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Showing 1 to 20 of 304 for “"Olson"”.
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A Great Debate in Poetic Theory: Brooks, Wheelwright, Crane & Olson
<p>Elder Olson has said that at the Biblical Tower of Babel the people did not begin to talk nonsense but only what seemed like nonsense. This paper concerns an intellectual tower where important debates are held, but unfortunately the language is not a universal one; therefor, because all too …
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… concerned with the longform poetics of Charles Olson and of John Cage, and with the role indeterminacy plays in their constitution and reception. The work of these authors poses unusual and particular challenges to readers, and it is towards readers and reading that this thesis is primarily …
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The Search for the Self-Existent in the Poetry of Charles Olson
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Poems to the Sea and Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen
… first section, ‘Museum Notes’, explores Charles Olson’s open field poetics by giving artists and writers a conversational voice. ‘Sound Fields’, the second section, responds to individual works of art and reflects a systems-based approach. The authorial voice within ‘Poems to the Sea’, the third …
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The evolved radical feminism of spoken word : Alix Olson, C.C. Carter, and Suheir Hammad
… I close-read three poems: "Womyn Before" by Alix Olson, "The Herstory of My Hips" by C.C. Carter, and "99 cent lipstick" by Suheir Hammad to discuss the manner in which each uses coalitions. Olson's poem provides an analysis of the performative and textual aspects of the poem as a way to envision …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… reading of the poetry of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson—the structure of the dissertation is “actually” circular. For the most part, the condition for the possibility of performing the destruction of the traditional critical rhetorics in chapters one through three is an awareness of the nature of …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, entitled A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul. Subsequently, Clarke assigned 28 parts from the “plan” to different poets living around the country at the time. It has taken some 40 years and five reassignments for the project to find something …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… “map”, drawn up by late modernist poet Charles Olson, entitled A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul. Subsequently, Clarke assigned 28 parts from the “plan” to different poets living around the country at the time. It has taken some 40 years and five reassignments for the project to find something …
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A Presentation of the Material Gathered in a Study of a Small Business
Olson and Sons is a small department store in Des Moines, Iowa. The store is operated by Harvey Olson and his three sons. | Background | Mr. Harvey Olson started the store in its present location in 1961. Since its conception, the store has increased its shopping area by fifty percent and doubled …
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"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson
… Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and Charles Olson are all, in their own ways, disciples of the Ezra Pound model of the epic, which is embodied in his most important work, The Cantos. Each of these authors, though, looks back further than Pound alone, reconfiguring conventions dating back to …
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Error theory after J.L Mackie: Contemporary error theorists’ arguments
… that I will examine are Richard Joyce, Jonas Olson, and Bart Streumer. According to Joyce, Mackie’s queerness argument feels incomplete and provides a queerness argument, the argument from non-institutionality. Furthermore, Joyce answers the consequences of first-order ethics if error theory …
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Western corn rootworm damage assessment in Virginia and adult sampling with commercial yellow sticky traps
… using adult corn rootworm counts on commercial Olson yellow sticky traps and ear-zone regions of corn plants to predict subsequent damage to corn. Regression models for each sampling method were used to calculate economic thresholds of 20 adults per trap per wk for the Olson trap and 0.3 adults …
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Evaluating Temperature Variations, Energy Fluctuations, and Pathways When Excitons Are Transferred in the FMO Complex
ABSTRACT The Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein of green sulphur bacteria is a model photosynthetic unit. Therein, coupled chromophores transfer energy from antennae to a reaction centre. Close to unit quantum yield efficiencies have been recorded and wave-like transfer also observed in the …
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A Comparison Of Marriage Education And Brief Couples Counseling
… Couples marriage education weekend workshop (Olson & Olson,2000). This study examined the following research questions: Do couples show a different level of marital adjustment following Brief Integrative Couples Counseling compared to those who receive a marriage education treatment?; Do …
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Humor and the problem solving behavior of married couples
… viewed a humorous videotape prior to completing Olson and Ryder's Inventory of Marital Conflict (IMC). All couples were videotaped during their discussions of the IMC case situations and the tapes were later coded using Olson and Ryder's Marital and Family Interaction Coding System (MFICS). Data …
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Running head featural composites and lineups: "What big teeth you have" - Red Riding Hood and the face recognition failure : the effects of isolated featural and configural composite construction and recognition accuracy
… task (Comish, 1987; Wells, Charman, & Olson, 2005; Yu & Geiselman, 1993). This hampering effect may occur because composite programs utilise a featural selection strategy, which is in opposition to configural and holistic processing that is used when faces are encoded.
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Myocardial intermediary metabolism: with special reference to the isolated, contracting, perfused rat heart
… substrates, Sing and other workers (Goodale, Olson) have been able to describe the overall picture of myocardial metabollism in man and intact experimental animals. This technique dos not, however, allow adequate pinpointing of the precise pathways of cardiac metabolism in health and disease, …
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Pursuing the common good : overcoming barriers to collective action through transboundary water negotiation along the Blue Nile River
… is a type of collective action problem (Olson 1965), in which sovereign actors must cooperate to achieve a collective interest. In this research, I attempt to delineate common procedural and context-specific barriers to collective action within transboundary water negotiations in the Nile …
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