717 research outputs found
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Parent-Carer blame in autism services: A conversation with Alice Running (The Portal Podcast)
No full textIn this episode of the Portal Podcast, Professor Sarah Lonbay and Dr Lesley Deacon speak with writer and author Alice Running about the systemic issue of parent-carer blame in autism and SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) services. Drawing on her lived experience as an autistic mother of neurodivergent children, Alice explains how she has repeatedly encountered damaging narratives from professionals, ranging from assumptions about her parenting to misinterpretations of her children’s needs.
Alice discusses her research collaboration with parent advocate Danielle Jata-Hall, which surveyed over 1,000 parent carers across the UK, exposing a widespread culture of blame. She highlights how generic, non-individualised interventions, which are often based on neurotypical benchmarks, fail autistic and PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance/Pervasive Drive for Autonomy) children, and how inappropriate support can create distress while parents are blamed for “non-compliance.”
The conversation explores the biases faced by lone parents and neurodivergent parents, the harmful conflation of disability provision and safeguarding, and the importance of autistic-informed practice, genuine listening, and professional curiosity. Alice also offers practical suggestions for change, including separating safeguarding from provision, adopting a cultural lens to assess autistic families, improving accountability, and increasing professional training
Ideas and norms: a conversation
No full textwith Fatima Ahdash, Liam Davis, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Maebh Harding, Emily Jackson, Dafni Lima, Alice Margaria, Julie McCandless, Beth Tarleton, and Sarah Trotter
Note from the editors: in the conversation that follows, which took place on Monday 14 October 2024, members of the project discuss the three reflection pieces that feature in the ideas and norms section of the special issue: Claire Fenton-Glynn’s paper ‘The past, present and future of legal parenthood’, Dafni Lima’s paper ‘Regulating multiple parenthood under English law?’, and Sarah Trotter’s paper ‘Reflections on the construction of the category of the
“potential relationship” in European human rights law’
Finding Aid to the Collection of Alice Brown Materials.
No full textAlice Brown (12/5/1857 - 6/21/1948) was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. She graduated from Robinson Seminary in Exeter, N.H., in 1876, and taught in local schools for five years before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, to write full time. There, she wrote and did editorial work for the Christian Register, followed by The Youth\u27s Companion, and published on average a book a year until 1935, continuing to write shorter works into the 1940s. Brown wrote novels, short stories, plays, and poetry, much of which focused on local New England settings. She also wrote biographies and travelogues. The bulk of the author\u27s personal correspondence was destroyed at her wishes upon her death in 1948.
The collection contains letters (1895 - 1944) from Alice Brown to various correspondents, including some literary figures (Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles E. L. Wingate) and editors of publications (Boston Evening Transcript, Colby Library Quarterly). The collection also contains some First Appearances of the author\u27s published work (Harper\u27s Monthly magazine, The Youth\u27s Companion)
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
Recognition and protection: a conversation
No full textwith Fatima Ahdash, Liam Davis, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Maebh Harding, Emily Jackson, Dafni Lima, Alice Margaria, Julie McCandless, Beth Tarleton, and Sarah Trotter
Note from the editors: in the conversation that follows, which took place on Monday 14 October 2024, members of the project discuss the five reflection pieces that feature in the recognition and protection section of the special issue: Alice Margaria's paper 'What happened to Marckx v Belgium? The European Court of Human Rights's minimalist approach to legal parenthood claims by non-traditional families', Julie McCandless's paper 'Regulating parenting through legal parenthood: the case of surrogacy', Maebh Harding's paper 'Reconceptualising legal recognition of the parent/child nexus through interdependency', Emily Jackson's paper 'Assisted reproduction as a disruptor of legal parenthood', and Liam Davis's paper 'Towards viewing birth registration as a “tactic” '
'Entitled to a History': The World of Alice Tawhai's Short Stories and the Maori Literary Tradition
No full textNew Zealand short story writer Alice Tawhai is one of the latest additions to the Maori literary tradition. Her three collections of short stories, Festival of Miracles, Luminous and Dark Jelly, deal with issues not entirely unique to New Zealand – from gang life, to domestic violence, to drug and alcohol abuse – and take as their primary subject an alienated, marginalized and disenfranchised underclass. This means she is likely to be read as speaking solely for the Maori experience. This thesis will revise this misconception, which in effect ghettoizes or marginalizes Tawhai’s work.
Influential women writers of the Maori literary tradition, such as J. C. Sturm, Patricia Grace and Keri Hulme, have taken a particular interest in the long legacy of colonialism in New Zealand, especially of the impact of that legacy on Maori women. This thesis demonstrates that while Tawhai’s work engages with these familiar notions, her gaze is not limited to these issues. This thesis therefore places Tawhai’s work within that tradition and matrilineal genealogy before going on to show how she moves the paradigm beyond the usual grievances of biculturalism and colonialism, orienting her work instead around the increasingly multicultural experience of contemporary life in New Zealand.
The first section of this thesis will establish a platform for reading Tawhai in regards to her literary legacy and in the context of contemporary thinking, drawing on cultural theorist Stuart Hall and his theory on identity formation and identity politics as well as indigenous writings experts Patrick Evans and Chadwick Allen. This thesis will then move into its second section, which is an analysis of some of the overarching themes that can be found in the short stories of Tawhai’s literary foremothers, Sturm, Grace and Hulme. These include, for example, racism and discrimination, loss of ancestral lands, problems to do with urbanization and family violence.
The third and final section of this thesis will then consider Tawhai’s representation of contemporary experience, taking a particular interest in her portrayals of contemporary multicultural ethnic identities as well as the flexible and provisional nature of gendered and sexual identities today. The final subsection will then analyze her representations of the new family and social structures that may have replaced the traditional family model.
Through a close reading of her short stories and an appreciation of the legacy that she bears, this thesis will show how Tawhai’s work is a larger lens of contemporary New Zealand society as well as a significant addition to the Maori literary tradition
Storying Alzheimer's Disease in Lisa Genova's Still Alice
No full textTaking as its starting point the value of literary studies to work on ageing, this paper
explores the contribution of literature to the discourse of ageing and illness, focussing on an illness synonymous with ageing in the cultural imagination: Alzheimer’s disease. This is a condition that poses a challenge not only to narrative and meaning-making, but also to the idea of coherent selfhood. The focus of this
paper is the popular novel Still Alice, a text praised for its depiction of Alzheimer’s from the perspective of the sufferer. This novel explores the complexity and contradictions of Alzheimer’s disease, ageing and selfhood. It does not always escape the dominant representation of Alzheimer’s as a loss of self that is associated with ageing as decline, but it also contains elements which critique the way Alzheimer’s functions as a
metonym for ageing and offers a vision of selfhood that might be called postmodern in its emphasis upon relation ality and the fragmented affirmation of self and being. This makes clear that despite the risks – ethical and artistic –
in writing dementia and aestheticizing Alzheimer’s, popular fiction has an important part to play in the discourse of dementia
Klondike Days Celebration - 23
No full textPhotograph - Actors in costume on a stage, Athabasca, Alberta. Dave Hunder and Sarah Lemley (Klondike Kate
A Treasury of American verse /
No full textIncludes poems by Anne Reeve Aldrich, Phoebe H. Brown, Phoebe Cary, Alice Cary, Rose Terry Cooke, Eliza Cook, Ina D. Coolbrith, M.E.M. Davis, Julia C.R. Dorr, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lucy Larcom, Nora Perry, Lizette W. Reese, Margaret E. Sangster, Celia Thaxter, Edith M. Thomas, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mary E. Wilkins, and Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney.Mode of access: Internet
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