153 research outputs found
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
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Co-production and enterprise culture: negotiating local urban development culture in Santo Domingo’s ‘barrios populares’
No full textResponsibilities for securing urban citizenship rights and providing basic urban services have decentralized to such a degree across much of the global south that identifying who the various relevant players might be in any given urban development context and what role they might play is increasingly difficult. Moreover, informal, non-codified, and ad hoc decision-making have emerged as fundamental planning and urban governance idioms in much of the global south, and as a result the “rules of the game” that affect the allocation of urban development resources are increasingly illegible in many areas. With more actors and few clearly delineated policies, the work of cataloguing local urban development cultures and the applicable “rules of the game” that govern resource allocation is increasingly important. This work attempts to catalogue such local urban development culture and explore its operationalization in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. More specifically, the study is concerned with how key actors in urban development space—local government officials, civil society representatives, and neighborhood development activists—understand and articulate the values and principles that affect urban development practice in their local context. The goal of my work is to develop a composite set of “rules of the game” for urban development practice in Santo Domingo regarding how, when, and for what purpose material resources are brought to bear on neighborhood level urban development projects in informal settlements and other economically or environmentally distressed neighborhoods. My results show that in the context of Santo Domingo, it is a community’s ability to demonstrate an entrepreneurial capacity for self-management, proactive organizing, and project financial sustainability that are the predominant determinative factors affecting whether a community will likely win the favor and eventual material support of local government entities, communicating a message that citizens are expected to be full partners in service provision rather than mere beneficiaries.Latin American StudiesCommunity and Regional Plannin
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Negotiating Regions, Ordering Sustainability: Planning, Infrastructure Transition, and Socio-legal Agency in the Mexican Anthropocene
No full textThis three-study dissertation explores policy and practice logics of trying to exert multilevel governing influence over transboundary infrastructural and territorial systems, and the ecological underpinnings on which they depend, in contexts of emerging market territories of production, agro-industry, and trade. Across the three studies, in different registers and modes, the project centers the active search for alternative institutional and infrastructural configurations that more frontally grapple with the multi-scale and multi-level entanglements of such regional industrial development projects. To this end, it variously engages with ideas of regionalism and negotiation as motors for cross-scale "creative institutional thinking" as part of broader climate and resource transition planning efforts, themselves taking shape amidst debates about changing industry-society-environment relations. Collectively, the studies are concerned with two broad questions: 1) how are diverse ideas about environmental crisis conditioning the ways in which dilemmas of regional climate transitions are understood and structured in territories of production, agro-industry, and trade; and 2) how do/how should fluid and multi-level ideas of scale, boundary, and subjectivity shape what we think is possible regarding physical/infrastructural interventions, professional practice, policy actions, and the inclusion of relevant stakeholders and affected/responsible parties in response to such transitions? The dissertation pursues these questions via engagement with two regional cases in Mexico, the first concerning policy, planning, and design responses to regional water scarcity and ecosystem degradation in an agro-industrial territory on the very far outskirts of the Mexico City urban agglomeration in Hidalgo state, and the second focused on the nationally-led development of a global trade transshipment and industrial manufacturing corridor project on the Tehuantepec Isthmus in southern Mexico, spanning the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. Critical socio-legal analysis, integrated with territorial systems governance analysis, is an important component of the broader dissertation frame, specifically in its role as a combined hinge lens for variously broaching structure/agency dilemmas across local-to-global institutional and infrastructural reformulation imperatives amidst cascading climate crises.Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Plannin
Three Kentucky Artists: Troye, Hart, Price
No full textThe three artists whose lives are the subjects of Three Kentucky Artists—Joel Tanner Hart, Samuel Woodson Price, and Edward Troye—enjoyed considerable fame in their own day, though they are now little known outside of Kentucky. Each made a lasting contribution to the social and cultural life of central Kentucky in the nineteenth century. J. Winston Coleman, Jr. sketches the careers and relationships of the artists who played significant roles in the history of the Commonwealth.
J. Winston Coleman, Jr. is the author of numerous books and articles on Kentucky history, including Slavery Times in Kentucky and Bibliography of Kentucky History.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_history_of_art_architecture_and_archaeology/1000/thumbnail.jp
The clergy of the deaneries of Rochester and mailing in the diocese of Rochester, c. 1770 – 1870
No full textThis is a study of the concerns and life - style of the clergy of the established Church in two Kent Deaneries throughout the hundred year period, 1770 -1870. How far, it is considered, were episcopal hopes, which were expressed in the Charges of Bishop and Archdeacon, fulfilled in the parishes, especially in the matters of residence and education. The extent of non-residence is deduced from. such evidence as is available for the earlier part of the period and after 1830 from Visitation and other returns. The provision of Sunday Schools is used as an example of clerical response to a diocesan policy in the field of education. The exercise of patronage, residence, plurality, the length ofincumbencies, the employment of curates and their prospects, are looked at throughout the period. The provision of new churches, agrarian unrest, tithe and clerical emoluments, church rate, relationship with dissent, worship provision , the visitation process, the clergyman's role in society, the differing demands of town ministry and rural ministry are examined as events bring them to the fore . The priorities of successive bishops are noted and the lives of sample clergymen are taken for each period, both to flesh-out the statistics and to illustrate the evolving pattern of ministry
Why do Pastors Preach on Social Issues?
