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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
No full textBibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas
Tradução de poesia: Emily dickinson segundo a perspectiva tradutória de Augusto de Campos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014Esta dissertação, a partir da perspectiva teórica e prática de Augusto de Campos quanto à tradução de poesia, visa analisar sete de suas traduções dos poemas da norte-americana Emily Dickinson, publicadas na obra Emily Dickinson: não sou ninguém, em 2008. O trabalho foi dividido em três capítulos. O primeiro tratados principais elementos que constituem a poética de Dickinson, bem como das traduções brasileiras de suas obras. Como embasamento teórico foram utilizados Gilbert e Gubar (1984), Donoghue (1969), Sewall (1963) e Daghlian(1987), dentre outros autores. O segundo capítulo tem como objetivo apresentar Augusto de Campos como poeta e como tradutor, com ênfase nos seus comentários sobre tradução, visando compreender sua prática tradutória. O terceiro capítulo analisa as traduções de sete poemas de Dickinson realizadas por Augusto de Campos e busca identificar a relação entre a teoria e a prática do tradutor. Essa análise, de caráter discursivo, além do plano formal e sintático, se concentra no plano semântico dos textos, tendo em conta que não possui a pretensão de realizar qualquer tipo de julgamento prescritivo.Abstract: This dissertation, from the perspective theoretical and practical of Augusto de Campos about the poetry translation, analyzes seven of his translations of the North-American poet Emily Dickinson, published in the book "Emily Dickinson: não sou ninguém", in 2008. This work contains three chapters; the first presents the main elements that constitute the Dickinson's poetry, as well as the Brazilian translations of her poems. It has, as theoretical support, author slike: Gilbert and Gubar (1984), Donoghue (1969) Sewall (1963) and Daghlian(1987). The second chapter aims to approach the main remarks of Augusto,highlighting his activity as poet and as translator, aiming to understand his practice of translation. The third chapter analyses the Augusto's translations of seven poems of Dickinson and try to identify the relationship between the theory and the practice of the translator. This discursive, besides the formal and syntactic field focuses on the semantic field of the poems, without any kind of prescriptive judgment
Gender and the politics of the gaze in Bronte's Wuthering Heights
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2009.O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar uma análise de como a imagem de Catherine é moldada pelo olhar masculino, como ela enfrenta os três tipos de olhar - o olhar dos personagens, o olhar do leitor, e o olhar do autor - e finalmente, se o olhar masculino é interrompido. O parâmetro teórico desta análise, o conceito do olhar masculino, é teorizado por Laura Mulvey no artigo "Prazer Visual e Cinema Narrativo" (1975) o qual critica a relação entre o olhar masculino e a imagem feminina do prazer visual moldado pela sociedade patriarcal. Através da crítica de Mulvey do prazer visual generizado em filmes, que pertence ao contexto do cinema clássico de Hollywood, articulo sua teoria em relação ao romance Wuthering Heights de Emily Brontë para examinar a dinâmica do olhar masculino em relação à personagem feminina Catherine. Este estudo teve também por objetivo analisar o quanto o paradigma teórico de Mulvey produzido para cinema poderia ser aplicado especificamente em um texto literário escrito no século XIX.The objective of this thesis is to present an analysis of whether Catherine's image has been shaped by the male gaze, how she contends with the three looks of the male gaze - the look of the characters, the look of the reader, and the look of the author - and finally, how the male gaze is broken. The theoretical parameter of this analysis, the concept of the male gaze, is theorized by Laura Mulvey in the article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) which critiques the relation between the male gaze and the female image within the patriarchal molding of visual pleasure. Borrowing Mulvey's critique of the gendering of visual pleasure in films, which pertains to the context of classical Hollywood cinema, I have articulated her theory in relation to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, to examine the dynamics of the male gaze regarding the female character, Catherine. This study also aimed at examing the extent to which Mulvey's theoretical paradigm produced for cinema could be articulated specifically in relation to a literary text written in the nineteenth century
A planning study for the William G. Scott House in Richmond, Indiana
No full textThe William G. Scott House in Richmond, Indiana was built c. 1885 for William G. Scott and his wife, Clara A. Robie McCoy. Mr. Scott, who was a successful executive at the prosperous steam engine manufacturing company Gaar, Scott & Co., was hailed as having one of the most prominent and beautiful homes within the city. The Scott family occupied the house until Mr. Scott's death in 1897, and the property was passed down to several Scott family descendants. In 1921, Richmond's local chapter of the Knights of Columbus purchased the Scott House and converted the building into their clubhouse. The Knights of Columbus continue to own and occupy the property today.The Knights of Columbus made several significant changes to house over the past eighty-two years, including installing a ceramic tile floor on the first floor, creating a Lodge Room on the third floor, remodeling the basement and the kitchen, and building a modern 5,000 sq. ft. meeting hall on the west side of the house. After the new meeting hall was constructed, the Knights of Columbus utilized the new addition most often, rather than the old clubhouse, and the historic Scott House was left vacant and allowed to slip into disrepair.Today, the Knights of Columbus use the Scott House to host "Tea Room Luncheons" featuring traditional Victorian menu items and local entertainment to revitalize public interest in historic architecture and generate funds for the future rehabilitation of the Scott House. The organization is also exploring future uses for the property and identifying additional fundraising opportunities, in hopes of rehabilitating the Scott House and restoring the property to its original elegance and grandeur.The Planning Study for the Scott House contains a history of the property, illustrations, elevation and floor plan drawings, building condition assessments, recommended treatment methods, and suggested maintenance practices. For further reference, the author's building assessment forms and annotated assessment drawings, and the Secretary of the Interior Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties are included as appendices.This project was primarily an academic exercise and intended to help the author learn the process of evaluating the condition of a building, proposing treatment methods and maintenance practices, and writing a preservation planning study. In addition, the report is intended to serve as an outline and reference guide for Knights of Columbus to help direct the organization with the future rehabilitation, preservation, and maintenance of the William G. Scott House.Thesis (M.S.H.P.)Department of Architectur
