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A critical edition of Derek Walcott's Omeros
No full textThe thesis is a Critical Edition of Derek Walcott’s Omeros, consisting of a Critical
Introduction and Annotations. The Critical Introduction analyses:
- Narrative
- Settings
- Metaphor and Paronomasia
- Symbolism
- Historiography
- Intertexts
- Dualism
- Autobiography
- Dialects
- Prosody.
The Annotations comment on more than 1000 references that may be obscure and on
specifics of narrative, language and prosody.
This study presents new conclusions about some aspects of Omeros:
- It challenges the prevailing view that the work is written substantially in a
variation of terza rima and shows that regular quatrains predominate.
- It demonstrates ways in which the metrics follow the sense of the narrative and
takes a more balanced position on the use of Caribbean as opposed to classical
metrics than that put forward previously.
- It identifies a paragraphic structure to the verse.
- It proposes a new prosodic structure for the significant Chapter XXX/iii.
- It extends Walcott’s recognised use of numerology into word counting the
names of characters.
- It develops the idea of Walcott’s dualism and his use of pairing and
contradiction as a dialectical method.
- It defines his wide use of paronomasia and shows that many of the puns have a
metaphorical aspect beyond mere word-play.
- It analyses some of Walcott’s symbolism.
- It identifies intertextual links to his earlier works and to some thirty other
writers, and suggests homage to Hemingway and possibly Heaney.
- It provides the first complete analysis of Walcott’s rhyme types in Omeros.
In its analysis of Omeros and in the Annotations it has included commentary from
across the critical literature, to provide some sense of other views on Walcott’s
writing, and has included as many as possible of Walcott’s own comments on Omeros
and on the writer’s task, as a background to understanding the poem
Tilting at Windmills : BLDSC and the UK Higher Education Community
No full textPurpose - To provide an overview of, the relationship between the British Library and higher education libraries in the 1990s, with particular relation to document supply. It also goes on to explore current developments in scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach - The author played a role in several of the events described and uses the available literature to enlarge on a personal view of that decade. Findings - The paper shows that the relationship was a strained one caused in part by a mismatch of resources, but is in any case dwarfed by the larger external forces and changing opportunities and technologies for scholarly communication. Originality/value - Provides a record of the period
Identification of small molecule agonists of the orphan nuclear receptors liver receptor homolog-1 and steroidogenic factor-1
No full textWe report the identification of substituted cis-bicyclo[3.3.0]oct-2-enes as small molecule agonists of subfamily V orphan nuclear receptors (NR5A), liver receptor homolog-1 (LRH-1) and steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1). Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based biochemical assays, compound 5a (GSK8470) was identified as a high-affinity ligand for LRH-1 and SF-1. In liver cells, 5a increased the expression of the LRH-1 target gene small heterodimer partner (SHP). Synthesis of analogues modified at three positions led to the development of compounds with functional selectivity between LRH-1 and SF-1
Structure and stability of rapidly quenched Al86Cr14−xFex alloys
No full textPT: J; CR: AUDIER M, 1987, 6TH INT C RAP QUENCH BANCEL PA, 1985, PHYS REV LETT, V54, P2422 BANCEL PA, 1986, PHYS REV B, V33, P7917 BOSWELL PG, 1980, J THERM ANAL, V18, P353 DINI K, 1984, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V14, P2009 DONALD IW, 1978, 3RD P INT C RAP QUEN, P273 DUNLAP RA, 1985, CAN J PHYS, V63, P1267 DUNLAP RA, 1985, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V15, P11 DUNLAP RA, 1986, J MATER RES, V1, P415 DUNLAP RA, 1986, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V16, P1247 DUNLAP RA, 1987, UNPUB J PHYS F HIRAGA K, 1987, JEOL NEWS E, V25, P8 INOUE A, 1986, METALL TRANS A, V17, P1657 INOUE A, 1987, J MATER SCI, V22, P1758 KISSINGER HE, 1957, ANAL CHEM, V29, P1702 SHECHTMAN D, 1984, PHYS REV LETT, V53, P1951 SHURER PJ, 1986, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V59, P619 WALTER JL, 1981, MATER SCI ENG, V50, P137; NR: 18; TC: 11; J9: J MATER SCI; PG: 5; GA: AP509Source type: Electronic(1
