676 research outputs found
Larkin\u27s Toads
No full textThe article discusses the poem Toads by Philip Larkin and argues that it reveals a deep fear of change in the poet. Critical reaction to the poem is examined, and Larkin\u27s use of syntax and rhetoric is explored. The author\u27s assertion that Larkin\u27s fear of change was related to his political conservatism is also touched on
The China firm: American elites and the making of British Colonial society
No full textWhat roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks.
Through the central narrative of Augustine Heard & Co., Larkin disentangles the ties that bound the United States to China and the British Empire in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from Hong Kong, China, Boston, and London, he weaves the local and the global together to trace how Americans gained acceptance into and contributed to the making of colonial societies and world-spanning empires. Uncovering the transimperial lives of these American traders and the complex ways extraimperial communities interacted with British colonialism, The China Firm makes a vital contribution to global histories of nineteenth-century Asia and provides an alternative narrative of British empire
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Relational Care - with Mary Larkin and Manik Deepak-Gopinath [Podcast]
No full textWhat is 'relational care' and how can it improve the day-to-day experience of carers and those they care for? What are its implications for relationships between staff and service users in care settings? And how does the concept of relational care enable us to re-imagine the role of place and space in the experience of care? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode with Mary Larkin and Manik Deepak-Gopinath who recently completed a research project on the value and practice of relational care with older people.
Mary is Professor of Care, Carers and Caring at The Open University in the UK, where her research has focused on carers and caring and adult social care. She is the co-author, most recently of Family Carers and Caring, published in 2023 by Emerald. Manik is a Lecturer in Ageing, also at The Open University, and is a critical gerontologist with interests in the intersection of ageing, place and wellbeing, and in the intimate and family ties of older adults
ERRATUM
No full textIn Condor 109(4), November 2007, equations in the paper “Approximating variance of demographic parameters using the delta method: a reference for avian biologists” by Larkin Powell contained errors by the author
A Practical Solution to the Death of the American Dream
No full textHas slowing class mobility caused the shift in American culture away from the traditional “American Dream”? Or has this shift in American culture caused slowing class mobility?
Author information: Pamela Larkin is a junior at Smith College majoring in Government and minoring in Mathematics. She is also President of the Smith Republicans, as well as a student-athlete who plays socce
In Between Traditional Irish Music and the Made Landscape in Ireland
No full textThe thesis describes two fields of practice in which Steve Larkin acts as a master: architecture and music. Through a precise description of his new insights in how traditional Irish music comes into being (the interiorities of music), Steve Larkin comes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in design processes in architecture (the interiorities of landscape). In an elaborated study, research cases in music and architecture intertwine and imbricate so as to form a robust piece of research that produces a viable account on the inter- and transdisciplinarity at work in a practice out of which the author has theorized new insights on a meta level that can be transported and applied in other inter and transdisciplinary practices.status: Publishe
Texas Rules of Evidence Sourcebook
No full textCo-author: Erwin S. McGeeThis book was compiled and written by Murl A. Larkin and Erwin S. McGee and provides a detailed account of the Texas Rules of Evidence, which were adopted by the Supreme Court of Texas on November 23, 1982 to become effective on September 1, 1983
PHILIP LARKIN: INNOVAZIONI DI UN ANTI-MODERNO
No full textIn un recente sondaggio condotto dal Times su cinquanta scrittori britannici più amati dal dopoguerra a oggi, Philip Larkin è risultato il primo in classifica. Nonostante la sua produzione poetica si basi soltanto su quattro raccolte di versi pubblicate nell’arco di un trentennio a dieci anni di distanza l’una dall’altra, – The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) e High Windows (1974), a cui si aggiungono pochi altri componimenti, Larkin gode di fama indiscussa. Lo testimoniano le riedizioni dei Collected Poems (1988) curati da Anthony Thwaite, le numerose monografie e i contributi critici che vanno ad arricchire la già copiosa bibliografia critica sul poeta. Notevole è anche il lavoro di approfondimento e divulgazione condotto dalla Philip Larkin Society, nata nel 1995 in occasione del decimo anniversario della morte dell’autore, che promuove e incoraggia gli studi larkiniani sia in territorio britannico che nel resto del mondo, grazie a programmi annuali fittissimi di eventi, conferenze, giornate di studio, incontri e alla preziosa rivista dell’associazione “About Larkin”.
