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Nelson Algren 11-05-1975
No full textGregory Fitzgerald and Jack C. Wolf Interview Nelson Algren, who at the time had been a published author for over forty years. His most notable works at this time were "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "A Walk on the Wild Side", both of which were made into films. The Session begins with Algren reading an excerpt from "Chicago: A City on the Make", a book length poem published in 1951. Fitzgerald asks Algren to tell the story of Gregorio Cortez in great detail. Algren goes on to share how Cortez had gone about evading and fooling the Texas Rangers. The conversation turns to the connection between Nelson Algren's personal story and how the Robin Hood trope would emerge in his writing. He describes his fascination with survival and some of the less than savory things he had to do to survive after he left college. He realized he could make more money writing stories than he could selling coffee and swindling individuals so he set himself up in West Texas and began writing short stories. Algren describes the quality of "Somebody in Boots" and mentions where the title comes from. Fitzgerald asks Algren to describe where he stands with academic critics and critics and general. They also explore Algren's role as a critic and Algren shares his opinions of other writers and who were and were not risk takers. The conversation turns to the description of the presentation of Algren's work on stage and on screen and the 1800's style in which his material was presented. The conversation closes with some mentions of Algren's experience with teaching and his next project.Archived web conten
H. Maragou on R. Ward’s collection of critical essays : Nelson Algren
No full textRobert Ward, ed. Nelson Algren: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 188 pp. (Hardcover) ISBN-0 8386 4108 3 This collection of critical essays, edited by Robert Ward, is the first critical reader dealing with the oeuvre of Nelson Algren, an author whose rise to literary fame in the 1940s was as spectacular as his plunge into obscurity less than two decades later. In his introduction to this collection that attempts to restore Nelson Algr..
A aproximação dos ausentes: as cartas de Simone de Beauvoir para Nelson Algren
No full textIn this paper, starting from the 304 letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to the
American writer Nelson Algren, we investigate the apparent hiatus distancing the
submissive and dependent woman who passionately declares herself to her interlocutor
and the thinker who positions herself publicly in favour of individual freedoms. Due to
both physical and cultural distance, in the immediate aftermath of World War II,
Beauvoir and Algren discovered themselves mainly through exchanging letters. These
letters, then, take the place of the absence of the other. So, to reveal herself and arouse
the interest of her beloved, the author uses some strategies of persuasion, for example,
the way to show dependence or even a highly passionate tone revealed in some of the
missives. However, this declared dependence does not exceed from writing to the
reality, since she does not definitively abandons her life in Paris to live in Chicago,
refusing, therefore, to incarcerate her uniqueness in the models of a traditional marriage.Neste trabalho, partindo das 304 cartas escritas por Simone de Beauvoir para o
escritor americano Nelson Algren, investigamos o aparente hiato que distancia a mulher
submissa e dependente, que se declara apaixonadamente para seu interlocutor, da
pensadora que se posiciona publicamente em favor das liberdades individuais. Por conta
da distância tanto física quanto cultural, no período imediatamente posterior à Segunda
Guerra, Beauvoir e Algren se descobriram sobretudo através da troca epistolar. As
cartas, então, ocupam o lugar da falta do outro. De modo que, para se revelar e despertar
o interesse do amado, a autora utiliza algumas estratégias de convencimento, como, por
exemplo, a maneira de se mostrar dependente ou, ainda, o tom altamente passional que
perpassa algumas das missivas. Entretanto, a dependência declarada não ultrapassa o
plano da escrita para a realidade, já que ela não abandona definitivamente sua vida em
Paris para viver em Chicago, se recusando, pois, a encarcerar sua singularidade nos
modelos de um casamento tradicional
Ragged Figures: The Lumpenproletariat in Nelson Algren and Ralph Ellison.
No full textThrough a reconstruction of the mid-century careers of Nelson Algren and Ralph Ellison, Ragged Figures expands the identity of Marxism in U.S. literature beyond European theoretical orthodoxy, proletarian content, and social-protest form. These novelists revalue Marx’s minor concept of the lumpenproletariat as the central concept and literary figure of an alternative Marxist aesthetic, one grounded in the experiences and practices of marginalized peoples in the U.S during the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.
