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Correspondence, John Brown to David Hudson, May 10, 1831
No full textA letter to David Hudson from John Brown concerning bulls and other animals available for sale. 2 pages
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
No full textThe thesis discusses two directors who are never considered together in academic discourse. Cassavetes’ perceived focus on events led by the dynamics of performance and his looseness of technique opposes the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema achieves this by revelling in a surplus of activity that exceeds narrative, while the indescribable characteristics of the Cronenberg oeuvre is achieved through a systematic emptying of the image’s meaning through a simultaneous commitment to paring back emotion and portraying of images that are controversial and inconceivable. Taken together, the thesis identifies these aspects of film as ‘the visceral,’ a facet of the moving image that most certainly exists, but is resolutely, and disturbingly resistant to interpretation.
Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance to ideological interpretations of the image, and so cannot be described. Ultimately, the inability of semiology to fully grasp certain aspects of the filmed image is put forward as a rejoinder to theories of the fiction film as principally a narrative medium
Author, Editor David Baker is Grisham Visiting Writer Feb. 6
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - Author and editor David Baker is the John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writer Feb. 6 at the University of Mississippi
John Sinkankas college yearbook
No full textPersonal yearbook of John Sinkankas, honored Navy officer and aviator, noted gemologist, and author. For the first four year William Paterson College graduating class of 1936. Contains individual matted photographs of students and numerous personal inscriptions from classmates. Date if 1936 is inferred. Yearbook is undated, but Sinkankas listed as graduating in 1936
Cult: A Composite Novel
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The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Minister of the Gospel at Haddington The Life and Work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787)
No full textThis dissertation takes a fresh look at the life and work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787), minister of the First Secession Church in Haddington and Professor of Divinity in the Associate (Burgher) Synod, who is best known as the author of The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778). Brown was born in humble circumstances in Perthshire; ‘attached’ himself to the 1733 Secession, and aspired to become one of its ministers. However, his lack of formal education, the death of his parents, and accusations that to learn Greek and Hebrew he had entered a Faustian pact, meant he struggled to achieve his goal. However, after serving as a shepherd, pedlar, soldier and teacher and studying part-time for the ministry, he was ordain in July 1751. Brown soon established himself as an effective pastor and respected presbyter and, in 1753, was elected moderator of the Associate (Burgher) Synod. After publishing four works, including a history of the Secession, in 1767 Brown was appointed to the non-stipendiary post of Professor of Divinity and each summer students came to Haddington to study under him. In 1771 Brown began to correspond with Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, one of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival in England and Wales, who requested a copy of his Systematic Theology for use in her college in Trefecca in mid-Wales. Brown was a prolific religious writer and published sixty books, pamphlets and tracts, including A Dictionary of the Bible (1769), which attracted interest outside Scotland; The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778), upon which his reputation largely rests; and a History of the British Churches (1784), which is perhaps his ablest work. The main sources for Brown’s life are accounts written by himself and members of his family; profiles in his Dictionary and Bible and Robert MacKenzie’s biography, John Brown of Haddington (1918)
The Life and Economics of David Ricardo
No full textJohn P. Henderson\u27s The Life and Economics of David Ricardo represents the first comprehensive personal and intellectual biography of the brilliant and influential British economist. Employing the talents of both a biographer and an economist, the author examines Ricardo\u27s early years, his Sephardic origins and his employment in the London financial markets, as well as his later work on money and banking, international trade, economic instability and the theory of rent and value. Henderson also provides a thorough investigation of Ricardo\u27s relationships with Thomas Robert Malthus and other classical economists.
The Life and Economics of David Ricardo will be of interest not only to historians of economic thought and students of economics, but also to any economist working in the Ricardian or Classical Political Economy tradition.https://epublications.marquette.edu/marq_fac-book/1191/thumbnail.jp
Cairo, Petra and Damascus, in 1839. with remarks on the Goverment of Mehemet Ali, and the present prospects of Syria, By John G. Kinnear, Esq. London John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1841.
No full textPreface: by the authorDedication: by the author to David RobertsContent description: Detailed contentsPagination: PP9+348pVolumes: 1Edition:1st and only editionText Genre:LettersEpilogue: as conclus, o
Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse: Text and Context
No full textThis is a republication of the article David Tombs, ‘Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse’, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 53 (Autumn 1999), pp. 89-109 [OUR archive version http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6067]. The original text is accompanied by a Preface from the author and a Reflection from Fernando F. Segovia. The Preface and Reflection provide a context for recirculating the work twenty years after it was first presented at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in July 1998. A Spanish version of this publication is also being made available as David Tombs, Crucifixión, terrorismo de Estado, y abuso sexual: Texto y contexto, Dunedin: Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago, 2018.A key principle in the work of Latin American liberation theologians has been a willingness to take their Latin American social context seriously as an aid for understanding biblical texts. This paper is intended to illustrate the value of this principle by focussing on some disturbing points in the gospel accounts of crucifixion in the light of recent accounts of torture and terror in Latin America. It argues that documentation of torture and abuse in Latin American military regimes can illuminate neglected aspects of Jesus’ passion presented in the gospels. Most importantly this involves recognition that crucifixion was a form of torture that served a wider purpose than execution and was used to demonstrate the state’s power and terrorise those who might oppose it. Within this framework, one issue in the horror of Jesus torture and crucifixion which has been completely neglected in Christian tradition—the degree of sexual abuse that it involved—can be addressed honestly and openly. My central contention is that crucifixion in the ancient world carried a strongly sexual element and should be understood as a form of sexual abuse. The gospels indicate that Jesus was subjected to a high degree of sexual humiliation and was possibly a victim of sexual assault. The final part of this paper suggests the constructive purposes that the acknowledgement of this sexual abuse might serve
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