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Frank Norris' McTeague: An Entropic Melodrama
No full textAccording to Naturalistic principles, human destiny in the form of blind chance and determinism, entraps the individual, so man is a defenceless creature unable to escape from the ruthless paws of a stoical universe. In Naturalism; nonetheless, melodrama mirrors a conscious alternative with a peculiar function. A typical American Naturalistic character thus cannot be a subject for social criticism of American society since they are not victims of the ongoing virtual slavery, capitalist system, nor of a ruined milieu, but of their own volition, and more importantly, their character frailty. Through a Postmodern viewpoint, each Naturalistic work can encompass some entropic trends and changes culminating in an entire failure and devastation. Frank Norris in McTeague displays the futile struggles of ordinary men and how they end up brutes. McTeague encompasses intoxication, abuse, violation, and ruthless homicides. Norris’ depictions of the falling individual as a demon represent the entropic dimension of Naturalistic novels. McTeague’s defeat is somewhat his own fault, the result of his own blunders and resolution, not the result of sheer accident. Throughout the novel, each character is a kind of insane quester indicating McTeague’s decadence and, by inference, the decadence of Western civilisation. McTeague seems to designate Norris’ solicitude for a community fabricated by the elements of human negative demeanours and conducts hauling acute symptoms of infectious dehumanisation. The aim of this article is to illustrate how one specific negative human disposition gradually, like a running fire, can spread everywhere and burn everything in itself. The author applies the concept of entropy metaphorically to describe the individual devolutions that necessarily comprise community entropy in McTeague, a dying universe
Straight Naturalism With All The Guts : Frank Norris and the Evolution of American Naturalism
No full textAlthough Frank Norris is considered, along with London, Crane and Dreiser, as a principal voice in the American naturalistic movement, a close examination of his canon reveals that he abandoned his naturalistic stance after early experiments in determinism and lapsed into a romantic sentiment which joined a belief in chance to the assertion of free will as the means for determining human destiny. I assert that Norris progressed from the deterministic naturalism of Vandover and the Brute and McTeague; through Blix, Moran of the Lady Letty, and A Man\u27s Woman, all of which reflect to some degree the sentimental novel form; to a less deterministic American naturalism in the two finished novels of the Trilogy of the Wheat, The Octopus and The Pit. An examination of the texts and Norris\u27s literary philosophy reveals his reconsideration of scientific determinism (as professed by the French naturalist Zola) and his development of a truly American naturalism
‘Born to Shop’: Malls, Dream-Worlds and Capitalism
No full textIt has been twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a new generation, untouched by the previous communist regimes, has come to adulthood throughout the post-communist world. The Iulius Group’s logo – ‘Born to shop!’ – suggests that these are born shoppers: the capitalist babies of Central and Eastern Europe who are sustaining the largest growth in retail and shopping malls in Europe. With no living memory of shortages, queuing, or government restrictions, they know only the limit of their own – or their parents’ – pocket/credit. Their world could not be more different from the one that their parents and grandparents experienced: both the abundance of goods and services, as well as the opulent settings under which they are now sold, offer striking visual contrasts to the not-so-distant past. In addition, the very experience of consumption is directly connected to the way in which the current social fabric – and new social divisions within it – is interwoven with the physical and architectural changes taking place in the urban setting
Freedom and destiny
No full text286 p.Personal freedom is a central problem for modern men and women as well as for our society. Writing out of his long experience as a therapist, Rollo May, author of the groundbreaking Love and Will, shows how personal freedom is in daily crisis. Modern man has forgotten that personal freedom can be experienced only in juxtaposition with human destiny. The conscious freedom to think and feel and speak authentically is a uniquely human quality. Always in conflict with one's destiny, this freedom is the foundation of human values such as love, honesty, and courage. Without personal freedom there will be no lasting values in our culture. Yet destiny is the vital design of the universe expressed in each of us. May proposes the steps for our rediscovery of the relation between freedom and destiny. He emphasizes that both are intertwined and that one gives birth to the other. Yet the renewal of life can come only with a recovery of the polarity between freedom and destiny
Carving your destiny in academia as a “lecturer” and a “mother”
No full textHidden within the single-word job title “lecturer” is a long list of multi-layered responsibilities. For a woman who is a lecturer, possibly added to this long list is the undefinable crucial “job” packaged into an oversimplified single word – “Mother.” In this autoethnography, the author provides a comprehensive view of a woman’s life in academia by illustrating how she navigates through the demanding responsibilities of a university lecturer and carves her destiny out of the academic world while endeavouring to be the best possible mother. The author shares the attractive opportunities and the real challenges faced while pursuing a PhD. This is followed by an illustration of the challenges experienced in holding major administrative positions and how a display of commitment increases visibility and bolsters research networking. This chapter also unfolds the secrets to maintaining career-life balance by developing the support system that enables a woman in academia to weave her career trajectory
Effects of body positivity: social media and body (dis)satisfaction among women
No full textThis work was produced while the author was an undergraduate student in the Summer Research Institute of the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Degree Achievement Program at Rutgers University
Destiny\u27s Cultural and Spiritual Healing: The Practice of Care and Unlearning in Choreographing
No full textThis research thesis reflects on the choreographic practices of care and unlearning that were implemented in choreographing a piece on personal narratives of immigration, indigeneity, conformity, rejection and celebration of ethnic and cultural pride. The author is a danzante of the Danza Azteca ceremonial practice. She explains the importance of handling the art form with care by learning its history and unlearning the misconstrued histories that have been told about the Mexica and Nahua people who practice the ceremonial danza. Touching on the history of the genocide of the Mexica people who were historically named and referred as the Aztecs. The author uses that history to defended why it is important to practice care in using the art form outside of ceremonial spaces and for non-indigenous audiences. The dance piece the author reflects on is called Braiding Wounds, Wearing Pride . It is a piece that includes Danza, baile folklorico and contemporary movement. Focusing her work on danza and baile folkorico is to emphasize the vulnerability of their art forms in the American dance spaces like the institutional college theater stage. In her the themes of her piece and the reflection process, the author explains how she practices care and unlearning through her process of choreographing the piece
James Norris Oliphant distinguished speakers.
No full textRecorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Sponsored by: Cornell University Program Board,Center for International Studies,Sigma Phi Fraternity,Division of Campus Life,Cornell United Religious Works,Asian Studies, Dept. of,South Asia Program,Women's Studies Program,Program on International Development and Women,Pakistan Students Association., Speaker(s): Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, author of Policy in Perspective and Daughter of Destiny., Lecture, January 31, 1991, 8:00 pm, Bailey Hall.51 minutes1_thr3aew51_dwyy5ld
Illuminated (Necklace)
No full textNecklace tooled form copper and sterling silver, with Lapis lazuli detailhttps://spark.parkland.edu/historical_inspiration/1006/thumbnail.jp
The motive of time travel as a means of understanding human destiny in modern Belarusian prose
No full textУ артыкуле на матэрыяле сучаснай беларускай тэмпаральнай фантастыкі разглядаюцца спосабы ўвасаблення матыву чалавечага лёсу. Аўтар прыходзіць да высновы тры
асноўныя канцэпцыі яго разумення пісьменнікамі, якія зводзяцца да фаталізму, «Парадоксу
забітага дзядулі», закальцаванасці чалавечага лёсу.The article, based on the material of modern Belarusian temporal fiction, examines ways of
embodying the motif of human destiny. The author comes to the conclusion of three main concepts
of his understanding by writers, which come down to fatalism, "Paradox of the murdered
grandpa", the entanglement of human destiny
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