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Romantic Dialogues: Writing the Self in De Quincey and Woolf
No full textVirginia Woolf has been recognised as a pioneering modernist writer creating a new literary voice. It is not unusual to discover in Woolf’s writings the aesthetic and literary traces of those past traditions and influences which have been woven into her modern narratives. One significant, but often overlooked, influence comes from the Romantic period and the essayist, Thomas De Quincey. De Quincey’s stylish essays inspire Woolf’s art. Both writers’ fascination with representing the self (and their devotion to creating a literary thinking about, and narrative of, the subject) indicates a shared affinity between these two writers in spite of important cultural, historical, and social differences between them. My treatment of the self in De Quincey and Woolf is aware of the aesthetic and literary affinities between them and those cultural and historical differences that divide them. Tracing important connections between these two important writers sheds light on the larger concerns and patterns of both the literary scenes of Romanticism and Modernism.
Six chapters in three sections focus on three main aspects of the self central to De Quincey and Woolf—the art of literature, the representation of time and the question of autobiographical writing. Chapter One and Two investigate De Quincey’s literature of power and Woolf’s art of fiction to examine the relationship between literary representation and the self. Chapter Three and Four discuss issues of time and self in De Quincey and Woolf. The final two chapters contend that De Quincey’s and Woolf’s reflections on literary representation, and time as a philosophical problem are embodied in their writings of the self across their respective literary careers. A project of this kind is alert to and enriches a recent burgeoning critical interest from Romanticists and Modernists alike in the exchanges, interchanges, bequests, and legacies of Romanticism to Modernism
Correspondence sent from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to George Hawkes
No full textCorrespondence sent from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to George Hawkes of The Arlington Citizen-Journal, dated July 16, 1962. In his letter, Woolf expresses gratitude for the way that the Citizen-Journal covered the July 10, 1962 announcement that Arlington State College would integrate in the fall semester of 1962.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1014/thumbnail.jp
Correspondence sent from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Dick Nichols
No full textCorrespondence sent from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Dick Nichols of The Daily News-Texan, dated July 16, 1962. In his letter, Woolf expresses gratitude for the way that the News-Texan covered the July 10, 1962 announcement that Arlington State College would integrate in the fall semester of 1962.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1016/thumbnail.jp
Correspondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Texas A&M System Chancellor Dr. M. T. Harrington
No full textCorrespondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Texas A&M System Chancellor Dr. M. T. Harrington, dated August 31, 1962. In the letter, Woolf provides the Board of Directors with a report on the integration activities . On July 10, 1962 Arlington State College announced its intent to integrate the college for the fall semester of that year. In this letter, Woolf explains the current situation, that several Black students had applied in the last few weeks, and asks for guidance on long-term planning for accommodating Black students on campus, including in housing and athletics.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1006/thumbnail.jp
Correspondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Texas A&M System Chancellor Dr. M. T. Harrington
No full textCorrespondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Texas A&M System Chancellor Dr. M. T. Harrington, dated October 23, 1962. Arlington State College integrated at the beginning of fall semester 1962. In the letter, Woolf states that Prairie View A&M has asked for data on the enrollment of Negro students at Arlington State College , and asks Harrington to determine what data should be shared.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1005/thumbnail.jp
Correspondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Rev. Carey Daniel
No full textCorrespondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Rev. Carey Daniel, dated July 16, 1962. In his letter of July 13, 1962, Daniel expresses his disapproval of the college\u27s announced integration in the fall of 1962. Woolf\u27s response explains that the decision to integrate was made with regret and that Opposition to legal action requesting the admission of members of the negro race seems to have no defense in the courts. Daniel pastors the First Baptist Church of West Dallas and writes on behalf of the Citizens Council of America for Segregation.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1013/thumbnail.jp
Correspondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to W. Harold Watson
No full textCorrespondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to W. Harold Watson dated July 16, 1962. In his letter of July 12, 1962, Watson expresses his disapproval of the college\u27s announced integration in the fall of 1962. Woolf\u27s response explains that the decision was made with regrets , but as the result of careful study and consideration of the other court actions taken in similar matters.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1017/thumbnail.jp
Correspondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Charles A. Felker, Jr.
No full textCorrespondence from Arlington State College President Dr. Jack R. Woolf to Charles A. Felker, Jr., dated July 16, 1962. In his letter of July 12, 1962, Felker expresses his disapproval of the college\u27s announced integration in the fall of 1962. Woolf\u27s response explains that the decision was made with regret , and that opposition to this request [to integrate]... would have been a losing fight.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1015/thumbnail.jp
Memorandum from Jack R. Woolf sent to faculty and staff of Arlington State College announcing integration of the college
No full textMemorandum sent to the faculty and staff of Arlington State College announcing the decision to integrate the college, dated July 10, 1962. President Jack R. Woolf announced that the decision had been authorized by the Texas A&M System Board of Directors at their meeting on June 29, 1962, and asked for cooperation in the transition.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackrwoolfpapers/1019/thumbnail.jp
Application of new parameterizations of gas transfer velocity and their impact on regional and global marine CO2 budgets
No full textOne of the dominant sources of uncertainty in the calculation of air–sea flux of carbon dioxide on a global scale originates from the various parameterizations of the gas transfer velocity, k, that are in use. Whilst it is undisputed that most of these parameterizations have shortcomings and neglect processes which influence air–sea gas exchange and do not scale with wind speed alone, there is no general agreement about their relative accuracy.The most widely used parameterizations are based on non-linear functions of wind speed and, to a lesser extent, on sea surface temperature and salinity. Processes such as surface film damping and whitecapping are known to have an effect on air–sea exchange. More recently published parameterizations use friction velocity, sea surface roughness, and significant wave height. These new parameters can account to some extent for processes such as film damping and whitecapping and could potentially explain the spread of wind-speed based transfer velocities published in the literature.We combine some of the principles of two recently published k parameterizations [Glover, D.M., Frew, N.M., McCue, S.J. and Bock, E.J., 2002. A multiyear time series of global gas transfer velocity from the TOPEX dual frequency, normalized radar backscatter algorithm. In: Donelan, M.A., Drennan, W.M., Saltzman, E.S., and Wanninkhof, R. (Eds.), Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, Geophys. Monograph 127. AGU, Washington, DC, 325–331; Woolf, D.K., 2005. Parameterization of gas transfer velocities and sea-state dependent wave breaking. Tellus, 57B: 87–94] to calculate k as the sum of a linear function of total mean square slope of the sea surface and a wave breaking parameter. This separates contributions from direct and bubble-mediated gas transfer as suggested by Woolf [Woolf, D.K., 2005. Parameterization of gas transfer velocities and sea-state dependent wave breaking. Tellus, 57B: 87–94] and allows us to quantify contributions from these two processes independently.We then apply our parameterization to a monthly TOPEX altimeter gridded 1.5° × 1.5° data set and compare our results to transfer velocities calculated using the popular wind-based k parameterizations by Wanninkhof [Wanninkhof, R., 1992. Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 97: 7373–7382.] and Wanninkhof and McGillis [Wanninkhof, R. and McGillis, W., 1999. A cubic relationship between air?sea CO2 exchange and wind speed. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(13): 1889–1892]. We show that despite good agreement of the globally averaged transfer velocities, global and regional fluxes differ by up to 100%. These discrepancies are a result of different spatio-temporal distributions of the processes involved in the parameterizations of k, indicating the importance of wave field parameters and a need for further validation
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