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Postwar Englishness in the fiction of Pat Barker, Graham Swift and Adam Thorpe
No full textThe widely-recognised crisis of Englishness in the 1980s and 1990s has generally been explained as a response to the end of empire. If the place of memories of the
First and Second World Wars in this crisis has been considered at all, these have generally been assumed to support a nostalgic version of English or British national
identity. Taking three contemporary British novelists-Graham Swift, Pat Barker and Adam Thorpe-as examples, however, this thesis argues that the late-twentiethcentury
memory of these conflicts is strikingly ambivalent, and that the contemporary crisis of Englishness must be understood not only as postcolonial, but also, in a
strong sense, as postwar.
The Introduction sets out the parameters of critical discussion of latetwentieth-century Englishness to date and explains my use of the term 'postwar', as marking the continuing cultural legacy of the world wars, and the process of interrogative re-reading of that legacy undertaken in the contemporary fiction I discuss. It also challenges the assumption that 'nostalgia' and a 'healthy' attitude to the past can necessarily be easily distinguished, through a discussion of postFreudian
psychoanalytic approaches to mourning and melancholia. Chapter One considers three writers of the early to mid-twentieth century, Siegfried Sassoon, J. B.Priestley, and Elizabeth Bowen, in order to suggest the nature of the questions about Englishness, war and violence which re-emerge with the breakdown of Britain's postwar social and political consensus from the mid-1970s onward. Chapter Two
then discusses Graham Swift's early novels, The Sweet Shop Owner, Shuttlecock and Waterland, arguing that critical attention to his metafictional concerns in Waterland
has meant that his interest in suburban English life as encrypting memories of war has been overlooked. Chapter Three proceeds to Pat Barker's The Regeneration Trilogy, charting a two-way process of haunting through which contemporary concerns with violence are read back into the historical and literary record of the First World War, and simultaneously seem to re-emerge in the present as the return of the violence underpinning a melancholic cultural attachment to the very English narrative of 'doomed youth'. My discussion in Chapter Four of Adam Thorpe's novels Ulverton, Still and Pieces of Light emphasises their exploration of the violence at the heart of the 'deep England' evoked in heritage representations of Englishness. I suggest, however, that Thorpe's attempts to find appropriate fictional forms for ambivalence and melancholia are at times closer to paralysed repetitions than to interrogations of Englishness. My argument concludes with a reading of Swift's Last Orders, which I contend enacts the beginnings of a movement beyond the wartime end of a certain England and Englishness. Its misreading by critics as parochial and nostalgic, I suggest, indicates the extent of critical misunderstanding of the troubled memory of the world wars in contemporary Britain. It also testifies to
the difficulty and the necessity of the creative and critical work on postwar Englishness undertaken by the writers considered in this study
Bottom-up approaches: the contribution of marine benthos to management, conservation and monitoring; taking stock, and setting research direction
No full text No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Conveners: Silvana Birchenough (United Kingdom), Ingrid Kröncke (Germany), Steven Degraer (Belgium).CM 2018/F:126. Risk, politics, and science: a new approach to monitoring UK marine benthic ecosystems. Hayley Hinchen, Yessica Griffiths, Henk van ReinCM 2018/F:527. Bottom-up approaches: the contribution of marine benthos to management,conservation and monitoring, taking stock and setting research direction. Maarten Platteeuw, Maarten de Jong, Aylin Erkman, Suzanne Lubbe, Marijke Warnas, Ingeborg van SplunderCM 2018/F:380. MARLIN – a large-scale/high resolution information system as a backbone for marine management. Gregor von Halem, Jennifer Dannheim, Jan Beermann, Mathias Robeck, Anne ElsnerCM 2018/F:599. Global hotspots of seahorse richness and extinction risks. Rui Rosa, Inês Bom, Catarina Santos, Catarina Frazão-SantosCM 2018/F:318. Using underwater video to assess megabenthic community vulnerability to trawling in the Grande Vasiere (Bay of Biscay). MERILLET Laurène, MOUCHET Maud, ROBERT Marianne, SALAUN Michèle, VAZ Sandrine, KOPP DorothéeCM 2018/F:429. Comparison of functional and structural long-term variability of south-eastern North Sea macrofauna communities in relation to environmental parameters. Julia Meyer, Ingrid KrönckeCM 2018/F:128. Trophic positions of coastal consumers, determined using trophic mass-balance modelling and stable isotope analyses. Rasa Morkūnė, Egidijus Bacevičius, Artūras Razinkovas-BaziukasCM 2018/F:310. Benthic epifauna long-term trends in the North Sea from 1998 to 2018. Hermann Neumann, Ingrid KrönckeCM 2018/F:383. Recent findings about benthic non-indigenous species in the ports of the southern part of the Baltic Sea. Mara Harju, Monta Grudcina, Solvita StrakeCM 2018/F:99. Intertidal salt-marsh creeks: benthos-rich feeding grounds for fish. Julia Friese, Axel Temming, Andreas DänhardtCM 2018/F408:. Effects of fisheries closures on seafloor integrity: a modelling example from the German part of the North Sea. Diekmann, R., Neumann, H., Rambo, H., Kröncke, I., Stelzenmüller, V.CM 2018/F:. Evaluating the risk of vulnerable marine ecosystems in arctic and sub-arctic waters to commercial fisheries. J.M. Burgos, L. Buhl-Mortensen, P. Buhl-Mortensen, S.H. Ólafsdóttir, P. Steingrund, S.Á. RagnarssonCM 2018/F:283. Spatial variability in benthic community structure along benthoscapes in offshore Canadian waters: implications for monitoring. Myriam Lacharité, Craig J. BrownCM 2018/F:162. Estimating sensitivity of seabed habitats to disturbance by bottom trawling based on the longevity of benthic fauna. Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp, Stefan G. Bolam, Clement Garcia, Jan Geert Hiddink, Niels T. Hintzen, P. Daniel van Denderen, Tobias van Kooten</p
