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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
No full textBibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Manual |'manyә(wә)l|
No full textManual |'manyә(wә)l| Noun: Instructions For Learning and Understanding a Subject Manual of the Artist's Aphorisms Based on Theory and Practice, Experience and Reflection. This manual is an investigation and a search for meaning within a gallery space. The essence of my practice as an artist is the research I do within the exhibition space prior to making or installing an artwork. By participating in the creation and the management of 1612 Gallery, I have been studying and reflecting on all aspects of that space as a gallery: researching its history, location and functionality and by observation I have seen how different artists respond to this gallery space. My research has included looking at the history of art galleries through catalogues and fieldwork, as well as studying the writings of art historians, curators and artists as they consider the gallery as a space for exhibiting art. The 1612 Gallery, Emily Carr University Graduate students studios and gallery located at 1612 West 3rd in Vancouver, British Columbia, functions as my case study and is also used as a comparative tool in my understanding of the nature of “the white cube” gallery space. My research question focuses on how the gallery and exhibition space influences the work on display and how, by placing an artwork within a certain space a specific meaning is created. My method was to place myself in the centre of the investigation, where I took on the roles of the carpenter, cleaner, facilitator, artist, curator and exhibition maker. My purpose was to better understand the role of the artist and the curator, complete with the obligations, and the tasks that comes with these roles, and to better understand how a space; with its white walls, its ideology, and its dialogue becomes an art gallery. My thesis artwork will be a final site-specific sculpture based on these reflections.Art galleriesCuratorArtistsSpac
Hiljaisuuden kieli, (ei-)tieto ja naistekijyys Marguerite Durasin romaanissa Emily L.
No full textTutkin tässä teoreettisessa esseessä ranskalaisen kirjailijan ja elokuvaohjaajan Marguerite Durasin (1914–1996) romaania Emily L. (1989/1987) siitä kulmasta, kuinka taiteen tekeminen, hiljaisuus ja sukupuoli kiertyvät siinä toisiinsa ja minkälaisia sukupuolittuneita merkityksiä hiljaisuus siinä saa. Kyseessä on iäkkään kirjailijanaisen elämänsä illassa sepittämä, itseään peilaava tai moninaistava ”antitarina”, joka sisältää kertomuksen myös toisesta, elämänsä viimeiselle matkalle valmistautuvasta kirjailijanaisesta. Luen romaania keskeisen modernistisen uudistajan autofiktiivisenä tutkielmana länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiasta poispyyhitystä naistekijyydestä. Tällaisessa kehystyksessä teoksesta kasvaa vaikuttava, feministisesti kantaaottava poeettis-poliittinen metafora. Käyn vuoropuhelua feministisen filosofian, ranskalaisen kirjallisuudentutkimuksen sekä mustan ja post-koloniaalisen teorian kanssa osoittaakseni radikaalin moninaisen teoreettisen ajattelun avulla, että Durasin esteettisessä ilmaisussa tyylitelty hiljaisuus luo paradoksaalisesti aivan omanlaistaan kieltä. Lopuksi tarkastelen transkielisyyden käsitteen avulla, kuinka durasilainen hiljaisuuden kieli nivoutuu hänen kulttuurisesti hybridiin ja monikieliseen taustaansa.
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The Language of Silence, (Un)Knowledge and Female Authorship in Marguerite Duras’s novel Emily L.
