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Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
A Study of Bozza\u27s Eighteen Etudes In The Form of Improvisation For Horn and New Preparatory Etudes on the Works of Bozza
No full textThis document serves as an analysis of Eugene Bozza\u27s Dix-Huit Études en Forme d\u27Improvisation pour Cor (1961), translated to Eighteen Etudes in the Form of Improvisation for Horn for the purposes of this document. I found and documented all motifs within the eighteen etudes, and categorized connections between them and Bozza\u27s compositional ouerve as displayed in Dr. Lois Kuyper-Rushing\u27s A Thematic Index of the Works of Bozza. My research takes inspiration from Dr. Kuyper-Rushing\u27s work as well as Dr. Hsing-Fang Liu\u27s research involving Bozza\u27s use of “Adoptive Transcription”, or taking old melodies from previous works and using them in new works. Involved with this document is a recording of all eighteen etudes, recorded and performed by the author at the Barth House, a local Episcopalian center in Memphis, Tennessee. A discussion of each of the 18 etudes, their connections, and the process I had taken in practicing and recording them makes up the middle section of the document. Finally, using the knowledge gained from the connections made and the recordings provided, this document will conclude with three new preparatory etudes for the horn composed by the author in the spirit of making the performance of Bozza\u27s body of work easier for future horn students. In their current state, most of Bozza\u27s Eighteen Etudes in the Form of Improvisation are simply too difficult to be played well by intermediate students
Austin Papers: Series II, Part I, 1794-1817
No full textCopy of transcript of an incomplete letter addressed to James Austin, from an unnamed author. In this letter, sent from New Haven, the author discuses Moses Austin's debt to him
Managing in developing countries: strategies analysis and operating techniques
No full textThis book presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of the Third World business environment where, unlike the West, government is what the author terms a "megaforce". With hundreds of examples, Austin shows how managers must interact with Third World governments in each of the functional areas of management: finance, production, marketing and organization
Analysis of Fabry-Pérot laser resonators stabilized by microlenses and applications in speckle-free imaging
No full textIn this work, laser arrays comprising thousands of beams are experimentally demonstrated by stabilizing macroscopic Fabry-Pérot resonators with microlens arrays. The cavity parameters are tunable to either force fundamental-mode lasing across the array or to promote oscillation of various higher-order transverse modes. The fundamental mode produced by this resonator very closely matches theoretical results calculated with standard Gaussian optics as well as numerical Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction results. It was found that the beams are generally uncoupled in this arrangement, and therefore do not produce interference. The resulting emission from large arrays of lasers has a moderate degree of coherence. Therefore, this laser produces very directional light with high brightness that does not generate coherent artefacts. Because of the moderate coherence and nanosecond-scale pulse duration of the light, this laser was shown to be an ideal light source for speckle-free imaging of dynamic targets. Most notably, fruit flies were imaged while flying with high resolution and without speckle or motion blur, an otherwise challenging task because their wings can beat at frequencies up to 200 Hz.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Austin Steinforth, accepted the attached license on 2020-04-11 at 13:06.The student, Austin Steinforth, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-04-11 at 13:18.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-04-13 at 19:14.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14962 on 2020-08-25 at 17:27:24Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:54:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Surat Jerami di Meja Austin: Penggunaan Speech Act Theory sebagai Usaha Pembacaan Efektif Ujaran Performatif dalam Surat Yakobus
No full textMany hermeneutical approaches have been developed in response to interpretive difficulties arising from the reading of text, especially sacred writings. The linguistic ontology developed by John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960) might offer a novel perspective for “reading” such an utterance. For Austin, there are multiple kinds of speech effected in the instance of human uttering. A given action therefore results out of a person's given speech. Austin terms “performative utterance” that action performed by way of speech. Further explicating his speech-act theory, Austin outlines that the action exemplified by a given speech are, in fact, three simultaneous acts—first the “locutionary act,” as the compilation of the particular words uttered; next the “illocutionary act,” as the force rendered by this given speech; then the “perlocutionary act,” as the effect consequentially achieved upon a speech's audience. By proposing that Austin's approach be deployed to interpret the Epistle of James, I consider a number of ways in which such an interpretation would be demonstrably enriched via speech-act theory. I contend that an interpreter of James' letter must distinguish among the three kinds of acts being performed in the work of the epistolary author. The culminating aim, then, is to discern what outcomes might have been intended by the epistolary author, in relation to the letter's original audience
Automated exploitation of fully randomized executables
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. "February 2020."Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-75).Despite significant research into their remediation, memory corruption vulnerabilities remain a significant issue today. Attacks created to exploit these vulnerabilities are remarkably brittle due to their dependence on the presence of specific security settings, use of certain compiler toolchains, and the target's environment. I present Marten, a new end-to-end system for automatically discovering, exploiting, and combining information leakage and buffer overflow vulnerabilities to generate exploits that are robust against defenses, compilation decisions, and environment differences. Marten has generated four control flow hijacking exploits and three information leakage exploits. One of the information leakage exploits is generated against a previously undiscovered zero-day vulnerability in Serveez-0.2.2. CVE-2019-16200 has been assigned to this vulnerability. These results highlight Marten's ability to generate robust exploits that bypass modern defenses to download and execute injected code selected by an attacker.by Austin James Gadient.S.M.S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
The Austins; May Their Bones Burn In Hell!
No full textAuthored primarily by James Smith, in his work with the Brazosport Archaeological Society, this collection reflects the summary of archival and archaeological reconnaissance work conducted by the BAS between 1980 and 2020. The documents in the collection summarize the results of a comprehensive study on the history of Antebellum plantations in Brazoria County, TX, as well as other related historical places and developments.In this overview of the 1834 duel between William T. Austin and John A. Wharton in which Wharton was wounded and Austin was unharmed, the author presents information derived from archival research that documents the various accounts of this event. The item contains photographs and newspaper articles
A histological study on the effects of semicarbazide on limb regeneration in Triturus viridescens, 1965
No full textThere is evidence that some factor or factors resulting from cell injury are conveyed to other cells in unknown fashionj this initiates events of regeneration including cell breakdown, cell migration and multiplication, and ultimately cell differentiation. Histamine, which is a known product of cell injury, is released from cells when they are injured. Metabolically, its formation by decarboxylation of histi�dine is an attribute of the rapid growth of many tissues. This histological study dealt with stumps of amputated Triturus limbs treated with semicarbazide for many hours at a time in efforts to decrease histamine formation and retard cell breakdown, cell migration and multiplication, and cell differentiation. When limbs were treated with semicarbazide only in preblastemal stages of regeneration, it seemed to have no effect on the course of regeneration histologically. When the early meaenchymatous blastema was treated directly, however, it retarded the expansion and differentia�tion of the blastema. From the present evidence, it appears that histamine production may not be involved in the initiation of limb regeneration but is probably concerned in the phase of rapid blastema! enlargement, whose primary histological attribute is cellular mitosis
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