scholarly journals Spectral Streams of Post-Consciousness in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016)

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Rural Context

This article analyses Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones (2016) which narrates in a run-on sentence Marcus Conway’s everyday life within the rural context of a 2008 Celtic Tiger Ireland about to collapse. Drawing upon the narratological precepts of experimental writing, especially the use of streams of consciousness, and Derrida’s hauntology, this article argues that McCormack’s novel charts tensions of coherence and collapse in post-Celtic Tiger fiction. The narration takes place within a post- perspective as Marcus’s ghost brings it into existence. The experimentation with streams of post-consciousness and spectrality provides McCormack with valid aesthetic mechanisms to respond in fiction to Celtic Tiger concerns.

scholarly journals Percepción, jóvenes rurales y riesgo: una exploración a partir de su vida cotidiana / Perception, Rural Youth and Risk: an Exploration from their Everyday Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-350
Author(s):  
María Fernanda Ibañez ◽  
Aideé C. Arellano Ceballos
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Rural Context

ABSTRACTThis work which is part of the project "Risk and vulnerability in young Colima: a qualitative analysis from their everyday life" which analyzes the conditions of risk and vulnerability that young people in Colima faces in their daily life with the purpose to generate useful information to help to improve the quality of life of young people and create a system of indicators and a framework of risk in the urban and rural context of Colima (Mexico). We present here specifically what corresponds to which is the perception that rural youth have about risk? and What experiences have they had with risk? This corresponds to the exploratory part of the project.RESUMENEl presente trabajo se desprende del proyecto “Riesgo y vulnerabilidad en los jóvenes colimenses: un análisis cualitativo desde su vida cotidiana”, el cual busca analizar las condiciones de riesgo y vulnerabilidad a la que se enfrentan los jóvenes colimenses en su vida cotidiana con el fin de generar información útil que pueda contribuir a mejorar la calidad de vida de los jóvenes, así como crear un sistema de indicadores y un marco referencial del riesgo en el contexto urbano y rural del estado de Colima (México). Lo que aquí presentamos es específicamente lo que corresponde a ¿Cuál es la percepción que los jóvenes rurales tienen del riesgo? y ¿Qué experiencias han tenido con el riesgo? Lo que corresponde a la parte exploratoria del proyecto.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Moving Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Ruscher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
The People ◽  
Stationary Objects ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Oettingen ◽  
Doris Mayer ◽  
Babette Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Mental Contrasting ◽  
Low Expectations

Mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality leads to expectancy-dependent goal commitments, whereas focusing on the desired future only makes people commit to goals regardless of their high or low expectations for success. In the present brief intervention we randomly assigned middle-level managers (N = 52) to two conditions. Participants in one condition were taught to use mental contrasting regarding their everyday concerns, while participants in the other condition were taught to indulge. Two weeks later, participants in the mental-contrasting condition reported to have fared better in managing their time and decision making during everyday life than those in the indulging condition. By helping people to set expectancy-dependent goals, teaching the metacognitive strategy of mental contrasting can be a cost- and time-effective tool to help people manage the demands of their everyday life.

Social Psychology of Everyday Life

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Strieker
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life
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