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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
Pedalling downhill and freewheeling up; a penguin perspective on foraging
No full textWilson, R. P., Shepard, E. L. C., Gomez-Laich, A., Frere, E., Quintana, F. (2010). Pedalling downhill and freewheeling up; a penguin perspective on foraging. Aq. Biol. 8: 193-202
Buoyed up and slowed down: speed limits for diving birds in shallow water
No full textShepard, E. L. C., Wilson, R. P., Gomez Laich, A., Quintana, F. (2010). Buoyed up and slowed down: speed limits for diving birds in shallow water. Aq. Biol. 8; 259-267
Making overall dynamic body acceleration work: on the theory of acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure
No full textGleiss, A., Wilson, R. P., Shepard, E. L. C. (2011). Making dynamic body acceleration work: on the theory of acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure. Methods in Ecol. Evol. 2; 23-33
Assessing the development and application of the accelerometry technique for estimating energy expenditure
No full textHalsey, L. G., Shepard, E. L. C., Wilson, R. P. (2011). Assessing the development and application of the accelerometry technique for estimating energy expenditure. Compar. Biochem. Physiol. A. 158; 305-314
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Use of overall dynamic body acceleration for estimating energy expenditure in cormorants
No full textGomez-Laich, A., Wilson, R. P., Gleiss, A. C., Shepard, E. L. C., Quintana, F. (In press). Use of Overall Dynamic Body Acceleration for estimating energy expenditure in free-living animals; does locomotion in different media affect relationships. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol
From daily movements to population distributions: weather affects competitive ability in a guild of soaring birds
No full textThe ability of many animals to access and exploit food is dependent on the ability to move. In the case of scavenging birds, which use soaring flight to locate and exploit ephemeral resources, the cost and speed of movement vary with meteorological factors. These factors are likely to modify the nature of interspecific interactions, as well as individual movement capacity, although the former are less well understood. We used aeronautical models to examine how soaring performance varies with weather within a guild of scavenging birds and the consequences this has for access to a common resource. Birds could be divided broadly into those with low wing loading that are more competitive in conditions with weak updraughts and low winds (black vultures and caracaras), and those with high wing loading that are well adapted for soaring in strong updraughts and moderate to high winds (Andean condors). Spatial trends in meteorological factors seem to confine scavengers with high wing loading to the mountains where theyout-compete other birds; a trend that is borne out in worldwide distributions of the largest species. However, model predictions and carcass observations suggest that the competitive ability of these and other birds varies with meteorological conditions in areas where distributions overlap. This challenges the view that scavenging guilds are structured by fixed patterns of dominance and suggests that competitive ability varies across spatial and temporal scales, which may ultimately be a mechanism promoting diversity among aerial scavengers.Fil: Shepard, Emily L. C.. Swansea University; Reino UnidoFil: Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentin
Manual |'manyә(wә)l|
No full textManual |'manyә(wә)l| Noun: Instructions For Learning and Understanding a Subject Manual of the Artist's Aphorisms Based on Theory and Practice, Experience and Reflection. This manual is an investigation and a search for meaning within a gallery space. The essence of my practice as an artist is the research I do within the exhibition space prior to making or installing an artwork. By participating in the creation and the management of 1612 Gallery, I have been studying and reflecting on all aspects of that space as a gallery: researching its history, location and functionality and by observation I have seen how different artists respond to this gallery space. My research has included looking at the history of art galleries through catalogues and fieldwork, as well as studying the writings of art historians, curators and artists as they consider the gallery as a space for exhibiting art. The 1612 Gallery, Emily Carr University Graduate students studios and gallery located at 1612 West 3rd in Vancouver, British Columbia, functions as my case study and is also used as a comparative tool in my understanding of the nature of “the white cube” gallery space. My research question focuses on how the gallery and exhibition space influences the work on display and how, by placing an artwork within a certain space a specific meaning is created. My method was to place myself in the centre of the investigation, where I took on the roles of the carpenter, cleaner, facilitator, artist, curator and exhibition maker. My purpose was to better understand the role of the artist and the curator, complete with the obligations, and the tasks that comes with these roles, and to better understand how a space; with its white walls, its ideology, and its dialogue becomes an art gallery. My thesis artwork will be a final site-specific sculpture based on these reflections.Art galleriesCuratorArtistsSpac
Hiljaisuuden kieli, (ei-)tieto ja naistekijyys Marguerite Durasin romaanissa Emily L.
No full textTutkin tässä teoreettisessa esseessä ranskalaisen kirjailijan ja elokuvaohjaajan Marguerite Durasin (1914–1996) romaania Emily L. (1989/1987) siitä kulmasta, kuinka taiteen tekeminen, hiljaisuus ja sukupuoli kiertyvät siinä toisiinsa ja minkälaisia sukupuolittuneita merkityksiä hiljaisuus siinä saa. Kyseessä on iäkkään kirjailijanaisen elämänsä illassa sepittämä, itseään peilaava tai moninaistava ”antitarina”, joka sisältää kertomuksen myös toisesta, elämänsä viimeiselle matkalle valmistautuvasta kirjailijanaisesta. Luen romaania keskeisen modernistisen uudistajan autofiktiivisenä tutkielmana länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiasta poispyyhitystä naistekijyydestä. Tällaisessa kehystyksessä teoksesta kasvaa vaikuttava, feministisesti kantaaottava poeettis-poliittinen metafora. Käyn vuoropuhelua feministisen filosofian, ranskalaisen kirjallisuudentutkimuksen sekä mustan ja post-koloniaalisen teorian kanssa osoittaakseni radikaalin moninaisen teoreettisen ajattelun avulla, että Durasin esteettisessä ilmaisussa tyylitelty hiljaisuus luo paradoksaalisesti aivan omanlaistaan kieltä. Lopuksi tarkastelen transkielisyyden käsitteen avulla, kuinka durasilainen hiljaisuuden kieli nivoutuu hänen kulttuurisesti hybridiin ja monikieliseen taustaansa.
Abstract in English
The Language of Silence, (Un)Knowledge and Female Authorship in Marguerite Duras’s novel Emily L.
In this theory-oriented essay, I examine Marguerite Duras’s (1914–1996) novel, Emily L. (1987), with a primary focus on the intertwinement of silence, writing, and gender, and the gendered meanings attributed to silence. In Emily L., an elderly female author tells a story of another female author embarking on her final journey. It is an ’anti-story’ narrative, multiplying or mirroring itself within itself. By analysing the text as an autofictional exploration of the erasure of female authorship in Western literary history, I highlight Duras’s role as a significant modernist literary innovator of the 20th century. Within this framing, the novel emerges as a powerful feminist poetico-political metaphor. I employ radically multiple theoretical perspectives, engaging in a thoughtful dialogue with feminist philosophy, French literary theory, as well as black and postcolonial feminist theory. This investigation reveals that in Duras's artistic expression, the stylized silence paradoxically creates a language of its’ own. In the end of the essay I analyse, with the help of the concept of literary translingualism, how Duras’s language of silence is intertwined with her culturally hybrid and multilingual background
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