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The city and landscapes beyond Harold Pinter's rooms
No full textPinter's dramas have been labelled as 'absurd', 'mysterious', 'enigmatic', 'taciturn'.
There has been a constant tendency to reduce the idea of the 'Pinteresque' to language
when Pinter is preoccupied with the tensions between reality and the world of the
imagination. He has, actually and accurately, used theatre as a 'critical act' to denote
the abstracted realities, and he has applied his language to embody his world-view - his
concerns in the contemporary capitalist world.
Pinter has journeyed from the room to the outside world, from the private to the public
social space, and has identified an inescapable sense of pessimism and alienation, and
investigated an alarming world of atrocities. There are cities and landscapes beyond
Pinter's rooms, cities peopled by wandering, displaced figures surveying the self-estranged city that is modern consciousness, and landscapes where his people retreat
into the private realms of memory and fantasy.
This thesis explores the virtual geographies beyond Pinter's rooms through the
vocabulary of some modernist theoreticians and social scientists, as there are significant
parallels between their analytical observations and the poetic perceptions of Pinter, a
practising artist, and the phantom images of his characters.
Pinter's plays and film adaptations tend to portray the city as a colonial present, and the
country as a mythological past. The 1970s' plays portray a community of isolation,
urban decay, dispossession and suffering, through the figure of the 'flâneur' - his
characters' subjective experiences, memories and fantasies in the metropolis. In these
memory plays, men and women have different mental landscapes and desires. To some
extent the city is both a male-constructed world and an image of the twentieth century;
in both senses it is anti-human and in decline.
In his 1980s mature plays, Pinter's lyrical interiors and serene landscapes are colonised
by the metropolis. Here Pinter investigates a universally oppressive space filled with
misery and social dislocation. The city destroys humanity in a decaying modem world.
These plays identify the global city as the locus of existential alienation and as the
centre of political power and oppression - a world of brute masculine power.
The last two plays, in this study explore other wastelands of human isolation and
suffering, and criticise the British suspicion of the 'intelligentsia'. Using scenes that are
ingrained in the contemporary audience's physical memory, Pinter makes the
distinction between being an active participant and being a witness, a 'spectator' in this
alarming world. And thus, he criticises the tradition of mockery of the artistic and the
intellectually curious in Britain, and urges a need for a 'politically curious', at politically questioning theatre-going society
Gerald Gorman
No full textPhorograph - Gerald Gorman in traditional Scottish clothing, (Edinburgh, Scotland). A note with the picture reads: "Hoot Mon", The Canadian Kid. Sincerely Yours, Gerald Gorma
Gerald Nelson discusses article "Do roads cause deforestation?"
No full textIFPRI Senior Researcher, Gerald Nelson, discusses the article, "Do roads cause deforestation." On July 25, 2011, Nelson and co-author, Daniel Hellerstein, were honored by the AAEA with the Publication of Enduring Quality Award for this innovative 1997 publication on techniques for turning satellite imagery into economic data
Portrait of President Gerald Ford.
No full textHandwritten Inscription: \u27To Felton M. Johnston - best always, Gerald Ford\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1097/thumbnail.jp
Fatigue Analysis and Defect Size Evaluation of Filled NBR including Temperature Influence
No full textThe fatigue behavior of a filled non-crystallizing elastomer was investigated on axisymmetric dumbbell specimens. By plotting relevant Wöhler curves, a power law behavior was found. In addition, temperature increases due to heat build-up were monitored. In order to distinguish between initiation and crack growth regimes, hysteresis curves, secant and dynamic moduli, dissipated and stored energies, and normalized minimum and maximum forces were analyzed. Even though indications related to material damaging were observed, a clear trend to recognize the initiation was not evident. Further details were revealed by considering a fracture mechanics. The analysis of the fracture surfaces evidenced the presence of three regions, associated to initiation, fatigue striation, and catastrophic failure. Additional fatigue tests were performed with samples in which a radial notch was introduced. This resulted in a reduction in lifetime by four orders of magnitude; nevertheless, the fracture surfaces revealed similar failure mechanisms. A fracture mechanics approach, whichconsidered the effect of temperature, was adopted to calculate the critical defect size for fatigue,which was found to be approximately 9 m. This value was then compared with the particle size distribution obtained through X-ray microcomputed tomography (-CT) of undamaged samples and it was found that the majority of the initial defects were indeed smaller than the calculated one. Finally, the evaluation of J-integral for both unnotched and notched dumbbells enabled the assessment of a geometry-independent correlation with fatigue life
Gerald Costanzo
No full textGerald Costanzo visited The College at Brockport in June 1984. He is a poet and publisher, and has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1970.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
J-testing of polymers via the load separation criterion based ESIS TC4 procedure: Effect of the specimen size
No full textThe Technical Committee 4, "Polymers, Polymer Composites and Adhesives", of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS TC4) developed a draft protocol based on the load separation criterion to determine two fracture parameters (an initiation parameter, J(I,lim) and a crack growth parameter, m(s)) without the need to measure the crack growth (Delta a). This is especially beneficial, since the measurement of Delta a is prone to errors. The developed testing scheme displays promising results, as shown in a round-robin testing exercise. To further push this testing scheme, it is necessary to verify the specimen size scaling possibility. Hence, in this work, single edge notched in bending (SE(B)) specimens with different sizes, but geometrically similar, were manufactured. ESIS TC4 testing scheme was successfully applied to specimens with the different sizes, and data of J(I,lim) and m(s) were obtained. The observed effect of the specimen size on the aforementioned fracture parameters is presented and discussed
Reverend Gerald Derstine
No full textEvangelist Reverend Gerald Derstine outside his church, Christian Retreat, on Upper Manatee River Road. He is the author of "Following the Fire" and "Fire over Israel"
Lu People
No full textArticle describing the Lu people living along the Mekong River.Section from the Ethnic groups of mainland Southeast Asia /Frank M LeBar; Gerald Cannon
Hickey; John K Musgrave. New Haven : Human Relations Area Files
Press, 1964, 206-213
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