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'F- F- Felt it': Breathing Feminist, Queer and Clown Thinking into the Practice and Study of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed and Blasted
No full textThis thesis uses studio practice, scholarly research, close reading of text, performance observation and conversation with practitioners to establish diverse readings of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed. It includes original material from the 2012 productions of Cleansed in Japan (Kamome-za Fringe Theatre), and in Ireland (Bare Cheek Theatre). It notes practice on Cleansed in gallery spaces (Cast-Off Drama, UK). It offers a dramaturgical approach to workshopping the play from a feminist and queer position, informed by theories of gender and transgender, and the marginalised, loving and delinquent practice of clowning. The research discusses principles of breath, voice and sexuate difference drawing primarily on the philosophies of Luce Irigaray, on the voice practice of Cicely Berry and the clown teaching of Sue Morrison.
The work challenges the ‘in-yer-face’ theatre discourse on Kane arguing that it represents a McDonaldization of its subject matter, and an insidious trivialisation of her texts. It offers new thinking on the opening night of Blasted (1995), suggesting that the ‘furore’ was fuelled by collective male hysteria and superstition; its roots centred in mourning. Analysing Cleansed in relation to Edward Bond’s Saved and Lear, it explores tropes of ghosts, stitching and the silent scream, and argues that Kane militates for gynocentric time and becoming. It analyses the symbol of the perimeter fence as a feature of 1980s Britain, noting the strength of binary associations configured in it with reference to both English football hooliganism (male) and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (female). It argues that Kane sets up heteronormative binaries in Cleansed to debate and contest them.
A key conclusion of the thesis is that Cleansed politically addresses and dramatises issues of transgender experience presenting accounts of gender violence, mutability, transitioning, the sharp fractures and silences of gender dysphoria, but also, ultimately, queer desire, love and optimism
Raw data to peat cosm analysis from the Meadowlands in Minnesota, USA
No full textGlobally important carbon (C) stores in northern peatlands are vulnerable to oxidation in a changing climate. A growing body of literature draws attention to the importance of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in governing anaerobic metabolism in organic soil, but exactly how the reduction-oxidation (redox) activities of DOM, and particularly the phenolic fraction, are likely to change in an altered climate remain unclear. We used large mesocosms in the PEATcosm experiment to assess changes in peatland DOM and redox potential in response to experimental manipulations of water table (WT) position and plant functional groups (PFGs). WT position and PFGs interacted in their effects on redox potential and quantity and quality of DOM. Phenolics were generally of higher molecular weight and more oxidized with sedges in lowered water tables. Altered DOM character included changes in dissolved nitrogen (N), with higher N:phenolics with higher E4:E6 (absorbance ratio = 465:665) DOM in the lowered WT and sedge PFG treatments. Conversely, biomolecular assignments to free amino-sugars were largely absent from low WT treatments. Drainage resulted in the creation of unique N compounds which were more condensed (lower H:C), that changed with depth and PFG. The accumulation of oxidized compounds with low WT and in sedge rhizospheres could be very important pools of electron acceptors beneath the water table, and their mechanisms of formation are discussed. This work suggests the effects of changes in vegetation communities can be as great as WT position in directly and interactively mediating peat redox environment and the redox-activity of DOM
Genet diversity, genetic structure, and trait expression of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides michx.) after clear-cut harvesting and post-harvest soil treatments
No full text© 2017, Canadian Science Publishing. All rights reserved. Trembling aspen is a fast growing, broadly distributed tree in North America that reproduces by root suckers (clonally) and by seeds (sexually). Since timber harvesting can affect both reproduction pathways by changing the soil properties, we assessed genet diversity, genetic structure, and phenotypic trait expression of trembling aspen populations after clear-cut harvesting in a long-term soil productivity study site in Michigan. A total of 323 stems in replicated plots having heavy soil compaction and surface organic matter (OM) removed, and the untreated controls, were analyzed at microsatellites and for phenotypic traits. Overall, higher spatial aggregation of ramets from the same genet, a greater spatial separation of different genets, and a very good phenotypic separation among genets was observed in the treatment plots. In contrast, for plots with spatially intermixed clones phenotypic separation was much lower. Genetic differentiation was high between individual plots, but soil compaction and OM removal had little effect on genetic differentiation and diversity. One treatment plot was strongly differentiated phenotypically, but not genetically, from all other plots. Consequently, microenvironmental and genetic differences should be considered when forest management effects on trait expressions and productivity are analyzed. Overall, heavy soil compaction and OM removal in fine-textured soil seemed to have restricted the spread of aspen clones
