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Letter from Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] to Wayne M. Collins, May 29, 1953
No full textIn this letter to Mr. Wayne M. Collins, Mr. Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] explains that he will need to pay Mr. Collins in segments. Mr. Collins is a lawyer in San Francisco.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Wilkie Collins e il mondo letterario vittoriano. Riflessioni, provocazioni, innovazioni.
No full textIl capitolo prende in esame il contributo che Wilkie Collins diede ai numerosi cambiamenti che avvennero nel mondo letterario inglese a partire dagli anni Cinquanta dell’Ottocento. Collins visse e compose le sue opere in un momento di rapida trasformazione delle forme letterarie e del mondo editoriale – una trasformazione legata all’affermarsi di una letteratura di massa e di un mercato editoriale rivolto a classi eterogenee, alla professionalizzazione del ruolo dello scrittore, a un’ibridizzazione dei generi che mise in discussione la ‘purezza’ del gusto estetico e di forme espressive tradizionali. In particolare, Collins svolse un ruolo significativo nello sviluppo di sottogeneri popolari del romanzo, come il sensation novel e il detective novel, non solo attraverso la sua scrittura creativa (in quanto iniziatore delle due tipologie sul suolo inglese) ma anche grazie a riflessioni teoriche compiute in alcune opere non finzionali.
Scopo del capitolo è analizzare due gruppi di scritti collinsiani in cui sono rintracciabili le idee innovative, e spesso provocatorie, che l’autore elaborò nel corso della sua carriera. Nello specifico, saranno esaminate le numerose prefazioni apposte ai suoi romanzi e alcuni saggi composti negli anni Cinquanta che inizialmente apparvero sulle riviste dickensiane per essere poi ripubblicati nel volume "My Miscellanies" (1863).
Le prefazioni, che a volte anticipano gli attacchi dei recensori, altre volte replicano alle varie accuse di ‘corruzione’ (estetica e morale) mosse a Collins, forniscono utili indicazioni sulle nuove idee che lo scrittore sviluppò in un periodo di circa quarant’anni, riflettendo sui rapporti con il suo pubblico, sulla ricerca di ‘realismo’ narrativo, sulla tendenza dei critici a confondere categorie estetiche e morali, sugli elementi sperimentali da lui introdotti a più livelli nella sua fiction. Si tratta di paratesti che vale la pena di esplorare in dettaglio in quanto, come suggerisce Norman Page, le prefazioni collinsiane “collectively constitute a most interesting body of documents than those of most pre-Jamesian novelists” (Norman Page, "Wilkie Collins. The Critical Heritage").
Altrettanto degni di attenzione sono alcuni saggi che, in tono spesso ironico e di sfida, dimostrano l’attenzione di Collins per questioni editoriali ed estetiche che cominciano ad emergere attorno alla metà del secolo. Se in “Dramatic Grub Street” (1858) l’autore investiga alcune cause socio-economiche del declino qualitativo del teatro inglese coevo, in “The Unknown Public” (1858) egli si interroga sul pubblico non-intellettuale dei penny-journal readers e sul possibile sviluppo di una letteratura ‘ibrida’ che soddisfi i gusti di classi diverse. Altri spunti di rilievo sono offerti in “Portrait of an Author” (1859), dedicato a Honoré de Balzac, in cui l’omaggio biografico è combinato con acute considerazioni sul realismo compositivo del grande scrittore francese. Ma è soprattutto in “A Petition to the Novel-Writers” (1856) che Collins dimostra la sua ricerca di formule e stilemi innovativi, usando l’understatement per ridicolizzare espressioni e strategie narrative codificate. Il desiderio del novum qui manifestato troverà attuazione, di lì a poco, nei romanzi sensazionali e nelle prime prove di detective fiction con cui l’autore si cimenta, le quali gli garantiranno il successo sulla scena letteraria vittoriana
O MITO CLÁSSICO COMO FONTE LITERÁRIA: O RETORNO DE PÍRAMO E TISBE EM JOGOS VORAZES DE SUZANNE COLLINS: THE CLASSICAL MYTH AS LITERARY SOURCE: THE RETURN OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE IN THE HUNGER GAMES BY SUZANNE COLLINS
No full textRESUMO: Este trabalho dedica-se a evidenciar como Suzanne Collins, autora do romance Jogos vorazes (2010), utilizou elementos da mitologia greco-romana para compor partes significativas de sua obra, formando, assim, uma cadeia intertextual entre a Literatura Clássica e a Contemporânea. Para além de todos os mitos resgatados, atentar-nos-emos, mais especificamente, ao mito de Píramo e Tisbe, registrado literariamente por Ovídio em suas Metamorfoses, um dos precursores da afamada peça de teatro Romeu e Julieta, de Shakespeare. Pelo viés estilístico da intertextualidade, Collins (2010) recupera um mito e o transforma em algo adaptado à nova situação em que é inserido, favorecendo a intersecção entre mito e literatura e presentificando a Antiguidade Clássica na Atualidade.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Jogos vorazes. Suzanne Collins. Píramo e Tisbe. Ovídio. Intertextualidade.
