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The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
No full textPhDThe thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological conception of the 'play' of art, an interactive existence overlooked by Kant. Through the ‘play’ of Stevens’ poems the reading audience are implicated in their reduction to being. The origin of this conception leads Gadamer back to Parmenides who Stevens had read. I argue that Stevens’ poetry ‘plays’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of how the language and form of Stevens’ poems attempt to reduce mind and world to concepts that parallel Parmenides’ poetic sense of being, and Heraclitus’ notion of becoming, the thesis uncovers the ground in which Stevens attempts a reconnection with the ‘thing-in-itself’. It is through the experience of reconnecting to an ontological centre, which his poetry presents as the human project, that Stevens’ poetry also presents itself as a means of replacing religion.From here we turn to Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida for an exposition of how such a reduction reduces the ‘Other’ to ‘otherness’ and their worry that this reduction legitimates violence within the thought of Martin Heidegger and Parmenides. From this I make a case for how such reductions are connected to what I refer to as 'the play of violence' in Stevens' poetry, and to refer this violence back to the mythology Stevens' poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics’
Nelson Nathan Stevens family, Seattle, ca. 1918
No full textNelson Nathan Stevens established the Webster & Stevens photography firm with his partner Ira J. Webster after coming to Seattle in 1900. The firm grew and prospered, becoming the primary photographers for The Seattle Times in 1918. At the time this family portrait was taken, Webster & Stevens also employed Nelson's brother, Howard D. Stevens, shown on the right, and his father, back left, standing next to his wife Ida on far left. Nelson stands on the left next to his wife Edith May. Their children are Richard, standing in back row, and Kay, Pauline and Bill seated on railing.Handwritten on sleeve: Stevens family.1 glass negative; b&w; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in
31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies of cardiac energetics and function in the perfused rat heart
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1988.Includes bibliographical references.by Richard Glenn Stevens Spencer.Ph.D
Inescapable choice: Wallace Stevens's new Romanticism and English romantic poetry
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to investigate how Stevens creates a new Romanticism. It argues that Stevens demonstrates a double view of Romanticism as having positive and negative aspects and it relates discussion of this double view to the development of his poetry and theories of poetry. Stevens shares with the Romantics the belief that through the power of imagination the problem of dualism - especially the split between art and existential reality - can be solved. Prom Stevens's perspective, thinking about what should be respected and what should be corrected in Romanticism provides grounds for the creation of his own new Romanticism. In chapters one and two, by examining the conflict between imagination and reality in the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, I explore the intertextual relations between Stevens and the Romantics from a perspective informed by the implications of Stevens's work and thought. In chapters three and four, focusing on Stevens's treatment of the relation between imagination and reality, I examine the nuanced differences between his work and that of the Romantics. Chapter five provides a prologue to 'Notes toward a Supreme Fiction', the culmination of Stevens's concern with imagination and reality. In the final chapter I examine how Stevens's new Romanticism, especially its emphasis on the imagination's activity, is concretised in 'Notes toward a Supreme Fiction'. I also explore how the later development of his sense of reality affects his poetic creativity. By examining the influence of the Romantics on Stevens and his response to them, the nature of his poetry can be more accurately understood. Throughout the thesis, I engage, as appropriate, with the work of many critics who have written on Stevens. It is my hope that my own approach gives a folly considered and detailed account of a topic often addressed more briefly by other commentators
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
From Genesis to the Ring: Richard Wagner and D. H. Lawrence's Rainbow
No full textThis article explores connections between D. H. Lawrence’s 1915 novel The Rainbow and Richard Wagner’s music drama The Ring of the Nibelung
William Stevens (1732-1807): Lay activism in late Eighteenth-Century Anglican high churchmanship
No full textSet within the context of a neglected history of lay involvement in High Churchmanship, this thesis argues that William Stevens (1732-1807)—a High Church layman with a successful commercial career—brought to the Church of England not only his piety and theological learning, but his wealth and business acumen. Combined with extensive social links to some of that Church’s most distinguished High Church figures, Stevens exhibited throughout his life an influential example of High Church ‘lay activism’ that was central to the achievements and effectiveness of High Churchmanship during the latter half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth.
