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Papers of John Gordon Morrison
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.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/66094Correspondence with friends, in particular David Martin, and bodies such as the Literature Board of the Australia Council, articles by and about Morrison; book reviews by Morrison. c. 1968-1993.112040
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Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
No full textThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
A politics of conversion: nihilism and love in Toni Morrison's fiction
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras.O estudo Uma Política de Conversão: Niilismo e Amor na Ficção de Toni Morrison começa com a idéia de que a Literatura Afro-Americana apresenta um sentido de auto-reflexividade e hibridismo, através do qual autobiografia dialoga com romance, o espiritual se funde com o político. A partir deste traço dialógico a auto-reflexividade é politicamente estabelecida entre niilismo e amor. Na política de conversão, o estudo analisa as formas como mulheres negras, individualmente ou em grupo, fogem da escravidão para a liberdade, avançam da individualidade para a coletividade, ou substituem niilismo por amor. Metodologicamente o estudo apresenta sete capítulos. O primeiro discute os aspectos dialógicos que ilustram as conexões entre narrativas espirituais, de escravos e ficção, entre espiritualidade e política. O segundo examina o diálogo entre a conversão, pregação pública e formação da comunidade em Diário e Experiências Religiosas de Lee. O capítulo sugere que ao afirmar espiritualidade e humanidade a narradora abre profundo espaço para a mulher negra reclamar direitos civis. O terceiro discute o diálogo no interior da política de conversão entre narrativa de escravos e ficção. Este diálogo lida com niilismo e amor em Incidentes de Jacobs e Amada, Sula e O Olho Mais Azul de Morrison. Para a análise de niilismo e amor valores individuais e coletivos são considerados em relação a cinco aspectos: ambiente e agente antagonistas, agente de apoio, propósito da personagem e resultado alcançado. É visível, no estudo, o apoio que certas mulheres recebem de suas comunidades para contra-atacar antagonistas. O apoio nem sempre resulta na superação do niilismo e, por isso, derrota temporária pode ocorrer antes que elas sejam reintegradas à comunidade, como acontece com Linda Brent. O quarto capítulo examina as fraquezas e as energias da política da conversão e a reintegração de Sethe Suggs à comunidade de Bluestone Road. O quinto avalia como a comunidade de Bottom tenta controlar a individualidade de Sula Peace e como um grupo de mulheres lideradas por Nel Wrights consegue resgatar o espírito de independência da heroína. O sexto mostra como a política da conversão das mulheres de Lorain é incapaz de garantir a saúde mental de Pecola Breedlove, mas consegue criar um papel mais consistente para o grupo. No sétimo, a conclusão examina da relação dialética entre niilismo e amor ou auto-amor nas experiências dos indivíduos e dos grupos. O estudo sugere que em Incidentes a busca de Linda Brent por liberdade envolve elementos de autodestruição e de autoempoderamento. Da mesma maneira, o estudo conclui que em Amada o amor que Sethe Suggs tem para as suas crianças mata a própria filha, enfatizando, assim, o desejo de livrá-la da escravidão. Igualmente em Sula, a individualidade de Sula Peace não apenas limita, mas também expande as experiências do grupo, levando-o à emancipação. Finalmente, em O Olho Mais Azul a luta de Pecola Breedlove por amor e beleza reflete auto-ódio ao mesmo tempo em que reconstrói a auto-apreciação de toda a comunidade
John Morrison & Martin Newth: Art – I know what I like and I like what I know
No full textThis talk was part of an In Conversation event with Art Historian Professor John Morrison, held as part of the Berwick Literary Festival 2024. The event marked the conclusion of the LS Lowry exhibition, Lowry and the Sea, at the Granary Gallery in Berwick. It explored questions of taste, identity, and popularity in relation to Lowry’s landscapes and seascapes created in and around Berwick-upon-Tweed.
My presentation drew on my research into identity, the landscape, and the apparatus and nature of depiction. The talk referenced previous projects, including my recent Depictions of Hounslow project, to examine ideas about the interrelationship between a place’s identity and the way it is depicted.
The talk proposed that contemporary decisions regarding the appearance and imagination of Berwick—and other northern parts of the UK’s landscape and cityscape—are shaped by the way these places are depicted. Lowry’s popularity as a quintessentially ‘northern’ artist contributes to this narrative.
The talk focused on three aspects of my approach to artwork to consider Lowry’s impact:
1. Taste and Ideas of ‘Authority’ – framed by Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, which argues that taste is not purely individual but a social construct.
2. Relatability and the ‘Nature of the Encounter’ – with reference to my previous project, Rezension, which explored the moment, or event, of the encounter with 15th-century Gothic sculptures.
