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William Carlos Williams and the pastoral tradition

Pastoral is a subject that has historically enjoyed a great deal of critical attention, and there is nothing strange in the fact that this interest has continued up to the present day. Most recent attempts at addressing modern pastoral, however, have suffered from two major drawbacks: a failure to ground the definition of pastoral in any kind of a historical or critical tradition, or, more commonly, a perverse choice of works or authors for study. In particular there has been a stunning neglect with regard to one of the twentieth century's most prolific pastoralists: William Carlos Williams. The following thesis seeks to fill this critical gap by approaching the body of Williams's work from the perspective of what are, in effect, various pastoral traditions. In the Introduction I locate the source of Williams's fascination with pastoral in the divided character of his writing career and the symbols (or "facts") of his local environment. In Chapter One I discuss his relation to tradition generally, and observe how this contributes to his basically unironic approach to pastoral writing. Chapter Two looks at the relation between Williams's pastoral and his interest in the visual arts (but avoids going over ground well-covered by critics interested in his connections to the Modernist avant-garde). Chapter Three discusses Williams as a pastoral "regionalist". Chapter Four shows how Williams's famous line "dissonance leads to discovery", can be attributed to the discovery of a natural order underlying reality that Williams associates with pastoral. A brief Conclusion is followed by an Appendix that looks at a single poem, "The Italian Garden", in a way that will provide a summary as well as demonstrate a useful application of some of the material covered.
An investigation of lifelong learning in the context of traditional educational policy and practice

The investigation examines the post-secondary educational system in Canada to determine its ability to provide a viable service to lifelong learners. The writer considers that the lifelong learning movement is already profoundly affecting the beliefs, theory, and practice of traditional education. Drawing on his experience as an adult educator, and through communication with policy-makers, administrators, faculty, and students in traditional and non-traditional post-secondary educational institutions, the writer concluded that an interpretive view of the field of lifelong learning could be obtained by addressing four general questions, namely: (1) What is the importance of lifelong learning to society and the individual? (2) How relevant is the educational system to the needs of the lifelong learner? (3) What influence is lifelong learning having on the principles and practice of teaching? (4) What role can distance education and technology play in the facilitation of lifelong learning? These questions form the basis of the investigation, which involves an examination of the philosophical, methodological, and political aspects of lifelong learning and traditional education. The investigation reveals that lifelong learning possesses a uniqueness of philosophy and method which traditional education, as presently constituted, is unable to accommodate without far-reaching systemic changes. Many of these changes are identified, analyzed, and evaluated in the course of the study. Distance education and educational technology are extensively explored in view of the prominent part they play in the lifelong learning movement. Twenty-six Recommendations have been derived from the investigation. These Recommendations, if expeditiously implemented, might do much to further the development of a unified lifelong learning system.
The impact of Canadian missionaries in Korea, a historical survey of early Canadian mission work, 1888-1898

This dissertation examines how early Canadian missionaries influenced Korean society. The Introduction critiques previous studies, provides a review of the primary sources used, and presents a synopsis of the dissertation's thesis. Chapter One through Three focus specifically on Korea. While Chapter One examines the socio-political climate of late nineteenth-century Korea, Chapter Two describes the impact of Roman Catholicism on Korean society and how this affected the later reception of Protestantism. Chapter Three details how Protestant missionaries learned from Roman Catholic travails and came to incorporate Korea's indigenous belief system in their evangelizing efforts. Chapters Four through Nine examine the lives and works of the earliest Canadian missionaries, especially: James Gale, first Canadian missionary to Korea (Chapter Four); Robert Harkness and Malcolm Fenwick, Corea Union Mission leaders (Chapter Five); physician-evangelists William and Sherwood Hall (Chapter Seven); Dr. Oliver Avison, founder of Korea's first medical college (Chapter Eight); and William McKenzie, the most assimilated of all Canadian missionaries (Chapter Nine). The Conclusion details and summarizes Canada's extensive contributions to Korea's modernization process. Such involvement included providing religious and modern secular education, new medical technologies and training, and efforts to instill the Korean people with a spirit of independence and self-reliance through social movements. The Conclusion also asserts that Canadian missionary efforts in general have received but cursory treatment from scholars because of overwhelming American-centrocism's prevalence throughout the academic world.
The Society of Antiquaries, 1830-1870, institution, intellectual questions, community, and the search for the past

