64 research outputs found
Interview with Robert Gordon
No full textThis interview with Robert Gordon, Illinois Tech architecture alumnus, architect, planner, artist, and author, was conducted on June 6, 2017 by Ralph Pugh and Adam Strohm
Engaging the manuscript: new editions and reading the 'whole book' in Chetham's Library MS 8009
No full textThis thesis considers the intersection of the manuscript and its literature through an examination of the late fifteenth century manuscript, Chetham’s Library 8009 (Mun. A.6.31) and provides four diplomatic editions. This manuscript contains fourteen texts in Middle English including romance, hagiography, courtesy literature, and a comic text. This thesis argues for the importance of reading medieval literature in its manuscript context. Although there is a growing trend to consider the ‘whole book’ and integrate analysis of the material artefact with interpretation, much work remains to be done.
In Part I, this thesis presents a new paradigm for reading medieval literature, and argues that the manuscript forms a very literal community of texts, and that each text acts as a co-creator of meaning with the others. It then demonstrates four brief contextual readings that may be made within Chetham 8009 across generic boundaries, and that produce a shift in interpretive focus .
Part II provides four diplomatic editions from Chetham 8009: the Life of St Katherine, the Liber Catonis, John Russell’s Book of Carving and Nurture, and the Book of the Duke and Emperor.
This thesis aims to contribute to the study of medieval literature by arguing for a methodological shift in the way the literature is approached and by providing access to four texts either previously unedited or not easily accessible
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Lost in Translation? Which discourses create the public understanding of social entrepreneurship in Germany? - A contemporary analysis set in the city-state Hamburg
No full textRecent developments in metal-containing complexes with Azo Chromophore functionalities
No full textID: 816557994Source type: Print(0
Design of four-arm organoiron macromolecules containing azo chromophores.
No full textVarious four-arm organoiron macromols. contg. different azo dye moieties have been prepd. via metal-mediated nucleophilic arom. substitutions and ester condensation reactions. The synthesis of a four-arm organoiron star contg. aryl- and hetaryl-azo chromophores (7) and a cross-linked azo dye-contg. organoiron macromol. (10) are reported as two example models. NMR spectroscopy was used to characterize the reported complexes, with the exception of the cross-linked star (10). UV-vis anal. of azo dyes 4, 5, and 6 were reported as examples.Source type: Electronic(1
Scipione impasticciato: Performing, Researching and Reviving London operas from 1730–1731
No full textThe study discusses practical and aesthetic aspects of the pasticcio principle, which characterised London's Italian operas of 1730–31 and still concern revivals, source research, and editions today. Twentieth-century revivals of Handel's opera Scipione pose the question of how to evaluate the original version of 1726 vs its pasticcio-like revival of 1730. Details of the 1730–31 season under Handel, concerning for example the status of the vocal soloists, reveal a multiplicity of agencies (singers, composer, impresario, librettist, patrons/audiences) which influenced the artistic outcomes. Handel's decision-making role for the entire season as the company's music director is re-asserted, although the proposal of John H. Roberts (2016) that another musician composed the recitatives for the pasticcios Ormisda and Venceslao will be accepted. This musician, however, may have been the tenor Annibale Pio Fabri rather than the concert-master Pietro Castrucci, suggested by Roberts. The aesthetic question that concerns us today is the dichotomy between a unified author-work-concept and a discursive pasticcio principle, of which the former is observed in critical editions, the latter in (post-) modern stage productions. It is suggested that a similar contrast already characterised eighteenth-century theatrical practice and aesthetics, although fluctuations between the two principles and, generally, multi-agency in creating theatrical works were negotiated with considerable freedom
Synthesis and cyclic voltammetric studies of functionalized organoiron materials.
No full textThe electrochem. behavior of cyclcopentadienyliron contg. complexes and polymers has given rise to useful materials, such as electrochem. probes for biol. systems, electrocatalysts, and electrochem. switches.The development of new systems contg. cyclopentadienyliron complexes can only improve and increase the functionality of this class of compds. In this presentation the synthesis as well as spectroscopic and electrochem. characterization of a no. of new materials contg. arene-coordinated cyclopentadienyliron as well as functionalities such as, Co2(CO)6, azo dyes, and calix[4]arenes will be discussed
Teologia pública e responsabilidade política
No full textThe author highlights the need to explore how the churches can participate of public debate, a participation called for by many today. It mirrors itself in the Declaration of Barmen of the Confessing Church, revering the ethics and public action of theologyin Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The author indicates that public theology emerges as an attempt to offer orientation in basic social questions and in discourse in a pluralist society. The text further describes the history of the term public theology in the United States, Germany, South Africa and in other societies in transition, as is the case with Brazil. The Global Network for Public Theology is presented as the main forum in which institutes all over the world act together in the continuous elaboration of such theology capable of combining a clear theological profi le with a language that is comprehensible to the public environment and to secular discourses. The text also highlights the pretensions of public theology and its prophetic critique. Ecumenism is the necessary connection of this theology and the author indicates six features that defi ne its content: a biblical-theological profi le, a bilingual discourse, interdisciplinarity, competence for political counseling, prophetic quality and intercontextuality. Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon provide a valid foundation for these times of globalization for the acknowledgment of the Christian faith’s power for formation in politics and the economy. Four dimensions of a public theology of the church are specifi ed: pastoral, discursive, of political counseling and prophetic, this latter being indispensable in view of the biblical foundation. The text concludes that the path to be followed by public theology goes from the lectern to the pulpit and continues in direction of the mayor’s offi ce, parliament, and centers of administration.O texto aponta a necessidade de se saber como as igrejas podem participar do debate público atualmente reclamado por muitos. Espelha-se na Declaração de Barmen da Igreja Confessante, reverenciando a ética e a ação pública da teologia em Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Indica que a teologia pública nasce com a tentativa de oferecer orientação em questões sociais básicas e no discurso numa sociedade pluralista. Descreve a história do termo teologia pública nos Estados Unidos, na Alemanha, na África do Sul e em outras sociedades em transformação como o Brasil. Aponta a Rede Global de Teologia Pública como o principal fórum no qual atuam conjuntamente institutos de todo o mundo na elaboração continuada desta teologia capaz de combinar um claro perfi l teológico com uma linguagem compreensível para o ambiente público e para discursos seculares. Aponta as pretensões da teologia pública e sua crítica profética. Acentua o ecumênico como conexão necessária desta teologia e indica seis características que defi nem seu conteúdo: perfil bíblico-teológico, discurso em dupla linguagem, interdisciplinaridade, competência para aconselhamento político, qualidade profética e intercontextualidade. Busca em Martim Lutero e Felipe Melanchthon o fundamento válido nestes tempos de globalização para o reconhecimento da força moldadora da fé cristã na política e na economia. Especifica quatro dimensões da teologia pública da igreja: pastoral, discursiva, de aconselhamento político e profética, esta irrenunciável, diante de sua fundamentação bíblica. E conclui que o caminho a ser percorrido pela teologia pública vai da cátedra ao púlpito e continua em direção às prefeituras, aos parlamentos, aos centros administrativos
- …
