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Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information
Get PDFDespite the enormous popularity of Online Social Networking sites (OSNs; e.g., Facebook and Myspace), little research in psychology has been done on them. Two studies examining how personality is reflected in OSNs revealed several connections between the Big Five personality traits and self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. For example, extraversion predicted not only frequency of Facebook usage (Study 1), but also engagement in the site, with extraverts (vs. introverts) showing traces of higher levels of Facebook activity (Study 2). As in offline contexts, extraverts seek out virtual social engagement, which leaves behind a behavioral residue in the form of friends lists and picture postings. Results suggest that, rather than escaping from or compensating for their offline personality, OSN users appear to extend their offline personalities into the domains of OSNs.Psycholog
Horror of Intimacy/Intimacy of Horror - William Gaddis, The Recognitions 725/919 Counterfeit, Simulation, and the Uncanny in William Gaddis' The Recognitions
No full textWilliam Gaddis’ 1955 novel The Recognitions concerns a young painter, Wyatt Gwyon, and his\ud
involvement in a forgery ring in New York City. The characters of Gaddis’ New York, alongside Wyatt’s forged artworks, are observed to be bound to a perpetual cycle of misrecognition; they miss each other and are missed in return; thus the universe of The Recognitions, alongside Gaddis' text, is plagued by a persistent but untraceable sense of loss and anxiety. This untraceable sense of loss is underscored and\ud
multiplied by the motif of the counterfeit. Through the work of counterfeiting, Gaddis brokers a reality\ud
wherein recognition becomes a work of violence that serves to render the strange familiar, and the familiar, infinitely strange. Insofar as the familiar is made foreign and vice versa, the universe of the novel becomes a site of Freudian uncanny encounters with an ungraspable past that at once lords over and abandons the reality of Gaddis' characters, initiating a palindromic oscillation between the "horror of intimacy" (Gaddis 725) and the "intimacy of horror" (Gaddis 919). Wyatt’s attempts to come to terms\ud
with this shifting reality of misrecognition, displacement, and loss and his implication in its foundational work results in the corruption of his identity and of Gaddis’ text at large. Through the narrative and\ud
textual incorporation of simulation, Gaddis’ novel prefigures many of the concerns of postmodern\ud
literature, namely the death of the author, the infinite shift of the meaning of the text, and the subsequent birth of the reader. These concerns engender a new literature
Recondite Reading: William Gaddis\u27s Carpenter\u27s Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
No full textThis thesis concerns the perceived difficulty of the novels of William Gaddis, and in particular with his novel Carpenter\u27s Gothic (1985). It also addresses Gaddis\u27s place in literary history and periodization based upon that difficulty. Almost all critics of Gaddis are surveyed as to their commentary on the difficulty of his works. The comments of critics are categorized as pertaining to three types of difficulty in Gaddis\u27s work: the difficulty of readability, the difficulty of allusiveness, and the difficulty of ontological pessimism. Each operates at a different level of the reader\u27s experience. The difficulty of readability obscures the reader\u27s direct relationship with the text. The difficulty of allusiveness challenges the reader\u27s knowledge of other texts. The difficulty of ontological pessimism complicates the reader\u27s relationship to the world as a reader of a particular text. Next, three theorists of postmodernist literature, John Barth, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian McHale, are used to examine Gaddis\u27s novel in terms of periodization. Barth\u27s Literature of Replenishment differentiates between late modernist and postmodernist texts. Hutcheon\u27s concept of complicitous critique examines the precarious political situation of postmodernist texts. McHale\u27s theory of the ontological dominant differentiates modernism from postmodernism through the underlying philosophical outlook of each. In each case, Gaddis\u27s novel is found to be a late modernist text with important postmodernist qualities that represent a change in the tenor of Gaddis\u27s oeuvre. It is concluded that, because of his difficulty, Gaddis must be considered a late modernist author; however, he makes significant inroads into a postmodernist practice that makes his Carpenter\u27s Gothic an interesting point in the history of literature in the second half of the twentieth century
El origen de la guerra fría: cambios interpretativos en los trabajos de John Lewis Gaddis