Harnett Kane autographs new book
No full textHarnett Kane, author of the new book, The Scandalous Mrs. Blackford, autographed copies for two members of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, Miss Estelle Lancaster, and Mrs. Leo R. Kent, left to right. The sorority sponsored a review given by Kane at the public library.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/12950/thumbnail.jp
Misusing Sights as Sounds: The Infringements of Radio Drama on the Making of CITIZEN KANE
No full textMany arts have influenced the cinema over extended periods of time. One art – radio drama – is an exception, for we can date the onset of its influence from the coming of synchronous sound to the cinema in 1926 and the culmination of it with the creation of CITIZEN KANE in 1941. Film and radio drama were thereafter to part company, each having learned what it could from the other. What had the cinema learned from radio drama? If we look closely at CITIZEN KANE, we can learn much about the virtues and limitations of radio design, cinematical design and the design of CITIZEN KANE itself
Sarah Kane i jej intertekstualny geniusz
No full textW pracy zostały zanalizowane wszystkie dramaty Kane: Zbombardowani,
Miłość Fedry, Oczyszczeni, Łaknąć i Psychosis 4.48, przez pryzmat ich
odniesień do kultury i filozofii zachodniej. Analiza twórczości Kane ma
przybliżyć specyfikę nurtu nowego brutalizmu. Autorka podjęła próbę
syntezy wszystkich dramatów oraz wypracowania kluczy interpretacyjnych
charakterystycznych dla stylu Sarah Kane. W tekście pojawiają się
również analizy klasycznych już tekstów dramaturgicznych, łącznie ze
wskazaniem na ich użycie w twórczości Kane.The paper analyzes all Sarah Kane dramas: Blasted, Phaedra’s Love,
Cleansed, Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, through their references to culture
and Western philosophy. Analysis of the work of Kane aims to give
cultural view on new brutalism as an important part of theatre history.
Author is willing to develop interpretive keys characteristic of the style
of Sarah Kane. In the text there are also analysis of classical dramatic
texts, considering an indication of their use in the work of Kane
Regulation and Supervision: An Ethical Perspective
No full textThis essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory elements: politically directed subsidies to selected bank borrowers; subsidized provision of explicit or implicit repayment guarantees for the creditors of banks that participate in the credit-allocation scheme; and defective government monitoring and control of the subsidies to leveraged risk-taking that the other two elements produce. In 2007-2008, technological change and regulatory competition simultaneously encouraged incentive-conflicted supervisors to outsource much of their due discipline to credit-rating firms and encouraged banks to securitize their loans in ways that pushed credit risks on poorly underwritten loans into corners of the universe where supervisors and credit-ratings firms would not see them.
Dry density analysis of peat from the Meadowlands in Minnesota, USA
No full textPeat was stored in a refrigerator or freezer (samples processed at later date) until processing (storage time appoximately 3-8 months). A weight weight was obtained of the full sample, then it was cut in half, weighed again, dried completely at 60°C and a dry weight was recorded.Peat cubes (10x10x10 cm) were obtained at 5 depths, from 25 different locationswith depths of 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm, 20-30 cm, 50-60 cm, 70-80 c
Peat cosm analysis from the Meadowlands in Minnesota, USA
No full textThe following analysis was performed using a Costech Elemental Combustion System 4010 connected to a Thermo Finnigan ConfloIII Interface and Deltaplus Continuous Flow-Stable Isotpe Ratio Mass Spectrometer. IAEA, USGS, and NIST certified isotopic standards are run at the beginning of each analysis. One certified standard is also run at the end of the analysis to check for stability of the calibration. These standards are recognized internationally, and are used to calibrate the CO2 and N2 reference gases which are analyzed in conjunction with every individual sample. Values are reported on the VPDB scale for d13C and the Atm. air scale for d15N. An internal standard is usually run every 10 samples. The precision of the certified isotopic standards are typically 0.2 to 0.5 per mil, so the best analytical precision we report is +/- 0.25 per mil for d13C and +/- 0.5 per mil for d15N. Therefore, representations of isotopic values in resulting graphs and text should be to one digit beyond the decimal point. Please contact Jennfer Eikenberry with any questions. Please also refer to the Run ID for questions about specific samples
April-day, a burletta, in three acts. Written by the author of Midas. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. The music composed by Dr. Arnold:
No full textvii,[1],44p. ; 8⁰.The author of 'Midas' = Kane O'Hara.With a half-title.Reproduction of original from the British Library.English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT59183.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
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