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    Laura Riding Jackson papers

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    Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, and editor. She was closely associated with the Fugitive group, a cluster of American Southern writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. She had a long partnership with Robert Graves; together they co-founded the Seizin Press, published several volumes of poetry, and co-edited the literary journal Epilogue. Jackson is generally acknowledged to have influenced the work of Graves, the New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye, and the writers James Reeves, Norman Cameron, T. S. Matthews, Jacob Bronowski, and W. H. Auden. The collection consists of correspondence between Jackson and Robert Nye, a British author, editor, and playwright, as well as manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs. Subjects discussed include writers and writings, Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves, and Nye

    Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /

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    Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem

    Riding the Yield Curve: Diversification of Strategies

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    Riding the yield curve, the fixed-income strategy of purchasing a longer-dated security and selling before maturity, has long been a popular means to achieve excess returns compared to buying-and-holding, despite its implicit violations of market efficiency and the pure expectations hypothesis of the term structure. This paper looks at the historic excess returns of different strategies across three countries and proposes several statistical and macro-based trading rules which seem to enhance returns even more. While riding based on the Taylor Rule works well even for longer investment horizons, our empirical results indicate that, using expectations implied by Fed funds futures, excess returns can only be increased over short horizons. Furthermore, we demonstrate that duration-neutral strategies are superior to standard riding on a risk- adjusted basis. Overall, our evidence stands in contrast to the pure expectations hypothesis and points to the existence of risk premia which may be exploited consistently.Term Structure, Interest Rates, Market Efficiency, Taylor Rule

    Early Cretaceous dendritic shrub-like fabric in karstified peritidal carbonates from southern Italy

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    Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian) dendritic microfabrics occur in karstic cavities within fine-grained shallow-marine platform carbonates at San Lorenzello, southern Italy. They form dense micritic masses and clusters, generally oriented perpendicularly to cavity surfaces, surrounded by layered sparry cement. Individual dendrites, typically sub-millimetric in size, have highly irregular margins and form distinctive shrub-like masses ranging from compact and squat, to elongate and highly branched. The centimetric and irregularly elongate cavities appear to have formed through subaerial exposure, and are almost entirely filled by the micritic dendrites and associated sparry crusts. In size, shape and micritic composition, the dendrites broadly resemble a variety of similar fabrics, including hot spring travertine shrubs and calcified microfossils such as Cambrian Angusticellularia, which has analogs in present-day lacustrine calcified cyanobacteria. However, the San Lorenzello dendrites differ in occupying small cavities. This cryptic microkarstic dripstone setting, together with the often regular spacing and appearance of these dendritic fabrics, may be more consistent with an abiotic origin. These comparisons underscore the challenge of interpreting microdendritic carbonates fabrics in general

    [Matlock Rose or Robert Morton Riding Horse]

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    Photograph of either Matlock Rose or Robert Morton riding a horse. The man appears to round up a calf

    Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

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    Public goods experiments, social preferences, conditional cooperation, free riding

    Three Young Boys Riding in the Back of a Wagon, circa 1968

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    Three young boys are shown riding in the back of a wagon.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

    Joseph E. Lowery Riding a Horse, 2006

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    Joseph E. Lowery is shown riding a horse led by two men at a rodeo.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
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