475 research outputs found
Interview with Michael Martone
No full textMichael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is author of the collection of short stories, Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler\u27s List. He is currently a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama
Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 95-0153-2549: Fort Wayne Foundry Machining Division, Fort Wayne, Indiana
No full textIn response to a request from employees at the Fort Wayne Foundry Machine Division (SIC-3363), Fort Wayne, Indiana an investigation was begun into exposure to metal working fluid and to the biocide Grotan. Concerns expressed included skin irritation, runny nose, upper respiratory infections, shortness of breath, headaches, coughing, cuts that became easily infected, and cancer. The Division machined automotive aluminum castings. No nitrosamines were detected in bulk samples taken from the site. General air samples revealed oil mist concentrations of 0.27mg/m3 and 0.47mg/m3, which were well below any established occupational criteria. Formaldehyde (50000) concentrations were all less than 0.06 parts per million. Bacteria concentrations were in the range of 10(6) to 10(7) colony forming units/milliliter of metal working fluid. All bacteria identified were gram negative rods. The author concludes that sampling results did not suggest over exposure to formaldehyde, nitrosamines or oil mist. The workers were exposed to metal working fluid. Workers had poor hygiene practices and rarely used any personal protective equipment. The author recommends that the local exhaust ventilation be improved, and that dermal contact with the metalworking fluid and inhalation exposure should be reduced
Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation
No full textThis chapter proposes that in the aftermath of colonisation at least two different Christologies or images of Christ are required. First, the author outlines some of the creative, constructive work currently being done by Indigenous theologians, focusing on Lee Miena Skye and Wayne Te Kaawa. Second, the author suggests the need for a theologia crucis for white Christians in Australia and Aotearoa, an image of Christ that can interrupt settler strategies for avoiding responsibility for colonisation and ignoring Indigenous challenges
Book Reviews
No full textBeautiful Theories: The Spectacle of Discourse in Contemporary Criticism (Elizabeth Bruss) (Reviewed by Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University)Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction (Robert C. Holub) (Reviewed by Michael Eckert, University of Florida)Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales (V. A. Kolve) (Reviewed by Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University)The Character of Swift\u27s Satire: A Revised Focus (Claude Rawson) (Reviewed by Michael Seidel, Columbia University)Swift\u27s Narrative Satires: Author and Authority (Everett Zimmerman) (Reviewed by Michael Seidel, Columbia University)William Godwin (Peter H. Marshall) (Reviewed by John P. Clark, Loyola University - New Orleans)Introspection and Contemporary Poetry (Alan Williamson) (Reviewed by Charles Molesworth, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY)Robert Bly: An Introduction to the Poetry (Howard Nelson) (Reviewed by Charles Molesworth, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY)Victorian and Modern Poetics (Carol T. Christ) (Reviewed by Hugh Witemeyer, The University of New Mexico
Doing Experimental Syntax: Bridging the gap between syntactic questions and well-designed questionnaires
No full textChapter 3 in In search of grammar: Experimental and corpus-based studies, edited by James Myers.
Book Description:
Corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experimentation, and computer modeling can seem intimidating to linguists more familiar with the traditional low-tech methods of theoretical syntax, morphology, and phonology. Yet as this book demonstrates, it does not require much extra effort for grammarians to expand their methodological repertoire. Core contributions come from Wayne Cowart, author of the pioneering Experimental Syntax, and Michael Hammond, author of the standard reference The Phonology of English. They and four other contributing authors provide easy-to-follow tutorials and case studies on a variety of grammatical issues from Chinese, English, and other languages, using a variety of empirical methods. It is hoped that grammarians of all stripes, from syntacticians to phonologists, from formalists to functionalists, from students to professors, will find inspiration in this book for their own research.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1490/thumbnail.jp
What Kind of Thing is a Coordinate?
No full textChapter 7 in In Search of Grammar: Empirical Methods in Linguistics, edited by James Myers.
