68 research outputs found
Spinks, Sam
No full textSee entry in Morgan County volume 1, page 24: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter/id/237
Gold in Irish coal: Palaeo-concentration from metalliferous groundwaters
No full textGold grains, up to 40 μm in size and containing variable percentages of admixed platinum, have been identified in coals from the Leinster Coalfield, Castlecomer, SE Ireland, for the first time. Gold mineralisation occurs in sideritic nodules in coals and in association with pyrite and anomalous selenium content. Mineralisation here may have reflected very high heat flow in foreland basins north of the emerging Variscan orogenic front, responsible for gold occurrence in the South Wales Coalfield. At Castlecomer, gold (–platinum) is attributed to precipitation with replacive pyrite and selenium from groundwaters at redox interfaces, such as siderite nodules. Pyrite in the cores of the nodules indicates fluid ingress. The underlying Caledonian basement bedrock is mineralised by gold, and thus likely provided a source for gold. The combination of the gold occurrences in coal in Castlecomer and in South Wales, proximal to the Variscan orogenic front, suggests that these coals along the front could comprise an exploration target for low-temperature concentrations of precious metals.</p
Care! Object Beneath
No full textMusical collaboration with Breathing Space collective at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, March 3rd 2017
Contribution:
Input to development of a semi-improvised piece for 4 vocalists, objects, electronics, violin, tuba and 'cello (played by myself).
"Live and recorded sound fragments tell a story from behind the scenes of the museum, as we interrogate collection, classification and interpretation using the fluid concept of a folk song as a parallel to solid objects. The song becomes the object to be entered into the collection, its fractured parts gathering and reforming across the performance. Can sound live the same life as an object when it enters a museum?
The Listening Wall at Distrito 350 Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
No full textThe Listening Wall was installed at Distrito 350 Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico from 13th - 19th April 2024. The opening on 13th April featured a performance using extracts from the scores by Iris Garrelfs and Viv Corringham. With support from Enclave Festival, Mexico.
WITH SCORES BY
BARRY CULLEN | BLANCA REGINA | BNAYA HALPERIN-KADDARI | CATHERINE CLOVER | CATHY LANE | DAN SCOTT | DAVID BLOOR | GRAHAM DUNNING | HARDI KURDA | HELEN FROSI | IAN STONEHOUSE | INGRID PLUM | IRIS GARRELFS | JAMES WILKIE | JEZ RILEY FRENCH | JILLIENE SELLNER | JO THOMAS | JOHN D’ARCY | JUDE COWAN MONTAGUE | KATRINM | LISA BUSBY | LIZ HELMAN | MAGZ HALL | MAIKE ZIMMERMANN | MARIA PAPADOMANOLAKI | PETER CUSACK | SALOME VOEGELIN | SAM AUINGER | SHARON GAL | SHERRY OSTAPOVITCH & ANITA CASTELINO | STEPHANIE LOVELESS | STIJN DEMEULENAERE | TANSY SPINKS | UNA LEE | VIV CORRINGHAM | YAIR LOPE
Meet the author: the cult of the individual in unconventional journalism
No full textThis thesis considers the forms of journalism that occupy the ambiguous
boundary between literature and journalism. Though the distinction between
literature and journalism is an increasingly popular subject of literary criticism, few
studies have considered the centrality of the literary journalist figure as a vehicle for
persona creation and the performance of the self. This study aims to further
examine the complexities exhibited in works of literary journalism by considering
each writer’s contributions in a traceable lineage. By considering the first-person
narration in each text, this study seeks to position the form as a response to a
particularly American conceptualization of individualism, given its importance as a
sustained national mythology. Through the deliberate cultivation of a self-mythologizing
persona, each writer utilizes the convergence of performance,
commerce, and politics to exemplify an American ideology of individualism through
the semi-autobiographical characters they craft. Thus, the immersive style of literary
journalism examined in this study can be read as a reflection of the continued
prizing of individualism as an ideal that perpetuates partly because of self-reflexive
narratives that conflate the narrator and the narrated
Joyce, philosophy and the drama of authorship
No full textThis thesis will examine the representation, consequence and transformation of the
idea of authorship in the work of James Joyce and suggest a way of re-addressing the
contentious question of authorship. While postmodern criticism has emphasised the
“revolutionary” cultural and political ramifications of Joyce’s response and the ways that his
work has helped to deconstruct this question for modernity and postmodernity, this thesis
will trace the ideas and ideologies, individuals and characters, historical, cultural and
biographical circumstances that contributed to both the prominence and the hermeneutical
consequence of the question of authorship in Joyce’s work. Highlighting Joyce’s awareness
of and fascination with the multivalency of a question shaped by theological, historical,
political, philosophical, philological, epistemological, methodological and hermeneutical
ideas as well as literary representations, it will examine Joyce’s reformulation and response
to this question through four pervasive models of authorship in his work: critic, philosopher,
bard and theologian. While each chapter will make a distinction between these models in
order to analyse their characteristics and significance, as a way of tracing not only the
evolution of these models but also the complex network of interrelation that is established
between these distinctive but also intertwining ideas of authorship, the thesis will be
structured historically, biographically and “ergographically” (in Barthes’ definition of an
‘ergography’) as well as thematically.
