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The Mahoning dispatch.
No full text"An independent family journal-devoted to the interests of all classes and nationalities."Published on Friday.Editor: C.C. Fowler, <1902>-1943
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Acknowledgements for Brush's Article "Some New Experiments in Gravitation. Change in Weights of Metals under Strain" (1925 paper), 1925
No full textTyped note card from M. L. Fowler to Charles F., Sr. thanking Brush for sending his fifth paper on gravitation to Fowler and Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin College.Charles F. Brush, Sr., PapersSeries 1: CorrespondenceSubseries 2: Acknowledgments (1921-1929)Box 3Folder
The monastic patronage of King Henry II in England, 1154-1189
No full textThe subject of this study is Henry II’s monastic patronage in England 1154-1189. Past studies have examined aspects of Henry II’s patronage but an in-depth survey of Henry’s support of the religious houses throughout his realm has never been completed. This study was therefore undertaken to address modern notions that Henry’s monastic patronage lacked obvious patterns and medieval notions that the motivations behind his patronage were vague. The thesis seeks to illustrate that Henry’s motivations for patronage may not have been driven by piety but rather influenced by a sense of duty and tradition. This hypothesis is supported by examining and analyzing both the chronology and nature of Henry’s patronage.
This thesis has integrated three important sources to assess Henry’s patronage: chronicles, charters, and Pipe Rolls. The charters and Pipe Rolls have been organized into two fully searchable databases. The charters form the core of the data and allow for analysis of the recipients of the king’s patronage as well as the extent of his favour. The Pipe Rolls provide extensive evidence of many neglected aspects of Henry’s patronage, enhancing, and sometimes surpassing, the charter data. The sources have allowed an examination of Henry’s patronage through gifts of land and money rents, privileges, pardons and non-payment of debt, confirmations and intervention in disputes. The value, geography and chronology of this patronage is discussed throughout the thesis as well as the different religious orders that benefited and the influences Henry’s predecessors and family had upon the king. Quantitative analysis has been included where possible.
Henry II was a steady patron throughout his reign and remained cautious with his favour. He maintained many of the benefactions of his predecessors but was not an enthusiastic founder of new monasteries in England. There is no sign that neither the killing of Thomas Becket, nor the approach of Henry’s own death, had a marked effect on his patronage
Corpus Stylistics and Henry James’s Syntax
No full textThe starting point of this dissertation is a methodological question: how can corpus stylistics be used to analyse the syntax of literary fiction? A comparison of the syntax of Henry James’s late style in The Golden Bowl (1904) and his early style in Washington Square (1881) was used as a case study. While James’s late style is very widely discussed by literary critics and often seen as ‘difficult’, there has been very little evidence offered to substantiate this description. Within the extensive field of Henry James studies, there have been few linguistic descriptions of James’s prose. To remedy this, I compiled The Henry James Parsed Corpus (HJPC) from five chapters from each of the two novels. My analysis of the corpus showed that The Golden Bowl is more syntactically complex than Washington Square in a number of ways but only in sentences which do not contain direct speech. James’s idiosyncratic use of parenthesis was defined precisely using syntactic criteria and named delay. The Golden Bowl has more delay than Washington Square but also only in non-speech sentences. Only a small number of sentences have very high numbers of dependent clauses and/or delay. I argue that these exceptional sentences create the impression that the later text is homogeneously difficult. My research shows that this impression is deceptive; in fact the overwhelming majority of sentences in The Golden Bowl are no more syntactically complex than those of Washington Square. A secondary use of the HJPC is to assist close reading. Chapter outlines of the central chapter of each novel were generated and were found to mirror plot developments and dialogue sections. Salient sentences highlighted many key moments in the plot, or revealed aspects of characters’ personalities
Interview with Henry C. Williams
No full textHenry C. Williams, a Tennessee native, served during World War II with the 90th infantry division, 3rd Army. He was inducted in April of 1942, starting as a private and leaving as a staff sergeant in November of 1945. He was present on D-Day at Utah Beach as part of the three-man team working a 30-caliber water-cooled machine gun. He is the author of Combat Boots, a memoir of his time in the service
Liv Ullmann standing with Senator Henry M. Jackson and Senator Slade Gorton, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., August 17, 1982
No full textHandwritten on verso: 8-17-82"Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning Norwegian actress, author and film director. She played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman" (Wikipedia article)
Liv Ullmann sitting at a dinner table with Mrs. Slade Gorton and Senator Henry M. Jackson and his family, Washington, D.C., August 17, 1982
No full textHandwritten on verso: 8-17-82"Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning Norwegian actress, author and film director. She played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman" (Wikipedia article)
Henry Jenkyns on the thirty-nine articles a study in nineteenth-century Anglican confessionalism
No full textThis thesis studies the theological teaching of Henry Jenkyns (1795-1878), Canon Professor of Theology at Durham University, 1835-64. The analysis attempts to establish what kind of man Jenkyns was: his academic and social predispositions and his intellectual stance: the predominant characteristics of his theology, both in content and method: and the nature of his churchmanship. The study analyzes a collection of student manuscript notes of Jenkyns' lectures on the Thirty-nine Articles, with a view to elucidating the type and quality of his teaching as a doctrinal theologian of the Church of England. Jenkyns was one of the chief architects of the theological program at Durham University: an analysis of his teaching constitutes a good description of the character of the theological temper at Durham until the reformation of the University in 1862. His lectures, furthermore, represent the first attempt at a systematic exposition of Anglican doctrine within the context of academic theology in England since the Reformation. Jenkyns emerges as a pre-Tractarian, High-Church theologian with an Arminian bias. His method is essentially eighteenth-century, rationalistic, and nee-scholastic. He understood the scriptures to be the Word of God, plenarily inspired. He believed that at the Reformation the Church of England corrected some of the theological errors held by Rome while retaining the link with the ancient Catholic and Apostolic Church. Jenkyns. treats the Articles as a confessional document which sets out, in part, the limits of right doctrine as they are understood in the English national Church, a part of the Universal Church. He stresses in his teaching the human nature of the Church, her priesthood and traditions, and affirms a moderately high view of the dominical sacraments, recognizing them as vehicles of grace and understanding an actual, though spiritual, presence in the eucharist
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