No full textEl presente escrito pretende hacer un análisis historiográfico sobre los cambios que hay en las narrativas de John Lewis Gaddis sobre el origen de la guerra fría. Para hacer esto, se estudió la visión que tiene el autor sobre la historia, la importancia que tiene en la historiografía norteamericana y se compararon y contrastaron 3 de sus librosThis text pretends to make a historiographical analysis of the changes in the narratives of John Lewis Gaddis on the origin of the Cold War. To do this, there was an analysis of the author-s vision of history, his importance in American historiography and comparative study of 3 of his booksHistoriadorPregrad
The recognitions, de William Gaddis : originalidade, autenticidade e tradução
Get PDFOrientador: Prof. Dr. Caetano Waldrigues GalindoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa : Curitiba, 14/12/2020Inclui referências: p. 133-137Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objeto central a obra The Recognitions (1955), do autor
norte-americano William Gaddis (1922-1998). Embora tenha seu lugar bem
estabelecido no cânone estadunidense, considerado como o criador de um elo entre o modernismo e o pós-modernismo no tocante à ficção, Gaddis permanece pouco lido e pouco estudado. No Brasil, apenas uma de suas obras foi traduzida e, academicamente, pudemos encontrar apenas uma tese já defendida sobre o autor e sua obra. Tratando essencialmente de falsificações e falseamentos em seus mais diversos níveis, The Recognitions questiona o lugar do artista na era das reproduções, desestabilizando os conceitos de autoria e originalidade. Nesse sentido, retomando os estudos de Brisolara (2005) a esse respeito, este trabalho buscou relacionar à obra as noções de originalidade e autenticidade, como entendidas por Trilling (1971), para discutir o dilema pós-moderno da insuperabilidade do passado, em meio a originais e cópias. Além disso, buscou-se refletir sobre o papel do tradutor frente a esse dilema: qual é o lugar do tradutor de obras que são em si ecos e referências de obras de um passado que se coloca como insuperável? A partir disso, apresentou-se também uma reflexão sobre a prática de tradução da obra e, como fechamento deste processo, a tradução de toda a primeira parte do imenso romance. Palavras-chave: William Gaddis. The Recognitions. Originalidade. Autenticidade. Tradução.Abstract: In this research, our aim is to analyze the book The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis (1922-1998). Even though this book is well established in the North American canon, for creating a link between modern and post-modern fiction, Gaddis' novels have few readers and researchers. In Brazil, there is only one translation of his books and, academically, we were able to find only one doctoral dissertation regarding this author and his work. By essentially addressing falsifications in its many levels, The Recognitions questions the artist's position in the reproduction era, destabilizing concepts such as author and originality. Considering these aspects, by revisiting Brisolara's (2005) work, this research aims to relate this novel to concepts such as originality and authenticity, as discussed by Trilling (1971), in order to reflect on this post-modern dilemma of the past as something insuperable, amid copies and originals. Besides, we also aim to reflect on translation practice facing this dilemma, as well as the position occupied by a translator of books which are echoes and references of insuperable past books. We also present a discussion about our experience of translating the first part of this huge novel, as well as the translation itself. Keywords: William Gaddis. The Recognitions. Originality. Authenticity. Translation
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"On the hole business is very good."-- William Gaddis' rewriting of novelistic tradition in "JR" (1975)
No full textThe thesis examines how the American novelist William Gaddis replenishes the tradition of the novel by way of a parodic subversion of its enabling assumptions. In the face of the subject's on-going marginalization, mimetic narrative appears as an "exhausted" literary form. JR (1975) directs the reader's attention to the complexity of language. In that sense, the novel problematizes the conditions for the existence of meaning in fiction. By means of narrative dissemination, Gaddis points to those anarchic energies in oral speech, which thwart efforts to instrumentalize language. Human beings in JR do not possess a recognizable personality, they are metonymic functions of cultural discourses. Deprived of their origins, they have to cope with an orphaned existence. The author also suspends his controlling functions and becomes a narrative stumbling block through disconcerting intrusions. Thus the text is constituted from the diversity of linguistic material in popular culture
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George Kennan and the Russian Soul: Issues from the Authorized Kennan Biography by John Lewis Gaddis
Get PDFGeorge Frost Kennan is probably best known as the author of the “containment policy” which served as the overarching principle informing U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. With the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the demise of the Soviet Union itself in 1991, very much along the lines that Kennan had foreseen when launching his policy recommendations in 1946, one might assume that the master's life and thoughts would be of consequence today only to historians of the Cold War, like his authorized biographer John Gaddis.
