79 research outputs found
Maeve Brennan, Celebrity, and Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the link in this record.Just four years after the end of the Second World War, in his 1949 essay “Here is New York”, E. B. White begins his celebration of the city with the promise that “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy”. In her biography of Maeve Brennan, Homesick at the New Yorker, Angela Bourke takes her cue from White in describing Brennan as “an expert in both loneliness and privacy”. There is a marked tension between privacy and public visibility and obscurity and celebrity in Maeve Brennan’s writing, an anxiety that speaks in significant ways to the concerns of the mid-century Irish woman writer and to the position of women during the years of the American war effort. While Brennan is perhaps best known for her association with the New Yorker magazine through the 1950s and 60s and beyond, her concern with celebrity and public performances of different kinds was also shaped via the formative influence of another New York magazine in the 1940s: Harper’s Bazaar. [...
Maeve Brennan and James Joyce
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.As a New York writer, Maeve Brennan forges a relationship with Ireland as home that speaks to the separation and imaginative return so strongly associated with James Joyce while at the same time putting a careful distance between her work and Joyce’s formidable influence. Drawing on archival material at the University of Delaware and the New York Public Library, which amplifies our understanding of some of the intentions and motivations in Brennan’s work, this essay examines how Brennan transforms Joycean modes and motifs in her careful mapping and writing of New York in her essays for The New Yorker. Written under the pseudonym ‘The Long-Winded Lady’, Brennan’s essays for the magazine break imaginative ground in the city that she lived in for most of her life and expand outwards from the self-contained domestic world of Cherryfield Avenue so central to her Dublin stories. In taking her place in the Joycean tradition of writing the city and writing home, Brennan re-invents the image of the Irish writer bound to Ireland in spite of separation in time and distance; she achieves this by positioning herself in one significant chapter of her writing very emphatically as a New York writer. The main concern here is with Brennan’s adaptation of Joycean motifs and the different ways in which she positions herself in a direct line of inheritance to Joyce as she negotiates her position as a transatlantic writer in the middle of the twentieth century
Stud, hanba a sounáležitost v díle Maeve Brennan
No full textpráce Tato diplomová práce analyzuje tvorbu irsko-americké autorky Maeve Brennan, píšící ve dvacátém století, optikou hanby. Zkoumá celé autorčino dílo: povídky a časopisecké příspěvky vydané ve sbírkách The Long Winded Lady, The Springs of Affection a The Rose Garden, stejně jako novelu The Visitor. Hanba se v poslední době dostala do hledáčku akademiků jako předmět zkoumání i interpretační klíč pro literární analýzu. Tato práce se zabývá pojmem hanby ve snaze zmapovat společenské a psychologické prožívání pocitu sounáležitosti a jeho absence v tvorbě Brennan, kde hrozba i realita izolace jako důsledku odmítnutí společností představují prominentní témata. Tyto elementy jsou také představeny v souvislosti s problematikou sebeurčení a identity, neboť postavy v díle Brennan částečně přijímají a částečně odmítají společenskou normativitu. Vzhledem k tomu, že jejich individuální potřeby, a to především v případě žen, jsou v rozporu se společenskými očekáváními, nastává nutnost vybírat si mezi společenským přijetím na jedné straně a trváním na vlastní odlišnosti na straně druhé. Jelikož narušení společenských norem je provázeno různě silnou odezvou v podobě hanby, tato emoce je všudypřítomná ve vysoce regulovaných a sledovaných prostředích, jež Brennan zobrazuje. Protože má pak tendenci způsobovat další...Thesis Abstract This thesis analyses the fiction of the twentieth-century Irish-American author Maeve Brennan through the lens of shame. All of Brennan's published writing has been included: her short stories and magazine contributions collected in The Long Winded Lady, The Springs of Affection, and The Rose Garden, as well as her novella The Visitor. Shame has recently been embraced in academia as a subject of research, as well as an interpretative key for literary analysis. The thesis examines shame in order to map out social and psychological experience of belonging, and the lack thereof, in Brennan's fiction, as both the threat and the reality of isolation, stemming from social rejection, occur as its prominent themes. These elements are also shown as connected to the issues of self-determination and identity, as Brennan's characters partly embrace and partly oppose social normativity. As some of their individual needs, especially those of women, are add odds with social expectations, they are effectively choosing between social inclusion on the one hand, and embracing their personal difference. As transgressions of social norms come with varying degrees of shame, the emotion is omnipresent in the highly regulated, and surveilled, environments that Brennan depicts. As the affect itself causes further...Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
Mystery author Keenan Powell presents Deadly Solution, with author Stan Jones.
