Silas Marner: George Eliot\u27s Most Coleridgean Work?

In 1861 Henry Crabb Robinson compared George Eliot\u27s Silas Mamer with Coleridge\u27s \u27The Ancient Mariner\u27. He noted the novel\u27s \u27great affinity\u27 with the poem: \u27A little child, its mother having frozen to death at his solitary hovel, is taken in by Silas [ ...]. It is to him what the blessing of the animals is to the Ancient Mariner.\u27 1 In 1977, U. C. Knoepflmacher argued that: \u27[b]oth The Mill on the Floss and Silas Mamer hark back to those poems of severance, loss, and expiation that had haunted the imaginations of Coleridge and Wordsworth at the turn of the century,.2 Elsewhere, Knoepflmacher has suggested that \u27[t]he man called Old Master Mamer belongs and does not belong to that disinherited race of wanderers who roam through the Lyrical Ballads. [ ...] His surname\u27 says Knoepflmacher, \u27suggests his kinship to Coleridge\u27s Ancient Mariner,.3 So, connections between Silas Mamer and \u27The Ancient Mariner\u27 have been made before, but none has focused on consonance and dissonance in the language and narrative structure of each text in relation to the other. Close readings of the texts produce startling correspondences in the language used to describe alienation, isolation, and ideas of community. At the same time, the narrative of each text can be read as a reversal of the other, and each employs remarkably similar metaphorical language to characterize the nature of narrative itself. Of his contributions to 1798\u27s Lyrical Ballads, which included \u27The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u27, Coleridge wrote: \u27the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real\u27 Of Eliot\u27s comments concerning her intentions in writing Silas Mamery, those on creating \u27a sufficiently real background [ ... ] so that the presentation will lay hold on the emotions as human experience\u27 are significantly consonant with the qualities championed by Coleridge: the power of the emotions to engage, and the employment of elements \u27real\u27 enough to convince.\u27 Coleridge\u27s inclusion of supernatural \u27incidents and agents\u27 does not detract from the emotional power and impact of the \u27Mariner\u27, but his rendering of their effects produces a lack of coherence in his narrative radically at odds with the moral cohesion Eliot imposes on her \u27legendary\u27 tale. A fundamental reason for this divergence is the differing treatment of Subjectivity in each narrative, which informs, and is informed by, agency, moral responsibility, and materiality

Intro to Primary Sources

The Identifying Primary Sources tutorial teaches students how they find, evaluate, and use primary sources in their own research. Along the way, they\u27ll learn about some great places to start researching when looking for primary sources.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/elearning_all/1052/thumbnail.jp

FilmFling '19: Pecker & Finn Drude

Sunday 10th March - Tullie House Cinema: To start the final evening of this year’s event - the truly original country art rockers Pecker will be dipping into their eclectic songbook for a live set. Pecker have been busy of late and will be debuting a bunch of new scribblings, covering a diverse range of subjects, including; songs about planets, a rockabilly riff about a man who thinks he’s Elvis and a punk paean to the inventor of the Karaoke machine. Pecker are: Jim Davis (guitar & vocals), Nick Dodds (guitar & vocals), Katie Gentry (violin, flute & vocals), Jen Graham (organ & vocals), Jon Lambert (drums) and Pete McNichol (bass). The band will be accompanied by live moving images created especially for the Fling by the film-maker Finn Drude

Presentation and Outcomes After Medical and Surgical Treatment Versus Medical Treatment Alone of Spontaneous Infectious Spondylodiscitis: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis.