Ciononostante, Larkin è ancora semisconosciuto in Italia, almeno al grande pubblico. A parte alcune traduzioni, la prima datata 1969, Le nozze di Pentecoste e altre poesie per Einaudi e, più recente, Finestre Alte (2002), sempre per Einaudi, nella nostra lingua è disponibile solo l’edizione del romanzo Turbamenti a Willow Gables (2003).
Si parte dal contesto culturale all’interno del quale l’autore inizia a muovere i primi passi, quello del Movement inglese, fenomeno letterario degli anni ‘50 del 1900, in cui Larkin si inserisce, interagendo e collaborando con altre figure altrettanto importanti come Donald Davie, John Wain, Thom Gunn, D.J. Enright ed Elizabeth Jennings; poi vengono descritti dettagliatamente i differenti punti di vista di Larkin e Kingsley Amis, fino ad analizzare l’influenza che Auden ha avuto su Larkin. Infine, ulteriore intento di questo elaborato, è quello di affrontare l’analisi dettagliata di alcuni testi poetici, tra i più significativi, contenuti nelle varie raccolte poetiche, per mostrare le differenti tematiche affrontate dall’autore. Il Movement, il fenomeno letterario più importante nell’Inghilterra del secondo dopoguerra, nasce tra il ‘53 e il ‘55, grazie ad alcuni poeti formatisi presso le università di Oxford a Cambridge. A Oxford nel 1940 si incontrano Philip Larkin e Kingsley Amis, i due rappresentanti più importanti del movimento, entrambi affascinati dal lavoro di Gavin Bone, uno studioso di poesia anglosassone. Entrambi pubblicano le loro prime opere con la Fortune Press. Successivamente sulla scena letteraria inglese compare John Wain, un altro futuro membro del Movement, che è attratto proprio dalla sobrietà, dallo stile sintetico e dalla Englishness dei due giovani scrittori. Sempre negli anni Quaranta, a Cambridge, D.J. Enright, Donald Davie e Thom Gunn fanno propri i valori di chiarezza, dedizione e disciplina, apprezzando i modelli letterari augustei che potessero fungere da esempi nella trattazione delle vicende quotidiane. A definire chiaramente il Movement compaiono poi due antologie, Poets of the Fifties, uscita nel 1955 a cura di D.J. Enright e New Lines di Robert Conquest. Nelle due raccolte compaiono gli stessi otto poeti: Enright, Wain, Conquest, Larkin, Davie, Holloway, Amis, Jennings, mentre Gunn è rappresentato soltanto in New Lines. La figura di maggior spicco nel Movement è quella di Philip Larkin (1922-1985), il quale è stato definito, secondo recenti studi, misogino, sprezzante nei confronti della classe operaia, sciovinista, onanista, pornografo e forse ammiratore (sulla scia del padre) della Germania hitleriana. L’ambientazione tipica delle sue poesie è la provincia industriale, con pub, alberghi georgiani, camere in affitto, corsie d’ospedale, fiere e chiese di periferia. I suoi antieroi sono soggetti egoisti ossessionati dalla propria morte, burocrati vittime della routine lavorativa, inetti in amore, uomini sulla mezza età che invidiano l’energia dei giovani, denigratori della vita e nostalgici di quella potenza imperiale oramai andata. Nonostante ciò, non riescono ad allontanarsi dal mondo a cui appartengono per affrontare l’ignoto, infatti Larkin stesso non voleva allontanarsi dalla sua Inghilterra, poiché sosteneva che prima o poi sarebbe dovuto tornare.
