44 research outputs found
Pioneer : a memoir of the Rev. John Thomas, missionary to the Friendly islands / by G. Stringer Rowe.
No full textElectronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2010
Wesley his own biographer : being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements
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The life of John Hunt, missionary to the cannibals.
No full textAmerican ed. has title: A missionary among cannibals.Mode of access: Internet
Stopping New Yorkers\u27 Stalkers: An Anti-Stalking Law For the Millennium
Get PDFThis essay concerns itself with some of the legislative responses to stalking in New York and examines some of the specific anti-stalking provisions of the Clinic Access and Anti-Stalking Act of 1999, recently signed by New York Governor George Pataki. The author interviews Senator Michael A.L. Balboni, Assemblyman Scott Stringer, and the Assemblyman\u27s former Legislative Director Rob Hack, who were all heavily involved in getting the legislation passed, offering a unique perspective
Examining the Human Rights Legacy in Chile
No full textChilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy will explore issues of how societies respond to legacies of human rights violations. During the seventeen-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. Today, Chile grapples with the legacy of this regime.
Pascale Bonnefoy earned a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University and a Master’s, also in International Affairs, from the University of Chile. Much of her professional career has been as a free-lance reporter for Chilean media, producer and researcher for documentary films in Chile and abroad and correspondent for news outlets such as Global Post, Catholic News Service and Latin America Press. She was a stringer in Chile for the South American bureau of The Washington Post from 1997 to 2004 and has been a stringer in Chile for the Rio de Janeiro bureau of The New York Times for the past 18 years. She is professor of journalism at the University of Chile and author of three books dealing with Chile and the dictatorship, one of which was translated to English and published last year by the University of North Carolina Press, titled The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile. She is currently working on a fourth book.
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Chile after Pinochet: The Limits of Post-Dictatorship Transition
No full textProfessor Bonnefoy’s talk/conversation will focus on the nature of Chile\u27s transition to democracy and how it has shaped and limited the search for truth and justice for human rights victims. Constitutional restraints, lack of cooperation from the army and the fact that Gen. Augusto Pinochet remained in command of the army for another eight years after the return to democracy hampered human rights investigations for at least a decade. Now, fifty years after the 1973 military coup that toppled socialist president Salvador Allende, nearly 1,500 human rights cases are still tied up in court.
Pascale Bonnefoy is a Chilean journalist with a B.A. in International Aairs from George Washington University and a Master’s, also in International Aairs, from the University of Chile. Much of her professional career has been as a free-lance reporter for Chilean media, producer and researcher for documentary films in Chile and abroad and correspondent for news outlets such as Global Post, Catholic News Service and Latin America Press. She was a stringer in Chile for the South American bureau of The Washington Post from 1997 to 2004 and has been a stringer in Chile for the Rio de Janeiro bureau of The New York Times for the past 18 years. She is professor of journalism at the University of Chile and author of three books dealing with Chile and the dictatorship, one of which was translated to English and published last year by the University of North Carolina Press, titled The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile. She is currently working on a fourth book.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1128/thumbnail.jp
Filmic machines and animated monsters: retelling Frankenstein in the digital age
Get PDFFrankensteinian monsters have appeared on our screens since the early days of cinema. Indeed, across the history of film we see Mary Shelley’s “hideous progeny” rewritten as alchemical creations, animated corpses, lumbering fiends, robots, cyborgs, replicants, dinosaurs, artificial intelligences and digital constructions. In particular, Shelley’s text shares its speculative depiction of a posthuman future with fantastic and science-fictional cinema of the digital age. At the same time, posthuman bodies are being created by filmmakers. New possibilities in the digital imaging of human presence – from the replacement of actors with computer-generated imagery to the quest for photorealism in digital animation – themselves evoke the Frankenstein tale and consequently make interesting contributions to the evolving Frankenstein myth.
This thesis investigates the retelling of Frankenstein in popular cinema of the digital age. Through close analysis of a series of chosen texts, I examine the figure of the Frankensteinian monster and his/her/its equivalents in today’s popular culture: posthuman figures who negotiate uneasily with the organic world, boundary creatures who both define and unsettle our understandings of human being. I consider the way the tale, its themes and characters have both endured and evolved over time. I also examine the way these new filmic “machines” and animated “monsters” embody crucial problems associated with the technologies that screen them and the media that contain them.
My concern in this project is twofold. Firstly, I seek to map the (changing) relationship between Frankenstein and film. Since the early 1900s, cinema has provided a fertile ground for the retelling of Shelley’s tale. At the same time, cinema itself has always been a sort of Frankensteinian experiment: a means of breathing life into stillness, of constructing and re-constructing human presence, of stitching together fragmented moments to create a semblance of wholeness. In the digital age, this experiment grows and changes: new modes of production are continually being trialled, allowing us to re-create and re-present human presence in new and often bizarre ways. The figure of the Frankensteinian monster confronts and responds to these concerns, embodying and performing the uncanny, spectacular, mechanical, or organic-mechanical nature of screen presence.
