3,360 research outputs found
Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio
No full textDrawing attention to both characters and landscapes, this essay proposes a reading
of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio that assesses its differences from and similarities
to The Great Gatsby. In the first part of the essay a comparison between the
two novels shows that the behavior and features of Jay Gatsby in Trimalchio are
borrowed from Petronius’s Trimalchio and Homer’s Odysseus. As a consequence,
the first Jay Gatsby turns out to be a more vulgar and astute version of his second
and more successful incarnation; he is, nevertheless, a coherent persona. We have
ultimately two Gatsbys and, therefore, two different novels. In spite of that, these
two texts share the same literary landscape, of which Fitzgerald was evidently
sure from the very beginning of his composition process. The second part of the
essay focuses on the ways in which Fitzgerald consciously grafted into Gatsby’s
American landscape the imperialistic vision exposed in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness. In this respect, the opposition Fitzgerald—through his narrator Nick
Carraway—established between the East and Midwest of the USA also allows
for a surprising but compelling connection with David Foster Wallace, an author
strongly anchored in his Midwestern point of view
Let's Call a Star a Star: Task Performance, External Status, and Exceptional Contributors in Organizations
No full textWe develop a new typology of star employees, wherein we identify three types of stars – universal stars, performance stars, and status stars – on the basis of stars’ unique combinations of task performance and external status. By classifying stars in this way and disentangling task performance and external status as unique and simultaneously important qualities underlying the distinct contributions of different types of stars, we provide a basis for more accurately identifying the full range of individuals who create exceptional value, and offer novel insights into stars’ various influences in organizations. With this foundation, we explore how different types of stars’ distinct qualities and bases of value creation affect both the security of their star standing and their relative abilities to appropriate value. We then expand our focus to consider stars in the broader organizational contexts in which they exist, discussing the implications of stars’ distinct attributes for patterns of value creation, value capture, and value preservation associated with stars’ complementarities and redundancies with other organizational resources. Finally, we propose several lines of inquiry through which future research may leverage the proposed typology to address issues related to the management of different types of stars in the broader organizational contexts in which they are embedded
Senator James O. Eastland, Bill Brock; Thomas J. McIntyre; Edward M. Kennedy; Richard S. Schweiker; Edmund S. Muskie; Thomas F. Eagleton; Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.; Howard Baker; J. Glenn Beall; Lowell Weicker, Jr.; William D. Hathaway; Dale Bumpers; John A. Durkin; Stuart Symington; Clairborne Pell; Hugh Scott; Edward W. Brooke; Birch Bayh; Henry M. Jackson; John L. McClellan; Gaylord Nelson; Ted Stevens; Ernest F. Hollings; Robert Morgan; Jesse Helms; Dick Stone; & Jennings Randolph to President Gerald R. Ford, 27 Februray 1976
No full textCopy typed letter signed dated 27 February 1976 from Eastland; Bill Brock; Thomas J. McIntyre; Edward M. Kennedy; Richard S. Schweiker; Edmund S. Muskie; Thomas F. Eagleton; Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.; Howard Baker; J. Glenn Beall; Lowell Weicker, Jr.; William D. Hathaway; Dale Bumpers; John A. Durkin; Stuart Symington; Clairborne Pell; Hugh Scott; Edward W. Brooke; Birch Bayh; Henry M. Jackson; John L. McClellan; Gaylord Nelson; Ted Stevens; Ernest F. Hollings; Robert Morgan; Jesse Helms; Dick Stone; & Jennings Randolph to Ford, re: International Trade Commission, non-rubber footwear; 3 pages.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_g/1064/thumbnail.jp
Battles of Mexico : line of operations of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Winfield Scott on the 19th and 20th of August, 1847
No full textHand-drawn map showing U.S. Army battles in Mexico, under Major General Winfield Scott. Several different lines are marked to show different Army divisions
BOOK REVIEW OF "BUSINESS IS GOOD. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, PROFESSIONAL WRITER", BY JAMES L. W. WEST III
No full textTHIS IS A REVIEW OF A RECENT BOOK ON F. SCOTT FITZGERALD WRITEN BY JAMES L. W. WEST, III, THE FOREMOST EXPERT ON THE AUTHOR OF THE GREAT GATSBY, A NOVEL PUBLISHED ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, IN 1925
Sex and aggression in f. Scott fitzgerrald’s novel The great gatsby (1925): a psychoanalytic criticism
No full textThe major issue of this study is what and how causes of sex and
aggression reflected in The Great Gatsby novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerrald?.
The objective of this study is, 1) to describe The Great Gatsby novel based on
structural elements of novel, and 2) to analyze sex and aggression in The Great
Gatsby novel(1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerrald based on a Psychoanalytic Criticism.
The research is qualitative study. The researcher uses primary data source
and secondary data source. The primary data sources The Great Gatsby novel by
F. Scott Fitzgerrald and the secondary data sources related the study, such as:
website, dictionary, some books that support the analysis. The data collection
method used by the researcher is reading the novel, taking notes, arranging the
data, selecting particular parts of the script, determining the character that will be
analyzed, classifying and determining the relevant data and browsing on internet.
The data analysis method is descriptive qualitative analysis descriptive analysis
concerns with structural element of the novel on sex and aggression.
The results of the study shows the following conclusions. First, based on
the structural analysis, it can be concluded that there are several moral messages
appear in The Great Gatsby novel, the author conveys a moral messages that this novel involve the love and lust sometimes cannot be distinguished from one
another. Second based on psychoanalytic analysis it can be found that in this
novel the author illustatees the psychological phenomenon related with causes of
sex and aggression
Battles of Mexico : line of operations of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Winfield Scott on the 19th and 20th of August, 1847
No full textHand-drawn map showing U.S. Army battles in Mexico, under Major General Winfield Scott. Several different lines are marked to show different Army divisions
F. Scott Fitzgerald e The Great Gatsby : um encontro com o moderno
No full textThe author views the representativity of F. Scott Fitzgerald and of his work - particularly The Great Gatsby - as resulting from an encounter with modern times such they were viewed in the first decades of the 20th Century, and not simply as a projection of typically American values and myths
The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald
No full textBringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jazz Age writer, as well as offering an approachable overview of his background, influences, and cultural context.
This comprehensive volume features:
A variety of national and transnational perspectives; Essays which consider Fitzgerald's work via key contemporary approaches such as race studies, whiteness studies, queer studies, the digital humanities, literary geography, and ecocriticism; New comparative approaches that consider the author in the context of his contemporaries, including writers of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism; An innovative cluster of short essays by practitioners, reflecting on their work with Fitzgerald materials.
Offering an indispensable resource for researchers and students alike, this handbook brings together the most exciting scholarship one a true giant of American literature
Dental Microwear Texture and Anthropoid Diets
No full textDental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species. Here we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear textures for a sample of 21 anthropoid primate species displaying inter- and intra-specific dietary variability. Four dental microwear texture variables (complexity, anisotropy, textural fill volume, and heterogeneity) were computed based on scale-sensitive fractal analysis and high-resolution three-dimensional renderings of microwear surfaces collected using a white-light confocal profiler. The purpose of this analysis was to assess the extent to which these variables reflect variation in diet. Significant contrasts between species with diets known to include foods with differing material properties are clearly evident for all four microwear texture variables. In particular, species that consume more tough foods, such as leaves, tended to have high levels of anisotropy and low texture complexity. The converse was true for species including hard and brittle items in their diets either as staples or as fallback foods. These results reaffirm the utility of dental microwear texture analysis as an important tool in making dietary inferences based on fossil primate samples.Peer reviewe
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