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Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
Letter from Mary Garvey, Irish immigrant, to her mother, October 24, 1850
No full textMary Garvey, an Irish immigrant, was the servant of Rescarrick Moore Smith, a Hightstown businessman and New Jersey State Treasurer. This letter was dictated to and transcribed by Smith's daughter, Mary Elizabeth. In this letter to her mother in Ireland, Garvey asks after various family members and friends. She asks her mother many time to consider leaving the "poor state of Ireland" to emigrate to America. She also discusses her work duties, wages, and social life
A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein
No full textThis thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative reading. The novel hints at such readings but prevents them. The insights offered by Tropp's Mary Shelley's Monster, Baldick's In Frankenstein's Shadow, Poovey's The Proper Lady and the woman writer and Swingle's, 'Frankenstein's Monster and its Relatives: Problems of Knowledge in English Romanticism' are considered, but none recognises the full implications of the instability deriving from multiple first- person narratives. Clemit's The Godwinian Navel acknowledges the novel's indeterminacy, but reads a specific ideological purpose in it. Paradise Last provides a language to describe the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, but proves too unstable to fix identity or establish moral value. Similarly, Necessity ultimately fails to provide a stable explanation in terms of cause and effect. The status of nature shifts between foreground and background, never allowing final definition. These uncertainties destabilise knowledge which is compromised by its provisional nature: no authoritative reading is possible, yet the novel has narrative coherence. The reader is encouraged to try to develop a reading the structure prevents. The radical nature of the first edition is highlighted by comparison with the 1831 edition, which removes much of the ambivalence and gives the novel a clearer morality. The novel challenges conventional methods of deriving authority by disturbing the reader's orthodox orientation in the world around him' (Simpson) in order to afford 'a point of view to the imagination for the delineation of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield' (Mary Shelley)
Mary Shepard: the artist who brought Mary Poppins to life
No full textThe success of Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins has often obscured the fact the popular series of books describing the experiences of the enigmatic nanny were in fact written by the Australian born author P.L. Travers.
Travers’ own sense of ownership of her creation in turn obscured the contribution made by the illustrator Mary Shepard. Despite a 54 year collaboration, Shepard is regularly ignored in discussions of the books: the 2013 movie Saving Mr Banks, which detailed the genesis of the film, did not even mention Shepard or the pivotal role she played in the books’ success.
'The Conversation' articles provides important insights into Mary Shepard's contribution to the Mary Poppins series of books
A tribute to the true champions, Los Angeles, 1988
No full textA tribute to the true champions, 1988, Budlong Ave. and Cordova St. (just south of Washington Blvd.). Physically challenged athletes engaged in various track sports. Dedicated to Salvin Special Education Center, located across the street. By Daniel Martinez, assisted by Sarit Krell, Mary Kaluza, and Paula Greenstein. Acrylic, 8' x 15'. Sponsored by CYGS. Dunitz, Street gallery, p. 68, #29
Traces of Lee Miller
No full text`Traces of Lee Miller: Echoes from St Malo¿, a CD with supporting DVD, is the first interactive work about Lee Miller, surrealist photographer and war correspondent. It explores the possibilities of digital media for illuminating the conceptual and working processes of an artist operating within a war context. It involved the retrieval and analysis of thousands of previously unpublished photographs and personal documents. The interactive CD breaks new ground by grounding its structure and interactive forms on practices emerging from life history research, most notably through the use of re-photographs created by marrying archival and newly generated materials from key moments in Miller¿s St Malo war experience. The digital form affords new understandings of this period in Miller¿s life through these reframings and recontextualizations. The visible interface and the invisible programmatic structures created by Krell produce a range of analytical framings and implicit commentaries on the material, allowing users direct engagement with Miller¿s work whilst navigating existing and new narratives emerging from it. Krell initiated and produced the project working directly with Miller¿s son and the Lee Miller Archives. She created the interactive structures, intellectual mapping and conceptual framing upon which a team of research assistants, including art historians, filmmakers and composers, worked. Krell also directed research students in producing early project prototypes. The project was funded by grants from the ARHC and the British Academy and is on view at the V&A alongside the exhibition ¿The Art of Lee Miller¿, (2007 - 2008). In earlier stages of development, the project was exhibited with ¿Lee Miller¿s War¿ exhibitions in New Zealand (Auckland War Memorial Museum, 2007) and in Australia (Monash Gallery Of Art, 2007). Future exhibits are planned for 2008 in South Africa, the USA and the UK (Imperial War Museum). For additional materials see portfolio of evidence disc
