The Antinomies of Progress

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-114
Author(s):  
Clement Hawes
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Literary History ◽  
New World ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies

Clement Hawes’s “The Antinomies of Progress: Johnson, Conrad, Joyce” examines its three authors from a post-colonialist perspective. Hawes discovers affinities among Johnson, Conrad, and Joyce that valuably involve the long arc of British expansion, North American dominance in the New World, and the freighted notion, on at least three levels—personal, literary, and political—of “progress.” Deploying analyses of periodization, rhetorical strategies, and colonial exploitation, Hawes’s chapter subtly repositions Johnson as a presence in the broad arc of literary history.

A numerical analysis of morpho-geographic groups of cultivars of Humulus lupulus based on samples of cones

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Small
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Geographical Origin ◽  
Humulus Lupulus ◽  
Numerical Analyses ◽  
Hybrid Origin ◽  
Morphological Examination ◽  
Humulus Lupulus L

Numerical analyses of hop (strobilus) samples showed that the geographical origin of cultivars of Humulus lupulus L. from North America, Britain, continental Europe, and Japan can be identified with considerable reliability on the basis of morphological examination. Samples of hybrid origin between North American and European plants tended to be similar to American cultivars, but often showed combinations of Old and New World characteristics, making their identification problematical.

The Greatest Living Man of Letters

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-76
Author(s):  
Tobias Boes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literary History ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Cultural Formation

This chapter argues that the process by which Thomas Mann was canonized as the “greatest living man of letters” in the New World certainly had many similarities to his staging as a representative writer in the Old. But there were enormous differences as well, and these would turn out to be consequential for literary history, including literary history back in Germany. The chapter explains how Mann's rise to literary prominence in the United States took place within the larger context of a newly emerging and distinctively American cultural formation, the “middlebrow.” At first, this seems antithetical to Mann's associations with “serious” modern literature. However, the chapter reveals that modernism and the middlebrow have never truly stood in opposition to one another.

Poison-Ivy/Poison-Oak/Poison-Sumac—The Virulent Weeds

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry W. Mitich
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
North American ◽  
English Language ◽  
New World ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Hedera Helix ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Poison Ivy ◽  
First Time ◽  
Poison Oak

The word poison entered the English language in 1387 as ‘poysoun”, and in Memoirs of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 1, 1785, the word poison-ivy was used for the first time: “Poison ivy … produces the same kind of inflammation and eruptions … as poison wood tree”.The first known reference to poison-ivy, Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Ktze., dates from the 7th century in China and the 10th century in Japan. Since Toxicodendron species do not grow in Europe, the plants remained unknown to Western civilization until explorers visited the New World seven centuries later. Capt. John Smith (1579–1631) wrote the first description of poison-ivy and originated its common name; he noted a similarity in the climbing habit of North American poison-ivy to English ivy (Hedera helix L.).

Wie Samaria so auch Jerusalem

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-480
Author(s):  
Kristin Weingart
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
History Of ◽  
Compositional Elements ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah

AbstractBy naming Micah and citing Mi 3:12 the book of Jeremiah (Jer 26:18) provides an explicit example of the reception of older prophetic texts and traditions in later compositions. In addition, Jer 26:18f. also offer a historical setting for Micah’s activity—the time of Hezekiah and most probably the events of 701 BCE. The paper argues that the literary history of the book of Micah substantiates the assumption of an early Micah composition originating from the late 8th century BCE and discusses the extent, structure, and pragmatics of the composition which comprises Mi *1:5-3:12. Focussing on the situation of the eminent Assyrian threat, Micah uses the the fate of Samaria as a rhetorical device in order to persuade his Judean addressees of his message. In doing so, Micah not only displays a familiarity with North Israelite prophetic traditions, the composition also adopts compositional elements and rhetorical strategies found in Hosea and Amos.

Five new species of Stenochrus (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4374 (2) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
RODRIGO MONJARAZ-RUEDAS ◽  
OSCAR F. FRANCKE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
The North ◽  
Mexican State

The North American genus Stenochrus is represented by 22 species distributed mainly in Mexico, Central America and the U.S.A.; the genus was erected originally to place the species Stenochrus portoricensis and was characterized by the presence of lateral lobes reduced on female spermathecae, male flagellum without important dorsal relief, pedipalps without distinctive armature and without posterodorsal process on segment XII. Here we describe five new species from the Mexican state of Oaxaca; we discuss the presence of dimorphic males in the genus. With this contribution the genus Stenochrus reaches 27 species, becoming the second most diverse genus of schizomids in the New World. 

On the True Identity of Geophilus huronicus Meinert and the Presence of Geophilus longicornis Leach in North America (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Crabill
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Original Description ◽  
World Species

In 1886 Meinert described a new centipede from New England which he called Geophilus huronicus. This centipede, characterized at some length and with considerable accuracy in the original description. is peculiar in that it is rather unlike any other known North American member of the genus. Perhaps for that reason, as well as because he had never seen huronicus, Attems placed it in his long roster of questionable New World species.

The New World Aesalinae, with notes on the North American lucanid subfamilies (Coleoptera, Lucanidae)

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1505-1510 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. F. Howden ◽  
J. F. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
The North

The North American Lucanidae are divided into four subfamilies: Aesalinae, Syndesinae, Nicaginae, and Lucaninae, and a key is presented to the subfamilies, tribes, and genera. Subfamily characters are briefly described with a more detailed account of the Aesalinae, including Aesalus Fabricius and Lucanobium squamosum n. gen., n. sp., from Venezuela.

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