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Letter from B. F. Gavin (for Carl Hayden) to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Mrs. B. F. Gavin to Stephen Mather regarding the sale of Bass properties to the Santa Fe Railroad Company
Character in later nineteenth-century American naturalism
No full textThis study considers American literary naturalism written at the close of the nineteenth century, focusing on Stephen Crane's Maggie and The Red Badge of Courage, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and Frank Norris' McTeague. I intend to show that intellectual postulates and physical realities emerging during the latter nineteenth century in America encouraged the appearance of literary naturalism. Evolutionary thought and industrialization contributed conspicuously to the strain of pessimism that naturalism propounds. I contend that naturalism is a combination of realism and romance. It utilizes a realistic presentation, but posits the argument of romance fiction. Character, I propose, is crucial to the naturalistic argument. Crane, Dreiser, and Norris refuse to engage a language that lends character willed thought or action. Symbolism, imagery, the use of a passive voice, and the naming process are employed to compromise the individual's autonomy. The overriding means of diminishing the self, I intend to demonstrate, is achieved through irony. These naturalistic authors' verbal processes soften ingrained perceptions of the world by refusing to signal meaning. In Maggie Crane's ironical art submerges the self beneath the Bowery's codes, while in The Red Badge of Courage it reveals a self that is over-eager to impose meaning. In Sister Carrie Dreiser's patterning of incident shows a self that is directed by a complex of never-understood impulses. In McTeague Norris depicts a self struggling unsuccessfully to escape deterministic and environmental forces
Stephen Leacock: an Early Influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald
No full text Early in March, 1917, Stephen Leacock received a letter from a young American admirer: My Dear Mr. Leacock: As imitation is the sincerest flattery I thought you might be interested in something you inspired. The Nassau Literary Magazine here at Princeton of which I'm an editor got out a "Chaopolitan number," as a burlesque of "America's greatest magazine." The two stories I wrote "Jemina, a story of the Blue Ridge mountains, by John Phlox Jr" and "The Usual Thing" by "Robert W. Shamless [sic]" are of the "Leacock school" of humour - in fact Jemina is rather a steal in places from "Hannah of the Highlands." I'm taking the liberty of sending you a copy - needless to say it increased our circulation & standing in undergraduate eyes. Hope you'll get one smile out of it for every dozen laughs I got from the Snoopopaths. Very appreciatively yours, F. Scott Fitzgerald1 On March 16,1917, Leacock responded: Dear Mr. Fitzgerald Your stories are fine. As Daniel Webster said, or didn't say, to the citizens of Rochester, "Go on." Very Sincerely, Stephen Leacock2 </jats:p
Figure 2 in Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae)
No full textFigure 2. Strict consensus tree of the MP and Bayesian trees, showing suggested generic break up of Egernia.Published as part of Gardner, Michael G., Hugall, Andrew F., Donnellan, Stephen C., Hutchinson, Mark N. & Foster, Ralph, 2008, Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae), pp. 781-794 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154 (4) on page 789, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00422.x, http://zenodo.org/record/544553
No-Dictionary Scrabble Revisited
No full textIn the November 1974 Word Ways, Ralph Beaman constructed a Scrabble game scoring 5609 points, assuming that any combination of letters formed a word. Using the diagram below, Stephen Root devised a game scoring 5874 points. By rearranging Stephen Root\u27s moves, Charles F. Brown of Albuquerque raised the score two more points, to 5876
Recall this Book 25: A Conversation with Stephen McCauley
No full textOn March 20th, John talked to Stephen McCauley, author of such brilliant comic novels as Object of My Affection (also a Jennifer Aniston movie) and most recently My Ex-Life. Steve brings light to dark corners in this the second installment of Books in Dark Times. He sings the praises of Charles Dickens, of Anthony Trollope (Elizabeth, offstage, chuckles delightedly) and the world-escaping delights of both Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and the Mapp and Lucia novels of E. F. Benson. He concludes with sweet words for the sour genius of a trio of late 20th century American pessimists: Joan Didion, Dorothy Baker and Iris Owens
Figure 1. A in Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae)
No full textFigure 1. A, the strict consensus of the six equally most parsimonious trees (each of length 3021 steps), with bootstrap proportions> 50% shown. B, Bayesian tree. Posterior probability values are shown at relevant nodes.Published as part of Gardner, Michael G., Hugall, Andrew F., Donnellan, Stephen C., Hutchinson, Mark N. & Foster, Ralph, 2008, Molecular systematics of social skinks: phylogeny and taxonomy of the Egernia group (Reptilia: Scincidae), pp. 781-794 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154 (4) on page 787, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00422.x, http://zenodo.org/record/544553
Self-consciousness and the image of self in the poetry of Stephen Spender, 1928 to 1934