However, a second abiding concern of Kennan throughout his career was to defend the principle of interest-based foreign policy, or Realpolitik, as opposed to the moralistic-legalistic approach to policy formulation which prevailed in the American foreign policy community of his day. Since that very same object of Kennan's scorn, Wilsonian idealism, has become even further entrenched in the Washington of our day, Kennan's life and thoughts are also directly relevant to current politics in America. Moreover, as I will set out in this essay, there are issues surrounding Kennan's career in government service that are instructive as regards today's practices of recruiting and promoting top level planners and implementers of foreign policy. For these reasons, it is very good that in his biography of Kennan which came out last year Gaddis does not let his own persona intrude —put simply, he does not get in the way. He has thereby facilitated a growing discussion about Kennan in the professional community
The Evolution of Critical Reception of William Gaddis
No full textTato práce se zabývá osobností Williama Gaddise, velkého, ač opomíjeného spisovatele z USA, který je v českém prostředí téměř zcela neznámý. Jejím cílem je pokusit se představit autora českému akademickému světu, za pomoci sledování vývojové křivky jeho literárního života. Vývoj kritické recepce bude sledován zejména za pomoci dobových kritik, které byly napsány bezprostředně po vydání jeho děl, ale i v retrospektivě, kdy se vzpomínalo na jeho génia.This work deals with the personality of William Gaddis, titanic, although obscure, novelist from the USA, who is in the Czech literary scene completely unknown. Its goal is to try to introduce the author to the Czech academic world via his literary life presented in critical reception. Evolution of critical reception will be examined through contemporary literary criticism which were written immediately after his works were published, or written in retrospect when recognising his genius.Fakulta filozofickáStudent představil téma práce, cílem, zvolenou metodu.
Vedoucí a oponent práce seznámili komisi s posudky.
Student reagoval na otázky obsažené v posudcích a na dotazy členů komise.
Diskuse.Dokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Good Vibes: Evaluating the 'Ambiance' Elicited from Public Spaces
No full textiv, 38 p.The present study explored the impressions of general ambiance, or 'vi be', elicited from bars
and cafes. Impressions are drawn from inferences abstracted from people and their surroundings
(Gosling, Gaddis, & Vazire, 2008, p. 340-341). These inferences contain valid information about the
personalities, values, and dispositions of others. Buss (1987) has shown that people select, evoke, and
manipulate social environments. The present study supports the suggestion that people also actively
select, create, and manipulate the physical environments with which they interact (Gosling, Gaddis, &
Vazire, 2008, p. 336-337). It is predicted that public establishments elicit an 'ambiance' that is generated
by the personalities, trace behaviors, and identity claims of the patrons who frequent the location.
Furthermore, it is this 'ambiance' that allows observers to make similar impressions. The 10 location
observers who rated their impressions of the selected public establishments were undergraduate
·assistants receiving course credit for their participation. All establishments were located in the city of
Austin proper and consisted of 25 b~s and 25 cafes. Each location was randomly selected from a
comprehensive list and met the established criteria for 'bar' or 'cafe.' Planned analyses of the data
include a case 3A intraclass correlation coefficient of a mixed factonal analysis of variance (ANOVA)
of location observer scores by locations (10 x 50) for each of the descriptor items (see appendix A).Department of Social Psychology. University of Texas. Austin, Texas
239 - James Matthew Rankin
No full textIn this presentation, I seek to examine ideas about how notions of space and place are formed within the genre of the encyclopedic novel. I will investigate the various definitions and types of space, focusing my attention on the interplay between cultural and aesthetic space. To this end, I will examine the encyclopedic novels The Recognitions by William Gaddis and Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko. I hope to illustrate the contingency of cultural and aesthetic space as determined by socio-historical forces. These hegemonic forces determine how we occupy, interact with, and think about spaces
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