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No full textAn interview with author Krissy Kneen, with critical reflections on her book 'Triptych' (Text, 2011
The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing:Exploring Bess of Hardwick’s manuscript letters
No full textThis book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early modern period (1500-1750), the author examines them in a unique and systematic way. The book is the first of its kind to combine a replicable scribal profiling technique, used to identify holograph and scribal handwriting within the letters, with innovative analyses of the language they contain. Furthermore, by adopting a discourse-analytic approach to the language and making reference to the socio-historical context of language use, the book provides an alternative perspective to the one often presented in traditional historical accounts of English. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern English and historical linguistics
Resuspended freeze-dried Nannochloropsis as a model laboratory system for concentrated fresh Nannochloropsis in ultrasound cell disruption experiments
No full textMicroalgae have rigid, complex cell walls hindering direct lipid extraction. Cell disruption techniques are used to rupture these cellular structures to increase lipid extraction. Researchers investigating the downstream processing of microalgae do not always have access to microalgal cultivation systems to generate large amounts of fresh microalgal biomass. Using resuspended freeze-dried microalgal biomass as a model laboratory system for concentrated fresh biomass during cell disruption experiments offers greater flexibility in experimental planning and omits investment costs of microalgal cultivation equipment. So far, it however remains unclear whether freeze-dried resuspended biomass can be used as a model laboratory system to represent concentrated fresh biomass during cell disruption and lipid extraction experiments. This paper thus evaluated the suitability of resuspended freeze-dried Nannochloropsis as a model laboratory system for concentrated fresh Nannochloropsis during cell disruption. Ultrasound assisted cell disruption was used as example cell disruption technique and lipid extraction efficiency and free fatty acid content were investigated. Tap water and 3% sodium chloride are both suitable resuspension media for the resuspension of freeze-dried Nannochloropsis. Resuspension duration should be limited (< 120 min) to prevent the formation of free fatty acids. The condition of the biomass (concentrated fresh, or resuspended freeze-dried) prior to ultrasound assisted cell disruption did not influence the resulting lipid extraction efficiency. Resuspended freeze-dried Nannochloropsis biomass in tap water or 3% sodium chloride can thus be used as a model laboratory system for fresh microalgal biomass during research on ultrasound assisted lipid extraction. The generalization of the results to other cultivation conditions, cell disruption techniques, components of interest or microalgal species should be carefully assessed.The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by Flanders’ Food and funded by Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) through the cSBR
project EffSep (Grant number HBC.2019.0012)
Boycott!: Louise Imogen Guiney and the American Protective Association
No full textIrish-American poet and author Louise Imogen Guiney endured anti-Catholic discrimination in Boston during the 1890’s. Well known to contemporary Bostonians as both a writer and the daughter of an Irish Roman Catholic Civil War officer, Guiney was appointed postmaster in Auburndale in January 1894. She initially liked the job’s duties, pay, and stability. However, many residents of Auburndale, including those associated with the anti-Catholic American Protective Association, boycotted the post office by not buying stamps there. As a result, in October 1894 her salary was cut. Guiney’s friends subsequently led a counterattack that resulted in stamp purchases coming to Auburndale from Roman Catholics nationwide. Despite her reappointment to the postmaster position in 1897, Guiney’s ill health and dislike for the long hours of the job led to her resignation on 5 July 1897. In 1901 she moved to England, where she lived for the remainder of her life
A comparative investigation of anaphoric reference devices in Anglo Norman and Middle English personal letters
Get PDFThis paper compares the use of anaphoric reference terms, such as ‘le dit’ (and its English equivalent ‘the said’), a characteristic feature of ‘curial style’, in Anglo Norman (hence AN) and Middle English (hence ME) personal letters. Whilst we know that this style was prevalent in the official AN letters that were used to conduct English parliamentary business until the end of the 1300s, we do not yet have a clear understanding of the extent to which it was prevalent in both AN and ME personal letters, defined here as being written to one addressee who was known to the writer. The results show that there more anaphoric reference terms in the AN epistolary material than in the ME, and that the difference is statistically significant. However, these anaphoric reference devices are very much