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Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
Advance Australia fair [music] /
No full textNew ed. For chorus (SATB); Issued as a postcard.; "Commonwealth anthem and patriotic song".; "Performed by the massed bands at the Naming of the Federal Capital Celebrations, Canberra".; "The author of this song ... is indebted to the late Professor Stuart Blackie, of Edinburgh for improvement in last verse".; 3rd verse begins: 'Beneath our radiant Southern Cross ...'; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6397900; MUS: N, A, N/A, B, C, JAF.Advance Australia fair. Chorus scor
Advance Australia fair [music] /
No full textNew ed. For chorus (SATB); Caption title.; Issued as a postcard.; "Patriotic song".; "Under Govt. Patronage, N.S.W. & League of the Empire, London. Sung by the Great Choir of 10,000 voices at Commonwealth celebrations ..."; "The words of this patriotic song have been revised. The author, Mr P.D. McCormick ("Amicus"), is indebted to the late Professor Stuart Blackie, of Edinburgh, for improvement in the last verse".; "'Advance Australia Fair' is now our national anthem"-the Premier, May, 1907".; Postcard has stamp dated 5 Feb 1909.; Condition: Fold across centre.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn4193652.Advance Australia fair. Chorus scor
A Proposal for Improving Pastures in Subsistence Farming Systems on the East India Plateau
No full textThe East India Plateau (EIP) experiences deep poverty despite high rainfall (\u3e 1200 mm). Livelihoods, once derived from Sal (Shorea robusta) forest, now depend on agriculture. Subsistence farmers practice monoculture rice-fallow on small, fragmented landholdings (total \u3c 1 ha). Rice in the undulating landscape was traditionally grown in lowland drainage lines (Fig. 1) but population pressure has forced it onto adjacent terraced slopes (medium-uplands) that now comprise \u3e 80% of the rice area (\u3e 50% of land area). Rice is protected from grazing, but the watershed is otherwise grazed as common land with no pasture management. Grazed uplands are often degraded and unproductive, receiving no inputs. Livestock are limited to large animals providing draft power (males) and manure (fuel, compost), and goats for emergency finance.
Rainfall is not the primary constraint to production from micro-watershed ecosystems of the EIP-improved rainfed cropping would deliver immediate substantial benefits, without watershed development (Cornish et al., 2015a); although low soil fertility requires attention (Agarwal et al., 2010). The next step in development requires a strategy for poor, risk-averse smallholders to improve grazing land. This paper develops a proposal for evaluation, using a soil fertility survey of seven watersheds combined with botanical observations and published work
Rapid analysis of time series data to identify changes in electricity consumption patterns in UK secondary schools
No full textThis is one of a series of 6 papers by Fleming, Stuart and Ferreira investigating the analysis of short-time series electricity and gas consumption data for rapidly identifying energy savings opportunities in existing buildings.
Ferreira and Stuart, the lead author, are PhD students in the IESD, supervised by Fleming
The Layburnes and their world, circa 1620-1720: the English Catholic community and the House of Stuart
No full textThis thesis concerns Catholics in north-western England in the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the Layburne family
of Cunswick, Cumbria. It examines their role in local society and at the courts
of the Stuart queens in London and St Germains. It traces their growing
commitment to the Jacobite cause and their hopes of thereby regaining
positions of influence at court and in the country.
The north-western Tory gentry's sympathy with their Catholic counterparts is
contrasted with the treatment given to the Quakers in the same area. The latter
were regarded as a danger to the fabric of society, representing an economic
and political threat to the government. As an example of how integrated the
Catholics were, the services in Kendal parish church were more Papist than
non-conformist, even under the Protectorate. At the Restoration the Catholics
continued to contribute to the upkeep of the church and were well-regarded in
the area.
The Layburnes occupied positions during the reign of James II, both in the
north-west and at court. Bishop John Laybume acted as James II's Catholic
bishop, and had also been involved in the Secret Treaty of Dover in 1670,
under Charles II. during James II's reign bishop Layburne had organised the
funding of Catholic chapels, clergy and education. This activity was
discovered and used in the prosecution of Catholic gentry in the trials
following the Lancashire Plot (1694). On acquittal, the Jacobites vigorously
renewed their plotting in Lancashire. Planning for a Jacobite invasion reached
its culmination in the 1715 Rising, only to end with the siege of Preston.
Despite some executions and the forfeiture of estates, many Catholic Jacobite
families survived the 1715 rising. Few rose in 1745 and many Catholic
families, with the exception of the Layburnes, prospered and continue to this
day
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Richard Bernard and His Publics: A Puritan Minister as Author
No full textDrawing upon approaches from history, literature, and religious studies, this dissertation enhances our understanding of the confluence of religion, print, politics, and society during a key transitional period in European history. In particular, it uses the case study of "author-minister" Richard Bernard to examine the relationship between print authorship and parish ministry in early seventeenth century England. Although it is well known that many early modern ministers became authors through the publication of sermons, few scholars have considered the more active role that some ministers took in producing works specifically designed for a print medium. Because preaching, teaching and other professional activities could easily fill the entirety of a minister’s time, it is important to consider the reasons these author-ministers chose to pursue publication and the goals that they had for their works. The dissertation demonstrates that authorship could become an integral part of the clerical vocation as author-ministers intentionally targeted different audiences through a variety of genres in order to further England’s reformation and religious unification within their own parishes and beyond.
The dissertation is centered upon the career of Bernard, whose life and work are ideally positioned to highlight many aspects of early Stuart parish and print ministry. In his works, the connection between pastoral ministry and print is particularly strong. For instance, one can often pinpoint specific events that influenced not only the timing but also the content of publications. In addition, Bernard was particularly explicit, both in his private correspondence and in print, about his goals as an author, his imagined audience, and his purposes for seeking publication. By placing his print works alongside records from his ministry, it is possible to reconstruct ways that Bernard’s pastoral vocation and authorial work mutually influenced one another, as well as how he conceived of these dual roles
Analysis of Homeland Security Regulations, Small Steps Forward, Giant Leaps to Go
No full textThis paper reviews the use of cost-benefit analysis in evaluating homeland security regulations. Until the recent use of "break-even analysis" by the Department of Homeland Security, analysis of regulations to reduce the risk of a terrorist attacks have been severely lacking. The costs were likely to be understated particularly because the costs of restrictions on immigration and of the curbing of civil liberties are omitted. Benefits were often left uncalculated leaving it impossible to meaningfully evaluate the policies being promulgated. The use of break-even analysis has improved the ability to evaluate homeland security policy. However, DHS needs to provide this information in a more consistent format in order to allow comparison of regulatory initiatives. DHS also needs to provide its own assessment of what the break-even analysis tells us about the likelihood that the benefits of their regulations outweigh their costs.
A necessary fiction: The ritualisation of stakeholder practices in New Zealand cinema
No full textThis thesis argues that stability of the concept ‘national cinema’ is located in the discursive positioning of individual films in such a way that they are connected to a national ‘common ground’, one which is ritually accessed via engagement with media such as cinema. This positioning, however, is not quantifiable and may not be identified as arising from any particular production practice, dimension of popularity, theme, style, characteristic of production personnel, and so on. By synthesising the work of several theorists and applying this synthesis to a selection of films, a framework of ideas (around the ritualised ‘flagging’ of the national via the expression of stakeholder interests) is applied to cinema in New Zealand. In particular, an ideoscape is ultimately mapped as a result of applying this framework of ideas. The normative assumptions of national cinema are examined in this way and found to be lacking despite the weight that the term ‘national cinema’ continues to have
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