As a way of approaching the ideologically overdetermined concept of authorship,
but also avoiding another postmodern “renaming” of this concept, these models will be
proffered in order to examine the construction, fabrication and invention as well as the
deconstruction of the idea of authorship and the representation of the role of the author in
fiction, culture, society and history in the work of Joyce. The “drama” of authorship will be
interpreted in terms of Joyce’s fictional and hermeneutic dramatisation of the role and idea
of the author, but also in terms of the consequence of Joyce’s interest in and early
idealisation of the genre of drama. This thesis will finally suggest that Joyce’s “failure” to
become a dramatist and engagement with philosophical analyses of this genre contributed
significantly to his deconstruction, reconstruction and dramatisation of the role and
“exagmination” of the author.
The thesis as a whole will delineate how each of these four models gradually
becomes more distinctive but simultaneously also inextricable from a variegated template
that is only methodologically divided into four parts; the four exegetes in Finnegans Wake
inconspicuously multiply. The first three chapters will follow the attempt outlined in Joyce’s
early draft of the Portrait ‘to liberate from the personalised lumps of matter that which is
their individuating rhythm, the first or formal relation of their parts’- the growing self-consciousness
of the artist’s understanding of his role(s) as an artist and of the idea(s) of
authorship. In the last two chapters that will look at Ulysses and Finnegans Wake these four
models will be more clearly differentiated although the growing theatricality in their
portrayal and widening nexus of relations will complicate and indeed undermine the idea of
a “model”
Reading in theory: towards a thematic stylistics in Joyce studies
No full textThis thesis presents an account of the relationship between literary Theory
and close reading in Joyce studies. Throughout, 'Theory' is understood not in a
general, conceptual sense, but as a word we use to refer to certain specified
intellectual developments in the literary academy that have taken place over roughly
the last half-century.
Working from the basis that little can be deduced regarding the contentious
relationship between Theory and close reading as long as the issue remains an
abstract one, the thesis works towards a description of that relationship based upon
scrutiny of key works in the field. To that end, it performs a series of case studies of
some of the more significant attempts to combine a deep Theoretical commitment
with rigorous textual analysis. The argument developed is that in a significant
number of cases a commitment to reading 'Theoretically' has led the critic into an
erroneous reading of the literary text under discussion. The possibility of such error
is defined with reference to a set of standards which, the author hopes, will be
accepted by most scholars working in the field.
Alongside this primary concern, the thesis sets out a technique of close
reading designed to minimise the chances of such errors occurring. This technique is
referred to as Thematic Stylistics. Requiring both broad and deep engagement with
literary texts, it aims to encourage both fidelity and sensitivity when put into practice,
and thereby to act as a balance to the suggested tendencies of Theoretical reading.
This technique is not left as a set of bare principles, but is exemplified in alternate
chapters with reference to errors discussed during the critique described above.
Together, the critique of Theory and the outline of Thematic Stylistics are taken to
provide a constructive suggestion for the future of the academy
Edith Wharton and queer history at the fin de siècle
No full textWhat does it mean to think of Edith Wharton (1862-1937) as a decadent writer? In this thesis I suggest that, from the very beginning of her career, Wharton was a writer far more engaged with European literary decadence than has previously been recognised. In turn, I argue, this under-acknowledged engagement with literary decadence has - combined with the way that certain biographical details have shaped readings of her work - resulted in a tendency to overlook the extent to which Wharton's fiction was in dialogue with a male homosexual literary tradition that goes beyond her well-documented friendship with Henry James. Alongside Wharton's interest in fin-de-siecle Literature, and in writers such as Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Oscar Wilde, I look at the ways in which she draws on and uses various 'queer' histories, including those of: the alchemist Nicolas Flamel; Napoleon and Josephine; the Oxford Movement; Margaret Fuller; the Italian Risorgimento; and Wilde's trials, and death. Approaching Wharton as an author significantly influenced by literary decadence, and these queer histories, reveals a writer concerned with many of the same questions, anxieties, and concerns more usually linked (as in recent scholarship on decadent literature) to queer, decadent, and European fin-de-siecle writers - such as contemporary understandings of sexuality and gender identity (and the impact on both men and women of the homophobia associated with emerging sexual identities), the establishment and survival of non-heteronormative relationships (including friendships), and the place of friendship in theorisations of both literary production and early-twentieth-century supranational and non-familial community building. Recognising these contexts for Wharton's writing both demonstrates the striking fin-de-siecle and 'queer' resonances of a number of her lesser-known early works and allows for new readings of some of her best-known texts. I focus in particular· on a series of Wharton's less familiar short texts, before going on to consider The Age of Innocence (1920), demonstrating the ways that an in-depth attention to her early engagement with decadence can transform how we approach her major novels. Furthermore, where Wharton's politics have either been dismissed as fundamentally conservative or sometimes awkwardly figured as progressively proto-feminist, the picture which emerges from a reading of her fiction in the context of both literary decadence and late-nineteenth-century theorisations of male homosexuality is that of a writer who, like James, Pater, Symonds, and Wilde, was engaged in a serious consideration of sexual identity and gender roles, and the relation between these, citizenship, and community
Tellurium and selenium in Mesoproterozoic red beds
No full textAcknowledgements This work was supported by the NERC under Grant NE/L001764/1. We are grateful to Martin Bregman, Philip Fralick, and Phyllis Hargrave for provision of samples. David Fox and Monica leGras (CSIRO), John Still and Dave Bellis (University of Aberdeen) provided specialised technical assistance. We are grateful for three critical reviews that helped to improve the manuscript.Peer reviewe
Methane in sulphides from gold-bearing deposits, Britain and Ireland
No full textWe are grateful to J. Armstrong and C. Rice for provision of samples. J. Johnston is thanked for skilled technical support.Peer reviewe
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