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The naked eye: vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins
No full textThis thesis takes as its subject vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889. Because Hopkins's poetry displays so evident a fascination with the particulars of language, it is unsurprising that the critical tradition on his work has thus far been heavily dominated by matters of sound: by the verbal, the rhythmic, the musical, and the aural. However, in this thesis I move from the sounded to the seen, identifying in Hopkins's work a central preoccupation with the visual, with looking and seeing, and the possibilities and dangers inherent in each. Here was a man driven to look for beauty, yet this compulsion to look was matched only by a desperate desire to look away. I shall argue that it is this dichotomy, and the excitement of the many and various possibilities it engenders, that so characterises Hopkins's engagement with the visual world.
Born into a rapidly-changing late Victorian world, Hopkins was fascinated by sight and by the increasingly problematic act of seeing. He frequently characterises himself in explicitly visual terms, and his poetry is littered with numerous references to eyes, eyeballs, eyelashes, eyelids, and eyesight, in addition to many metaphors of sight in its various forms. He demonstrates a recurring notably obsessive anxiety over the health of his eyes and the acuity of his sight, yet repeated medical reassurance does nothing to quell his fears over his perceived loss of vision. Counter to, but inextricably linked with, this fear for the loss of sight is an intense awareness of the danger of sight. This paradox is central to Hopkins's conception of himself and of his roles as both poet and priest.
Chapter One considers Hopkins's engagement with the intensely visual Victorian cultural environment. Hopkins was a keen draughtsman and painter in his youth and for a while considered becoming a professional poet-painter like Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whose family he was well acquainted. Although he decided to relinquish his artistic ambitions in favour of the priesthood, he remained a keen critic of art and architecture throughout his life. His diaries and journals, littered with sketches and accounts of visits to galleries and exhibitions, are fascinating for what they reveal of this intensely eye/I-driven individual, and the acute anxieties he experienced when confronted by beauty, in whatever form.
Chapter Two continues this concern with beauty and its inherent dangers, but now moves to consider Hopkins's often anxious visual encounters with other people. As a vigilant social observer, his writing ranges from delightedly detailed depictions of other individuals, particularly young men, to deeply uneasy descriptions of massed crowds and formless groups of people. This chapter shows a particular concern, as Hopkins did, with the purpose of mortal beauty, and the dangers and challenges it could pose.
Chapter Three develops the concerns of the previous chapter, by pursuing the additional dimension of people looking. In this chapter I consider a group of Hopkins's strangest and yet most celebratory poems, united by a concern with people looking at others who are themselves looking. With the uneasy concept of the voyeur never far away, this chapter raises questions about the moral, psychological and social dimensions of seeing within Hopkins's work, and thus I assess the meaning of licit and illicit sight, whether on the part of the benevolent or neutral observer, the systematic enquirer, the voyeur or the enlightened seer. This chapter argues that the dynamic nature of this relationship between perceiver and object, the seer and the seen, is central to his endlessly complex dialectic of vision and visuality. It closes by moving to consider the ultimate unseen seer, God. In the figure of Christ we find the ultimate exemplar of mortal beauty, and the chapter returns to the concerns explored in Chapter Two, now from a Christological perspective.
In Chapter Four, the concluding chapter, the concerns elicited in the previous chapters are pulled together in a discussion of Hopkins's longest and greatest symphonic poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1875-1876). This poem has at its heart an intense concern with seeing and the seeing of seeing, with the act of witness, and the role of the martyr, while foregrounding the reciprocal qualities of beauty and danger. The thesis concludes with a close reading of this electrifying poem about vision and sight in the many senses explored in the course of the study as a whole
A monthly temperature series for Durham from 1784
