This thesis engages with Wilson Harris's vision for the Caribbean in light of the processes of land settlement, appropriation, genocide and slave trafficking that have historically denied the region's population of human identity. Concerned primarily with Wilson Harris's first four published novels, Palace of the Peacock (1960), The Far Journey of Oudin (1961), The Whole Armour (1962), and The Secret Ladder (1963), which were then grouped together and republished as The Guyana Quartet (1985), the study of this quartet also focuses on Harris's critical essays, most notably "The Amerindian Legacy" (1990). Firstly, this thesis situates Wilson Harris within the context of postcolonial thought and Caribbean literature in the 20th century. Then, it focuses on the remnants of colonial conquest that appear continuously in Harris's four novels under the repeated motif of pursuit. By exploring the presence of Jungian thought in Harris's fictional writing and critical writing, as well as the immanent ontology of the Caribbean that underpins the author's vision, the thesis draws out Harris's response to the cycle of persecution that he believes to stagnate the Caribbean. Harris's mythopoetic revisioning of Caribbean identity in The Guyana Quartet proposes a form of rebirth that transforms the dialectic between...

Die Arbeit geht der offenbar bisher kaum bearbeiteten Ideengeschichte von Kinnier Wilsons hepatolentikulärer Degeneration und Carl Westphals Pseudosklerose in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart nach. Als Beispiel zeigt sie eindrücklich, wie neurologische Krankheitslehren entstanden sind. Außerdem wird deutlich, wie klinische Beschreibungen von zum Teil nur wenigen Fällen sukzessive in nosologische Diagnosen mit anerkannten Therapiemaßnahmen mündeten und schließlich die für die Krankheit verantwortlichen Genloki identifiziert werden konnten. Im deutschen Sprachraum herrschte Uneinigkeit darüber, ob eine von Westphal 1883 beschriebene Krankheit deckungsgleich mit der von Wilson beschriebenen und später nach ihm benannten Entität sei. Dieser Artikel führt u. a. anhand von Arbeiten von Adolf Strümpell, Alois Alzheimer, August Bostroem oder Walther Spielmeyer die wesentlichen Beiträge auf dem Weg des Erkenntnisgewinns vor Augen und wendet sich der Frage nach der Einheit beider Krankheiten zu. Für die Entwicklung der Therapie und deren Einsatz in der klinischen Praxis gewann ab 1970 in Ostdeutschland die Leipziger „Zentralstelle für Morbus Wilson“ für das Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR Bedeutung, deren Arbeit und Erfahrungen schließlich auch in die aktuellen „Leitlinien der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie“ (2008) über die Behandlung des M. Wilson eingeflossen sind

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L’objet de cette recherche doctorale consiste à mettre en évidence le fait que l'oeuvre d’Alan Wilson Watts présente un intérêt philosophique manifeste. Plus, qu’il y a dans ses ouvrages publiés durant la Première Période (1935-1958), la manifestation d’une pensée originale en formation ; une pensée dont on peut reconnaître aujourd'hui toute l'importance qu’elle a eue dans l’émergence de ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler la philosophie de la contre-culture américaine. Ce que nous voulons montrer, c’est que malgré ses propres contradictions et ses emprunts multiples à la tradition mystique occidentale, la théologie chrétienne, la psychologie des profondeurs, les traditions philosophiques et religieuses de l’Orient, cette philosophie est demeurée constamment éprise de cette « grande certitude » qu’il existerait au sein de toutes les grandes cultures spirituelles une philosophia perennis, c'est-à-dire une philosophie qui posséderait en propre un caractère universel et qui s’intéresserait, malgré des différences mineures relatives à l’interprétation culturelle, autant à la nature qu’à la destinée de l'homme. Une philosophie qui, somme toute, s'apparenterait plus à un amour de la sagesse qu'à une recherche explicative et justificative des causes, et conséquemment, à la théorisation d'une argumentation rationnelle. Nous montrerons que cette œuvre en formation s’inscrit également dans la voie de la continuité, ce qui n’est pas sans rappeler la figure du cercle ou encore la notion de cycle, qui rappelons-le, chez cet étrange philosophe d’Occident à l'esprit taoïste, se présente comme les circonvolutions d’un parcours qui retournent constamment à ses racines et à ses sources pour le mener toujours plus loin, c’est-à-dire nulle part ailleurs qu' « ici et maintenant ».

