284 research outputs found
Oscar Wilde : a Victorian sage in a modern age
No full textThis paper assesses Oscar Wilde’s reaction to the fin de siècle and argues against his widely-accepted position as a main figure in the English avant-garde movement, a view which major literary critics such as Peter Gay, Sos Eltis and S. I. Salamensky promote today. Based on Foucault’s definition of modernity as ‘a break with tradition' rather than a specific time, I argue that Wilde was not the modernist author he is widely perceived as, but a conventional Victorian sage who cleverly adopted, and tailored, the fashion of his time to deliver his thoroughly traditional teachings. The paper is split into five sections. The first of deals with Wilde’s creation of his dandy self and the influences of Carlyle, Arnold and Christ over him; the second section examines Ruskin’s influence over Wilde’s theory of art, and Wilde’s self-perception; the third section continues to examine the influence of the Victorian sages on Wilde by exploring his criticism of contemporary modernity in some of his works; the fourth and fifth sections deal with Wilde’s views on the roles of the sexes and his homosexuality respectively, and weigh these views, through further close analysis of his works, against the argument of his modernity. The research ends by asserting that Oscar Wilde was thoroughly Victorian in his views and themes, and that he perceived himself as a sage for his modern age.peer-reviewe
[Rezension von:] Rae, Isobel: Charles Cameron : architect to the court of Russia. - Elek Books, 1971
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William Baker & Isobel Armstrong, eds., Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy
No full textForm and Feeling in Modern Literature pays tribute to critic Barbara Hardy, born in 1924, and to ‘a lifetime of absolute immersion in . . . fiction’ (2). The variety of articles and narratives included in the volume bears witness to Barbara Hardy’s range of interest which goes beyond English fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries to include poetry and creative writing. Besides her academic work, as Isobel Armstrong reminds us in her introduction, Barbara Hardy is the author of a novel, her au..
Child Health 2.0 Youth Advisory Group
No full textGroup Members: Adam, Cameron, Isobel and Lily
Faculty Supporting Leaders: Drs. Colleen Davison and Valerie Michaelson
Students: Nel Vandermeer, Lindsay Davison & Caroline Piccininni.
Moderator: Vicki Remenda, Associate Dean (Acting) (Teaching and Learning
The Patient Centred Assessment Method (PCAM) : integrating the social dimensions of health into primary care
No full textAcknowledgments We wish to acknowledge Maracan Baird and C.J. Peek at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, for allowing the MCAM tool to be further developed, and for working in partnership with the research team in our ongoing collaboration to develop, validate, and implement this tool (www.pcamonline.org).Peer reviewe
Students and teachers in front of the old school in Slocan City
No full textGroup includes: Ada McNeish, Maggie Grant, Ernest Pinchbeck, Arthur Cameron, Isobel Grant, Muriel Henderson, Ellen Russell, Willetta Hicks, Marguerite Madden, Alex Cameron, Victor Marks, Harold Russell, Harold Swan, George Law, Willie (William) Narks, Melville Long, Cecil Bruin, Joe Binish, Elma Madden, Myra Henerson, Mr. Lattie (principal), Marion Tattersall, Roberta Covington, Grace Armstrong, Bertha Armstrong, Melville O'Neail, Miss Winterbotham (teacher), Lizzie Rae, Jessie Rae, Eva Grant, Jack Waldon, Dorothy Parker, Graydon Sykes, George Henderson, Clifford Swan, Ralph Bruin
Uma leitura de Isobel Gunn de Audrey Thomas no contexto do travestismo no discurso feminino
No full textDissertação(mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Instituto de Letras e Artes, 2004.O travestismo feminino é um tema recorrente na história da literatura. Contudo, não encontramos tantos estudos quanto a relevância da temática sugere, e a maioria
daqueles realizados não leva em consideração o histórico do motivo. Nesse trabalho, percorremos práticas representativas do travestismo feminino na literatura, num estudo diacrônico da figura, delineando um caminho para a investigação da problemática no discurso feminino. O travestismo, no contexto discursivo feminino, significa uma
importante estratégia de (des)construção de possibilidades identitárias para o ser
mulher. A obra escolhida para analise é o romance Isobel Gunn (1999), da escritora
canadense Audrey Thomas. Na proposta artística dessa narrativa, Thomas apresenta técnicas de travestismo que desestabilizam a noção cultural de gênero e agenciam a autonomia identitária do sujeito feminino. Verificamos nesse estudo como o signo do travestismo, inserido em ambiente literário de inter/invenção feminina, realiza relevantes contribuições para o debate crítico feminista atual, dentre os quais estão as relações de gênero, a busca da identidade autêntica, e o papel da narrativa nessas questões. Na leitura do texto, focalizamos os processos de tecnologia de gênero, presentes em Isobel Gunn numa abordagem que aponta possibilidades de interferência e subversão nas suas relações com a visão tradicional. Nosso embasamento teórico ancora-se nas perspectivas dos estudos femininos da contemporaneidade e nos princípios da hermenêutica moderna.The feminine cross-dressing is a frequent theme in the literary history. However, we do
not find as much studies as the significance of the motif suggests, and most of them do
not take into consideration its history. In this research we follow representative
occurrences of the motif in literature, through a diachronic study of this figure.
