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Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
Letter from Mary Garvey, Irish immigrant, to her mother, October 24, 1850
No full textMary Garvey, an Irish immigrant, was the servant of Rescarrick Moore Smith, a Hightstown businessman and New Jersey State Treasurer. This letter was dictated to and transcribed by Smith's daughter, Mary Elizabeth. In this letter to her mother in Ireland, Garvey asks after various family members and friends. She asks her mother many time to consider leaving the "poor state of Ireland" to emigrate to America. She also discusses her work duties, wages, and social life
A tradução da comédia teatral em The Importance of Being Earnest: tradução comentada e anotada
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da TraduçãoEsta dissertação consiste em uma discussão sobre a tradução teatral de textos de humor seguida da tradução comentada e anotada de The Importance of Being Earnest, de Oscar Wilde. No primeiro capítulo, são discutidas questões a respeito da tradução teatral, partindo-se do conceito de concretizações textuais de Patrice Pavis, como as noções de speakability e performance. No segundo capítulo, é feito um estudo sobre duas outras traduções da peça para o português brasileiro, analisando-se as escolhas feitas pelos tradutores bem como a evolução da tradução dessa peça ao longo da segunda metade do século vinte. O trabalho culmina com a discussão de questões pertinentes a minha tradução da peça, onde são tecidos os comentários pertinentes às escolhas ou mudanças realizadas na tradução apresentada: as questões dos nomes próprios, dos pronomes de tratamento e do humor. A nova tradução, que apresenta uma cena inédita ao público de língua portuguesa, e suas notas, encontra-se no apêndice deste trabalho. This dissertation consists of a discussion on theatrical translation of humoristic texts followed by a noted and commented translation of Oscar Wilde#s The Importance of Being Earnest. In the first chapter, questions related to theatrical translation are discussed starting from Patrice Pavis#s concepts of textual concretizations, such as the notions of speakability and performance. In the second chapter, there are analyses of two other translations of the play into Brazilian Portuguese focusing upon the translator#s choices as well as the evolution of the play#s translation through the second half of the twentieth century. This dissertation ends with a discussion on questions related to my translation of the play. In this final chapter, we can find commentaries concerning the choices and changes made in the translation presented, such as the question of the names of the characters, the personal pronouns, addresses and humour. The retranslation, which presents a new scene to Brazilian audiences, and the notes are in the appendix of this dissertation
A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein
No full textThis thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative reading. The novel hints at such readings but prevents them. The insights offered by Tropp's Mary Shelley's Monster, Baldick's In Frankenstein's Shadow, Poovey's The Proper Lady and the woman writer and Swingle's, 'Frankenstein's Monster and its Relatives: Problems of Knowledge in English Romanticism' are considered, but none recognises the full implications of the instability deriving from multiple first- person narratives. Clemit's The Godwinian Navel acknowledges the novel's indeterminacy, but reads a specific ideological purpose in it. Paradise Last provides a language to describe the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, but proves too unstable to fix identity or establish moral value. Similarly, Necessity ultimately fails to provide a stable explanation in terms of cause and effect. The status of nature shifts between foreground and background, never allowing final definition. These uncertainties destabilise knowledge which is compromised by its provisional nature: no authoritative reading is possible, yet the novel has narrative coherence. The reader is encouraged to try to develop a reading the structure prevents. The radical nature of the first edition is highlighted by comparison with the 1831 edition, which removes much of the ambivalence and gives the novel a clearer morality. The novel challenges conventional methods of deriving authority by disturbing the reader's orthodox orientation in the world around him' (Simpson) in order to afford 'a point of view to the imagination for the delineation of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield' (Mary Shelley)
Biologically inspired, self organizing communication networks.
