Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Freshman Year ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Vanity Fair ◽  
One Year

Someone could go a long way toward telling the story of my life through its magazines: the Highlights my parents gave me, determined that my small self should be as entertained and enlightened as possible; my grandparents’ neatly collected Readers’ Digests, which I eagerly read until learning my freshman year in college that they were hopelessly bourgeois; the New Yorkers I loved and displayed in my graduate student apartment, the Vanity Fairs I loved and hid under the bed. Magazines tell the story of who I was supposed to be and who I wanted to be. Or perhaps they don't; how much of what the magazines meant to me is visible in the historical record? I didn't purchase all that I read, after all, nor did I read all that I purchased. A magazine I loved one year might embarrass me the next, and then find its way back into favor, my subscription all the while remaining unchanged. Magazines, in short, are both perplexing and promising subjects of analysis, with the question of how they create communities of readers posing perhaps the most promising and perplexing question of all.

“The Paper Old and Faded and Falling to Pieces”: Absalom, Absalom! and the Pulping of History

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Brooks E. Hefner
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Adventure Fiction

This chapter examines how Faulkner's dramatization of the historical endeavor reflects the print culture conventions of his era. It argues that Absalom's “fluid and flexible” relationship to history amounts to a “pulping” of the historical record, “self-consciously destroying, recycling, and repurposing” it in ways gleaned from the “popular literary production” of the 1920s and 1930s. The so-called shudder pulps, with their emphasis on terror and the occult; “hero pulps” and other modes of popular adventure fiction; Black Mask-school hard-boiled crime fiction; Yellow Peril narratives and other tales depicting “racialized threat[s] to sexual purity” and the domestic sphere—the novel employs all of these pulp genres to shape and sensationalize the Sutpen saga and its central figures, in what amounts to a lowbrow version of the “emplotment” process that Hayden V. White finds at work in all historical narrative.

scholarly journals Part Ia: Case Study: Strategic plan for an EM Facility

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Elaine Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Light Microscope ◽  
User Fees ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Service Contracts ◽  
To Come ◽  
One Year ◽  
First Job

I took over the facility in 1996. We had aging equipment, no assistance, there were huge budget cuts that year and I was told, “There was no money. The only money you're gonna get are your wages. Everything else has to come from user fees.” I had to find funds for service contracts and we had to increase our user base.I figured I would have to find an assistant because there is no way one can run a TEM, an SEM and confocal and light microscope facilities alone. So I found a grant called “First Job in Science and Technology” which would give me a graduate student for one year, and we had a summer student who had just graduated and was looking for a job before she went on to graduate school. She learned really fast and by February she was excellent, but by May/June we were back into the same boat again.

scholarly journals Managing plagiarism of South African Honours students: Does an intervention have any effect?

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pharny Chrysler-Fox ◽  
Adèle Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
South African ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Student Plagiarism ◽  
Signed Rank ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Post Graduate Student ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
One Year

The aim of the study was to investigate whether an intervention to address post-graduate student plagiarism in an Honours programme in Human Resource Management at a South African university had an impact one year later. In a quasi-experimental design, the sample comprised 34 students in a control group and 70 students in two intervention groups. Student essays were examined for different types of plagiarism at two different times and compared by means of Wilcoxon Signed-Rank and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Findings indicate that students who were exposed to both parts of an intervention evidenced less plagiarism in their essays one year later than those who were exposed to only one part of the intervention or no intervention at all. Opsomming Die doel van die studie was om vas te stel of ‘n intervensie om plagiaat van nagraadse studente in ‘n Honneursprogram in Menslike Hulpbronbestuur aan ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse universiteit aan te spreek, ‘n impak een jaar later het. Die steekproef van ‘n kwasi-eksperimentele ontwerp het uit 34 studente in ‘n kontrolegroep en 70 studente in twee intervensiegroepe bestaan. Opstelle van studente op twee verskillende tye geskryf is ondersoek vir verskillende tipes plagiaat wat met Wilcoxon Signed-Rank en Kruskal-Wallis toetse vergelyk was. Bevindinge dui daarop dat studente wat blootgestel is aan beide dele van ‘n intervensie ‘n jaar later minder plagiaat in hulle opstelle getoon as diegene wat blootgestel was aan net een deel van die intervensie of glad nie blootgestel aan die intervensie nie.

scholarly journals Grief, Traumatic Loss and Coping following Bereavement: Case Study of Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma Kaneez
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
One Year ◽  
And Coping

Loss of a loved one is a very painful and often a traumatic experience for most of the people. The burden of the loss can be carried over a life time or laid down. Grief is a profound and complex response for those who have been left behind. There found different gender reactions in grief and traumatic event. Women tend to experience more intense emotional reactions such as shock, denial, anger, depression that may linger on for quite some time, especially when they were widow and mother. Individuals grieve differently, yet coping with bereavement depends upon the personal characteristics, available support, coping mechanism, faith and self concept of sufferers. Using the case study approach, this article explores the grief, trauma (psychological response) and coping pattern among bereaved women while struggling with the loss. The cases of three Muslim women widowed during the last one year were analyzed. Findings highlight the importance of social support, religious or spiritual beliefs, traumatic growth in bereavement and coping with the loss of a family member.

