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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Walcott"”.
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Mapping Caribbean Histories: Glissant, Walcott, and the Counter-Poetics of Modernity
… it is important (as the work of Glissant and Walcott helps show) that in addressing this violent falsity we not only replace the proper subject of modernity into narratives of history, but that we also begin to think anew the very philosophical (conceptual) meaning of history itself. …
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When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
… poets examined here, Rabindranath Tagore, Derek Walcott, and Mahmoud Darwish--arguably among the best-known poets of the modern world--sought to be heard by various sensibilities and succeeded in reaching them. Outside the fold of the Western Metropolitan world, they as a trio have much to teach …
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Witness to woundedness in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott.
… how Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott poetically bear witness to historical wounds expressed on both personal and collective levels. I first focus on how in North (1975) Heaney explores the sectarian violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and exposes the scapegoating …
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"Still persuade us to rejoice" : witness, place, and gratitude in W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's poetry.
My dissertation considers W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's stereoscopic poetic witness. It focuses on movement, place, and gratitude in the Atlantic world, as both authors recurrently travel beyond national boundaries. Both poets use a stereoscopic vision, a nuanced imaginative rendering of the …
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"What was repeated had weight" : ordinary rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück.
… rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück. Their poetic speakers perform ordinary rituals as a response to the difficult, wounding situations they face, including losses of family members (Hall), racial tensions that span generations (Walcott), …
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The poetics of cultural healing: Derek Walcott's Omeros and the modernist epic
… examines the complex intersections between Derek Walcott’s Omeros and modernist versions of the epic. Critics generally acknowledge the pervasive presence of modernist allusions in Walcott’s early work, but see the relevance of modernism diminishing as Walcott develops his “mature” poetic …
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DEREK WALCOTT'S OMEROS AS A HYBRID OF TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL TALENT
Derek Walcott's long narrative poem, Omeros, is divided into seven “chapters''. This thesis argues that Omeros makes use of the epic tradition in a personal manner. Walcott has contextualized this tradition for himself and for his island community. In accessing the epic tradition, he is both …
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"The Splendours of Imagination." The Transformative and Regenerative Power of Myth in Soyinka's and Walcott's Theatre
… potentialities of mythical patters, Soyinka and Walcott transcend the allegedly petrifying character of tradition and enter a syncretic dimension of creativity capable of engendering a new cultural ethos.
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That terrible vowel, that I : autobiography and Derek Walcott's Another life
… Life by exploring the linguistic means Derek Walcott uses to set up subjectivity in the text. In particular, I respond to Emile Benveniste's question: "what does I refer to" by examining the role of the first person pronoun in Another Life. In chapter one, I introduce the problem of "being in …
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Middle Cambrian linguliformean brachiopods of the Pika and Sullivan formations, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada
… 1871, D. cf. D. amblia Bell 1944, D. appalachia Walcott 1905, and D. nanus Meek and Hayden 1862. No acrotretids were recovered. This low-diversity fauna could reflect the deeper water and more outboard depositional setting of the Sullivan Formation in comparison to other contemporaneous units …
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Palaeobiology of Palaeozoic medusiform stem group echinoderms.
… includes the following taxa:- Eldonia ludwigi Walcott 1911, E. eumorphus sp. nov., Rotadiscus grandis Sun and Hou 1987, Discophylluni peltatum Hall 1847, D. mirabile Chapman 1926, D. cryptophya (Clarke) 1900. Newly recognised anatomical structures for E. ludwigi include c.30, internal, …
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Decentralized sliding mode control and estimation for large-scale systems
… to SMO theory has been developed focused on the Walcott-Żak SMO combined with LMI tools. A derivation for bounds applicable to the estimation error for decentralized systems has been given that involves unknown subsystem interactions and modeling uncertainty. Strategies for both actuator and …
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Actual and perceived ideal practices of school psychologists: a regional and state-level comparison of role discrepancies to the national association of school psychologists practice model
… version of the NASP Membership Survey (Walcott & Hyson, 2018) measuring a number of demographic variables as well as their engagement in a variety of school psychologist activities and services using a 7-point Likert-scale. Participants rated their actual practice during the most …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
… reads contemporary literary texts, from Derek Walcott to Carmen Maria Machado, that are characterized by what I call “raw feeling.” I theorize this term as narrative moments that turn to more-than-human raw matter—for instance, the pulpy flesh of fruit, fresh roadkill, or even bad weather—in …
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"Bitten-off things protruding" : the limitations of South African English poetry post-1948
… work of international figures like Milosz, Walcott, Neruda. Secondly, South African English poetry tends to be bifurcated by critical analysis, both locally and internationally, into the work of black poets and the work of white poets. Despite the realities of social history which have …
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Variables Related to the Spatial Pattern and Volume of Tofc Commodity Flows: The Example of The Northern Plains
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:41:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511732.pdf: 5158205 bytes, checksum: e947fd6a49df365cb1e8737c43bbb7e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Oxygen atom transfer with manganese-exchanged metal-organic frameworks
Oxygenates represent some of the most versatile commodity chemicals, justifying continued interest in the discovery of new selective oxidation catalysts from both a fundamental and applied perspective. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an attractive platform for catalysis because they enable …
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Unifying model-based programming and randomized path planning through optimal search
The deployment of robots at the World Trade Center (WTC) site after September 11, 2001, highlighted the potential for robots to aid in search and rescue missions that pose great threats and challenges to humans. However, robots that are tele-operated and tethered for power and communication are …
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Long-term robot mapping in dynamic environments
One of the central goals in mobile robotics is to develop a mobile robot that can construct a map of an initially unknown dynamic environment. This is often referred to as the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem. A number of approaches to the SLAM problem have been successfully …
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