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Fantasising the self: a study of Alasdair Gray's 'Lanark', '1982 Janine', 'Something Leather' and 'Poor Things'
No full textThis thesis explores the use of fantasy in Alasdair Gray's major fictions: Lanark
(1981), 1982 Janine (1984), Something Leather (1990) and Poor Things (1992).
The main purpose is to study the way Alasdair Gray borrows elements from
different forms of fantasy - magical realism, pornography, the Gothic and science
fiction - in order to explore and resolve the internal conflicts of his characters.
In the introduction current definitions of fantasy are surveyed. Also explored is
the concept of magical realism, as one of the objectives of the thesis is to
demonstrate that some of Gray's work, particularly Lanark, presents some of the
characteristics of this branch of Postmodernism.
The first chapter concerns Lanark. The juxtaposition of fantasy and
realism is explored in order to show the fragmentation of the self represented by
the figure of Thaw/Lanark. Also paradoxes and contradictions at the heart of this
work are investigated from the point of view of form and content. Of particular
importance is the conflict between the individual and society.
In the chapter dealing with 1982 Janine, the concept of deidealisation is
introduced to show how Jock deals with the figures in his past, Scotland and
himself Jock's personal conflicts and damaged psyche are explored through his
pornographic fantasies.
In chapter III Something Leather is compared to works by Sade,
particularly their use of sadomasochistic and homosexual fantasies as a form of
social subversion.
Chapter IV discusses Poor Things from the point of view of how characteristics
typical of the Gothic novel are parodied to explore gender issues such as the
construction of female identity by a male Other. Parallelisms between this novel
and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and John Fowles' A Maggot are also
explored.
In the conclusion the main concerns and obsessions of Gray's fiction are explored
through a discussion of his shorter fiction
Inhabit Janine Antoni jako metafora kobiecej twórczości
No full textJanine Antoni’s Inhabit as a metaphor of feminine creativity
The article aims to present the figure of contemporary artist Janine Antoni by discussing her most important performances. The author of the article pays particular attention to Antoni’s work Inhabit, which she interprets and analyzes in the spirit of arachnology. This strategy intends to present Inhabit as a kind of metaphor of feminine creativity
‘Inhabit’ of Janine Antoni as a metaphor of female creation
No full text‘Inhabit’ of Janine Antoni as a metaphor of female creationThe article aims to present the figure of contemporary artist Janine Antoni by discussing her most important performances. The author of the article pays particular attention to Antoni’s work Inhabit, which she interprets and analyzes in the spirit of arachnology. This strategy intends to present Inhabit as a kind of metaphor of feminine creativity. ‘Inhabit’ of Janine Antoni as a metaphor of female creationThe article aims to present the figure of contemporary artist Janine Antoni by discussing her most important performances. The author of the article pays particular attention to Antoni’s work Inhabit, which she interprets and analyzes in the spirit of arachnology. This strategy intends to present Inhabit as a kind of metaphor of feminine creativity
Book Review: Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey
No full textTitle: Surprised to be Standing: A Spiritual Journey
Author: Steven E. Brown
Reviewer: Janine Bertram Kemp
Publisher: Honolulu, HI: Healing Light, 2011
Paper: ISBN: 13: 978-1456521691
Cost: $19.95, 218 page
Provision of secondary prevention medication information to stroke patients with aphasia: an audit proposal
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Stroke prevention medication information provision for individuals with aphasia: clinical audit results
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Self-harm and the harm of others in adolescents
No full textMaintaining a simultaneous sense of oneself as a victim and perpetrator is not a straightforward task for the patient or for the professionals working with them. In this chapter, the author compares his work with an adolescent boy who repeatedly raped his sister and an adolescent girl who made a serious suicide attempt and who was seen as a vulnerable victim. In psychoanalytic terms, the word ‘perversion’ is used descriptively to refer to erotic activity that does not have as its aim genital sexuality. The author uses two clinical examples, Pietr and Zoe, as illustrations. Pietr’s psychotherapy was, in its early stages, characterized by material in which he was a victim of a situation in which he felt he had been misunderstood and unappreciated. Zoe’s suicide attempt, a major drug overdose, took place at the seaside town where her family owned a holiday home
Alasdair Gray`s 1982 Janine (1984): a postmodernist scottish novel
No full textAlasdair Gray is now an established figure in the Scottish literary scene and has
numerous claims to be considered an important voice writing in English. First Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) and then 1982 Janine (1984) contributed to the recognition of Gray as one of the founding fathers of the new Scottish writing and as a figure of importance in international contemporary fiction due to his innovative, experimental and postmodernist novels.