The New Yorker, the Middlebrow, and the Periodical Marketplace in 1925

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Hammill
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
High Culture ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Middlebrow Culture ◽  
Cultural Hierarchies ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The New Yorker

This chapter focuses on The New Yorker in its first year, exploring its mediation of the whole range of the city's print culture. Balancing between fascination and ironic detachment in its attitude to the celebrity gossip and sensation disseminated in the tabloids, and similarly in its attitude to the high culture disseminated in avant garde and smart magazines, The New Yorker adopted an intermediate position which affiliates it with middlebrow culture. The chapter shows how, as multiauthored collages, incorporating a diverse mix of content and evolving over time, magazines are always difficult to position in relation to cultural hierarchies. The New Yorker, for example, has been classed, in different critical accounts, as modernist, as mass market, and as middlebrow.

Thiamine deficiency in the bereaved after cancer-related spousal loss

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 738-740
Author(s):  
Hideki Onishi ◽  
Nozomu Uchida ◽  
Takao Takahashi ◽  
Daisuke Furuya ◽  
Yasuhiro Ebihara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thiamine Deficiency ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Hypopharyngeal Cancer ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Spousal Loss ◽  
One Year ◽  
After Cancer ◽  
Loss Of Appetite ◽  
Thiamine Level ◽  
Low Serum

AbstractObjectiveThiamine deficiency (TD) is recognized in various kinds of disease with associated loss of appetite including cancer. However, it has not been recognized to date in bereaved partners after spousal loss from cancer.MethodFrom a series of bereaved partners who lost a spouse to cancer, we report on those who developed TD after bereavement.ResultCase 1 was a 57-year-old woman who sought consultation at our “bereavement clinic.” Her husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer one year earlier and had died one month previously. At the first visit, she was observed to suffer depression, anxiety, and decreased appetite. Neurological, blood, and biochemical examinations did not reveal any noteworthy findings. She was diagnosed with uncomplicated bereavement. Detailed examination revealed that her appetite had been markedly decreased for approximately five weeks. The diagnosis of TD was supported by her abnormally low serum thiamine level. Case 2 was a bereaved 73-year-old male who had lost his wife to hypopharyngeal cancer one month previously after a five-year illness. He had shown a lack of energy for the month preceding his wife's death, but because there was no improvement after her death, his family recommended he seek consultation at our “bereavement clinic.” He was suffering from major depressive disorder. Detailed examination revealed that his appetite had been decreased for more than two weeks. Again, the diagnosis of TD was supported by his abnormally low serum thiamine level.Significance of resultsThese reports demonstrate that there is a possibility that bereaved could develop TD after the loss of a loved one. TD should be considered whenever there is a loss of appetite lasting for more than 2 weeks, and medical staff should pay careful attention to the physical condition of the bereaved to prevent complications because of TD.

More than a case of mistaken identity: Adult entertainment and the making of early sexology

2020 ◽  
pp. 095269512090395
Author(s):  
Sarah Bull
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Public Writing ◽  
Mistaken Identity ◽  
Sex Research ◽  
Explicit Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

Sexology emerged as a discipline during a period of keen concern about the social effects of sexually explicit media. In this context, sex researchers and their allies took pains to establish the respectability of their work, a process that often involved positioning sexual science in opposition to erotic literature and images. This article argues that this presentation of sexual science obfuscated sex researchers’ complex relationship with erotic print culture, which during the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided sexual scientists with access to explicit material that served as evidence for theories about human sexuality, facilitated transnational exchanges of sexual-scientific thought by bringing sex research across borders, and introduced sex research to wider audiences. Erotic print culture can thus be seen as one of several fields that contributed to the interdisciplinary development of sexology and facilitated the diffusion of sexual-scientific theories. Sex researchers’ shifting, often ambivalent relationship with erotic print and its producers emphasizes that while the boundaries of sexology were extremely porous, they were also heavily policed: Working to establish a modern, respectable new branch of science, sexual scientists reframed the output of other fields of enquiry as products of their own, blotted their reliance on these sources from the historical record, and denigrated them in public writing.

Massaguer, Conrado (1889–1965)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Fraunhar
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Vanity Fair ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Magazine Covers ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Belle Époque

Conrado W. Massaguer is remembered as the dominant force in graphic arts and popular periodicals in Cuba from the 1910s through the 1950s. During his long career, Massaguer created and published a number of magazines, including the highly influential Social and the widely popular Carteles. Citing Charles Dana Gibson and James Montgomery Flagg as influences, Massaguer developed a distinctive visual style in illustration and caricature, creating an instantly identifiable modernist look in his magazine covers and ads whose impact spread across Latin America. His sense of style extended to layout and content, modernizing and updating the Belle Epoque aesthetic previously dominant in Cuba. He was a founding member of the influential association of artists, writers, and theorists, the Grupo Minorista, whose Saturday lunches drew leading national and international artists and intellectuals. In addition to his activities in Cuba, Massaguer was famous internationally as an illustrator and caricaturist, publishing caricatures and illustration in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and other American publications along with French and German magazines. He was active against the repressive Machadato, the regime of the dictator Gerardo Machado.

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