The poetry of Robert Duncan

The poetry of Robert Duncan is basically derivative in character: that is, composed in accord with certain tenets selected from the tradition he uniquely forms and recognizes. Yet the changing aspect of that tradition, and the poet's imaginative re-interpretation of both stylistic and visionary concepts derived from Blake, Whitman, Pound and Charles Olson, among others, has made his work often seem at once innovative, erudite and, perhaps, deceptively complex. His interests in manifestation of the creative will, mythography and occult knowledge remain almost constant; but the face of his work changes from a meditative, highly rhetorical style to a more fragmented style that purportedly records the process of intuition and psychic perception. In his later poetry there is a fundamental interdependence between the organic principles of form he adopts and the metaphysical range of his vision

The Modernist Bestiary: Translating Animals and the Arts through Guillaume Apollinaire, Raoul Dufy and Graham Sutherland

The Modernist Bestiary centres on Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée (1911), a multimedia collaborative work by French-Polish poet Guillaume Apollinaire and French artist Raoul Dufy, and its homonym, The Bestiary or Procession of Orpheus (1979), by British artist Graham Sutherland. Rather than reconstructing the lineage of these two compositions, the book uncovers the aesthetic and intellectual processes involved that operate in different times, places and media. The Apollinaire and Dufy Bestiary is an open-ended collaboration, a feature that Sutherland develops in his re-visiting, and this book shows how these neglected works are caught up in many-faceted networks of traditions and genres. These include Orphic poetry from the past, contemporary musical settings, and bestiary writing from its origins to the present. The nature of productive dialogue between thought and art, and the refracted light they throw on each other are explored in each of the pieces in the book, and the aesthetic experience emerges as generative rather than reductive or complacent. The contributors’ encounters with these works take the form of poetry and essays, all moving freely between different disciplines and practices, humanistic and posthumanist critical dimensions, as well as different animals and art forms. They draw on disciplines ranging from music, art history, translation, Classical poetry and French poetry, and are nurtured by approaches including phenomenology, cultural studies, sound studies, and critical animal studies. Collectively the book shows that the aesthetic encounter, by nature affective, is by nature also interdisciplinary and motivating, and that it spurs the critical in addressing the complex issues of 'humananimality'

1891 Proceedings of the Second Ecumenical Methodist Conference

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Optimal Paths Related to Discrete Transport Problems

The transport problem proposed by Monge in the 1780's, was to find the best way to move a pile of soil or rubble to an excavation or fill, with the least effort where the cost of a transport map or the transport plan is generally determined by the integral of some powers of the distance, such as $\vert x-y \vert ^ p$. But in many cases in real applications, the actual cost is not generally determined by a transport path. Sometimes a ``Y-shaped'' path is less expensive compared to a ``V-shaped path'', to transport items from two starting point to one destination point. Here, we will show that one can transport any Radon probability measure to another Radon probability measure through a general optimal transport path, which is given by a vector measure in our setting. Also, we define a new distance function $d_\alpha$ on the space of probability measures which indeed metrizes the weak* topology of measures. This thesis is an exposition of a paper by Qinglan Xia, ``Optimal paths related to transport problems'', World Scientific, $51(2): 252-289, 2002$

A Review of Transverse Flux Machines Topologies and Design

High torque and power density are unique merits of transverse flux machines (TFMs). TFMs are particularly suitable for use in direct-drive systems, that is, those power systems with no gearbox between the electric machine and the prime mover or load. Variable speed wind turbines and in-wheel traction seem to be great-potential applications for TFMs. Nevertheless, the cogging torque, efficiency, power factor and manufacturing of TFMs should still be improved. In this paper, a comprehensive review of TFMs topologies and design is made, dealing with TFM applications, topologies, operation, design and modeling

THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BUDDHISM AND MODERN SCIENCE: NAGARJUNA AND ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

What are the metaphysical foundations of Buddhism and modern science? Nagarjuna is not looking for a material or immaterial object which can be declared as a fundamental reality of this world. His fundamental reality is not an object. It is a relation between objects. This is a relational view of reality. This is the heart of Nagarjuna’s ideas. In the 19th century a more or less unknown Italian philosopher, Vincenzo Goberti, spoke about relations as the mean and as bonds between things. Later, in quantum physics and in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead we are talking about interactions and entanglements. These ideas of relatedness or connections or entanglements in Eastern and Western modes of thought are the main idea of this essay. Not all entanglements are known. Just two examples: the nature of quantum entanglements is not known. Quantum entanglements should be faster than light. That's why Albert Einstein had some doubts. A second example: the completely unknown connections between the mind and the brain. Other examples are mysterious like the connections between birds in a flock. Some are a little known like gravitational forces

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1896, Pt 1.

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. 1 July. HD 352 (pts. 1 and 2), 54-2, v72-73, 1909p. (3548-3549] Research related to the American Indian

Volume X, 1983 Speech Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 10, 1983) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal

The Ithacan, 1974-05-02

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