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Muriel Spark as auto-biographer in <i>Curriculum</i> <i>Vitae</i>
No full textExamining Muriel Spark's main aims as an auto-biographer in her work Curriculum Vitae brings important resources in the exploration of the genre of autobiographical writing. This with the theoretical engagement, allows consideration of the critical issues surrounding the roles of author and reader in the construction of the literary self. Spark demands the reader participate in the constructon of textual meaning; overturning the conventions of autobiography, satirising its claims to omniscience and highlighting the impossibility of an authentic voice with regard to the self
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Revealing otherness : a comparative examination of French and English medieval hagiographical romance
No full textThis dissertation is an analysis of three hagiographical romances written in France around the thirteenth century and later adapted into English. The texts are Ami et Amile, Robert le Diable and Florence de Rome and their English counterparts Amis and Amiloun, Sir Gowther and Le bone Florence of Rome. All six texts have been understudied, with the possible exception of Ami et Amile. They are linked in many ways, some thematic, some generic. They have all caused confusion and arguments as to what their genre is (Epic? Saint’s life? Romance? A combination of two or three genres?) and feature the defining notions of otherness, exile and penance. In spite of appearances, this work shows that the French and English authors prove to have quite different takes on the same stories. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, the chapters discuss the presence of otherness in the texts, in all its manifestations and offer new readings of the poems as well as possible solutions to the difficult question of genre in the middle ages. The many shapes taken by the other/Other (physical and emotional otherness; hybridity and gender) are exposed and utilised to uncover the meanings and ideological complexities of these multidimensional poems. This approach also reveals that the English texts propose a more conservative reading of common material than did their French originals. It is therefore suggested that the generic tendencies of these medieval texts be correlated with the importance of the Other in the respective redactions of the tales. Reading without consideration of these two factors produces a lopsided comparative view, while reading with both in mind leads to a better appreciation of rewriting and adaptation in the Middle Ages
Muriel Mandell, Oral History of the Children\u27s Book Committee
No full textMuriel Mandell, writer and educator, gives a history of the Children\u27s Book Committee, which she joined in 1983. She is the author of a dozen books for children and taught in New York City from kindergarten to graduate school. In recent years she has written and adapted more than 50 stories for an app for young children, and to this day remains an editor of the Children\u27s Book Committee annual list.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/oralhistories/1009/thumbnail.jp
Muriel Sibell Wolle
No full textMuriel Sibell Wolle was an artist and author noted for her book, The Bonanza Trail
Recipes for your holiday baking
No full textRecipes by Muriel McKay for Holiday Baking (1957)Cover title; "Compliments of CJON-Radio-TV" --cover; "The gay illustrations by: Continuity Editor, Joan LeClair" -- p.
An analytic model of implosion toward possible fusion
No full textAbstractWe apply to a spherically symmetric system a time evolution equation from which an exact solution of the Navier–Stokes equation has been obtained (Muriel, 2011, 2014). The radial density and temperature of a gas is calculated. This analytic solution may be used as a new speculative theoretical study for periodic implosions applicable to fusion
1955 Winning Entries in the Newfoundland Government Sponsored Competition for the Encouragement of Arts and Letters, Etc.
No full textArts and Letters Competition 1955First Constitutional Suspension / L. E. F. English -- Black Rock Sunker / Cassie Brown -- Grandpa and the Writer / Muriel McKay -- In Memorium Kathleen Ferrier / Leonore Pratt -- Ballad / L. E. F. EnglishTitle from cover
The Generic Flamboyance of Muriel Spark
No full textIn her 1970 speech, “The Desegregation of Art” Scottish author Muriel Spark suggests that art has become overly sentimental and ultimately ineffective in its aims of social change. While scholars have used this speech to understand the importance of humor in Spark’s work, unexplored has been the use of genre as a means of social critique. In analyzing Spark’s novellas The Public Image and The Driver’s Seat, I argue that Spark uses archetypes to demonstrate the limited agency of women and the disturbing implications of all too familiar conventions
Interview with Muriel Lezak, Ph.D.
No full textMuriel Deutsch Lezak grew up in Chicago. She had an early interest in medicine due to her grandmother having a handicap, but the 1940s were a bad time for women in medicine. However, a year at the University of Michigan gave her a grounding in the sciences and she returned to Chicago and earned a Master's in Human Development in 1947. She married in 1949 and moved to Oregon, where she procured a job as a clinical psychologist. She earned her doctorate in psychology at the University of Portland in 1960. She then worked at Portland State University until joining the Veterans Administration in 1966 as psychologist for the neurology, neurosurgery, and rehab departments. She remained at the VA until 1985 when she joined OHSU's Neurology Department. She was also author of the book Neuropsychological Assessment. In this interview, Dr. Lezak tells of her great interest in traumatic brain injuries, stroke and dementia
\u27I\u27m in full control\u27: Muriel Spark\u27s The Finishing School
No full textDiscusses the special issues for reviewers treating an author\u27s late work, analyzes Muriel\u27s Spark\u27s last novel, The Finishing School (2004) and its reception, and draws on correspondence in the Spark archives at the National Library of Scotland to document Spark\u27s firm control over the text of her work
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