In a recent Times survey of the 50 most beloved British writers since the post-war period, Philip Larkin was the first. Although his poetic output is based on only four collections of verses published over a period of 30 years – The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974), to which he has added few other compositions, Larkin enjoys undisputed fame. To confirm this, there are the re-editions of Anthony Thwaite’s Collected Poems (1988), as well as the numerous monographs and critical contributions that enrich the already copious critical bibliography on the poet. The Philip Larkin Society, founded in 1995 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the author’s death, is also noteworthy. It promotes and encourages Larkin’s studies both in the UK and throughout the world, thanks to its extensive annual programmes of research and development. Larkin is still semi-unknown in Italy, at least to the general public. Apart from a few translations, the first one dated 1969, 'Le nozze di Pentecoste' and other poems for Einaudi and, more recently, 'Finestre Alte' (2002), also for Einaudi, only the edition of 'Turbamenti a Willow Gables' (2003) is available in our language. It starts from the cultural context within which the author begins to take his first steps, that of the English Movement, a literary phenomenon of the 1950s of 1900, in which Larkin enters, interacting and collaborating with other equally important figures such as Donald Davie, John Wain, Thom Gunn, D. J. Enright and Elizabeth Jennings; Larkin’s and Kingsley Amis’s different points of view are described in detail, and the influence Auden had on Larkin is analysed. Finally, a further aim of this work is to address the detailed analysis of some of the most significant poetic texts contained in the various collections of poetry, in order to show the differences The Movement, the most important literary phenomenon in post-World War II in England, was founded between '53 and '55 thanks to poets trained at the universities of Oxford in Cambridge. At Oxford in 1940 they met Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, the two most important representatives of the Movement, both fascinated by the work of Gavin Bone, a scholar of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Both publish their first works with Fortune Press. Later, John Wain, another future member of the Movement, appeared on the English literary scene, who was attracted by the sobriety, synthetic style and Englishness of the two young writers. Also in the 1940s, in Cambridge, D. J. Enright, Donald Davie and Thom Gunn adopted the values of clarity, dedication and discipline, appreciating the Augustan literary models that could serve as examples in dealing with everyday events. Two anthologies, Poets of the Fifties, published in 1955 by D. J. Enright and New Lines by Robert Conquest, clearly define the Movement. The same eight poets appear in the two collections: Enright, Wain, Conquest, Larkin, Davie, Holloway, Amis, Jennings, while Gunn is only represented on New Lines. The most prominent figure in the Movement is that of Philip Larkin (1922-1985), who has been described, according to recent studies, as a misogynist, scornful of the working class, chauvinist, onanist, pornographer and perhaps an admirer (in his father’s footsteps) of Hitler’s Germany. The typical setting of his poems is the industrial province, with pubs, Georgian hotels, rooms for rent, hospital wards, fairs and suburban churches. Its anti-heroes are selfish subjects obsessed with their own death, bureaucrats victims of the work routine, inept in love, middle-aged men who envy the energy of young people, denigrators of life and nostalgic for that power.Despite this, they are unable to move away from the world they belong to to to face the unknown, in fact Larkin himself did not want to move away from his England, because he argued that sooner or later he would have to return
Biochemical evidence for an alternate pathway in N-linked glycoprotein biosynthesis
No full textAsparagine-linked glycosylation is a complex protein modification conserved among all three domains of life. Herein we report the in vitro analysis of N-linked glycosylation from the methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus voltae. Using a suite of synthetic and semisynthetic substrates, we show that AglK initiates N-linked glycosylation in M. voltae through the formation of α-linked dolichyl monophosphate N-acetylglucosamine, which contrasts with the polyprenyl diphosphate intermediates that feature in both eukaryotes and bacteria. Notably, AglK has high sequence homology to dolichyl phosphate β-glucosyltransferases, including Alg5 in eukaryotes, suggesting a common evolutionary origin. The combined action of the first two enzymes, AglK and AglC, afforded an α-linked dolichyl monophosphate glycan that serves as a competent substrate for the archaeal oligosaccharyl transferase AglB. These studies provide what is to our knowledge the first biochemical evidence revealing that, despite the apparent similarity of the overall pathways, there are actually two general strategies to achieve N-linked glycoproteins across the domains of life.National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant GM039334
Out of reach the poetry of Philip Larkin
No full textSince his death in 1985, Philip Larkin, generally regarded as England's finest post-war poet, has become the subject of fierce debate. The publication of his Collected Poems, his letters and his official biography has led to a radical reassessment of one of our most popular and elusive writers. This new study of Larkin's poetry is the first to draw on previously unpublished manuscript material, as well as on the biographical revelations. But, as the author shows, the relationship between Larkin's life and work is especially problematic. Rather than interpreting the poems by way of the life, Andrew Swarbrick examines in detail the rhetorical strategies which make Larkin's poems so universally appealing and yet so ultimately mysterious. In doing so, he reveals a Larkin altogether more adventurous, challenging and disturbing than his critics, and some of his admirers, have hitherto encountered
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