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Ezra Pound and the rhetoric of science, 1901-1922
No full textThis thesis identifies science as Ezra Pound’s first extended extra-poetic interest.
This reference to science in Pound’s poetic theory and poetry is portrayed as rhetoric, with
its emphasis on the linguistic signifier or word rather than the actual concepts and data of
science. The material covers over two decades between 1901, when Pound entered
university, and 1922, after he left London. Beginning with Pound’s exposure to philology,
the thesis establishes a correlation between his educational background and his use of
scientific rhetoric in his prose. As he attempted to establish a professional status for the
poet, he used metaphors linking literature to the natural sciences and comparisons between
the poet and the scientist. Additionally, Pound attempted to organize poetic movements that
resembled the professional scientific organizations that were beginning to form in America.
In his writings promoting these movements, Pound developed a hygienic theory of poetry—
itself an extensive rhetorical project—which produced a clean, bare poem and further linked
Pound’s poetic output with the sciences. Beyond his rhetorical use of science, Pound
attempted to study the sciences and even adopted a doctor persona for his friends with
illnesses—both diagnosing and prescribing cures. When Pound was planning to leave
London, he also considered entering medical school—a biographical fact to which Pound
scholarship has paid little attention. His decision not to formally study the sciences
reinforced his identity as a poet and his representations of scientific knowledge as mere
rhetoric. This interest in the sciences, and medicine in particular, influenced Pound’s poetry
and prose because of their frequent references and their alignment with literature.
Additionally, this early use of rhetoric and an exploration into extra-poetic materials
prepares Pound for his later, better-known and often infamous explorations of economics
and social theory
Urbs/passion/politics: Venice in selected works of Ruskin and Pound
No full textPhDThis thesis argues that the representations of Venice found in the works of John Ruskin and
Ezra Pound can only fully be understood in the light of historico-political contexts such as the
Austrian occupation of Venice, the rise of revolutionary Nationalism and Fascist uses of
Venetian history. In contrast to critical approaches that concentrate on the construction of
Venice as aestheticised fantasy, this project draws on a range of archival materials to place
these two modern literary visions of Venice within their respective historical ‘moments’.
The first chapter examines a range of cultural representations of Venice in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Using examples from Ernest Hemingway, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and
Thomas Mann, it argues against the prevailing myth of the ‘Dream’ of Venice and proposes
that literary and other representations of the city should be understood in relation to specific
historical events and political anxieties.
The second chapter focuses on Ruskin and demonstrates how his text The Stones of
Venice can be seen as a counter to the nineteenth-century myth of the ‘dark legend’ of Venice
as propagated by historians like Pierre Daru. The third chapter then demonstrates how
Ruskin’s Venetian works can be situated within a spectrum of European Nationalist concerns,
particularly examining how the 1848 Venice revolution and its aftermath creates an
atmosphere of political tension in The Stones of Venice.
The following two chapters on Ezra Pound place Pound’s Venetian engagement
against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Italian Nationalism. Beginning by discussing
the cultural uses of Venetian history under the Fascist regime, these chapters show how
Pound’s engagement with the idea of a ‘renewed’ Venice proposed by Nationalist writers
such as D’Annunzio, along with Pound’s own Fascist commitment, provide contexts for his
visions of Venice in the Cantos. Thus the representations of the city in both writers are seen to
be crucially connected to the political concerns of Nationalism and the Nationalistic use of
Venetian history
Modernist Poetics and New Age Political Philosophy: A. R. Orage, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
No full textPhDThis dissertation argues that the political, philosophical, and aesthetic theories
developed in The New Age, edited by A. R. Orage, provided a crucial foundation for
modernist poetry. By situating the modernist aesthetics of Ezra Pound, Wyndham
Lewis, and T. S. Eliot in tenris of the complex scene of 19 10s and early 1920s
London radicalism, this study develops historically local theoretical terms to read
modernist poetry and also suggests the continued relevance of modernist political
questions when viewed frorri this perspective. The first chapter analyzes Orage's
early political and theosophical writings, demonstrating how these sources informed
the journal's interconnected concerns with print culture, radical politics and
literature. The second chapter analyzes Ezra Pound's entr6e into the NeIv Age scene
in late 1911, situating the criticism and poetry of I Gather the Limbs of Osiris as an
important ideological contribution to The New Age's Guild Socialism movement.
The third chapter argues that Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound's Vorticist movement
was organized as a radical mode of production along New Age lines and that
Vorticism's aesthetic products are politically positioned against capitalist production.
The fourth and fifth chapters trace The New Age's engagement with orthodox
economic theory and Pound and Eliot's interest in radical economics, particularly as
they connected to epistemology, money and representation, value, corporate
organization, consumption and scarcity. In the final chapter, this analysis of Social
Credit is used to arguet.h at the developmento f The Cawos and The WasteL aiid are
fundamentally connected to the New Age's radical economic epistemology. As a
whole, this dissertationa rguest hat the idiosyncratic political theory of T11eN ew Age
shaped the production and consumption of crucial modernist poetic strategies
Modernism, antisemitism and Jewish identity in the writing and publishing of John Rodker
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship between the English Jewish writer and publisher John Rodker and the modernism of the Pound circle. Previous considerations of the antisemitism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot have either
ignored or cited in their defence their Jewish friends and acquaintances. This thesis shows that the modernist interest in the figure of `the Jew' took effect not only in
their poetry and social commentary but also in the social grouping which they formed in order to produce and circulate this writing. Rodker was both a necessary
figure to Pound's theory and practice of modernism, but one who had to be kept on the margins. This resulted in his being able to articulate certain aspects of his
experience as an assimilated Jew-loss, disconnection, feeling out of place place-while excluding any other possible aspects, including naming himself as Jewish.
