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    The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.

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    PhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author. The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of writing and reading. Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers by inventing new forms. The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career, followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of inventiveness and familiarity

    Emily and Sarah Evoke a Gnomus

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    Modest Mussorgsky\u27s Pictures at an Exhibition, 1. The Gnome, performed by Professor Steven Pane, on piano. Photograph by Emily Everitt and painting by Sarah Otley

    Whole Genome Imputation Panel of 624 Dogs

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    This dataset contains a compressed variant call file (VCF) and index file of phased, bi-allelic, single nucleotide variants (SNVs) from 624 dogs of various breeds that were used as a reference panel for imputation of low-pass whole-genome sequencing from 83 Great Danes. Also included is an Excel file containing breed information for each of the 624 dogs. The file contains data for all 38 canine autosomes and the X chromosome.Friedenberg, Steven; Clark, Leigh Anne; Murphy, Sarah; Greif, Elizabeth; Evans, Jacquelyn; Tsai, Kate. (2023). Whole Genome Imputation Panel of 624 Dogs. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/GKXV-GT86

    Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster

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    K-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book

    Steven Bialer and Patti Smith, July 1978

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    Musician, poet, and author Patti Smith sits on a bed in a hotel room in July 1978. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman as part of a session for "Unicorn Times," an alternative performing arts periodical in Washington, D.C. Steven Bialer, the Design Director for "Unicorn Times," is seated on the bed next to Smith

    Steven Garber

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    Steven Garber speaks on the importance and value of truth. Steven Garber is the principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. A consultant to foundations, corporations and educational institutions, he is a teacher of many people in many places. The author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior, and Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, he is also a contributor to the books, Faith Goes to Work: Reflections from the Marketplace, and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue. He lives with his wife Meg in Virginia

    Steven Yedinak Interview

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    LTC (RET) Steven M. Yedinak commissioned in the U. S. Army Infantry in 1963 and subsequently spent 26 years in Special Forces and Airborne Infantry. He served two combat tours in Vietnam (1966-67 & 1971-1972), and started the Mobile Guerrilla Force. He is the author of Hard to Forget: An American with the Mobile Guerrilla Force in Vietnam (Random House, 1998). He retired from the Army in 1989

    Metadata Working Group Forum: FAST

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    You may have noticed innovations in the new Blacklight faceting function. Or, if you work on Voyager records, you may have noticed a proliferation of records with the mysterious MARC tag “|2 fast.” Metadata Working Group presents a session on FAST, Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, a terminology scheme on the cutting edge of subject access theory. Almost every record in the Cornell catalog will be touched by FAST: you don’t want to ignore what’s going on! Steven Folsom and Sarah Ross have been involved in working with the OCLC inventors of FAST and making it work in the Cornell catalog. Sarah Ross will talk about the nuts-and-bolts of MARC cataloging and the FAST tool that stands behind a faceted approach to subject analysis, and Steven Folsom will demonstrate how the public can soon interact with these headings through the Blacklight catalog

    Gamification is broken. An interview with Steven Poole

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    Steven Poole is the author of Trigger Happy (2000. New York, NY: Arcade Publish), Unspeak (2006. New York, NY: Grove Press), and You Aren’t What You Eat (2012. In press). He has written extensively on books, culture, and videogames for The Guardian and other publications

    Steven Pinker on language and thought

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    Educação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LinguísticaThis video presents an exclusive preview of Steven Pinker's book: the stuff of thought. The author looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old one
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