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By the Histories of Sea and Fiction in Its Roar: Fathoming the Generic Development of Indian Sea-Fiction in Amitav Ghosh’S Sea of Poppies
ISSN 2249-4529 www.pintersociety.com GENERAL ISSUE VOL: 8, No.: 1, SPRING 2018 UGC APPROVED (Sr. No.41623) BLIND PEER REVIEWED About Us: http://pintersociety.com/about/ Editorial Board: http://pintersociety.com/editorial-board/ Submission Guidelines: http://pintersociety.com/submission-guidelines/ Call for Papers: http://pintersociety.com/call-for-papers/ All Open Access articles published by LLILJ are available online, with free access, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License as listed on http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Individual users are allowed non-commercial re-use, sharing and reproduction of the content in any medium, with proper citation of the original publication in LLILJ. For commercial re-use or republication permission, please contact [email protected] 144 | By the Histories of Sea and Fiction in its Roar: Fathoming the Generic Development of Indian Sea-Fiction in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies By the Histories of Sea and Fiction in its Roar: Fathoming the Generic Development of Indian Sea-Fiction in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Smriti Chowdhuri Abstract: Indian literature has betrayed a strange indifference to sea-experience and sea-culture as a subject of literary interest though it cannot overlook the repercussions of sea voyages on Indian social, political and economic conditions specifically after colonization. Consequently, nautical fiction as a category of writing can hardly be traced in the history of Indian literature. Nautical fiction as a substantial body of writing emerged from Anglo-American history of maritime experience. This paper is an attempt to perceive Amitav Ghosh’s novel, Sea of Poppies as an Indian response to the sub-genre. -
Eg Phd, Mphil, Dclinpsychol
This thesis has been submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for a postgraduate degree (e.g. PhD, MPhil, DClinPsychol) at the University of Edinburgh. Please note the following terms and conditions of use: This work is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, which are retained by the thesis author, unless otherwise stated. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Digging up the Kirkyard: Death, Readership and Nation in the Writings of the Blackwood’s Group 1817-1839. Sarah Sharp PhD in English Literature The University of Edinburgh 2015 2 I certify that this thesis has been composed by me, that the work is entirely my own, and that the work has not been submitted for any other degree or professional qualification except as specified. Sarah Sharp 3 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor Penny Fielding for her continued support and encouragement throughout this project. I am also grateful for the advice of my secondary supervisor Bob Irvine. I would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Wolfson Foundation for this project. Special thanks are due to my parents, Andrew and Kirsty Sharp, and to my primary sanity–checkers Mohamad Jahanfar and Phoebe Linton. -
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ARTICLE ADAPTING COPYRIGHT FOR THE MASHUP GENERATION PETER S. MENELL† Growing out of the rap and hip hop genres as well as advances in digital editing tools, music mashups have emerged as a defining genre for post-Napster generations. Yet the uncertain contours of copyright liability as well as prohibitive transaction costs have pushed this genre underground, stunting its development, limiting remix artists’ commercial channels, depriving sampled artists of fair compensation, and further alienating netizens and new artists from the copyright system. In the real world of transaction costs, subjective legal standards, and market power, no solution to the mashup problem will achieve perfection across all dimensions. The appropriate inquiry is whether an allocation mechanism achieves the best overall resolution of the trade-offs among authors’ rights, cumulative creativity, freedom of expression, and overall functioning of the copyright system. By adapting the long-standing cover license for the mashup genre, Congress can support a charismatic new genre while affording fairer compensation to owners of sampled works, engaging the next generations, and channeling disaffected music fans into authorized markets. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 443 I. MUSIC MASHUPS ..................................................................... 446 A. A Personal Journey ..................................................................... 447 B. The Mashup Genre .................................................................... -
Disfigurement and Disability: Walter Scott's Bodies Fiona Robertson Were I Conscious of Any Thing Peculiar in My Own Moral
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by St Mary's University Open Research Archive Disfigurement and Disability: Walter Scott’s Bodies Fiona Robertson Were I conscious of any thing peculiar in my own moral character which could render such development [a moral lesson] necessary or useful, I would as readily consent to it as I would bequeath my body to dissection if the operation could tend to point out the nature and the means of curing any peculiar malady.1 This essay considers conflicts of corporeality in Walter Scott’s works, critical reception, and cultural status, drawing on recent scholarship on the physical in the Romantic Period and on considerations of disability in modern and contemporary poetics. Although Scott scholarship has said little about the significance of disability as something reconfigured – or ‘disfigured’ – in his writings, there is an increasing interest in the importance of the body in Scott’s work. This essay offers new directions in interpretation and scholarship by opening up several distinct, though interrelated, aspects of the corporeal in Scott. It seeks to demonstrate how many areas of Scott’s writing – in poetry and prose, and in autobiography – and of Scott’s critical and cultural standing, from Lockhart’s biography to the custodianship of his library at Abbotsford, bear testimony to a legacy of disfigurement and substitution. In the ‘Memoirs’ he began at Ashestiel in April 1808, Scott described himself as having been, in late adolescence, ‘rather disfigured than disabled’ by his lameness.2 Begun at his rented house near Galashiels when he was 36, in the year in which he published his recursive poem Marmion and extended his already considerable fame as a poet, the Ashestiel ‘Memoirs’ were continued in 1810-11 (that is, still before the move to Abbotsford), were revised and augmented in 1826, and ten years later were made public as the first chapter of John Gibson Lockhart’s Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. -
Traversing the Nautical Gothic in the Touching and Melancholy Narrative of Marian Moore (1853)
Dearly Departed, Yet, Returned: Traversing the Nautical Gothic in The Touching and Melancholy Narrative of Marian Moore (1853) Danielle Cofer Abstract: Scholars have explored the genres of Shipwreck narratives, women’s writings about life at sea, and the nautical Gothic. Bringing these fields together in conversation with Marian Moore’s The Touching and Melancholy Narrative of Marian Moore, the Shipwrecked Female Sailor (1853) reveals tensions between horrifying experiences with shipwreck and subsequent cannibalism at sea and life on land for women in the mid-nineteenth century. Moore details her encounters with death throughout, which ultimately prepare her for the prolonged social death she endures once back on land ensnared in class and gender conventions. The irony of Moore’s narrative is that the threat of the sea proves to be far less harrowing than the entrapment of static domesticity. Instead of being the place of danger and death, the sea becomes a source of knowledge and a sanctuary from the true horror of the social conditions Moore contends with back on land. ____________________ Nautical fiction and narratives of sea travel resonated with nineteenth-century American audiences because they carried with them the fulfillment of flights of fantasy and the romance of exploration that could be read from the safety of one’s home. Indeed, “a desire for the physical and mental freedom of open ocean experience” permeates many sea narratives, fulfilling “the blue-water fantasies of men and women who ride ferries or sail yachts alongshore.”1 Yet, even beyond escapism and the promise of experiencing a different lifestyle or landscape amongst the waves and ocean swells, audiences sought much more than just knowledge of a mariner’s or seafarer’s firsthand account of maritime life. -
Sir Walter Scott's Templar Construct
Copyright is owned by the Author of the thesis. Permission is given for a copy to be downloaded by an individual for the purpose of research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author. SIR WALTER SCOTT’S TEMPLAR CONSTRUCT – A STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY INFLUENCES ON HISTORICAL PERCEPTIONS. A THESIS PRESENTED IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN HISTORY AT MASSEY UNIVERSITY, EXTRAMURAL, NEW ZEALAND. JANE HELEN WOODGER 2017 1 ABSTRACT Sir Walter Scott was a writer of historical fiction, but how accurate are his portrayals? The novels Ivanhoe and Talisman both feature Templars as the antagonists. Scott’s works display he had a fundamental knowledge of the Order and their fall. However, the novels are fiction, and the accuracy of some of the author’s depictions are questionable. As a result, the novels are more representative of events and thinking of the early nineteenth century than any other period. The main theme in both novels is the importance of unity and illustrating the destructive nature of any division. The protagonists unify under the banner of King Richard and the Templars pursue a course of independence. Scott’s works also helped to formulate notions of Scottish identity, Freemasonry (and their alleged forbearers the Templars) and Victorian behaviours. However, Scott’s image is only one of a long history of Templars featuring in literature over the centuries. Like Scott, the previous renditions of the Templars are more illustrations of the contemporary than historical accounts. One matter for unease in the early 1800s was religion and Catholic Emancipation. -
