scholarly journals Miss Marjoribanks’s Pronouns; or, the General, the Particular, and the Novel

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-252
Author(s):  
Erik Gray
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Marriage Plot ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Final Volume ◽  
Miss Marjoribanks ◽  
Word Attention

Erik Gray, “Miss Marjoribanks’s Pronouns; or, the General, the Particular, and the Novel” (pp. 223–252) The novel as a genre is always concerned with questions of the general and the particular: it details the particulars of everyday lives as representatives of general truths and characteristics. Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks (1866) not only reflects on this familiar binary but also reveals how easily the distinction between its two terms collapses. The tendency of the heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, to refer to all men as “They” illustrates this phenomenon. She uses the pronoun, with no antecedent, to refer either to a particular group of men or to men in general; her doing so both demeans men, by grouping them into an indiscriminate mass, and exalts them, by treating them as so significant as to need no introduction. By the same token, Lucilla’s various suitors are at the same time generalized—they appear as nearly interchangeable functions of the marriage plot—and particularized, since marriage itself involves a form of “particular” (Oliphant’s word) attention. And in the election plot that dominates the final volume of the novel, Lucilla’s chosen candidate, Mr. Ashburton, is singled out precisely for being so typical. Miss Marjoribanks thus demonstrates how the very building blocks of narrative, like those of language, effectively confound the distinction between general and particular. In its elucidation of this tendency of the novel genre, and of art in general, lies the genius and importance of Oliphant’s novel.

scholarly journals Sophorolipid-Based Oligomers as Polyol Components for Polyurethane Systems

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2001
Author(s):  
Maresa Sonnabend ◽  
Suzanne G. Aubin ◽  
Annette M. Schmidt ◽  
Marc C. Leimenstoll
Keyword(s):  
Special Property ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Chemical Products ◽  
Hydroxyl Fatty Acids ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Novel Products

Due to reasons of sustainability and conservation of resources, polyurethane (PU)-based systems with preferably neutral carbon footprints are in increased focus of research and development. The proper design and development of bio-based polyols are of particular interest since such polyols may have special property profiles that allow the novel products to enter new applications. Sophorolipids (SL) represent a bio-based toolbox for polyol building blocks to yield diverse chemical products. For a reasonable evaluation of the potential for PU chemistry, however, further investigations in terms of synthesis, derivatization, reproducibility, and reactivity towards isocyanates are required. It was demonstrated that SL can act as crosslinker or as plasticizer in PU systems depending on employed stoichiometry. (ω-1)-hydroxyl fatty acids can be derived from SL and converted successively to polyester polyols and PU. Additionally, (ω-1)-hydroxyl fatty acid azides can be prepared indirectly from SL and converted to A/B type PU by Curtius rearrangement.

Back in Time: The Bildungsroman and the Source of Moral Agency

Good Form ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 124-152
Author(s):  
Jesse Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Moral Intuition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Miss Marjoribanks ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Sensus Communis ◽  
Physical Sensation

This chapter focuses on the Bildungsroman, studying the philosophical and literary significance of the novel of development. Through readings of Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks (1866), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, it suggests that the ethical foundations of the concept of Bildung—and in particular the idea of sensus communis (common sense)—made form in the Bildungsroman, lay the groundwork for one's own understanding of what makes a novel count as an object of study. The operating principle in the narrative structure of the Bildungsroman is the discovery that one is already a member of a community, and that one's decisions can be understood as stemming from that community. Proper cultivation means the development of a character that can understand and respond to the pre-existing, yet unconscious, shared consensus: the sensus communis. This sort of reciprocity between individual and community is actually a better description of how moral intuition worked, at its more refined levels, than references to physical sensation.