United Nations Documents and Publications: A Research Guide
No full textPrescriptive techniques and information for students and the scholarly community who need to conduct research into the vast amount of material, published and unpublished, of the UN.Published as Rutgers University GSLS occasional papers, no. 76-5
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Traces of Lee Miller
No full text`Traces of Lee Miller: Echoes from St Malo¿, a CD with supporting DVD, is the first interactive work about Lee Miller, surrealist photographer and war correspondent. It explores the possibilities of digital media for illuminating the conceptual and working processes of an artist operating within a war context. It involved the retrieval and analysis of thousands of previously unpublished photographs and personal documents. The interactive CD breaks new ground by grounding its structure and interactive forms on practices emerging from life history research, most notably through the use of re-photographs created by marrying archival and newly generated materials from key moments in Miller¿s St Malo war experience. The digital form affords new understandings of this period in Miller¿s life through these reframings and recontextualizations. The visible interface and the invisible programmatic structures created by Krell produce a range of analytical framings and implicit commentaries on the material, allowing users direct engagement with Miller¿s work whilst navigating existing and new narratives emerging from it. Krell initiated and produced the project working directly with Miller¿s son and the Lee Miller Archives. She created the interactive structures, intellectual mapping and conceptual framing upon which a team of research assistants, including art historians, filmmakers and composers, worked. Krell also directed research students in producing early project prototypes. The project was funded by grants from the ARHC and the British Academy and is on view at the V&A alongside the exhibition ¿The Art of Lee Miller¿, (2007 - 2008). In earlier stages of development, the project was exhibited with ¿Lee Miller¿s War¿ exhibitions in New Zealand (Auckland War Memorial Museum, 2007) and in Australia (Monash Gallery Of Art, 2007). Future exhibits are planned for 2008 in South Africa, the USA and the UK (Imperial War Museum). For additional materials see portfolio of evidence disc
Relationality, polemics, incommensurability: thinking the political at the intersections of the work of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault
No full textPhDThis thesis is focused on the intersections of ontology and politics in the work of Michel
Foucault and Jacques Derrida. In particular it concerns the ways in which these two thinkers
offer accounts of (ethical, social, political) relations which exceed a traditional dichotomy
between transcendentalism and empiricism. Both Derrida and Foucault show universal
foundations to originate in an anterior play of differences 'between' the transcendental and
empirical. However, as this thesis shows, each thinks this anterior 'medium' of relations in
radically incommensurable ways: as differance or aporia in Derrida and as power and
problematization in Foucault. As such, each necessarily views the other as failing to account
for the ‘true medium’ of relationality and so of its violent effacement and disavowal. This
incommensurability, it is argued, results in a polemic between them which is explicit in their
competing accounts of Descartes’ Meditations and implicit throughout all of their work. This
thesis traces the polemic between Derrida and Foucault across their accounts of subjectivity,
ethics and politics. It is argued that in their engagements with each of these fields they
employ parallel politicizing strategies which are nevertheless wholly exclusive of one another.
The incommensurability between Derrida and Foucault reflects a broader problematic
which any political thought affirming its own finitude cannot explicitly recognize. Postfoundational
accounts of relationality, it is claimed, violently exclude competing
philosophical strategies without the capacity of accounting for this exclusion
Mary Palmer
No full textMeet our Author of the week, Mary Palmer, as we talk about her latest book and getting published.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1038/thumbnail.jp
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