A Doppler broadening positron annihilation technique for the study of defects in bulk samples
No full textA Doppler broadening positron annihilation technique which allows for the study of near surface defects in bulk samples is described. The method is capable of observing changes in the homogeneous bulk defect concentration in a sample acid is also able to characterize spatially localized near-surface defects in bulk materials with a resolution of about 1 mm. The applicability of this method is demonstrated by measurements on a sample of polycrystalline aluminum into which defects have been introduced by mechanical deformation. Isochronal annealing studies have been used to characterize the defect recovery in this material and are compared with results of conventional Doppler broadening measurements.PT: J; CR: BOURASSA RR, 1976, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V6, P1405 BRAUER G, 1987, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI A, V102, P79 CAMPBELL JL, 1977, APPL PHYS, V13, P365 DUNLAP RA, 1988, CAN J PHYS, V66, P476 DUNLAP RA, 1992, NONDESTRUCTIVE COMPU HUTCHINGS MT, 1995, J PHYS IV, V5, P119 LAWTHER DW, 1990, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT, V2, P6239 LAWTHER DW, 1993, KEY ENG MATER, V81, P95 LAWTHER DW, 1993, UNPUB CAN J PHYS MACKENZIE IK, 1967, PHYS REV LETT, V19, P946 MACKENZIE IK, 1970, PHYS LETT A, V33, P279 MACKENZIE IK, 1993, COMMUNICATION MCKEE BTA, 1967, THESIS TALHOUSIE U SCHULTZ PJ, 1981, CAN J PHYS, V59, P325 SMITH FA, 1977, R8894 AERE WAMPLER WR, 1978, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V8, L1; NR: 16; TC: 0; J9: NUCL INSTRUM METH PHYS RES B; PG: 4; GA: TY120Source type: Electronic(1
Transition metal site distributions in binary aluminum-transition metal quasicrystals: Al-V and Al-Cr
No full textPT: J; CR: BANCEL PA, 1985, PHYS REV LETT, V54, P2422 BIGOT J, 1988, MATER SCI ENG, V99, P453 CARLSON ON, 1955, T AM SOC MET, V47, P520 DINI K, 1986, J MATER SCI, V21, P1037 DUNLAP RA, 1985, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI A, V92, K11 DUNLAP RA, 1986, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V16, P11 DUNLAP RA, 1988, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V18, P1329 DUNLAP RA, 1988, PHYS REV B, V38, P3649 DUNLAP RA, 1988, UNPUB EDAGAWA K, 1987, J PHYS SOC JPN, V56, P2629 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V56, P169 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1987, PHYS REV LETT, V59, P2443 ELSER V, 1985, PHYS REV B, V32, P4892 ELSER V, 1985, PHYS REV LETT, V55, P2883 HAUSER JJ, 1986, PHYS REV B, V33, P3577 INOUE A, 1986, METALL TRANS A, V17, P1657 INOUE A, 1987, J MATER SCI, V22, P1758 KIMURA K, 1985, J PHYS SOC JPN, V54, P3217 LAWTHER DW, 1989, CAN J PHYS, V67, P463 LIEBERMANN HH, 1983, BUTTERWORTHS MONOGRA, P26 MACKAY AL, 1962, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V15, P916 MCHENRY ME, 1989, PHYS REV B, V39, P3611 NISHITANI SR, 1988, MATER SCI ENG, V99, P443 SHECHTMAN D, 1984, PHYS REV LETT, V53, P1951 SKINNER DJ, 1988, MATER SCI ENG, V99, P407 SWARTZENDRUBER LJ, 1985, PHYS REV B, V32, P1383 WARREN WW, 1986, PHYS REV B, V34, P4902 ZHANG H, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P6220; NR: 28; TC: 4; J9: MATER SCI ENG A-STRUCT MATER; PG: 6; GA: CP677Source type: Electronic(1
57Fe Mössbauer-effect study of preferential site occupancy in quasicrystalline Al86Cr14−xFex alloys
No full textPT: J; CR: BANCEL PA, 1986, PHYS REV B, V33, P7917 BLACK PJ, 1955, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V8, P175 CAHN JW, 1986, J PHYS-PARIS, V47, P415 COOPER M, 1966, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V20, P614 COOPER M, 1967, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V23, P1106 CORBY RN, 1977, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V33, P3468 DUNLAP RA, UNPUB J PHYS F DUNLAP RA, 1986, HYPERFINE INTERACT, V28, P963 DUNLAP RA, 1986, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V16, P1247 DUNLAP RA, 1987, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V17, L39 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V56, P169 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1987, PHYS REV LETT, V59, P2443 GUYOT P, 1986, J PHYS-PARIS, V47, P389 HAUSER JJ, 1986, PHYS REV B, V33, P3577 HENLEY CL, 1986, PHYS REV B, V34, P797 HENLEY CL, 1987, COMMENTS CONDENSED M, V13, P59 LAWTHER DW, UNPUB MA J, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V57, P1611 MACKAY AL, 1962, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V15, P916 NASU S, 1974, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V4, L24 SCHURER PJ, 1986, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V59, P619 STEPHENS PW, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V56, P1168 SWARTZENDRUBER LJ, 1985, PHYS REV B, V32, P1383 WARREN WW, 1986, PHYS REV B, V34, P4902; NR: 24; TC: 40; J9: PHYS REV B; PG: 4; GA: P9232Source type: Electronic(1