Abolition, Law, and the Osu Marriage Novel

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Marriage Plot ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Bride Price

AbstractThis paper examines the representation of Osu slavery in Chinua Achebe’sNo Longer at Ease. Whereas critics read the references to Osu as a minor subplot in the novel, this author suggests the dissipation of the Osu marriage plot illustrates the crisis of abolition within the context of anticolonial struggles. By situating Achebe’s novel alongside midcentury discourses on abolition, freedom, and marriage rights, the author argues that the novel’s form responds to the impasses between the abolitionist agendas of international law, the administrative mandate of colonial law, and indigenous Igbo agitations for and against the eradication of the Osu system. Key to this reading is the novel’s cursory reference to the 1956 bride price laws of eastern Nigeria. By narrativizing the failure of the 1956 legislation, Achebe reflects upon African implication in slavery as well as on the divergences between midcentury anticolonial internationalism and on-ground interpretations and improvisations of freedom.

Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Jaurretche
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Genetic Criticism ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Creating Meaning

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake abounds with prayers from all traditions, and their echoes and cadences may be found on almost every page. Bringing together thinkers from antiquity, the Middle Ages, early Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book argues that Joyce views prayer as theory of language. It gives Joyce a verbal strategy for discussing immaterial things from which he composes his book of the night: image, magic, dreams, and speech. Beginning with the second-century theologian Origen’s treatise On Prayer, as well as the eighteenth-century philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vico’s theories of the formation of language and culture, the book argues that Joyce’s use of language as prayer works progressively across the four sections of the novel, creating meaning from its otherwise discrete and associative arrangement. Since Plato, the culture has recognized that religious utterances possess unique characteristics, yet analytical philosophy and literary scholarship have not produced a focused study of prayer. And although brilliant and essential work in the field of genetic criticism shows us Joyce’s building blocks and methods of creation, no book suggests why Finnegans Wake follows the finished order it does. This work meets those needs.

scholarly journals Unsur Pembangun dalam Sastra Anak Novel Mata di Tanah Melus Karya Okky Madasari: Kajian Strukturalisme

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Nur Cahyati ◽  
Heny Friantary ◽  
Ixsir Eliya
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Collection Data

Children's literature produced in Indonesia it self is not too much and studies are rarely carried out. Therefore, it is important to have an assessment of children's literature, especially novels. The research objective was to describe the building blocks in Okky Madasari's Mata di Tanah Melus novel. The approach used in this research is a structuralism approach. The research method used content analysis method. The data source is the novel Mata di Tanah Melus by Okky Madasari. The research time was carried out for one month. Data collection techniques using library techniques. The data collection instrument was the novel Mata di Tanah Melus by Okky Madasari. The data validity technique uses credibility testing techniques, namely increasing persistence and using reference materials. Data analysis in this study used Miles and Huberman's analysis model, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The results showed that the building blocks found in the novel Mata di Tanah Melus, namely the facts of the story in the form of a forward plot. The main character is Matara, the supporting character consists of 18 people, the white character consists of 5 people, and the black character is the Hunters. The setting consists of 17 places. The time setting occurs in the morning, noon, and night. The socio-cultural background raises the culture of the Melus Tribe. The theme raised in the novel Mata di Tanah Melus is the theme of humanity. The means of the story are titles and points of view. The title of the novel contains two meanings and experiences semantic distortion. The point of view used is the main actor's first person point of view

scholarly journals Enzymatic Synthesis of ω-Hydroxydodecanoic Acid By Employing a Cytochrome P450 from Limnobacter sp. 105 MED

Catalysts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Yeon Joo ◽  
Hee-Wang Yoo ◽  
Sharad Sarak ◽  
Byung-Gee Kim ◽  
Hyungdon Yun
Keyword(s):  
Enzymatic Synthesis ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Dodecanoic Acid ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Redox Partners ◽  
Hydroxylated Fatty Acids ◽  
System 2 ◽  
Optimized Conditions

