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Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
Full text linkVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
A "Labyrinth of Linkages" in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"
Full text linkThe renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory and symbol to an extent and at a level of sophistication unknown in his other works. In Browning’s study, the author identifies and analyzes previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned “linkages and keystones” found in two highly developed clusters of symbols, arising from Anna’s momentous train ride and peasant nightmares, and of allegories, rooted in Vronsky’s disastrous steeplechase. Within this labyrinth of symbol and allegory lies embedded much of the novel’s most significant meaning. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Russian literature, Tolstoy, symbol, allegory, structuralism, and moral criticism
Only a time machine
No full textOnly a Time Machine is a collection of essays exploring issues of gender, science, motherhood, personal fulfillment, and identity. These essays put readers into the steel-toed boots of a nineteen-year-old woman working on an offshore natural gas platform, taking them with her on a thirty-year journey that ends in a very different pair of boots—the groovy go-go boots of a Star Trek science officer. Their author, Mary Anna Evans, is a licensed chemical engineer, an awardwinning novelist, and a very proud mother.M.F.A.by Mary Anna Evan
Adiós mi Habana An Autobiographical Comic Book Book Presentation by Author Anna Veltfort
No full textThrough the format of the graphic novel, Anna Veltfort offers a glimpse into a chapter of Cuban history that has never been told before. Adios mi Habana recounts the years Anna and her family spent in Cuba during the 1960s and early 1970s. She quickly perceived that daily life for ordinary Cubans bore little resemblance to the privileged circumstances of their family as foreign technicians. She discovered history, received an education, enjoyed and suffered mass activities, working in agriculture and participating in research conducted by the University of Havana in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. She also experienced gay paranoia and repression as she explored and defined her sexual identity by coming out as a lesbian during the time of the cruel homophobic purges that swept Cuban society.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1354/thumbnail.jp
DIALOGUE WITH CLASSICS IN MODERN POETRY: A LESSON ON THE POEMS OF ANNA RUSS IN 11 GRADE
No full textThe article discloses a methodological problem of planning the course of modern literature at school. The author
agrees with the researchers who believe that the most productive way to structure the course is to correlate contemporary poems with
classical works studied at school. From the point of view of this paper, Anna Russ’s poetry may be included in the course of modern
poetry for high school, as, on the one hand, it has something in common with the poems of V. Mayakovsky, M. Tsvetayeva, and
A. Blok to some extent, on the other hand, it will be of interest to teenagers with its up-to-date problems and vivid images. Anna
Russ has managed to reproduce the voice of the others, the mind on the others and thus she portrays a role model. The lyrical heroine
of A. Russ is eccentric, passionate and vulnerable, as well the poetess herself, which creates a peculiar emotional pattern of the
poems full of transitions from serious to funny, form loud to quiet and touching. Anna Russ experiments with word segmentation,
she gets the best of the way it sounds. The plan of a lesson described in this article emphasizes the specific features of the style of
Anna Russ, whose works resonate with the classical Russian poetry
Ep. #002 - Anna Tsing
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cultures of Energy Podcast is now on iTunes! Stitcher soon! We celebrate Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, one of the world’s greatest analysts of globalization and the environment and the author (most recently) of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Then (6:16) Cymene and Anna talk about feminist legacies, more-than-human anthropology, capitalist ruins and how to think with weeds and mushrooms
Anna Bonola, Voce, diatesi e processi di trasformazione della struttura attanziale nel verbo russo (con note contrastive sull'italiano)
No full textL'autore descrive lo sviluppo dei concetti di "diatesi" e "voce" nella riflessione linguistica russa dalla grammatica di Lomonosov fino ai nostri giorni e mostra come si è passati da una prospettiva morfo-sintattica a una pragmatico-testuale. Dal punto di vista tipologico non si rilevano particolari differenze fra i mezzi espressivi della struttura attanziale in lingua russa e in lingua italiana. Tuttavia, per quanto concerne l'uso, l'italiano tende a privilegiare la variazione lessicale rispetto all'espressione morfologica (affissazione del verbo).The author describes how in Russian Linguistics (from Lomonosov’s grammar to contemporary research) the concepts of “voice” and “diathesis” have been understood and developed, as well as the fact that there has been a transition from a morphological and syntactic-semantic perspective to a pragmatic-textual one. The ways of expressing tha attantial structure of the Russian verb – morphological and grammaticalized (as regards voice), morphosyntactic (as regards diathesis and attantial derivation) and lexical (conversives) – are described and compared with those of Italian. From a typological point of view, no differences are found but from the analysis of the examples it emerges that in Italian there is a tendency to express transformations of diathesis by means of lexical variation, whereas, in Russian, morphological variation (affixation of the verb) is more common
Aproximaciones Al Personaje Histórico De Santa Anna En Cuatro Novelas
Full text linkabstract: Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) is considered as one of the biggest villains of Mexican history. This frequent president in the first decades of Independence of México is the main character portrayed in the novels analyzed in this dissertation: Su alteza serenísima (1895-1896) by Ireneo Paz, Santa Anna, el dictador resplandeciente (1936) by Rafael F. Muñoz, El seductor de la patria (1999) by Enrique Serna, and México mutilado (2006) by Francisco Martín Moreno. Many Mexican novelists have tackled iconic personalities from Mexican history. However, based upon the historical context that occurred within their lifetime, each author takes a different approach to the story and characters they portray. In the novel Su alteza serenísima, Santa Anna is presented with identical characteristics as in the official history. That was written for other liberals, like Paz, the author. In El dictador resplandeciente an image almost romantic of the leader is presented through the valorization of his role in history. The narrator shows the contradictions of Santa Anna, who was a hero and villain. Santa Anna is presented from different perspectives in El seductor de la patria. The narrator uses Santa Anna's voice projecting a consciousness of the future's judgment of history upon his actions and the voices of "the others" that live around him. In México mutilado Santa Anna is presented from the same perspective as the official history, although other traitors are added to distribute the fault among various important figures. This dissertation works through the analysis of the discursive mechanisms used in these novels, of the configuration of the message that they wish to convey to the reader, of the level of re-writing official history, of the perspective from which each author is reviewing the history, of the recount of what historical aspects and voices were chosen for inclusion in each novel, and through the evaluation of how the authors recover the figure of Santa Anna. This study follows an eclectic model of cultural commentary, taking up critical concepts from Latin American literary scholars such as Perkowska, Pons, Jitrik, Aínsa, among others.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. Spanish 201
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