74 research outputs found
Sarah Fielding: Satire and Subversion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
No full textThis study of Sarah Fielding (1710―68) is an original contribution to Fielding scholarship that has a dual purpose: to support those who are striving to re-introduce her to the modern literary landscape in an effort to restore her eighteenth-century literary standing, and to firmly establish Fielding as an early feminist writer. It is argued here that throughout her oeuvre Fielding challenged prevailing traditions that denied women a choice, particularly in education, employment and marriage. These themes are also considered in the political treatises of Mary Astell (1666―1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759―97), who are now widely recognised as feminist writers.
It is further argued that Fielding’s subversion in fiction of the English patriarchal system is underscored by her unorthodox performance in the literary arena. This is fully explored alongside her use of sentimentalism as a literary tool with which she challenges her seemingly inhumane society. Fielding’s interest in ‘the Labyrinths of the Mind’ (in modern terms, human psychology) will also be addressed as will her placement in the history of feminism and her placement in the sentimental novel tradition. Fielding’s performance as a literary critic will be compared with the few female authors who, like her, dared to publish literary criticism during her writing career. Accordingly, extracts from Fielding’s novels and her two critical pamphlets will be thoroughly examined.
An updated biography of Fielding that is also included here will provide evidence for a further claim, that her fiction is autobiographical in part. A comprehensive account of Fielding’s performance as a literary critic forms the final chapter of this work. It is the first full-length examination of her contribution to the genre and includes an appraisal of her recently unearthed critical pamphlet entitled A Comparison Between the Horace of Corneille and The Roman Father of Mr. Whitehead (1750) that is yet to be formerly attributed to her. Ultimately this study of Fielding will go far beyond what has previously been written about this remarkable eighteenth-century author, particularly regarding her feminist activity
Modeling and simulation enabled UAV electrical power system design
No full textWith the diversity of mission capability and the associated requirement for more advanced technologies, designing modern unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems is an especially challenging task. In particular, the increasing reliance on the electrical power system for delivering key aircraft functions, both electrical and mechanical, requires that a systems-approach be employed in their development. A key factor in this process is the use of modeling and simulation to inform upon critical design choices made. However, effective systems-level simulation of complex UAV power systems presents many challenges, which must be addressed to maximize the value of such methods. This paper presents the initial stages of a power system design process for a medium altitude long endurance (MALE) UAV focusing particularly on the development of three full candidate architecture models and associated technologies. The unique challenges faced in developing such a suite of models and their ultimate role in the design process is explored, with case studies presented to reinforce key points. The role of the developed models in supporting the design process is then discussed
Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
No full textThree groups are examined: the family, followers and friends. The structure,functions and tensions of these groups are described and their dynamics analysed in the fields of decision making and conflict resolution.
The approach offers a dialectic between Latin and French sources, historical and literary, and social science theories. This opens up new avenues for analysis and allows a holistic description of medieval politics and society.
The family comprised parents and their children. Within this small unit affection was very strong; outside, it quickly declined. Although uncles and nephews had political links there was considerably less emotional attachment between them than between parent-child and sibling relationships.
Three types of follower are examined: household retainers, enfeoffed tenants and 'neighbours'. Household knights had the strongest emotional bonds to their lord and were
seen as the most loyal. Tenants who performed homage were called `men'; 'vassal' is shown to mean 'good follower'. An aristocrat exercised considerable control within his lands and beyond them he maintained some power. In these areas people may have obeyed his will without having any direct link with him. Such people were often called 'neighbours'.
Informal influences such as love and fear are shown to have more force than the formal bonds created through homage and oaths. Concepts of 'treason' and 'defiance' are also examined.
Five types of friendship are identified: friendship as courtesy, formal friendship, emotional friendship, company and companionship. Calling someone 'friend' was a sign of
politeness. Political agreements, often termed covenants, created formal bonds of friendship. A new methodology for investigating emotional friendship is proposed. Groups with a strong identity were called companies. Companionship was a close bond, usually between two men, that combined elements of formal and emotional friendship.
This description of the socio-political dynamics of the aristocracy offers an alternative to earlier models and greatly enhances our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics and society
Studies in Scottish Latin
No full textThis thesis examines certain aspects of Scottish Latin,
particularly in the period 1580-1637.
The first chapter chronicles the endeavours of John Scot of
Scotstarvet to compile an anthology of Scottish Latin poetry, based on
the unpublished letters to Scot in the NLS. Both the letters and contemporary
verse indicate that the project was under way twenty years
before the Delitiae was printed and that John Leech was an important
influence. Leech's letters to Scot highlight Scot's editorial reticence,
confirmed by the alterations in Scotstarvet's own verse. The final
product was more a reflection of the taste and ethos of the early 1620s,
after which Scot apparently ceased to collect material.
