231 research outputs found
Interview with Houston Henry Ellis, 1988.
No full textSan Marcos, Texas Generations of Houston Henry Ellis' ancestors have lived in Hays County, including Cherokee tribesmen, ranchers and farmers. Their stories parallel the settlement of Central Texas
Reflections of contemporary socio-political and religious controversies in William Shakespeare's Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V and Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3
No full textWhile the general idea is to illustrate how William Shakespeare reflected the
contemporary conflicts and problems of the Elizabethan society, the particular
aim of the thesis is to offer a close critical analysis of Shakespeare's Henry IV
Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V and Henry VI Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 plays in an
eclectic critical approach derived from the theoretical principles of New
Historicism and Cultural Materialism. In order to provide a better understanding
of the plays studied in the thesis, there is a presentation of the development of
drama, both religious and secular, in the Reformation period. In addition to this,
main features of Cultural Materialism and New Historicism are given. The
English Reformation and its effects on drama have been given in the introductory
chapter. In the first chapter, contemporary religious controversies as reflected in
Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry VI plays are discussed. The second chapter deals
with the reflections of contemporary social conflicts in especially the Jack Cade
episode of Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI. In the third chapter, reflections of political
conflicts in Shakespeare's Henry V, Henry V, and Henry VI plays are analysed in
terms of the appropriation of commoners by the ruling class for the preservation
of the dominant order. The thesis concludes that the plays are polyvalent in
meaning and thus open to further academic discussions for the years to come
Correspondence | Letter from M.W. Francis to John Henry Caldwell, May 1874
No full text(1) Letter from M.W.[?] Francis [possibly Miller William Francis] at Jacksonville, Alabama to John Henry Caldwell, May 29, 1874 (2) Petition filed October 24, 1868, from citizens of Calhoun County, Alabama to Alexander Woods, Probate Judge at Calhoun County, Alabama to incorporate as Calhoun College, undated, with these persons elected as Trustees of Calhoun College: Edward L. Woodward, Daniel P. Forney, Horace L. Stevenson, Peyton Rowan, John H. Caldwell, John Y. Nisbet, William H. Fleming, Samuel W. Crook, and James B. Turnley; signed by: E.L. Woodward, Sr., L.W. Carmon, D.P. Forney, W.S. Driskell, Wm. M. Nisbet, M.W. Francis, W.C. Lund [?], G. Sauther, J.C. Francis, J.D. [?] Hammond, N.J. [?], Wm. Fleming, Saml. W. Crook, Wm. C. Laird, D.T. Laird, [?] C. Hill, B.C. Wyly, W.W.[?] Nesbit, C.B. Sipon, C.W. Williams, J. Brannan [?], M.J. Turnley, Wm. H. Forney, H.L. Stevenson, P. Rowan, Jas. B. Turnely, Jno. D. Hoke, Jno. H. Caldwell, B.M. Currull [?], Wm. M. Hanes, J.F. Grant, G.C. Ellis [?], E.[?] Woodward, Geo. [?] Turnley, John H. Forney, T. Fred Wynn, G. Adams, H.F. Vernon, Henry A. Carns, W. Adams, S.D. McLellen [?], F.M. Pinson [?], Leo [?] W. Smith, Jn. M. Wyly, J.Y. Nisbet, J. [?] Allen, L.C. Mitchell, J.N. Bryan (3) Letter from Geo S. Houston [possibly George Smith Houston] at Montgomery, AL to John Henry Caldwell, December 18, 1874 requesting information on behalf of his brother-in-law Capt. James B. Irvine (4) Envelope addressed to J.H. Caldwell, Jacksonville, Alabama.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_caldwell/1069/thumbnail.jp
Replication data for: Source apportionment of fine particulate matter in Houston, Texas: Insights to secondary organic aerosols
No full textThis dataset contains the data published in figures and tables of the journal article entitled: "Source apportionment of fine particulate matter in Houston, Texas: Insights to secondary organic aerosols". Published in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018. Author list: Ibrahim M. Al-Naiema, Anusha P. S. Hettiyadura, Henry W. Wallace, Nancy P. Sanchez, Carter J. Madler, Basak Karacurt Cevik, Alexander A. T. Bui, Josh Kettler, Robert J. Griffin, and Elizabeth A. Stone
Replication data for: Source apportionment of fine particulate matter in Houston, Texas: Insights to secondary organic aerosols
No full textThis dataset contains the data published in figures and tables of the journal article entitled: "Source apportionment of fine particulate matter in Houston, Texas: Insights to secondary organic aerosols". Published in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018. Author list: Ibrahim M. Al-Naiema, Anusha P. S. Hettiyadura, Henry W. Wallace, Nancy P. Sanchez, Carter J. Madler, Basak Karacurt Cevik, Alexander A. T. Bui, Josh Kettler, Robert J. Griffin, and Elizabeth A. Stone
O. Henry Collection
No full textO. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter, was an American author of short stories. His works are remembered for their wit and wordplay, and often feature surprise endings, as seen in his Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi."
O. Henry was born in North Carolina in 1862. He moved to Texas in 1882 and to Austin in 1884. He was employed in a variety of jobs throughout his life: pharmacist, draftsman, bank teller, and journalist. He wrote stories in his spare time and sent submissions to newspapers and magazines. From 1887 to 1891 he worked as a draftsman in the Texas General Land Office, drawing maps. He later worked as a teller at the First National Bank in Austin, where some discrepancies in bookkeeping led to him being accused of embezzling funds.
