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Through an analysis of the reception of Charles Dickens’ unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood this thesis establishes the centrality of the figure of the author as the perceived sanction for the completed text. Through an initial analysis of completed narrative, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories, it shows that the ending is of particular importance as the point at which the reader can look back over the whole and confirm or disconfirm the provisional interpretations which have been made during the reading. It only makes sense to talk of unfinished texts or unfinished narratives in the context of a creative authority, generally identified as the author. An analysis of the reception of unfinished serial narratives of the late Victorian period, specifically the unfinished works of William M. Thackeray and Robert Louis Stevenson, confirms the centrality of the figure of the author in attempts to reconstruct the missing ending. The main body of the thesis provides a period-based analysis of Droodiana, the completions of and speculations about Dickens’ unfinished novel. In the analysis of the strategies employed to justify completions, and the responses to these, it establishes not only that the attempts to take on the authorial authority are perceived as sacrilegious, but that the perception of the completion-writers’ lack of the authority to posit an ending affects whether completions are read as able to complete the story: the willingness to submit to the ending (and revise provisional readings in light of it) is dependent on the perception of the authorial authority of the writer. The analysis shows that while the author-function develops over time, there is some continuity from the late Victorian period towards the present. The analysis of Droodian speculations trace their origin and development through a series of periods, showing that the variety of plots proposed masks a common concern with arriving at Dickens’ intended plot: a desire to identify the creative intention with the plot that would provide the most satisfying ending produces an increased variety over time.

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“Voiceprints of an Astronaut” is a multi-faceted collection of poems that explores the fluid borders between memory and the imagined, the personal and the sociohistorical. The “voiceprints” of the title poem are the words, both imagined and real, of the only twelve men who ever walked on the moon. My own device, of an imagined ‘interview’ with figures from history, is deployed in the title poem. It is also used, for example, in the form of voiceprints from R.L. Stevenson, (“Tusitala”), Mary Queen of Scots’ maidservant, (“Beheaded”,“A Prayer fir James VI”), an acrobat-magician from the Qin Dynasty, (Bi xi Terracotta) and a time-travelling 14th century monk transposed to the Scottish Poetry Library (“In the Library”). In poems such as “Earthrise”, “Starlight from Saturn”, “In the Library”, and “Lines for Edwin Morgan” the tone is lyrical, taking the form of the sonnet, or sometimes simply reflecting the ghost of a sonnet framework. Recent events such as the Haiti earthquake are reflected, at times, by a purely personal response, such as in “Beads”, while poems about the Aids epidemic in the 80’s, (“Lunch-times with Rick”, “The Quilts”) spring from a period as Medical Correspondent for the Guardian, covering Aids conferences in London, Stockholm, Montreal and San Francisco. Others, such as “Roosevelt’s Bats”, “Fire-and-Forget” and “At Sea” are responses to modern war and conflict. In all of these, my aim has been to explore the political through the personal. The poems in this collection reflect an adult life split, almost equally, between two cities: Edinburgh and London. Regular visits too, to North America are another influence. An important part of the journey involved in writing these poems was a discovery of a Scots voice I thought I’d misplaced, only to find again, in poems such as “Beheaded” or “Haud tae me”. Some of these poems are autobiographical, dealing with parenthood, childhood, and growing up. Others, such as “Dana Point” or “Boy with Frog” celebrate a moment, a time and a place. In the case of the series of poems beginning with “Jim” and ending with “Black and White” the places and times take the form of memories, both in Scotland and Canada, of a much older sister. The critical essay that forms the second part of this thesis is entitled “Politics and the Personal in the Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence: Edwin Morgan's “Glasgow Sonnets”, Tony Harrison's “from The School of Eloquence” and selected sonnets by Paul Muldoon”. The first chapter examines the use of the sonnet form in Edwin Morgan’s “Glasgow Sonnets”; the second chapter concerns the sonnets written by Tony Harrison in from The School of Eloquence and Other Poems, published in 1978, while the third chapter looks at selected sonnets by Paul Muldoon.