Random Acts of Making: Discovering Tools, Methods & Mindsets for Making in the Classroom (Grades 4-6)
No full textThis thesis investigates how design activities taken on by makers and designers can illuminate real-world, contemporary issues relevant to the new BC Curriculum. The recent redesign of British Columbia’s K-12 Applied Design Skills and Technologies (ADST) curriculum aims to support the development of active citizens in a way that is in touch with today’s rapid pace of technology development and information exchange (Ministry of Education, 2015). As a designer and maker, who is also informed by observations and work with Vancouver’s maker community, Emily Smith has explored possible directions and philosophies for developing a maker education-pedagogy, informed by the maker movement, her own practices, and the Emily Carr students and faculty. This work is an exploration of TOOLS: Including drop spindles, knitting needles, and backstrap looms; METHODS: Including her own artistic textile and music-making practice and primary persona known as a “One-Woman Band”. This persona is an application of clowning practices, as taught by David Macmurray Smith. Methods borrowed from the maker community include designed materials and facilitation in the form of “Lightning Talks”, and “Zine-Making” (Appendix C&D). Finally, this thesis explores MINDSETS: which includes constructivism and constructionism, Design-Make-Play, Head, Heart and Hand, the Maker Mindset, the work of Maryann and Gregory Bateson and cybernetics. Guided by exploration of tools, methods and mindsets, Smith conducts a series of co-creation sessions and interviews with 15 participants (see Appendix A & B), which include Emily Carr students, local makers, faculty and educators in Vancouver. Findings provide a series of case studies which reveal that social making activities engage learners in a multiplicity of subjects, and can meaningfully address ADST’s Core Competencies through making, and discussion led by a facilitator. Other insights include possibilities to inspire students through the use of “memes”, through public forums, programs, and published materials. Designed materials constitute prototypes and proof of concepts for possible extensions and modules to further extend and develop the Maker Club format.Research through designMaker clubMaker educationADSTMaterial practic
A study of the confusion of lover and God in Emily Dickinson's, Bolts of Melody
No full textIn dealing with Emily Dickinson's confusion of lover and God in certain poems, this thesis necessarily investigates several biographers' claims that they have identified the lover. Of the candidates proposed, only two are seriously considered, Charles Wadsworth and Kate Scott Anthon. Also considered is the possibility that Emily Dickinson had no flesh-and-blood lover. The first chapter of the thesis discusses these several possibilities, as well as relevant critical material, and states the reasons for confining the investigation to Bolts of Melody, the only unquestioned edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry. [...]English, Department o
Emily C. Burns, Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France
No full textTransnational Frontiers has a great opening line. “The American West,” writes the author, art historian Emily C. Burns, “is a slippery concept, particularly in international settings.” This initial sentence gets to the heart of the challenge of discussing the West, which has long existed as an idea as much as an actual place. It also touches on the ways in which many of the myths of the West were supported and even shaped abroad. As Burns successfully demonstrates, from beginning to end, this..
Emily C. Burns, Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France
No full textTransnational Frontiers has a great opening line. “The American West,” writes the author, art historian Emily C. Burns, “is a slippery concept, particularly in international settings.” This initial sentence gets to the heart of the challenge of discussing the West, which has long existed as an idea as much as an actual place. It also touches on the ways in which many of the myths of the West were supported and even shaped abroad. As Burns successfully demonstrates, from beginning to end, this..
Queering Coloniality, Citizenship, and Sexual Identity
No full textPlease click the links below to view more information about each presentation.
“Queering the American Dream”
Emily N. Scott-Cruz, Salem College
“The Coloniality of Race and Gender and the Lives of Contemporary Trans Women”
Heather Stewart, University of Louisville
“Foucauldian Theory, Sexual Identity, and Self-Speciation”
April Callis, Northern Kentucky University
“Substance Abuse Advocacy as Resistance: The Gay Shame Movement and LGBT Substance Abuse Treatment”
Tyler C. Schrichte, East Tennessee State Universit
THE ETHICS OF PROTOCELLS: MORAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF CREATING LIFE IN THE LABORATORY
No full textSeries foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke -- I. Risk, uncertainty, and precaution with protocells -- 2. New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- 3. Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant -- 4. The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- 5. The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau -- 6. A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- 7. Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié -- II. Lessons from recent history and related technologies -- 8. The creation of life in cultural context: from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- 9. Second life: some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- 10. Protocell patents: property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- 11. Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- 12. The ambivalence of protocells: challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen -- III. Ethics in a future with protocells -- 13. Open evolution and human agency: the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- 14. Human practices: interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- 15. This is not a hammer: on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- 16. Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- 17. Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo -- About the author
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