ABSTRACT: This work focuses on how Suzanne Collins, author of the novel The Hunger Games(2010), used elements of Greco-Roman mythology to compose significant parts of her work, thus forming an intertextual chain between Classical and Contemporary Literature. In addition to all the myths the author rescued, we will study more specifically the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, recorded literarily by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, one of the precursors of Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet. Through the intertextual approach, Collins (2010) recovers a myth and transforms it into something adapted to the new situation in which it is inserted, favoring the intersection between myth and literature and bringing back the Classical Antiquity to the Present.
KEYWORDS: The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins. Pyramus and Thisbe. Ovid. Intertextuality
Trust and Trustworthiness in the Fourth and Fifth Estates
No full textThe high contemporary salience in the social sciences of the topics of "trust" and "trustworthiness" has focused attention on the mass media’s putative role in eroding trust. Intrinsically, the absence in the mass media of the dialogic and interactive element to trust building identified by O’ Neill (2002) may suggest that the lack of trust and trustworthiness in the mass media is structural and recent penalties imposed by the UK communication regulator, Ofcom, on UK public service broadcasters including the BBC seem to support such a view. However, drawing on and adapting O’Neill, the author identifies two distinct potential media trust building strategies: one procedural (based in professional norms) and the second dialogic and interactive (nascent in “Web 2.0” applications). Focusing on UK Web 2.0 media sites the author identifies instances where the "dialogic" character of "Web 2.0" has established and enhanced trustworthiness. He argues normatively for a combination of "Web 2.0" interactivity and the adoption and implementation of self-regulatory codes in order to enhance the trustworthiness of the media
The Progress of Taste in Mid-Nineteenth Century England: Art in Wilkie Collins' Early Writing
No full textThis dissertation shows the extent to which Wilkie Collins reflected the changing mid-Victorian
perceptions on aesthetic discrimination in his early body of work. A producer of literary
commodities for a middle-class public, Collins had an acute understanding of the pivotal
changes brought by capitalist development in what concerned the acquisition of taste: once a
matter restricted to a selected few and now, as his career in the field of letters progressed, a
right demanded by many. Following a close reading of his literary production, essays and correspondence
during the 1850s, Collins emerges as an author thoroughly aware of the democratisation
of taste that pervaded a crucial decade of the nineteenth century
The "Illimitable Dominion" of Charles Dickens: Transatlantic Print Culture and the Spring of 1842
No full textThis article explores Edgar Allan Poe’s May 1842 edition of Graham’s Monthly Magazine in the context of debates about international copyright circulating in the press at the time of Charles Dickens’s famous tour of the US. I offer a reading of Poe’s short story ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, and his review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales that sees these texts as interventions in transatlantic debates at the forefront of the public imagination in the Spring of 1842. In particular, through an original close reading of ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ I demonstrate how Poe subtly drew upon penny press exposés to inform the short story’s discussion of class, status and rights of access. I also suggest that the argument Poe made in his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne about the importance of ‘invention, creation, imagination [and] originality’ to the ‘prose tale’ is usefully considered in the same context, as an American response to questions of authorship that were also raised by the popular hysteria surrounding Dickens
Executive compensation, corporate governance and corporate performance: A simultaneous equation approach
No full textThis paper investigates the association between executive compensation and performance. It uniquely utilises a comprehensive set of corporate governance mechanisms within a three-stage least squares (3SLS) simultaneous equation framework. Results based on estimating a conventional single equation model indicate that the executive pay and performance sensitivity is relatively weak, whereas those based on estimating a 3SLS model generally suggest improved executive pay and performance sensitivity. Our findings highlight the need for future research to control for possible simultaneous interdependencies when estimating the executive pay and performance link. The findings are generally robust across a raft of econometric models that control for different types of endogeneities, executive pay and performance proxies.<br/
“Can I trust the narrator?” A narrative analysis of some novels by Wilkie Collins and H. G Wells