The second chapter documents the attempts to impose a national
grammar upon the schools, akin to the Lily-Colet grammar in England.
Attempts to provide a radical alternative to Despauter, firstly by a
committee and later by Alexander Hume, were inhibited by the inherent
conservatism of teaching establishments. The most successful of the
new grammars, those by Wedderburn and the Dunbar Rudiments, remained
as general introductions to Despauter.
Evidence for the composition of Latin verse in schools and
universities, both statutory and manuscript, is assessed in the third
chapter. Active involvement in the practice by local authorities
influenced the range and extent of verse being written after 1600.
The poetry of David Wedderburn of Aberdeen, promoted by the town
council, reflects that influence.
The importance of teaching methods upon a poet's future
development is most clearly seen in the verse of David Hume, discussed
in the fourth chapter. Hume continually re-works and re-evaluates the
themes of his adolescent verse, measuring them against the achievements
of James VI, whose birth he had earlier celebrated.
The thesis concludes with a check-list of Scots whose Latin
verse was printed before 1640
Vernal Seminary Third Year Graduates
No full text44 Seminary students received certificates for completion of three years of religious instruction, including the Book of Mormon, The New Testament, The Old Testament and Church History. These students were: Alice Abplanalp, Dave L. Abplanalp, Lynn K. Angus, Della Atwood, Mike Alexander, Paul Eric Aycock, Ronald Jay Basitan, Alvin Begaye, Rickie J. Bell, Pamela Bowthorpe, Brad R. Bullock, Ray Don Bullock, Lily M. Brunsuik, Kathy Aleta Busch, Brenda Caldwell, Randy Wade Carter, Pamela Kae Clark, Dalee Cook, Janeen Cook, Sue Barker Cook, Dennis C. Curtis, Brad Elton Davidson, Arneldon Theron Davis, Dan Deans, Evelyn Kay Deans, Lonnie Jean Edrington, Rodney K. Erickson, Davis norman Fletcher, Brent Charles Fox, Greg Frandsen, Debra Freestone, Laretta Galloway, Brenda Marie Gardiner, Pamela Ann Gentry, Douglas Gibbs, John Dale Goodman, George Allen Gurr, Kent Farley Hadlock, Carole Hall, Steven Hall, Bruce Dale Hanks, Janice Harrison, Verda Harrison, Elroy Hardinger, Robert Burnell Haws, Bart Henderson, Andrea Henry, Jerry Thomas Holfeltz, Dennis Holmes, Sandra Kay Hullinger, Danny Jackson, Jacque Johnson, Christine Jeanne Jones, Austin Kendall, Keith Kendall, Michele Knight, Kathryn Luck, Ann Madsen, Hal B. Massey, Sheree Massey, Sherry Massey, Leon Maynard, Douglas McConkie, Garth McConkie, Linda Loy Mackay, Annette Merrell, Randy Merrill, Rosa Rae Millicam, Judy Moon, Barbara Morrison, Judy Morrison, David Everett Morton, Shanna Kaye Moulton, Terry Jay Murray, Willian Dez Murray, Lee R. Nash, Ray Lamar Nash, Terry Boyd Nielson, Linda Kay Oaks, Marilyn O\u27Neil, Michael Charles O\u27Neil, Morris Sterling Palmer, Scott Pederson, Carolyn May Perry, Leanne Pettey, Alonzo Blaine Pierce, Nyla Porter, Rhonda Porter, Patricia Ann Powell, Diane Preece, Donald Mack Preece, Kathlyn Price, Cheya Rae Rasmussen, Jeri Reynolds, Corwin Roberts, Joanne Roberts, Dana Loy Shiner, Merlin B. Sinfield, Jay Slaugh, Mary Lee Snow, Debra Sorensen, Diane Southam, Kathryn Southam, Jeannie Starkey, Carol Stevens, Patty Stone, Jean Stringham, Sandy Sutton, Lamoyne Taylor, Vickie Taylor, Nancy Thacker, Phillip J. Timothy, Karl Glenn Turner, Mary Jean Turner, Sandra Lee Twitchell, Charlene Wardle, Marlene Wardle, Ronnie Westwood, Alan J. White, Patricia Wilkins, Sherry Williams, George Thomas Winder, Donald Winkler, Glenda Winn, and Glenna Winn
Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
No full textRepetition is inherent to cinema. From the complex interweaving of genre cycles andHollywood stars to the elementary mechanism of film projection (twenty-four times persecond): cinema is repetition. It is perhaps little wonder then that psychoanalysis is oftenthought of as one of the discourses with which to write about film in the 20th century.However, this thesis problematises both cinematic repetition and psychoanalytic film theory,stressing that each is haunted by a spectre: the remake, and the film-philosophy of GillesDeleuze, respectively. Despite its critical opprobrium, I explore the remake not only as aviable object of cinematic scholarship, but one necessary in moving past the impasse of filmstudies identified by Timothy Corrigan (1991) as ‘historical hysteria’. My research turns toDeleuzian film theory as a counterpart, rather than replacement, of the predominant Lacanianmodel. This is, however, neither a defence