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The poetry of Edwin Muir has inspired a distinctive body of criticism. Realizing that his poetry is inexorably linked with his life, Roger Knight, Michael Phillips, Peter Butter and others have produced fine studies of his work against a biographical background. Margaret Anderson has contributed an important dissertation on the importance of dualism in the poems. R. P. Blackmur, J. R. Watson and Kathleen Raine have published articles that are central in informing any new Muir scholarship.This study intends to illuminate the source of Muir's inspiration, to show that his imagery is drawn from the mythos. A general review of Muir criticism supports the theory that the imaginative background he knew as the Fable, which underlies all temporal human behavior (labeled as the Story) is also the collective unconscious of Jung, the Spiritus Mundi of Yeats, the "inseeing" of Rilke, and the Mythos of Aristotle.The study reviews Muir criticism and the poetic technique of Muir, develops a special definition of "mythos" and goes on, through the explication of selected Muir poems, to show how his poetic and philosophical growth was influenced by his unique ability to gain access to the most powerful of Aristotle's four modes of Rhetoric. Finally, the study crystalizes Muir's overall aesthetic in the oxymoronic conclusion to his 1956 masterpiece, "The Horses," the term "free servitude."Muir felt that we can only function at our full potential when we use the power of our imagination to realize the essential duality of the human condition. We are, to an extent, free, and in a state of servitude. In Freudian terms, the superego enslaves us through guilt and our debt to the concept of civilization, while the id urges us on the ultimate freedom represented by the unchecked expression of violence and sex.The study concludes with an examination of Muir's final enigmatic symbol, found in the title of his last collection of poems: One Foot in Eden. Man, through the imaginative realization of his immortality, may plant one foot in Eden; the other foot remains trapped in the Labyrinth, Muir's symbol for the bewildering, impersonal complexity of our twentieth century beaurocractic wasteland. The transcendence of this entrapment gave Muir his purpose, in life and in art.

The aim of this work is to briefly and sententiously describe and map the production of one act operas by Bohuslav Martinů.

viii, 114 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright began working on a plan to remake the architectural fabric of the United States. Based on the principle of decentralization, Wright advocated for the abandonment of the industrialized city in favor of an agrarian landscape where each individual would have access to his or her own acre of land. Wright's vision, which he called Broadacre City, was to be the fruit of modern technology directed towards its proper end - human freedom. Envisioning a society that would be technologically advanced in practice but agrarian in organization and values, Wright developed a proposal that embodied the conceptual polarity between nature and culture. This thesis critically examines Wright's resolution of this dichotomy in light of the cultural and intellectual currents prevalent in America of his time. / Committee in Charge: Alison Snyder, Chair; James Tice; Deborah Hurtt

Edwin Muir's poetic vision is bound up with that belief in a twofold structure of reality that in European culture has been called Platonist but which is so ancient and widespread that no one can determine its origins. Though no longer fashionable in a time when materialist philosophies flourish and even Christian clerics are busy "de-mythologizing" their faith, it has been the potent source of our greatest poetry and perhaps, as Kathleen Raine believes, of all true poetry. Those who hold this conviction regard the sensible world as the reflection of an "intelligible" or spiritual world which gives meaning and purpose to life, and they see the objects of nature as images that evoke the ideal forms of a divine reality. For poets, as for traditional men, this belief is less a metaphysic than an intuitive way of apprehending and ordering experience, a "learning of the imagination" inherited from ancient and mysterious sources. To Muir it came directly and spontaneously in the symbolic images of dreams, and the fact that he entitled the first version of his autobiography The Story and the Fable testifies to the importance, both for his life and his poetry, of his belief in two corresponding orders of experience. Intro., p. 1-2.

