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Interview: Anne-Marie Fortier
No full textThis paper is an edited version of an email interview conducted by Debra Ferreday and Adi Kuntsman with Anne-Marie Fortier, the author of Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (Routledge, 2008). Fortier’s work has been informative in the development of some of the arguments explored in this special issue; in their conversation Ferreday and Kuntsman asked her to comment on the ideas of haunting, racial imaginaries, nostalgia, national anxieties, political feelings and hopes for the future
From Anne of Green Gables to Anne of the Suburbs: Lucy Maud Montgomery reimagines home in Anne of the Island
No full textL. M. Montgomery's work, including her most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables, has been tied inextricably, in both scholarship and the popular imagination, to the rural worlds of Green Gables, Avonlea and Prince Edward Island. This article positions Montgomery as a writer offering insight into early Canadian suburban life. It does so via a reading of the third “Anne” book, Anne of the Island (1915), specifically its depiction of Patty's Place, where Anne lives while a student at Redmond College (Dalhousie College) in Kingsport (Halifax, Nova Scotia). For Montgomery, the suburb is a place that combines the best of the country and the city, while moving past the limitations of both. The suburb gives Anne a home and a place of belonging in a new, urban world. Patty's Place also offers the possibility of transformation and independence, especially for women, more than any other place in the novel. This article not only provides a new perspective on one of Canada's best-loved writers, but also contributes to a slowly growing but long overdue discussion of the city and suburbs in Canadian literary criticism, which is still largely preoccupied with notions of the wilderness and of the north
'The cracked mirror': Anne Sexton's poetics of self-representation
No full textThis thesis re-evaluates the work of the poet Anne Sexton (1928-1974), concentrating, in particular, on the indeterminacies, contradictions and aporia which it finds to be characteristic of her ostensibly frank and self-revelatory writing. The study is based on a close textual
analysis of Sexton's writing, is informed by oststructuralist theories, and is sustained by an
examination and discussion of archive collections of her previously unpublished papers. In seeking an understanding of Sexton's poetics, the thesis identifies and interrogates the strategies of denial and obfuscation apparent in her own explication of her work - principally, by scrutiny of the unpublished, and previously unresearched, drafts of a series of lectures
which she delivered in 1972. Chapters One and Two consider the origins of `confessional' or - Sexton's preferred term - 'personal' poetry and reassess her place within contemporary poetry. They suggest that
Sexton's writing is engaged in a process of negotiation and contestation, both with the boundaries and expectations of confessionalism, and with the strictures of T. S. Eliot's theory of `impersonality'. In support of these arguments, Chapter Two offer a reading of Sexton's
little-known poem, `Hurry Up Please It's Time', alongside its intertext, Eliot's The Waste Land. Chapter Three reassesses received views of the supposedly beneficial interrelationship between confessional speaker and reader. It examines Sexton's appropriation of dramatic
masks and personae and her use of metaphors of striptease and prostitution, and suggests that these are employed simultaneously to appease and to repel an intrusive audience. Similarly, Chapters Four and Five trace Sexton's problematisation of two previously-accepted tenets of confessional poetry: its status as autobiography and its truthfulness, drawing attention to the techniques employed in order to give the impression of both. Chapter Six considers Sexton's
problematic engagement with a language which is not malleable, transparent, and referential but, rather, is experienced as uncooperative and occlusive. Finally, the thesis recuperates Sexton from the common charge of narcissism, arguing that it is the writing, rather than the poet, which is self-reflexive and self-conscious. In this respect, it concludes that her work - perhaps unexpectedly - anticipates many of the tendencies of postmodernist writing
Anne-Marie Ericsson. The Interiors of M/S Kungsholm: Masterpieces in Swedish Art Deco
No full textArt Deco is a style that has hitherto gained too little attention in Swedish history of art and design. With her special focus on the 1920s and 1930s Anne-Marie Ericsson, a well known author and lecturer in the Swedish design world, is the just author for this period. Therefore I open her M/S Kungsholms inredning. Mästerverk i svensk art deco [The Interior of M/S Kungsholm. A masterpiece in Swedish art deco][i] with great expectations. As the title implies, the aim of the book is to treat the interiors of M/S Kungsholm, the show-piece of the Swedish American Line. This focus is reasonable, insofar as the exterior presented nothing new, according to the author, whereas the interior was enthusiastically received by the New York press as a “fairy tale castle” when she arrived on her maiden voyage in New York, December 1928. (p. 9). Trying to present a reconstruction of how the ship looked, although almost nothing remains of it today, Anne-Marie Ericsson has taken upon herself a task that is not an easy one. The fate of M/S Kungsholm was unfortunate. After a glorious decade, she transported troops during World War II, incredibly enough escaped bombs and torpedoes, became a cruise ship in the Mediterranean and was finally broken up in Bilbao in 1964. By that time, the interiors had been almost entirely extinguished and the furniture plundered or sold. [i] If not stated otherwise, all the translations from Swedish to English are my own, M.T
'A new and exceedingly brilliant star': L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Mary Miles Minter
No full textFollowing the success of Anne of Green Gables (1908), and of the first film version (1919), both L. M. Montgomery and the actress Mary Miles Minter found themselves being reinvented in Anne's image. The relationship between author, heroine, and actress was played out through the public circulation of celebrity names and images. Journalists projected onto Montgomery the qualities they discerned in her heroine, notably wholesomeness and an association with the pastoral, while Minter strategically identified herself with the same values. But whereas Minter turned Anne into an American girl, the media image of Montgomery-as-Anne depended on a conception of Canada as a refuge from American modernity