After a move to Houston in 1895, he was convicted of embezzlement and sent to prison. He served his sentence from 1898 to 1901, but continued writing and sending stories to publishers. He first adopted his O. Henry pseudonym with the publication of "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in December 1899. After his release from prison until his death in 1910, O. Henry lived in New York City. He wrote nearly 400 short stories in this period, including more than a year's worth of weekly stories for the New York World Sunday Magazine.
The O. Henry collection includes the handwritten, 47-page manuscript for a short story, "The Venturers," in addition to several smaller manuscripts and drawings. Some of these were written for his daughter, Margaret. Also present are two photostats of map decorations from O. Henry's time at the General Land Office. The collection also contains both outgoing and incoming letters. Correspondents include his wives (Athol Estes Porter and Sara Coleman Porter), members of the Roach family (Athol's parents), Robert Underwood Johnson, and others.
This collection was digitized as part of Project REVEAL (Read and View English & American Literature)
Joint seismic and electrical measurements of gas hydrates in continental margin sediments
No full textEThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Foreign influences on and innovation in English tomb sculpture in the first half of the sixteenth century
No full textThis study is an investigation of stylistic and iconographic
innovation in English tomb sculpture from the accession of King
Henry VIII through the first half of the sixteenth century, a
period during which Tudor society and Tudor art were in
transition as a result of greater interaction with continental
Europe. The form of the tomb was moulded by contemporary
cultural, temporal and spiritual innovations, as well as by the
force of artistic personalities and the directives of patrons.
Conversely, tomb sculpture is an inherently conservative art, and
old traditions and practices were resistant to innovation. The
early chapters examine different means of change as illustrated
by a particular group of tombs. The most direct innovations were
introduced by the royal tombs by Pietro Torrigiano in Westminster
Abbey. The function of Italian merchants in England as
intermediaries between Italian artists and English patrons is
considered. Italian artists also introduced terracotta to
England. A group of terracotta tombs in East Anglia, previously
attributed by tradition to Italian artists, is re-examined. A
less direct initiation of iconographic and stylistic innovation
occurred through English artists' use of foreign patterns. The
synthesis of such two-dimensional imagery by English sculptors is
examined in certain tombs in Hampshire and Sussex. The influence
of the Florentine royal tombs on English tomb sculpture in the
latter half of the period is illustrated by alabaster tombs from
an English workshop and by three other important tombs. The
abandoned Italian project for the tomb of Henry VIII is studied
in the context of the religious, political and economic changes
that contributed to the breakdown of a supportive environment for
Italian artists in England. Finally, the relevance of religious
Injunctions and iconoclasm to the evolution of English tomb
sculpture by the middle of the century is considered
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
A politics of conversion: nihilism and love in Toni Morrison's fiction
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras.O estudo Uma Política de Conversão: Niilismo e Amor na Ficção de Toni Morrison começa com a idéia de que a Literatura Afro-Americana apresenta um sentido de auto-reflexividade e hibridismo, através do qual autobiografia dialoga com romance, o espiritual se funde com o político. A partir deste traço dialógico a auto-reflexividade é politicamente estabelecida entre niilismo e amor. Na política de conversão, o estudo analisa as formas como mulheres negras, individualmente ou em grupo, fogem da escravidão para a liberdade, avançam da individualidade para a coletividade, ou substituem niilismo por amor. Metodologicamente o estudo apresenta sete capítulos. O primeiro discute os aspectos dialógicos que ilustram as conexões entre narrativas espirituais, de escravos e ficção, entre espiritualidade e política. O segundo examina o diálogo entre a conversão, pregação pública e formação da comunidade em Diário e Experiências Religiosas de Lee. O capítulo sugere que ao afirmar espiritualidade e humanidade a narradora abre profundo espaço para a mulher negra reclamar direitos civis. O terceiro discute o diálogo no interior da política de conversão entre narrativa de escravos e ficção. Este diálogo lida com niilismo e amor em Incidentes de Jacobs e Amada, Sula e O Olho Mais Azul de Morrison. Para a análise de niilismo e amor valores individuais e coletivos são considerados em relação a cinco aspectos: ambiente e agente antagonistas, agente de apoio, propósito da personagem e resultado alcançado. É visível, no estudo, o apoio que certas mulheres recebem de suas comunidades para contra-atacar antagonistas. O apoio nem sempre resulta na superação do niilismo e, por isso, derrota temporária pode ocorrer antes que elas sejam reintegradas à comunidade, como acontece com Linda Brent. O quarto capítulo examina as fraquezas e as energias da política da conversão e a reintegração de Sethe Suggs à comunidade de Bluestone Road. O quinto avalia como a comunidade de Bottom tenta controlar a individualidade de Sula Peace e como um grupo de mulheres lideradas por Nel Wrights consegue resgatar o espírito de independência da heroína. O sexto mostra como a política da conversão das mulheres de Lorain é incapaz de garantir a saúde mental de Pecola Breedlove, mas consegue criar um papel mais consistente para o grupo. No sétimo, a conclusão examina da relação dialética entre niilismo e amor ou auto-amor nas experiências dos indivíduos e dos grupos. O estudo sugere que em Incidentes a busca de Linda Brent por liberdade envolve elementos de autodestruição e de autoempoderamento. Da mesma maneira, o estudo conclui que em Amada o amor que Sethe Suggs tem para as suas crianças mata a própria filha, enfatizando, assim, o desejo de livrá-la da escravidão. Igualmente em Sula, a individualidade de Sula Peace não apenas limita, mas também expande as experiências do grupo, levando-o à emancipação. Finalmente, em O Olho Mais Azul a luta de Pecola Breedlove por amor e beleza reflete auto-ódio ao mesmo tempo em que reconstrói a auto-apreciação de toda a comunidade
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