ω-Hydroxylated fatty acids are valuable and versatile building blocks for the production of various adhesives, lubricants, cosmetic intermediates, etc. The biosynthesis of ω-hydroxydodecanoic acid from vegetable oils is one of the important green pathways for their chemical-based synthesis. In the present study, the novel monooxygenase CYP153AL.m from Limnobacter sp. 105 MED was used for the whole-cell biotransformations. We constructed three-component system that was comprised of CYP153AL.m, putidaredoxin and putidaredoxin reductase from Pseudomonas putida. This in vivo study demonstrated that CYP153AL.m is a powerful catalyst for the biosynthesis of ω-hydroxydodecanoic acid. Under optimized conditions, the application of a solid-state powdered substrate rather than a substrate dissolved in DMSO significantly enhanced the overall reaction titer of the process. By employing this efficient system, 2 g/L of 12-hydroxydodecanoic acid (12-OHDDA) was produced from 4 g/L of its corresponding fatty acid, which was namely dodecanoic acid. Furthermore, the system was extended to produce 3.28 g/L of 12-OHDDA using 4 g/L of substrate by introducing native redox partners. These results demonstrate the utility of CYP153AL.m-catalyzed biotransformations in the industrial production of 12-OHDDA and other valuable building blocks.

The Novel and the Sexuality of Vagrancy

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-115
Author(s):  
Sal Nicolazzo
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Marriage Plot ◽  
Labor Discipline ◽  
The Family ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Domestic Lives

This chapter examines the role of vagrancy law in regulating the affective, sexual, reproductive, and domestic lives of the English poor. It traces vagrancy's appearance at the margins of both the novel and the marriage plot across a series of texts, including Jane Barker's Patchwork Screen for the Ladies (1723), Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762), and, most centrally, Henry Fielding's The Female Husband (1746). Fielding, as novelist, magistrate, and major eighteenth-century theorist of police, is at the center of the chapter, which reads his figuration of vagrancy as a kind of sexuality that disrupts labor-discipline, marriage, and legitimate inheritance. At the same time, Fielding's text and the archival records of policing that surround it reveal how one might take vagrancy as a category of analysis for transgender history, since the construction of the sexed body as metonym for juridical identity developed through a nexus of policing, surveillance, and transatlantic print culture for which vagrancy was a foundational legal category. Finally, through readings of Scott's Millenium Hall and Mary Saxby's posthumously published Memoirs of a Female Vagrant (1806), the chapter shows that literary histories of sexuality look profoundly different if one centers the parish rather than the family as the field of analysis.

REDESIGNING FEMININITY: MISS MARJORIBANKS'S DRAWING-ROOM OF OPPORTUNITY

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kaston Tange
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Ideological Space ◽  
Drawing Room ◽  
Miss Marjoribanks ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
The Way

Margaret Oliphant's work has of late received renewed attention for her portrayal of heroines who struggle against the confines of proper middle-class femininity – who are at once sympathetic and yet do not fit the model of the submissive Victorian domestic angel – and Miss Marjoribanks (1866) is no exception. Without fully discounting the Victorian notion that there is a proper place women ought to occupy, Miss Marjoribanks raises complex questions about how that place is defined and limited. Recent scholarly attention to the novel highlights Oliphant's sustained engagement with the issue of how far propriety and custom circumscribe a woman's place. Such examinations, however, fail to address the extent to which Oliphant demonstrates the flexibility of cultural notions of a woman's place by focusing the action of Miss Marjoribanks almost entirely on the heroine's creation of a very specific physical place for herself – her drawing-room. Examining Miss Marjoribanks's portrayal of how a Victorian woman might capitalize on the centrality of the drawing-room in shaping cultural notions of feminine identity, this essay argues that once Lucilla Marjoribanks has established the drawing-room as a physical and ideological space that will contain her actions, she uses this space and all it represents to expand the boundaries of her cultural place. By focusing specifically on the work its heroine undertakes within her drawing-room and by asserting that a woman's power lies in the possibility for feminine taste to accomplish action, Oliphant's novel, like her heroine, operates within the “prejudices of society” while simultaneously offering a means to exploit those prejudices. This architecturally-motivated re-reading of Oliphant's novel in turn suggests a re-reading of Oliphant's own career. For I would argue that novels operated for Oliphant the way that drawing-rooms do for Lucilla: they provided a culturally-sanctioned place in which to locate herself, and thereby reaffirm her respectable feminine position, even while she undertook projects that challenged Victorian assumptions about gendered identity.

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