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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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A soluble acid-heat extracted Brucella vaccine: Immunological and physiological studies in guinea pigs, rabbits and calves. 143 p. Dissertation. 1959. -- A soluble-type vaccine was prepared by the acid-heat extraction of Brucella abortus Strain 2 308 and its metabolic by-products in Stuart• s medium. A comparison was made, in guinea pigs, of 2-day-old and 13-day-old cultures for the preparation of the immunogenic agent. Further comparisons were made in guinea pigs and calves of the 13-day-old culture and cell-free 13-day-old culture vaccine. The agent made from the 2-day-old culture produced no significant protection against various challenge levels of virulent Br. abortus Strain 2308. The agent prepared from 13-day-old cultures not only produced significant protection against homologous strain challenge but, produced insignificant serum-agglutination titers at effective dosage levels. The 13-day-old whole and cell-free culture vaccines gave similar results in guinea pigs. In calves the 13-day-old whole-culture vaccine produced higher transient serum-agglutination titers than the 13-day-old cell-free culture vaccine. Protective studies in calves were inconclusive due to inadequate infection in the control animals. The vaccine was shown to be essentially protein in nature and contained two distinct fractions on paper electrophoretic examination. The less mobile fraction apparently contained the agglutinogenic material and the more mobile fraction apparently contained the immunogenic material. Removal of the Brucella cells, prior to acid-heat extraction, decreased the less mobile fraction by more than one-half. The degree of serum agglutinin titer response was apparently contingent on this fraction, which indicated the agglutinogens were an index of metabolic byproducts, but this did not imply that they were an index of protection. Paper electrophoretic serum-protein patterns of 15 male and 15 female rabbits were studied. It was determined that: the serum fraction percentages of normal rabbits showed little variation, with no differences between sex or breed. The various pathologic conditions were indicated first by serum-protein patterns, and later diagnosed by histopathological examination of necropsy material. An additional 14 rabbits with a natural Eimeria stiedae infection were also investigated. The use of paper electrophoresis as an aid in the selection of normal animals for experimental investigation was demonstrated. The 13-day-old whole culture vaccine was employed in rabbits to study serum-agglutinin titer response. The results indicated that the maximum gamma globulin response followed the peak agglutinin response by seven to twenty-one days, this indicated a secondary response the nature of which was not determined. Female rabbits responded to the vaccine with higher initial titers than males and the titer decline was one and one-half times more rapid in the males than. in the females. Sex was shown to be the most significant factor in this finding. Castration and ovario-hysterectomy indicated that the above results could be reversed when an estrogenic hormone was given to the castrates and when testosterone was given to the ovario-hysterectomized animals. Insufficient data was available to elucidate the role of steroid hormones in the serum-agglutinin titer response. / Ph. D.

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