508 research outputs found
The journey is my home
No full textA creative writing thesis consisting of three interrelated essays.M.A.Reckoning -- The rifleman -- Yet another road trip storyby Tess Schaufle
The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life
No full textCreative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up
The Story of Tess
No full textWhenever "human actions are formed to make an art work," human meaning is involved, as the critic, Wayne Booth, points out in his classic, Rhetoric of Fiction (p. 397). One of the tasks that he charges an author with is the need to be clear in his values. He also charges that the author needs to "plumb to universal values about which his readers can really care" (p. 395). Given this, Tess of the d'Urbervilles becomes an intriguing work, for although Hardy draws on certain moral values which his readers can share, he intends to call these values into question. In the novel he endows the heroine, Tess, with certain moral attributes, but he also creates a narrator who, at every step, explains away the meaning of her actions through an amoral ontology. A reader can perceive the narrative's dual function, of showing value but also undercutting it, through a dissonance between Tess and the omniscient narrator. But for the reader, Tess simply comes alive, and takes on a moral significance that the narrator cannot perceive. Writers from time to time speak of such a phenomenon, that in creating a character, they produce something that takes on a life of its own. A character can come to life for a reader, that the author did not intend, and acquire its own authority, when the character’s experiences contradict narrative explanation. The paradox for a reader of Tess is that he or she both accepts and appreciates the story of Tess, but rejects the amoral vision of its implied author. My project is to investigate the conditions under which a reader can dissent ideologically from a work but still value it
An interview with Maine author Tess Gerritsen, who speaks about her acclaimed ne
No full textAn interview with Maine author Tess Gerritsen, who speaks about her acclaimed new novel, Vanish, and recommends books she might give for the holiday season
Profile of Tess Gerritsen of Camden, author of Harvest and Life Support. Ge
No full textProfile of Tess Gerritsen of Camden, author of Harvest and Life Support. Gerritsen, a native of California, is a former physician who writes medical thrillers
Pre-Assumption of Tess' Happy Ending as Seen in Tess of the D'ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
No full textThe object of this research is the struggle of women as reflected by the main character Hardy, namely Tess. The author intends to show how the picture of a woman who never gives up to get a decent life, even though in the end she chose the wrong decision and ended her own life.
The approach used in the analysis of women's struggles is a feminist approach, this is intended to provide an ideal view of women in literary works that are the object of male domination. In this research, the writer uses three methods: data collection by applying library research, data analysis using content analysis method that emphasizes the implied and explicit meaning in the fictional character of the literary work, and data representation by compiling the data obtained in systematic writing, namely thesis.
The author sees that the character of Tess, as a woman who never gives up in her life. He had made several fatal mistakes which later brought misery and his own end. If only Tess hadn't made that mistake her life would have been for the better. First, if Tess hadn't told her she'd been raped then Angel wouldn't have left her. Second, if Tess didn't reject Angel's intention to return then she would live happily with her husband. Third, if Tess hadn't killed Alec, then she wouldn't have been sentenced to death and could live her life with her husband Angel
Arts piece on a review of Maine crime author Tess Gerritsen\u27s new novel The S
No full textArts piece on a review of Maine crime author Tess Gerritsen\u27s new novel The Surgeon, which was written by Tory Haiss and published in the Maine Times issue of Oct. 18. Readers have accused the paper of being unprofessional and even of inciting harassment of Gerritsen. With samples of letters received by Maine Times protesting the Haiss review
Hermits and the Wells
No full textAn interview with children\u27s author Coby McKenzie on her background and illustration and publication process by Tess Hart
A catalogue of binary stars from phase modulation in the first four years of TESS mission photometry
No full textWe present a catalogue of binary companions to ? Scuti stars, detected through phase modulations of their pulsations in Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data. Pulsation timing has provided orbits for hundreds of pulsating stars in binaries from space-based photometry. We have applied this technique to ? Sct stars observed in the first four years of TESS mission photometry. We searched the 2-min cadence light curves of 1161 short-period instability strip pulsators for variations in pulsation phase caused by the dynamical influence of an unseen companion. We discovered 53 new binaries and we present orbital parameters and mass functions for the 24 systems with solvable orbits. For the brightest star in our sample ? Pictoris, we perform a joint fit of the pulsation timing and Hipparcos astrometry. We present the first orbit for the ? Pictoris system, obtaining an orbital period of 1316 ± 2 d and a mass for ? Pic B of 1.05 ± 0.05 M. We revisit pulsation timing binaries from Kepler with Gaia kinematics, finding four systems that are members of the Galactic thick disc or halo. This suggests that they have been rejuvenated by mass transfer, and their companions are now white dwarfs. Further follow-up of these systems may yield valuable constraints of the Galactic blue straggler population. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Hardy and God: Tess of the D\u27Urberville\u27s Role as the Ultimate Pawn
No full textThomas Hardy\u27s Tess of the D \u27Urbervilles has multiple competing claims which are difficult to reconcile within the schools ofhist0l1cal, feminist, or classical criticism. A better way to approach the novel is to look at Tess as a pawn within Hardy\u27s own struggle with God. Hardy constructs God as the author of the multiple systems which lead to Tess\u27 final doom: a flawed genetic line, a flawed sexual double standard, and a flawed system of justice. Tess, in Hardy\u27s mind, becomes the victim of a God who is akin to the deity of Greek playwright Aeschylus\u27 Prometheus Bound, rather than the merciful and loving Christian God. This victimization justifies Hardy\u27s assertion that Tess is a pure woman even though society holds her responsible for multiple sins
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