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From Sleep to Poetry: The Order of The Poems in Keats's 'Lamia' Volume
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Negative Capability in the Characters of Keats' Magor Poetry
… discussed: "Ode to a Nightingale, Hyperion, and Lamia. The discussions focus primarily on these three points: (1) the degree to which each character possesses "negative capability" (i.e., his ability for self-negation, empathic-identification, and disinterestedness); (2) the progression of the …
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Systems of Power, Systems of Space: Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats in Romantic Greater London
… poems. In works like “Ode to a Nightingale,” Lamia, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” a landscape and narrative of exile emerges that is informed by Keats’ dejected position outside mainstream literary culture. His later poems transmute the motifs of his earlier works to express his distrust of …
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… as the iconic and archetypal guises of serpent, Lamia, Lilith, and succubus. Chapter Three considers Coleridge‘s exploration of the relationship between power, politics, and religion, in his translation of Schiller‘s Wallenstein trilogy, through a comparison of Wallenstein and the archetypal …
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Some cults of Greek goddesses and female daemons of oriental origin: especially in relation to the mythology of goddesses and demons in the Semitic world
… motifs in their characters. We conclude that Lamia is another evolute of Lamashtu, and that Gello is derived from the Mesopotamian Gallu demon.
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Terahertz Second-Harmonic Generation in Extreme-Confinement Cavities
It remains a standing challenge to produce high-power electromagnetic sources operating in the spectral range of 0.1-10 THz (the “terahertz gap"), a frequency band for applications ranging from spectroscopy to security and high-speed wireless communications. In this thesis, we will analyze a method …
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Development and its discontents: NGOs, women and the politics of social mobilization in Bangladesh
This dissertation is an analysis of the policies, practices, and effects of a number of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Bangladesh. My work focuses on micro-credit NGOs, the Grameen Bank model in particular, and on the strategy pursued by them to "empower poor women." I look at how the …
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Video annotation for choreographers on the NB platform
The NB Platform, originally developed to host discussion on class materials, has been adapted to suit the needs of dance choreographers. A Video Annotator was developed, and features requested by choreographers were added to help suit the platform to their needs. The updated annotator was then …
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How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism
… and Keats (“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and <em>Lamia</em>). In critical discussions of the Romantic fragment, it is most often referred to as incomplete, lacking closure, and unintentionally so. The fragments I have chosen to include transcend such a reading of lack and embrace a perpetuation of …
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Negative capability and the poetry of John Keats
… “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “La Belle Dame,” and “Lamia” seems to indicate that Keats scholarship has even failed to integrate individual poems. The moment we suppose that we have found a stance toward experience which is the author’s, a diametrically opposite position can usually be found, if not …
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A study of the genital microbiotas of black South African women and men: associations with human papillomavirus and HIV infections
… Jonquetella, Ruminococcus, Roseburia, and Lamia (LDA score >2, p<0.05) Men with BV-negative female sexual partners (66.5% (157/236)) had higher relative abundances of Lactobacillus in their penile microbiotas than men with BV-positive female partners (p=0.007). Atopobium, Sneathia, and …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …