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Doing Justice to Human Security: A Textbook in Tune with its Time
Get PDFI begin this brief review of this important volume with the confession that I have not personally pursued a teaching style that has employed a self-acclaimed textbook for many, many years, preferring to construct courses around monographs, articles and other visual materials. However, were I provided the opportunity to teach a course at the upper division undergraduate level or early gradate level in the subject of human security, this would certainly be the book I would choose (with the caveat introduced below). Alex and Sabina Lautensach have given careful and thoughtful consideration to every aspect of the text: the preface and introduction, written by the editors, lay out both the logic of the text and frame the subject matter that will locate the reader firmly in the midst of the vast challenges that constiÂtute the issue of human security. They do so by emÂphasizing both the multiple dimensions along which the issue of human security can be located and the inseparable nature of these as they interact with each other in complex ways. In many respects this strikes me as one of the most important contributions to the text—its steady insistence that human security as a construct is in a discursive state of constant emerÂgence, such that in some important ways all its varied dimensions insistently co-vary. To make such a claim is in itself daunting—to demonstrate its validity and mutual engagements through the complex subject matters of its 20 chapters, is a tour de force. Their conclusion is sufficiently rich to stand alone as an illustrative text in other course materials
Heraldic Imagery in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry
Get PDFThe significance of heraldic references in literature has been the subject of both antiquarian interest and recent scholarship. In the field of seventeenth-century poetry, there exists a small body of published work concerned with the use of heraldry by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Jolin Cleveland. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the existence and significance of heraldic references in a wider range of seventeenth-century verse and poetry. It eschews assumptions regarding the use of heraldry by, or with reference to, a narrow social elite, and examines heraldic references published in broadsheets and used in songs, as well as in the privately- circulated manuscripts of the nobility. Chapter One offers a critical examination of a range of current scholarship concerned with heraldic readings of literature. Chapter Two demonstrates that formal heraldic references, affirming or celebrating their subject’s identity, were used in diverse genres, including dedicatory verses, encomia, epitaphs, elegies, epithalamia and anagrams. Chapter Three determines the social implications of the use of heraldry, with particular reference to epic and satirical verse, arguing that heraldic references in this period develop beyond their traditional, chivalric associations. Chapter Four discusses those works that include heraldic references as expressions of authority or political power, and considers their use in different contexts to affirm or undermine the position of individuals and groups within society. Chapter Five establishes the use of heraldry within religious or spiritual poetry and addresses whether its vocabulary was regarded as an expression of particular Christian values. Chapter Six explores the engagement of women writers with heraldry and considers how far their use of the language offered a challenge to the prevailing patriarchal culture. The Conclusion draws attention to the significance of the evolution of heraldry from the seventeenth century to the present day
Doing Justice to Human Security: A Textbook in Tune with its Time
Get PDFI begin this brief review of this important volume with the confession that I have not personally pursued a teaching style that has employed a self-acclaimed textbook for many, many years, preferring to construct courses around monographs, articles and other visual materials. However, were I provided the opportunity to teach a course at the upper division undergraduate level or early gradate level in the subject of human security, this would certainly be the book I would choose (with the caveat introduced below). Alex and Sabina Lautensach have given careful and thoughtful consideration to every aspect of the text: the preface and introduction, written by the editors, lay out both the logic of the text and frame the subject matter that will locate the reader firmly in the midst of the vast challenges that constitute the issue of human security. They do so by emphasizing both the multiple dimensions along which the issue of human security can be located and the inseparable nature of these as they interact with each other in complex ways. In many respects this strikes me as one of the most important contributions to the text—its steady insistence that human security as a construct is in a discursive state of constant emergence, such that in some important ways all its varied dimensions insistently co-vary. To make such a claim is in itself daunting—to demonstrate its validity and mutual engagements through the complex subject matters of its 20 chapters, is a tour de force. Their conclusion is sufficiently rich to stand alone as an illustrative text in other course materials
Does democracy deliver? : an analysis of the debate on the relationship between development and democracy
No full textBibliography: leaves 66-70.The assertion that economic development can lead to democracy has been one of the most contested and debated issues in political science. Chapter Two outlines the evolution of the definitions and measurements of democracy and development which are used by Western scholars. The empirical studies on the relationship between development and democracy were largely generated in response to Seymour Martin Lipset's controversial study in 1959, which showed that the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances are for it to sustain a democracy. African scholars' criticisms of the Western canon will be presented in Chapter Three. This paper will describe the link between modernization theory and the development projects that have disappointed African scholars, thus causing them to search for a ""new and improved"" development theory which should replace Western theory. African scholars connect the failures of development projects in their own countries to the inapplicability of Western theory to the African continent. This paper will describe the African argument against Western definitions of democracy and development, methodologies used by Western theorists, and the 'Westernization' of social science. Then, the original literature will be presented to show that African scholars have created a contestable caricature of the Western canon which denies the possibility that African scholars and Western theorists have much in common. However, African scholars do not attempt to contribute to the evolution of the analysis on the relationship between development and democracy. Instead, they negatively stereotype the entire Western canon and do not acknowledge the robust value of the empirical findings outlined in Chapter Two. This ""misunderstanding"" of the Western canon suggests that African scholars are arguing against a construct rather than an accurate paradigm
'Beyond, both the Old World, and the New': Authority and Knowledge in the works of Francis Bacon, with special reference to the New Atlantis
No full textPhDThis study investigates the role of authority in the works of Francis Bacon,
arguing that the issue of authority provides not only an interpretation of New
Atlantis, but an important structural component of his body of works. From
the first manifestation of his philosophical project to his last works of natural
history, authority is an all-pervasive issue - the authority of nature, of
scripture, of the named author, and how authority functions in the
dissemination of natural knowledge. Chapter one argues that the publication
of New Atlantis alongside Sylva sylvarum in 1626/7 was more the result of
William Rawley's need to assert his own authority as the protector and
disseminator of Bacon's textual legacy than an appreciation of the work's own
qualities. Chapter two considers Bacon's views of history and time,
suggesting that Bacon not only conceived of a new, progressive mode of
historical time which would allow for the assertion of a textual authority based
on the records of a civilisation unbroken by the vicissitudes of time, but that
he figured these theories in New Atlantis. Chapter three argues that Bacon
used theology both as defence and imperative to his intellectual programme,
while his attempt to move beyond the deterministic, Calvinist world-view to
allow for multiple possible futures, or `chance': Bacon could then present
experiment as the way of eliminating chance, in order to accelerate the rate of
new discovery. Chapter four investigates Bacon's manipulations of textual
authority, from the early rehearsals of the Instauratio magna to the
performance of reliability in print in Sylva sylvarum. Finally, the afterword
seeks to suggest that the New Atlantis hinges on the issues of authority with
which Bacon engaged throughout his career and writings: in the issue of
authority, Francis Bacon found the beginning and the end of his philosophy
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
MF027 Edward D. Ives Papers, 1871-2006
Get PDFSERIES I. Biographical
NA3746 Series I. Box 1. Biographical documents. Memorabilia. Contains a preliminary inventory of the Edward D. Ives Papers (2 p.); a reference list of offprints related to Canadian Folk Music (7 p.); various newspaper and magazine profiles about Sandy Ives; a list of descriptions for photographs in the Ives collection (21 p.); photographs taken at the time of Ives\u27 retirement from UMaine; photo of Ives with his wife Bobby; college notes for a psychology course, circa 1949; Early Irish Literature, circa 1980; a copies of the Penobscot View Press newsletter created by the children of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Wagner of Winterport, Maine, circa 1962; Ives\u27 own student papers, circa 1960s; copies of Dylan Thomas\u27 obituary dated November 10, 1955, Dylan Thomas clippings and magazine articles, and a copy of a letter written by Ives to Steve discussing the impact of Thomas\u27 death on Ives; the full text of Under the Milkwood as published in Mademoiselle magazine in February 1954; a selection of Ives\u27 test papers, blue books, and copies of syllabi for courses he attended while at university. Materials date 1947-1999. Text: typed and handwritten, 714 pp.
NA3746 Series I. Box 2. Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically, A through F, by the first initial of the correspondent\u27s last name. Many of the letters pertain to Sandy Ives\u27 research about the lives, poetry, and music of Joe Scott and Larry Gorman. Some correspondence relates to Ives\u27 request for old lumber camp songs published in the Kings County Record, Canada and contain lyrics. Typed transcripts of interviews Ives conducted with informants seeking out lyrics and music created by Joe Scott. Student papers documenting and analyzing the Frankenstein\u27s Country & Western Jamboree, a locally produced music program later known as Stacy\u27s Country Jamboree. Materials date late 1950s-1970s. Text: typed and handwritten, 1150 pp.
NA3746 Series I. Box 3. Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically, G through Mc, by the first initial of the correspondent\u27s last name. Letters, poems, song lyrics pertaining to Ives\u27 research to Ives\u27 biographies: Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs and Joe Scott: the Woodsman-Songmaker. Bulk of materials date throughout the 1960s. Text: typed and handwritten, 1299 pp.
NA3746 Series I. Box 4. Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically, Mc through Z, by the first initial of the correspondent\u27s last name. Includes correspondence related to Albert Mitchell\u27s research about American Sporting Camps. Letters, newspaper clippings, poems, song lyrics pertaining to Ives\u27 research to Ives\u27 biographies: Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs and Joe Scott: the Woodsman-Songmaker. Lyrics to Spanish folksongs and Spanish-American folksongs research, circa 1946-47. Materials date late 1940s-1970s. Text: typed and handwritten, 1200 pp.
SERIES II. Research
NA3746 Series II. Box 5. Research and Topical. Bulk of material collected annually from students related to the childhood game Hide and Seek. Ives surveyed his students on this topic each semester. Other childhood games were mentioned by some students. Fewer responses are included for survey questions about the children\u27s games Mumblety-peg and jump rope. Text: typed and handwritten, 959 pp. RESTRICTED.
NA3746 Series II. Box 6. Research and Topical. Sandy Ives paper relational database of topical reference cards containing partial citations and call numbers for specific publications discussing traditional English dance, ballads, and folk music. Style cards contain quotes about styles and forms of folk music referenced to the volume citations in the first section of cards. Other subjects include notes on Origin, Motif, Minstrels, Border Ballads, Broadsides, Collectors, Folklore, Cowboy Songs, Sea Chanties, and Negro Songs. Story of the Gorbey and Archie Stackhouse sent to Ives in response to a request published in the Twin-State News Times, New Hampshire and Ives\u27 tally of variations of the tale. Research logs and general questions for various projects. Materials date from 1940-1970s. Text: typed and handwritten, 831 pp.
NA3746 Series II. Box 7. Ballad and Song. Lyrics and song patterns. Sheets to record music. Research into Benjamin Deane including a sketch of the Deane family cemetery lot. Research into the Callaghan murder in Charlottetown, PEI in 1886, includes copies of newspaper articles about the murder. Research into Fogan MacAleer. Materials date from 1886-1960s. Text: typed and handwritten, 826 pp.
NA3746 Series II. Box 8. Ballad and Song. Lyrics and song patterns. Sheets to record music. Research about the Miramichi Fire, Joe Scott\u27s song The Norway Bum, the song The Picnic at Groshaut, the song Plain Golden Band, and others. Materials date from 1940s-1960s. Text: typed and handwritten, 592 pp.
NA3746 Series III. Box 9. Teaching Materials. Lists of recordings for class demonstrations. Course-related surveys and student project report sheets. Guide for collecting folklore and writing a report for the course, American Folklore. Syllabus for Introduction to Folklore. Notes for the French-Canadian Folksong course. Materials date from 1970s-1999. Text: typed and handwritten, some in French. 420 pp.
