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Adam Bede: Author, Narrator and Narrative
No full textArticle from the George Eliot Review, digitized and hosted by the George Eliot Review Online.Publishe
O Referente errante: The Waste Land e sua Máquina de Teses
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2011Esta investigação debruça-se sobre as "Notes on The Waste Land Notas sobre The Waste Land), de T. S. Eliot, a fim de colocar em xeque sua suposta função explicativa. Em outras palavras, defende-se aqui a tese de que as notas de Eliot não operam como mapa interpretativo do poema; pelo contrário, valem-se de uma posição limítrofe para complicar todo gesto analítico, inclusive aquele por elas a princípio fundado. As "Notas sobre The Waste Land" ironizam o próprio dispositivo acadêmico que lhes serve de base para exercer seu pretenso papel esclarecedor. Para defender tal argumento, cada um dos cinco capítulos do presente trabalho parte de uma das notas do poeta e investiga o adiamento interpretativo resultante do choque entre os versos e a "autoanálise" ali proposta. Uma vez que as "Notes on The Waste Land" afastam-se do intuito elucidativo que lhes foi designado, cabe, portanto, associá-las ao mesmo procedimento crítico que fundou as noções de "paideuma" e "tradição". A rigor, parece-nos que estamos diante de mais uma das moedas falsas do modernismo.This study questions the explicative function of the "Notes on The Waste Land," by T. S. Eliot. The hypothesis is that Eliot's notes do not work as an interpretative map of the poem; rather, they take advantage of their borderline position to complicate every analytic attempt, including the one they apparently present. The "Notes on The Waste Land" parody the very academic network that allows them to play their alleged clarifying role. For the purpose of advancing this line of thought, each of the five chapters of the study starts from one of the poet's notes and investigates the interpretative postponement resulting from the clash between the verses and the "self-analysis" there offered. As the "Notes on The Waste Land" are far from fulfilling the function for which they were envisaged, it is important, therefore, to link them to the same literary procedure that introduced notions such as "paideuma" and "tradition". In fact, the thesis reveals the possibility that the notes themselves may be another modernist counterfeit coin
"What do I think of glory?": On Middlemarch by George Eliot
No full text"What do I think of Middlemarch? What do I think of glory?" This is the famous reply Emily Dickinson wrote to her bookish cousins in 1873 after her first reading of George Eliot’s novel. Dickinson’s sentiments were also my own when I completed my first reading of Middlemarch (1871–1872), about thirty-five years ago. Middlemarch is the book that made me realize literature could be more than a source of entertainment, that it could be Art with a capital A. Here was a text with fascinating and seemingly limitless possibilities for interpretation that would continue to reward scrutiny. Of course, I didn’t come up with that assessment entirely on my own. Since its publication, Middlemarch has ranked among the world’s most popular and highly acclaimed literary works. It was one of the staples of Victorian literature courses and was essential reading for English majors at Queen’s University in Canada, where I completed two undergraduate degrees. Even before I learned that “George Eliot” was the pseudonym of a female writer, Mary Ann Evans, I’d been conditioned to recognize her name as part of the canon of Great Authors, a list dominated by male writers such as Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Conrad, and Joyce. I still meet people all the time who have heard of Middlemarch as one of the world’s best-loved novels and know George Eliot is the author but don’t know she was a woman, let alone the most successful woman writer of the Victorian era. Knowing a book is on the “should read” list and actually reading it are two entirely different things, and I must confess I never did make it all the way through Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Reading Middlemarch, however, turned out to be life-changing, igniting my passion for Victorian literature and for George Eliot in particular. What I hope to convey here is how and why this Victorian novel and its author continue to inspire me.Publishe
Advances in field noble gasmeasurements towards operationalhydrology