No full textThe geographer and climatologist Gordon Manley produced a monthly temperature reduction for Durham University Observatory from 1801 to extend the series back from the start of meteorological observations at the Observatory in the 1840s. He produced his extended series shortly before he died in 1980, and left it in a provisional state, with limited notes regarding his construction of the monthly means based on temperature observations from sites around the North East of England. Papers that Manley left have been examined to ascertain how he arrived at his reduction, and his methods have been fully documented and analysed. Errors in the derivation of his monthly means have been corrected, and methods that he used refined to improve their accuracy. New techniques for the reduction of means from archived data have been studied. A selection of these were implemented to improve the accuracy of the new series, and further temperature observations that Manley did not use in his version have been evaluated and introduced. Observations from South Cave, near Hull, from 1794, and from Brandsby, near York, from 1784, provide the extension of the record back from 1801. Substantial sets of monthly means from Braithwaite, near Keighley, and Jesmond, near Newcastle upon Tyne, in addition to shorter sets from other sites around the North East of England and the Borders, have been incorporated into the reduction from 1801 to improve the representativeness of Manley's series. The completed series, from January 1784, has been analysed and compared with other temperature series for the British Isles, and the potential for a daily version of the monthly series has been investigated, based upon the data sources currently available
Manley, E L, 33832
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/401286Surname: MANLEY. Given Name(s) or Initials: E L. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 33832. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 47478.220932
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Manley, John Richardson, VX25863
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/401287Surname: MANLEY. Given Name(s) or Initials: JOHN RICHARDSON. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX25863. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 19012.220933
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Sulloway (Alison G.), Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper
No full textMacauley Peter S. Sulloway (Alison G.), Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 55, fasc. 2, 1977. Histoire (depuis l'Antiquité) — Geschiedenis (sedert de Oudheid) pp. 652-654
Dasymutilla spilota Manley & Pitts 2007, new species
No full textDasymutilla spilota Manley & Pitts, new species Holotype female, Costa Rica, Chomes Punt, III-91, E. A. Sugden [UCDC]. Diagnosis of Female (Plate C8J). This species can be recognized by its coloration and several structural characteristics. It has the integument black, coarsely sculptured, and with gold and silver setae contrasting with black. The head is narrower than the mesosoma, the antennal scrobe is not carinate, but a genal carina is present. The mesosoma is slightly longer than broad. It possesses both a scutellar scale and a transverse sinuate carina anterior to the scale. The pygidium is longitudinally rugose. Description. Female: Length, 6–9 mm. Head. Black; front and vertex clothed with dense appressed golden setae; apical half of mandible black, basal half ferruginous, acute at apex and lacking inner tooth; clypeus longitudinally concave, smooth and shining, anterior margin straight; scape carinate, smooth and shining, clothed with white setae; flagellomeres subequal in length; antennal scrobe not carinate; front and vertex coarsely sculptured, sculpture concealed by dense golden setae; gena coarsely sculptured with conspicuous genal carina, clothed with sparse white setae; head width about 1.3–1.7 mm; relative width of head to mesosoma about 0.75:1. Mesosoma. Black, slightly longer than broad (1.6–2.3 mm wide X 1.8–2.6 mm long); dorsum and propodeum with large contiguous punctures; scutellar scale conspicuous, with transverse sinuate carina anterior to scale; anterior third with dense appressed black setae, remainder with dense golden setae. Legs black, with silver setae. Metasoma. Black; sculpture completely hidden by dense setae; sternum I with blunt carina about 0.5X length of segment; pygidium longitudinally rugose; tergum I with dense silver setae; tergum II with two median circles of silver setae extending to lateral margins, remainder of segment with dense velvety black setae; tergum III with median third black, bounded laterally by silver setae; remaining segments with silver setae; sternum entirely with silver setae. Male. Unknown. Paratypes. 17♀, COSTA RICA, Guanacaste NP, Pitilla Sta., IV-11-95, L. S. Kimsey (1♀, UCDC); Guanacaste, EJN, 14 km S. Cañas. I-18/22-93, F. D. Parker (2♀, EMUS; 3♀, DGMC); EJN, 14 km S. Cañas, I-24/ 29-93, F. D. Parker (4♀, EMUS; 1♀, DGMC); EJN, 14 km S. Cañas, I-29-II-8-93, F. D. Parker (1♀, EMUS; 1♀, DGMC); EJN, 14 km S. Cañas, II-19/28-90, F. D. Parker (1♀, EMUS); Punt. Puntarenas, XII-19-87, F. D. Parker (1♀, DGMC); HONDURAS, 30 km SE Siquatepeque, VIII-11/12-78, J. A. Chemsak, E. G. & J. M. Linsley (1♀, CISC); PANAMA, Canal Zone, Balboa, III-15-47, Van Beeck (1♀, CISC). Distribution. Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Puntarenas); Honduras; Panama. Etymology. From the Greek meaning spotted, referring to the integumental maculations of tergum II. Remarks. This species is known only from the female. It keys easily after couplet #2. The mesosoma is longer than broad, but barely so. It also possesses a scutellar scale. The integument is entirely black, lacking any maculae. However, tergum II does have two conspicuous, circular, spots of silver setae, separated by black.Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/508678