57Fe Mössbauer-effect studies of quadrupole splitting distributions in icosahedral Al-TM-Fe quasicrystals
No full textPT: J; CR: BERGER C, 1988, MATER SCI ENG, V99, P353 CZJZEK G, 1982, PHYS REV B, V25, P4908 DUNLAP RA, 1986, HYPERFINE INTERACT, V28, P963 DUNLAP RA, 1987, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V17, L39 DUNLAP RA, 1988, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V18, P1329 DUNLAP RA, 1988, PHYS REV B, V38, P3649 EDAGAWA K, 1987, J PHYS SOC JPN, V56, P2629 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V56, P169 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1987, PHYS REV LETT, V59, P2443 HUI M, 1988, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V68, P813 HUMEROTHERY W, 1926, J I MET, V35, P295 LAWTHER DW, 1989, CAN J PHYS, V67, P463 LAWTHER DW, 1989, IN PRESS J MATER SCI LECAER G, 1979, J PHYS E SCI INSTRUM, V12, P1083 SCHURER PJ, 1986, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V59, P619 SCHURER PJ, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P507 SRINIVAS V, 1989, IN PRESS PHIL MAG B STADNIK ZM, 1988, PHYS REV B, V38, P10447 STROUD D, 1971, J PHYS F, V1, P113 SWARTZENDRUBER LJ, 1985, PHYS REV B, V32, P1383 TSAI AP, 1989, JPN J APPL PHYS, V27, L5 WERKMAN RD, 1989, HYPERFINE INTERACT, V45, P409 WINDOW B, 1971, J PHYS E, V4, P401; NR: 23; TC: 8; J9: HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS; PG: 6; GA: EB069Source type: Electronic(1
Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature
No full textThis group exhibition was part of the contemporary art programme which I curate at The Hunterian. In addition to films, paintings and objects by Derek Jarman himself, the show featured newly commissioned artworks by Andrew Black, Luke Fowler, Jade de Montserrat and Matthew Arthur Williams, and other contemporary works by Thomas J Walker and Sarah Wood. The exhibition focused in particular on the period covered by Jarman's journals of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and considered the contemporary resonance of moments such as his 1989 installation in Glasgow's Third Eye Centre, which combined avant-garde aesthetics with queer activism in response to the AIDS crisis. An accompanying public programme included a performance of 'Blue Now' at Tramway, four film screenings at Glasgow Film Theatre, a 'Creative Conversations' event with author / dramatist Neil Bartlett and a concert performance by Jarman collaborator Simon Fisher Turner
Voices of inheritance : aspects of British film and television in the 1980s and 1990s
No full textDuring the 1990s the notion of the heritage film has become a taken for granted
category of British cinema. Rather than dispute the merits of particular films that lie
within this genre I question the construction of the relation between the idea of
heritage and contemporary British film and television. Using the critical literature
established by the contending cultural histories that address the rise of heritage in
British culture, I highlight other, frequently personal and national engagements with
inherited pasts. The concentration upon inheritance lends a greater emphasis to
what is passed on from the past and endures in the present.
The modes of articulating these inherited pasts are formally distinctive and
constructed out of the vocabulary of documentary and fiction. The corpus of texts
begins with the apparently radical avant garde film-making of Derek Jannan and
moves through the work of the Black Audio Film Collective to the apparently
conservative television documentaries of Alan Bennett. These key voices are then
situated in relation to the hegemonic definition of heritage and current debates
concerning British film and television. The persisting opposition which defined
British cinema during the 1980s posits an unofficial cinema characterized by dissent
and urban decay against an official cinema represented by the heritage film. My
corpus of texts challenges this opposition. The different engagements with inherited
pasts take place from different speaking positions and represent a diminishing
publicly funded tradition of film and television production. The range of positions
from margins to centre reveal that there was a contestation of the cultural sources
which are aggregated into the construction of heritage during the 1980s and 1990s
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