427 research outputs found
Savage embraces: James Purdy, melodrama, and the narration of identity
No full textIn Savage Embraces: James Purdy, Melodrama, and the Narration of Identity, Looi van Kessel explores the ways in which the early works of the American author James Purdy undermine the notion of a stable and true identity. Writing in the 1950s and 60s, a time in which identity politics enjoyed increased purchase in the United States, Purdy imagines characters who feel the urge to act out their sexual desires without having to conform to oppressive identity categories. In so doing, Purdy is searching for a language that shows how identity is produced through narration. To tease out this language, Looi approaches Purdy’s writing through the mode of melodrama—a mode that focuses on the aesthetic dramatization of tensions in the plot—while also bringing his work in conversation with current queer thinking. Ultimately, this dissertation attempts to bring the disparate fields of narrative theory and queer theory in a meaningful relation with one another.Modern and Contemporary Studie
HSR898229 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Consequences of ‘conversations not had’: insights into failures in communication affecting delays in hospital discharge for older people living with frailty
No full textSupplemental material, HSR898229 Supplemental Material for Consequences of ‘conversations not had’: insights into failures in communication affecting delays in hospital discharge for older people living with frailty by Sabi Redwood, Bethany Simmonds, Fiona Fox, Alison Shaw, Kyra Neubauer, Sarah Purdy and Helen Baxter in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy</p
HSR886885 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Determining when a hospital admission of an older person can be avoided in a subacute setting: a systematic review and concept analysis
No full textSupplemental material, HSR886885 Supplemental Material for Determining when a hospital admission of an older person can be avoided in a subacute setting: a systematic review and concept analysis by Alyson L Huntley, Ben Davies Nigel Jones, James Rooney, Peter Goyder, Sarah Purdy and Helen Baxter in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy</p
Mixedblood Metaphors: Allegories of Native America in the Fiction of James Purdy
No full text"Mixedblood Metaphors" analyzes the Native American aspects of seven novels, one novella, and a few short stories by the U.S. author James Purdy (1914-2009). Purdy's engagement with indigeneity includes the creation of Native American and mixedblood characters, allusions to Native history and culture, and the use of figurative language. This engagement forms an integral part of Purdy's historical and racial allegories of America found in these works. Purdy's allegories engage troubling aspects of American history, exposing the violence and rapacity of Euro-American colonialism, and serve as a critique of American myths such as Manifest Destiny, wide open spaces, and white supremacy. While most non-Native writers neglect to mention Native Americans at all or are only able to imagine them as doomed, vanished, or absent, Purdy regards Natives as central to the formation of a truly American identity. Purdy imagines a new American character potential that blends the best qualities of Europe and aboriginal America and suggests the grim consequences of our failure to meet this potential. Purdy also makes rhetorical links between indigeneity and male same-sex desire, alluding to the same-sex and gender diversity traditions of most Native American tribes. Purdy positions himself as a "metaphorical crossblood," an ethical position that builds upon what I call his "imagined ancestry," sympathizing with Native perspectives. Although he initially focuses on criticizing Euro-Americans and pointing to Native victimization, with increased knowledge of Native literature and activism, over the course of his career Purdy's optimism for Native Americans develops and he eventually comes to advocate Native claims, and finally, tribal sovereignty. Thus I argue that Purdy is a non-Native writer whose work benefits from a Native Studies approach along with those of American Studies and Queer Theory
Anàlisi i comparació de Malcom de James Purdy i l'adaptació teatral d'Edward Albee
No full textTreball de fi de grau en Traducció i Interpretació. Tutor: Damià AlouJames Purdy was an American author of novels, short stories and plays, who started his literary career in the second half of the 20th century. His work has been widely ignored, mostly due to his dark themes, disturbing characters and surrealist writing, which did not tie in with the “American dream” mentality of Post-war America. Edward Albee, absurdist playwright, brought Purdy’s first novel, Malcolm, to life on the stage in 1966 and it proved to be a theatrical failure with the critics. This dissertation analyses the novel in depth, through its structure, characters and themes, and later studies how Albee portrays these in his written version of the play, and how this affects the whole concept of the adaptation. This is accomplished through extensive research into the author’s style and literary work and a through a thorough comparison of both versions of Malcolm. The results of this showed that Albee creates a slightly more sentimental and reflective main character, despite his understanding of Purdy’s passive and indifferent antihero, while he also introduces new information which resolves some of the mystery and confusion Malcolm faces and, therefore, takes away part of the surrealist effect Purdy’s novel has on the reader
Penn Literary Society 1914
No full textLiterary Society 1914. Left to Right: Pearl Gwin Perrel, Edith Hammond Skelly, Williams, Mary Kissick, Jeanette Hadley Purdy, Mamie Marshall Jensen, Sarah Kelsey, Fay Fry Farr, Grace Votaw
Project proposal for the Manchester Food Co-op : "bringing the community to the table"
No full textThis report documents the initial stages of development of The Manchester Food Cooperative. It will be a profitable cooperatively owned and operated grocery market venture as well as having the added advantage of bringing people together to build a stronger and healthier community in Manchester, New Hampshire.
