Gamblers and Gentlefolk

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-78
Author(s):  
Nicola Lacey
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Financial Capitalism ◽  
The Way

This essay examines the wide range of conceptions of money and its legal and social significance in the novels of Anthony Trollope—a writer whose nostalgia for the world of land sits alongside an increasingly sharp critique of the power of money—considering what his novels can tell us about the rapidly changing economic, political, and social world of mid-Victorian England. The essay concentrates in particular on Orley Farm (1861–2)—the novel most directly concerned with law among Trollope’s formidable output—and The Way We Live Now (1875)—the novel most directly concerned with the use and abuse of money in the early world of financial capitalism.

The Study of Hindu New Religious Movements

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Gene R. Thursby
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Meditation ◽  
Social World ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Arya Samaj

The category of Hindu new religious movements is conventional and useful, but has imprecise boundaries. Scholars tend to include within it some groups that have claimed they are not Hindu (Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission) or not religious (Transcendental Meditation). Within its wide range are world-affirming groups dedicated to transforming the physical and social world as well as world-transcending groups that find the status of the world doubtful and their purpose at another level or in another realm. The four articles in this special issue of Nova Religio on Hindu new religious movements represent several aspects of this category, and the potential for accommodation of basic differences, social harmony, and even world-transcendence.

scholarly journals HEROISM IN RUDYARD KIPLING’S NOVEL THE JUNGLE BOOK

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartini Selian ◽  
Jumino Suhadi ◽  
M. Manugeren
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Inquiry ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstract This study is about heroism in the novel The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. There are three points of discussion under this title: giving protection, defending rights and gratitude. Defending rights is associated with heroic deeds. A hero is a random citizen that rises to an occasion and performs an action of superhero proportions. Gratitude implies thankfulness or an appreciation of benefits conferred together with a desire, when practicable, to return those benefits. Defending rights is tied to human rights which are universally applicable to one and all. These are the significant components of heroism. One of the relevant and outstanding modern theories of heroism applied here is proposed by Gibbon (2009) stating that hero is just an average man who fights to solve a common problem in today’s society. The study is conducted with Descriptive Qualitative Method proposed by Haughman (2009) in which he states that Qualitative research is a form of social inquiry that focuses on the way people interpret and make sense of their experiences and the world in which they live. Kipling leads children down the jungle path into adventures beyond their day to day imagining and along the way he shows the value of ‘doing for yourself', of 'learning who to trust'. The result shows that heroism is highlighted through the major characters and the conclusive points are some of the significant characters such as Mowgli, Father Wolf, Mother Wolf, Hathi, and Bagheera have done heroic deeds. Their heroism is presented in the forms of giving protection, defending rights and gratitude. Keywords: heroism, human rights, gratitude

Arrested Development: Characterisation, the Newspaper and Anthony Trollope

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-92
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
British Politics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Reductive Treatment

Anthony Trollope famously envisioned novel writing as a way to participate in British politics, yet his novels are curiously empty of writers--other than his rascally journalists. This chapter argues that Trollope’s novels caricature journalists and newspapers and, in doing so, flatten out the British news system. In drawing a stylistic and literal contrast between the novel and the newspaper, Trollope develops a novelistic poetics more generous than the stark absolutes and fake news of his fictionalised newspapers. His reductive treatment of journalism stands in blatant opposition to the care with which he fictionalises the world of British parliament and cultivates rounded liberal characters, such as Phineas Finn and Plantagenet Palliser. Not only does his method in representing journalists mimic the strategies of the newspaper editors themselves, it also conveys the distortion Trollope perceives in their representative methods and their construction of a national reading public. Trollope’s emphasis on fictional narrative becomes an important counterweight to the series of disconnected and decontextualised outrages published by his fictional journalists. In drawing this distinction, Trollope invites his readers to think analytically about the way that they relate to and absorb the news. Trollope’s novels imitate and rework journalistic writing practices to theorise the ethical and political effects of formal choices on public discourse. Trollope, in a sense, is an early media theorist thinking through the contrasting systems of reality offered by newspapers and novels.

scholarly journals Working in the world of the pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Luke Tredinnick ◽  
Claire Laybats
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Way