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This investigation was carried out primarily to study the semi-aquatic tardigrade fauna of Southwestern Virginia. Specimens were obtained from mosses and lichens and were mounted by use of a procedure employing a modification of Hoyer's medium. During the course of this study, 694 specimens were obtained and the following species were identified: Batillipes friaufi sp. n., Echiniscus (Hypechiniscus) gladiator, Echiniscus (Echiniscus) virginicus sp. n., Pseudechiniscus suillus, Macrobiotus macronyx, Macrobiotus intermedius,Macrobiotus richtersi, Macrobiotus harmsworthi, Macrobiotus hufelandi, Macrobiotus echinogenitus, Hypsibius (Isohypsibius) tuberculatus, Hypsibius (Isohypsibius) nodosus, Hypsibius (Isohypsibius) prosostomus, Hypsibius (Isohypsibius) tetradactyloides, Hypsibius (Isohypsibius) canadensis, Hypsibius (Hypsibius) convergens, Hypsibius (Hypsibius) conjungens, Hypsibius (hypsibius) oberhaeuseri, Diphascon bullatus, Diphascon angustatus, Diphascon sconticus, Diphascon belgicae, Diphascon ninguis, Diphascon nodulosus, Itaguascon bellinae and Milnesium tardigradum. Collection data, discussion of the taxonomic status and previous morphological observations were presented for each species. Recommendations were made concerning the discarding of egg morphology as a valid basis for species description and identification. The practice of using numbers for taxonomic entities in tardigrade systematics was observed to be deplorable and the abandonment of such usages was urged. Evidences for the consideration of the Tardigrada as a phylum were presented and a taxonomic hierarchy was erected for this disposition. To complete this taxonomic scheme, the Heterotardigrada and Eutardigrada were accorded class status, the Arthrotardigrada and Echiniscida (= Echiniscoidea) were raised to ordinal rank and a new order, Diplotardigrada, was included with the Eutardigrada. The following new family names, made mandatory by the rules of nomenclature, were presenteda Batillipidae (= Discopodidae), Tetrakentronidae (= Onychopodidae), Echiniscoididae (= Nudechiniscidae), Echiniscidae (= Scutechiniscidae) and Milnesiidae (= Arctiscidae). The previously suggested phylogenetic schemes for the tardigrades were reviewed and the evidences for affinities of the Tardigrada were presented. A bibliography of the recent literature on the tardigrades was compiled. / Doctor of Philosophy

Previous investigations have revealed that some polymer solutions exhibit dielectric dispersion (variation of the dielectric constant with frequency) which is apparently related in some way to the molecular weight of the polymer (1) (2) (3). One of these investigations (1) was carried out on solutions to cellulose acetate in dioxane. It was found that the change in dielectric constant was so small that rather concentrated solutions had to be used in order to obtain reproducible results. The possibility of intermolecular interactions in concentrated solutions made dilute solution measurements desirable. Consequently, the object of the present investigation was to carry out such measurements with sufficient precision to define the shape of the dielectric dispersion curve over the necessary frequency range. The fundamental difficulty was that the change in dielectric constant of a solution containing less than 1% cellulose acetate was only about one part in five hundred or less in a frequency range of about three decades. The course ot such a small change is difficult to detect over such a wide band of frequencies. Capacitance bridges; which are very good for making measurements at a single frequency, particularly in the range of frequencies under investigation; were commercially available. However, bridges have certain inherent disadvantages which make difficult the coverage of such a wide band of frequencies with the necessary precision. The use of ordinary resonance methods was desirable, but they are limited by the practical sizes of the components to frequencies well above the lowest frequencies which were expected to be encountered. As a result of these limitations, a modified resonance procedure was adopted. A resistance-capacitance oscillator was substituted for the more conventional inductance-capacitance circuits. Null indications were obtained by substituting a frequency counting system of great precision for the "zero beat" method. It had been found earlier that the critical frequency was related to the weight average molecular weight of the polymer sample, the critical frequency being defined as the frequency at which the dispersion was 0.5. Based on this it seemed reasonable to assume that the dielectric dispersion curve might be related in some way to the molecular weight distribution curve in the case of a polydisperse sample. An attempt was thus made to obtain the dielectric dispersion curve in as much detail as possible, since this served the two-fold purpose of permitting conclusions to be drawn concerning the validity of the molecular weight relationship in dilute solutions and giving an indication of any influence of the molecular weight distribution on the dielectric dispersion. Apparatus was developed which gave a precision of 0.01 uuf in a total of about 250 uuf. This provided the means of measurement. Measurements were made on several fractions and three artificial blends. The results of measurements on fractions indicated that the form of the critical frequency-molecular weight relationship determined earlier (1) was correct. The dispersion curves obtained for the three blends of varying width indicated that the slope of the dispersion curve at the critical frequency decreased as the width of the blend was increased. This was the only indication of an influence of the width of the distribution on the dispersion curve. It was noted, however, that the slopes of the dispersion curves for the fractions were less than those for the narrowest blend in several cases. The most reasonable explanation of this observation seems to be that the fractions and blends have much wider distributions than was believed. It is also possible that chain flexibility might be a complicating factor. (1) Scherer, P. P., Levi, D. W., and Hawkins, M. C.: J. Polymer Sci., 24, 19 (1957) (2) Scherer, P. C., Hawkins, M.C., and Levi, D. W.: J. Polymer Sci., 31, 105 (1958) (3) Scherer, P. C., Hawkins, M. C., and Levi, D. W.: J. Polymer Sci., 37, 369 (1959) / Ph. D.