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Illustrating empire : a visual history of British imperialism
'Illustrating Empire' tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to propote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 150 original images accompanied by illuminating story captions which unlock the history and meaning behind the illustrations.
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THE \LOST GENERATION\ AND THE GENERATION OF LOSS: ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S MATERIALITY OF ABSENCE AND \THE SUN ALSO RISES\
This article discusses how Hemingway's depiction of the sexually mutilated WWI veteran and his inverted generic analogue, the cowboy hero, grows out of modernism's vexed enthrallment with material things. The Sun Also Rises explores the impotence of the post-war American, a figure whose lost capacity for generation Hemingway likens to that of the pioneer filled with longing for a frontier he has outlasted. In this novel, Hemingway rewrites the pioneer as a sexually wounded veteran whose desire to transcend loss finds its material correspondent in objects that commemorate losses, not victories, and that embody and perpetuate national myth.
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Use of Tlingit art and identity by non-Tlingit people in Sitka, Alaska
Tlingit culture, as with many Indigenous cultures that exist under colonial rule, is often described as being in danger of disappearing. Despite this, the appropriation of and subsequent use of cultural practices by non-Tlingit people, and especially white people, is a continuation of the process of colonization when it is enacted in a manner that is not critical of current and historical racism, capitalist pressures and colonial violence. This project addresses the topic through recorded conversations with seven Tlingit women in Sitka, Alaska in an attempt to place Tlingit cultural production and use in the broader contexts of Indigenous cultural sovereignty and resistance to US imperial power. While various types and extremes of cultural appropriation are examined and compared to theory examining privilege and oppression, this project does not delineate general rules for appropriate and inappropriate use of culture.
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Cowboys of the waste land: Modernism and the American frontier
What does the figure of the rugged cowboy have to do with effete high modernism? My dissertation responds to this question by uncovering the ties linking early twentieth-century Western novels by authors such as Owen Wister and Clarence Mulford to a series of modernist texts that likewise engage deeply entrenched frontier myths in a post-WWI context. Throughout the 1920s, notable modernist figures like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway, while striving to break with American literary tradition, simultaneously probed the residual mythic strands of frontier discourse that informed hugely popular cowboy stories such as Wister’s The Virginian (1902) and Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy (1910). In responding to these works, Fitzgerald, Cather, and Hemingway sought to confront the problem of depicting the post-war American by synthesizing the cowboy—an emblem of the nation’s past—with “modern” figures ranging from Hemingway’s wounded, sexually impotent expatriate Jake Barnes to Cather’s cowhand-turned-archeologist Tom Outland to Fitzgerald’s ambiguously ethnic “nobody from nowhere” Jay Gatsby. But the absorption of Western motifs into the canon of American modernist prose casts a long shadow, I argue, for it is the figure of the hero as he is conceived by the writers mentioned above that, by the 1950s and 60s, comes to define the image of the cowboy found not just in literature but in cinema. Just as post-WWI American fiction writers looked to the Western to help shape their modernism, post-WWII Western films like Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and The Magnificent Seven (1960) likewise absorbed the idiosyncrasies of 1920s modernist experimentalism. As I argue, the filmic Western becomes over time more and more preoccupied with the modernist deconstruction of the hero. The modernist undoing of these tales of identity and nationhood haunt the Western, making it the crucial site not only for establishing what it means to be American but, thanks to this passage between high modernism and popular film, for undoing it. The Western, paradoxically, is where modernism lives on as a way of helping us think about what it means to be American.
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Remembering the forgotten beauty of Yeatsian mythology: Personae and the problem of unity in “The Wind Among the Reeds”
The 1899 version of The Wind Among the Reeds was Yeats's most deliberately crafted volume to date. It is narrated by a series of Irish personae who have important mythological and occult connotations. Of particular interest are Aedh, Hanrahan, and Michael Robartes, whom Yeats identified as principles of the mind. These three figures “morph” into one another in significant ways that correspond to a major theme in Yeats's career: the constitution of a unified self amidst psychological, spiritual, and cultural turmoil.
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The structure of turbulence over smooth and rough walls
The statistics and structure of turbulence are investigated experimentally over smooth and rough walls. In the smooth-wall investigation, particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements are performed in the horizontal plane at several y locations with Re = 1015 and 7705. The dominant motions of the flow are shown to be large-scale regions of momentum deficit elongated in the streamwise direction. Throughout the logarithmic layer, the regions are consistently bordered by vortices with significant vertical rotation organized in the streamwise direction, offering strong support for the vortex packet theory of Adrian et al. (2000). Additionally, evidence is presented for the existence and organization of hairpin vortices in the region y+ < 60. Statistical evidence is also presented for two important aspects of the vortex packet theory for the first time: vortex organization in the streamwise direction, and the clear association of the hairpin signature with local minima in streamwise velocity. The importance of the large-scale motions, in terms of the streamwise turbulent kinetic energy, is established. At y+ = 21, it is shown that the well established streak spacing mode of λz + = 100 contains surprisingly little energy relative to modes in the range λz+ = 200–400, providing complementary results to the channel flow data of Liu et al (2000). However, comparison with the channel also reveals that the near-wall spanwise energy distribution is not universal. At the high Reynolds number, the energetic dominance of the organized outer-region flow structures of large spanwise scale is demonstrated throughout the logarithmic region. Several spanwise lengthscales are shown to vary linearly with distance from the wall, revealing self-similar growth of spanwise structure in an average sense. However, inspection of the data suggests individual structures do not grow strictly self-similarly in time. It is proposed that additional scale growth occurs by the merging of vortex packets on an eddy-by-eddy basis via a vortex leg-annihilation mechanism similar to that suggested by Perry and Chong (1982). The proposed mechanism provides a link between vortex-pairing concepts and the observed coalescence of streaky low-speed regions in the inner layer.
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The artists' papers register
The \"Artists' Papers Register\" is a project that the Association of Art Historians has been developing for over a decade. The \"Register's\" objective is to compile a computerized location register of papers and primary sources relating to artists and designers held in publicly accessible collections in the British Isles.
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