No full textInternational audienceIn natural waters, noble gas concentrations are governedby a diversity of relatively simple and well-studied physicalprocesses. As a result, noble gas measurements provideimportant information on various phenomena such asgroundwater residence time distribution (4He, 21Ne, 37Ar, 39Ar,40Ar, 85Kr, 81Kr), aquifer recharge conditions (temperature,elevation …) or aquifer-river exchange (222Rn).However, despite their interest, noble gas data remainrelatively scarce and punctual owing to the complexity andcosts of their production. In view of the spatial and temporalvariety and variability of the Hydrosphere dynamics a newinvestigation method is needed.This study approaches the concept of “operationalhydrology” aiming to enhance both the spatio-temporaldistribution and the quality of environmental data for athorough exploration of the Hydrosphere.In this perspective, we developed a new analytical toolbased on membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS)allowing the continuous measurement of dissolved gases(Chatton et al., 2017).To illustrate our approach, we present atmospheric andradiogenic noble gas data (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) measured insitu with a CF-MIMS (Chatton et al, 2017) installed in amobile laboratory arranged in an all-terrain truck (CRITEXLab).This ongoing work focuses on groundwater and thefield investigation of residence time distribution, rechargeprocesses, water flow paths and mixing
T.S. Eliot : a bibliography of T.S. Eliot criticism, 1987-2013
No full textThis bibliography of scholarship related to the writer T.S. Eliot is arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within each year. This bibliography contains 1624 entries. Select entries have been annotated. Where available, annotations have been taken from the research database and are enclosed in brackets ([ ]). Annotations that have been taken from the works themselves are enclosed by asterisks. Annotations written by the author of this thesis have no special characters to distinguish them from other annotations. An annotated bibliography of Eliot criticism is essential to keep up with the recent resurgence in Eliot studies. The last bibliography published regarding Eliot's works was Sebastian Knowles and Scott A. Leonard's T.S. Eliot: Man and Poet, Volume 2: An Annotated Bibliography of a Decade of T.S. Eliot Criticism, 1977-1986. This new bibliography creates a central location for Eliot research for the years of 1987-2013
The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot’s Career: A Reconsideration
No full textThis article examines the “protection” and “encouragement” George Henry Lewes provided to Eliot throughout her fiction-writing career. According to biographers, Lewes showed his selfless devotion to Eliot by encouraging her to begin and continue writing fiction; by fostering the mystery of her authorship; by managing her finances; by negotiating her publishing contracts; by managing her schedule; by hosting a salon to promote her books; and by staying close by her side for twenty-four years until death parted them. By reconsidering each element of Lewes’s devotion separately, Rilett challenges the prevailing construction of the Eliot–Lewes relationship as the ideal partnership of literary agent and author and the perfect marriage. Rilett’s revisionist interpretation seeks to open up Eliot’s fiction to productive new biographical readings for a new generation of scholars
Laughing with George Eliot
No full textThe tradition of admiring George Eliot for her genius is as old as the author herself. Alexander Main, one of her more sycophantic devotees, laid the foundations of this tradition during her lifetime with the publication of Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings, a work dedicated \u27to George Eliot in recognition of a genius as original as it is profound and a morality as pure as it is impassioned\u27. Though Main confesses that the preface to his book is \u27not the place in which to attempt to give an exposition of George Eliot\u27s genius\u27, he cannot resist using it to remind us that she has made the novel \u27the vehicle of the grandest and most uncompromising moral truth\u27 , that \u27there is to be found, on almost every page of her writings, some wise thought finely expressed, some beautiful sentiment tenderly clothed, some pointed witticism exquisitely turned\u27, and that the \u27riches\u27 to be found in her work \u27would seem to be actually without a limit\u27.1 If this is Main determined not to expound George Eliot\u27s worth, it is hard to imagine him in an expository mood.