Study Design: Systematic literature review. Objectives: The aims of this study were to (1) describe the clinical features, disabilities, and incidence of neurologic deficits of pyogenic spondylodiscitis prior to treatment and (2) compare the functional outcomes between patients who underwent medical treatment alone or in combination with surgery for pyogenic spondylodiscitis. Methods: A systematic literature review was performed using PubMed according to PRISMA guidelines. No year restriction was put in place. Statistical analysis of pooled data, when documented in the original report (ie, number of patients with desired variable and number of patients evaluated), was conducted to determine the most common presenting symptoms, incidence of pre- and postoperative neurologic deficits, associated comorbidities, infectious pathogens, approach for surgery when performed, and duration of hospitalization. Outcomes data, including return to work status, resolution of back pain, and functional recovery were also pooled among all studies and surgery-specific studies alone. Meta-analysis of studies with subgroup analysis of pain-free outcome in surgical and medical patients was performed. Results: Fifty of 1286 studies were included, comprising 4173 patients undergoing either medical treatment alone or in combination with surgery. Back pain was the most common presenting symptom, reported in 91% of patients. Neurologic deficit was noted in 31% of patients. Conclusion: Medical management remains first-line treatment of infectious pyogenic spondylodiscitis. Surgery may be indicated for progressive pain, persistent infection on imaging, deformity or neurologic deficits. If surgery is required, reported literature shows potential for significant pain reduction, improved neurologic function and a high number of patients returning to a normal functional/work status

Experiments and Modeling of the Autoignition of Methyl-Cyclohexane at High Pressure

The autoignition delays of mixtures of methyl-cyclohexane (MCH), oxygen, nitrogen, and argon have been studied in a heated rapid compression machine under the conditions $P_C$ = 50 bar, $T_C$ = 690 - 910K. Three different mixture compositions were studied, with equivalence ratios ranging from $\phi$ = 0.5 - 1.5. The trends of the ignition delay measured at 50 bar were similar to the trends measured in earlier experiments at $P_C$ = 15.1 and 25.5 bar. The experimentally measured ignition delays were compared to a newly updated chemical kinetic model for the combustion of MCH. The model has been updated to include newly calculated reaction rates for much of the low-temperature chemistry. The agreement between the experiments and the model was substantially improved compared to a previous version of the model. Nevertheless, despite the encouraging improvements, work continues on further advances, e.g. in improving predictions of the first stage ignition delays.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, presented at the 8th US National Combustion Meetin

Experimental Infection of Cats and Dogs with West Nile Virus

Domestic dogs and cats were infected by mosquito bite and evaluated as hosts for West Nile virus (WNV). Viremia of low magnitude and short duration developed in four dogs but they did not display signs of disease. Four cats became viremic, with peak titers ranging from 103.0 to 104.0 PFU/mL. Three of the cats showed mild, non-neurologic signs of disease. WNV was not isolated from saliva of either dogs or cats during the period of viremia. An additional group of four cats were exposed to WNV orally, through ingestion of infected mice. Two cats consumed an infected mouse on three consecutive days, and two cats ate a single infected mouse. Viremia developed in all of these cats with a magnitude and duration similar to that seen in cats infected by mosquito bite, but none of the four showed clinical signs. These results suggest that dogs and cats are readily infected by WNV. The high efficiency of oral transmission observed with cats suggests that infected prey animals may serve as an important source of infection to carnivores. Neither species is likely to function as an epidemiologically important amplifying host, although the peak viremia observed in cats may be high enough to infect mosquitoes at low efficiency

Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World

Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online. These issues are raised in relation to five core themes that are highly relevant online: identity, privacy, authorship and ownership, credibility, and participation.Our Space was co-developed by The Good Play Project and Project New Media Literacies (established at MIT and now housed at University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism). The Our Space collaboration grew out of a shared interest in fostering ethical thinking and conduct among young people when exercising new media skills

User acceptance of SaaS ERP considering perceived risk, system performance and cost

The use of cloud solution to support ERP system has become the priority of many organizations to stay competitive in the current global world. This research will be focusing on the user acceptance of SaaS ERP (SAP ByDesign) in a global construction tool provider considering perceived risk, cost and system performance. Due to many unique variables, the purpose of this research is to analyze and investigate issues related to acceptance of SaaS in the construction tool provider companies. The results of this research can help both organizations and researchers to build a fundamental level on understanding how these factors that can predict the user acceptance of SaaS ERP in a global construction tool provider company which significantly beneficial. 80 users ranging from executive and higher management level globally were targeted. SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 was used to analyze respondents' data and SAS dataset was then run by SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 to produce descriptive analysis, Cronbach alpha, factor analysis and PLS-SEM will be used to analyses the responses and each hypothesis will be tested based on the data consolidated. Lastly, Partial Least Square- SEM will be performed to summarize and give an analysis of the research model propose