Walter Scott: a Legend of Montrose ======A Machine-Readable Edition
Walter Scott: A Legend of Montrose ================================== a machine-readable edition version 1.1: 1995-09-14 ------------------------------------------------------------ <titlepage> A LEGEND OF MONTROSE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART <series title> THE TALES OF MY LANDLORD A LEGEND OF MONTROSE <series epigraph> Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots, From Maidenkirk to Johnny Groats, If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel's amang you takin' notes, An' faith he'll prent it!---Burns Ahora bien, dijo el Cura; traedme, senor hu<e'>sped, aquesos libros, que los quiero ver. Que me place, respondi<o'> el; y entrando en su aposent, sac<o'> d<e'>l una maletilla vieja cerrada con una cadenilla, y abri<e'>ndola, hall<o'> en ella tres libros grandes y unos papeles de muy buena letra escritos de mano.---=Don Quixote,= Parte I. capitulo 32. <text> INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION. Sergeant More M`Alpin was, during his residence among us, one of the most honoured inhabitants of Gandercleugh. No one thought of disputing his title to the great leathern chair on the ``cosiest side of the chimney,'' in the common room of the Wallace Arms, on a Saturday evening. No less would our sexton, John Duirward, have held it an unlicensed intrusion, to suffer any one to induct himself into the corner of the left-hand pew nearest to the pulpit, which the Sergeant regularly occupied on Sundays. There he sat, his blue invalid uniform brushed with the most scrupulous accuracy. Two medals of merit displayed at his buttonhole, as well as the empty sleeve which should have been occupied by his right arm, bore evidence of his hard and honourable service. -
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A Comparative Analysis of the Medieval Element in the Prose of Sir Walter Scott and John Henry Newman
Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1949 A Comparative Analysis of the Medieval Element in the Prose of Sir Walter Scott and John Henry Newman Margaret B. Kearney Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Kearney, Margaret B., "A Comparative Analysis of the Medieval Element in the Prose of Sir Walter Scott and John Henry Newman" (1949). Master's Theses. 767. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/767 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1949 Margaret B. Kearney JIIIj. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MBDIEV AI.. ElEMENT IN THE PROSE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT AND JOHN REh'RY NEWMAN By Margaret B. Kearney A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIHEMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS Il~ LOYOLA UNIVERSITY February J949 TABIE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Introduotion • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 Presentation of the problem - Definition of Medievalimn - Reaotion against Classioism - Soott a pure romantioist rather than a striot medievalist - ~ew.man a late echo of the period. II The Medievalism of Soott and Ne~n As a Natural Outgrowth of Their Environmental and Literary Ute • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • . • 16 Scott: AIloe stry - home and family - Border in fluence - early reading habits - diversified education - value derived - influenoe of eighteenth-oentury novelists - as oompared with Ne'Wll18.n: Home and family - early reading habi ts Oxford eduoation - influenoe of Oriel Masters - stu~ of early Fathers - Mediterranean voyage - Oxford Movement - R a spiritual awakening of spiritual wants" - personal conclusions. -
