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A critical edition of Derek Walcott's Omeros
No full textThe thesis is a Critical Edition of Derek Walcott’s Omeros, consisting of a Critical
Introduction and Annotations. The Critical Introduction analyses:
- Narrative
- Settings
- Metaphor and Paronomasia
- Symbolism
- Historiography
- Intertexts
- Dualism
- Autobiography
- Dialects
- Prosody.
The Annotations comment on more than 1000 references that may be obscure and on
specifics of narrative, language and prosody.
This study presents new conclusions about some aspects of Omeros:
- It challenges the prevailing view that the work is written substantially in a
variation of terza rima and shows that regular quatrains predominate.
- It demonstrates ways in which the metrics follow the sense of the narrative and
takes a more balanced position on the use of Caribbean as opposed to classical
metrics than that put forward previously.
- It identifies a paragraphic structure to the verse.
- It proposes a new prosodic structure for the significant Chapter XXX/iii.
- It extends Walcott’s recognised use of numerology into word counting the
names of characters.
- It develops the idea of Walcott’s dualism and his use of pairing and
contradiction as a dialectical method.
- It defines his wide use of paronomasia and shows that many of the puns have a
metaphorical aspect beyond mere word-play.
- It analyses some of Walcott’s symbolism.
- It identifies intertextual links to his earlier works and to some thirty other
writers, and suggests homage to Hemingway and possibly Heaney.
- It provides the first complete analysis of Walcott’s rhyme types in Omeros.
In its analysis of Omeros and in the Annotations it has included commentary from
across the critical literature, to provide some sense of other views on Walcott’s
writing, and has included as many as possible of Walcott’s own comments on Omeros
and on the writer’s task, as a background to understanding the poem
A positron annihilation study of crystalline, quasicrystalline and amorphous Al-Cu-T (T=Fe,V) alloys
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Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Essays on understanding post-secondary preparation and matriculation of high school students relative to differential public school contexts
No full textThis study includes consists of three essays in which I demonstrate that high school contexts are related to the postsecondary preparation, entrance, and matriculation of high school students, particularly for underrepresented populations. My inquiry utilizes comprehensive state longitudinal data, nationally representative longitudinal data, and national school fiscal data, along with quantitative methods to examine these relationships. The dissertation relies on two statistical methods and two unique data sources. Utilizing multilevel modeling and state longitudinal data, the first paper examines the results of school funding policies and the extent to which school funding is related to the postsecondary preparation and matriculation of students. The results suggest that per-pupil revenue is related to an increase in ACT math scores, likelihood of four-year post-secondary enrollment, and four-year post-secondary degree attainment. Utilizing the same Illinois high school data and propensity-score matching techniques, the second paper explores the relationship between a high school’s average teacher quality and the postsecondary preparation and matriculation of students identified as Black and Latino. The findings indicate that, for Black and Latino students that attended schools with above-average or higher teachers, ACT math scores are higher and the likelihood of enrollment in a four-year post-secondary institution is greater. Finally, utilizing a nationally representative sample of data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02), supplemented with Common Core Data, and propensity-score matching, the third paper examines the extent to which the intersection of student socioeconomic status and school quality is related to post-secondary matriculation. For students identified as being from a low socioeconomic background, attending a higher quality school is related to an increase in the likelihood for both two- and four-year post-secondary enrollment. Taken together, the three essays provide further evidence that increases in school resources, whether it be funding, teachers, or in general, are related to educational achievement, and, more specifically, the likelihood of underrepresented students advancing to and progressing through post-secondary institutions.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Derek Houston, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-15 at 10:37.The student, Derek Houston, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-04-15 at 10:43.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-20 at 10:44.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9239 on 2016-07-07 at 14:16:46Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:14:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Voices of inheritance : aspects of British film and television in the 1980s and 1990s
No full textDuring the 1990s the notion of the heritage film has become a taken for granted
category of British cinema. Rather than dispute the merits of particular films that lie
within this genre I question the construction of the relation between the idea of
heritage and contemporary British film and television. Using the critical literature
established by the contending cultural histories that address the rise of heritage in
British culture, I highlight other, frequently personal and national engagements with
inherited pasts. The concentration upon inheritance lends a greater emphasis to
what is passed on from the past and endures in the present.
