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Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Review of \u3ci\u3eHe Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western\u3c/i\u3e by Roderick McGillis
No full textIt takes something of a masochist to watch close to two hundred B westerns, but Roderick McGillis claims to have done that in researching this book. For those of you who are not film history buffs, a B movie was a cheap, relatively short (sixty to seventy-five minutes), formulaic genre film made to be the second half of a double feature. A lot of B movies were westerns because they were cheap and popular, particularly with boys and young men. They had their own stars, many of whom moved on to television, which killed the B movie: Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Bob Steele, and Johnny Mack Brown. John Wayne began in B westerns but graduated to the top of the bill in John Ford\u27s Stagecoach. Like author Roderick McGillis, I remember when B westerns were a staple of early afternoon television programming on just about every local channel. I also recall realizing by the time I was ten that these films, though bearing different titles, were so limited by generic conventions they were sometimes hard to tell apart: white hats versus black hats, the same set and stock footage, the inevitable chase on horseback, the climactic fight between hero and villain. For McGillis, the nostalgia for a mythic, morally unambiguous American past communicated by these movies reinforces his own nostalgia for them as a crucial part of his boyhood
The expedition of Humphry Clinker. /
No full textAuthor of Roderick Random is Smollett. Cf. Halkett & Laing.Mode of access: Internet
Assessing young people’s learning needs related to sexuality and relationships on the Maltese Islands
No full textThis research explored young people’s learning needs related to sexuality and relationships withinthe current rapidly changing social, cultural and religious context of the Maltese Islands. It alsoexplored the challenges, opportunities and alternative means by which these needs can be met. Adefinitional matrix for needs assessment that adopts a sociological perspective to people’s needs,which is widely used in health promotion, was employed. This thesis was framed around theunderlying principles of youth involvement, participation and empowerment, and thus emphasisedyoung people’s own perspective of their learning needs.The mixed-methodology approach was adopted in this research. The first stage of investigationsought to achieve an overview of sexual behaviour and knowledge among young Maltese peopleaged 14 - 16 attending secondary schools. A stratified random sample of 1310 pupils (68% responserate) provided a first-ever snapshot of young people’s sexual behaviour in Malta. The second stagesought to explore young people’s felt and expressed learning needs within and outside the schoolsetting by way of sixteen focus groups involving another 166 pupils.Findings suggest a relatively low rate of pupils who would have practiced sexual intercourse byschool-leaving age in Malta (12.3%). Mean age at first intercourse seems similar to that of otherEuropean countries (14 years) for both genders. Only a fifth used condoms every time they had sex.Knowledge of STIs was scant. The pupils were more informed about HIV. Girls were moreknowledgeable. Boys had sex with more sexual partners. No gender differences were noted insubstance abuse with sex. Discussions among pupils revealed a high degree of perceived unmetlearning need. Participants valued highly learning about sexuality but thought it received much lessattention than their other academic learning needs. Disparities between schools were evidenced.Learning was sporadic and uncoordinated with conflicting messages from different teachers. Oftensessions started timely to pupils’ needs, but ended prematurely. Learning from parents was scantyand associated with the overall relationship and bonding between parents and the child. Gaps werenoted between perceived ideal sources (teachers, parents and visiting speakers) and actual /preferred sources (friends and the media). Needs were perceived in relation to the content andtiming of learning, sources of knowledge, learning styles and resources. Maltese pupils had diversevalues and called for a variety of approaches.Recommendations were made for a national sexuality education policy to standardize theframework of sexuality education among Maltese schools; more initial teacher training and inservicetraining in sexuality education to meet the needs of a diverse group of adolescents throughvarious approaches; more collaboration among teachers within schools; parenting skills and lifelonglearning opportunities for parents; more active involvement of adolescents and a widerconsultation with schools and families in the evaluation of sexuality education
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Through the Mackenzie Basin: A narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty expedition of 1889