The lumpenproletariat (“proletariat in rags”) is one of Marxism’s more unstable concepts. Marx used the term to reference subjects who exist outside the labor-capital dialectic and who lack stable class identity: tramps, beggars, prostitutes, or the criminal underworld, for example. Because he deems such types marginal to the economic and political investments of Marxism, he deploys the term with a lack of empirical precision and a dismissive scorn. Reading Marx against the grain, and relying on the generative theoretical reformulations of Marxism undertaken by Louis Althusser, I re-theorize the lumpenproletariat as Marxism’s own name for the deconstructive productivity of the marginal. In its various political identities, its occupation of the gaps and interstices of social formations, and in the epistemological disruptions it poses to codified thought and ideology, the lumpenproletariat embodies a vantage point from beyond the margins of what orthodox Marxism knows, enabling situated revision and expansion of Marxism’s theoretical and political effectiveness.
Algren and Ellison utilize both the experiences of lumpenproletarian characters—the “ragged” figures and populations shifting at the margins of U.S. society and ideological discourses—and this open-ended theoretical “raggedness” that the lumpenproletariat conceptualizes in order to do the work of figuring (out)—using the practical protocols of literary production and figurative language—contingent analyses of capitalism and attendant opportunities for resistance. By reconstituting Marxism around the figure of the lumpenproletariat and contingent re-imaginings of U.S. and African-American sociocultural realities and forms, Ellison and Algren produce an aesthetically-inventive, theoretically-adventurous mode of Marxist writing that forces us to reconsider the literary and political reputations of these writers and the unexpected presences of Marxism within U.S. and African-American literature and culture.PhDEnglish Language & LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86576/1/nfmills_1.pd
Dissertatio chemica de nomenclatura salium: cujus partem primam cons. ampliss. facult. philos. praeside Johanne Gadolin, chem. prof. reg. et ord. regg. acadd. et Societt. Scient. Holmensis, Dublinensis, Upsaliensis et Gottingensis, Societ. antehac Med. Chir. et Pharm. Bruxellensis, Acad. Imper. Nat. Curios. et Reg. Societ. Oeconom. Fenn. Sodali. Pro gradu philosophico publico examini supjicit Andr. Ludov. Selander, Nericius. In aud. mineralog. die 20 Junii 1807. H. a. m. s
No full textDedicatio: Daniel Magnus Algren, Fredric Wilhelm Tillman [ruots. pr.].Arkit: A8.Painovuosi nimekkeestä.Osia 1-3 varten painettu myös yhteinen nimiölehti
Onde madame dança
No full textO propósito do texto é apresentar uma passagem da vida de Simone de Beauvoir relativa a seu romance com o grande escritor norte-americano Nelson Algren, que durou de 1947 a 1964, e é narrado em A força das coisas (1963). As mais de trezentas cartas que a pensadora francesa remeteu-lhe, postumamente editadas, também lançam uma luz, muito mais íntima, sobre o acontecimento e evidenciam tanto a intensidade amorosa de Beauvoir quanto os limites desta. O andamento dos encontros e desencontros transatlânticos era dado pela agenda de Sartre: as datas eram definidas pelos tempos que o filósofo francês dedicava a outras. A apresentação pública da relação permite-nos perceber as tensões dolorosamente vividas pela autora que, mesmo no auge da paixão, nunca acolheu a possibilidade – sugerida por Algren – de sair da zona de conforto e de mudar radicalmente sua vida. Para além de qualquer juízo, a exposição da história produz um documento inestimável que diz respeito tanto a astúcias e peripécias de Eros, que desconcertam as relações estabelecidas, quanto ao lugar social da mulher.The text’s purpose is to present a passage of Simone de Beauvoir’s life regarding her romance with great American writer Nelson Algren, which lasted from 1947 to 1964 and is narrated in The Force Of Circumstance (1963). The more of three hundred letters sent by the French thinker, edited posthumously, also cast a light, much more intimate, on this happening and evidence Beauvoir’s amorous intensity as much as its limits. The course of transatlantic encounters and partings were due to Sartre’s agenda: the dates were defined by the time the Frenchman philosopher dedicated to other women. The public presentation of this relationship permit us to perceive the tensions painfully lived by the female author that, even at the edge of passion, never welcomed the possibility – suggested by Algren – to leave her comfort zone and radically change her life. Beyond any judgement, the story’s account produces an inestimable document concerning Eros’ astuteness and adventures, which disturb the established relationships, as much as woman’s social place
Where does the madam dance?
No full textO propósito do texto é apresentar uma passagem da vida de Simone de
Beauvoir relativa a seu romance com o grande escritor norte-americano Nelson
Algren, que durou de 1947 a 1964, e é narrado em A força das coisas (1963).
