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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
'Giving honour to the Spirit' : a critical analysis and evaluation of the doctrine of pneumatological union in the Trinitarian theology of Jonathan Edwards in dialogue with Karl Barth
No full textThe extent to which the 'honour' of the Spirit influenced the theology of
Jonathan Edwards is a hitherto underdeveloped theme. Against a backdrop of
Patristic thought and in dialogue with the theology of Karl Barth, evaluation is
made of pneumatological union in Edwards' Trinitarian theology as this centres
on the nature and inter-relatedness of the 'three unions' that characterize his
theology: the union of the three Persons of the Trinity, the union of the saints
with God, and the union of the divine and human natures of Christ.
Edwards' seeks to honour the Spirit as the mutual love of the Father for the Son
within his Augustinian, Lockean model of the immanent Trinity, and as 'Person'
in the economy. The challenges of doing so within the limits of this
psychological model of the Trinity are evaluated in dialogue with the
Cappadocian Fathers and Barth.
In a manner patterned after union in the Trinity, Edwards gave prominence to the
concept of the pneumatological union of the saints with God in Christ, in
fulfilment of the self-glorifying purpose of God in creation and redemption.
Edwards' experiential theology of conversion, and his elevation of subjective
sanctification by the Spirit over objective justification in Christ, for assurance, is
contrasted with Barth's greater emphases on the Christological union of God
with humanity and objective justification in Christ. Barth's more contemplative
approach is contrasted with the overly introspective spirituality of Edwards.
Edwards' view of the role of the Spirit in the hypostatic union of God with
humanity in Christ, which is reflective of the other unions, is also evaluated in
light of Patristic, Reformed-Puritan and Barthian thought on the nature of the
humanity Christ assumed, and the doctrine of the vicarious humanity of Christ. A
more emphatic incarnational emphasis may have saved Edwards' Spirit-
honouring spirituality from an anthropocentricity which is ironical given that the
glory of God is his ontic doxological concern
Munida stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textMunida stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Munida stimpsoni has been reported in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in depths of 252 to 897 m (Milne- Edwards 1880; Benedict 1901; Chace 1942). All specimens measured were collected in July in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 200 to 530 m (Fig. 9 G). Sixteen males were measured, 18 non-ovigerous females, and 31 ovigerous females; male CW ranged from 8.7 to 14.1 mm, female CW ranged from 10 to 13.3 mm, and ovigerous female CW ranged from 10 to 14.4 mm. Males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 63, t = - 1.535, p = 0.130) nor were ovigerous females and non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 45, t = - 0.407, p = 0.686). Females carried between 560 and 3595 eggs with an average egg diameter between 0.35 mm and 0.53 mm. Fecundity was not correlated with CW (R 2 = 0.113, p = 0.065) nor was average egg size correlated to CW (R 2 = 0.0548, p = 0.205).Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
Munida miles A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textMunida miles A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Munida miles has been reported from Brazil to the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 68 to 659 m (Milne-Edwards 1880; Henderson 1888; Chace 1942) and has also been reported as Munida decora (see Baba et al. 2008). We used specimens collected in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean in depths of 250 to 630 m. Specimens were collected in January, March, May, June, July, November, and December; ovigerous specimens were only collected in May and July (Fig. 9 C). Forty-three males (CW from 4.2 to 16.5 mm), 21 non-ovigerous females (CW from 9.7 to 17.0 mm), and 22 ovigerous were measured (CW from 10.9 to 17.6 mm); males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 84, t = 0.735, p = 0.464) nor were ovigerous and non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 41, t = 1.563, p = 0.126). Females carried between 334 and 3224 eggs with an average egg diameter per female range of 0.36 to 0.54 mm. Both, fecundity (R 2 = 0.326, p = 0.005; Fig. 4 E) and the average egg diameter was correlated with CW (R 2 = 0.188, p = 0.044).Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 397, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
Munidopsis sigsbei A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textMunidopsis sigsbei (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880) Munidopsis sigsbei has previously been reported as Galathodes sigsbei and Munidopsis sigsbeyi (Baba et al. 2008). Its reported distributional range is from the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil in depths of 659 to 1784 m (Milne- Edwards 1880; Chace 1942; Pequegnat & Pequegnat 1970; Tavares & Campinho 1998). Specimens used in this analysis were in the published distributional range in depths of 500 to 2000 m and were collected in every month (Fig. 13 G). One hundred fifty-nine males (CW from 2.5 to 13.1 mm), 68 non-ovigerous females (CW from 3.8 to 12.0 mm), and 83 ovigerous females (CW from 6.3 to 13.3 mm) were measured. Males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 308, t = - 1.804, p = 0.072); ovigerous females were significantly larger than non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 149, t = - 4.061, p<0.001). Ovigerous females were observed in February and May through November. Females had between one and 50 eggs, and average egg diameters ranged between 1.14 mm and 2.09 mm. Fecundity was correlated with CW for M. sigsbei (R 2 = 0.287, p <0.001) (Fig. 14 A), but average egg size was not correlated with CW (R 2 = 0.002, p = 0.702).Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
