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Harold Wright and Stuart Brown
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/259738Black and white photograph of Harold Wright and Stuart Brown at Brown's home in Scotland -Cathlaw286183
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“The World Is What It Is”: Naipaul’s Quarrel With Conrad in<i>A Bend in the River</i>
No full textV. S. Naipaul's engagement with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) in his 1979 novel, A Bend in the River, has elicited much comment, discussion often taking its cue from Naipaul's remark that Conrad "had been everywhere before me" ("Conrad's Darkness" 4). Naipaul does indeed traverse Conradian tropes and territory to create his dyspeptic vision of an Africa where all efforts to modernize and develop inevitably sink back into primeval chaos and "darkness." It is precisely this reliance on a mythicized Africa, packed with inflated generalization, that attracts the ire of postcolonial critics. Naipaul's vision of post-independent Africa remains substantially the Africa of Conrad (cf. Coetzee 5). There is irritated puzzlement and genuine anguish among contemporary Africanists about why Naipaul should recapitulate a Conradian approach to writing about Africa eighty years after the publication of Heart of Darkness
Interview with Joseph Stiglitz: “The cost of keeping the Eurozone together probably exceeds the cost of breaking it up”
No full textCan the euro be saved? In an interview with Artemis Photiadou and EUROPP’s editor Stuart Brown, Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz discusses the structural problems at the heart of the Eurozone, why an amicable divorce may be preferable to maintaining the single currency, and how European leaders should respond to the UK’s vote to leave the EU
Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
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No full textWedding reception of Jack Bellden and Edna Knowles (born at Daly River) held in a mudbrick adobe house (clay and grass pounded and dried) built next to Robert Chin's shop in what is now called Stuart Park - then the house was next to Fred's Pass Road (now Stuart Highway) Port Darwin, called Fred's Pass Road till mid 1937. The reception was held in Bill Boath's house (he was a warder at Fannie Bay Gaol). Back Row L-R: Jack Vine, Nicholas Kamper, Doug Wright, ?, Bill Boath, ?, ?, ?, ?, Thora Anthony Second Back Row L-R: Mrs Daisy Sarib, Mrs Parker, Trixie Knowles, Jack Bellden, Mrs Edna Bellden (nee Knowles), Mrs Somerville, ?, ?, Mrs Stevens, Bill Stevens, Jim Lord, Violet Lord (nee Allwright), ? Second Front Row L-R: ? Parker, (Warder), (Army), ?,George Taylor (Squizzie), Mrs Maria Boath, (Army) Front Row L-R: Con Parker, ? Parker, Boath (child), Boath (child), Joe Ruddick (MC), ?.
Darwin Fred's Pass Road (now Stuart Highway) Stuart Park.Ruddick, Joseph M.Date:193
The Layburnes and their world, circa 1620-1720: the English Catholic community and the House of Stuart
No full textThis thesis concerns Catholics in north-western England in the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the Layburne family
of Cunswick, Cumbria. It examines their role in local society and at the courts
of the Stuart queens in London and St Germains. It traces their growing
commitment to the Jacobite cause and their hopes of thereby regaining
positions of influence at court and in the country.
The north-western Tory gentry's sympathy with their Catholic counterparts is
contrasted with the treatment given to the Quakers in the same area. The latter
were regarded as a danger to the fabric of society, representing an economic
and political threat to the government. As an example of how integrated the
Catholics were, the services in Kendal parish church were more Papist than
non-conformist, even under the Protectorate. At the Restoration the Catholics
continued to contribute to the upkeep of the church and were well-regarded in
the area.
The Layburnes occupied positions during the reign of James II, both in the
north-west and at court. Bishop John Laybume acted as James II's Catholic
bishop, and had also been involved in the Secret Treaty of Dover in 1670,
under Charles II. during James II's reign bishop Layburne had organised the
funding of Catholic chapels, clergy and education. This activity was
discovered and used in the prosecution of Catholic gentry in the trials
following the Lancashire Plot (1694). On acquittal, the Jacobites vigorously
renewed their plotting in Lancashire. Planning for a Jacobite invasion reached
its culmination in the 1715 Rising, only to end with the siege of Preston.
Despite some executions and the forfeiture of estates, many Catholic Jacobite
families survived the 1715 rising. Few rose in 1745 and many Catholic
families, with the exception of the Layburnes, prospered and continue to this
day
John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848
No full textThe purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from
about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view,
formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on
his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and
early 1840s.
By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a
‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The
first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill
formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid
attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such
phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and
excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class.