No full textPhDThe problem of energy-efficient, reliable, accurate and self-organized target tracking in
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is considered for sensor nodes with limited physical
resources and abrupt manoeuvring mobile targets. A biologically inspired, adaptive
multi-sensor scheme is proposed for collaborative Single Target Tracking (STT) and
Multi-Target Tracking (MTT). Behavioural data obtained while tracking the targets
including the targets’ previous locations is recorded as metadata to compute the target
sampling interval, target importance and local monitoring interval so that tracking
continuity and energy-efficiency are improved. The subsequent sensor groups that track
the targets are selected proactively according to the information associated with the
predicted target location probability such that the overall tracking performance is
optimized or nearly-optimized. One sensor node from each of the selected groups is
elected as a main node for management operations so that energy efficiency and load
balancing are improved. A decision algorithm is proposed to allow the “conflict” nodes
that are located in the sensing areas of more than one target at the same time to decide
their preferred target according to the target importance and the distance to the target. A
tracking recovery mechanism is developed to provide the tracking reliability in the
event of target loss.
The problem of task mapping and scheduling in WSNs is also considered. A
Biological Independent Task Allocation (BITA) algorithm and a Biological Task
Mapping and Scheduling (BTMS) algorithm are developed to execute an application
using a group of sensor nodes. BITA, BTMS and the functional specialization of the
sensor groups in target tracking are all inspired from biological behaviours of
differentiation in zygote formation.
Simulation results show that compared with other well-known schemes, the
proposed tracking, task mapping and scheduling schemes can provide a significant
improvement in energy-efficiency and computational time, whilst maintaining
acceptable accuracy and seamless tracking, even with abrupt manoeuvring targets.Queen Mary university of London full Scholarshi
Millimetre wave imaging for concealed target detection
No full textPhDConcealed weapon detection (CWD) has been a hot topic as the concern about pub-
lic safety increases. A variety of approaches for the detection of concealed objects
on the human body based on earth magnetic ¯eld distortion, inductive magnetic
¯eld, acoustic and ultrasonic, electromagnetic resonance, MMW (millimetre wave),
THz, Infrared, x-ray technologies have been suggested and developed. Among all
of them, MMW holographic imaging is considered as a promising approach due
to the relatively high penetration and high resolution that it can o®er. Typical
concealed target detection methods are classi¯ed into 2 categories, the ¯rst one is a
resonance based target identi¯cation technique, and the second one is an imaging
based system. For the former, the complex natural resonance (CNR) frequencies
associated with a certain target are extracted and used for identi¯cation, but this
technique has an issue of high false alarm rate. The microwave/millimetre wave
imaging systems can be categorized into two types: passive systems and active sys-
tems. For the active microwave/millimetre wave imaging systems, the microwave
holographic imaging approach was adopted in this thesis. Such a system can oper-
ate at either a single frequency or multiple frequencies (wide band). An active,
coherent, single frequency operation millimetre wave imaging system based on the
theory of microwave holography was developed. Based on literature surveys and
¯rst hand experimental results, this thesis aims to provide system level parame-
ter determination to aid the development of a target detection imager. The goal
is approached step by step in 7 chapters, with topics and issues addressed rang-
ing from reviewing the past work, ¯nding out the best candidate technology, i.e.
the MMW holographic imaging combined with the resonance based target recog-
i
nition technique, the construction of the 94 GHz MMW holographic prototype
imager, experimental trade-o® investigation of system parameters, imager per-
formance evaluation, low pro¯le components and image enhancement techniques,
feasibility investigation of resonance based technique, to system implementation
based on the parameters and results achieved. The task set forth in the beginning
is completed by coming up with an entire system design in the end.
Mary Shepard: the artist who brought Mary Poppins to life
No full textThe success of Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins has often obscured the fact the popular series of books describing the experiences of the enigmatic nanny were in fact written by the Australian born author P.L. Travers.
Travers’ own sense of ownership of her creation in turn obscured the contribution made by the illustrator Mary Shepard. Despite a 54 year collaboration, Shepard is regularly ignored in discussions of the books: the 2013 movie Saving Mr Banks, which detailed the genesis of the film, did not even mention Shepard or the pivotal role she played in the books’ success.
'The Conversation' articles provides important insights into Mary Shepard's contribution to the Mary Poppins series of books
United Nations Documents and Publications: A Research Guide
No full textPrescriptive techniques and information for students and the scholarly community who need to conduct research into the vast amount of material, published and unpublished, of the UN.Published as Rutgers University GSLS occasional papers, no. 76-5
Mary Palmer
No full textMeet our Author of the week, Mary Palmer, as we talk about her latest book and getting published.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1038/thumbnail.jp
Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
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