No full textBook - "Through the Mackenzie Basin," is 500 pages, including the index. There are over 60 pages of historical photographs and maps interspersed with the text. The first third of the book is written by Charles Mair and is devoted to the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expeditions of 1899. The rest of the book is written by Roderick MacFarlane and is devoted to descriptions of Mammals and Birds encountered in Northern Canada (520 pages
A review of the Indo-Australian subgenus Parasinodacus Drew and Romig of 'Bactrocera Macquart' (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae)
No full textThe 'Bactrocera' Macquart subgenus 'Parasinodacus' Drew and Romig is reviewed and 19 species recognised, including six transferred from other subgenera: 'B. (P.) absoluta' (Walker) and 'B. (P.) atypica' White and Evenhuis (newly transferred from 'Asiadacus' Perkins), 'B. (P.) abdopallescens' (Drew) and 'B. (P.) perpusilla' (Drew) (formally transferred from 'Sinodacus' Zia), 'B. (P.) hoedi' White and 'B. (P.) pura' White (newly transferred from 'Zeugodacus' Hendel). A key to species is included.Full Tex
A review of the Indo-Australian subgenus Parazeugodacus Shiraki of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae)
No full textThe Bactrocera Macquart subgenus 'Parazeugodacus' Shiraki, 1933 (= Melanodacus Perkins, 1937, syn. n.) is reviewed and eight species included: 'B. (P.) abbreviata' (Hardy), 'B. (P.) bipustulata Bezzi', 'B. (P.) matsumurai' (Shiraki) and 'B. (P.) pendleburyi' (Perkins) from Asia, 'B. (P.) terminifer' (Walker) from Sulawesi, 'B. (P.) satanellus' (Hering) from Papua New Guinea, 'B. (P.) nigra' (Tryon) from Australia and 'B. (P.) fulvifacies' (Perkins) from New Caledonia. Four of these species are newly transferred: 'B. fulvifacies' from subgenus 'Zeugodacus' Hendel, 'B. nigra' and 'B. satanellus' from subgenus 'Melanodacus' and 'B. terminifer' from subgenus 'Paradacus' Perkins. Primary larval hosts are the fruit of olives (Oleaceae). Three Asian species currently included in 'Parazeugodacus', 'viz. B. arisanica' (Shiraki), 'B. fulvosterna' Drew and Romig and 'B. tetrachaeta' (Bezzi), are transferred to subgenus 'Hemizeugodacus' Hardy. Morphological characters suggesting monophyly of genus 'Bactrocera' are discussed, with those (plus host plant data) used to support a suggested elevation of 'Zeugodacus' to genus all homoplasious.Full Tex
Improved Stability of Rifampicin in the Presence of Gastric-Resistant Isoniazid Microspheres in Acidic Media
No full textThe degradation of rifampicin (RIF) in an acidic medium to form 3-formyl rifamycin SV, a poorly absorbed compound, is accelerated in the presence of isoniazid, contributing to the poor bioavailability of rifampicin. This manuscript presents a novel approach in which isoniazid is formulated into gastric-resistant sustained-release microspheres and RIF into microporous floating sustained-release microspheres to reduce the potential for interaction between RIF and isoniazid (INH) in an acidic environment. Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate and Eudragit® L100 polymers were used for the manufacture of isoniazid-loaded gastric-resistant sustained-release microspheres using an o/o solvent emulsification evaporation approach. Microporous floating sustained-release microspheres for the delivery of rifampicin in the stomach were manufactured using emulsification and a diffusion/evaporation process. The design of experiments was used to evaluate the impact of input variables on predefined responses or quality attributes of the microspheres. The percent degradation of rifampicin following 12 h dissolution testing in 0.1 M HCl pH 1.2 in the presence of isoniazid gastric-resistant sustained-release microspheres was only 4.44%. These results indicate that the degradation of rifampicin in the presence of isoniazid in acidic media can be reduced by encapsulation of both active pharmaceutical ingredients to ensure release in different segments of the gastrointestinal tract, potentially improving the bioavailability of rifampicin
Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
No full textIt is an honour and a pleasure to report on the activities of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences since the PSSA AGM in 2016. The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa (APSSA) held their 37th Annual Conference and 38th Annual General Meeting at the All African Congress on Pharmacology and Pharmacy. The conference was jointly organised by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of South Africa (APSSA), the South African Society for Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (SASBCP) on behalf of Pharmacology for Africa (Pharfa) and the Toxicology Society of South Africa (ToxSA). The annual APSSA conference was hosted by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology under the leadership of Dr Ilze Vermaak and was held from 5-8 October 2016 at Misty Hills Conference Centre, situated close to the Cradle of Humankind
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