'A Jewish child with wisdom of ages’:Anne Frank as refugee, author and icon
No full textThis books deals with various aspects of Anne’s life, her writership and the development of her persona as a global icon. With chapters on Anne Frank's life as a refugee child; the com-munity of German-Jewish refugees in Amsterdam; The Jewish hiding in and around Amster-dam in new perspective; Police, betrayal and severed social ties in the persecution of the Jews in Amsterdam; Anne Frank as reader and write between German Bildung and Amsterdam life; Anne Frank in perspective; Writing as a life force; The development of the phenomenon Anne Frank in the first decades; Interpretation, identification and iconization in an international perspective; The staged Anne Frank House: from emptiness to virtual reality ; The future of Anne Frank
'A Jewish child with wisdom of ages’:Anne Frank as refugee, author and icon
No full textThis books deals with various aspects of Anne’s life, her writership and the development of her persona as a global icon. With chapters on Anne Frank's life as a refugee child; the com-munity of German-Jewish refugees in Amsterdam; The Jewish hiding in and around Amster-dam in new perspective; Police, betrayal and severed social ties in the persecution of the Jews in Amsterdam; Anne Frank as reader and write between German Bildung and Amsterdam life; Anne Frank in perspective; Writing as a life force; The development of the phenomenon Anne Frank in the first decades; Interpretation, identification and iconization in an international perspective; The staged Anne Frank House: from emptiness to virtual reality ; The future of Anne Frank
"Born aloft on the wings of imagination": modern women of genius in Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness
No full textOn the surface, the two early twentieth century novels Anne of Green Gables and The Well of Loneliness do not appear to share much in common. However, the two books actually share striking similarities, particularly because the protagonists of both books – Anne and Stephen, respectively-can be read as homosexual characters. Although both characters display some masculine tendencies, their homosexuality is linked to a uniquely feminine imagination that leads to creative acts distinct from masculine creativity. Most frequently, their imaginations are depicted through nature, as Montgomery and Hall subtly argue that lesbianism is a natural part of the world. The feminine genius practiced by Anne and Stephen continues into adulthood and reflects the biographies of both Montgomery and Hall. Although Anne and Stephen’s genius initially begins out of their childhood isolation, their creative work actually develops as a highly social act distinct from both the non-empathetic and unemotional writing of male modernists and the female modernists (like Gertrude Stein) who mimic male modes of writing. Through their characters, Montgomery and Hall argue for a decidedly female version of genius and at the same time respond to an inherent male bias in the definition of genius. More broadly, they also reinforce the idea that modernism was defined by a blurring of the lines that divided multiple dichotomies: namely, medicine versus art; child versus adult; nature versus self; and-most importantly, male versus female.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Christina M. Singletar
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Dilemma of duties ::the conflicted role of juvenile defenders /
No full text"Author Anne M. Corbin examines the unique role of defense counsel in juvenile courts, demonstrating the commonplace presence of role conflict, even among defenders in jurisdictions that clearly define this role, and showing the nature, extent, and impact of that role conflict on juvenile justice system stakeholders, processes, and policy"-
Fossil corals as archives of secular variations in seawater chemistry
No full textRecords of the elemental and isotopic composition of the oceans can help elucidate the geologic controls on seawater chemistry and climate over million-year timescales. This thesis describes the development of a new fossil coral archive that can be used to reconstruct properties of seawater chemistry for the past ~200 My. It also details the application of this archive to investigate changes in seawater Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, U/Ca, ¿26Mg, and ¿44Ca over the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
Results of diagenetic tests used to validate ~60 fossil coral samples for studies of seawater paleochemistry are presented in Chapters 2 and 4. The validated samples range in age from Triassic through Recent. X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, petrographic microscopy, cathodoluminescence microscopy, and micro-raman spectroscopy studies indicate that sample mineralogy is preserved (as aragonite). Studies of 87Sr/86Sr, carbonate clumped isotopes, trace elements sensitive to diagenesis, He/U dating, and U isotopes are used to screen for geochemical signs of alteration.
Records of seawater chemistry inferred from validated fossil coral samples are presented in Chapters 2-4. Mg/Caseawater inferred from fossil corals (Chapter 2) is low during the Mesozoic, and increases by a factor of ~5 between 80 Ma and today ¿ compatible with existing reconstructions. The record helps improve our understanding of the timing of Mg/Caseawater changes since the Triassic. Inferred Sr/Caseawater (Chapter 2) varies between 8 and 13 mmol/mol since ~200 Ma, with a maximum in the Late Cretaceous. This result is consistent with reconstructions from benthic foraminifera and fossil fish teeth. A record of ¿26Mgseawater from fossil corals (Chapter 3) helps distinguish between two existing records that give conflicting results, and indicates that the fraction of Mg removed from seawater as dolomite has not changed significantly over the Cenozoic. A reconstruction of fossil coral U/Ca (Chapter 4) suggests that [U]seawater has increased by a factor of ~2 since the Eocene, with implications for our understanding of past seawater [CO32-] and the importance of U removal in reducing sediments. In Chapter 5, a record of ¿44Ca from fossil corals is presented. This record may reflect changes in coral Ca isotope discrimination through time, rather than changes in ¿44Caseawater
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