The modes of articulating these inherited pasts are formally distinctive and
constructed out of the vocabulary of documentary and fiction. The corpus of texts
begins with the apparently radical avant garde film-making of Derek Jannan and
moves through the work of the Black Audio Film Collective to the apparently
conservative television documentaries of Alan Bennett. These key voices are then
situated in relation to the hegemonic definition of heritage and current debates
concerning British film and television. The persisting opposition which defined
British cinema during the 1980s posits an unofficial cinema characterized by dissent
and urban decay against an official cinema represented by the heritage film. My
corpus of texts challenges this opposition. The different engagements with inherited
pasts take place from different speaking positions and represent a diminishing
publicly funded tradition of film and television production. The range of positions
from margins to centre reveal that there was a contestation of the cultural sources
which are aggregated into the construction of heritage during the 1980s and 1990s
The interplay of well-being and resilience in applying a social-ecological perspective
No full textEcology and SocietyEcology and Society Home|Past issues|About|Sign In|Submissions|Subscribe|Contact|Search E&S HOME > VOL. 17, NO. 4 > Art. 15 Copyright © 2012 by the author(s). Published here under license by The Resilience Alliance. Go to the pdf version of this article The following is the established format for referencing this article: Armitage, D., C. Béné, A. T. Charles, D. Johnson, and E. H. Allison. 2012. The interplay of well-being and resilience in applying a social-ecological perspective. Ecology and Society 17(4): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04940-170415 Synthesis The Interplay of Well-being and Resilience in Applying a Social-Ecological Perspective Derek Armitage 1, Chris Béné 2, Anthony T. Charles 3, Derek Johnson 4 and Edward H. Allison 5 1University of Waterloo, 2IDS Sussex, 3Saint Mary's University, 4University of Manitoba, 5The WorldFish Center and the University of East Anglia Abstract Introduction Overview of resilience and well-being concepts Resilience thinking A social conception of well-being Interplay of resilience and well-being concepts Challenge to optimization thinking Agency, values, and normative considerations Considering scale through social and ecological frames Insights on "controlling" variables Thresholds and boundaries Synthesis: implications of the interplay of well-being and resilience Conclusions Acknowledgments Literature cited ABSTRACT Innovative combinations of social and ecological theory are required to deal with complexity and change in human-ecological systems. We examined the interplay and complementarities that emerge by linking resilience and social well-being approaches. First, we reflected on the limitations of applying ecological resilience concepts to social systems from the perspective of social theory, and particularly, the concept of well-being. Second, we examined the interplay of resilience and well-being concepts in fostering a social-ecological perspective that promises more appropriate management and policy actions. We examined five key points of interplay: (1) the limits of optimization thinking (e.g., maximum sustainable yield), (2) the role of human agency and values, (3) understandings of scale, (4) insights on “controlling variables,” and (5) perspectives on thresholds and boundaries. Based on this synthesis, we offer insights to move incrementally towards interdisciplinary research and governance for complex social-ecological systems
Copyright Charges: A Library's Approach to Reducing its Copyright Fees
No full textMedical Sciences Library (MSL) at Texas A&M University offers ILL services to its affiliates free of charge. Like many other libraries, ILL staff first try to borrow from free libraries to keep the borrowing fees as low as possible. However, copyright fees are often higher than the charges of borrowing an article. To offset the copyright charges and maintain the free service, a new plan was devised by the librarian overseeing ILL. After consulting with the director, an acceptable range of copyright fees was chosen for each patron group (undergraduate, graduate, staff, faculty). This breakdown was forwarded to staff and they were asked to follow a series of steps when copyright needs to be paid for a request. This poster will explain the steps in detail and provide the outcome
The powers of emptiness
No full textFoucault is often considered to be the commensurate theorist of power. His late work provides an impressive array of concepts that enables a multi-dimensional analysis of the historical, material, and discursive facets of power. What is missing from this approach, however, is the factor of passionate attachments, or what we might term the sublime motivations that underlie any regime of control. Lacan’s ethical thought prioritizes precisely the issue of the sublime, and, more to the point, the process of sublimation which establishes an effective “short-circuit” between socially valorized objects and direct drive satisfactions of individuals. Key here is the notion of das Ding, the place of the absent object of primordial satisfaction that generates libidinal enjoyment and draws the subject toward the pinnacle of social valorization. Lacan thus shows us what Foucault cannot theorize. That is to say, if sublimation consists of a relation to the real of das Ding, then it cannot be limited in the terms of its activation to the powers of discursive domain alone; it remains a self-initiating and self-regulating form of power
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