Zeolite decorated highly porous acicular calcium silicate ceramics
No full textVakifahmetoglu, Cekdar/0000-0003-1222-4362Macrocellular calcium silicate (wollastonite) ceramic foams possessing similar to 86 vol% total porosity were produced from commercial calcium silicate hydrate (xonotlite) nano-size acicular crystals and poly-methyl-methacrylate microbeads (PMMA) (used as sacrificial pore formers). Open cell wollastonite foams had a bi-modal pore size distribution with major modes located similar to 100 nm due to interparticle porosity and similar to 100 mu m due to the sacrificial pore former. These macrocellular ceramics were then used as a scaffold for MFI type zeolite (silicalite-1) synthesis. Monolayer coffin shaped zeolite crystals (similar to 3 mu m size, measured from the c-axis and similar to 300 nm thickness) were observed with almost full coverage on the inner macro-cell walls. The specific surface area of the components increased from 9.6 m(2)/g to 108.2 m(2)/g via zeolite functionalization, leading to components possessing multiscale porosity. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [CAYDAG-113Y533]The author would like to thank Johan Decrock (Promat International NV, Belgium) for providing the xonotlite (Promaxon D) powder, Dr. Giovanni Capurso, Mauro Marangoni and Mauro Gobbin (UNIPD) for experimental assistance. The author wants to express his appreciation to Prof. Dr. Volker Presser (Energy Materials Group) for the use of his laboratory facilities. Besides thanks to Dr. Jennifer S. Atchison, Dr. Ingrid Grobelsek, Dr. Daniel Weingarth, Dipl. Jug. Robert Drumm, Dipl. Ing. Karl-Peter Schmitt from INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials (Saarbrucken, German) for their support. This research was supported by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) under the project Grant no. CAYDAG-113Y533
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture
No full textApproaches exploiting trait distribution extremes may be used to identify loci associated with common traits, but it is unknown whether these loci are generalizable to the broader population. In a genome-wide search for loci associated with the upper versus the lower 5th percentiles of body mass index, height and waist-to-hip ratio, as well as clinical classes of obesity, including up to 263,407 individuals of European ancestry, we identified 4 new loci (IGFBP4, H6PD, RSRC1 and PPP2R2A) influencing height detected in the distribution tails and 7 new loci (HNF4G, RPTOR, GNAT2, MRPS33P4, ADCY9, HS6ST3 and ZZZ3) for clinical classes of obesity. Further, we find a large overlap in genetic structure and the distribution of variants between traits based on extremes and the general population and little etiological heterogeneity between obesity subgroups
Disordered eating is not associated with musculoskeletal injury in university athletes
No full textAthletes have a greater risk of developing disordered eating (DE) behaviours than non-athletes. Literature suggests that DE is associated with injury in female athletes; however, these associations are understudied in both female and male athletes. Our objective was to examine the association between DE and injuries in varsity athletes. In this cross-sectional study, varsity student athletes attending a Canadian University completed an anonymous online survey. The survey included questions regarding demographics, injury occurrence, and the Disordered Eating Screen for Athletes (DESA-6; a score ≥ 3 is indicative of DE). Athletes were categorized by DE status and injury occurrence. Chi-Square tests were performed to assess the relationship between these variables. Musculoskeletal injury frequency was compared between DE and non-DE groups using a Mann-Whitney test. Fifty-six varsity athletes (N=37 females, 66.1%) with a mean age of 20.1±1.3 years participated in this study. DE was not associated with injury occurrence (p=0.73) and musculoskeletal injury frequency did not differ between DE and non-DE groups (p=0.50). However, both injury and DE were prevalent as 73.2% of participants reported injuries and 33.9% had positive DESA-6 scores. These findings highlight the need to address DE and injuries in athletes and could encourage the implementation of strategies to reduce their prevalence in sport.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
"Thank me therefore": Social Prestige, Probity and Self-determination of Nymue's character in Malory's "Le Morte Darthur"
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Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function
No full textChristina M. Lill, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article
"Midlife Crises": Understanding the Changing Nature of Relationships in Middle Age Canadian Families
No full textThis paper focuses on the transitions that mark middle age (e.g., the ‘empty nest’, caregiving) and are triggered by the occurrence of life events in families (e.g., adult children leaving home, care for aging parents). It is noted that home-leaving by adult children has been taking longer in recent years, and in many instances adult children return to their natal home after having left. Support for older parents is becoming a significant issue in Canada as a result of population aging. Of course, the experience of such life events as taking care of older parents varies according to individuals’ situations, and these can be quite varied. The paper therefore examines some of the diversity of mid-life families by describing patterns of separation and divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships, and childlessness. It concludes with a discussion of the relationship between mid-life families and social policy.midlife, families, and intergenerational relationships
Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
No full textThis thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other.
The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists
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