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MIAMI UNIVERSITY The Graduate School Certificate for Approving the Dissertation We hereby approve the Dissertation of Adonica Aria Jones-Parks Candidate for the Degree: Doctor of Education ____________________________________ Dr. Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Dissertation Advisor ____________________________________ Dr Sally Lloyd, Reader ____________________________________ Dr. Ray Terrell, Reader ____________________________________ Dr. Paula Saine, Graduate School Representative ABSTRACT SPEAKING HIS MIND: COUNTERSTORIES ON RACE, SCHOOLING, AND THE ALIENATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES by Adonica Aria Jones-Parks The primary purpose of this study is to examine the counterstories of African-American males who have dropped out of school and record their experiences in their own voice of how their schooling impacted their current life circumstances. The emergent themes from their stories support the literature that four factors contribute to Black males’ dropping out of school: 1) negative teacher and administration perception of Black males; 2) labeling and sorting through the use of special education and academic tracking; 3) resistance to schooling due to the insidious practices taking place in schools; and 4) alienation from schooling because of racist, oppressive practices. This study found that the overall story of African-American males in their schooling experiences is one of absence of caring from teachers, administration, and the school system. SPEAKING HIS MIND: COUNTERSTORIES ON RACE, SCHOOLING, AND THE ALIENATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Faculty of Miami University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education Department of Educational Leadership by Adonica Aria Jones-Parks Miami University Oxford, Ohio 2011 Dissertation Director: Dr. Denise Marie Taliaferro-Baszile © Adonica Aria Jones-Parks 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication ........................................................................................................... -
Hidden Figures 2
A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO HarperAcademic.com A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY’S HIDDEN FIGURES 2 Contents About the Book 3 About the Author 3 Discussion Questions 3 Chapter 1: A Door Opens 3 Chapter 2: Mobilization 3 Chapter 3: Past Is Prologue 3 Chapter 4: The Double V 4 Chapter 5: Manifest Destiny 4 Chapter 6: War Birds 4 Chapter 7: The Duration 4 Chapter 8: Those Who Move Forward 4 Chapter 9: Breaking Barriers 4 Chapter 10: Home by the Sea 5 Chapter 11: The Area Rule 5 Chapter 12: Serendipity 5 Chapter 13: Turbulence 5 Chapter 14: Angle of Attack 5 Chapter 15: Young, Gifted, and Black 6 Chapter 16: What a Difference a Day Makes 6 Chapter 17: Outer Space 6 Chapter 18: With All Deliberate Speed 6 Chapter 19: Model Behavior 6 Chapter 20: Degrees of Freedom 6 Chapter 21: Out of the Past, the Future 7 Chapter 22: America is for Everybody 7 Chapter 23: To Boldly Go 7 Writing Prompts 7 A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY’S HIDDEN FIGURES 3 About the Book Katherine Goble (later, Johnson), ever-confident in her mathematical ability and intellect, told her bosses at Langley, “Tell me where you want the man to land, and I’ll tell you where to send him up.” The man in question: an astronaut; the context: the space race that overtook the imagination of a generation; some of the main players who helped achieve some of NASA’s greatest achieve- ments: a group of African American women mathematicians. -
Report Resumes
REPORT RESUMES ED 012 635 RC 000 888 EIGHTH GRADE ENGLISH CURRICULUM. UNIVERSITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT,MO. PUB DATE 65 EDRS PRICE MF-$0.50 HC-34.69 117P. DESCRIPTORS- *GRADE 8, *ENGLISH:*CIIRRIrUi"M GUIDES, WRITING SKILLS,.GRAMMAR, MATURITY TESTS,READING, ATTITUDES; VOCABULARY, BIBLIOGRAPHIES,POETRY, LITERATURE, *ENGLISH CURRICULUM, UNIVERSITY CITY A CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR TEACHINGEIGHTH-GRADE ENGLISH WAS DEVELOPED IN 1965 AT UNIVERSITYCITY, MISSOURI. FOUR UNITS ARE PRESENTED IN DETAILEDOUTLINE FORM.--"PAST THROUGH PROLOGUE," "GROWING UP,""WHAT IS HUMOR," AND "HEROES, REAL AND UNREAL." THREE OTHER UNITSARE SUGGESTED BUT NOT OUTLINED--"VALUE AND VALUES,""FORMING OPINIONS," AND "THE RIGHT TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL." AGENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY IS PRESENTED.FOR THE OVERALL GUIDE,AND SPECIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE INCLUDED FOR EACH MAJORSECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL UNITS. (RB) . Ln re U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WE1FARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION rI Ca) THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT.POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS LL.1 STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE Of EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY. EIGHTH E INGLISii CURRICULUM 1965 UNIVERSITY cm PUBLIC SCHOOLS fc006Ur TABLE OF CONTENTS General Introduction General Bibliography Part 1..111141f Past Through Prologue Part IL. Growing Up' Part III. What is Humor? Part IV....... Heroes, Real and Unreal INTRODUCTION 1. The resource units and teaching plans presented in this booklet are based on the unit concepts and topics drawn up at the English curricu- lum meetings held in the spring of 1965.As teachers use these units during the year, they should keep notes on suggested improvements which might be made in the next revision of the units.