Chapter 1 shows that Pound and Eliot's antisemitic statements and poetry functioned as part of the formation of the `men of 1914', and as a means of shocking their audience through a poetry of ugliness. Chapter 2 considers a printing error in Rodker's Ovid Press edition of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and reads it as a sign of Pound's failure to carry out his social and poetic project, a failure which he blamed on Jews, but, because this failure was inevitable, part of the task for carrying the project out was assigned to Jews. Chapter 3 reads Rodker's volume
of poetry Hymns (1920), and traces how his marginal position within modernism resulted in a poetry which did not directly address Jewish issues, but was affected
by his Jewish social position. Chapter 4 considers Rodker and two other Jewish writers, Carl Rakosi and Louis Zukofsky, who Pound published in The Exile (1927-
28), showing that Pound's interest in these writers was combined with an unease with them that played out in editorial decisions and means of framing their work.
Chapter 5 examines Rodker's Memoirs of Other Fronts (1932). His selfdescriptions of himself as a foreigner are shown to be still influenced by the Pound circle's ideas of Jews, but also reworked through his increasing interest in
psychoanalysis
Kent Roach. The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism
No full textCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 477 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-18505-9; US $ 32.99 / £ 57.00 Reviewed by David C. Hofmann</p
An ex vivo model for chondrogenesis and osteogenesis
No full textLoss of bone and cartilage are major healthcare issues. At present, there is a paucity of therapies for effectively repairing these tissues sustainably in the long term. A tissue engineering approach using advanced functional scaffolds may provide a clinically acceptable alternative. In this study, an innovative mineralized alginate/chitosan scaffold was used to provide tailored microenvironments for driving chondrogenesis and osteogenesis from single and mixed populations of human articular chondrocytes and human bone marrow stromal cells. Polysaccharide capsules were prepared with combinations of these cell types with the addition of type I or type II collagen to augment cell-matrix interactions and promote the formation of phenotypically distinct tissues and placed in a rotating (Synthecon) bioreactor or held in static 2D culture conditions for up to 28 days. Significant cell-generated matrix synthesis was observed in human bone marrow bioreactor samples containing type I collagen after 21-28 days, with increased cell proliferation, cell activity and osteocalcin synthesis. The cell-generated matrix was immuno-positive for types I and II collagen, bone sialoprotein and type X collagen, a marker of chondrogenic hypertrophy, demonstrating the formation of a mature chondrogenic phenotype with areas of new osteoid tissue formation. We present a unique approach using alginate/collagen capsules encapsulated in chitosan to promote chondrogenic and osteogenic differentiation and extracellular matrix formation and the potential for tissue-specific differentiation. This has significant implications for skeletal regeneration and application
Panel C: Author-Meets-Readers Session
No full textAuthor David Webber discusses his book The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor\u27s Last Best Weapon published on Harvard University Press
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Analysis of a File System Using the Verifying C Compiler
No full textTitle: Analysis of a File System Using the Verifying C Compiler Author: Bc. David Škorvaga Department: Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems Supervisor: RNDr. Jan Kofroň, Ph.D. Abstract: Formal verification is a way to improve reliability of software systems. One approach of formal verification is focused on proving correctness of annotat- ed source code of an established programming language. Verifying C Compiler (VCC) is a verifier for concurrent C that accepts an annotated code in C language and automatically verifies its correctness with respect to the given annotation. There have been successful attempts to verify some critical systems, including the operating system kernel. Another critical part of operating system is its file system. In the thesis, we choose FatFs file system, a simple device-independent implementation of the FAT file system. We specify a part of it using the VCC annotation and successfully verify its correctness. Keywords: Formal Verification, File System, VC
Liturgy, imagination and poetic language : a study of David Jones's The Anathemata.
No full textThe thesis seeks to attempt an examination of David Jones's long poem The Anathemata primarily from a theologically informed standpoint. It sets out to understand, from the literary-critical point of view, the forces and influences that have come together in order to make the poem. At the same time, it is aware of and tries to explore the theological, liturgical and mythological material which provides Jones with both the background to and the content of his poem. It is argued that the form of poem, its linguistic content and the experience of reading it, are best understood in terms of pilgrimage and that such a metaphor is best suited to encompass both its huge scale and its attention to detail.
From an overall examination of the available secondary literature, the thesis proceeds examine something of the experience of reading the poem, whether or not the poem can be conveniently understood as an epic and what Jones himself thought he was doing, at the same time his own theoretical stance is illuminated by reference to other contemporary thinkers.
An extensive examination of the terms 'myth' and 'anamnesis' and the backgrounds and links between the two both in general and within the context of the poem precede chapters which explore the language of the poem both in terms of stylistic features and also in terms of the literary sources on which Jones draws and which make up the intertexual space within which the poem exists. These matters are further examined in a discussion of the most significant themes with which the poet works in the course of The Anathemata. Finally, some account is given of the formal shape of the poem before a 'commentary' or 'paraphrase' of the poem draws out, in context, the significant features
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