of the remake nor of psychoanalysis, but, rather, anattempt to submit both to a radical reassessment that, as Lacan says, aims at giving you a‘kick up the arse’ (1998:49).Eschewing the ‘example’ as a remnant of film theory’s current collapse in form, I suggest two‘case studies’ for consideration, augmented by a cache of film references: (1) Gus Van Sant’sshot-for-shot remake (1998) of Alfred Hitchcock’s original Psycho (1960) as a ‘symptom’ ofHollywood’s self-cannibalisation; and (2) George Sluizer’s The Vanishing (1993), aHollywood ‘auto-remake’ of his own Dutch original, Spoorloos (1988), as a ‘fetish’ ofHollywood’s desire in the European ‘Other’. Rather than expose Deleuze to a Lacanianframework I subject the one to a reading of the other in a möbius relation, turning theminside-out, so to speak. Mediating these two thinkers is Slavoj Žižek, a cultural theorist whoseown ‘filmosophy’ is revealed from amongst his often frenetic writings. In so doing, I expose adark underside to Hollywood repetition, one which provides some new tools forunderstanding the popularity of cinema’s most critically neglected discourse
An overwhelming question : Jewish stereotyping in English fiction and society, 1875-1914.
No full textThis thesis sets out to examine the nature of modern Jewish
stereotyping in English society with reference to a wide range of English fiction which, for the most part, has been previously undocumented in these terms. Instead of a purely literary analysis of the fictional Jewish stereotype, this thesis places the Jewish stereotype in a specific
ideological and historical context which is then related to a given writer-or group of writers—and their fiction. Two chapters, moreover, demonstrate the material results of Jewish stereotyping in English society with reference to the internalisation and institutionalisation of Jewish stereotyping by British Jewry and the AngloJewish novel. The variety and impact of Jewish stereotyping is shown
to encompass the ideologies of liberalism, social Darwinism,
Imperialism, antisemitism, proto-Zionism, Socialism and mainstream versions of sexuality. The concluding chapter relates the modern Jewish stereotype, which was formed after the 1870s, to a more general ahistorical mythic view of the Jew. In particular, this chapter refers to the
links between modern Jewish stereotyping and the traditional
Christian view of the Jew. With reference to a wide range of
writers, more general questions are raised in this chapter concerning the continuity of Jewish stereotyping and the choice of a given stereotype by a particular social or literary group
The voice of Jesus in six parables and their interpreters
No full text'Figures of speech' provide a suggestive key for approaching the question of Jesus' individual tone of voice. Apprehending a figure implies insight into an intention, and beyond intention to discern unconscious influences upon the speaker. This is the conceptual framework for a study of the 'voice of Jesus' in six parables peculiar to Luke (10:25-37; 15:11-32; 16:1-9; 16:19-31; 18:1-8; 18:9-14) and in commentaries upon them. In the premodern era commentators approached the parables with an immediacy of insight, seeking the divine intention behind the texts. Nevertheless we may hear the voice of Jesus echoing in their commentaries in morally specific tones. In the work of Jülicher 'insight', though repudiated, is still important, as he seeks the intention of Jesus through the figure of simile. Jülicher offers insight into Jesus as a passionate communicator, but goes beyond Jesus' intention in making him a propounder of generalities. More recently a concern with the intention of Jesus is replaced by a concern with how his voice was heard. The necessity of insight remains apparent in B.B. Scott's use of metaphor as an interpretative key. An impression is given of Jesus as a provocative subversive. In their context in Luke-Acts, the parables function as metonymies of the gospel, and yield an impression of the voice of Jesus as suggestively concerned with the life of this world. In the ministry of Jesus the parables function as synecdoches, offering hearers a realistic and hopeful 'part' of the world from which they must fashion a 'whole’. Against the background of Scripture the parables display a deep continuity with older forms of discourse, but also important tokens of newness. A stream of influence can be traced from the Old Testament, through Jesus and Luke, and on through their interpreters, though recently its course has been somewhat diverted
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