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'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Howe, D S P, 401956
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.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/393550Surname: HOWE. Given Name(s) or Initials: D S P. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 401956. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 51947.214483
Item: [2016.0049.25843] "Howe, D S P, 401956
Henry J. Howe, approximately 1866-1869
No full textCarte-de-visite portrait of Henry John Howe (Norwich University Class of 1869), possibly as a cadet, from a disassembled Alpha Sigma Pi photograph album; signed "Yours in A. S. P. Henry J. Howe, Class '69.
Herbicide impacts on exotic grasses and a population of the critically endangered herb "Calystegia affinis" (Convolvulaceae) on Lord Howe Island
No full textIntroduced perennial grasses are capable of altering the habitat of native species, causing reductions in population size and vigour, and potentially affecting life-history processes such as survival, pollination and seedling recruitment. We examined the utility of herbicide treatment on two exotic grasses, Pennisetum clandestinum (Kikuyu) and Stenotaphrum secundatum (Buffalo grass) to restore the habitat of Calystegia affinis, a critically endangered species endemic to Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Using two herbicides, Asset (designed to affect only grasses) and Glyphosate (a general herbicide), we compared effectiveness in reducing grass cover on a population of Calystegia affinis. We protected Calystegia plants from the herbicides by ensuring their leaves were covered by plastic bags during herbicide application. Both herbicides were similarly effective in reducing grass cover after four weeks and had no noticeable adverse affect on Calystegia (suggesting the plastic bag protection was effective). After 26 weeks, Glyphosate was more effective in maintaining a reduced grass cover. Plots treated with either herbicide had a greater relative increase in abundance of Calystegia stems compared to untreated controls. The Glyphosate treatment resulted in the greatest relative increase in stem abundance, but this was not significantly greater than in the Asset treatment. We consider that spraying with Glyphosate treatment, with follow-up monitoring and spot-spraying, will assist the recovery of the Calystegia affinis population. Ultimately, the maintenance of a weed-free zone at the forest edge will provide suitable habitat for additional recruitment of this and other native species
Stock market liquidity and the decision to repurchase
No full textPaul Brockman, John S. Howe, Sandra Morta
The resurrection and decomposition of Cobden in Britain and the west: an essay in the politics of reputation
No full textBook synopsis: Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce opponent of the Corn Laws and promoter of international trade he rapidly became an influential figure on the national stage, whose name became a byword for political and economic reform. Yet despite the familiarity with which contemporaries and historians refer to 'Cobdenism' his ideals and beliefs are not always easy to identify and classify in a coherent way. Indeed, as this volume makes clear, the variety, diversity and malleability of the 'Cobdenite project' attest to the lack of a strict dogma and highlight Cobden's underlying pragmatism. Divided into five sections, this collection of essays offers a timely reassessment of Cobden's career, its impact and legacy in the two hundred years since his birth. Beginning with an investigation into the intellectual and cultural background to his emergence as a national political figure, the volume then looks at Cobden's impact on the making of Victorian liberal politics. The third section examines Cobden's wider influence in Europe, particularly the impact of his tour of 1846-47 which was in many ways a defining moment not only in the making of Cobden's liberalism but in the making of liberal Europe. Section four broadens the theme of Cobden's contemporary impact, including his contribution to the debate on peace, internationalism and the American Civil War; whilst the final section opens up the theme of Cobden's contested legacy, the variety of interpretations of Cobden's ideas and their influence on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics. Offering a broad yet coherent investigation of the 'Cobdenite project' by leading international scholars, this volume provides a fascinating insight into one of the nineteenth century's most important figures whose ideas still resonate today
Differences in knee extensor strength in healthy-weight and obese children
No full textM. Tsiros, A. Coates, P. Howe, P. Grimshaw, J. Walkley, A. Shield, R. Mallows, A. Hills, M. Kagawa, S. Shultz, J. Buckle
Dungeons, gratings, and black rooms: A defense of double-anchoring theory and a reply to Howe et al. (2007)
No full textThe double-anchoring theory of lightness (P. Bressan, 2006b) assumes that any given region belongs to
a set of frameworks, created by Gestalt grouping principles, and receives a provisional lightness within
each of them; the region’s final lightness is a weighted average of all these values. In their critique,
P. D. L. Howe, H. Sagreiya, D. L. Curtis, C. Zheng, and M. S. Livingstone (2007) (a) show that the
target’s lightness in the dungeon illusion (P. Bressan, 2001) and in White’s effect is not primarily
determined by the region with which the target is perceived to group and (b) claim that this is a challenge
to the theory. The author argues that Howe et al. misinterpret grouping for lightness by equating it with
grouping for object formation and by ignoring that lightness is determined by frameworks’ weights and
not by what appears to group with what. The author shows that Howe et al.’s empirical findings, together
with those on grating induction and all-black rooms that they cite as problematic, actually corroborate,
rather than falsify, the double-anchoring theory
Portrait of Amy Mack (Mrs Lancelot Harrison) [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on reverse.; Condition: Fair, glued to card.; Inscriptions: "Amy Mack (Mrs. Lancelot Harrison) author of 'A bush calendar', 'Bush days', etc. photo. J. S. P. Ramsay" --In ink on reverse
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