71 research outputs found
Political offence
No full textWe were always told that if we didn’t have anything nice to say, we shouldn’t say anything at all. But should politeness come before constructive criticism?In the Australian political domain it’s frequently the case that he or she who insults first, wins. Claiming to be offended turns this on its head; Richard King is the author about offence, strangely enough called “On Offence: The Politics of Indignation” and he was with Rewi Lyall in the studio to tell us about how it’s poisoning public debate. 
Scott Lyall : OK!lahoma
No full textAdler’s experiential description of the installation focuses on the aesthetics, ethics and politics of Lyall’s espousal of symbolic “inefficiency.” The author argues that Lyall’s use of reference material maps its variable connections and provides new parameters for the sculptural object, thereby fleshing out the transparency of media culture. Lyall describes the origin of the installation, a research project on the life of Lynn Riggs, author of the story upon which the musical “Oklahoma!” was based. List of works. Bio-bibliography 2 p. 10 bibl. ref
The farms of 2050
No full textThe world’s population is on the rise. It’s expected that we will have to feed and clothe 50% more people by 2050 without destroying the planet in the process (what, that can’t be right!) The UWA Institute of Agriculture is thinking ahead, aiming to build and manage the best-practice farm for the 2050 world, right now. And to tell us about the cutting edge technology and practices and a field day where you can see the future for yourself is Winthrop Professor Graeme Martin, he’s the chair of UWA’s future farm 2050 and the deputy director of UWA institute of Agriculture
Many-sided sympathy and the science of religion in George Eliot, Vernon Lee, and Edna Lyall
No full textDiscourse on sympathy in mid-to-late nineteenth-century Britain took place in many intellectual contexts, including philosophy, aesthetics, evolutionary science, and physiological psychology. Concomitantly, the science of religion was a rising enterprise that largely transferred the study of religion from theologians to philologists, cultural evolutionists, and anthropologists as it sought to produce a comparative, systematic account of the growth and nature of religious belief. This thesis contends that these ostensibly disparate aspects of the intellectual climate overlapped in the literary marketplace as women writers combined the popular and specialized researches of each, both in answer to public anxieties these discourses fostered and in an effort to wield their fiction to ethical, social, and political purpose. It considers the fiction of three women with very various backgrounds, intellectual pursuits, and writing styles â that of George Eliot (1819â1880), Vernon Lee (1856â1935), and Edna Lyall (1857â1903) â and sets their work side by side to discern a common thread running through their oeuvres: a pattern of fictional âmany-sidedâ male sympathetic figures arranged to balance broad tolerance with specific function and achieve a form of modern spirituality for the benefit of the reader and society at large. Translated from the German Vielseitigkeit in the 1830s, the term âmanysidednessâ initially entered the lexicon to describe the multi-faceted mind of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749â1832), whose influence sat at the heart of much of the science of religion initiative. By mid-century it became a conduit for thinking about sympathy via its close association with positions of tolerance, impartiality, and acculturation. Intentionalist in nature and experimenting with âsurface readingâ as methodology, this research has resulted in a fruitful exploration of sympathy both as a form of âdoublingâ and as a continual intellectual and emotional unfolding akin to the interpretation of manysidedness as a model of self-cultivation. Each author is examined in light of her affinity with a male thinker: Eliot is paired with the philologist and scholar of comparative religion, Friedrich Max Müller (1823â1900); Lee is viewed in relation to the aestheticism of her friend Walter Pater (1839â1894); Lyall is explored through her compassionate response to the suffering of the freethinker Charles Bradlaugh (1833â1891).</p
The neo-Indians: a religion for the third millennium
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Translation of Les néo-Indiens: Une religion du IIIe millénaire (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2006) by Lucy Lyall Grant.1. The birth of the international neo-Indian movement -- 2. Ritual awakenings -- 3. Neo-Indian invention -- 4. Mexico's and Peru's diverging forms of neo-Indianity -- 5. Neo-Indians and the New Age -- 6. Back to the community -- Epilogue
Paul Larsen
No full textPaul B. Larsen. The author taught air and space law for more than 40 years respectively at Southern Methodist University and at Georgetown University. He is co-author of Lyall and Larsen, Space Law a Treatise (2ne edition Routledge 2017) and of Larsen, Sweeney and Gillick, Aviation Law. Cases and Related Sources (second edition, Martinus Nijhof, 2012)https://commons.erau.edu/stm-images/1095/thumbnail.jp
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
No full textLewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. This International Companion provides a thorough overview of Gibbon’s writing. Examining his works within the social, political, and literary developments of his time, this volume demonstrates Gibbon’s continuing relevance both in Scotland and internationally
Nan Shepherd: New Critical Essays
No full textNan Shepherd is now one of the most recognised Scottish writers in Scotland and beyond. This popularity has come about largely due to renewed interest in her lyrical meditation on nature and belonging, The Living Mountain, interest that has grown exponentially over the past fifteen years. Yet it is perhaps the case that Shepherd’s new-found fame is now limiting opportunities for broader engagement with her writing. The author also of three novels, poetry in English and Scots, short stories, criticism and essays, Shepherd’s immediate contexts are certainly to do with the Scottish literary renaissance of the early twentieth century, but her work can now be read within the various frameworks of hillwalking, women’s writing, alternative spiritualities, and global ecological concerns and more. This book of essays explores the full range of Shepherd’s oeuvre, interests, and contexts from the perspective of the latest critical and conceptual thinking. It is the first edited volume dedicated to her work
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