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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
Barefoot sitting men removing crowfoot weeds by hand on a golf green at the BraeBurn Country Club in Houston, Texas, in 1952
No full textBarefoot men sitting on turf of a golf green, with flagstick in the hole, hand weeding at the BraeBurn Country Club, in Houston, Texas, 1952. Hanging mesh basket shows harvested Silver crab (crowfoot) plants. Shoes and socks in foreground.Photographer uncertain"Weed control Hand Removal Braeburn CC Houston, Tex. 6/19/52 [on reverse:] 169"Image taken on [unknown] Duplicate Transparency.Golf coursesWarm tropica
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Photograph of men with James V. Bennett walking in front
No full textA b/w photograph of James V. Bennett visting a Middle Eastern prison with officials. This photo was possibly taken in either Syria or Egypt because of the paper in James Bennett's hand which reads "U.A.R. Prison Review." U.A.R. may stand for United Arab Republic, a shortlived political union between Egypt and Syria from 1958-1961
Hand-colored photograph of Plumley Armory, approximately 1929-1933
No full textHand-colored photograph of Plumley Armory at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, photographed, colored, and signed by George Lansell, approximately 1929-1933, from the James Thomas Quirk Papers.George Lansell worked for Norwich University as a custodian and grounds keeper from 1925 until his retirement in the mid-1960s. James Thomas Quirk, Class of 1933, likely purchased or otherwise obtained this photograph from him
James Hand, Jr.
No full textJames Hand, Jr.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/3797/thumbnail.jp
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Ulnar collateral ligament injuries of the thumb- An overview of the injury and treatment
No full textAn amalgamation of the Banach spaces associated with James and Schreier, Part I : Banach-space structure.
No full textWe create a new family of Banach spaces, the James-Schreier spaces, by amalgamating two important classical Banach spaces: James' quasi-reflexive Banach space on the one hand and Schreier's Banach space giving a counterexample to the Banach-Saks property on the other. We then investigate the properties of these James-Schreier spaces, paying particular attention to how key properties of their `ancestors' (that is, the James space and the Schreier space) are expressed in them. Our main results include that each James-Schreier space is c_0-saturated and that no James-Schreier space embeds in a Banach space with an unconditional basis
The House of Lords Reform White Paper and draft Bill 2011 and a simpler alternative
No full textA consideration of the House of Lords Reform White Paper and draft Bill 2011 arguing that the proposals they contain to transform the House of Lords into a democratically legitimate second chamber follow from false choice and involve high cost and level of complexity. The author sets out a simpler proposal, developed from his submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the draft House of Lords Reform Bill. Article by James Hand, Associate Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth.
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