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Master's Degree Recital: Evanne Browne, soprano
No full textMs. Browne is a student of Frances BibleDame, mon cuer, Guillaume de Machaut -- Ma fin est mon commencement, Guillaume de Machaut -- Mes esperis, Guillaume de Machaut -- Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Op. 129, Franz Peter Schubert -- Four Fragments from the Canterbury Tales, Lester Trimble -- Tres Arias, Joaquin Turín
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
EL GÉNERO VARRONIA P. BROWNE (CORDIACEAE, BORAGINALES) EN MÉXICO
Full text linkMexico has been considered a diversitycenter of the Cordia genus, which isrestore the genre Varronia P. Browne(Boraginaceae), involving a large shrubby species group of our flora. This motivated usto update the nomenclature and disseminatethe changes proposed by Miller (2007).This review is based on MEXU herbariumcollection, because it has a wide nationalrepresentation. It establishes the distributionof 16 Varronia species, most endemicand highly restricted distribution. Foreach of the species become establishedthe nomenclatural types and synonymies.Comments are made about the distributionand habitat, and include a key for easyidentification.México ha sido considerado un centro dediversidad del género Cordia, del cual serestauró el género Varronia P. Browne(Boraginaceae) que involucra a un grupoimportante de especies arbustivas denuestra flora. Esto nos motivo a actualizarla nomenclatura y difundir los cambiospropuestos por Miller (2007). Esta revisión está basada en la colección delherbario MEXU, pues cuenta con unaamplia representación a nivel nacional. Seestablece la distribución de 16 especies delgénero Varronia, la mayoría endémicas yde distribución muy restringida. Para cadauna de las especies se establecen los tiposnomenclaturales y sinonimias. Se hacencomentarios acerca de la distribución yhábitat, se incluye una clave para facilitarsu identificación
El género Varronia P. Browne (Cordiaceae, Boraginales) en México
No full textMéxico ha sido considerado un centro de diversidad del género Cordia, del cual se restauró el género Varronia P. Browne (Boraginaceae) que involucra a un grupo importante de especies arbustivas de nuestra flora. Esto nos motivo a actualizar la nomenclatura y difundir los cambios propuestos por Miller (2007). Esta revisión está basada en la colección del herbario MEXU, pues cuenta con una amplia representación a nivel nacional. Se establece la distribución de 16 especies del género Varronia, la mayoría endémicas y de distribución muy restringida. Para cada una de las especies se establecen los tipos nomenclaturales y sinonimias. Se hacen comentarios acerca de la distribución y hábitat, se incluye una clave para facilitar su identificación.Mexico has been considered a diversity center of the Cordia genus, which is restore the genre Varronia P. Browne (Boraginaceae), involving a large shrubby species group of our flora. This motivated us to update the nomenclature and disseminate the changes proposed by Miller (2007). This review is based on MEXU herbarium collection, because it has a wide national representation. It establishes the distribution of 16 Varronia species, most endemic and highly restricted distribution. For each of the species become established the nomenclatural types and synonymies. Comments are made about the distribution and habitat, and include a key for easy identification
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
Full text linkThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
Exploring Emptiness: An Investigation of MA and MU in My Sonic Composition Practice
No full textThe commentary investigates Japanese aesthetics of space, silence and emptiness - ma and mu - that informed my compositional practice during the research period 2012 - 2015. The portfolio comprises text compositions and sound installations in which forms of micro events and sustained events are employed. Throughout, the emphasis is on my personal engagement with, and manifestation of emptiness that concerns a particular model of listening and perception.
Chapter 1 discusses six primary research areas: ma and mu, material, text, form, listening and perception. Firstly, I introduce ma and mu by examining noh culture and Zeami's teaching of senu hima (where there is no-action) in the context of my personal approaches to music. The following subjects are then used to contextualise my PhD practice by means of examples from various composers and visual artists. Here, these particular and enigmatic concepts are explored through Japanese art as well as Western contemporary works by Alvin Lucier, Eliane Radigue and those of the Wandelweiser collective.
Part 2 provides contextual commentaries on selected compositions from the portfolio that mostly articulate my aesthetics in relation to the topics covered in Chapter 1. koso koso addresses my methodologies to investigate the essence of senu hima, followed by treow that discusses my approach to materials and the importance of space. I move on to grade two and grade two extended in order to examine text scores, and then, look into Espèces d'espaces 03 and 04 as examples of musical forms that I employ.
Finally, listening and perception are investigated through the compositions gnome and con.de.structuring. Throughout, I describe how my works explore emptiness as a result of my particular emphasis on listening over composing
REVISIÓN DEL GÉNERO Bourreria P. Browne (Boraginaceae) EN MÉXICO
Full text linkMéxico es un centro de diversidad del
género Bourreria, pero la identidad y el
estatus taxonómico de varias especies es
incierto por la falta de revisiones modernas.
La revisión taxonómica presentada aquí, está
basada en la morfología, en la revisión de
poblaciones nativas en campo y colecciones
de herbario. Se hace una revisión de las 16
especies del género Bourreria P. Browne
(Boraginaceae) presentes en México, la
mayoría endémicas y de distribución muy
restringida y se proponen seis especies
nuevas que posteriormente serán descritas.
Para cada una de las especies se presentan
descripciones morfológicas completas,
tipos nomenclaturales y sinonimias. Se
hacen comentarios y notas adicionales
sobre aspectos taxonómicos de las
especies, distribución y hábitat, se incluye
una clave para facilitar su identificación,
apoyada en ilustraciones y mapas de
distribución. Adicionalmente se propone la
lectotipificación de tres especies
The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the making of the modern brain sciences in the nineteenth century
Full text linkIn the final third of the nineteenth century, British asylums were backwaters. Custodians of the insane but curative failures, they lagged far behind the successes of their Continental counterparts and colleagues in other branches of medicine. Yet between 1866 and 1876, a British asylum – the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, under the direction of James Crichton-Browne – became one of the most active and important centres of scientific research in the world. This thesis is about that asylum – long recognised but little studied until now – and its pivotal role in the development of the modern sciences of mind and brain in Victorian Britain. Drawing on a wealth of published and archival sources, the thesis reconstructs the working practices of the asylum, explaining the intellectual and institutional background to its activities and describing its legacy in the field of medical science. In doing so, four new points are made. Firstly, it is argued that, through Crichton-Browne, the discredited ideas of phrenology had a more tangible link with the modern brain sciences than has previously been recognised. Secondly, it is explained how and why the ostensibly unpromising site of a Victorian asylum was made into a flourishing school of research. Thirdly, it is shown how the novel doctrine of cerebral localisation – the theory of localised brain functions – came to be fundamentally associated with the asylum’s programme of study. And fourthly, it is contended that the disciplinary split which occurred between neurology and psychiatry in the late nineteenth century was a legacy of the asylum’s work
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