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En läskamera är ett synhjälpmedel där en kamera filmar ett läsbord och sen visar bilden på en skärm.Bilden går sedan att manipulera så att man t.ex. får svart text på grön bakgrund. Det går även attförstora texten. När konkurrensen ökar och kameran blir bättre med HD-teknik så måste ävenbelysningen, som lyser upp läsbordet, uppdateras. Dagens belysning är ojämn och man kan se ringarefter linserna. Det är även önskvärt att byta ut de halogenlampor som används idag.Rapporten behandlar hur olika ljusledare, reflektorer eller linser kan ge en bra och jämn ljusbild. Detär även viktigt att hitta en belysning som återger färger braFör att få ett flimmerfritt ljus konstrueras en pulsbreddsmodulator med hög frekvens. Den gör detäven möjligt att dimma manuellt eller reglera automatiskt för eventuella förändringar i allmänljuset.Att ljuset är jämnt över hela läsbordet är önskvärt för att få bästa bild. Vi undersökte även om ettprogram kan kompensera för infallande eller frånvarande av ljus. Programmet ska kunna överföras tillen FPGA monterad på ett kretskort. / A video magnifier is a visual aid where a camera is recording on a reading table and then shows thepicture on a display. The picture can then be manipulated so that you e.g. you get a white text on agreen background. You are also able to enlarge the text. As the competition increases and camerasbecome better with HD-technique the lighting that lights up the reading table has to be updated.Today's lighting is irregular and one can see rings after the lenses. It's also desirable to replace today'shalogen lamps.In the report, we check if it is possible that light conductors, reflectors and lenses can give a good andeven light picture. It is also important to find a lighting that reproduces colors in a satisfying way.In order to get a flicker free light we designed a pulse with modulator with high frequency. This makesit possible to dim manually or control automatically for changes in the regular light.The picture is at its best when the light is even over the entire reading table. We investigated in aprogram that might compensate for possible falling or lack of light. The program will be transferredinto an FPGA to enable it to be assembled onto a printed circuit board.

<p>En läskamera är ett synhjälpmedel där en kamera filmar ett läsbord och sen visar bilden på en skärm.Bilden går sedan att manipulera så att man t.ex. får svart text på grön bakgrund. Det går även attförstora texten. När konkurrensen ökar och kameran blir bättre med HD-teknik så måste ävenbelysningen, som lyser upp läsbordet, uppdateras. Dagens belysning är ojämn och man kan se ringarefter linserna. Det är även önskvärt att byta ut de halogenlampor som används idag.Rapporten behandlar hur olika ljusledare, reflektorer eller linser kan ge en bra och jämn ljusbild. Detär även viktigt att hitta en belysning som återger färger braFör att få ett flimmerfritt ljus konstrueras en pulsbreddsmodulator med hög frekvens. Den gör detäven möjligt att dimma manuellt eller reglera automatiskt för eventuella förändringar i allmänljuset.Att ljuset är jämnt över hela läsbordet är önskvärt för att få bästa bild. Vi undersökte även om ettprogram kan kompensera för infallande eller frånvarande av ljus. Programmet ska kunna överföras tillen FPGA monterad på ett kretskort.</p> / <p>A video magnifier is a visual aid where a camera is recording on a reading table and then shows thepicture on a display. The picture can then be manipulated so that you e.g. you get a white text on agreen background. You are also able to enlarge the text. As the competition increases and camerasbecome better with HD-technique the lighting that lights up the reading table has to be updated.Today's lighting is irregular and one can see rings after the lenses. It's also desirable to replace today'shalogen lamps.In the report, we check if it is possible that light conductors, reflectors and lenses can give a good andeven light picture. It is also important to find a lighting that reproduces colors in a satisfying way.In order to get a flicker free light we designed a pulse with modulator with high frequency. This makesit possible to dim manually or control automatically for changes in the regular light.The picture is at its best when the light is even over the entire reading table. We investigated in aprogram that might compensate for possible falling or lack of light. The program will be transferredinto an FPGA to enable it to be assembled onto a printed circuit board.</p>

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-161). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71710.

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