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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
No full textBibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas
Gender and the politics of the gaze in Bronte's Wuthering Heights
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2009.O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar uma análise de como a imagem de Catherine é moldada pelo olhar masculino, como ela enfrenta os três tipos de olhar - o olhar dos personagens, o olhar do leitor, e o olhar do autor - e finalmente, se o olhar masculino é interrompido. O parâmetro teórico desta análise, o conceito do olhar masculino, é teorizado por Laura Mulvey no artigo "Prazer Visual e Cinema Narrativo" (1975) o qual critica a relação entre o olhar masculino e a imagem feminina do prazer visual moldado pela sociedade patriarcal. Através da crítica de Mulvey do prazer visual generizado em filmes, que pertence ao contexto do cinema clássico de Hollywood, articulo sua teoria em relação ao romance Wuthering Heights de Emily Brontë para examinar a dinâmica do olhar masculino em relação à personagem feminina Catherine. Este estudo teve também por objetivo analisar o quanto o paradigma teórico de Mulvey produzido para cinema poderia ser aplicado especificamente em um texto literário escrito no século XIX.The objective of this thesis is to present an analysis of whether Catherine's image has been shaped by the male gaze, how she contends with the three looks of the male gaze - the look of the characters, the look of the reader, and the look of the author - and finally, how the male gaze is broken. The theoretical parameter of this analysis, the concept of the male gaze, is theorized by Laura Mulvey in the article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) which critiques the relation between the male gaze and the female image within the patriarchal molding of visual pleasure. Borrowing Mulvey's critique of the gendering of visual pleasure in films, which pertains to the context of classical Hollywood cinema, I have articulated her theory in relation to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, to examine the dynamics of the male gaze regarding the female character, Catherine. This study also aimed at examing the extent to which Mulvey's theoretical paradigm produced for cinema could be articulated specifically in relation to a literary text written in the nineteenth century
Enigmas
No full textArising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Kick, bollocks and scramble: an examination of power and creative decision making in the production process during the golden era of British music videos 1995-2001
No full textIn the golden era of British music video production 1995 – 2001 the responsibilities of a feature film producer were shared by the producer, executive producer, director and video commissioner. The author examines the roles of each, and argues that Pardo’s framework (2010 for evaluating the creative contribution of producers obscures the direct budgetary power of producers in this particular sector. She argues that more empirical research should be conducted on the role of the producer in sectors of the British screen industry other than feature films and television
Martha Washington goes shopping: mass culture's gendering of history, 1910-1950
No full textThis dissertation expands the definition of women’s social activism to include the innovative work of activists, intellectuals, and corporations creating popular historical narratives. As twentieth century American women assumed new social, political, and economic roles, popular media sentimentalized historical figures like Martha Washington as models for present-day domesticity, constructing colonial and antebellum womanhood as historical precedents for contemporary gendered and racialized divisions of labor. Magazines, advertisements, radio programs, films, and product packaging idealized the middle-class female consumer’s domestic role as a timeless contribution to American democracy, encouraging contemporary women to continue privileging familial over political roles.
At the same time, women advertisers, magazine editors, department store executives, radio writers, and popular historians responded, constructing more dynamic narratives of progress in women’s status, both in their own work and in their collective efforts on behalf of women’s professional rights. Recent scholarship identifies amateur writing and historical preservation as alternative careers forged by twentieth century women excluded from the academic profession. This dissertation reveals that popular media also narrated the history of women as key players in political and economic change. In the late 1930s, the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, a prominent professional group, produced a series of local radio programs dramatizing the lives of transgressive female historical figures. Simultaneously, historian Mary Ritter Beard and journalist Eva vom Baur Hansl collaborated with the U. S. Office of Education to produce national radio programs dramatizing women’s roles as “co-makers” of history and promoting Beard’s development of the World Center for Women’s Archives.
