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Letter from J. W. Story to T. B. Larimore
No full textLetter from J. W. Story to T. B. Larimore. The one-page typewritten letter is dated 11 November 1912. There is a handwritten note at the end of the page and a transcript of this portion is included in the item PDF
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
The cave: A search for the mother’s story in narrative literature
No full textThe mother’s voice is underrepresented in literature. The mother has been a silent figure, always present, often near, featuring in the story of another, but rarely the focus of the story. She has been spoken for, about and around, but rarely empowered to speak for herself.
In this thesis I argue that the mother’s story, in narrative fiction and memoir, should be available, and culturally valued. Since the diversity of women’s experiences of mothering cannot be explained by any single theory or ideology, narrative may articulate the complexities and ambiguities experienced in motherhood in ways that scholarly discourses do not always allow.
This thesis includes a creative component—a collection of related fictional stories narrated by one mother, and entitled “The Cave”. Adopting the concept of the cave, as a metaphor for the transformative potential of mothering, the fiction draws on the mundane, everyday experiences of a life that is centred on caring for children. The exegesis that follows is based on three approaches to mothering narratives: their research, reading and writing. It explores the emergence of the mother’s story within theoretical discourses around motherhood, and its more recent appearances in fiction and non-fiction narratives. It suggests reasons for the absence of the mother’s subjective voice, argues that women have been disadvantaged by this silence, and seeks new possibilities for representing the complexity of mothering experiences
Storytelling, women's authority and the 'Old-Wife's Tale': 'The Story of the Bottle of Medicine'
No full textThe focus of this article is a single personal narrative – a Shetland woman’s telling of a story about two girls on a journey to fetch a cure for a sick relative from a wise woman. The story is treated as a cultural document which offers the historian a conduit to a past that is respectful of indigenous woman-centred interpretations of how that past was experienced and understood. The ‘story of the bottle of medicine’ is more than a skilful telling of a local tale; it is a memory practice that provides a path to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of a culture. Applying perspectives from anthropology, oral history and narrative analysis, three sets of questions are addressed: the issue of authenticity; the significance of the narrative structure and storytelling strategies employed; and the nature of the female performance. Ultimately the article asks what this story can tell us about women’s interpretation of their own history
There and Back piece recounting author John McDonald\u27s childhood story about t
No full textThere and Back piece recounting author John McDonald\u27s childhood story about the day his thoughts of doctors changed. While at the store, a young McDonald overhears the story of the murder at the old Tingley House - allegedly committed by Dr. Chase, a local physician
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook
No full textThe British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War.THE BRITISH AND IRISH: SHORT STORY HANDBOOK -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: A Brief History of the British and Irish Short Story -- Part 2: Issues in Short Story Criticism -- Definitions -- Genre? -- Collections -- Marginality -- Canonicity -- Institutions -- Part 3: Genres -- The Ghost Short Story, the Supernatural Short Story, and the Gothic Short Story -- The Science Fiction Short Story and the Fantasy Short Story -- The Fable -- The Short Story of Exotic Adventure -- The Detective and Crime Short Story -- The Historical Short Story -- The Realist Social-Psychological Short Story -- The Metafictional/Experimental Short Story -- Part 4: Key Authors -- Richard Aldington (1892-1962) -- J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) -- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) -- Frances Bellerby (1899-1975) -- John Berger (born 1926) -- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) -- A. E. Coppard (1878-1957) -- Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) -- Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) -- Graham Greene (1904-1991) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940) -- James Joyce (1882-1941) -- James Kelman (born 1946) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) -- James Lasdun (born 1958) -- Mary Lavin (1912-1996) -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Doris Lessing (born 1919) -- George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) -- Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) -- Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942) -- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) -- E. A. Markham (1939-2008) -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) -- Ian McEwan (born 1948) -- John McGahern (1934-2006) -- Michael Moorcock (born 1939) -- H. H. Munro ("Saki") (1870-1916) -- Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) -- Seán O'Faoláin (1900-1991) -- Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-1997) -- T. F. Powys (1875-1953)V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) -- Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) -- Muriel Spark (1918-2006) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) -- William Trevor (born 1928) -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- Part 5: Key Works -- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim" (1885) -- Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance" (1887) -- Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant" (1888) -- Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (1892) -- Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Modern Melodrama" (1895) -- Henry James, "The Altar of the Dead" (1895) -- Joseph Conrad, "Amy Foster" (1901) -- George Moore, "Home Sickness" (1903) -- H. G. Wells, "The Valley of Spiders" (1903) -- M. R. James, "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" (1904) -- H. H. Munro ("Saki"), "Sredni Vashtar" (1911) -- James Joyce, "An Encounter" (1914) -- D. H. Lawrence, "Tickets, Please" (1919) -- Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens" (1919) -- Katherine Mansfield, "The Stranger" (1921) -- A. E. Coppard, "The Higgler" (1925) -- Rudyard Kipling, "The Gardener" (1926) -- Jean Rhys, "Mannequin" (1927) -- W. Somerset Maugham, "Footprints in the Jungle" (1927) -- T. F. Powys, "John Pardy and the Waves" (1929) -- Seán O'Faoláin, "Midsummer Night Madness" (1932) -- V. S. Pritchett, "Handsome Is As Handsome Does" (1938) -- Mollie Panter-Downes, "Goodbye, My Love" (1941) -- Alun Lewis, "The Last Inspection" (1942) -- Mary Lavin, "At Sallygap" (1943) -- Elizabeth Bowen, "Mysterious Koˆ r" (1944) -- Julian Maclaren-Ross, "The Tape" (1944) -- Denton Welch, "Narcissus Bay" (1948) -- Frank O'Connor, "Eternal Triangle" (1954) -- J. G. Ballard, "The Terminal Beach" (1964) -- Samuel Beckett, "Lessness" (1970) -- Gabriel Josipovici, "Mobius the Stripper: A Topological Exercise" (1974)Michael Moorcock, "Waiting for the End of Time. . ." (1976) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner, "The King of Orkney's Leonardo" (1976) -- William Trevor, "Another Christmas" (1978) -- Angela Carter, "The Erl-King" (1979) -- Clive Sinclair, "The Evolution of the Jews" (1979) -- John McGahern, "The Conversion of William Kirkwood" (1985) -- James Kelman, "Forgetting to Mention Allende" (1987) -- Mary Dorcey, "A Noise from the Woodshed" (1989) -- James Lasdun, "Ate/Menos or The Miracle" (1992) -- Bernard MacLaverty, "A Silent Retreat" (1994) -- Hanif Kureishi, "We're Not Jews" (1995) -- Patricia Duncker, "Stalker" (2003) -- China Miéville, "Foundation" (2003) -- Key Collections -- References and Further Reading -- IndexThe British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Preview of a reading from Augusta Gone: A True Story, by the author, Martha T
No full textPreview of a reading from Augusta Gone: A True Story, by the author, Martha Tod Dudman, which is being presented at the Portland Public Library in Portland March 28
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
story of photography
No full textHistory and development of photography from first steps in photography, equipment, camera and lenses, printing process, recent dicoveries and application
Huis 't Velde: Story-based adaptive reuse of an estate
No full textAfter a large reorganisation within the police organisation, due to the formation of the Dutch National Police, the demand for real estate for the police is greatly reduced. Additionally, the requirements for the buildings are also changing. Therefore, in the upcoming years, about 700.000 square meters of police real estate will lose its function. During this graduation process, the possibilities for adaptive reuse for one of these police buildings, Huis ‘t Velde in Warnsveld, have been researched. In order to work with Huis ‘t Velde, it was necessary to have a look at another group of buildings as well, besides the police buildings, namely country houses. A lot of country houses have lost their function as a private home during the course of the 20th century, among others because of the rising costs of maintenance of these relatively large buildings, and the surrounding estates. This makes the research and design for the adaptive reuse of Huis ‘t Velde even more relevant, since the findings might also be helpful for other country houses.Most of the country houses have shown a strong development over time. They have different time layers, and each time layer has it’s own story. But nowadays most users aren’t aware of this. This led to the following research and design question: How can the architect integrate the stories behind the layers of time in Huis ‘t Velde in the adaptive redesign process in order to make these stories experienceable for future users?In the research, 3 cases studies were researched, among others via a analysis matrix. From this, 3 main strategy’s of dealing with these time layers in the adaptive redesign process were found. But, an additional conclusion was that these 3 strategies were never used on their own, but in combination.Therefore, in the design, different combinations were tested until a fitting combination was found for Huis ‘t Velde. An addition has been designed to the building as a new time layer. In the existing building parts, the most important, characteristic time layers were either conserved or reconstructed. Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architectur
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