This paper compiles a series of responses from key information professionals to the novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Respondents were invited to answer the questions how the pandemic has impacted on their work, and how it might change the way of working in the future. Contributors to the article include Scott Brown, Steve Dale, Denise Carter, Alison Day, Hal Kirkwood and Emily Hopkins.

scholarly journals London Eyes: William Dean Howells and the Shift to Instant Photography

2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Radical Empiricism ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Movements ◽  
The Way

Owen Clayton, "London Eyes: William Dean Howells and the Shift to Instant Photography"(pp. 374––394) Toward the end of the nineteenth century, one of William Dean Howells's many avid readers, finally meeting him in the flesh, expressed surprise that the famed writer was not dead. Although he had not actually departed from the world, it was true that by this time the venerable "Dean"was at a low ebb. While younger authors were taking the novel in directions about which he was, at the least, ambivalent, Howells was aware that his own best work was behind him. Yet, throughout his career, he maintained a desire to test different literary approaches. In England in 1904, Howells tested a conceit that would allow him to keep pace with the literary movements of the day. This consisted of an extended photographic metaphor: an association of himself with the Kodak camera. He used this figuration to move beyond the philosophical foundations of his previous work. Criticism has largely overlooked this endeavor, which Howells buried away in the somewhat obscure travelogue London Films (1905). This essay shows how London Films used its photographic metaphor to question positivistic observational assumptions, the way in which this was a response to William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912), and, finally, why Howells ultimately went back on his attempt to create a Kodak school in fiction.

scholarly journals The conceptual sphere of the modern English pedagogical discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Gayane R. Nersesyan
Keyword(s):  
Functional Role ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Way

The given article investigates the conceptual sphere of the modern English pedagogical discourse. The purpose of the paper is presented by the identification of the main concepts of discourse and the ways they are verbalised by means of language. In order to meet the aim the author touches upon the main approaches to the notion “concept”, as well as the concepts already identified in the pedagogical discourse. The main research is represented by the linguacognitive, pragma-semantic, and discourse analyses of the English pedagogical discourse, represented by the authentic pedagogical articles, along with the identification of its main concepts which reflect a wide range of both social and pedagogical processes. The results of the analysis represent the English pedagogical discourse to be rather independent conceptual sphere showing its own features. The identified concepts TOLERANCE, MULTICULTURALISM, PROFICIENCY and LANGUAGE show the strong interconnection between current social phenomena and the pedagogical sphere affecting the way individuals explore the world. The actualization of these concepts becomes possible with the help of language that implements dominant lexemes, derivatives, synonyms, evaluation, and other language means to deliver the functional role of the English pedagogical discourse. The research allows us to conclude that this very type of the discourse, its conceptual sphere and complex pragmatic-communicative charge still represent a wide scope for further research that is yet to be conducted.

scholarly journals Depiction of Women as the Primary Architects of their own Oppression: A Masculinist Critique of El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Abdulwaheed Idris ◽  
Rosli Talif ◽  
Arbaayah Ali Termizi ◽  
Hardev Kaur Jujar
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Milieu ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
The World ◽  
Egyptian Women ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Persistent Violence ◽  
Unpleasant Experience ◽  
The Way

This paper focuses on the presentation of women oppression and emancipation in Nawal El Saadawi’s novel, Woman at Point Zero. The novel is specifically a call and an appeal to the women in her Egyptian society and the world at large on the need to revisit their activities and contribution toward the oppression, suppression, molestation, and brutality of their fellow women. Nawal El Saadawi presents with unique clarity, the unpleasant experience women are subjected to in her male-dominated society (Egypt). The novel aesthetically captures the oppression, sexual harassment, domestic aggression, and intimidation that the Egyptian women are subjected to in her patriarchal social milieu. Through a Masculinist study of the text, this paper not only submits that women create sa conducive atmosphere for the unhappiness of their own kinds but also subverts the author’s proposition of the way forward for the Egyptian women who are disenchanted under the atmosphere that is besieged with unfair treatment of the women. This essay unambiguously argues that El Saadawi’s understanding of women emancipation from the persistent violence on the women is outrageously momentary and unsatisfactory. Indeed, the novel has succeeded in subverting the stereotypical representation of the women as weak, passive, and physically helpless yet, the cherished long-lasting emancipation expected from her oppressed women could not be fully achieved. The novelist portrays a resilient and revolutionary heroine whose understanding of women liberation leaves every reader disconcerted. The paper examines the oppression that the heroine, Firdaus suffers from men and her fellow women and how she eventually achieved a momentary emancipation.

