of an unanticipated biosynthetic intermediate, dia-millingtonine,
which we propose as a previously unidentified natural product. .
Chapter 4 details the synthesis of incargranine A. Incorporating dia-millingtonine into
our biosynthetic hypothesis allowed the development of a four step bioimimetic total
syntheses of incargranine A which was scaled-up to provide over one gram of natural
product.
Chapter 5 summarises the work presented and provides a perspective on its
contribution to the field
"A Lesson on a Tortoise" and D. H. Lawrence\u27s earliest crisis of social identity
No full textThe short story "A Lesson on a Tortoise", written by D. H. Lawrence in 1909, has traditionally been disregarded by criticism as a very minor piece of work. This paper aims to show that the story has a threefold importance: firstly as an autobiographical portrait of Lawrence\u27s activities as a teacher in Croydon; secondly as an example of Lawrence\u27s ability to use realistic techniques; and thirdly as a reflection of the author\u27s crisis of social identity. The paper concentrates on the last aspect and traces the personal and intellectual facets which came to shape Lawrence\u27s ideas on the subject
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