NA3746 Series III. Box 10. Teaching Materials. Lecture notes and syllabi, course descriptions, clippings, and off-prints. Lyrics to folksongs used for class demonstrations. Music sheets with examples of the musical form for ballads and folksongs. Student papers. Materials date from 1960s-1970s. Text: typed and handwritten, 848 pp. NA3746_MF027_Ives_Collection_Box10of20_Series_III_Teaching_Materials
NA3746 Series III. Box 11. Teaching Materials. Lecture notes, syllabi, course descriptions, clippings, and off-prints. Also includes the texts of conference presentations. Course materials for Folklore of Maine and the Maritimes. A 1981 article about Marshall Dodge and Tim Sample and Maine humor. Materials date from 1960s-1980s. Text: typed and handwritten, 862 pp. RESTRICTED.
NA3746 Series III. Box 12. Teaching Materials. Narrative. Booklet Ray Hicks Telling Four Traditional Jack Tales, Recorded and edited by Sandy Paton. Texts transcribed by Lee B. Haggerty. Includes articles referenced on the topic of the Narrative including Ives\u27 marginal notes. Materials date from 1960s-1990s. Text: typed and handwritten, 694 pp. RESTRICTED.
NA3746 Series III. Box 13. Teaching Materials. Narrative. Materials include test papers, maps of traditional Native American cultural areas dated 1961 and materials related to Indigenous cultures in Maine and the Maritimes including The History of Maliseets and Micmacs in Aroostook County, Maine: Preliminary Report, Number Two., June 1979, by James Wherry. Maine Prehistory: A Selection of Short Papers, assembled by Dave Sanger and Bob MacKay. ANT425 Fieldwork materials, dowsing. Materials date from 1970s-1990s. Text: typed and handwritten, 658 pp. RESTRICTED
NA3746 Series III. Box 14. Teaching Materials. Intro. to Folklore. Syllabi and Ives\u27 notes for reviewing syllabi in class. Folded paper games and childrens toys including paper airplanes and cootie catcher or paper fortune teller. Printed out LIST-SERV postings related to urban legends. Collection of articles sent to Ives by co-workers about folklore and urban legends. Materials date from 1967-1999. Text: typed and handwritten, 609 pp.
NA3746 Series III. Box 15. Teaching Materials. Materials include a Genius Test made up of a series of riddles, promotional material for the Downeast Dowsers Festival, clippings and book excerpt about dowers and dowsing, notes about witches and devil stories, the first draft of a paper about the Sociology of Humor by Glenn Vernon, fish stories, fairy tales, folklore about birds, gorbey folklore. Text: typed and handwritten, 717 pp. Materials date from 1959-1999.
NA3746 Series III. Box 16. Teaching Materials. Entertainments Survey Project. Notes taken by students reviewing historical newspapers for mentions of community entertainments such as dances, suppers, box socials, etc. Text: typed and handwritten, 1999 pp. Date: January-April 1983.
NA3746 Series III. Box 17. Teaching Materials. Entertainments Survey Project. Notes taken by students reviewing historical newspapers for mentions of community entertainments such as dances, suppers, box socials, etc. Text: typed and handwritten, 1616 pp. Date: January-April 1983.
NA3746 Series III. Box 18. Teaching Materials. Entertainments Survey Project. Notes taken by students reviewing historical newspapers for mentions of community entertainments such as masked balls, July 4 celebrations, Arbor Day, etc. Text: typed and handwritten, 683 pp. Date: 1900-1902.
NA3746 Series III. Box 19. Teaching Materials. Entertainments Survey Project. Notes taken by students reviewing historical newspapers for mentions of community entertainments such as musical entertainments, Christmas caroling, church-related social events, etc. Text: typed and handwritten, 2122 pp. Date: 1883-1930.
