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The Hilltop 2-11-1983
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Habit and spontaneity in Samuel Beckett's English fictions.
PhDIn this study I will be analysing the way in which the contraries
that Beckett calls habit and spontaneity are used in the fictions he
wrote in English. In his discursive writings Beckett comments on human experience
generally and on the experience of artists particularly in terms of
these contraries. I will show that they can be seen as applicable
to the people who populate Beckett's early fictions, and thus as
illuminating the meaning of those fictions
Imagination and Science in Romanticism
How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on RomanticismRichard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates how the imagination was called upon to do aesthetic and scientific work using primary examples taken from the work of scientists and philosophers Davy, Dalton, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Smellie, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason—but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained
Bowdoin Orient v.100, no.1-27 (1970-1971)
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Winona Daily News
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Partial and impartial criticism in the major literary periodicals, 1800-30.
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Transformation of the myth and the myth of transformation: over 100 years of guiding in South African game reserves
This is both a critical history of the nature guiding industry in South Africa from 1902-
2007 and a subjective critique of the practical components of contemporary natureguiding.
It focuses particulary on guides operating on foot in “Big Five” (dangerous
game) areas. The early history and the subsequent development of “wilderness” trails
in the Kruger National Park and the histories of KwaZulu-Natal Parks and Madikwe
Game Reserve are examined. The influences of the Field Guides’ Association of
Southern Africa (FGASA) and the Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Education and
Training Authority (THETA) are discussed. Transformation of the industry (in both
the demographic and in the broader sense) faces language, cultural and ethical challenges
because of prevailing anthropocentric and militaristic norms. Nature guides need
improved communication skills and should balance traditional and progressive skills and
ethics. They should become more critical and proactive in determining the style and
content of their industr