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Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
60722: Photograph, Christmas tin and Ammunition of Private Richard Howells, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
No full textPrivate Richard Howells, Montgomeryshire Yeamonary (uncle of Mrs Jones)"When joined up was in partnership with three brothers and father in farming [South Moelygarth, Welshpool], however, a tribunal demanded that one of the boys was needed for war purposes, the oldest was a stockman, an essential worker on the farm, the second son failed the eye test, so Richard had to pack his bags and go into the Yeomanry. Other than the Somme battle we know little about his involvement in the war, but a postcard written somewhere in France was received by his sisters Sarah and Jessie stating that it was 'real winter' where he was with severe frosts and snow many feet deep making life very difficult for man and horse adding 'my old horse can hardly get along in it at all'."Howells like so many war veterans didn't relate his war experiences but "among his personal possessions when he died was a little brass box which was a gift from Princess Mary which contained chocs and cigarettes for those that were fighting out there, alsop a magazine of bullets lay with it in his possessions"."Richard returned from the war to resume his farming career with his family."Editor's Comment:Photograph of Pte. Howells wearing respirator bag. Note also cloth unit patch on upper left arm.The second photograph shows the Princess Mary Christmas Fund tin, with a charger of British Mk VI .303 rounds to the right. As this type of ammunition had been superseded in general service by the Mk VII round, which had a pointed (spitzer) rather than rounded bullet, it seems likely this ammunition was acquired during training.Corporal 647 Richard Howells, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry</p
Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Realist's view of evil : a study of four Howells novels
No full textOne of the common themes of derogatory criticism of Howells has been that he practised and advocated a "literary realism" that unrealistically denied or ignored the existence of significant evil in man and his society; that Howells was hopelessly crippled as a would-be "realistic" novelist by his propriety-bound denials, evasions and superficialities, by his demonstrable lack of a meaningful, manifest "sense of evil" in his fiction. The purpose of this thesis is to prove that Howells did in fact have a meaningful "sense of evil" that is manifest in much of his later fiction.
Chapter I traces in some detail the origins, development and scope of this line of criticism of Howells, from the guarded reservations of Henry James in 1886 to the flat accusations of the Twentieth Century critics who established Howells' alleged optimism, genteel evasiveness and superficiality as damning clichés of second-hand criticism. It then notes the existence of critical reassessments that question the validity of much of the earlier prevalent criticism of Howells. Drawing on the assertions or implications of some of this recent criticism, it makes four propositions about Howells' treatment of "evil" in his novels which, if true, largely invalidate most of the assertions and premises about Howells' lack of a "sense of evil." It finally proposes four of Howells' later, less-known novels for study as sources of examples of Howells' conception, recognition, and treatment of "evil" as a part of the subject of "realistic" fiction.
Chapter II is a study of The Landlord at Lion's Head (1897). The innate attributes, the social responses and the specific acts of the title character, Jeff Durgin, can be seen to demonstrate the validity of the four propositions put forward in Chapter I. Durgin becomes involved in a vengeful exchange of evil for evil that ends in near-murder, a not insignificant manifestation of the power of evil. His less obviously serious misdeeds may be seen to have greater moral significance than critics of Howells' alleged superficiality or evasiveness have usually been willing to grant. Howells subtly underlines and elaborates the representative significance of Durgin as a social type. Fourth, Howells' qualified "naturalism" may be seen in the emphasis placed on malign innate and environmental forces as factors that mitigate, but do not eliminate, Durgin's personal culpability for his misdeeds and his selfish, socially irresponsible "tough-minded realism."
Chapter III is a study of The Son of Royal Langbrith (1904). Like Ibsen's Ghosts, it concerns the persisting effects of a long-dead "examplary" man's legacy of concealed evil. Unlike Ghosts, it is a drama of the containment and laying of evil by the passive suffering or the self-sacrificing moral and emotional compromises' of its direct and indirect victims.
Chapter IV is a study of a domestic comedy, The Kentons (1902). It provides examples of Howells' inclusion and treatment, even within his later comedies, of serious moral problems involving individual abuse and destructive social attitudes or conventions.
Chapter V is a study of The Leatherwood God (1916), a tragicomedy of the self-destroying rise and fall of a backwoods religious mountebank, and of the potentially dangerous strains that his public and private depredations and their effects place on individual morality and civil order within the community of Leatherwood. Like The Son of Royal Langbrith, it represents a Howellsian extreme in the recognition and fictional treatment of "evil," and like the earlier book it gives insights into Howells' "naturalistic" reasons for usually confining his depiction of "evil-doers" to the depiction of characters who are not monsters of self-righteous immorality.Arts, Faculty ofEnglish, Department ofGraduat
"The Howells Family"
No full textThis is a reprint of a July 15 1897 article that appeared in "The Voice," a New York temperance paper. It is at portait of various members of the William Dean Howells family. The Kirk's have edited and annotated the original text
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