Narrative report of the town officers of Amherst, New Hampshire for the year ending December 31, 2007 and financial records for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Ireland Into the Mystic: The Poetic Spirit and Cultural Content of Irish Rock Music, 1970-2020

Programa Oficial de Doutoramento en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados: Lingüística, Literatura e Cultura. 5018V01[Abstract] Music and literature have always played a central role in the social and cultural life of Ireland, not only as a source of entertainment, but also as an effective way of recording Ireland's own history and culture and communicating these widely throughout the world, defining the identity of a nation and its people in a unique way. The main aim of this doctoral thesis, then, will be to extend the concerns of Irish Studies by bringing to light the intellectual and cultural profundity of Irish rock music from an interdisciplinary perspective, which might also represent an innovative approach to the analysis of songs as a literary phenomenon. Thus, analytical investigation of the formative links among music, literature and culture in Ireland will be based on a detailed examination of songs and representative material by a range of Irish rock artists in their cultural and historical contexts, in an attempt to convey the ways in which Irish culture and identity have become embedded within rock music through the power of narratives. By assessing the developments undergone in Irish rock music over five decades, this thesis will also explore the story of Ireland from the perspective of the rock music produced throughout the island during a period of rapid, decisive change at many levels.[Resumen] La música y la literatura han desempeñado siempre un papel central en la sociedad y la vida cultural de Irlanda, no sólo como fuentes de entretenimiento, sino también como medios para dejar constancia de la historia e identidad propias del país y transmitir tales características por el mundo de una forma ciertamente única. El objetivo principal de esta tesis doctoral será por tanto desarrollar un tema de estudio de interés y relevancia para los Estudios Irlandeses al tratar la profundidad cultural e intelectual de la música rock irlandesa desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar, lo que también supondrá un enfoque innovador del análisis de canciones como fenómeno literario. Así, se investigarán las relaciones entre la música, la literatura y la cultura en Irlanda a partir de la presentación, análisis, comparación y estudio de canciones y material artístico representativo de artistas rock irlandeses en su contexto musical, cultural e histórico, para exponer las formas en las que la se han interrelacionado diferentes ideas literarias, musicales y culturales en el rock irlandés. Finalmente, al estudiar el desarrollo de la música rock en Irlanda a lo largo de cinco décadas, también se indagará en la historia de la isla desde el punto de vista de la música rock producida durante una etapa de cambios decisiva a varios niveles.[Resumo] A música e a literatura tiveron sempre un papel central na vida cultural e mais na sociedade de Irlanda, non só como fontes de entretemento senón tamén como unha maneira efectiva de deixar constancia da historia e identidade propias do país e transmitir esas características polo mundo dunha maneira única. O obxectivo principal desta tese doutoral será polo tanto desenvolver un tema de estudio de interese e relevancia para os Estudios Irlandeses ao tratar a profundidade cultural e intelectual da música rock irlandesa dende unha perspectiva interdisciplinaria, o que tamén supoñerá un enfoque innovador da análise de cancións como fenómeno literario. Así pois, investigaranse as relacións entre a música, a literatura e a cultura en Irlanda a partires da presentación, análise, comparación e estudo de cancións e de material artístico representativo de artistas rock irlandeses no seu contexto cultural e histórico para mostrar as formas nas que se relacionan diferentes ideas literarias, musicais e culturais no rock irlandés. Finalmente, ao investigar o desenvolvemento da música rock en Irlanda ao longo de cinco décadas, esta tese tamén indagará na historia da illa dende o punto de vista da música rock producida na illa nunha etapa de cambios decisiva en varios niveis

In search of the subject: locating the shifting politics of women's performance art

From the late 1960s to the present, women have utilised performance art as a 'form' with which to resist, transgress, contest or reveal the position of women within wider society. However, as both the nature of feminist politics and the contexts within which the work has been produced have changed, the enactment of such oppositional strategies has also shifted. This thesis aims to locate and account for such shifts by mapping multiple subjects, including performance art, feminism(s), contemporary theory, performers and women's performance art. In the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, the strategies most often utilised by women performance artists either offered alternative, supposedly more 'truthful' representations which drew on the real, material lives of women, or completely reimagined woman, locating her in a place before or outside of the patriarchal structure. From the 1980s onwards, however, the practice of women's performance art looks somewhat different. While performers continue to contest the material conditions and results of being positioned as female in Western society, such contestations are now often enacted from within what might be considered a 'deconstructive' or 'poststructuralist' frame. Acknowledging the impossibility of ever representing the 'real' woman, since 'woman' is always already a representation (and is always multiple), I suggest that the aim of this work is therefore not so much to reveal the 'real' woman behind the fiction, but to take apart the fiction itself, revealing the way in which the signifier 'woman' has been differentially constructed, for what purpose, and with what real effects. I have nominated this shift as a movement from a performance and politics of identity to a performance and politics of subjectivity

Maritime expressions:a corpus based exploration of maritime metaphors

This study uses a purpose-built corpus to explore the linguistic legacy of Britain’s maritime history found in the form of hundreds of specialised ‘Maritime Expressions’ (MEs), such as TAKEN ABACK, ANCHOR and ALOOF, that permeate modern English. Selecting just those expressions commencing with ’A’, it analyses 61 MEs in detail and describes the processes by which these technical expressions, from a highly specialised occupational discourse community, have made their way into modern English. The Maritime Text Corpus (MTC) comprises 8.8 million words, encompassing a range of text types and registers, selected to provide a cross-section of ‘maritime’ writing. It is analysed using WordSmith analytical software (Scott, 2010), with the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as a reference corpus. Using the MTC, a list of keywords of specific salience within the maritime discourse has been compiled and, using frequency data, concordances and collocations, these MEs are described in detail and their use and form in the MTC and the BNC is compared. The study examines the transformation from ME to figurative use in the general discourse, in terms of form and metaphoricity. MEs are classified according to their metaphorical strength and their transference from maritime usage into new registers and domains such as those of business, politics, sports and reportage etc. A revised model of metaphoricity is developed and a new category of figurative expression, the ‘resonator’, is proposed. Additionally, developing the work of Lakov and Johnson, Kovesces and others on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), a number of Maritime Conceptual Metaphors are identified and their cultural significance is discussed