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An in-depth look at my how my desire to make no assumptions with regards to creating art led me to invitation as a guiding principle when directing for the theatre. This thesis will cite examples from three productions I’ve directed as a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. / text

The purpose of this study is to explore Mark Twain's involvement with the southern ante-bellum experience as reflected in his Southern Trilogy, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He came to denounce the South more and more vehemently in these novels, and each occupies a critical position in his artistic and philosophical growth.

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Many schools throughout the United States are struggling to address student deficiencies in reading. Empirical evidence demonstrating the efficacy of reading intervention programs is often lacking. This study examined the effectiveness of an 8-week reading intervention program, the Wilson Reading System (WRS), that was implemented in a local elementary school in Washington D.C. to address the reading deficiencies of 75 third-grade students. Guided by Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), a quasi-experimental pre/post research design was used to examine differences in reading proficiencies following the completion of the WRS program, as measured by the Dynamic Indicator of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS) assessment instrument. A multivariate analysis of variance was used to test the differences in DIBELS posttest composite scores and individual subscale scores. A multivariate analysis of covariance was used to examine pre/post differences while controlling for gender and days absent. While there was a statistically significant difference in the DIBELS composite score (p < .05), the individual subscales lacked statistical significance when controlling for gender and days absent. The descriptive and bivariate analysis of test scores with respect to gender and days absent were not of practical nor statistical significance. These findings suggest that the results of this study were due to the duration of the reading intervention program. This study contributes to positive social change as it brings to light the limited value of short-term intervention programs and highlights the extensive and integral efforts needed to address academic deficiencies in reading literacy.

This thesis examines aspects of the work of American writer and social critic, Lewis Mumford, and the domestic buildings of architect William Wurster. It reveals parallels in their careers, particularly evident in an Arts and Crafts influence and the regional emphasis both men combined with an otherwise overtly Modernist outlook. Several chapters are devoted to the background of, and influences on, Mumford???s regionalism and Wurster???s architecture. Mumford, a spiritual descendent of John Ruskin, admired Wurster???s work for its reflection of his own regionalist ideas, which are traced to Arts and Crafts figures Patrick Geddes, William Morris, William Lethaby and Ruskin. These figures are important to this study, firstly because the influence of their philosophical perspective allowed Mumford, almost uniquely, to position himself as a spokesman for both Romanticism and Modernism with equal validity, and secondly because of their influence upon early Californian architects such as Bernard Maybeck, and subsequently upon Wurster and his colleagues. Throughout the thesis, an important architectural distinction is highlighted between regional Modernism and the International Style. This distinction polarised the American architectural community after Mumford published an article in 1947 suggesting that the ???Bay Region Style??? represented a regionally appropriate alternative to the abstract formulas of International Style architecture and nominated Wurster as its most significant representative. Wurster???s regional Modernism was distinct from the bulk of American Modernism because of its regional influences and its indebtedness to vernacular forms, apparent in buildings such as his Gregory Farmhouse. In 1948, Henry-Russel Hitchcock organised a symposium at New York???s Museum of Modern Art to refute Mumford???s article. Its participants acrimoniously rejected a regionalist alternative to the International Style, and architectural historians have suggested that authentic regional development in the Bay Region largely ceased because of such adverse theoretical and academic scrutiny. After examining the influences on Mumford and Wurster, the thesis concludes that twentieth century regional architectural development in the San Francisco Bay Region has influenced subsequent Western domestic architecture. Wurster suggested that architects should employ the regional and vernacular rather than emulate historical styles or follow theoretical models in their buildings and Mumford, upon whose work Critical Regionalism was later founded, is central to any understanding of the importance of the vernacular, regional and historical in modern architecture.