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A study of John Clare in his historical and political context
No full textAs the title indicates, the basis of the thesis is to set John Clare’s life and work within the context of the social and political history of his time. It is a study that is long overdue. The manner in which topical and political matters were mediated to him and were reflected in his work are analysed. His introduction to the literary and social worlds of Stamford and London is evaluated, and the advantages and disadvantages of patronage assessed. The active and complex political culture of Stamford has been taken into account as this may have affected his later political statements and a growing awareness of his audience. His antagonism to enclosure and the social changes that it engendered are considered. Three major questions that arise from this are addressed. The two local newspapers that Clare is known to have read are used throughout. His correspondence with friends, colleagues and casual correspondents has provided valuable insights as have his poetry and prose writings. Research in the Northamptonshire Record Office has revealed important new information in the form of one book of Enclosure Commissioners’ Minutes dated 1809-14, the first five years of the enclosure of Helpstone, Clare’s native village
Venerable John Talbot: Some Genealogical Notes
No full textThe will of this martyr's father (John Talbot of Thorntonle Street, N.R. Yorks), to which reference has been made in a former article in this journal (Vol. II, p. 16), is printed in Surtees Soc., Vol. II; Wills and Inventories, pp. 369-371 (No. CCLXXX).</jats:p
Rites of passage in Richard Wright's fiction: from chaos to a new wor (l) d
No full textDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoBaseada numa literatura densa de The Rites of Passage, de Arnold Van Gennep, esta análise investiga a forte relação entre o padrão tripartido dos ritos de passagem de acordo com Van Gennep e as vidas de dois protagonistas de Richard Wright: Bigger Thomas (Native Son) e Cross Damon (The Outsider). As peculiaridades das vidas de ambos os protagonistas foram estudadas, também, de acordo com a teoria de Houston Baker, Jr. dos "ritos do buraco /todo negro", a qual enfatiza a impossibilidade para o negro consciente de ser reincorporado à sociedade com um novo status, ou com uma nova consciência sobre a sua própria condição na vida. Os três estágios dos ritos de passagem foram também comparativamente estudados lado a lado com a teoria do ciclo do herói de Joseph Campbell
Nietzschean themes in O'Neill's plays
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1979
Stephen Neill: a traditional communicator in an age of revolution
No full textBishop Stephen Charles Neill's life and work is one of the best kept secrets in Twentieth Century Church History. His engimatic life story has been virtually ignored by Church Historians. This thesis attempts to fill that gap. Consideration of Neill's life and work provides a series of windows onto many of the key theological movements, personalities and debates which have dominated this century. This work is an attempt to construct an extensive historical narrative of Neill's life and work. It goes beyond, however, a mere retelling of his life, to the search for an interpretative key that will help explain this story of broken- ness and brilliance. First, the methodology employed to construct this explanatory account is outlined. Autobiographical, psychological, expressive and theological approaches to his life are individually explained. With these tools in our hands the following structure is then followed: Chapter 2) : His formative years at home and school are investigated. Chapter 3): His adventures and development as a student of Classics and Theology at Cambridge are recounted. Chapter 4 & 5) g His work as a missionary, teacher and bishop in Southern India, as well as the premature conclusion to his Indian ministry are discussed. Chapter 6) : The impact of this sudden departure is then evaluated, as are his ceaseless efforts as an ecumenist in the development of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Chapter 2) : His methodology as a historian. New Testament scholar, and ecumenist whilst in Hamburg is uncovered through his most significant writings. Chapter 8): His labours in Kenya, both as a Professor in establishing the first Department of Religion at Nairobi university and as a bishop are described. Chapter 9): Neill's last years in Oxford and particularly his work as a historian and apologist are analysed. Chapter 10): The concluding discussion focuses on the four heuristic devices that have been employed to describe and explain Neill's life and work. The overriding aim of this thesis is to assess whether Neill's Christo-centric beliefs are the "silver thread" which runs through his life and work of expression
Combined neural network/Phillips–Tikhonov approach to aerosol retrievals over land from the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter
No full textIn this paper, an algorithm for the retrieval of aerosol and
land surface properties from airborne spectropolarimetric measurements –
combining neural networks and an iterative scheme based on Phillips–Tikhonov
regularization – is described. The algorithm – which is an extension of a
scheme previously designed for ground-based retrievals – is applied to
measurements from the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) on board the NASA
ER-2 aircraft. A neural network, trained on a large data set of synthetic
measurements, is applied to perform aerosol retrievals from real RSP data,
and the neural network retrievals are subsequently used as a first guess for
the Phillips–Tikhonov retrieval. The resulting algorithm appears capable of
accurately retrieving aerosol optical thickness, fine-mode effective radius
and aerosol layer height from RSP data. Among the advantages of using a
neural network as initial guess for an iterative algorithm are a decrease in
processing time and an increase in the number of converging retrievals
53728: Handmade card - In Memoriam John Dunnett
No full textI purchased this hand made card on Ebay three years ago. It commemorates Private John Dunnett and has a very small picture of his face which appears to be newsprint and an attempt has been made to hand colour it. It is also decorated with small pieces of British stamps of the time to colour his uniform and to depict the King. It says "Somewhere in France" but he is listed as buried in Belgium by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:Pte. 33339 John Dunnett, 1st/4th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment, died 18th October 1917, aged 19. The son of John and Jessie Dunnett, of 24, Royal Terrace, Wilsden, Bradford, Yorks, he is buried in Potijze Chateau Lawn Cemetery.Editor's Comment: Note that the card bears a French postage stamp, but that the uniform of Pte. Dunnett is made of George V 'Three Halfpence' stamps. The card was most likely made by a friend in France who knew of Pte. Dunnett's death (perhaps through the Newspaper from which the picture is cut) but not the particulars.The 1st/4th Bn., as part of the 49th (West Riding) Division, was takng part in the Third Battle of Ypres, and had attacked Poelcapelle on the 9th October in preperation for the First Battle of Passchendaele.</p
Obituary; Dr. John R. Yorks.
No full textEditors: Aug. 1859-July 1865, J. D. White, J. H. McQuillen, G. J. Ziegler.--Aug. 1865-Dec. 1871, J. H. McQuillen, G. J. Ziegler.--Jan. 1872-May 1891, J. W. White.--July 1891-Apr. 1930, E. C. Kirk (with L. P. Anthony, Dec. 1917-Apr. 1930).--May 1930-Dec. 1936, L. P. Anthony.Vols. 1-13 are called "new series."Merged in Jan. 1937 with: Journal of the American Dental Association, ISSN 1048-6364, to form: Journal of the American Dental Association and dental cosmos, ISSN 0375-8451
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Rural life in English poetry of the mid-eighteenth century
No full textThis thesis examines several mid-eighteenth century poems, assessing their portrayal of rural life, its literary and historical significance, and the aesthetic and ideological issues it presents. An introductory essay on developments in rural poetry sets the scene for two extended essays. The first essay is a comparative reading of the subject of rural labour in three poems: James Thomson’s The Seasons (1726-44), Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour (1730, 1736) and Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour (1739). The viewpoints of a professional poet (Thomson), a farm labourer (Duck), and a working woman (Collier) are compared in relation to kinds of work all three address as well as to individual labouring subjects. The responses of the three poets to such related issues as folk traditions, forms of charity and other ‘compensations’, are also compared. Some surprising similarities as well as instructive differences are located; and an interesting picture of idealistic and realistic, male-oriented and female-oriented attitudes to labour and labour-related themes emerges
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