Lomachaeta ptilohyalus Pitts & Manley, New Species
No full text6. Lomachaeta ptilohyalus Pitts & Manley, New Species (Figs. 10, 19, 26) Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Lomachaeta by lack of a distinct ventral mandibular tooth, distinctly brachyplumose setae, and by sparse, very small punctures on the pronotum and mesonotum (Fig. 10). It is most similar to L. crocopinna, especially regarding the presence of elongate setae on the parameres, but differs from this species by coloration of the metasoma. Holotype Male. Head. Width 0.92 mm, black, clothed throughout with sparse, long, erect, pale white setae. Compound eye maximum diameter 0.37 mm. Median ocellus 0.069 mm, lateral ocellus 0.062 mm, ocellocular distance 0.27 mm, and interocellular distance 0.10 mm. Malar space very short, 0.12 mm in length. Mandible black except tip brown orange, slightly emarginate beneath, without distinct tooth beneath. Antennal tubercle brown. Antenna black. Scape clothed with pale white and black brachyplumose setae throughout. Pedicel and flagellomeres with decumbent white setae. Length of scape, pedicel and first three flagellomeres: 0.30, 0.092, 0.077, 0.12 and 0.10 mm, respectively; width of first flagellomeres 0.088 mm; front with punctures small and dense; vertex with small, distinct, separated punctures and brown setae. Mesosoma. Black brown. Clothed throughout with sparse, long, erect, pale white and black brown setae. Pronotum with small, distantly spaced punctures, not confluent on posterior margin. Mesonotum with small, distant punctures throughout. Scutellum almost flat, only very slightly convex, with small, shallow punctures similar to mesonotum but more crowded. Dorsum and posterior face of propodeum reticulate throughout. Tegula black with brown margin, glabrous, except entire margin punctate and with long, pale, erect setae. Legs brown, clothed with sparse, long, erect, brachyplumose pale white setae. Tibia and tarsus with golden bristles. Tibial spurs pale. Wings with pterostigma 0.17 mm in length along costa. Marginal cell 0.23 mm in length. Second submarginal cell pentagonal, 0.22 mm in length. Metasoma. T 1 brown, orange laterally. Metasomal segment 2 and S 3 orange. T 3 orange, black brown medially. S 1 and metasomal segments 4–6 brown. Metasoma clothed throughout with sparse, long, erect, pale white setae. T 5 –T 7 also with brown setae anterior to apical margin, denser on apical segments. Bristles at posterior margins of T 2 –T 4, pale orange. T 1 punctate on lateral margins, glabrous medially, posterior margin with row of small, contiguous punctures. T 2 with small, distant, widely separated punctures. T 3 –T 7 with progressively small to fine, separated punctures. S 2 with large, close punctures throughout. Genitalia Fig. 19. Length. Approximately 5.2 mm. Type material. Holotype, ɗ, MEXICO, Oaxaca, 10 m North of Huajuapan de Leon, 7.III. 1985, L. Stange & R. Miller (CNCI). Paratypes, 4 ɗ, USA, California, San Bernardino Co., 8–9 m S Kelso, reared by F.D. Parker (BBSL). Female. Unknown. Host. Solierella plenoculoides similis. Etymology. From the Greek ptilon “feather” and hyalos “glass,” in reference to the brachyplumose setae and sparse punctures on the dorsum of the mesosoma.Published as part of Pitts, James P. & Manley, Donald G., 2004, A Revision of Lomachaeta Mickel, with a new species of Smicromutilla Mickel (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 474 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15742
"The darling child of speech" : Gerard Manley Hopkins's pedagogy of poetic performance.
No full textGerard Manley Hopkins takes pains in his letters, sermons, journals, and notes to facilitate his readers' experience of his poetry by advocating vocal performance. This study considers Hopkins's thoughts on poetic performance and what they mean for good poetic pedagogy, especially for undergraduate readers. Hopkins's poetry is particularly useful for a study like this because of its broad appeal and because, as I argue, Hopkins wrote his poetry with a specific "pedagogy" in mind. Thus, I begin with Hopkins's pedagogy of poetic performance, explore its development in his other writings, and provide both a theoretical and theological framework for vocal performance of his poetry. With this study, I propose new lines of influence and draw from these studies practical conclusions about performing Hopkins's poetry in the undergraduate classroom
Activity patterns of cochlear ganglion neurones in the starling
No full text1. Spontaneous activity and responses to simple tonal stimuli were studied in cochlear ganglion neurones of the starling.
2. Both regular and irregular spontaneous activity were recorded (Figs. I to 5). Non-auditory cells have their origin in the macula lagenae. Mean spontaneous rate for auditory cells (all irregularly spiking) was 45 spikes s-1.
3. In half the units having characteristic frequencies (CFs) <1.5 kHz, time-interval histograms (TIHs) of spontaneous activity showed regularly-spaced peaks or 'preferred' intervals. The spacing of the peak intervals was, on average, 15% greater than the CF-period interval of the respective units (Fig. 11).