NA3746 Series IV. Box 20. Writings. Includes a copy of the Canadian Folk Music Journal, the 1979 Conference Report Oral Tradition and Folklore, Ives\u27 memo announcing his retirement, covers of volumes Ives wrote or edited, the liner notes of Ives\u27 1959 record album Folksongs of Maine sung by Sandy Ives. Copies of journal articles. Text: typed and handwritten, 677 pp. Date: 1959-1997.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 21. Home Papers. Correspondence and Records. Arranged alphabetically by the first initial of the correspondent\u27s last name, Acheson to Doty. Departmental correspondence. Book reviews. Clippings and magazine articles. Emails. Photographs. Notes related to photographs in the Folklore Archives. Text: typed and handwritten, 709 pp. Date: 1975-2004.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 22. Home Papers. Correspondence and Records. Arranged alphabetically by the first initial of the correspondent\u27s last name, Dundes through Kopp. Printed emails, note cards. Emails and clippings about the death of folklorist Alan Dundes. The text of Ives\u27 tribute to Dick Emerick following his death in 2001 and a copy of Emerick\u27s obituary. Photograph of the UMaine English Department faculty at a party, 1955-1956 with identifications. Several issues of Guitar News. Text: typed and handwritten, 868 pp. Date: 1955-2006.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 23. Home Papers. Correspondence and Records. Arranged alphabetically by the first initial of the correspondent\u27s last name, MacLeigh to Renwick. Family correspondence. Annual report to the Maine Folklife Center Advisory Board and meeting minutes. Maine Folklife Center Newsletter. Maine Folklife Center Collection Development Policy. Text: typed and handwritten, 778 pp. Date: 1991-2005.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 24. Home Papers. Correspondence and Records. Materials related to Ives\u27 retirement from the University in 1999. Photographs of Ives with University President Peter Hoff. Approval of Ives as Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus. Photographs of performers in the 1972 Miramichi Folksong Festival including photo of Wilmot MacDonald. Greeting cards congratulating Ives on his retirement. Material related to Ives\u27 book, The Bonny Earl of Murray, including his Memorandum of Understanding with Tuckwell Press, Ltd. and a copy of Ives\u27 CV. Documents related to Lt. Col. William R. Corson, author of The Betrayal. Text: typed and handwritten, 799 pp. Date: 1968-2004. RESTRICTED.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 25. Home Papers. Ernest Kennedy Research. Includes NAFOH Accession NA1114, transcripts and summary documents. Text: typed and handwritten, 605 pp. Date: June 21, 1977-November 14, 1978.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 26. Home Papers. Wilmot MacDonald Research. Photographs of Wilmont MacDonald. Correspondence between MacDonald and Ives. Clippings. Notes on MacDonald performing at the Miramichi Folksong Festival. Text: typed and handwritten, 302 pp. Date: 1961-2002.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 27. Home Papers. Miscellaneous Research. Draft of Amos Hanson of Orland and His Songs. Pre-print of A Maine Sea-Song Remembered. The Fisherman\u27s Memorial. Resonance and Biography: The Last Chapter Revisited. Programs and articles about the Miramichi Folksong Festival. Text: typed and handwritten, 711 pp. Date: 1963-2004.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 28. Home Papers. Prince Edward Island Research. Materials and timeline relating to the life of William Bell, publication agreements and print run estimates, clippings, and correspondence. Text: typed and handwritten, 688 pp. Date: 1951-1999.
NA3746 Series VI. Box 29. Home Papers. Reviews. Published reviews and correspondence providing feedback on Ives\u27 book, The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, The Murder, The Ballad and Joe Scott: The Woodsman Songmaker. Advertisements for the sale of The Bonny Earl of Murray and Joe Scott. Article clippings promoting the publication and release of The Bonny Earl of Murray and Joe Scott. Text: typed and handwritten, 456 pp. Date: 1997-1999
NA3746 Series VI. Box 30. Home Papers. Addie Weed and Veazie Research. Summary of NA0959, Ives\u27 interview with Addie M. Weed, June 1975. Many documents relate to Ives\u27 research into the free-and-easy place [brothel] operated by Harriet Hattie Foyer (aka Aunt Hat) in Veazie. Documents related to Morse & Company for materials sold to Foyer. Court documents relating to Hattie\u27s case against the Eastern Fire Insurance Company for the loss of the Foyer Hotel to fire include Ives\u27 underlining. Newspaper clipping covering the fire that destroyed Hattie\u27s place, simultaneous raids at local hotels for alcohol. Notes on cellar holes in Veazie including hand-drawn maps and Registry of Deeds lot information. A copy of Fan Jones\u27 will from the Probate Court. Text: typed and handwritten, 411 pp. Date: 1871-1999, bulk 1970s.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ne_findingaids/1056/thumbnail.jp
The Brownfields Phenomenon: Much Ado about Something or the Timing of the Shrewd?