This thesis treats the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1830-1870. Chapter One applies contemporary models of intellectual fields to antiquarianism, and suggests a model comprised of three components: institution, shared intellectual questions and community. Features such as public image, funding, institutional culture, and mechanisms for directing research are also discussed. Chapters Two, Three and Four each treat one component of the model proposed in Chapter One. Chapter Two treats the history of the Society, and its commitment to the collection of historical materials, despite its limited means. Chapter Three introduces the encyclopedic antiquarian intellectual domain, embracing manuscript study, philology, numismatics and archaeology, among others. The model for their integration is found in William Camden's 1586 Britannia, which led to the formation of the Society. With the increase of information, later antiquaries specialised. To succeed at such a range of work, without the support of a wealthy society, antiquaries shared information and divided their labours, remaining united as an intellectual community by adhering to the pattern established by the Britannia. Chapter Four presents data on the 1,636 members of the Society, 1830-70. Most were lower middle class, few were peers, less than half were university educated, but many obtained better employment than their fathers had. Employment links, scholarly projects, and tensions within the community are discussed. The data set is presented in Appendix One. Lists of eminent antiquaries are presented in Appendix Two. Chapter Five treats antiquarian archaeology. Despite the portrait of antiquaries as incompetent bumblers, comparison of their excavations with the Geological Society's excavation of Brixham Cave shows they were competent. Evaluation of the Society's journal, Archaeologia, shows antiquaries' distinctively historical approach to interpreting sites and artefacts. Illustrations from excavation sites are provided in Appendix Three. Chapter Six treats antiquaries' study of languages and texts. Their contributions to Anglo-Saxon studies and bibliography demonstrate the strengths of traditional antiquarian philology. The final chapter accounts for the eclipse of antiquarianism late in the nineteenth century as the result of specialisation and the removal of intellectual work to the universities. It also indicates several areas in which contemporary models of fields might be improved.
Rupturing the skin of memory, bearing witness to the 1989 massacre of women in Montreal

This thesis has been written through the aftershock of the 1989 murder of fourteen women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, an event known commonly as the "Montreal Massacre". Taking a feminist position that this was not the act of a "madman", I argue for careful consideration of how to remember this event and in what relation to other acts of violence against women. I propose the massacre may be understood as an event of "historical trauma": both because it broke the frame of what was normal and expected for women attending university in Canada, and because it surfaced a sense of the horror that is already known and unbearable in the lives of those subject to more everyday assaults and violations. By way of explicating the nuances of this argument, the thesis is developed along three intersecting dimensions. First, I work with my own memories of violation--a history of incest that I began to remember through the event of the massacre. Second, I draw from post-Shoah (Holocaust) theorizings to introduce a language of witnessing and to contemplate the impacts of trauma, not only on individual "survivors", but also for social integrity. Third, I perform the writing as itself a site of bearing of witness, marked by the disturbances of rupture, incomprehensibility and visceral impact. Substantively, the thesis develops through a series of engagements with feminist memorial responses to the Massacre of Women, including art, song, installation, memorial vigils, and monument--drawn from my annotated bibliography of English-language feminist response (1990-1995). Each of the selected works is approached through two central questions: Which calls to witness are inscribed in memorial responses to the massacre? What are the implications of bearing witness to these responses, when one comes to witnessing already traumatized? The close analysis of responses is organized in part through an interest in attending to and conceptualizing the pedagogical effectiveness of memorial practices. The work will be of interest to those working on philosophies of witnessing; relations between history, traumatic memory, and pedagogy; autobiographical theorizing: and, cultural practices in response to violences against women.

Keywords: Montréal École Polytechnique Women Students Massacre, Montréal, Quebec, 1989
Women
Crimes against
Sex discrimination against women
Femmes, Crimes contre les
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes
Le devoir et la volonté, l'éthique du héros dans le comte de monte-cristo d'Alexandre Dumas

Dans son ouvrage Letteratura e vita nazionale, Antonio Gramsci attribue a Dumas l'honneur d'avoir cree avec Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, longtemps avant Nietzsche, la premiere figure de surhomme veritablement digne de ce nom. Umberto Eco confirme plus tard l'existence de cette etrange dette de la philosophie envers Dumas, tout en rappelant ce que son heros doit au Rodolphe des Mysteres de Paris d'Eugene Sue, qu'il perfectionne toutefois a son avis et auquel il prete des dimensions et une profondeur qui faisaient defaut a l'original. En prenant comme point de depart ces deux jugements l'objectif de cette these est de proposer une relecture du heros dumasien, et en particulier du personnage du Comte de Monte-Cristo. Nous soutenons toutefois que le comte de Monte-Cristo represente non pas tant une illustration avant la lettre du surhomme nietzscheen (et en tant que tel, comme l'entendent Gramsci et Eco, le vehicule romanesque d'une ideologie conservatice alienante), mais plutot la representation fictionnelle des theories individualistes soutenues par un contemporain de Dumas, le philosophe allemand Max Stirner (le fondateur de l'anarchisme individualiste), dont l'oeuvre mai tresse, L'Unique et sa propriete, a paru a Berlin en 1844, l'annee meme de la parution du Comte de Monte-Cristo. La these examine le personnage du comte de Monte-Cristo en fonction des categories de relations personnelles et sociales qui forment la base de la vision du monde individualiste stirnerienne (l'accession a l'auto-conscience, les rapports aux institutions, les rapports inter-individuels, la prise de conscience de son pouvoir, le rapport a la propriete), en s'appuyant en outre sur de nombreux renvois a d'autres romans et a d'autres personnages du meme auteur. Nous parvenons a la conclusion que les valeurs vehiculees par le heros--ainsi que par plusieurs autres personnages du roman, tout aussi bien que la description de la societe que le roman propose--correspondent essentiellement a celles de l'Unique stirnerien.
Finite temperature excitations in a dilute Bose-condensed gas