No full textreservedLa figura del narratore è molto importante per un autore di romanzi, poiché parte fondamentale di un atto comunicativo come la narrazione. Se il narratore riesce a catturare l'attenzione del lettore, potrebbe coinvolgerlo a tal punto nel libro da cambiare il suo approccio alla società o alla vita in generale. Questo lavoro si pone come obbiettivo la discussione dei narratori di alcuni romanzi di Wilkie Collins e H. G. Wells, mostrando come I vari autori riusciranno a coinvolgere il lettore attraverso mezzi sempre diversi. Il lavoro sarà diviso in tre capitoli. Dopo un'introduzione generale alla narrazione, il primo capitolo tratterà il rapporto tra l'autore e il suo pubblico, un tema che vedrà figure quali il lettore empirico e il lettore modello avere un ruolo rilevante, per poi concludere con una discussione sull'affidabilità e l'inaffidabilità dei narratori. Gli argomenti introdotti in queste due ultime sezioni saranno utili per la discussione che si svilupperà nei due capitoli successivi. Più precisamente, nel secondo capitolo sosterranno la discussione su due romanzi di Wilkie Collins. La parte dedicata a La Pietra di Luna analizzerà le difficoltà di fidarsi di un narratore in caso il narratore una narrazione multipla in prima persona. D'altra parte, la sezione dedicata a La Donna in Bianco tratterà di un tipo di affidabilità causata da una corrispondenza emotiva tra narratore e lettore. Infine, il terzo capitolo discuterà due romanzi di H. G. Wells. Per quanto riguarda La Macchina del Tempo, ci si concentrerà su come la crescita interiore del protagonista influenzerà la sua figura di narratore e la sua successiva influenza sui lettori modello di Wells. Infine, il secondo capitolo sarà incentrato su L'Isola del Dottor Moreau, in cui Wells trasmette la sua morale attraverso una narrazione piena di elementi spaventosi, facendo sentire il lettore come se si trovasse in un incubo.The figure of the narrator is very important for a literary author since it is a fundamental part of a communicative act such as narration. If the narrator manages to catch the attention of the reader, he might make the reader so involved in the book that he could change his approach to society or even life in general. This work aims to discuss the narrators of some novels by Wilkie Collins and H. G. Wells. It is divided into three different chapters. After a general introduction to narrative, the first chapter deals with the relationship between the author and the audience, a topic in which figures like the empirical reader and the model reader have a relevant role. The final section of this chapter deals with the reliability and unreliability of the narrators. The topics introduced in these latter two sections are useful for the discussion developed in the two following chapters. More precisely, in the second chapter, they support the discussion around two novels by Wilkie Collins. The part dedicated to The Moonstone analyses the difficulties of trusting a narrator in the case of multiple first-person narration. On the other hand, the section dedicated to The Woman in White explores the reliability caused by a sensational affinity between the narrator and the reader. Finally, the third chapter discusses two novels by H. G. Wells. For what concerns The Time Machine, the focus lies on the figure of the Time Traveller and how the development of his awareness changes him as narrator. The second section focusses on The Island of Dr Moreau, where Wells conveys his morale through a narration full of scary elements, making the reader feel as if he were in a nightmare
The development of the Fort Collins Mormon community during the twentieth century
No full textDepartment Head: Arthur J. Worral.Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-98).Separated by the formidable Rocky Mountains from Brigham Young's Utah stronghold, the northern Colorado town of Fort Collins was not numbered among the western settlements founded by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nevertheless, followers of this sect would be drawn to Fort Collins in ever-increasing numbers. Early Mormons in the town lacked the well-established religious traditions of their Utah counterparts and struggled to define their group identity. Later, the growth of the L.D.S. congregation paralleled the increase in Fort Collins population, as the rapid expansion of Colorado State University attracted large numbers of Latter-day Saint students and faculty after the second world war. The Fort Collins Mormons gathered often for religious and social activities. They gradually formed a community that fit the definition given by Thomas Bender, who describes "community" as a deeply meaningful social network, bound together by close emotional ties, solidarity and communion with other members of the group. Fort Collins Latter-day Saints found a sense of connection through three major influences: shared religious beliefs, development of strong emotional ties, and organizational structure provided by the church headquarters in Salt Lake City. Utilizing primary source material from church records, local newspapers and personal interviews, this thesis traces the history of the Latter-day Saints in Fort Collins, examining ways in which church members created a close-knit, identifiable Mormon community in this northern Colorado city
Architectural authorship in generative design
No full textThe emergence of evolutionary digital design methods, relying on the creative generation of novel forms, has transformed the design process altogether and consequently the role of the architect. These methods are more than the means to aid and enhance the design process or to perfect the representation of finite architectural projects. The architectural design philosophy is gradually transcending to a hybrid of art, engineering, computer programming and biology. Within this framework, the emergence of designs relies on the architect- machine interaction and the authorship that each of the two shares.
This work aims to explore the changes within the
design process and to define the authorial control of a
new breed of architects- programmers and architects-users on architecture and its design representation. For the investigation of these problems, this thesis is to be based on an experiment conducted by the author in order to test the interaction of architects with different digital design methods and their authorial control over the final product. Eventually, the results will be compared and evaluated in relation to the theoretic views. Ultimately, the architect will establish his authorial role
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