These constructions of the past made claims for women’s professional capabilities and historical significance, but they also drew on the dominant culture’s pre-existing cultural scripts for gender, racial, and national differences. Celebrations of business women’s histories often assumed white middle-class cultural superiority. As second wave feminists in the 1960s and 1970s strove to reclaim women’s history as a route to feminist consciousness, reception of their efforts was shaped by these complex constructions of women’s history that had become central to mass media. This dissertation thus reveals the integral role of popular culture in defining “women’s history” for public audiences.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-262)by Emily M. Westkaempe
impersonality in nature poetry by emily dickinson and maja vidmar
No full textDiplomsko delo se ukvarja z raziskovanjem impersonalnega načina izrekanja v izbrani poeziji narave Emily Dickinson in Maje Vidmar, pri čemer impersonalnost definira kot izstop iz pesniške lege izpovedovanja avtorjevih lastnih čustev. Izhaja iz določitve načinov impersonalnosti, ki jih v svojih pesmih o naravi uporabita avtorici (pesem podoba, pesem vložnica in pesem alegorija), te pa povezuje z naratološko analizo lirike, ki poleg natančne sistematizacije sestavnih delov pesemske pripovedi s svojo osnovno koncepcijo ločevanja med dimenzijama zaporednosti in posredovanja sploh omogoča povezavo med načinom izrekanja in pesemsko tematizacijo odnosa do narave.The present thesis explores impersonality in selected nature poetry by Emily Dickinson and Maja Vidmar, defining impersonality as an exit from the poetic attitude of expressing the author\u27s own emotions. It is based on the determination of depersonalization approaches that are used by the aforementioned authors in their poems about nature (object poem, self-insertion poem and allegorical poem). In the following, these approaches are connected to the narratological analysis of lyric poetry, which, in addition to the precise systematization of the components of the lyrical narrative, with its basic concept of separating the dimensions of sequentiality and mediacy, enables a connection between the manner of expression and the lyric thematization of the attitude towards nature
A case study of consecutive reorganizations of the science laboratories at the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center:
No full textThe research reported here seeks to explore cyclical reorganizations of government-owned and -operated scientific laboratories at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and determine the effects on civil service bench scientists. The work takes the form of a case study following the guidelines imposed by Yin. It first delineates the relationship of science and power; it then proceeds to identify the process and context of the specific circumstances. The process is identified as organizational change and the context as the GSFC seen variously as one or many laboratories. The objective is to determine how a series of reorganizations affect the research objectives of bench scientists that exist at the lowest line-level of the organizational hierarchy. Following a model described by Stake the research questions are bifurcated into those dealing with organizations grounded in the field of Public Administration and those relating to GSFC itself. The hypotheses are similarly bifurcated.Three lenses are utilized in assessing the reorganizations of GSFC, attempting to emulate the model brought to prominence by Allison and Zelikow. The three organizational changes occurred consecutively in 1984, 1990 and 2005. They are examined through the triangulation of a functional/structural lens, a theoretical lens and finally and most substantively a human agency lens. The most recent organizational change occurring in 2005 and called a Transformation, as defined by French et al., is at the core of the study. It employs in-depth interviews that are analyzed through a methodology developed by Kvale. The reason for employing interviews to study the 2005 Transformation is compelling since it follows a business model in which internal and individual introspection adjust to outside conditions. A series of 35 interviews were conducted borrowing freely from the instrument and protocol utilized by earlier studies of Bozeman and Rainey in their examination of laboratories of the Department of Energy (DOE). The issue here is whether government reorganizations can be viewed as instruments of control and whether independent research by government scientists is most profitably conducted in a loosely coupled and complex organization as described by Perrow. In this context, Price’s curriculum model and his hierarchical/bureaucratic model were examined. The interview responses lead to the general conclusion that Goddard laboratories are embedded in a hybrid organization and might exist most comfortably within a combination of both the bureaucratic and curriculum paradigms. Implications for further study include how organizational changes of research laboratories might be more carefully executed in the future and whether or not it is necessary for Field Center laboratories to completely align with NASA Headquarters for funding purposes. Also touched on in this section is the role of the public administrator as a conduit for the needs of both the bureaucracy and the bench scientist.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-247)by Emily M. Michau
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction of a Pleistocene catena using paleopedology and geochemistry of lake margin paleo-Vertisols, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
No full textOlduvai Gorge, Tanzania (3°S) contains a rich record of Pleistocene paleoclimates and paleoenvironments, as well as an abundance of paleontological and archaeological data. The 2.2 Ma of volcaniclastic infill can be divided into time-slices using dated tuffs. Until ~1.75 Ma the sediments were deposited in a semi-arid, closed rift basin that contained a shallow saline-alkaline lake that fluctuated periodically with climate, depositing sediment on the lake margin. Four trenches that range in thickness from 2 to 2.5 m in a ~1 km transect of the lake margin flat were described and sampled. This ~20 ka time-slice between Ng’eju Tuff and Tuff IF (~1.785 Ma) contains both stacked and cumulative paleosols that are interpreted as a heterogeneous paleocatena. Closer to the lake, these paleosols are thinner, vertically stacked, and separated by thin tuffs or tufa. Further from the lake margin, there is additional volcaniclastic input, and the paleosols are thicker and cumulative. Macroscale and micromorphological features identify these clay-rich paleosols as paleo-Vertisols. Abundant pedogenic slickensides and a variety of ped shapes were observed in the field as well as micro-ped structures and stress cutans in thin section. Although weakly developed, these paleo-Vertisols also have distinct horizons defined by soil color changes, differing ped shapes, and bulk geochemistry. Eighty samples from the paleosols and parent materials were analyzed for bulk geochemistry of major, rare, and trace elements. Geochemical proxies reveal a climosequence not definitively identifiable in the field or in the micromorphology. Molecular weathering ratios show increased weathering, and mass-balance calculations indicate greater translocations (positive and negative) through time. It is likely that lower soil moisture due to a drier climate created better-drained conditions allowing for increased pedogenesis. Mg oxides and zeolites precipitating in rhizoliths are further evidence for changing redox conditions and water chemistry, likely due to increased aridity. The drying trend in this climosequence is consistent with faunal, stable isotope, and lithostratigraphic records within Olduvai Gorge and with marine dust records from northern Africa. The paleocatena identified within this time-slice also provides additional paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic data, coinciding with the first hominin migrations out of Africa at ~1.8 Ma.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Emily Jane Beverl
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
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