In this theory-oriented essay, I examine Marguerite Duras’s (1914–1996) novel, Emily L. (1987), with a primary focus on the intertwinement of silence, writing, and gender, and the gendered meanings attributed to silence. In Emily L., an elderly female author tells a story of another female author embarking on her final journey. It is an ’anti-story’ narrative, multiplying or mirroring itself within itself. By analysing the text as an autofictional exploration of the erasure of female authorship in Western literary history, I highlight Duras’s role as a significant modernist literary innovator of the 20th century. Within this framing, the novel emerges as a powerful feminist poetico-political metaphor. I employ radically multiple theoretical perspectives, engaging in a thoughtful dialogue with feminist philosophy, French literary theory, as well as black and postcolonial feminist theory. This investigation reveals that in Duras's artistic expression, the stylized silence paradoxically creates a language of its’ own. In the end of the essay I analyse, with the help of the concept of literary translingualism, how Duras’s language of silence is intertwined with her culturally hybrid and multilingual background
Hiljaisuuden kieli, (ei-)tieto ja naistekijyys Marguerite Durasin romaanissa Emily L.
No full textTutkin tässä teoreettisessa esseessä ranskalaisen kirjailijan ja elokuvaohjaajan Marguerite Durasin (1914–1996) romaania Emily L. (1989/1987) siitä kulmasta, kuinka taiteen teke-minen, hiljaisuus ja sukupuoli kiertyvät siinä toisiinsa ja minkälaisia sukupuolittuneita merkityksiä hiljaisuus siinä saa. Kyseessä on iäkkään kirjailijanaisen elämänsä illassa sepittämä, itseään peilaava tai moninaistava ”antitarina”, joka sisältää kertomuksen myös toisesta, elämänsä viimeiselle matkalle valmistautuvasta kirjailijanaisesta. Luen romaania keskeisen modernistisen uudistajan autofiktiivisenä tutkielmana länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiasta poispyyhitystä naistekijyydestä. Tällaisessa kehys-tyksessä teoksesta kasvaa vaikuttava, feministisesti kantaaottava poeettis-poliittinen metafora. Käyn vuoropuhelua feministisen filosofian, ranskalaisen kirjallisuudentutkimuksen sekä mustan ja post-koloniaalisen teorian kanssa osoittaakseni radikaalin moninaisen teoreettisen ajattelun avulla, että Durasin esteettisessä ilmaisussa tyylitelty hiljaisuus luo paradoksaalisesti aivan omanlaistaan kieltä. Lopuksi tarkastelen transkielisyyden käsitteen avulla, kuinka durasilainen hiljaisuuden kieli nivoutuu hänen kulttuurisesti hybridiin ja monikieliseen taustaansa.The Language of Silence, (Un)Knowledge and Female Authorship in Marguerite Duras’s novel Emily L.In this theory-oriented essay, I examine Marguerite Duras’s (1914–1996) novel, Emily L. (1987), with a primary focus on the intertwinement of silence, writing, and gender, and the gendered meanings attributed to silence. In Emily L., an elderly female author tells a story of another female author embarking upon her final journey. It is an "anti-story" narrative, multiplying or mirroring itself within itself. By analysing the text as an autofictional exploration of the erasure of female authorship in Western literary history, I highlight Duras’s role as a significant modernist literary innovator of the 20th century. Within this framing, the novel emerges as a powerful feminist poetico-political metaphor. I employ radically multiple theoretical perspectives, engaging in a thoughtful dialogue with feminist philosophy, French literary theory, as well as black and postcolonial feminist theory. This investigation reveals that in Duras's artistic expression, the stylized silence paradoxically creates a language of its own. In the end of the essay I analyse, with the help of the concept of literary translingualism, how Duras’s language of silence is intertwined with her culturally hybrid and multilingual background.</p
[D]oubts, complications and distractions: rethinking the role of women in language poetry
No full textOstensibly, the leading figures of the literary movement known as Language poetry were committed to heterogeneity, gender equality, and to attempting to undo the demarcations between generic forms such as critical and creative writing, from the movement’s outset. Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, for example, write in their preface to The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book – a compilation of material from L=A=N=G=A=G=E magazine from which the movement got its name in the late 1970s – of their joint aim, in publishing the magazine, of foregrounding ‘a mix of different kinds of work. We especially wanted to provide a place for essays and reviews that were neither expository nor narrowly evaluative – that is, where the actual language work that goes on in poetry writing is not set aside in writing that “discusses.”’ Yet despite this positive opening, what follows in the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E anthology is characteristic of many of the anthologies and critical histories of Language poetry. Women author just ten percent of the anthology’s entries (though there are further essays about women’s work), and many of the essays included, certainly those that have become the most widely circulated, are written in normative, academic prose