Presenting this panorama, we delineate a way to investigate the problematic in the feminine discourse. The cross-dressing, in this context, becomes a special tool to (de)construct identity possibilities of the female self. The narrative we analyze is Isobel Gunn (1999), written by the Canadian author Audrey Thomas. In the artistic perspective of this novel, Thomas presents crossdressing techniques that disestablish the cultural notion of gender and promote identity autonomy to the female individual. In this study we observe how this sign, within a literary environment of woman in(ter)vention, makes relevant contributions to the contemporary feminist critical debate, like gender relations, the search for an authentic identity and the role and influence of narrative on these issues. When reading the text, we focus on the processes of gender technology, presented in Isobel Gunn with an
approach that provides possibilities of interference and subversion in relation to the traditional view. The contemporaneous female studies and the principles of the modern hermeneutic are the theoretical support of this research
Uma leitura de Isobel Gunn de Audrey Thomas no contexto do travestismo no discurso feminino
No full textDissertação(mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Instituto de Letras e Artes, 2004.O travestismo feminino é um tema recorrente na história da literatura. Contudo, não encontramos tantos estudos quanto a relevância da temática sugere, e a maioria
daqueles realizados não leva em consideração o histórico do motivo. Nesse trabalho, percorremos práticas representativas do travestismo feminino na literatura, num estudo diacrônico da figura, delineando um caminho para a investigação da problemática no discurso feminino. O travestismo, no contexto discursivo feminino, significa uma
importante estratégia de (des)construção de possibilidades identitárias para o ser
mulher. A obra escolhida para analise é o romance Isobel Gunn (1999), da escritora
canadense Audrey Thomas. Na proposta artística dessa narrativa, Thomas apresenta técnicas de travestismo que desestabilizam a noção cultural de gênero e agenciam a autonomia identitária do sujeito feminino. Verificamos nesse estudo como o signo do travestismo, inserido em ambiente literário de inter/invenção feminina, realiza relevantes contribuições para o debate crítico feminista atual, dentre os quais estão as relações de gênero, a busca da identidade autêntica, e o papel da narrativa nessas questões. Na leitura do texto, focalizamos os processos de tecnologia de gênero, presentes em Isobel Gunn numa abordagem que aponta possibilidades de interferência e subversão nas suas relações com a visão tradicional. Nosso embasamento teórico ancora-se nas perspectivas dos estudos femininos da contemporaneidade e nos princípios da hermenêutica moderna.The feminine cross-dressing is a frequent theme in the literary history. However, we do
not find as much studies as the significance of the motif suggests, and most of them do
not take into consideration its history. In this research we follow representative
occurrences of the motif in literature, through a diachronic study of this figure.
Presenting this panorama, we delineate a way to investigate the problematic in the feminine discourse. The cross-dressing, in this context, becomes a special tool to (de)construct identity possibilities of the female self. The narrative we analyze is Isobel Gunn (1999), written by the Canadian author Audrey Thomas. In the artistic perspective of this novel, Thomas presents crossdressing techniques that disestablish the cultural notion of gender and promote identity autonomy to the female individual. In this study we observe how this sign, within a literary environment of woman in(ter)vention, makes relevant contributions to the contemporary feminist critical debate, like gender relations, the search for an authentic identity and the role and influence of narrative on these issues. When reading the text, we focus on the processes of gender technology, presented in Isobel Gunn with an
approach that provides possibilities of interference and subversion in relation to the traditional view. The contemporaneous female studies and the principles of the modern hermeneutic are the theoretical support of this research
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