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Wallace Stevens: the determining personality
This study examines Wallace Stevens' personality as revealed in his journals and letters. It attempts to show how the underlying forces at work in Stevens' temperament stimulated and shaped his poems. My purpose is to shift the emphasis away from the usual view of Stevens as a philosophical poet of …
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Charles William Wallace Shakespearean Scholar
It has been three centuries now since the Bard of Avon was laid to rest and during that time many scholars have devoted countless hours of research in order to piece together as many facts as possible of the life of William Shakespeare. Some have given years; others have spent their whole lives …
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
The exegesis argues that David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite jest is largely concerned with the addictive nature of television and entertainment The novel examines the possibility of addictive viewing by representing it metaphorically through "Infinite Jest," a film so entertaining it proves …
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
The exegesis argues that David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite jest is largely concerned with the addictive nature of television and entertainment The novel examines the possibility of addictive viewing by representing it metaphorically through "Infinite Jest," a film so entertaining it proves …
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Molecular genetics of epilepsy / by Robyn Wallace.
Errata pasted onto back end-paper.
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The Purified Vision: The Fiction of Wallace Spegner
… examines the most prominent characteristics of Wallace Stegner's fiction. The controlling theme is the "purified vision" or Stegner's dedication to the principle of clarity in art. This principle serves as unifying metaphor and loose framework for a three part study of method, theme, and poetic …
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
<p>On a first reading, Wallace Stevens‘ poems present a confusing spectrum of mutually cancelling ideas and opaque images that defy translation to rational terms. The author intends to foster some confusion, and not to present poetic theorems. But part of the surface ambiguity resolves itself on …
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Extrasolar planet transit photometry at Wallace Astrophysical Observatory
… program for extrasolar planet transits at Wallace Astrophysical Observatory (WAO), which houses the 24-inch telescope used in this work. The purpose of this thesis is to enable students and faculty to easily perform transit photometry at WAO and assess the feasibility of transit photometry …
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"In the shadows" : David Foster Wallace and multicultural America
This dissertation reads David Foster Wallace's literary output against the complicated history of identity politics and multiculturalism in America. Wallace's career coincides with the institutionalisation of second-wave feminism in the 1980s (including at his own university, Amherst College), the …
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Demonstration of Wallace Astrophysical Observatory's 24-inch telescope upgrade
… of an ongoing effort to renovate the George R. Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, a new control system and imaging instrument were implemented for the 24-inch telescope. A redesigned telescope drive mechanism and an adaptation of the Lowell Observatory MOVE control system were installed to …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… Jameson's essay 'Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens', which concerns the American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric Jameson's assertion that Stevens cultivated a style that favours impersonality and abstract …
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First autonomous telescope at Wallace Observatory : impact and preliminary results
… began in Fall 2014 at the MIT George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory. An 11-inch Cassegrain Telescope was assembled in a 10-foot Technical Innovations ProDome. This telescope, the Small AUtonomous Robotic Optical Nightwatcher (SAURON), has the potential to autonomously collect …
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The Sensuous Order, Faith and Love in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
The purpose of this study is to show Wallace Stevens' intense valuation of the sensuous order of the universe through discussions of his various works and their criticism. Also, the love themes and spiritual convictions which result from the poet's emphasis upon the things of this world will be …
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, 1945-1993
… explores the life and work of the writer Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) and his intellectual efforts to create, clarify, and defend the contours of a “geography of hope” in the American West. Chapter 1 begins with Stegner’s move to California in 1945. In the context of his developing regional …
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Wallace Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven": A Form of Farewell
My thesis paper explores Wallace Stevens’s poem “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” contextually. Stevens has long been regarded as monotonous in his themes. Critics, including Bloom, have studied “An Ordinary Evening” as a poem that struggles to unite the real with the imagination. They trace his …
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Wallace Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven": A Form of Farewell
My thesis paper explores Wallace Stevens’s poem “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” contextually. Stevens has long been regarded as monotonous in his themes. Critics, including Bloom, have studied “An Ordinary Evening” as a poem that struggles to unite the real with the imagination. They trace his …
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Henry Agard Wallace and Latin America (1932-1946): The Limits of American Liberalism
… the galleries the chant began, "We want Wallace!" It swelled into an uproar and the chairman of the convention, Sam Jackson, despite all of his efforts, could not stop the chanting and the noise. Finally Jackson called for adornment. The entire stadium retorted "No!" Sam Jackson spoke up, …
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Evaluation, design, and construction of the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory Camera for astronomical observations
… Cassegrain reflector telescope at the George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory (Wallace Observatory), part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The upgrade consists of evaluating, designing and constructing the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory Camera (WAOcam), optimized for …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… place of Black Bohemia, was the residence of Wallace Thurman. Thurman, a black writer, became a central figure of the renaissance movement largely because of his life and his works which reveal his sense of isolation, alienation, and disillusionment. This project is an attempt to provide an …
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