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Letter from Samuel Morgan to Alden Partridge, 2 April 1827.
No full textEncloses draft for 1,000.00 enclosed.See duplicate letter, same date. Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to human error
[Letter to Waud from Samuel P. Bates]
No full textText only.Signed lower right: Samuel P. Bates.Title devised.Letter requests pencil sketch of the repulse of Louisiana Tigers by Rickett's Battery to illustrate a text. Describes the battle he has in mind. Sketch of Batcheldoe's (?) map on verso.Formerly Waud no. C-71.Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.998)Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
Get PDFThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Twentieth-century poetry and science : science in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Judith Wright, Edwin Morgan, and Miroslav Holub
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to arrive at a characterisation of twentieth century poetry and science by means of a detailed study of the work of four poets who engaged extensively with science and whose writing lives spanned the greater part of the period. The study of science in the work of the four chosen poets, Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978), Judith Wright (1915 – 2000), Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010), and Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998), is preceded by a literature survey and an initial theoretical chapter. This initial part of the thesis outlines the interdisciplinary history of the academic subject of poetry and science, addressing, amongst other things, the challenges presented by the episodes known as the ‘two cultures’ and the ‘science wars’. Seeking to offer a perspective on poetry and science more aligned to scientific materialism than is typical in the interdiscipline, a systemic challenge to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is put forward in the first chapter. Additionally, the founding work of poetry and science, I. A. Richards’s Science and Poetry (1926), is assessed both in the context in which it was written, and from a contemporary viewpoint; and, as one way to understand science in poetry, a theory of the creative misreading of science is developed, loosely based on Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence (1973). The detailed study of science in poetry commences in Chapter II with Hugh MacDiarmid’s late work in English, dating from his period on the Shetland Island of Whalsay (1933 – 1941). The thesis in this chapter is that this work can be seen as a radical integration of poetry and science; this concept is considered in a variety of ways including through a computational model, originally suggested by Robert Crawford. The Australian poet Judith Wright, the subject of Chapter III, is less well known to poetry and science, but a detailed engagement with physics can be identified, including her use of four-dimensional imagery, which has considerable support from background evidence. Biology in her poetry is also studied in the light of recent work by John Holmes. In Chapter IV, science in the poetry of Edwin Morgan is discussed in terms of its origin and development, from the perspective of the mythologised science in his science fiction poetry, and from the ‘hard’ technological perspective of his computer poems. Morgan’s work is cast in relief by readings which are against the grain of some but not all of his published comments. The thesis rounds on its theme of materialism with the fifth and final chapter which studies the work of Miroslav Holub, a poet and practising scientist in communist-era Prague. Holub’s work, it is argued, represents a rare and important literary expression of scientific materialism. The focus on materialism in the thesis is not mechanistic, nor exclusive of the domain of the imagination; instead it frames the contrast between the original science and the transformed poetic version. The thesis is drawn together in a short conclusion
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Memorial of S.P. Ely and Lewis H. Morgan, in relation to the railroad interests of the Upper Peninsula.
No full textA memorial from Samuel P. Ely and Lewis H. Morgan, directors of the Bay de Noquet and Marquette Railroad Company and the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company to the Michigan House. They report on needed work in the Upper Peninsula and conclude, "The principal stockholders of the Bay de Noquet and Marquette Railroad Company, and their friends, have therefore organized as an independent company, the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, to carry forward this general plan, in which the two companies will act in concert and harmony; and they now respectfully ask your Honorable body to confer upon the said Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, the lands, rights and privileges, given by Congress, to aid in the construction of this road, subject to the restrictions and requirements of the several acts in relation thereto." (Page 5). The report is dated January 14, 1863
Letter from Samuel Morgan to Alden Partridge, 2 April 1827.
No full textEncloses draft for $1,000.00 per order of Mrs. Ann McDermott.See duplicate letter, same date. Transcripion by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to human error
The effect of maternal nutrition on the epigenetic regulation by DNA methylation of hepatic genes involved in glucose and fat metabolism in the offspring
No full textSamuel D. Risley Papers, MSS.4141
No full textAbstract: Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. There are approximately 181 Civil War letters, primarily from Samuel D. Risley and, intermittently, his brother John, as well as other miscellaneous letters and manuscripts. In addition there are three diaries Samuel kept during the war offering more details of his service, plus a number of very interesting pieces of ephemera, including newspaper clippings, an important manuscript view drawn by Samuel delineating the 20th's encampment in New Orleans, a very rare copy of the Freeman's Champion printed in Houston, Texas, June 26, 1865, a soldier's manuscript poem written in camp near Falmouth, Virginia, in 1863, and various other pieces of Risley family genealogy including genealogies and reunion booklets from 1890 and 1904.Biographical/Historical Note: Samuel Doty Risley, third son of John S. and Mary Elizabeth Parker Risley, was born on January 16, 1845, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, he was educated in public and private schools in Cincinnati and Davenport, Iowa. During the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the Twentieth Iowa Regiment. His regiment participated in the battles of Prairie Grove and Pea Ridge, the battle and siege of Vicksburg, as well as the battles of Fort Morgan and Mobile. After the war, he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in ophthalmology in 1870. He married Emma D. Thompson; the couple had five children: Arthur Doty; Florence Giulia; Helen Irma; John Norman; and Rebekah Hildegarde. Emma died in 1904 and Samuel remarried in 1907, marrying Julia Louise Robinson; they had two more children: Parker Robinson and Louise. Samuel died on April 1, 1920.John P. Risley, Samuel's younger brother, was born in 1846, and was also in the Twentieth Iowa Regiment
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
Get PDFIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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