in evidence in the ME material as well, albeit in smaller numbers, suggesting a degree of influence, or emulation, or both. It is furthermore suggested that the use of anaphoric reference devices in both the AN and ME personal letters is more similar to their use in the literary texts discussed by Burnley (1986) than to their use in their more official, administrative epistolary forebears, i.e. they are often used in a looser, relaxed way, as a kind of ‘connective convenience’ (Burnley 1986: 610). Results relating to diachronic variation demonstrate that the reference terms are most common in the latest (1380s) AN letters and earliest (pre 1431) ME letters, perhaps suggesting a period of overlap. In relation to geographic distribution, ME anaphoric reference terms appear to be used more in letters written in London and Oxfordshire than in the East Anglian or Northern letters. Finally, in the AN corpora, the anaphoric reference devices are most frequently used by writers from the gentry and professions, a finding mirrored in the ME material. Overall, the paper highlights the importance of taking different discoursal contexts, and the deliberate emulation of styles within those contexts, into account when investigating the interaction between Anglo Norman and Middle English during the medieval period. <br/
Gray Display Typeface
No full textGray Display is a typeface based on a distinctive set of capital letters known as Oran Mor Monumental, designed by author and artist Alasdair Gray. Gray commissioned Edwin Pickstone, Imogen Ayres and Neil Mcguire to digitise and adjust his hand lettered capitals into type and to compliment these with lowercase letters, punctuation and numerals in order to create a fully functioning coherent typeface. Gray used the typeface for works such as his late partner Morag McAlpine's headstone as well as prints and other designs.
After his death it was used by BBC Scotland in a screencard to commemorate the author's passing and has gone on to be a key component in multiple works associated with the Alasdair Gray Archive such as the Alasdair Gray Stones which form a distinctive part of the Garscube Link Canal regeneration project.
The task of interpreting these artists letters into a coherent typeface was greatly aided by wise guidance from consultants Stefan Ellmer and Nicolas Sloan
Cool For You: Joan Didion, Renata Adler, and Elizabeth Hardwick
No full text© 2025 Isabella Imogen Constance Gullifer-LaurieCool is a term that defies conceptual fixity, evoking both intensity and restraint. In the latter half of the twentieth century, cool moved from being synonymous with the counterculture to the mainstream. Within the North-American cultural imaginary it signified a nonchalance and ironic rebelliousness at the same time as it summoned the effort of calculated detachment and conforming reserve. This thesis engages with this expansive, supple category of cool to consider the reception of the authorial persona and the textual production of three writers who shaped public discourse during this period: Joan Didion, Renata Adler, and Elizabeth Hardwick. Taking cool as an object of analysis, this thesis develops an embodied, biographical, paratextual literary criticism in order to produce new critical encounters with these writers, examining the relationship of style and celebrity to fiction, screenwriting, journalism, and criticism, with a focus on three novels: Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970), Adler’s Speedboat (1976), and Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights (1979). This thesis elaborates on three aspects of coolness to advance its theoretical and textual engagement with each author, studying Didion’s allure, Adler’s attitude, and Hardwick’s authority
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) as a participatory process: involving communities and beneficiaries in post-conflict disarmament programmes
Get PDFDisarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes are a structured approach to returning soldiers and militia members to civilian life. One of the aims is to support implementation of the peace process, by addressing their interests and reducing the chance of them becoming “spoilers”. Since the early 90s, DDR has been implemented in countries emerging from conflict, such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola and Afghanistan. They are now underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. The results have been mixed, and the agencies responsible for designing and implementing DDR are still developing best practice.
This study aims to identify the role of a participatory approach as a factor in ensuring success in a DDR programme. Ex-combatants, receiving communities, local implementing partners, and newlyestablished national structures can all be involved to a greater or lesser degree in the process. The argument for greater involvement – a participatory approach – includes better outcomes in terms of ownership of the process and political will, improved likelihood that real needs are addressed, greater relevance for female ex-combatants and children, sustainability in reintegration and economic initiatives, and capacity building
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