Get PDFThis paper provides an overview of the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties known as “brownfields.” It has three principal parts. First, we introduce the brownfields phenomenon and its drivers, drawing on the body of available empirical evidence to discuss characteristics of individual brownfield redevelopment projects. Second, we present findings from a recent study we have conducted that examines the relative attractiveness to private developers of public interventions to promote brownfields redevelopment. Third, we briefly summarize some of the problems with brownfields development and policy and propose an approach to promote wider societal benefits of brownfields development. We conclude with several broad questions about brownfields policy and practice.brownfields, contamination, economic development, infill
Canon Barnett and the first thirty years of Toynbee Hall
No full textPhDThis thesis is a study of the changing role which Toynbee
Hall, the first university settlement, played in East London between
1884 and 1914. The first chapter presents a brief biography of
Sainiel Augustus Barnett, the founder and first warden of the
settlement, and analyzes his social thought in relation to the
beliefs which were current in Britain during the period. The
second chapter discusses the founding of the settlement, its organization, structure and the aims which underlay its early work. The
third chapter, concentrating on three residents, C.R. Ashbee, .H.
Beveridge and T. Edmund Harvey, shows the way in which subsequent
settlement workers reformulated these aims In accordance with their
own social and economic views. The subsequent chapters discuss the
accomplishments of the settlement in various fields. The fourth
shows that Toynbee Hall's educational program, which was largely an
attempt to work out Matthew Arnold's theory of culture, left little
impact on the life of East London. The fifth chapter discusses the
settlement residents' ineffectual attempts to establish contact with
working men's organizations. The final chapter seeks to demonstrate
that In the field of philanthropy the residents were far more successful than in any other sphere in adapting the settlement to changing
social thought
Cultural and gender politics in a neglected archive of Jamaican women's poetry : Una Marson and her Creole contemporaries
Get PDFThis thesis considers the gender and cultural politics of selected Jamaican
women's poetry published during the first half of the twentieth century and
seeks to establish that an approach to this poetry sensitive to these issues will
illuminate aspects of their work previously neglected by canonical and colonial
modes of interpretation. The central interest of this thesis is the poetry of Una
Marson, a black woman poet whose work has been critically neglected and
devalued to date. My project is to read Marson's work in some detail, and to
explore to what extent her poetry, which often works within colonial models and
with conventional notions of feminine fulfilment, employs received aesthetic
and ideological paradigms both strategically and subversively. In the belief
that critics of Jamaican women's writing should be as attentive to the gender
and cultural politics of their ways of reading, as of the texts they wish to read,
the first chapter of this thesis engages in a sustained analysis of theoretical
positions and attempts to map out the various problems and possibilities
which critical discourses present in relation to this material. The second
chapter examines the various social and literary contexts in which Jamaican
poetry was produced and received during this period, and the third chapter
looks in more detail at contemporary notions of aesthetic and cultural forms.
The fourth and fifth chapters are structured aromd close textual readings
which explore the variety and complexity of Marson's, and her Creole
contemporaries', poetic engagement with the issues of cultural and gender
identities. The thesis concludes that Marson's poetry questions dominant
notions both of identity and of aesthetics, and consequently that her poetry
offers an example of Jamaican literary expression which moves beyond the
nationalization of consciousness which has come to mark the literary
achievement of this period
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