Book Description:
Corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experimentation, and computer modeling can seem intimidating to linguists more familiar with the traditional low-tech methods of theoretical syntax, morphology, and phonology. Yet as this book demonstrates, it does not require much extra effort for grammarians to expand their methodological repertoire. Core contributions come from Wayne Cowart, author of the pioneering Experimental Syntax, and Michael Hammond, author of the standard reference The Phonology of English. They and four other contributing authors provide easy-to-follow tutorials and case studies on a variety of grammatical issues from Chinese, English, and other languages, using a variety of empirical methods. It is hoped that grammarians of all stripes, from syntacticians to phonologists, from formalists to functionalists, from students to professors, will find inspiration in this book for their own research.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1489/thumbnail.jp
Impacts of space, abundance and food web structure on parasite life cycles
No full textThe search for fundamental patterns or rules by which parasites establish and persist in free-living species is a rapidly expanding area of interest for both parasitologists and ecologists. Though host-parasite interactions are fairly well understood at the population level, little is known about parasitism at the community level, nor why some free-living species harbor many parasite taxa while others are seemingly resistant to parasite establishment. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore several species and community attributes that could be important to parasite establishment and persistence in both a marine saltmarsh (Tuckerton, NJ) and a freshwater riverine system (Raritan River, NJ). This study specifically emphasized feeding interactions, abundance and spatial distributions of free-living species and their respective helminth parasites. In Tuckerton saltmarsh, I observed a strong spatial patterning in trematode infections of the mudsnail, Ilyanassa obsoleta, and this pattern is strongly correlated with habitat type and host quality. At the community level (along with data from four previously published systems), trophically transmitted parasites were found to utilize asymmetric predator-prey interactions, in which predator hosts have many prey items and prey hosts have relatively few predators. In a pristine site along the Raritan River high resolution abundance data revealed that predator-prey interactions are spatially constrained by habitat and that this pattern was even stronger for host-host and parasite-host interactions. Finally, I found a decrease in efficiency of biomass transfer up trophic levels across a perturbation gradient in this river system. This pattern correlated with losses in both free-living and parasite diversity. However, the relationship between these factors and human impact was not linear, suggesting a threshold at which community structure becomes less invasible by parasites. Collectively, this study suggests that spatial context, in combination with community structure, can greatly affect parasite establishment and persistence and can be used to explain or predict which free-living species are more hospitable hosts.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Wayne David Rossite
Witching Hours
No full textabstract: Witching Hours is the debut studio album of Chicago-born, Phoenix-residing trumpet player John Michael Sherman. It is a consummation of his work in the Arizona State University jazz studies program both as a performer and composer. Featured on the album are several other musicians who John Michael played alongside throughout his tenure at ASU, including Chaz Martineau on tenor saxophone, Evan Rees on piano, Reid Riddiough on guitar, Vince Thiefain on bass, Matt McClintock on drums, and Dan Meadows on baritone saxophone. The album features seven pieces, all original compositions or arrangements. The first track, "Workin' My Nerves", is a blues shuffle in the key of F. This is followed by "Scarborough Fair", an arrangement of the classic English folk tune in a rock style. The title track, "Witching Hours", is an cadaverous linear composition in 7/4 which is followed by "Goliath", a pseudo-tone poem about the biblical giant. "I Should Have Known" is a pensive ballad featuring an a capella intro and cadenza, followed by the most recent composition, a minor blues-esque piece entitled "Who Said That?" The final track, "Don't Change A Thing", is an upbeat samba which was written in John Michael's first year of college. These pieces demonstrate an understanding of the jazz tradition and exhibit influences from such musicians as Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, and Snarky Puppy. The album was recorded at Tempest Recording in Tempe and produced by Clarke Rigsby. Clarke is a veteran recording engineer and is the first choice of many of Phoenix's finest jazz musicians, including thesis director and head of the ASU jazz department Michael Kocour. The pieces were composed and recorded under the guidance of Mike Kocour and Jeff Libman. Witching Hours represents a culmination of John Michael's course in the Arizona State University jazz department and his endeavors as a trumpet player and composer
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
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
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