As the title of this dissertation - “Alasdair Gray’s 1982 Janine (1984): A
Postmodernist Scottish Novel” - suggests, it aims at analysing the author’s second novel,
1982 Janine (1984), in a thematic and formal perspective, in order to justify the choice of the terms - Postmodernist and Scottish - to classify this novel.
1982 Janine projects a world through Jock McLeish’s mind and is a powerful
stream-of-consciousness narrative. Jock is an alcoholic who lives a personal crisis and,
therefore, tries to escape from his depressing reality through sexual fantasies and political diatribes. During a single night in a Scottish hotel room, he drinks and dreams, and spends the whole night alone with his fantasies and fears, his memories and hopes. In Chapter 11, the most daring experimental section of the novel, Jock attempts to commit suicide by taking an overdose of tablets with alcohol but fails. Following this, he decides to review
his life and make for a new beginning; the novel thus closing with an optimistic note. Also, the narrative is based on a constant interweaving of sex fantasy with political satire, that is, it is through his protagonist that Gray manages to convey the state of Scotland as well as the concerns and aspirations of the Scottish people and then, proceed to a political and social critique.
This dissertation appears structured in three chapters. In Chapter I - “Alasdair Gray: A Postmodernist Scottish Writer” - I present Gray as a powerful postmodernist writer who also sees himself as a Scottish author, and more particularly as a Glaswegian, who concentrates on Scottish subject matter in his literary work. In a first section, I offer a brief survey of the Scottish literary scene from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, in order
to understand Gray’s choice of setting and themes and to check his influence or indebtedness to previous Scottish authors. As 1982 Janine is also a good example of selfconscious experimental writing, in a second section, I present various seminal fictional works that introduced and developed experimentalism in British fiction, in order to evaluate the influence of modernist developments in form and technique on recent experimental writing. The third section consists of an introduction to Gray’s work for he is
not only a novelist, but also an artist, a playwright, a poet, an activist and a scholar.
Chapter II - “Postmodernist Features in 1982 Janine” - aims at listing and
examining the postmodernist devices that the novel includes, in what content and form are
concerned. On the one hand, the use of a developed type of the modernist stream of
consciousness, the presence of a protagonist who feels entrapped in a specific system, the
quest for freedom, the incoherence and fragmentation of time, the nonchronological order of the narrative, the blending of fantasy and “reality”, as well as the importance of the Scottish material are definitely current aspects within postmodernist literature that can be
found in Gray’s novel. On the other hand, the handling of literary self-conscious devices, such as typographical experimentation, presence of metafiction and intertextuality, and inclusion of an Epilogue, are likewise among recurrent postmodernist features.
As the title - “A Narratological Analysis of 1982 Janine” - evidences, Chapter III
offers a description of the mechanics of the narrative and its functioning in order to better understand the narrative technique of postmodernist fiction. This study is based primarily on Gérard Genette’s theoretical framework and terminology, presented in Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, an analytical tool that allows me to provide a more objective and scientific analysis. Hence, I follow the Genettian division of narrative discourse in Time, Mood and Voice while examining the novel. Finally, I proceed to a description of the intertextual relationships 1982 Janine establishes with other texts.Universidade da Madeir
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textI read a story from NPR (National Public Radio) this week, about a carnival in Brazil where 7,000 men in white turbans fill the streets, ‘a sea of white cloth on black skin, flowing and bobbing to the music of hand drums, cowbells and chants of praise’. Called the Filhos de Gandhy, peace is their philosophy, underlying everything they do, trying to bring it to the masses. They also forbid members to consume alcohol or drugs during marches. It is done to keep the peace… not a matter of keeping pure. (Did I mention that women come from all over to meet them, because they find that appealing?) Anthropologists speak to their ability to move between diverse cultures, taking international elements and transforming them into something local.||In Luke's gospel, the points are clear: be compassionate, don't judge, forgive, give to the poor. By whatever degree you do these things, it will be given back to you ... .maybe not here on this earth, but certainly when we meet God after this life. None of these things comes easy, we're only human after all ... Jesus asks us to love our enemy, but to love our enemy is not Natural. Why? Because it's Supernatural! So the message is clear, don't stop at the easier love, but go on to the harder and do it because God does it, even to the unthankful and evil.|I am leaving for a two week trip to Uganda, in an effort to get closer to the victims of war and abuse. I don't expect it will help me understand violence or be mentally prepared to forgive those who have committed unconscionable atrocities. And because I understand that my beliefs are a function of past conditioning and experiences, I fear I will find it difficult to be open minded. But I know my reason for going there is to see the face of Christ; I am reminded of Fr.Gary Smith, SJ, author of "Radical Compassion", who says, 'the mystery of grace is mediated through concrete situations'; the more concrete, the more powerful.|"For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you."|Whether you are marching in the streets of Brazil touting peace, or travelling to third world countries to grapple with the incomprehension, the vision is, that what the whole world needs is love. We can do this in our everyday life when we start to think differently about someone we don't like or when we hesitate to speak badly of another because we've been conditioned to do so from past experience. Transform something international and make it local ... then maybe we can be more open to the kind of love that is God's
Alasdair Gray`s 1982 Janine (1984): a postmodernist scottish novel
No full textAlasdair Gray is now an established figure in the Scottish literary scene and has
numerous claims to be considered an important voice writing in English. First Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) and then 1982 Janine (1984) contributed to the recognition of Gray as one of the founding fathers of the new Scottish writing and as a figure of importance in international contemporary fiction due to his innovative, experimental and postmodernist novels.
