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Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin–Vol. 3 No. 5, March 1943
Get PDFTable of contents – Vol. 3 No. 5, March 1943 The Medical Research Laboratories at Frankford, Page 3 Bequests and Gifts to the College, Page 5 Faculty Changes, Page 7 Facts Concerning the Senior Class 1942-43, Page 9 David B. Allman, M.D., F.A.C.S., Page 10 Greetings from our President, Page 11 Library News, Page 11 Jefferson in the War: The 38th General Hospital, A.U.S., Page 12 Our Unit is Credited, Page 16 Reported Missing, Page 17 Wounded in Action at Guadalcanal, Page 17 The New Hospitals are Named After Military Heroes of the Class of 1893, Page 18 U.S. Navy Promotions and Citations, Page 19 Jefferson Alumni in the Armed Forces of the United States, Page 20 Alumni Dinner, 1943, Page 27 Virgil Holland Moon, A.B., M.Sc., M.D., Page 28 Branch Chapter News, Page 29 Alumni Activities Reported by the Convention Committee, Page 30 The Class Organization Committee, Page 31 Alumni Dinner 1942, Page 31 Alumni Endowed Room and Benevolence Fund, Page 32 Alumni Endowment Fund, Page 33 James Torrance Rugh 1867-7942, Page 34 James Alexander Clarke, Jr. 1891-1943, Page 35 Henry Erdmann Radasch 1874-1942, Page 36 Wilmer Krusen, Page 37 Dudley L. Page, Page 37 Samuel W. Woodhouse, Jr., Page 37 Deaths Reported During the Past Year 1942-1943, Page 38 Alumni Association of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia Officers 1943, Page 4
Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin–Vol. 2 No. 6 January, 1940
Get PDFTable of contents – Vol. 2 No. 6 January, 1940
Alumni Fund Utilized – Page 1
Action of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association, Page 2
The Present Status of the Alumni Fund, Page 2
Opening of the College, Page 5
Address by Dr. David M. Davis, Page 5
Changes in Curriculum, Page 8
Omission, Page 8
Dr. James R. Martin, Page 9
Appointments and Honors to Jefferson Men, Page 10
Papers of Historical Value, Page 10
Endowed Room and Benevolence Fund, Page 11
Branch Chapter Meetings of the Alumni Association, Page 13
Jefferson Alumni of Puerto Rico Entertain Dr. and Mrs. Rosenberger, Page 14
Branch Chapter Officers for 1940, Page 15
The Midwinter Smoker and Alumni Dinner, Page 15
Class Reunion Chairmen, Page 16
Results of Questionnaire, Page 17
Early Graduates and Oldest Alumnus, Page 17
Teaching Positions, Page 21
War Time Military Service, Page 21
Family Men, Page 21
Politics, Religion, Recreation, Page 22
Remarks and Comments, Page 23
Further Replies, Page 2
[David Murrah and James Michener]
No full textImage of David Murrah, Director of the Southwest Collection Library, and author James A. Michener
James, David
No full textSee entry in Jefferson County, volume 1, page 48: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/240
African American Graduates of Jefferson Medical College: The First Hundred Years
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The story of early African American physicians begins in 18th century Philadelphia with James Derham who is recognized as the first black allopathic (regular, non-sectarian) medical doctor. The first medical school in the U.S. to admit an African American was Rush Medical College in Chicago that awarded, in 1847, David J. Peck his degree. Dr. Peck came to the “Quaker City” to set up his practice the same year that the A.M.A. was formed, also here in Philadelphia. In 1877, Jefferson doctors protested the seating of the delegates from Howard University, the nation’s most important black medical school, in part, because that school admitted men and women students in the same classrooms. In the nineteenth century, JMC had a reputation for the highest standard in medical education and, unfortunately, also shared some of that era’s racial and gender prejudices. JMC’s conservative admission policies rejected people of color and women applicants until a brief period in the first decade of the 20th century when a modest percentage of African Americans were admitted. But byWorldWar I, the doors had again closed until the late 1940s. This first generation of “Old Jeff ” African American graduates laid down foundations and created original strategies to overcome barriers to not only succeed, but to excel, as they served their neglected community. This exhibition celebrates the remarkable achievements and lives of that handful of early pioneers.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/jeffhistoryposters/1001/thumbnail.jp
TRAUMATIC IDENTITY AND AURA IN DAVID LODGE’S AUTHOR, AUTHOR
No full textThis paper delves into David Lodge’s Author, Author (2004) as an example of neo-Victorian celebrity biofiction, more concretely on Henry James. The genre belongs to the wave of Victorian revival in current literature which also affects cultural studies in general. My main contention is that Lodge’s novel responds to current cultural anxieties, particularly the crisis of identity and authorship and the end of Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura, by sublimating them into late-nineteenth-century traumata. The choice of James is, the article argues, not casual. He represents the redeeming figure of a lost auratic world; the human in crisis, traumatized because he does not fit in the new status quo.Este artículo analiza la novela Author, Author (2004) de David Lodge como ejemplo de bioficción neo-victoriana centrada en una celebridad, en este caso concreto, Henry James. El género forma parte del renacimiento victoriano actual que afecta a los estudios culturales en su conjunto. Mi argumento central es que la novela de Lodge constituye una respuesta a las ansiedades culturales actuales, en particular a las que se refieren a la crisis identitaria y autoría literaria, así como a la pérdida del aura artística de Walter Benjamin, sublimándolas a través de los traumas de finales del siglo XIX. La elección de James, como demuestra el artículo, no es casual. Es el último representante de un mundo perdido en el que el aura aún tenía un espacio; el ser humano en crisis y traumatizado porque no encaja en un status quo nuevo
Traumatic identity and aura in David Lodge's "Author, author"
Get PDFEste artículo analiza la novela Author, Author (2004) de David Lodge como ejemplo de bioficción neo-victoriana centrada en una celebridad, en este caso concreto, Henry James. El género forma parte del renacimiento Victoriano actual que afecta a los estudios culturales en su conjunto. Mi argumento central es que la novela de Lodge constituye una respuesta a las ansiedades culturales actuales, en particular a las que se refieren a la crisis identitaria y autoría literaria, así como a la pérdida del aura artística de Walter Benjamin, sublimándolas a través de los traumas de finales del siglo XIX. La elección de James, como demuestra el artículo, no es casual. Es el último representante de un mundo perdido en el que el aura aún tenía un espacio; el ser humano en crisis y traumatizado porque no encaja en un status quo nuevo.This paper delves into David Lodge’s Author, Author (2004) as an example of neo-Victorian celebrity biofiction, more concretely on Henry James. The genre belongs to the wave of Victorian revival in current literature which also affects cultural studies in general. My main contention is that Lodge’s novel responds to current cultural anxieties, particularly the crisis of identity and authorship and the end of Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura, by sublimating them into late-nineteenth-century traumata. The choice of James is, the article argues, not casual. He represents the redeeming figure of a lost auratic world; the human in crisis, traumatized because he does not fit in the new status quo
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
Get PDFJames'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
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The Contest Between Achilles and David
No full textPeter Ahrensdorf is the James Sprunt Professor of Political Science and affiliated professor of Classics at Davidson CollegeThomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Idea
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