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Rumer Godden:International and Intermodern Storyteller
No full textFrom 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues related to her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies, or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict. Recognizing that studies of the transnational must consider the condition of enforced and elected exile within the changing political and cultural borders of postcolonial nations, the contributors position Godden with respect to different and overlapping fields of inquiry: modern literary history; colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies; inter-media studies; and children's literature. Taken together, the essays in this volume demonstrate the richness and variety of Godden's writing and render the myriad ways in which Godden is an important critical presence in mid-twentieth-century fiction.</p
Phyllis Conquest and Elfriede Schinkinger
No full textPhotograph - Two girls outside during winter, Athabasca, Albert
Scottish Dancers
No full textPhotograph - Students in costume at a school concert, Athabasca, Alberta. Left to right: Delphine Armstrong, Lorna Fowler, Betty Broboski, Suzanne Godel, Phyllis Conquest, Anne Jorgenson, Marie Stardub and Pat Gullio
Frank, Jack, Phyllis, and George Edwards
No full textPhotograph - A group of children with two large fish, Athabasca, Albert
The effect of soil parameters on the bioavailability and retention of lead in rats
No full textThis study investigated the relationship between soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) and soil amendments (lime and phosphate) to the retention of lead in soil fed to rats. This study also related the amount of lead that can be extracted from in situ contaminated soils from a secondary smelter site to both soil properties and to the tissue lead concentrations in rats. In a six week feeding trial, 208 rats were divided into 26 groups and fed diets containing contaminated and uncontaminated soils (5% of diet) of three CEC levels that were amended with lime and/or phosphate or unamended. A soil-free negative control and lead acetate positive control group were included. Lead concentrations were measured in blood, liver, kidney, and femur. There were no significant amendment effects in the low lead soils, although there was a small CEC effect. The high lead soil groups showed no CEC effect; however, amendment type was significant and consistent across the tissues, with the lime and phosphate/lime groups generally being lower than the unamended and phosphate-amended groups. However, the total lead had more influence on the tissue values than the amendment effects. A third soil concentration (220-250 mg/kg) that did not fit into the low soil groups (40-50 mg/kg) showed a significant amendment effect for week 3 and 6 blood and femur.The extraction studies used 4 extractants: HNO\sb3, EDTA, ammonium acetate (1N) and the Bray P-1 (PA) solution (0.03 M NH\sb4F in 0.025 M HCl). The results of these studies indicated that all of the extractable lead concentrations were well correlated with total lead, but the ammonium acetate and the PA extractants were able to extract a slightly greater amount of lead from the low CEC than the high CEC soil.The conclusions were that sorption (CEC) effects were more notable at low lead concentrations, and solubility effects had more influence at high lead concentrations. However, the overriding effect on the bioavailability of lead to rats, in this study, was the total amount of lead in the soil.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:40:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Book review: Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis B. Lassner (eds), Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller
No full textThe Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
No full textThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
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