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Kenneth Lewis Roberts Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a typed biography, typed and handwritten correspondence on personal stationery from Kennebunk Beach, Maine, including a humorous letter in 1933 concerning the Society for Helping Maine Literature, his belief that the author collection was in need of Arnoldiana such as a donated pike head handmade by Arnold\u27s blacksmiths for the attack on Quebec, the manuscript of Arundel sent to be opened after publication and loaned to Leonard for Doubleday Doran and Company and a surprising Western Union telegram requesting permanent loan of the manuscript for MIT, handwritten and typed correspondence from Roberts in Italy including a handwritten artistic postcard from his wife, numerous biographical newspaper review clippings with photographic images, book synopses, and a poem for Theodore Roosevelt who could remember neither the author nor title of the book he was reading, a research question concerning Maine people on cookery, notes through the years concerning his friends, the staff at Doubleday, historians, libraries, and librarians as well as transition at the Maine Development Commission, correspondence with Mary A. Benjamin on Walter R. Benjamin, Autographs, stationery and a postcard concerning the possible sale of a copy of a Maine land grant document, a gift instead from Roberts of his vellum copy of the Trelawny-Goodyear grant of 1631, and the reply of Stubbs from the Maine State Library on receipt of this copy of the Casco Bay land grant
Lewis Roberts, 1974-1975 Baseball Player
No full textLewis Roberts was a student and baseball player at Jacksonville State University in 1974-1975.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1970/1000/thumbnail.jp
Lewis Roberts, 1975-1976 Baseball Player
No full textLewis Roberts was a student and baseball player at Jacksonville State University in 1975-1976.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/36550/thumbnail.jp
In Memoriam: Lewis R. Binford, 1931-2011
No full textObituary of archaeology and anthropology professor Lewis Roberts Binford, 1931-April 11, 2011
Lewis R. Binford (1931-2011)
No full textLewis Roberts Binford est décédé le 11 avril 2011 à Kirksville (Missouri, USA). Il a été un chercheur et enseignant des plus créatifs et influents, mais aussi controversé, de sa génération. Son impact sur les buts et les théories de l’archéologie préhistorique a été stimulant et déterminant pour la communauté scientifique des cinquante dernières années. Né le 21 novembre 1931 à Norfolk (Virginie), il reçoit de 1948 à 1952 une formation en sylviculture et protection de la nature de l’Institut ..
The Son and the other stars: Christology and cosmology in the imagination of C.S. Lewis
No full textThis dissertation treats the theory and practice of C. S. Lewis's theological imagination,
focussing upon the imaginative use he made of his professional expertise in medieval and
renaissance literature. Its approach is principally expository rather than an evaluative.
Chapter One outlines the centrality of the imagination to a proper understanding of Lewis's
works.
Chapter Two examines Lewis's own theory of imagination and surveys how he practised it
as a literary critic. We compare and contrast Lewis's theory and practice of imagination
with that of his friend, the theologian, Austin Faffer.
Chapter Three looks in more detail at Lewis's imaginative practice, in particular his
fascination with the images supplied by the seven planets of the Ptolemaic cosmos, which
he termed 'spiritual symbols of permanent value'. We analyse what he meant by 'sprit'
and 'symbol'.
Chapter Four introduces the main argument of the dissertation namely that these seven
spiritual symbols structure the works for which Lewis is best known, the seven 'Chronicles
of Narnia'. We claim to have uncovered the governing imaginative blueprint of the septet.
We address Lewis's capacity for and interest in secrecy and consider why this planetary
theme has remained hitherto undetected.
In Chapters Five to Eleven we take the seven planets in turn and trace the use Lewis made
of them through out his writings. We analyse the planetary symbolism undergirding each
Chronicle and conclude each chapter with an exegesis of the Christological message of each
book so understood.
Chapter Twelve examines factors which motivated Lewis to focus his imaginative energies
upon Ptolemaic cosmology and suggests one particular occasioning factor behind the
composition of the Chronicles. In addition, we consider theological and pedagogical reasons
why he kept silent about the planetary theme. We conclude by indicating certain
consequences that our argument has for future readings of these seven works
Neural correlates of processing valence and arousal in affective words
No full textPsychological frameworks conceptualize emotion along 2 dimensions, "valence" and "arousal." Arousal invokes a single axis of intensity increasing from neutral to maximally arousing. Valence can be described variously as a bipolar continuum, as independent positive and negative dimensions, or as hedonic value (distance from neutral). In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize neural activity correlating with arousal and with distinct models of valence during presentation of affective word stimuli. Our results extend observations in the chemosensory domain suggesting a double dissociation in which subregions of orbitofrontal cortex process valence, whereas amygdala preferentially processes arousal. In addition, our data support the physiological validity of descriptions of valence along independent axes or as absolute distance from neutral but fail to support the validity of descriptions of valence along a bipolar continuum
Analytical Approximations of Critical Clearing Time for Parametric Analysis of Power System Transient Stability
No full textAn analytic approximation for the critical clearing time (CCT) metric is derived from direct methods for power system stability. The formula has been designed to incorporate as many features of transient stability analysis as possible such as different fault locations and different post-fault network states. The purpose of this metric is to analyze trends in stability (in terms of CCT) of power systems under the variation of a system parameter. The performance of this metric to measure stability trends is demonstrated on an aggregated power network, the so-called two machine infinite bus network, by varying load parameters in the full bus admittance matrix using numerical continuation. The metric is compared to two other expressions for the CCT which incorporate additional nonlinearities present in the model
Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol 32, No. 1
No full text“New Play Based on Novel and Film of Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air,” by John Loch, Rosemount Area Arts Council
“The Filming of the Silent Movie of Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air,” by John Loch, Rosemount Area Arts Council
“George Macy’s Readers Club (1941-1943) and Sinclair Lewis,” by Shaun F. Richards, Finger Lakes Community College
“Lost Boundaries“
“Making Her Way in the Big City: Carrie Meeber in Sister Carrie and Una Golden in The Job,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“Favorite Books by Our Members”
“Literary Legends: Poll of Minnesotans Reveals Sinclair Lewis as the State’s Favorite Author of All Time”
“The (Self-) Importance of Being American: A Lesser-Known Lewis Essay on the American Expatriate Artists in 1920s Paris,” by Shaun F. Richards Finger Lakes Community College
In Memoriam: Benjamin R. Beede and Robert Gottliebhttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1093/thumbnail.jp
Political trajectories in the painting of P. Wyndham Lewis
No full textThis thesis presents an analysis of the political dimension to the paintings of Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).Through an exegesis of the discreet and latent "voices" in Lewis's paintings the ideological parameters of his thought world are disclosed. These imperatives are examined for their display of political predispositions, for values and attitudes, which reveal a loading towards specific socio-cultural standards. In so far as these standards can be identified with historically relevant political programmes they become manifestos for political actions. Or, at the very least, they can be seen to exist as critical and prescriptive social insights. Importantly, the focus of this examination and interpretation remains the visual image and its related texts. A key aspect of both the methodology and argument within this thesis, insists that the visual image is the bearer of meaning in both its subject matter and technique. Values are communicated not only in reference to the thing displayed, but, in the manner of the display. Hence, an analysis of the intellectual and formal strategies employed by Lewis in his painting becomes a central concern of the thesis. Finally, the thesis rounds on the actual nature of Lewis's politics as revealed in his approach to art. While it is accepted that the mediation from the political to the painted throws up many and substantial barriers, the thesis insists that a political reading of Lewis's creative work is not only appropriate but necessary. In offering just such a reading the author hopes to transcend the boundaries between the disciplines of Art History and Sociology
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