4,199 research outputs found
Derek Wilson
No full textDigital copies were created from a selection of items in the original hard copy Fay Singer South African Jewish Music Centre collection held in DOMUS in the Music Library, Stellenbosch University.Comments by Derek Wilson from the Cape Argus about a programme on Fine Music Radio
Visions of interconnection : ecocritical perspectives on the writings of Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott
No full textThis thesis provides a 'green' reading of selected writings from Wilson Harris
and Derek Walcott, demonstrating each writer's profound and sustained
engagement with the philosophy, politics and poetics of environmentalism. The
environmental ethic evident in the work of Harris and of Walcott has been
fashioned in relation not only to personal experiences of lived reality in the
Caribbean, but also as a result of prevalent ecological thinking world-wide. In
addition, an integral part of the construction of such literary ecology is the
formation of dialogues with an earlier eco-literary heritage, especially the
inspiration taken from an understanding of 'green' Romanticism in the form of
the poetry of William Blake and of John Clare.
Part one of the study examines examples from across the corpus of
Wilson Harris's work, tracing the representation of ecologically-conscious
interconnected vision from his earliest published writings up until his final
novels. Harris textually re-maps journeys of incursion, ethnocentric and
anthropocentric, into the forests of Guyana to arrive at a position of redemptive
possibility for the history of the land. Part two of the study looks at the formation
of Derek Walcott's environmental ethic through his construction of an ecopoetic
body of work, which comprises various modes, tones and genres of writing.
Walcott, too, arrives at a representation of 'interconnected vision' which
demands the re-figuring of relations between humanity and the extra-human
world.
This thesis hopes to offer some insights into the reassessment of the
Romantic inheritance to literary ecology in general, and, furthermore, to indicate
how the processes of 'green' reading might be compatible with postcolonial
analysis. It is the contention that the cross-cultural nature of the eco-narratives
and ecopoetics of Harris and of Walcott locate them very much at the forefront of
discussions of cultural ecology both in the Caribbean and beyond
Ekphrasis through otherness: the transformation of imagery in Derek Walcott's White Egrets
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, 2015.Abstract : Opposing the contemporary literary reductionism of ekphrasis to a verbal representation of a painting, a sculpture, a drawing, or a photograph, this research views otherness as the object of contemplation. Through the present rereading of ekphrasis, the investigation will seek 1) to analyze how the ekphrastic characteristics of Walcott`s poetry in his latest work White Egrets promote more companionship than antagonistic views between poetry and painting, and; 2) to analyze how ekphrasis transforms the imagery of Derek Walcott`s créole identity into an aesthetic object of contemplation, depicting it in the similar way of a work of art. More specifically, the discussion analyses how the cultural relations/representations between the self and the other provide an ?ekphrastic situation? for Derek Walcott in the Caribbean?s complex colonial legacy. The poet`s ekphrastic act to render private and personal identity intimacies will lean on the nonfixity of the image, or its motion in stasis. The main theoretical concepts that sustain this investigation are drawn from the works of W.J.T. Mitchell (1980, 1986, 1994, 1996), Cheeke (2008), Loizeaux (2008), and Hall (1989, 1993, 1996, 1997).Opondo-se ao reducionismo literário contemporâneo de que a écfrase seja somente uma representação verbal de uma pintura, uma escultura, um desenho ou uma fotografia, esta pesquisa vê a própria alteridade como objeto de contemplação. Através desta releitura da écfrase, a presente investigação visa 1) analisar como as características ecfrásticas da poesia de Derek Walcott em sua última coleção de poesias intitulada White Egrets (Garças Brancas) propiciam mais companheirismo que visões antagônicas entre poesia e pintura, e; 2) analisar como a écfrase transforma a imagem da identidade crioula de Derek Walcott em um objeto estético de contemplação, retratando-a de uma forma semelhante a uma obra de arte. Mais especificamente, a discussão analisa como as relações/representações culturais entre o eu-individual e o outro propiciam uma  situação ecfrástica para Derek Walcott no complexo legado colonial Caribenho. O ato ecfrástico do poeta ao relatar aspectos privados e pessoais de sua identidade revelar-se-á embasado na infixidez da imagem, ou seja, seu imobilismo em movimento. Os principais conceitos teóricos que sustentam esta investigação foram retirados das obras de W.J.T. Mitchell (1980, 1986, 1994, 1996), Cheeke (2008), Loizeaux (2008), e Hall (1989, 1993, 1996, 1997)
Nobel Prize-winning Author Derek Walcott to Speak March 28
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott is a featured lecturer March 28 at the University of Mississippi
A conversation with Dr. Derek Schuurman about developing responsible technology
No full textIn this episode, I am joined by Dr. Derek Schuurman, professor of computer science at Calvin University and co-author of a new book entitled A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers with IVP Academic. Today, we talk about how to responsibly develop technology in light of the Christian worldview
Derek Mahon as translator
No full textDerek Mahon has devoted much of his productive life to translation, especially from the French. This paper studies his handling of French texts, distinguishing those which he has freely recreated from those which he has assimilated to his own style and those where he has made himself subservient to the character of the original author. Attention is drawn to his inventiveness, his wit, his moderation and rationality, his concern for effective and relevant communication with the reader, his rhythmic sense and his concern for emphasis and coherence. It is argued that the practice of translation affords Mahon the opportunity to write "at one remove" from direct feeling, and in so doing to combine breadth of feeling and of cultural reference with self-awareness and self-discipline
Interview with Derek Nikitas, part 1 of 2 [video]
No full textDerek Nikitas is a faculty member in the Creative Writing MFA Program and author of two recent mystery novels, The Long Division (2009) and Pyres (2007). Nikitas\u27 first novel was nominated for the prestigious Edgar award, and has been optioned for film adaptation by Vox3 Films. His second novel, The Long Division, is receiving rave reviews
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