In this thesis, Stevens’s lay activism is divided into two sub-themes: ‘theological activism’ and ‘ecclesiastical activism’. Theological activism was represented primarily by Stevens’s role as a theologian or ‘lay divine’, a characteristic that resulted in numerous publications that engaged in contemporary intellectual debate. Ecclesiastical activism, on the other hand, represented Stevens’s more practical contributions to Church and society, especially his role as a philanthropist and office holder in a number of Church of England societies. Together, Stevens’s intellectual and practical achievements provide further justification of the revisionist claim that eighteenth-century Anglican High Churchmanship was an active ecclesiastical tradition. Additionally, however, Stevens’s life challenges conventional assumptions about the High Church tradition—especially its tendency to emphasise the lives and experiences of clerics. Stevens, it is argued, though a layman, was one of the influential High Churchmen of his age
Roughness-Facilitated Local 1/2 Scaling Does Not Imply the Onset of the Ultimate Regime of Thermal Convection
No full textIn thermal convection, roughness is often used as a means to enhance heat transport, expressed in Nusselt number. Yet there is no consensus on whether the Nusselt vs Rayleigh number scaling exponent (Nu∼Raβ) increases or remains unchanged. Here we numerically investigate turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection over rough plates in two dimensions, up to Ra≈1012. Varying the height and wavelength of the roughness elements with over 200 combinations, we reveal the existence of two universal regimes. In the first regime, the local effective scaling exponent can reach up to 1/2. However, this cannot be explained as the attainment of the so-called ultimate regime as suggested in previous studies, because a further increase in Ra leads to the second regime, in which the scaling saturates back to a value close to the smooth wall case. Counterintuitively, the transition from the first to the second regime corresponds to the competition between bulk and boundary layer flow: from the bulk-dominated regime back to the classical boundary-layer-controlled regime. Our study demonstrates that the local 1/2 scaling does not necessarily signal the onset of ultimate turbulence
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Selected Characteristics of Minnie Stevens Piper Professors
No full textThe problem of this study was the identification of selected characteristics of Minnie Stevens Piper Professors. Purposes of the study were: (a) to determine characteristics of Minnie Stevens Piper Professors, and (b) to determine whether these professors possess characteristics which typify outstanding college teachers as described by the Selection Research, Incorporated College Teacher Perceiver interview. Forty subjects, 20 from community colleges and 20 from senior colleges, were randomly selected from the 1978 through 1988 lists of Piper Professors. Fifteen community college and 11 senior college professors agreed to participate by being interviewed with the College Teacher Perceiver. This interview identified 13 characteristics, or themes, of excellent college teachers
Baeus matthewi Stevens, sp. nov.
No full text9. Baeus matthewi, Stevens, sp. nov. (Figs 11 A & B, 16 A) Holotype, Ψ,, Queensland, ' 12.41 S 142.41 E, QLD, 5 km S Batavia Downs. 23 Aug– 16 Sep 1992. Flight Intercept trap P. Zborowski & L. Miller' (ANIC). Paratypes: Queensland: 2 Ψ, Eungella N.P., 29.xi. 1976, Bouček, 8–9.v. 1980, I.D. Naumann & J.C. Cardale (ANIC); 1 Ψ, Tinaroo Creek Rd, 26 km up via Mareeba, 12–28.i. 1983, Storey & Brown (ANIC); 2 Ψ, same data as holotype (ANIC); 1 Ψ, Heathlands, 11.45 S 142.35 E, 25.vii– 18.viii. 1992, P. Zborowski & J. Cardale (ANIC); 1 Ψ, Mt Haig, 17.06 S 145.36 E, 4.ii– 17.iii. 1995, P. Zborowski (ANIC); 1 Ψ, Mt Edith, 17.06 S 145.37 E, 30.vi– 31.vii. 1995, P. Zborowski (ANIC); Australian Capital Territory: 1 Ψ, Canberra, Black Mountain, 36.16 S 149.06 E, 22–28.ii. 1998, yellow pan trap, G.Gibson; South Australia: 3 Ψ, Brachina Gorge, 31.30 S 138.34 E, 4–10.xi. 1987, I. Naumann & J. Cardale (ANIC). Description. Female. Mean length 0.82 mm (0.74–0.86; n = 5); body and head range from black to dark brown, legs and antennae yellow with darker markings on dorsal surfaces. Head. 2.25 (2.17–2.38) x as wide as inter-ocular distance, and 1.86 (1.59 –2.00) x as wide as long; medial ocellus 15 μm in diameter, 82 (80–90) μm from posterior head margin; lateral ocelli touching eye margin, 20 μm from posterior head margin; lateral ocelli very close to ( 15 μm in length. Metasoma. T 2 length 0.90 (0.89–0.91) x width, sculpturing coriarious, pilosity mostly sparse, but can be of moderate density in medial anterior areas, is mostly of medium length, often bordering on short, which it can be in areas; T 3 coriarious anteriorly with wide smooth, nitid band along posterior margin, one row of setae present along posterior extremity of sculpturing; T 4 glabrous. Comments. Baeus matthewi is clearly recognisable from other species because of its large hind femoral spine that is very distinct under stereo-light microscopey. The only other species to possess such large spines is B. vulcanus, which also has large propodeal spiracles (opening? 20 μm in diameter) that are clearly distinguishable from the smaller spiracles of B. matthewi. This species has mainly been collected along Cape York Peninsula as far south as Mareeba, except for several specimens collected from the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, and from Canberra (Fig. 16 A). The contrasting climatic conditions among the regions possibly indicates that the distribution of Baeus spp. is largely determined by host distribution rather than environmental conditions. This species is named after the brother of the senior author, Mr Matthew Stevens.Published as part of Stevens, Nicholas B. & Austin, Andrew D., 2007, Systematics, distribution and biology of the Australian ' micro-flea' wasps, Baeus spp. (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae): parasitoids of spider eggs, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1499 on pages 27-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17708
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