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Betty Lou James
No full textBetty Lou James is pictured her school year at Central School. She is the daughter of Elmer and Afton James
The sealed room : Lou Andreas-Salomé and Anaïs Nin : a study in the genesis of fiction
Full text linkThis study explores the relationship between female identity
formation within patriarchal society and women's literary
discourse.
The 'Introduction' serves to highlight Lou Andreas-Salomé's
and Anaïs Nin's acute awareness of the tradional conflict
between the role of artist and the role of woman. With both
writers, their efforts to come to terms with their own creative
powers involve tentative questions about the function of
writing itself, which they both experience as a vital need.
Part One of the study, therefore, addresses itself to reflecting
the role of language as a basic means of socialization, which
produces genderized subjects. This is related to the power of
language to enable the construction of identity. Patriarchal
culture produces woman as man's complementary Other. Questions
of female identity and desire thus gain particular importance
for the writer who strives to constitute her identity as
autonomous subject.
The first two chapters of Part Two focus on the problems that
confront the women who, within the process of writing assume
creative powers that are traditionally conceived as male prerogatives.
The internalized image of woman as mother operates
as a powerful impediment to creative self-assertion. An equally
fundamental obstacle in the writer's quest for literary authority
are the problematic links each writer establishes between
a masculinized creator God, paternal authority and cultural
discourse. Transcending their culturally induced duality between
woman and creator Lou Andreas-Salomé and Anaïs Nin develop
opposed literary strategies. Yet both resort to non-threatening
female stereotypes that are able to accommodate their anxiety of
authorship. Chapters III and IV revolve around the experience
of writing itself in terms of a re-construction of inherited
meanings and the woman's problem of creating her own meanings.
Chapter V concentrates on the gaps that structure either
writer's discourse and contribute to making it impossible
to establish the woman as subject of desire.
Chapter VI explores the ways in which internalized concepts
of femininity work to limit the freedom of the imagination,
reduce the field of vision and result in projecting transgressive
female desires in disguised or displaced form.
The 'Conclusion' stresses the inadequacy of existing
controversial attitudes to both writers and highlights
significant differences between the fiction of Lou Andreas-Salomé and Anaïs Nin
Verna Lou Wells Lauritsen; James Edward Lauritsen
No full textColor photograph of Verna Lou Wells Lauritsen making rolls with son, James Edward Lauritsen at their home located at 831 N 500 E Price, Utah
James Whitmer, Rex Brock, and Lou Kerestes
No full textPurdue could field a ball carrying trio this fall composed entirely of brothers of former boilermaker stars. James Whitmer (left), sophomore brother of Bob Whitmer ('45-'48-'49), and Rex Brock (center), second term freshman brother of Lou Brock ('35-'38-'39), who later starred for the Green Bay Packers, are both strong contenders for halfback berths, while Lou Kerestes (right), junior, aspires to fill the fullback shoes of brother John, Co-captain and leading ground gainer of last season.Football Group and Game Shots (1951-1960); PhotoIntercollegiat
Mary Lou James, Oral History Interview, 2023
Full text linkMary Lou James was born and raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan, graduating from Roosevelt in 1947 and from Eastern Michigan University in 1951. In this interview Mary Lou explores her time growing up in Ypsilanti in the 1930s-40s, and recounts memories of going to Roosevelt revealing popular hangout spots, school dances, and what dating looked like back in the day. She also shares her experiences as a student at the Michigan State Normal College, being a sorority sister, and her marriage and children.https://commons.emich.edu/oral_histories/1233/thumbnail.jp
Engraved portrait of James Nayler (1618–1660)
No full textEngraved portrait of James Nayler (1618-1660) by Robert Grave (1768-1825). Inscribed, 'Born at Ardesloe, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire. Was an Independent and served Quarter Master in ye Parliament Army, about the Year 1641. turn'd Quaker in 1651. Punish'd as a Blasphemer 1656. Author of many Books & Dyed at Holm in Huntingtonshire 1660. Aged 44.
Interview with Mary Lou Hoogenboom and Joyce Shelvon
Full text linkInterview with Mary Lou Hoogenboom (1931-2019) and Joyce M. Shelvon (1927-2018) recorded on November 14, 2012 at KVCC\u27s Anna Whitten Hall in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Recorded by interviewer James \u27Jay\u27 Gaven for a Kalamazoo Valley Museum exhibit on Gibson Guitars. Mary Lou started in 1953 and was one of the last employees to leave in 1984; she worked in multiple departments and jobs, including rim-lining, hand sanding, electronics, assembly. Joyce worked at Gibson Guitar from the early 1950s through 1968; she did hand and belt sanding. They recount their memories at the factory, including: how they were hired into the Gibson factory, and starting pay social interactions in the factory, going for lunch at taverns, the bowling team Mary Lou\u27s position as union steward negotiating for the employees during the closure of the Kalamazoo factoryhttps://scholarworks.wmich.edu/gibson-guitar-oral-histories/1007/thumbnail.jp
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Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
Full text linkJames'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
Your lovin’ Ephraham, he leads a jazbo band
No full textFor voice and piano.Caption title.Cover illustration includes an African American marching band ; photo inset of Sam H. White and Lou Clayton."Introduced by Sam. H. White and Lou Clayton now a feature at the Winter Garden Show of Wonders"--Cover.Archived web conten
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