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Papers of Roderick Weir Home
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/69250Files: R.W. Home, personal or confidential 1983-1985; R.W. Home references written for students and staff, 1983-1985.110257
Acquisition: [1990.0011] "Papers of Roderick Weir Home
Papers of Roderick Weir Home
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/65882Lecture notes taken as a student at Melbourne and Indiana; papers relating to conferences, special projects; correspondence.110255
Acquisition: [1994.0068] "Papers of Roderick Weir Home
Papers of Roderick Weir Home
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/68857Personal files relating to publications in the Journal 'Endeavour'; attendance at a variety of international conferences on the History of Science, including correspondence with organisers and other attendees; correspondence with authors requesting comments on their manuscripts.103768
Acquisition: [2011.0098] "Papers of Roderick Weir Home
Papers of Roderick Weir Home
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/65817"Learning from Buildings: Laboratory Design and the Nature of Physics". Reprint from Non-Verbal Communication in Science prior to 1900, edited by Renato G. Mazzolini. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1993. pp.587-608.110256
Acquisition: [1994.0033] "Papers of Roderick Weir Home
Papers of Roderick Weir Home, second accession
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/67947Correspondence 1974-76, undergraduate notes, research notes, conference proposals. Research files including material on science under scrutiny, Bayes' paper, nervous fluid, education of German Scientists, Franklin's electrical atmosphere, lunar crates, Garland history of mathematics.110258
Acquisition: [1986.0044] "Papers of Roderick Weir Home, second accession
Papers of Roderick Weir Home, first accession
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/66660Files on Michelson of the speed of light 1975-1981; Chair of History and Philosophy of Science, Melbourne 1974-1976; Chair in History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales; Physical Science 1975- 1977; Museum - Science and Technology at University submission 1974 (made on behalf of J. Radford); M.A. Seminar 1974-1975; 18th Century Seminars 1978; comments on N. Bohr's Early Papers on Atomic Theory with Introduction and Notes by Professor R.W. Home, 1981.114725
Acquisition: [1982.0038] "Papers of Roderick Weir Home, first accession
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
The increasing numbers of vacant houses, fuelled by thehousing crisis, are associated with higher burglary rates
No full textOne of the more visible aspects of the Great Recession and its associated housing crisis has been the rise in the number of vacant homes across the U.S. But has this increase in the number of empty houses had an effect on other social problems such as crime? In new research that uses Census data on home vacancies, and FBI data on crime, Roderick W. Jones and William Alex Pridemore find that when a city’s home vacancy rate increased by one percent, its burglary rate rose by 1.21 percent, but that its robbery rate remained unchanged. They also find that the local unemployment rate is important to this relationship, with higher rates associated with diminished crime rates
The role of children's interest and home literacy environment in the development of early literacy skills
No full textThis thesis investigates the influence of children's preliterate interest in reading on later interest in reading, as well as the influence of preliterate interest in reading on the development of literacy and vocabulary skills. In addition, this thesis examines the long-term contributions of children's preliterate home literacy environment on subsequent reading and vocabulary skills. The first time point in this longitudinal study was collected by Frijters et al. (2001) when the children were in junior or senior kindergarten, and the second time point was collected in the spring of 2003 when the children were in grade two or three. Sixty-five children (of the original 110) and their parents participated in this study. In kindergarten, parents were asked to provide information about home literacy experiences and home literacy instruction they provide for their children. In both kindergarten and grade three, children completed measures of reading, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid serial naming, and interest in reading. (Abstract shortened by UMI.
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
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