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Simon-Grelling Family Collection circa 1958
No full textFamily tree (1655-20th century); family portraits; memorandum about family historySamter (Muehsam)The lawyer Dr. Richard Grelling was born in Berlin in 1853, and died in 1929 after several years in Switzerland and Italy. He was the author a book "J'accuse" which was critical of German militarism. He married Margarete Simon.A genealogical table of the Grelling-Simon family since 1853 is available on MF 92.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitization byVarnhagen, Raheldigitize
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Critica e Aufklärung. La controversia su Mosè (1685-1686): Jean Le Clerc contro Richard Simon
No full textCritica and Aufklärung. The disputation over Moses (1685-1686): Jean Le Clerc against Richard Simon.
This paper shows how the contrasting opinions of Richard Simon and Jean Le Clerc about Moses represent a bridge between the critica tradition and its evolution during the Enlightenment, a period in which knowledge is more widely spread than in the respublica literaria.
This controversy contribute to the enhancement of the studies of the Aufklärer and, at the same time, to the ambiguity of the European Culture in the XVIII Century. This happens both with the evaluation of philology that becomes a part of theology, and with the splitting of theology from religion. In this way religion becomes the truth of theology, concealed from philosophy that still remained the real disguised mover of the process.
The treated subjects are the scientific research methods in Biblical history; the controversy about the author of the Pentateuch; the hermeneutics principle of the mens auctoris; the idea of tradition, and finally Descartes and Spinoza’s philosophies and their reception
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series,
Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary
programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and
broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other
research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on
the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with
many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray
Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James
Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve
Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson.
It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been
undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000)
arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is,
to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned
documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on
record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable
amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the
arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of
musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the
trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to
be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and
spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked
sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that
arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where
others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an
intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings,
revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular
records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'
"Tender-Hearted Cousin": Queerness As Strength in 'Richard II'
No full textGregory Doran’s 2013 adaption of Shakespeare’s Richard II, performed by the RSC, was notable for its emphasis of a romantic subplot between King Richard and his cousin, the Duke of Aumerle. Their intimate relationship was again emphasised when Doran revived the production as part of the RSC’s King and Country cycle in 2016, thereby demonstrating that for Doran, Richard’s queerness is a fundamental aspect of the play. This research will investigate how the presentation of Richard’s sexuality, and his relationship with Aumerle in particular, has an impact on the way in which characters and situations within the play are perceived by the audience. This exploration will be underpinned by an analysis of the RSC’s 2013 performance. Use will also be made of commentary and interviews about the production, as well as critical reviews. Comparisons will be made between Doran’s production of Richard II and versions of the play produced by other directors, such as Simon Goodwin, who makes less of Richard’s sexuality, or Rupert Goold, who characterises it as a disadvantage. These contrasts will be made to demonstrate the difference that Richard’s overt Queerness - or lack thereof - has on the audience’s perception of the story. Examining this topic will demonstrate the nuances that the queer relationships in Doran’s production add to Richard II. In particular, Doran’s version of the play uses Richard II’s sexuality as a source of strength, rather than as a catalyst for his downfall, and his intimate relationship with Aumerle humanises an otherwise selfish and narcissistic King
Research data management education for future curators
No full textScience has progressed by “standing on the shoulders of giants” and for centuries research and knowledge have been shared through the publication and dissemination of books, papers and scholarly communications. Moving forward, much of our understanding builds on (large scale) datasets, which have been collected or generated as part of the scientific process of discovery. How will this be made available for future generations? How will we ensure that, once collected or generated, others can stand on the shoulders of the data we produce?Educating students about the challenges and opportunities of data management is a key part of the solution and helps the researchers of the future to start to think about the problems early on in their careers. We have compiled a set of case studies to show the similarities and differences in data between disciplines, and produced a booklet for students containing the case studies and an introduction to the data lifecycle and other data management practices. This has already been used at the University of Southampton within the Faculty of Engineering and is now being adopted centrally for use in other faculties. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the case studies and the guide, and reflect on the reception the guide has had to date
Zero hour has come and gone: Allied efforts to alleviate the Ruhr housing shortage from 1945 to 1949
No full textThe author has placed restrictions on the PDF copy of this thesis. The PDF is not printable nor copyable
The trade response to global downturns : historical evidence
No full textThe author examines the impact of historical global downturns on trade flows. The results provide insight into why trade has dropped so dramatically in the current crisis, what is likely to happen in the coming years, how global imbalances are affected, and which regions and industries suffer most heavily. The author finds that the elasticity of global trade volumes to real world GDP has increased gradually from around 2 in the 1960s to above 3 now. The author also finds that trade is more responsive to GDP during global downturns than in tranquil times. The results suggest that the overall drop in real trade this year is likely to exceed 15 percent. There is significant variation across industries, with food and beverages the least affected and crude materials and fuels the most affected. On the positive side, trade tends to rebound very rapidly when the outlook brightens. The author also finds evidence that global downturns often lead to persistent improvements in the ratio of the trade balance to GDP in borrower countries.Economic Theory&Research,Emerging Markets,Free Trade,Trade Policy,Currencies and Exchange Rates
The Group Selection Debate and ALife: Weak Altruism, Strong Altruism, and Inclusive Fitness (abstract)
No full textModels of the evolution of social behaviour are often framed in terms of either multi-level selection or inclusive individual fitness theory. Although both of these descriptions correctly predict changes in gene frequency (where group fitness is defined as the average individual fitness of the group members), it is still a hotly contested issue as to which provides a faithful description of the underlying causal processes at work. Furthermore, the type of model analysis used reflects the philosophical bias of the author. It is important for Alife researchers to be aware of this issue when evaluating or presenting models of social evolution, for many authors simply claim as a matter of fact that their model works via multi-level or (inclusive) individual selection, without acknowledging the alternative perspective. In this talk, two particular areas of ongoing contention between multi-level and individual selectionists will be illustrated, using examples from the Alife literature. The first of these concerns the evolution of weakly altruistic traits. These are behaviours that provide a whole-group benefit at some cost to the actor. Crucially, however, the cost to the actor is more than offset by its share of the group benefit, such that the lifetime number of offspring of the actor is increased. In a recent paper West et al. (2007, J. Evol. Biol., 20, p.415) have advocated that the evolution of such traits can be adequately explained in terms of direct fitness benefit, thus avoiding the need to invoke selection at the group level. However, this explanation hides the fact that weak altruists suffer a relative fitness disadvantage within every group. Indeed, the local attractor within any one group is the extinction of weak altruists. Therefore, the behaviour cannot spread unless groups compete and groups with more weak altruists are fitter than those with less. While the individualist methodology correctly predicts if the behaviour will evolve, it obscures the mechanistic explanation. This suggests that models couching the evolution of social behaviour in terms of individual benefit should be analysed to determine whether group structure is playing any causal role in the evolutionary dynamics. The second issue to be addressed by this talk concerns the evolution of strong altruism, i.e., behaviours where there is a reduction in the lifetime number of offspring of the actor. For such behaviours to evolve there must be a correlation in interactions, such that the recipients of an altruist’s help tend to be altruists themselves. This correlation frequently occurs in nature through the limited dispersal of kin, and is usually modelled by inclusive fitness equations that contain no notion of group fitness. However, the underlying mechanism is that kin groups with more altruists outcompete those with less. Once this is realised, it becomes apparent that other assortative group formation mechanisms can in principle produce the same effect. Appealing to kinship is therefore simply invoking one kind of assortative grouping. This talk will further elaborate on these points, including definitions of a group, and consider claims about the strength of group selection
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