No full text Editor's note: The following article was prepared in honor of Samuel W. Blizzard, who, after a long and distinguished teaching career, is taking early retirement because of ill health. Since 1957, he has been Professor of Christianity and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, and since 1970, he has held the Maxwell M. Upson Professorship of Christianity and Society at Princeton. He has also taught at Pennsylvania State University and Union Theological Seminary in New York, as well as serving as the director of both the Russell Sage Foundation's Training for the Ministry Project from 1953 to 1960 and the National Council of Churches' Clergy Research Project from 1957 to 1958. He is the co-author with Emory J. Brown of The Church and the Community and has contributed essays and articles to more than forty books, scholarly journals, and popular periodicals. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Maryville College, he pursued graduate study at Biblical Seminary in New York, Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Hartford Seminary Foundation, and Cornell University, as well as post-graduate work at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Prior to entering academic life, he served Presbyterian parishes in Roselle, New Jersey, and Long Green and Ashland, Maryland. One of his students, Hart M. Nelsen, prepared this article utilizing Blizzard's highly influential study of clergy roles. Nelsen, a graduate of Occidental College, the University of Northern Iowa, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University, is Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America, as well as a member of the Boys Town Center, a research institute at Catholic University. He is the author of many articles in major sociological journals, the editor (with Raytha L. Yokley and Anne K. Nelsen) of The Black Church in America (1971) and author (with Anne K. Nelsen) of the forthcoming volume, The Black Church in the Sixties. The data for this article were collected under support from the National Institute of Mental Health (1 R01 MH 16573). His colleagues in the larger study are Raytha L. Yokley and Thomas W. Madron. Copyright © 1975 by Hart M. Nelsen </jats:p
Agency matters: Building a case for the inclusion of food sovereignty as an integral component of public health nutrition research and practice
No full textFood security has been a dominant theme in discourses on food systems within the field of public health. While a food security framework helps us better understand how access to nutritious food impacts one’s health, it does not take into account the underlying politics, power dynamics, and history that have influenced food systems. The concept of food sovereignty, introduced by small-scale peasant farmers, is one such way to address these factors. Though there exists overlap between food security and food sovereignty, the latter promotes agency as a key component of more just and equitable food systems.
Through this publication, the author considers the importance of food sovereignty in food systems work and makes a case for the inclusion of a food sovereignty approach in public health and nutrition research, practice, and discourse. The author does this through a review of the relevant literature related to food security, food sovereignty, and public health. This review is followed by an analysis of three efforts to combat food insecurity that are rooted in a food sovereignty paradigm, using a 5A’s of Food Security (5A) framework.
These efforts, and others like it, show promise in effecting a paradigm shift in the way society address food insecurity and hunger. Despite lacking a wealth of empirical data linking food sovereignty approaches to improved health outcomes, these efforts have shown success in improving many proximal and distal determinants of health. The fruits of such efforts make the case for further discussion and investigation into the connections between food sovereignty and public health.Master of Public Healt
Fear of fiction: the authorial response to realism in selected works by Swift, Defoe, and Richardson
No full textIf Mrs. Whitehouse produced a pornographic play, it would arouse enormous interest, mainly because of Mrs. Whitehouse’s well known views on pornography. It is an ancient fact of English Literature that two of the best known pioneers of the English realistic novel, Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, were Puritans. And there is an almost equally ancient critical tradition which traces the easy path of Puritan literature, in combination with other cultural forces, towards the production of realistic fiction. The central argument of this thesis is that there was no such easy path. Puritan autobiography was unrealistic in its very nature, while Puritan feeling towards fiction was hostile, with realistic, or verisimilar fiction provoking most hostility because the most deceitful. Thus the writing of a realistic novel was a radical departure for the Puritan, and one that was fraught with tension. It is this tension, or fear of fiction, and its effects on work of the two Puritan novelists, and that odd Anglican Jonathan Swift, that is the subject of this thesis. Swift joins Defoe and Richardson as an author with a special relationship with Defoe, and himself closer to a fearful anti- mimetic "tradition" than the comic tradition in which he is usually placed alongside Fielding and Sterne. Selected works of the three authors reveal their struggle with the intense problems that realism created for them, and their eventual 'solutions'. Hence by the time that Dr. Johnson made his famous critical statement against the fearful potential of realism in his fourth Rambler [31 March 1750), he was actually formalising material that had been well examined in the fiction under discussion, rather than beating an original critical path in response to Fielding's supposedly 'new' verisimilar form
Sarah Fielding: Satire and Subversion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
No full textThis study of Sarah Fielding (1710―68) is an original contribution to Fielding scholarship that has a dual purpose: to support those who are striving to re-introduce her to the modern literary landscape in an effort to restore her eighteenth-century literary standing, and to firmly establish Fielding as an early feminist writer. It is argued here that throughout her oeuvre Fielding challenged prevailing traditions that denied women a choice, particularly in education, employment and marriage. These themes are also considered in the political treatises of Mary Astell (1666―1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759―97), who are now widely recognised as feminist writers.
It is further argued that Fielding’s subversion in fiction of the English patriarchal system is underscored by her unorthodox performance in the literary arena. This is fully explored alongside her use of sentimentalism as a literary tool with which she challenges her seemingly inhumane society. Fielding’s interest in ‘the Labyrinths of the Mind’ (in modern terms, human psychology) will also be addressed as will her placement in the history of feminism and her placement in the sentimental novel tradition. Fielding’s performance as a literary critic will be compared with the few female authors who, like her, dared to publish literary criticism during her writing career. Accordingly, extracts from Fielding’s novels and her two critical pamphlets will be thoroughly examined.
An updated biography of Fielding that is also included here will provide evidence for a further claim, that her fiction is autobiographical in part. A comprehensive account of Fielding’s performance as a literary critic forms the final chapter of this work. It is the first full-length examination of her contribution to the genre and includes an appraisal of her recently unearthed critical pamphlet entitled A Comparison Between the Horace of Corneille and The Roman Father of Mr. Whitehead (1750) that is yet to be formerly attributed to her. Ultimately this study of Fielding will go far beyond what has previously been written about this remarkable eighteenth-century author, particularly regarding her feminist activity
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