Munidopsis robusta A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textMunidopsis robusta (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880) Munidopsis robusta has also been reported as Galathodes robusta and has a distributional range from the Gulf of Mexico to French Guiana in depths of 291 to 824 m (Milne-Edwards 1880; Pequegnat & Pequegnat 1970; Takeda 1983). Specimens in this analysis were from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in depths of 79 to 960 m. Specimens were collected in every month except January; ovigerous specimens were collected in every month except January (Fig. 13 F). Eighty-seven males (CW from 3.9 to 14.8 mm), 43 non-ovigerous females (CW from 5.6 to 15.7 mm), and 55 ovigerous females were measured (CW from 11.2 to 17.3 mm). Females were not significantly larger than males (t-test, df = 183, t = 1.804, p = 0.073); ovigerous females were significantly larger than non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 96, t = 7.868, p<0.001). Females had between nine and 371 eggs with average egg diameter for each female ranging from 0.96 to 1.7 mm. Fecundity was correlated with CW for M. robusta (R 2 = 0.209, p = 0.014) (Fig. 10 F), but average egg size was not correlated with CW (R 2 = 0.0577, p = 0.218).Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
Munida iris A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textMunida iris A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Munida iris has been reported from Brazil to the Middle Atlantic Bight in depths of 45 to 932 m (Milne- Edwards 1880; Wenner 1982; de Melo-Filho 2006). All specimens used in our study were collected in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean in depths of 68 to 531 m. This species was collected in every month except October; ovigerous females were collected in every month except September and October (Fig. 8 H). Only 16 males were measured and CW ranged from 6.8 to 20.8 mm; males and females were not significantly different in size (t-test, df = 22, t = 1.025, p = 0.317). One non-ovigerous female measured with a CW of 13 mm; seven ovigerous females had CW of 12.5 to 22.0 mm. Neither fecundity (R 2 = 0.017, p = 0.834) nor average egg size was significantly correlated with CW (R 2 = 0.155, p = 0.382).Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 396, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
Galathea rostrata A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textGalathea rostrata A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Galathea rostrata has been reported throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to North Carolina in depths of 22 to 92 m (Milne-Edwards 1880; Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1897; Haig 1956; Baba et al. 2008). The specimens used in this analysis were from the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Florida in depths of 30 to 100 m (Fig. 5). Specimens were collected in every month except December (Fig. 6). A total of 274 specimens was in collections with 145 males, 65 ovigerous females, and 64 non-ovigerous females; only 104 males, 42 ovigerous, and 41 non-ovigerous females were measured. Male carapace width ranged from 1.3 to 5.8 mm. Non-ovigerous female CW ranged from 1.3 to 4.8 mm. Ovigerous female CW ranged from 1.9 to 5.4 mm. The average egg diameter for each female ranged from 0.22 to 0.48 mm, and the number of eggs ranged from one to 204. Males and females did not vary significantly in size (t-test, df = 185, t = 0.825, p = 0.411), but ovigerous females were larger than non-ovigerous females (t-test, df = 81, t = - 2.382, p = 0.020). Fecundity was not significantly correlated with the size of the ovigerous females (R 2 = 0.264, p = 0.082) nor was the average egg diameter correlated with size (R 2 = 0.130, p = 0.092).Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 389, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
sj-docx-1-hpx-10.1177_00185787231196435 – Supplemental material for Impact of Limiting Vancomycin Loading Doses in Patients With Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections After Hospital Protocol Revision
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hpx-10.1177_00185787231196435 for Impact of Limiting Vancomycin Loading Doses in Patients With Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections After Hospital Protocol Revision by Alec R. Raley, Matthew L. Brown, Morgan Frawley, Robert A. Oster and William Seth Edwards in Hospital Pharmacy</p
Munida forceps A. Milne-Edwards 1880
No full textMunida forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Munida forceps has been reported in depths of 73 to 950 m from Brazil throughout the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico to Virginia, and the Middle Atlantic Bight (Milne-Edwards 1880; Laird et al. 1976; Wenner 1982; de Melo-Filho & De Melo 2001 b). The specimens that were measured were collected in every month except January (Fig. 8 G) and were collected throughout the published range in depths of 40 to 508 m. A total of 121 males was measured with CW ranging from 3.2 to 18.1 mm; males were not significantly larger than females (t-test, df = 223, t = 0.489, p = 0.625). Ovigerous females were collected in every month except January, May, September, October, and November (Fig. 8 G). Seventy-two ovigerous females (CW from 4.6 mm to 12.7 mm) and 42 non-ovigerous females (CW from 4.2 to 14.9 mm) were measured; non-ovigerous females were not different in size from ovigerous females (t-test, df = 111, t = - 0.226, p = 0.822). Fecundity was related to CW (R 2 = 0.495, p<0.001) (Fig. 4 D), but average egg diameter was not related to CW (R 2 = 0.006, p = 0.521). Females had between 11 and 1183 eggs with the average egg diameter of each female ranging between 0.40 mm and 0.58 mm.Published as part of Kilgour, Morgan J. & Shirley, Thomas C., 2014, Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 381-419 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 396, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/22943
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