The inner city of Manchester is essentially a "food desert" or "food swamp" lacking access to healthy, locally produced, affordable food for years. The existing grocery stores are not easily accessed by foot, bicycle or bus and the small "convenience" stores offer expensive and often distressed products.
The Manchester Food Co-op will work in partnership with the City of Manchester, churches, local civic groups, businesses, schools, hospitals, residents, employees and the newly proposed Market Basket to provide access to a full service grocery shopping environment, with an emphasis towards eating and living in a more healthy and sustainable manner. (Author abstract)Purdy, L. (2011). Project proposal for the Manchester Food Co-op : "bringing the community to the table". Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
Women and Marriage in Utopias by Sarah Scott, Mary Griffith, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
No full textThis dissertation examines four utopian novels written by women: Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall, Mary Griffith’s Three Hundred Years Hence, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Moving the Mountain. The works cover a 150-year span and yet suggest some commonalities that occur when women writers create utopian visions. In each work, improved marriages become a metaphor for the larger utopian communities, and each text expands women’s places in traditional married life. The writers attempt to create an environment that improves lived experiences, especially for women and children, and each work suggests that marriage experiences and marriage options can improve for women. The first chapter examines Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall, a utopian vision set in an eighteenth-century English country house. Her vision creates a secluded space where women find protection from patriarchal abuses; however, a major goal of the community is to train young women for marriage. The inclusion of the founders’ biographical vignettes shows the tension between the cloistered environment and the larger, contemporary community. Chapters Two, Three, and Four consider utopian novels written by American writers. Each text is written on the cusp of a national calamity: the financial panic of 1837, the Civil War (1861-1865), and World War I (1914-1918). In the years leading up to these national tragedies, the three writers create hopeful utopias on American soil. Griffith’s work is the first known utopian novel written by an American woman. In it, she creates a futuristic space where women have solved many problems facing 1830’s women and families and women have gained equality with men. In Stowe’s utopia, women feminize religion and take on spiritual leadership roles within the domestic sphere, and former slaves live within the utopian community. Stowe’s work demonstrates the competence and superiority of women in roles traditionally reserved for males. Gilman’s work is a secular piece that grapples with utopia in an urban setting with females serving in leadership roles. Her text solves many social problems facing early twentieth-century America. Thus, each text radically expands contemporary marital opportunities for women
Loopholes and catacombs: Elements of Bakhtinian dialogue in the poetry of Al Purdy.
No full textThe Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) offers in his expansive and diverse writings a theory of language, literature, and life. According to his "dialogism," we inhabit a "heteroglot" world, one based on a plurality of meanings each of which results from a constant interaction between meanings in actual events of communication, meanings inherently ideological in the sense that used language expresses idea systems and world views. Bakhtin's theories, then, are diachronic, for he examines language and literature as discourse, as part of cultural history. Indeed, Bakhtin's dialogism is a theory of selfhood as loophole existence. Al Purdy's poems express a similar dialogic attitude to life. Both a profound and comic poet, Purdy (born 1918) gives voice to loophole being and idea systems at play. Filled with traces of the carnivalesque, moreover, the Purdy poem articulates a polemical philosophy, one based on a struggle between opposite ideas, emotions, and values. For these reasons, Purdy's poetry is amenable to being examined within the framework of Bakhtin's theories. This dissertation, then, examines these poems as discourse, as dialogic events rather than monologic things, and attempts to understand them in the total complexity of author, text, and reader. While the first chapter places Purdy within a socio-historic context, the context of debates on culture, literature, and criticism in Canada and specifically on him, chapter two focuses on the poet's authorial stance, on his attempts to dialogically subvert authorial authority in preference to authenticity. Chapter three examines polyphony and dialogue in this seemingly lyrical poetry as they are embodied in Purdy's use of voice, and chapter four turns to Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to explain the flux of time and space in the poems, the ontological dialogue the poet carries on with cosmos, earth, country, and home. Finally, the fifth chapter examines the ideological dialogue of this marketplace poet, his participation in the dynamic of culture and society. This dissertation, in summary, engages dialogically a poet concerned ultimately with language as discourse and poetry as being alive.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1991
Strong Optomechanical Squeezing of Light: Review Presentation
No full textThis is an APS conference-style review presentation of the work of T. P. Purdy, P.-L. Yu, R. W. Peterson, N. S. Kampel, and C. A. Regal, published in Phys. Rev. X 3, 031012, September 3, 2013
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