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, to demonstrate the value and significance of Spender's early poetry in terms of its vision and technique. Through a series of close readings the thesis traces the ways in which Spender's early poetry not only shows itself to be self-conscious but also manipulates images of self. Presenting images of self, Spender achieves a balance between engagement with and distance from the self, and the reader shares in the process of poetic self-awareness. Secondly, to demonstrate the broader value of the poetry. Spender's poetry presents a distinctive exploration of the possibilities of self in relation to the external world. The resolution of Spender’s questioning and selection of both personal and public values, rooted in his contemporary situation and private circumstances, in his poetry takes the form less of historical document than of human record. The period on which I focus, 1928 to 1934, represents Spender’s first, and arguably most significant, poetic phase. The thesis is specifically concerned with four texts: Nine Experiments. Spender's contributions to Oxford Poetry (1929 and 1930), Twenty Poems and Poems (1933 and 1934). Nine Experiments marks the beginning of a particular approach and lyric style which finds its culmination in Poems (1933 and 1934). The earliest poetry is interesting largely insofar as it looks forward to later themes and techniques. In Nine Experiments and Oxford Poetry (1929 and 1930) we see Spender's often successful struggle to achieve effective forms in which to explore issues of self and value. Twenty Poems and Poems (1933 and 1934) concentrate on themes of love and friendship and the pressure on the poet of the contemporary political scene. The poetry does not reconcile the demands of the external, public world with his inner desires and aspirations, but presents a series of fascinatingly unresolved tensions. The thesis explores the way these poems strive for certainty. This striving stems from the tension between Spender's desire to politicize poetry and his tendency to the lyrical, personal statement
Neutrino mass and mixing in the seesaw playground
No full textAbstractWe discuss neutrino mass and mixing in the framework of the classic seesaw mechanism, involving right-handed neutrinos with large Majorana masses, which provides an appealing way to understand the smallness of neutrino masses. However, with many input parameters, the seesaw mechanism is in general not predictive. We focus on natural implementations of the seesaw mechanism, in which large cancellations do not occur, where one of the right-handed neutrinos is dominantly responsible for the atmospheric neutrino mass, while a second right-handed neutrino accounts for the solar neutrino mass, leading to an effective two right-handed neutrino model. We discuss recent attempts to predict lepton mixing and CP violation within such natural frameworks, focusing on the Littlest Seesaw and its distinctive predictions
Transatlantic Romanticism: The English Romantics and American Nineteenth−Century Poetic Tradition
No full textThis thesis explores the Romantic origins of nineteenth-century American poetic tradition; it looks at the relationship between the English Romantics and major nineteenth-century American poets. My research focuses on the Romantic lines of continuity within nineteenth-century American poetry, identifying them as central to the representation of American cultural and literary identities. American poets shaped their art and national identity out of a Romantic interest in their native nature. My study particularly explores the diverse ways in which major American poets, of this time, reacted to, adapted and reformulated Romantic ideals of nature, literary creation, the mission of the poet and the aesthetic category of the sublime. It traces connections and dialogues between American poets and their Romantic predecessors, including Blake, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. This thesis is inspired by the strong and abiding academic interest in Romantic studies, and aims to advance new readings of nineteenth-century American poetry in a transatlantic literary and cultural context. It attempts to cover a wide range of nineteenth-century key poetic works in relation to Romantic visions, ideals and forms. Developing a chronological line of enquiry, my thesis highlights the paradox of writers seeking to establish an original, distinctive American literary canon while still heavily deriving ideas and techniques from other, non-American sources.
An introductory chapter outlines the historical and cultural framework of the Anglo-American literary relationship, focussing on its sensibilities, tensions and affinities. Chapter two considers how Bryant and Longfellow reformulated the Romantic pastoral tradition in their representations of American landscape, which helped toward shaping a peculiar national poetic canon. Through examining Emerson’s poetic achievement in the light of the Romantic tradition, chapter three challenges Emersonian claims of originality and self-reliance. Chapter four addresses Whitman’s Romantic preoccupations and interests alongside his groundbreaking innovations manifested in his attitudes towards nature, human body and urban landscape as well as his experiments with poetic language and form. Chapter five attempts to interpret the seeming idiosyncrasy of Dickinson’s work in the light of the poet’s dialogues with her Romantic precursors. Above all, this study examines how Romanticism worked upon the minds and art of nineteenth-century American poets, aiming to provide refreshing interpretations of nineteenth-century American poetry in the context of the broader transatlantic Romantic tradition
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