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'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Emerson and environmental ethics/ Susan L. Dunston.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.This book shows the Emersonian arc in environmental ethics and nature writing extending into contemporary discussions of those topics. Dunston connects Emerson's nature literacy and natural philosophy to contemporary forms of eco-feminism, living systems theory, Native American science, Asian philosophy, and environmental activism.Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Emerson and Environmental Literacy; 2 Emerson Valuing Nature; 3 Emerson and Contemporary Environmentalism; 4 The Garden and the Wilderness; 5 Emerson and Ahimsa; Coda; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.1 online resourc
Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work
No full textProject MUSE - Journal of Women's History - Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work Project MUSE Journals Journal of Women's History Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1996 Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work Journal of Women's History Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Neither Victim nor Villain:Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work Susan L. Smith Susan L. Smith Susan L. Smith is assistant professor of history and women's studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (1995). Acknowledgement I thank the following for their comments on earlier versions: Andrea Friedman, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Linda Gordon, Susan Hamilton, Darlene Clark Hine, Judith Walzer Leavitt, Gerda Lerner, Donald Macnab, Leslie Reagan, Leslie Schwalm, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Women's History Dissertators' Group, the audience at the Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at Vassar College, New York, June 1993, and my students at the University of Alberta. This research was supported by a Women's Studies Research Grant and a Rural Policy Fellowship, both from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. I also thank archivists Aloha South, at the...http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/summary/v008/8.1.smith.htm
Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense
No full textBy Siobhan Chapman Reference: Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 221 pp. ISBN: 978-0-230-30290-7. Author: CHAPMAN, Siobhan. Professor of English, University of Liverpool. This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of her thought to the philosophical, social and political background of her life. It also assesses Stebbing's contribution in the light of developments both in analytic..
International year of older persons: Mentoring research project
No full textA report, by Judith MacCallum and Susan Beltman, Murdoch University, that identifies models of good practice of mentoring in school settings. The report looks at issues associated with the implementation of mentoring programs in school settings and key recommendations for consideration by Australian schools and education systems
Relations between acoustic and articulatory measurements of /l/
No full textVariation in the production of English /l/ has received significant study. It has been characterized in terms of categorical allophones, in terms of acoustic properties, and in terms of articulatory timing. Using a parallel corpus of acoustic-articulatory data from two speakers of American English, this study looks at the relations between acoustic and articulatory measurements of /l/ across words in corpus of read speech. We find significant negative correlations between F1 and tongue tip height and significant positive correlations between F2 and tongue body retraction. Additionally, we find that the relative timing of tongue tip and tongue back gestures in our data are consistent with past work on positional variants of /l/
Constraint Therapy With Progressive Incorporation of Bimanual Therapy Significantly Improves Hand Function in Children With Unilateral Brain Injury
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This study examined the efficacy of modified constraint-induced movement therapy, with progressive introduction of bimanual therapy to improve hand functions in children with unilateral brain injury participating in an intensive occupational therapy program.
Primary Author and Speaker: Ka Lai Kelly Au
Contributing Authors: Julie L. Knitter, Susan Morrow-McGinty, Jason B. Carmel, Kathleen M. Friel</jats:p
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The Role of Age-Associated B Cells (ABC) in Combating Influenza Infection
No full textWith age, follicular helper T cell (TFH) dependent B cell responses erode, reducing B cell memory and long-term antibody responses. However, aged mice and humans develop an alternative B cell population, termed age-associated B cells (ABC), that may produce TFH independent antibodies. ABC lack CD21 and CD23 expression, and some express transcription factors and adhesion molecules indicative of antigen exposure. Some of these have been implicated in autoimmunity. We found a unique population of responding B cells following influenza A virus (IAV) infection, which was Fashi/GL7neg. We postulated that the CD21-CD23-ABC might be progenitors of these non-follicular B cells, that we called induced ABC (iABC). Using T-deficient RAG KO and TFH deficient SAP KO hosts, we found that the CD21-CD23-ABC can become iABC (FasHiGL7-) upon IAV infection. These iABC share the same phenotype of iABC found in infected aged mice and can become Ab-producing cells without T cell help. We showed that CD21-CD23-ABC can be separated into IgD+ (putative naïve B cells) vs. IgD- (memory-like B cells). We followed their ability to become iABC in SAP KO hosts. The IgD+ABC were most efficient at giving rise to iABC. Further transfer studies revealed that iABC generation from donor IgD+ABC requires extrinsic TLR signaling, and IgD+ABC can provide Ab-medicated protection. We concluded that upon T-independent stimulation, IgD+ABC (CD21-CD23-) become iABC (Fashi/GL7neg), some of which can secrete IAV-specific Ab and may provide protection against IAV.Immunology and Microbiolog
Susan L. Glosser, Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953
No full textThis study, which follows in the tradition of pioneering works by Elisabeth Croll, Judith Stacey, Kay Ann Johnson and Margery Wolf, deals with the debate about the reform of the Chinese family during the Republican period. Its author, Susan Glosser, gives great importance to one of the elements in this debate: the arguments of reformers in favour of the “small” family, or xiao jiating, in essays and articles published during the course of the first half of the century. She identifies four gro..
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