In this thesis, we present several approximations applicable to a uniform weakly-interacting Bose gas at finite temperature, and investigate the excitations and other properties by means of thermal Green's function techniques. We give a detailed discussion of the first-order Popov approximation, which extends the $T = 0$ Bogoliubov approximation by including the Hartree-Fock self-energies of the excited atoms. It leads to a single-particle excitation which is phonon-like in the long wavelength limit, with a velocity which goes as $\sqrt{n\sb0(T)}.$ This phonon region collapses as the BEC transition point is approached. We next discuss the Popov approximation using a t-matrix calculated with self-consistent ladder diagrams. Our analysis shows that this t-matrix becomes very temperature dependent as one approaches the transition point, vanishing at $T\sb{c}.$ This is in agreement with the numerical work of Bijlsma and Stoof (1995), who first pointed out that this removes the discontinuous jump in the condensate density at the transition point. We present a detailed study of the Beliaev-Popov (B-P) approximation for a dilute Bose gas, based on the self-energy diagrams which are second order in the t-matrix. We work out the contribution from each individual diagram and give formal expressions for the self-energies and the excitation energy spectrum valid at arbitrary temperatures. We rederive the well-known results of Beliaev at $T = 0.$ The long wavelength excitations in the Beliaev approximation are phonons with finite lifetimes (damping). We also give the analogous evaluation of the finite temperature B-P self-energies in the low frequency and long wavelength limit. The excitations are still phonon-like. The corrections near $T\sb{c}$ to the chemical potential, excitation energy and damping are all found to be proportional to the temperature. As at zero temperature, the finite temperature self-energies contain infrared divergent terms, but these are shown to cancel out in physical quantities in the long wavelength limit.
Some topics on infinite variance random variables

Infinite variance random variables are used to model processes with high variability. Sometimes point processes are used to explain the weak limit behavior of functionals of these random variables. This dissertation deals with these random variables in two main topics. First, a recursive method is provided to evaluate some functionals of a Poisson point process with a Levy mean measure. The effectiveness of this recursive method is examined for various cases and some representations are given for a variety of functionals of the Poisson point processes. Also bootstrapping of this point process is discussed and as is expected, the bootstrap point process converges in distribution to a point process with a random mean measure. In addition, bootstrapping the M-estimates of the autoregressive model when the process is a random walk with innovations in the domain of attraction of a stable law with index $\alpha\in (0, 2\rbrack$ is considered. It is shown that Efron's bootstrap of the M-estimates of the autoregressive parameter is asymptotically valid if and only if $\alpha<2.$ Also a brief discussion for weak limit behavior of the autoregressive parameters in a two dimensional random walk with innovations in the domain of attraction of a stable law with index $(\alpha\sb1,\alpha\sb2)$ where $\alpha\sb{i}\in(0,2\rbrack$ for $i=1,2$ is provided. It is shown that the least squares estimates are not consistent in some cases while M-estimates satisfying certain conditions are always consistent. Moreover, a maximum autoregressive process with order 1 (MAR(1)) is considered as an alternative to an AR(1) model and an estimate for the parameter is given and its distribution is established.
A history of women religious in the early Irish Church, the hagiographical evidence