No full textIn Deadly Solution, Maeve Malloy, a public defender in Anchorage, defends an Alaska Native man accused of beating another homeless man to death. With no witnesses to the crime and a client who claims to have no knowledge of the night of the murder, the case seems stacked against her, Keenan Powell is a practicing attorney in Anchorage. She received a Bachelors of Science in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University and a Juris doctorate from McGeorge School of Law. Joining Keenan Powell is mystery writer Stan Jones. Stan Jones is author of Tundra Kill; White Sky, Black Ice; Shaman Pass; frozen Sun; Village of the Ghost Bears
Shame and Belonging in the Fiction of Maeve Brennan
No full textThesis Abstract This thesis analyses the fiction of the twentieth-century Irish-American author Maeve Brennan through the lens of shame. All of Brennan's published writing has been included: her short stories and magazine contributions collected in The Long Winded Lady, The Springs of Affection, and The Rose Garden, as well as her novella The Visitor. Shame has recently been embraced in academia as a subject of research, as well as an interpretative key for literary analysis. The thesis examines shame in order to map out social and psychological experience of belonging, and the lack thereof, in Brennan's fiction, as both the threat and the reality of isolation, stemming from social rejection, occur as its prominent themes. These elements are also shown as connected to the issues of self-determination and identity, as Brennan's characters partly embrace and partly oppose social normativity. As some of their individual needs, especially those of women, are add odds with social expectations, they are effectively choosing between social inclusion on the one hand, and embracing their personal difference. As transgressions of social norms come with varying degrees of shame, the emotion is omnipresent in the highly regulated, and surveilled, environments that Brennan depicts. As the affect itself causes further..
From Pedrolino to a Pierrot: The Origin, Ancestry and Ambivalence of the British Pierrot Troupe
No full textIn this article, the author considers the British development of the seaside Pierrot troupe, arguing that its construction is consistent with the notion of invented tradition, and the associated concerns with identity and nationality. Tracing the history of the character from its origins as Pedrolino in the commedia dell’arte, the article considers the traditional and novel elements of the British form. This also allows a brief account of the origin and aesthetics of the British tradition. Reflecting on the synthesis of the archaic and contemporary dimensions of the form, the author proposes that the new structure constructed an ambivalent class of character. The composition of both troupes and audiences was drawn from across the range of social strata. Through its collectivity and its treatment of contemporary social themes, it is argued the British Pierrot troupe approached and negotiated questions of a cultural and national identity in the late-Victorian period.
Dave Calvert is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research
interests include street theatre, Applied Theatre and learning disabled
performance. He is also a member of The Pierrotters, the last remaining seaside
Pierrot troupe
La répression comme entreprise: quelques tendances récentes en matière de privatisation et de justice criminelle
No full textDer Artikel beschàftgit sich mit Arbeiten uber die Privatisierung der Strafjustiz, urn damit einige aktuelle Entwicklung - besonders in Canada und den USA - zu kommentie ren. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf unternehmerische Aspekte der Verwicklung von Gesellschaften und Privatunternehmen in den Prozeß der Privatisierung und beschreibt die Rolle des Privatsektors bei der Konstituierung von Bedürfnissen für ihre eigenen Dienstleistungen. Die Beobachtungen der Autorin beziehen sich nicht nur auf wissenschaftliche Untersuchungsergebnisse, sondern auch auf eigene Erfahrungen als hole Funktionärin Anfang der neunziger Jahre im Justizministerium von Ontario, Canada. Mit diesen Erfahrungen, besonders aus Situationen in denen der Privatsektor versuchte, einiger seiner Dienste und Produkte an die Verwaltung und die Polizei zu verkaufen, hofft die Autorin die Politik und die politische und ökonomische Dynamik der Privatisierungs-prozesse zu erhellen. Die Privatisierung von System sozialer Kontrolle impliziert das Abschöpfen von Profit und der Artikel fragt grundlegend: wer gewinnt und wer trägt die Kosten?This paper seeks to contribute to literatures on privatization in criminal justice by commenting on some recent developments - especially in Canada and the USA. The focus is on entrepreneurial aspects of corporate and commercial involvement in privatization, and on how the corporate sector plays a part in creating a demand for its own services. The observations of the author draw not only from research knowledge, but also from her experiences in the early 1990s at senior levels of criminal justice Ministries in Ontario, Canada. By recounting some of these experiences - and specifically, situations where the private sector sought to sell products to the penal system and the police - it is hoped that the policy, political, and economic dynamics of privatization can be illuminated. Privatization of control systems involves profit from control systems. This paper addresses the basic question: who profits, and at whose expense?Dit artikel wil een bijdrage leveren tot de literatuur inzake privatisering van de stra- frechtsbedeling door kanttekeningen te plaatsen bij enkele récente ontwikkelingen - in het bijzonder in Canada en in de Verenigde Staten. Het artikel beschrijft hoe de sector van de ondernemingen een rol speelt in de creatie van een vraag naar haar eigen