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Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers
No full textThe Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers contain the professional and personal records of archaeologist, journalist, and author Samuel Dorris Dickinson
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Portrait of Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011 /
No full textTitle from nformation supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Podcast photograph of author Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
The paradox of self-annihilating expression : representations of ontological instability in the drama of Samuel Beckett
No full textOne of the central critical problems about Beckett - how can we
praise without feeling uneasy the work of an artist for whom "to
be an artist is to fail"? - parallels the creative predicament
of a writer whose "art of failure" can only exist in an inherently
expressive medium. How can an art which is anti-art remain true
to itself? Is a truly self-annihilating expression possible?
Two perspectives on the problem are opened. The first is theoretical:
a consideration of the Duthuit Dialogues confirms that Beckett refuses
to countenance an art which survives by making artistic
failure itself the occasion of artistic creation. Rather he "dreams"
of a genuine "art of failure": without occasion, in-expressive and
indefinable. The second perspective (itself suggested by Beckett's
critical tendency in the Duthuit Dialogues) is literary-historical:
pertinent Romantic, nineteenth-century and Modernist attitudes
towards artistic failure are outlined and briefly considered. Such
a consideration serves both to define the particular (and unique)
nature of Beckett's response to what may be seen as a traditional
Romantic and Modernist problem, and to confirm the essentially
ontological nature of what Beckett sees as the creative "obligation".
(Failure to create as failure to be.)
The Beckettian creative predicament is thus considered next in terms
of individual identity, by way of the recurring motif of the
"imperfect birth", and the paradoxical quality of Beckett's response
to his creative problem is most clearly seen in the theatre, where he
needs to represent degrees of ontological absence in what has been
seen as the medium of "presence".
Studies of the individual plays show that Beckett's method is to
exploit the essence of theatre, which is playing, so as to suggest
that the players are never really present, only playing, because
obliged to play, over the void of (their own) identity. In order to
render the creative-ontological situation of the imperfectly born
subject, Beckett seeks to produce, both in the text and the stage-picture
and by a precise counterpointing of the two elements, the
effect of parody presence.
Examination of the plays in chronological order illustrates a
development towards abstraction and an increasing emphasis on shape
and pattern. The central character becomes more and more obviously
a creator and (by the same token) is revealed more and more clearly by
the effect of parody presence as a created being, though imperfectly
created. Thus theatrical presence is undermined and the Beckett play
enacts its own self-annihilation
Samuel Oshimi-John
No full textabstract: Samuel was nine years old when he left his village because of the fighting and bombing around his village.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 30Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Letter to Mr. Drazin, President of Jersey Homesteads, from Samuel Niznevitz, Chairman of the Wage Planning Committee
No full textThe federal government created Jersey Homesteads as part of a New Deal initiative. It was unique because it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative that included a farm, a factory, and retail stores, specifically established for urban Jewish workers. This document is a letter to Mr. Drazin, President of the Industrial Committee of Jersey Homesteads, from Samuel Nisnevitz, Chairman of the Wage Planning Committee. This December 18, 1938, letter is in reference to a previous letter written by Mr. Drasin on September 23, 1938, to the Board of Directors of the Consumers Wholesale Clothers, Inc. This December letter describes the recent meeting in which employed factory workers discussed a plan to simultaneously earn a living and give the factory management an opportunity to obtain business in the open market. Reasonable working wages were discussed as well. The letter also includes the wages that these workers agreed upon
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3346: Samuel G. Freedman, author, 2013
No full textPhotograph of author Samuel G. Freedman, at NT Daily Slash meeting in the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT
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