A Novel Approach to First in the World Retrieval of Open Water Vertical Xmas Tree

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Sin Yoong Liew ◽  
El Khalil Heboul ◽  
Mohamad Shahril Majid Bin Allapitchai ◽  
Sattiyaraju Sellapan ◽  
Ahmad Luqman Bin Johan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Exposure Time ◽  
Open Water ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Prolonged Duration ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
The Way

Abstract Wells plug & abandonment was carried out in a deepwater field (Field C) offshore West Africa. There were 15 deepwater subsea wells in this field. Thirteen of the wells were completed with Open Water Vertical Xmas Tree (OXT) while remaining two were completed with Enhanced Vertical Xmas Tree (EVXT). In the wells with Open Water Vertical Xmas Tree (OXT), the upper completion tubing and hanger were ran together with the Xmas Tree in a single run. This posed challenges to Operator in retrieving the Xmas Tree. This paper will discuss the novel approach used by Operator in the OXT retrieval. Due to the design of OXT which was different from most of the vertical Xmas Trees (XT) in the world, there were a few challenges in the process of XTs retrieval. If the XTs and upper completion tubing were retrieved in reversal of the way it was completed, it will exposed the well to prolonged duration of single barrier until a BOP can be latched on for subsequent activities. On top of that, the Original Equipment Manufacturer's Completion Workover Riser (CWOR) system and Support Landing Structure (SLS) was not available in full package to be utilized in this project. Furthermore, there were constraints on the rig moonpool space, handling of OXT on surface and clashes between the rig's BOP and existing subsea structures. In managing the risk of well exposure to single proven and monitored barrier during the process of OXT retrieval, Operator has evaluated a few options and came out with a novel approach in the OXT retrieval which managed to minimize exposure time and reduce risk in operations. In contrary to the original principle of well completion here, after a barrier was established in the well, the OXTs was retrieved separately from the upper completion tubing to allow rig BOP to be latched onto wellhead in shortest possible time. To achieve this objective, operations was planned to be carried out on a dual activity derrick rig. Meanwhile, a non-OEM rental CWOR system was used together with Tree Running Tool from the OEM CWOR system to access the wells for intervention work and subsequently retrieve the OXTs. By doing this, the combined CWOR stack exceeded the height limitation at the rig's moonpool. Some modifications were carried out to allow the operations to happen. A novel approach was also used to handle the OXT on surface without the OEM Support Landing Structure - which simplified the operations and reduced HSE risks. Solution was also put into place to enable latching of the rig BOP onto wellheads on Drill Centre although there were risk of clashing initially.

The Cemetery and the Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-369
Author(s):  
Peter Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Characters ◽  
The Way

Abstract This essay revisits the question of the fictional person, largely by way of Proust’s claim that the novel offers us nonexistent persons the better to espouse vision through other eyes: knowledge of the world as experienced by another consciousness. If the New Critical stricture against taking fictional characters as real beings—something other than writing on a page—is correct, it does not account for the way in which we imagine, make use of, and interact with the minds of literary characters. Yet Proust’s understanding of the fictional being cohabits with the inevitable death of real persons. As in Henry James, for instance, character may border on nothingness, on illusion—yet it appears an inevitable illusion, one that we need in order to make sense of our lives.

THE IMMORTAL SOLIPSIST

Think ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (27) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Christian H. Sötemann
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
World Views ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Existential Dimension ◽  
The Way

Philosophers have been known to sometimes conjure up world-views which seem dazzlingly at odds with our everyday take on the world. Among the more, if not most drastic ‘-isms’ to be found in the history of philosophy, then, is the standpoint of solipsism, derived from the Latin words ‘solus’ (alone) and ‘ipse’ (self). What is that supposed to mean? It adopts a position that only acknowledges the existence of one's very own mind and opposes that there is anything beyond the realm of my mind that could be known. What a drastic contradiction to the way we normally view the world, indeed. Allow me to emphasize some implications that would arise were one really to take the solipsist view for granted. The aim is to briefly adumbrate how a solipsist view would cut us off from the social world and from the existential dimension of our own death.

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