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Finding Aid to the Collection of James Brendan Connolly Materials
No full textThe Connolly Collection contains the writings and personal library of James Brendan Connolly (1868-1957). The collection includes Connolly\u27s reminiscences, newspaper articles, and galley and page proofs as well as scrapbook clippings. There are also notebooks containing holograph notes on schooners and the navy, letters from Connolly\u27s personal correspondence, and books from Connolly\u27s personal library. James Brendan Connolly (1868-1957) was an Irish-American author of sea-related stories, novels, and nonfiction such as The Book of the Gloucester Fishermen. Born in South Boston, he attended Harvard and was a medal-winning athlete in the first modern Olympics, held in Athens in 1896. He participated in the Siege of Santiago as a member of the 9th Regiment, ran for the 12th Congressional District (South Boston) seat as a member of the Progressive Party in 1914, and worked as a correspondent for such publications as Scribner\u27s, Harper\u27s and Collier\u27s
Seumas O'Kelly and James Stephens
No full textSO: Ben-Merre, Diana A. (ed.); Murphy, Maureen (ed.). 1989. James Joyce and His Contemporaries. (pp. 155-159). Westport, CT: Greenwood, xii, 188 pp.Source type: Print(0
The James Building, built in 1925, on the corner of Bathurst Road and Katoomba Street, Katoomba [picture] /
No full textAlso available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11952773-5
Engraved portrait of James Nayler (1618–1660)
No full textEngraved portrait of James Nayler (1618-1660) by Robert Grave (1768-1825). Inscribed, 'Born at Ardesloe, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire. Was an Independent and served Quarter Master in ye Parliament Army, about the Year 1641. turn'd Quaker in 1651. Punish'd as a Blasphemer 1656. Author of many Books & Dyed at Holm in Huntingtonshire 1660. Aged 44.
Jim Connolly and the fishermen of Gloucester; an appreciation of James Brendan Connolly at eighty.
No full text300 copies printed."A bibliography of the published writings of James Brendan Connolly": p.[47]-77.Mode of access: Internet
Neiland's Choice
No full textCatalogue for an exhibition with works selected exclusively by Brendan Neiland. Neiland, who attended the Birmingham College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London during the 1960s, has selected works from a range of artists including: Val Archer, Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Sir Peter Blake, Simon Burton, Grace Erskine Crum, Brad Faine, James Fisher, Martin Fuller, Christian Furr, Annabel Gault, Jason Gibilaro, Hugh Gilbert, Michael Harrison, David Hepher, Patrick Hughes, Andrzej Jackowski, David Mach, Danny Markey, Terry New, William Packer, Tom Phillips (RA), Donald Smith, Justine Smith, Steve Thomas, John Wilkin
The prison officers' search for a constructive role 1959 to 1984
No full textThis research charts the efforts made within the English Prison Service, to actively involve the basic grade prison officer in the constructive tasks associated with inmate treatment and welfare, asking why, in the twenty five years from 1959, such moves have proved largely ineffective. The work attempts to fill an evident gap in current knowledge, combining new historical detail from potentially the most significant 'penal era' of the last century, with an innovative theoretical design that seeks to explain the nature of the facts presented.This is a qualitative, historical but essentially theoretical analysis of the history of the prison officer's search from 1959 to 1984. That history and specific episodes vital to the search, are studied in Chapters Two, Three and Four. Enhancement of the officer's role it will be argued, was incalculably hindered by a context of massive service expansion, rampant task confusion and general industrial strife.The history highlights more fundamental, all-pervasive, ideological and organisational barriers to the development of the officer's welfare role. These barriers, attended to where appropriate during the historical analysis, are discussed more fully in the penultimate chapter and question the penal establishment's ability to successfully combine care and custody; the professional relationship between the prison officer and his probation colleague, and the effects of an inherent staff antagonism in the field of welfare upon the officer's role enhancement; and finally, the limitations placed upon an officer's constructive role, by inmate perceptions of his negatively custodial tradition.The debate is brought up to date both historically and theoretically in the final chapter, with a brief review of the 1991 Report by Lord Justice Woolf on the 'April 1990 Prison Disturbances', and the Government responses to his recommendations, with specific regard to the proposed future role of the prison and the officer in terms of inmate training. The proposition is forwarded, that after more than twenty five years of limited progress, the realisation appears to be officially dawning, of both the practical necessities and the organisational limitations that must be appreciated in order to award the uniformed staff a more constructive prison role.</p
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Decontamination of prions, prion-associated amyloid and inefectivity from surgical stainless steel - implications for the risk of iatrogenic transmission of CJD
No full textThe physicochemical nature of the infectious agent in prion diseases creates asignificant challenge for decontamination services. It has been shown to be both resistant tostandard methods of decontamination, used to inactivate viruses and bacteria, and to associateavidly with surgical stainless steel. Moreover, the pathophysiology of the variant, iatrogenicand sporadic forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) suggests deposition of the infectiousagent across a wide range of extraneural, lymphoid tissues, as well as in the skeletal muscleand blood. Coupled with the potential for asymptomatic carriers, there is a significant risk ofiatrogenic transmission of CJD through both neurosurgical procedures and standard surgery.This PhD study was undertaken in order to improve methods of instrumentdecontamination and to evaluate prion detection techniques and their applicability for theassessment of prion inactivation and removal. The project has provided relevant, criticalassessment of hospital decontamination procedures, in addition to guidance on how workingprotocols should be improved to provide a cleaner and safer end product for the patient.Moreover, laboratory studies have been performed to evaluate current methods of priondecontamination in the context of hospital procedures for instrument reprocessing. Challengesfaced by sterile service departments, such as soil drying and surface degradation, have beenaddressed and their impact on the risk of iatrogenic transmission of prions has beeninvestigated. Critically, the use of a fluorescent amyloid fluorophore for the detection of prionassociatedamyloid as a marker for disease permitted the investigation of the role of amyloidin infectious disease under denaturing conditions. Correlation of this detection technique withthe identification of PrPres by Western blot and infectious disease suggested that, whilstfluorescent detection of prion-associated amyloid was more sensitive than Western blot, PrPresdetection was more specific relative to infectivity. Improved fluorophores, with greatersensitivity, have been evaluated which will enhance in situ detection of prions in the future
Dr. James Gillam, Spelman College, September 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. James Gillam. Dr. Gillam talks about his book, "Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War 1968-1970". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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