4. In TIH of lower-frequency cells without preferred intervals, the modal interval was also on average about 15% longer than the CF-period interval (Fig. 11). Apparently, the resting oscillation frequency of these cells lies below their CF.
5. Tuning curves (TCs) of neurones to short tone bursts show no systematic asymmetry as in mammals. Below CF 1 kHz, the low-frequency flanks of the TCs are, on average, steeper than the high-frequency flanks. Above CF 1 kHz, the reverse is true (Fig. 15).
6. The cochlear ganglion and nerve are tonotopically organized. Low-frequency fibres arise apically in the papilla basilaris and are found near non-auditory (lagenar) fibres (Figs. 2 and 19).
7. Discharge rates to short tones were monotonically related to sound presure level (Fig. 20). Saturation rates often exceeded 300 spikes s- 1.
8. 'On-off' responses and primary suppression of spontaneous activity were observed (Figs. 22 and 23).
9. A direct comparison of spontaneous activity and tuning-curve symmetry (Fig. 15b) revealed that, apart from quantative differences, fundamental qualitative differences exist between starling and guinea-pig primary afferents
Dasymutilla tomasi Manley & Pitts 2007, new species
No full textDasymutilla tomasi Manley & Pitts, new species Holotype female, Mexico, Baja California Sur, Cañon Santo Tomas, 6 mi E. of El Aguaja, VIII-31 & IX-3-67, Ralph E. Wells [UCDC]. Diagnosis of Female (Plate C9B). The apices of the middle and hind femora are squarely truncate, with the surface of the outer lobes of the truncations sulcate. This species can be separated from other species having this character by the following set of characters. This species has the integument ferruginous, except the last metasomal segment(s) black. The head is quadrate and slightly broader than the mesosoma. The antennal scrobe is weakly carinate. There is a weak genal carina, but the posterolateral angle of the head is rounded. The mesosoma is slightly longer than broad, and lacks a scutellar scale. The pygidium is granulate. Description. Female: Length, 8–11 mm. Head. Ferruginous, quadrate, broad, clothed with dense silver setae; apical two-thirds of mandible black, basal third ferruginous; mandible acute at apex, with inconspicuous inner tooth about 0.3X distance from apex; clypeus flat, anterior margin nearly straight; scape carinate, clothed with silver setae; flagellomere I long, about as long as II and III united, remaining segments subequal in length; antennal scrobe weakly carinate; front and vertex coarsely sculptured, sculpture concealed by dense setae; gena with shallow contiguous punctures; gena very weakly carinate, but posterolateral angle of head rounded; head slightly wider than mesosoma, ratio about 1:1. Mesosoma. Ferruginous, slightly longer than broad (1.9–2.3 mm wide X 2.0– 2.6 mm long); scutellar scale absent; dorsum and propodeum with large deep contiguous punctures; dorsum of mesosoma with dense silver setae, except two small circular spots of black setae anterolaterally; propodeum nearly bare, with only a few scattered erect pale setae. Legs ferruginous, with silver setae, except apices of middle and hind femora with black setae; apices of middle and hind femora squarely truncate, surface of outer lobes of truncation sulcate. Metasoma. Ferruginous, except last segment(s) black; tergum I with moderately large contiguous punctures, especially on posterior margin; tergum II with coarse contiguous punctures, mostly concealed by dense setae; pygidium granulate; sternum I with blunt carina nearly entire length of segment; apical fringe of tergum I with brush of silver setae medially, surrounded by black; tergum II with broad "U" -shaped pattern of silver setae with black in middle of " U"; apical fringes of terga II to V with silver medially, flanked by black; last tergum with black setae; sternum with silver setae, except last segment black. Male. Unknown. Paratypes. 2♀, MEXICO, Baja California Sur, 1 km SW La Burrera, VIII-27-77, E. Fisher and R. Westcott (1♀, CASC; 1♀, DGMC). Distribution. Mexico (Baja California Sur). Etymology. In reference to the type locality of Cañon Santo Tomas, Baja California Sur, Mexico; the specific-epithet is a noun in apposition. Remarks. This species is known only from the female. It keys very easily. Only a few species have the apices of the middle and hind femora truncate and sulcate, the pygidium granulate, and lack a scutellar scale.Published as part of MANLEY, DONALD G. & PITTS, JAMES P., 2007, Tropical and Subtropical Velvet Ants of the Genus Dasymutilla Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with Descriptions of 45 New Species, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 1487 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/508678
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