As the title of this dissertation - “Alasdair Gray’s 1982 Janine (1984): A
Postmodernist Scottish Novel” - suggests, it aims at analysing the author’s second novel,
1982 Janine (1984), in a thematic and formal perspective, in order to justify the choice of the terms - Postmodernist and Scottish - to classify this novel.
1982 Janine projects a world through Jock McLeish’s mind and is a powerful
stream-of-consciousness narrative. Jock is an alcoholic who lives a personal crisis and,
therefore, tries to escape from his depressing reality through sexual fantasies and political diatribes. During a single night in a Scottish hotel room, he drinks and dreams, and spends the whole night alone with his fantasies and fears, his memories and hopes. In Chapter 11, the most daring experimental section of the novel, Jock attempts to commit suicide by taking an overdose of tablets with alcohol but fails. Following this, he decides to review
his life and make for a new beginning; the novel thus closing with an optimistic note. Also, the narrative is based on a constant interweaving of sex fantasy with political satire, that is, it is through his protagonist that Gray manages to convey the state of Scotland as well as the concerns and aspirations of the Scottish people and then, proceed to a political and social critique.
This dissertation appears structured in three chapters. In Chapter I - “Alasdair Gray: A Postmodernist Scottish Writer” - I present Gray as a powerful postmodernist writer who also sees himself as a Scottish author, and more particularly as a Glaswegian, who concentrates on Scottish subject matter in his literary work. In a first section, I offer a brief survey of the Scottish literary scene from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, in order
to understand Gray’s choice of setting and themes and to check his influence or indebtedness to previous Scottish authors. As 1982 Janine is also a good example of selfconscious experimental writing, in a second section, I present various seminal fictional works that introduced and developed experimentalism in British fiction, in order to evaluate the influence of modernist developments in form and technique on recent experimental writing. The third section consists of an introduction to Gray’s work for he is
not only a novelist, but also an artist, a playwright, a poet, an activist and a scholar.
Chapter II - “Postmodernist Features in 1982 Janine” - aims at listing and
examining the postmodernist devices that the novel includes, in what content and form are
concerned. On the one hand, the use of a developed type of the modernist stream of
consciousness, the presence of a protagonist who feels entrapped in a specific system, the
quest for freedom, the incoherence and fragmentation of time, the nonchronological order of the narrative, the blending of fantasy and “reality”, as well as the importance of the Scottish material are definitely current aspects within postmodernist literature that can be
found in Gray’s novel. On the other hand, the handling of literary self-conscious devices, such as typographical experimentation, presence of metafiction and intertextuality, and inclusion of an Epilogue, are likewise among recurrent postmodernist features.
As the title - “A Narratological Analysis of 1982 Janine” - evidences, Chapter III
offers a description of the mechanics of the narrative and its functioning in order to better understand the narrative technique of postmodernist fiction. This study is based primarily on Gérard Genette’s theoretical framework and terminology, presented in Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, an analytical tool that allows me to provide a more objective and scientific analysis. Hence, I follow the Genettian division of narrative discourse in Time, Mood and Voice while examining the novel. Finally, I proceed to a description of the intertextual relationships 1982 Janine establishes with other texts.Universidade da Madeir
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