diensten. De bevindingen van de auteur berusten niet alleen op kennis uit onderzoek, maar ook uit de ervaring die zijn in het begin van de jaren '90 opgebouwd heeft als hoge functionaris bij de ministeries die belast zijn met de strafrechtsbedeling in Ontario, Canada. Door enkele van haar ervaringen neer te schrijven die specifiek betrekking hebben op situaties waar de privé-sector producten wou verkopen aan de administratie en aan de politie, hoopt de auteur dat de politiek, evenals de politiek-economische dynamiek van de privatisering beter gekend geraakt. De privatisering van controle-systemen impliceert een waardeveries van die systemen. Deze bijdrage stelt de basisvraag: wie haalt voordeel uit de situatie, en ten koste van wie ?McMahon Maeve. La répression comme entreprise: quelques tendances récentes en matière de privatisation et de justice criminelle. In: Déviance et société. 1996 - Vol. 20 - N°2. pp. 103-118
Founders Online Correspondence Metadata
No full textThis dataset is a cleaned version of the Founders Online (founders.archives.gov) author/recipient metadata available as of June 2020, formatted as an edge file for network analysis. This metadata includes only letters with authors and recipients, and does not include metadata for documents in the Founders Online database with no author or no recipient, such as receipts or account books. Source/Target pairs for network analysis were created between each author and recipient. In the case of multiple authors or multiple recipients, were split into multiple records with only one author and one recipient each. For example, the letter Sarah Read to Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, 10 April 1734, was split into two records: one with ‘author: Sarah Read’ and ‘recipient: Benjamin Franklin,’ and the other with author: ‘Sarah Read, recipient: Deborah Franklin.’ Links were not made between multiple authors or recipients of a letter. Names were standardized with as little change as possible: for example, the spellings Jacquelin Ambler, Jaqueline Ambler, and Jacquelin (Jaquelin) Ambler in the transcriptions were merged into simply Jacquelin Ambler. Gender of individuals in the network was assigned by first names or historical fact, or if ambiguous for a pseudonym, group of people, or unidentifiable, was left marked NA. The dataset includes 163,671 edges between more than 17,000 individuals. Fields also include the original title of the letter, papers project within Founders Online, permalink to the letter transcription and year, month, and date of the letter
The monitoring of the rights of the child: a child rights-based approach
No full textPhDDue to the lacunae between legal obligations to human rights and the actual situation,
monitoring is an essential component of the international and national human rights system.
Monitoring illuminates the situation of human rights commitments and ensures the relevancy
of instruments. The thesis explores monitoring in relation to the rights of the child and
submits that a child rights-based approach is essential. Monitoring should not only consider
the status and nature of child rights, but a child rights-based approach should also guide
efforts so that they improve as well as reflect and respect children's rights.
The study defines monitoring and describes a child rights-based approach. As a subject of
legal investigation, the thesis then addresses several questions. How do international and
national monitoring efforts respect child rights? How have the supervision of international
conference agreements supported child rights? Furthermore, how do different countries
monitor? National activities are examined through case studies of two Commonwealth
countries: Canada and South Africa. Then, analysis is presented about how actors interpret
and execute monitoring and the significance of different approaches. Lastly, the rationale,
challenges and existing support of a child rights-based approach are discussed. In sum, a
child rights-based approach is not generally utilised and the implications of child rights upon
the monitoring process are not yet realised. Most monitors, whether international, regional
or domestic, inadequately consider the demands of child rights upon the process of
ascertaining the situation of children's rights. Proposed guidelines are appended to support
a child rights-based approach to monitoring
An evaluative study outlining the experiences and consequences of four people from residential care - from theory to practice
No full textThis study explores the impact of Residential Care on forming relationships in life.
The research was designed to determine what kind of relationship difficulties are
experienced by individuals who had been raised in residential care. Indepth
interviews were conducted with a sample of four women, aged 40-45 yrs, who had
spent their formative years in a Care centre.
Prior to the qualitative research, a questionnaire was designed to explore three
particular areas: Early development, Transition experience on leaving care,
Experiences in forming and sustaining relationships.
This questionnaire was used to carry out the interviews with the four women.
It was predicted that the results would show that the interviewees experienced
difficulties in relationships, as a result of their experiences in care. The results of the
research supported this prediction. Each of the interviewees did, in fact, express
difficulties in relationships, both friendships and intimate relationships. The
respondents attributed this to their experiences in their formative years, in Care. The
author further contends that their relationship difficulties can be attributes to the early
experience of separation and loss, prior to entering Care. This is supported by the
findings of the theorists in Early Development and other related research in this area
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