Secondly, this thesis reads the Frankensteinian monster as a mythic figure for the digital age. I move towards the assertion that Frankenstein is a tale about the artificial body and its negotiation with a lost or disrupted origin in the organic world, and that this particular problem reverberates strongly in an age of digital representation. The analyses that constitute this thesis contribute to the argument that each time the Frankenstein tale is retold, re-technologised, and re-imagined using new filmic techniques, the problem of the screen body and its troubled origin stories is revisited and complicated
James Fenimore Cooper, Professional Authorship, and the American Literary Marketplace, 1838-1851
Get PDFThis dissertation is a primary-source-intensive literary history that makes use of publishers\u27 records, correspondence, manuscript evidence, and literary works to study how James Fenimore Cooper refashioned his career as a professional author during its last major phase, approximately 1838 to 1851, to adapt to changing conditions he faced in the literary marketplace and to confront challenges-both externally- and self-imposed-to his status and reputation.
Chapter One, The Tortured Profession of Authorship: Novelist Again, narrates Cooper\u27s return to fiction in 1837-38, considering the professional issues confronting him at the time, such as economic uncertainties, constraints of the typical two-volume format, and alienation from the contemporary literary scene. Cooper\u27s arguments about the nature of fiction, as well as his positions on the proper ethics of authorship, are also treated. Chapter Two, Seamanship and Authorship: The History of the Navy to Afloat and Ashore, examines how Cooper\u27s role as an expert on nautical matters contributed to his understanding of his profession as an author, especially in light of his History of the Navy of the United States and the ensuing controversy it stirred in certain quarters. Cooper\u27s other nautical works of the early 1840s are considered, with an in-depth discussion of his first-person double novel Afloat and Ashore as a point of convergence for many of his concerns about authorship. Chapter Three, The Commercial Instinct: Leatherstocking Revived, considers Cooper\u27s deliberate efforts to restore his commercial viability by reasserting his artistic powers, reviving his most famous character, Natty Bumppo, in The Pathfinder and again in The Deerslayer. Cooper\u27s failed attempt to create a standard work out of the Columbus story, Mercedes of Castile, and his never-realized plans of adding a sixth Leatherstocking tale are also investigated. Chapter Four, Periodical Publication: Cooper and Graham\u27s Magazine, treats Cooper\u27s experiment in magazine writing, establishing factual foundations on a part of Cooper\u27s career that has heretofore received little attention. His serialized novella Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief receives special consideration for its reflections of Cooper\u27s attitudes on the work and rewards (or lack thereof) of authorship. Finally, Chapter Five, Publishing Realignments: Cheap Literature and Cooper\u27s Late Career, details Cooper\u27s accommodations to the cheap paperback publishing craze of 1841-43, his separation from publishers Lea & Blanchard, his venture in self-publishing with Afloat and Ashore, and his subsequent publishing alliances with Burgess, Stringer & Co. and George Palmer Putnam. Taken together, the findings uncovered through these investigations suggest that the second half of Cooper\u27s career, long treated by many critics as one of decline and retreat, be reconsidered as one of reconsolidation and engagement
Enregisterment in Historical Contexts: A Framework
Get PDFIn this thesis I discuss how the phenomena of indexicality and enregisterment (Silverstein 2003; Agha 2003) can be observed and studied in historical contexts via the use of historical textual data. I present a framework for the study of historical enregisterment which compares data from corpora of both nineteenth-century and modern Yorkshire dialect material, and the results of an online survey of current speakers so as to ascertain the validity of the corpus data and to use ‘the present to explain the past’ (Labov 1977:226). This framework allows for the identification of enregistered repertoires of Yorkshire dialect in both the twenty-first and nineteenth centuries. This is achieved by combining elicited metapragmatic judgements and examples of dialect features from the online survey with quantitative frequency analysis of linguistic features from Yorkshire dialect literature and literary dialect (Shorrocks 1996) and qualitative metapragmatic discourse (Johnstone et al 2006) from sources such as dialect dictionaries, dialect grammars, travel writing, and glossaries.
I suggest that processes of enregisterment may operate along a continuum and that linguistic features may become ‘deregistered’ as representative of a particular variety; I also suggest that features may become ‘deregistered’ to the point of becoming ‘fossil forms’, which is more closely related to Labov’s (1972) definition of the ultimate fate of a linguistic stereotype.
I address the following research questions:
1. How was the Yorkshire dialect enregistered in the nineteenth century?
2. How is Yorkshire dialect enregistered in the present day?
3. How do these compare, and how might we account for the results of this comparison?
In so doing, I highlight that we can gain insights into the social value of linguistic features in historical contexts