Main\u27s preface, however, is more than mere goddess-worship; it also outlines the major characteristics of George Eliot\u27s writing - \u27moral truth\u27, \u27wise thought\u27, \u27pointed witticism\u27 - qualities for which her novels have been vigorously championed and violently criticized for the last century and a half. Of these, it is undoubtedly with a kind of moralism and wisdom that George Eliot has become most closely associated since her death. Gordon Haight attributes this phenomenon largely to John Walter Cross, George Eliot\u27s second husband and first biographer. \u27The legend of lofty seriousness\u27, Haight explains, \u27fostered in the beginning by Lewes, became through Cross\u27s efforts so firmly fixed that it colored her reputation as a novelist\u27.2 And indeed it has. Despite the range of critical opinions that informs scholarship on George Eliot\u27s life and work, to view her as a \u27serious\u27 artist first and foremost has become something of standard practice among her critics both cruel and kind. As V. S. Pritchett put it, \u27one pictures her, in life, moralizing instead of making a scene\u27.\u27
George Eliot was certainly a serious author, and her penchant for \u27moralizing\u27 is a well-documented (if not well-loved) fact of her style. But alongside her penetrating observations of human nature and her sincere appeals to the moral conscience of her readers runs a vibrant current of something with which she is too rarely associated: humour. George Eliot may well be formidable, but she is also funny, a quality with which I think she has been insufficiently associated since her death. Like John Cross, whose devotion to the \u27sibylline\u27 George Eliot prompted him in editing her letters to highlight \u27the more sententious passages\u27 and omit altogether \u27the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks\u27 posterity, it would seem, has committed itself to an unsmiling image of the author. This essay seeks to adjust that image, to catch the sibyl in the act of smirking. By highlighting the work of critics who appreciated her capacity for humour, and by calling attention to moments in her writings which exhibit that comic capacity at work, I will argue here that to conceive of George Eliot solely as an austere, weighty, untouchable personality is to misunderstand her, and that knowing how to laugh with George Eliot is a crucial part of knowing how to read her
Review of Riya Das’s Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature
No full textThis cogent work, "highly recommended" by CHOICE, is yet another example of the fine new scholarship that, fortunately, often targets George Eliot's work. One might occasionally disagree with the author, but even sceptical engagement in this case enables greater clarity in one's own thinking
Master gardener Eliot Coleman of Cape Rosier is the author of two best-selling b
No full textMaster gardener Eliot Coleman of Cape Rosier is the author of two best-selling books on organic gardening. He and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, a well-known flower gardener, are working on two more books and fending-off a multitude of requests for their time
A glimpse of the Anthropocene captured by environmental tracers in the groundwater of a fractured aquifer
No full textInternational audienceGoldschmidt 2021 Abstracthttps://doi.org/10.7185/gold2021.6897A glimpse of the Anthropocenecaptured by environmental tracers inthe groundwater of a fracturedaquiferDR. ELIOT CHATTON1, THIERRY LABASQUE2,WERNER AESCHBACH3, VIRGINIE VERGNAUD2 ANDLUC AQUILINA41CNRS UMR61182Univ. Rennes, CNRS, UMS 33433Institute of Environmental Physics4Université de Rennes 1 Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118Presenting Author: [email protected] Anthropocene is an epoch in Earth’s history that has beenproposed to characterise the global impact of human activities onthe Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, i.e.the Critical Zone.Just as for past climates, the signature of these anthropogenicimpacts are recorded by environmental tracers dissolved ingroundwater that could provide a better understanding ofgroundwater flows, residence time and mixing thus providinginformation on this major water resource both in terms ofquantity and quality.In this study, we use dissolved gases (CFCs, SF6, 4He, 14C,noble gases, VOCs, stable isotopes) and groundwater chemicalcomposition as environmental tracers to unveil insights of theAnthropocene in a fractured aquifer in the northwest of France.We analyse the impact of groundwater abstraction on residencetime and excess air composition. We evidence the influence ofclimate change on groundwater recharge temperature (noble gastemperatures, NGT). We also quantify the appearance ofanthropogenic compounds over the last decades.These observations enable us to define the Anthropocenesignature in groundwater and the distribution of its impacts onthe groundwater resource in order to gain a better picture of itsresilience in the future
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