3. Depiction and Perception of Place – examining how the way a place is depicted affects how it is imagined and, ultimately, the decisions we make about our environment
Diversity, Identity and Leadership
No full textThis paper is one of several drawn from the findings of a research project entitled Integrating Leadership and Diversity in Leadership in Further Education funded by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) and conducted by Jacky Lumby, Kalwant Bhopal, Martin Dyke, and Felix Maringe at the University of Southampton and Marlene Morrison at Oxford Brookes University. In this section we introduce the aims, purposes, and parameters of the research, and identify those aspects with which this paper is primarily concerned. The Full Report is available at: http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/leadership/cel/ Further Education has an historic commitment to providing inclusive education and training opportunities. In consequence, it has sustained an enduring engagement with issues of diversity and inclusion related to learners. The Green Paper Further Education: Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances (DfES, 2006) notes what has been achieved: ‘Many colleges are exemplars in the diversity of their students and staff, serving as a resource that is available to, and valued by, all sections of their community’ (op cit, para. 2.35). However, the paper also suggests that ‘there is more to be done to address the current lack of diversity within the workforce. Too many minority groups continue to be under-represented, especially at senior levels, and face barriers to progression in the sector’ (DfES, 2006, para. 4.34). The sector is increasingly seeking means to address these and other issues related to a diverse workforce. Within this context, diverse leadership is emphasised as key to achieving organizational effectiveness and to modelling values of equity for learners and the wider community (DfES, 2005). However, previous research by Lumby et al (2005) suggests that achieving diversity in leadership presents formidable challenges, not least because it raises questions about what is meant by diversity, and whether assumptions about its meaning are shared. As importantly, it raised concerns about whether there is, as yet, universal support for seeking a more diverse and inclusive leadership, what this might ‘look like’, and whether it would, in itself, lead to more effective leadership
The mechanism of waste treatment at low temperature
No full textSubmitted to Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Department of Interior.OWRR project no. A-007-COLO.Pt. A. Microbiology / by S. M. Morrison, Gary C. Newton, George D. Boone, and Kirke L. Martin -- Pt. B. Sanitary engineering / by John C. Ward, John S. Hunter, Richard P. Johansen
Diversity, identity and leadership
No full textThis paper is one of several drawn from the findings of a research project entitled Integrating
Leadership and Diversity in Leadership in Further Education funded by the Centre for Excellence in
Leadership (CEL) and conducted by Jacky Lumby, Kalwant Bhopal, Martin Dyke, and Felix Maringe
at the University of Southampton and Marlene Morrison at Oxford Brookes University. In this section
we introduce the aims, purposes, and parameters of the research, and identify those aspects with
which this paper is primarily concerned. The Full Report is available at:
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/leadership/cel/
Further Education has an historic commitment to providing inclusive education and training
opportunities. In consequence, it has sustained an enduring engagement with issues of diversity and
inclusion related to learners. The Green Paper Further Education: Raising Skills, Improving Life
Chances (DfES, 2006) notes what has been achieved: ‘Many colleges are exemplars in the diversity
of their students and staff, serving as a resource that is available to, and valued by, all sections of
their community’ (op cit, para. 2.35). However, the paper also suggests that ‘there is more to be
done to address the current lack of diversity within the workforce. Too many minority groups
continue to be under-represented, especially at senior levels, and face barriers to progression in the
sector’ (DfES, 2006, para. 4.34).
The sector is increasingly seeking means to address these and other issues related to a diverse
workforce. Within this context, diverse leadership is emphasised as key to achieving organizational
effectiveness and to modelling values of equity for learners and the wider community (DfES, 2005).
However, previous research by Lumby et al (2005) suggests that achieving diversity in leadership
presents formidable challenges, not least because it raises questions about what is meant by
diversity, and whether assumptions about its meaning are shared. As importantly, it raised concerns
about whether there is, as yet, universal support for seeking a more diverse and inclusive
leadership, what this might ‘look like’, and whether it would, in itself, lead to more effective
leadership
Practical extensions to cycle time approximations.for the G/G/m-queue with applications
No full textApproximate closed form expressions for the mean cycle time in a G/G/m-queue often serve as practical and intuitive alternatives to more exact but less tractable analyses. However, the G/G/m-queue model may not fully address issues that arise in practical manufacturing systems. Such issues include tools with production parallelism, tools that are idle with work in process, travel to the queue, and the tendency of lots to defect from a failed server and return to the queue even after they have entered production. In this paper, we extend popular approximate mean cycle time formulae to address these practical manufacturing issues. Employing automated data extraction algorithms embedded in software, we test the approximations using parameters gleaned from production tool groups in IBM's 200 mm semiconductor wafer fabricator
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
No full textThe most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women\u27s writing.
The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison\u27s writing within today\u27s currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison\u27s “trilogy” of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos\u27 USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of “influence” that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children\u27s books and as speaker for children\u27s education. In addition, a “Teaching Morrison” section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison is wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists.https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/faculty_books/1000/thumbnail.jp
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