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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'
Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters
No full textPublic awareness, rigorous risk research and aligned targets will help policy-makers to increase resilience against natural hazards, say Susan L. Cutter and colleagues
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..
1969-1970 U.S. Ski Team, L to R: Chris Jones, Dennis Agee, Ann Black, Karen Budge, Cheryl Bechdolt, Marilyn Cochran, Julie Wolcott, Penny Northrup, Karen Korfanta, Susan Corrock, Debbie Flanders, Penny McCoy, Barbara Cochran, Rosie Fortna, Patty Boydstun, Mitzi Nagumo*, Kiki Cutter, Judy Nagel, Tom Kelly, Philippe Mollard. * Member of the Japanese Ski Team.
No full textPhoto of the 1969-1970 U.S. Ski Team, left to right: Chris Jones, Dennis Agee, Ann Black, Karen Budge, Cheryl Bechdolt, Marilyn Cochran, Julie Wolcott, Penny Northrup, Karen Korfanta, Susan Corrock, Debbie Flanders, Penny McCoy, Barbara Cochran, Rosie Fortna, Patty Boydstun, Mitzi Nagumo (member of Japanese ski team), Kiki Cutter, Judy Nagel, Tom Kelly, Philippe Mollar
International year of older persons: Mentoring research project
Full text linkA 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/
Building Disaster Resilience: Steps toward Sustainability
Full text linkDisaster losses continue to escalate globally and in many regions human losses (death, injury, permanent displacement) often exceed the economic toll. Current disaster policies are reactive with a short-term focus - respond and rebuild as quickly as possible and in the same way after the event. Such policies ignore the longer-term approach of building disaster-resilient communities, in which investments made now show financial and social returns later by reducing the impact of disasters. This article provides a vision for resilient nations in 2030 based on three recent policy reports. It highlights the necessary steps towards achieving sustainability using the lens of disaster resilience as the pathway towards strengthening communities' ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, respond to, and recover from present and future disasters
A ciência da vulnerabilidade: modelos, métodos e indicadores
Full text linkVulnerability science is the multi-disciplinary integration of social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering in understanding those circumstances that place people and places at risk from hazards and those factors that enhance or reduce the ability of the population, physical systems, or infrastructure to respond to and recover from environmental threats. To integrate the perspectives requires place-based analyses using geospatial tools and technologies. This paper describes tools and methods for measuring and mapping exposure (termed physical vulnerability); measuring and mapping the sensitivity of populations to hazards (termed social vulnerability); and the intersection of the two to create the place-based analyses. The intersection of physical vulnerability and social vulnerability creates the hazardscape, which in turn helps researchers understand the differential impacts of hazards and disasters on local places and the people who live there
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