As mais de trezentas cartas que a pensadora francesa remeteu-lhe,
postumamente editadas, também lançam uma luz, muito mais íntima, sobre o
acontecimento e evidenciam tanto a intensidade amorosa de Beauvoir quanto os
limites desta. O andamento dos encontros e desencontros transatlânticos era
dado pela agenda de Sartre: as datas eram definidas pelos tempos que o filósofo
francês dedicava a outras. A apresentação pública da relação permite-nos
perceber as tensões dolorosamente vividas pela autora que, mesmo no auge da
paixão, nunca acolheu a possibilidade – sugerida por Algren – de sair da zona
de conforto e de mudar radicalmente sua vida. Para além de qualquer juízo, a
exposição da história produz um documento inestimável que diz respeito tanto a
astúcias e peripécias de Eros, que desconcertam as relações estabelecidas,
quanto ao lugar social da mulher.The text’s purpose is to present a passage of Simone de Beauvoir’s life
regarding her romance with great American writer Nelson Algren, which lasted
from 1947 to 1964 and is narrated in La force des choses- 1963. The more of
three hundred letters sent by the French thinker, edited posthumously, also cast a light, much more intimate, on this happening and evidence Beauvoir’s
amorous intensity as much as its limits. The course of transatlantic encounters
and partings were due to Sartre’s agenda: the dates were defined by the time the
Frenchman philosopher dedicated to other women. The public presentation of
this relationship permit us to perceive the tensions painfully lived by the female
author that, even at the edge of passion, never welcomed the possibility –
suggested by Algren – to leave her comfort zone and radically change her life.
Beyond any judgement, the story’s account produces an inestimable document
concerning Eros’ astuteness and adventures, which disturb the established
relationships, as much as woman’s social place
From John Reed to Jane Addams: or what time will it be when the last El crashes? Nelson Algren’s proletarian roots, the FWP, and the granular naturalism of Never Come Morning
No full textAs a literary figure, Nelson Algren draws small change. While there is certainly a modestly respectable drip of scholarship that flows down through the decades since the height of his success in 1949, with the publication of his magnum opus, The Man with the Golden Arm, it rarely emits more than the babble of a backyard brook. Algren himself, in a 1963 interview with H.E.F. Donahue, referred to his legacy as that of “the tin whistle of American letters” (Donahue 151). It comes as no surprise then that his work pre-The Man with the Golden Arm receives all the attention due to a squeaky penny whistle. While Algren’s first two novels, Somebody in Boots from 1935 and Never Come Morning from 1942, received their share of plaudits and support from critics and authors that traveled similar political and literary circles, the timing of their publication did the author no financial favors – one arriving amidst the Great Depression, and the other during a paper shortage resulting from America’s participation in World War II.NASUNY College at New PaltzEnglishMATromanhauser, VickiMulready, Cyru
Opportunities and strategies to improve the sustainability of nitrogen and phosphorus use
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.2021 Fall.Over the past century, humans have dramatically increased levels of terrestrial reactive nitrogen and mobilized phosphorus through industrial fixation of nitrogen and phosphorus mining. These additional nutrient resources have enabled vital food production increases; industrially-fixed nitrogen and mined phosphorus now support around 50% of global food production. The problems with human manipulation of natural N and P fluxes lie in continuous losses of these nutrients from human systems: only about 17% of nitrogen and 20% of phosphorus used in agriculture is consumed by humans. Nutrient losses to the environment have a wide range of impacts, including contribution to global climate change, disruption of ecosystems in both coastal and inland water bodies, air pollution, and drinking water pollution. Additionally, phosphorus is a finite resource, and high-quality phosphate rock is becoming scarce.
To ensure sustainability of future bio-economies, nutrient-related impacts must be minimized. This thesis quantifies the nitrogen and phosphorus flows embodied in the production of United States (US) commodities and assesses the potential of phosphorus management strategies to reduce net phosphorus inputs to the contiguous US. Modeled commodity nitrogen and phosphorus flows show that inclusion of ethanol coproducts in animal diets reduces the nitrogen inputs associated with ethanol fuel, beef, and milk production, and total phosphorus inputs to the US are highly sensitive to animal dietary P intake. A materials flow analysis of US phosphorus demonstrated that over half of phosphorus inputs to the US economy were either landfilled or lost to the environment, primarily from crop farming and animal production systems. The strategies with the most potential for reducing US net phosphorus inputs were efficient manure utilization and widespread adoption of variable rate fertilization. Improving phosphorus digestibility in animal diets is also promising for reducing both P supplement demand and county-level excess manure phosphorus
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