The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s
projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to
develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of
commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic,
published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to
the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character,
both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete
account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in
history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have
assumed
Original filing title: Class Photographs, 1908 | Green, Joseph Elliott | Ridgley, Julian White | Williams, Ralph Coplestone | Schwartz, George Henry Charles | Remsen, Ira | Griffin, Edward Herrick | Miller, Daniel | Price, Herbert Bryan | Cohen, Jacob | Armstrong, Alfred Gordon | Bridgeman, Eveleth Wilson | Gorton, William Stuart | Sykes, Philip Louis | Riddle, Lawrence Melville | McCauley, Robert Henry | Mann, Arthur Herman | Sweitzer, Channing Ellsworth | Peck, Peter | Loos, Henry Hofmann | Hecht, Morton Emanuel | Reinhard, Ferdinand Oscar Wolfgang | Hughes, Herman James | Abel, George Hinman | Sellman, Reginald Oliver | Holmes, Frank Glen | Williams, Francis Thomas | Hack, Frank Newcomer | Tilghman, Richard Lloyd | Mathias, Charles McCurdy | Breyer, Frank Gottlob | Brenton, Benjamin Francis Parlett | Wright, Joseph Purdon | Chesney, Alan Mason | Kelly, Caleb Guyer
No full textIndividuals pictured include Joseph Elliott Green, Julian White Ridgley, Ralph Coplestone Williams, George Henry Charles Schwartz, Ira Remsen, Edward Herrick Griffin, Daniel Miller, Herbert Bryan Price, Jacob Cohen, Alfred Gordon Armstrong, Eveleth Wilson Bridgeman, William Stuart Gorton, Philip Louis Sykes, Lawrence Melville Riddle, Robert Henry McCauley, Arthur Herman Mann, Channing Ellsworth Sweitzer, Peter Peck, Henry Hofmann Loos, Morton Emanuel Hecht, Ferdinand Oscar Wolfgang Reinhard, Herman James Hughes, George Hinman Abel, Reginald Oliver Sellman, Frank Glen Holmes, Francis Thomas Williams, Frank Newcomer Hack, Richard Lloyd Tilghman, Charles McCurdy Mathias, Frank Gottlob Breyer, Benjamin Francis Parlett Brenton, Joseph Purdon Wright, Alan Mason Chesney, and Caleb Guyer Kelly
Original filing title: Class Photographs, 1908 | Green, Joseph Elliott | Ridgley, Julian White | Williams, Ralph Coplestone | Schwartz, George Henry Charles | Remsen, Ira | Griffin, Edward Herrick | Miller, Daniel | Price, Herbert Bryan | Cohen, Jacob | Armstrong, Alfred Gordon | Bridgeman, Eveleth Wilson | Gorton, William Stuart | Sykes, Philip Louis | Riddle, Lawrence Melville | McCauley, Robert Henry | Mann, Arthur Herman | Sweitzer, Channing Ellsworth | Peck, Peter | Loos, Henry Hofmann | Hecht, Morton Emanuel | Reinhard, Ferdinand Oscar Wolfgang | Hughes, Herman James | Abel, George Hinman | Sellman, Reginald Oliver | Holmes, Frank Glen | Williams, Francis Thomas | Hack, Frank Newcomer | Tilghman, Richard Lloyd | Mathias, Charles McCurdy | Breyer, Frank Gottlob | Brenton, Benjamin Francis Parlett | Wright, Joseph Purdon | Chesney, Alan Mason | Kelly, Caleb Guyer
No full textIndividuals pictured include Joseph Elliott Green, Julian White Ridgley, Ralph Coplestone Williams, George Henry Charles Schwartz, Ira Remsen, Edward Herrick Griffin, Daniel Miller, Herbert Bryan Price, Jacob Cohen, Alfred Gordon Armstrong, Eveleth Wilson Bridgeman, William Stuart Gorton, Philip Louis Sykes, Lawrence Melville Riddle, Robert Henry McCauley, Arthur Herman Mann, Channing Ellsworth Sweitzer, Peter Peck, Henry Hofmann Loos, Morton Emanuel Hecht, Ferdinand Oscar Wolfgang Reinhard, Herman James Hughes, George Hinman Abel, Reginald Oliver Sellman, Frank Glen Holmes, Francis Thomas Williams, Frank Newcomer Hack, Richard Lloyd Tilghman, Charles McCurdy Mathias, Frank Gottlob Breyer, Benjamin Francis Parlett Brenton, Joseph Purdon Wright, Alan Mason Chesney, and Caleb Guyer Kelly
Twentieth-century poetry and science : science in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Judith Wright, Edwin Morgan, and Miroslav Holub
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to arrive at a characterisation of twentieth century poetry and science by means of a detailed study of the work of four poets who engaged extensively with science and whose writing lives spanned the greater part of the period. The study of science in the work of the four chosen poets, Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978), Judith Wright (1915 – 2000), Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010), and Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998), is preceded by a literature survey and an initial theoretical chapter. This initial part of the thesis outlines the interdisciplinary history of the academic subject of poetry and science, addressing, amongst other things, the challenges presented by the episodes known as the ‘two cultures’ and the ‘science wars’. Seeking to offer a perspective on poetry and science more aligned to scientific materialism than is typical in the interdiscipline, a systemic challenge to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is put forward in the first chapter. Additionally, the founding work of poetry and science, I. A. Richards’s Science and Poetry (1926), is assessed both in the context in which it was written, and from a contemporary viewpoint; and, as one way to understand science in poetry, a theory of the creative misreading of science is developed, loosely based on Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence (1973). The detailed study of science in poetry commences in Chapter II with Hugh MacDiarmid’s late work in English, dating from his period on the Shetland Island of Whalsay (1933 – 1941). The thesis in this chapter is that this work can be seen as a radical integration of poetry and science; this concept is considered in a variety of ways including through a computational model, originally suggested by Robert Crawford. The Australian poet Judith Wright, the subject of Chapter III, is less well known to poetry and science, but a detailed engagement with physics can be identified, including her use of four-dimensional imagery, which has considerable support from background evidence. Biology in her poetry is also studied in the light of recent work by John Holmes. In Chapter IV, science in the poetry of Edwin Morgan is discussed in terms of its origin and development, from the perspective of the mythologised science in his science fiction poetry, and from the ‘hard’ technological perspective of his computer poems. Morgan’s work is cast in relief by readings which are against the grain of some but not all of his published comments. The thesis rounds on its theme of materialism with the fifth and final chapter which studies the work of Miroslav Holub, a poet and practising scientist in communist-era Prague. Holub’s work, it is argued, represents a rare and important literary expression of scientific materialism. The focus on materialism in the thesis is not mechanistic, nor exclusive of the domain of the imagination; instead it frames the contrast between the original science and the transformed poetic version. The thesis is drawn together in a short conclusion
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