102 - Emily Kay Fischer
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Endothelial dysfunction is a major initiating step in the pathophysiology of CVD. Red beetroot juice (RBJ) contains bioactive compounds including phenolic acids, flavonoids, betalains, ascorbic acid, and nitrate. Previous research suggests RBJ it can improve endothelial function. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover clinical trial, 16 healthy, overweight/obese men and postmenopausal women aged 40-65 years are consuming RBJ, nitrate-free RBJ, placebo + nitrate, or placebo for 4 weeks. Endothelial function is assessed at baseline and 4 weeks. RBJ is anticipated to exert the greatest effects on endothelial function
Transatlantic Romanticism: The English Romantics and American Nineteenth−Century Poetic Tradition
No full textThis thesis explores the Romantic origins of nineteenth-century American poetic tradition; it looks at the relationship between the English Romantics and major nineteenth-century American poets. My research focuses on the Romantic lines of continuity within nineteenth-century American poetry, identifying them as central to the representation of American cultural and literary identities. American poets shaped their art and national identity out of a Romantic interest in their native nature. My study particularly explores the diverse ways in which major American poets, of this time, reacted to, adapted and reformulated Romantic ideals of nature, literary creation, the mission of the poet and the aesthetic category of the sublime. It traces connections and dialogues between American poets and their Romantic predecessors, including Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. This thesis is inspired by the strong and abiding academic interest in Romantic studies, and aims to advance new readings of nineteenth-century American poetry in a transatlantic literary and cultural context. It attempts to cover a wide range of nineteenth-century key poetic works in relation to Romantic visions, ideals and forms. Developing a chronological line of enquiry, my thesis highlights the paradox of writers seeking to establish an original, distinctive American literary canon while still heavily deriving ideas and techniques from other, non-American sources.
An introductory chapter outlines the historical and cultural framework of the Anglo-American literary relationship, focussing on its sensibilities, tensions and affinities. Chapter two considers how Bryant and Longfellow reformulated the Romantic pastoral tradition in their representations of American landscape, which helped toward shaping a peculiar national poetic canon. Through examining Emerson’s poetic achievement in the light of the Romantic tradition, chapter three challenges Emersonian claims of originality and self-reliance. Chapter four addresses Whitman’s Romantic preoccupations and interests alongside his groundbreaking innovations manifested in his attitudes towards nature, human body and urban landscape as well as his experiments with poetic language and form. Chapter five attempts to interpret the seeming idiosyncrasy of Dickinson’s work in the light of the poet’s dialogues with her Romantic precursors. Above all, this study examines how Romanticism worked upon the minds and art of nineteenth-century American poets, aiming to provide refreshing interpretations of nineteenth-century American poetry in the context of the broader transatlantic Romantic tradition
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
No full textEmily Orlando is co-editor and a contributing author (with Meredith L. Goldsmith), Introduction: Edith Wharton, A Citizen of the World, p.1-15.
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and including her art historical discoveries, her political writings, and her travel writing, the essays in this volume explore Wharton\u27s diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.-- Publisher\u27s description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/1067/thumbnail.jp
Attention and Sensory Characteristics in Children With High-Functioning Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
Children with sensory processing disorder and high-functioning autism have different attention and sensory processing characteristics. These results can help therapists identify specific treatment strategies while working on attention and sensory processing skills with these children.
Primary Author and Speaker: Mei-Heng Lin
Additional Authors and Speakers: Jewel Mascarenhas, Patricia L. Davies
Contributing Authors: Emily Marshall, Blythe LaGasse, William J. Gavin</jats:p
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