This study explores the lives of religious women of the early Celtic Church in Ireland through the eyes of the hagiographers. Few Lives of Irish women saints remain, thus much use has been made of the numerous references to women found in the Lives of men. Other genres of Irish texts have also been consulted. While the Irish hagiographical genre cannot, except rarely, be regarded as an accurate historical record of individuals, it does, at the very least, reflect a view of the world familiar either to the writer or to their sources. It is thus through an analysis of the attitudes and assumptions of these early writers that some idea of the daily lives of holy women emerges. Although much time has been spent during this exploration upon a reconstruction of daily routine through a collation of the data available as an alluvial depository source, considerable time has also been spent examining the use of metaphor in the above genre. This has been particularly helpful in the attempt made here to shed some new light upon the spiritual life of religious women. This latter methodological approach has also been of particular benefit in determining the limits of the power and status enjoyed by these women within Irish society. In the final analysis, it is evident from the picture which emerges that these women played an important and often very active role in the life of the Church.
Signal transduction and the physiological responses to infection with diarrheagenic Escherichia coli

Infection with enteropathogenic (EPEC) and Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) is associated with a number of illnesses in humans. The pathogenic mechanisms of EPEC and VTEC infection are not well understood; therefore, the objectives of the studies presented in this thesis were to unravel the eukaryotic signal transduction responses following bacterial infection and to link these intracellular events to pathophysiological changes in epithelial function. Firstly, increased adherence of transformed strains of rabbit diarrheagenic E. coli (RDEC-1), the lapine counterpart of EPEC, was correlated with a number of signal transduction responses within infected host epithelial cells. The increased capability of transformed RDEC-1 to produce the morphologically distinct attaching and effacing (AE) lesion on epithelial cells was concomitant with the ability of these strains to stimulate increased levels of calcium as well as activate protein kinases within host cells. Next, since signal transduction responses could contribute to the induction of diarrhea following AE E. coli infection, changes in ion transport and permeability functions of epithelial cells infected with EPEC were examined. EPEC infection of a model intestinal epithelium, T84, resulted in a time-dependent decrease in barrier function due to alterations in the distribution of ZO-1 in the tight junction complex. These findings provide possible mechanisms for EPEC-induced diarrheal disease in vivo. Changes in epithelial function were then examined following VTEC infection, with the specific aim to link epithelial functional defects with intracellular signaling by VTEC. VTEC infection also decreased T84 resistance in a time-dependent fashion by altering intercellular tight junctions. Both protein kinase C and myosin light chain kinase played a role in the decreased barrier function induced by VTEC. In addition, VTEC infection resulted in an increase in chloride ion secretion in T84 cells. These findings suggest that the mechanisms for VTEC-induced diarrheal illness involve both increased epithelial permeability and ion transport. Finally, the possibility that VTEC-induced changes in T84 barrier function could provide a mechanism for Verotoxin-1 (VT-1) translocation across epithelial barriers was investigated. It was shown that the mechanism of VT-1 translocation involved a transcellular route in T84 cells. These findings impact on the general concept of bacterial toxin penetration of the intestinal mucosal barrier in the development of systemic illnesses in humans.
Cordon-bleu, a novel murine developmental marker gene isolated by a gene trap approach

Gene trap (GT) vectors which can act as both a reporter and a mutagen have been previously used to isolate new genes that are essential for mouse development. I used gene trap GT vectors and embryonic stem (ES) cell chimeras to screen for insertions of the lacZ reporter gene into transcription units that are spatially and temporally regulated during early mouse embryogenesis. 308 G418$\sp{\rm R}$ ES cell clones expressing the lacZ reporter gene were individually injected into blastocysts to screen for expression in vivo, in ES cell/embryo chimeras. The expression of the reporter gene in chimeric embryos was analyzed at embryonic day 8.5 (E8.5). The characterization of one GT insertion permitted the cloning of a novel gene named cordon-bleu (cobl) because of its expression in E8.5 embryos. In embryos carrying the GtC101 insertion, $\beta$-Gal activity was first detected at E7.5 in the node region and at E8.5, expression was restricted to axial structures, namely gut endoderm, notochord and the floor plate of the neuro-epithelium. Cobl's open reading frame shows no homology to any known protein or protein domain. No phenotype was detected in mice homozygous for the insertion and mapping of the mouse and human syntenic loci did not reveal any mutation for which cobl could be a candidate gene. The insertion may not have completely disrupted cobl function and cobl's potential role in vertebrate axis formation or patterning remains a conundrum. Finally, I have used the viable GtC101/lacZ insertion into cobl as a molecular marker and studied $\beta$-Gal expression in Brachyury (T) and Danforth's short-tail (Sd) mutants. Mutations at both loci are semi-dominant and affect the normal development of the notochord. I generated mouse lines carrying the GtC101 marker and one of the $T,\ T\sp{wis}$ or Sd alleles. For the three alleles, cobl expression in axial mesoderm revealed the earliest defects to date in heterozygous and homozygous mutant embryos. Other domains of cobl expression also provide evidence for patterning defects in the somites and the tail bud resulting from abnormal organogenesis of the notochord.