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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Kipling"”.
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A new pattern in a shift of light : a study of Rudyard Kipling as a 20th century writer
For most of the hundred years or so that Rudyard Kipling's works have been available in print, they have suffered under a certain amount of critical disapprobation. In many cases such criticism has been politically motivated, particularly among writers and critics of the Modernist movement. This is …
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The Fantasy of an Anglo-Indian Man: Imperialism and Colonialism in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling is considered to be one of the most popular but also one of the most controversial figures in British literature, most notably for being a colonialist. As an Anglo-Indian man, Kipling travelled between the two nations of Britain and India, and his difference from the native Indians …
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Kipling and imperialism : the literary significance of the setting of certain short stories and poems that relate to war conditions and to service in India and at sea
… evident that much of the antagonism results from Kipling's allegedly tendentious presentation of imperialism, and from the dispute over forms of political dominance. The purpose of this study being to examine the nature and significance of imperialism in his work, several definitions of the term …
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Unsettling whiteness : Kipling's Boers and the case for a white subalternity
The 'Bard of Empire' Rudyard Kipling's Boer War (or South African War) writing has largely been dismissed as jingoism. Yet these texts may well have something to contribute both to existing discourses around colonialism, as well as to our understanding of South Africa's deeply intertwined racial …
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Worlds elsewhere: studies in some late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century romance
… Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Conrad, Haggard, Kipling, Machen, Stevenson, and Wells. Throughout, the emphasis is upon works which in the past may have been comparatively neglected: for instance, in many cases, such as that of Buchan or Wells, the short stories take precedence over the novels. …
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Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State
… of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, that we can find any insight into our own perceptions, perplexities, perturbations about the underlying tensions that organize (or disorganize) liberal society as a whole. Which is to say, bureaucracy, while on the one …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… champions, including writers like Rudyard Kipling, Sir H. Rider Haggard, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I examine Kipling’s consideration of empire, progress, and heroic masculinity in Puck of Pook’s Hill, where he explores these issues in the context of medieval English history. I then look …
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The development of British First World War remembrance on the battlefield from 1914 to 1929
… published by four influential authors – Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, John Masefield and Harry Lauder. Section C turns to the experiences of individual travellers, and the extent to which they followed or departed from the itineraries and experiences to which these published sources directed …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… looks at fiction by H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad. Cannibalism in these tales makes a textual intervention to consolidate stories of fictional protagonists, thus serving as an imaginative spur to European heroism. Chapter Three, ‘Cannibal Metaphors in …
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Modeling longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill) wood properties using near infrared spectroscopy
This research demonstrated model development for important wood properties using near infrared spectroscopy (NIR); it considered the effect of outside sources of error, and the ability of NIR to measure fiber morphology. Strength, stiffness, and density were successfully modeled from wood samples …
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Modelling the fracture of advanced carbon and related materials
This thesis outlines the development of a novel computational model which is used to simulate the mechanical response of nuclear graphites on a microstructural scale. Application of finite element analysis (FEA) to the simulated microstructure models allows for the determination of material …
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Relationship between Tooth Withdrawal Strength and Specific Gravity for Metal Plate Truss Connections
The objectives of this research were twofold: a) to define the relationship between tooth withdrawal and specific gravity for southern pine lumber and four different plate-to-wood load orientations, and b) to demonstrate how these relationships could be applied to new lumber grades to predict tooth …
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Amalgamated Anatomies and Crossbred Cultures: Biological Hybridity in British Colonial Fiction
… local ecosystem. In my second chapter on Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, I contend that Kim undergoes acclimatization in the colonies, becoming a racial variant (or “lusus naturæ,” a term used in the novel and in medical discourse) to sustain life in a colonial environment as a European boy. I show how …
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