Styron Leaves Las Vegas

Janus Head ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-297
Author(s):  
Kerry Kidd ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Alcohol Habit ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This essay examines the relationship between wording authorship, depression and addiction. Styron's own experience was of tumbling into acute depression, following the withdrawal of his habitual low-level alcohol habit. The paper examines the way in which such depressions may be described as emptinesses of being congruent with a philosophical (Sartrean) perspective: it compares them with the wild excesses and hyperactivities associated with alcoholism in Leaving Las Vegas and The Great Gatsby. The paper makes several theoretical association between alcoholic behavior and the act of writing itself.

scholarly journals Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles Corak
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Earnings Mobility ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Adult Earnings ◽  
The Relationship

My focus is on the degree to which increasing inequality in the high-income countries, particularly in the United States, is likely to limit economic mobility for the next generation of young adults. I discuss the underlying drivers of opportunity that generate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. The goal is to explain why America differs from other countries, how intergenerational mobility will change in an era of higher inequality, and how the process is different for the top 1 percent. I begin by presenting evidence that countries with more inequality at one point in time also experience less earnings mobility across the generations, a relationship that has been called “The Great Gatsby Curve.” The interaction between families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child's opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background—but they do so in different ways across national contexts. Both cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers are all configured most likely to lower, or at least not raise, the degree of intergenerational earnings mobility for the next generation of Americans coming of age in a more polarized labor market. This trend will likely continue unless there are changes in public policy that promote the human capital of children in a way that offers relatively greater benefits to the relatively disadvantaged.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN MOTIVASI KERJA DENGAN PERILAKU NELAYAN PADA USAHA PERIKANAN TANGKAP

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Tatcher Pakpahan ◽  
Richard W. E. Lumintang ◽  
Djoko Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Productive Assets ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Community of fishermen is one of social segments who considered as having daily life worse than other social segments, such as farmers, factory labourers, etc. Certain efforts can be done to improve the level of life of the fishermen, i.e to increase their production of fish. The way which can be done is by improving the unit of productive assets so that it can increase motivation of the fishermen for better behavior. Recently fishermen are not able to go out from their miserable socio economic situation, mainly due to (a) bargaining position weakness, (b) lacking of capital, (c) low level of knowledge and skill, (d) lacking of supervision, (e) no guarantee of promising market. Based on those evidence it is worth to study the relationship between fishermen motivation and their behavior to increase production of fish.

The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Administrative Data Linkages to Evaluate Mobility

2014 ◽  
Vol 657 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Johnson ◽  
Catherine Massey ◽  
Amy O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Household Surveys ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Data Linkages

Since Alan Krueger’s christening of the Great Gatsby curve, there has been increased attention given to the relationship between inequality and intergenerational social mobility in the United States. Studying intergenerational mobility (IGM) requires longitudinal data across large spans of time as well as the ability to follow parents and children over multiple generations. Few longitudinal datasets meet this need. This article surveys available data and the current and potential issues surrounding the use of administrative records to vastly extend the study of IGM. First, we describe the U.S. Census Bureau’s current uses of administrative records in the linkage of households across household surveys such as the Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (ACS), Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and the decennial censuses. Then, we describe the possibilities of creating additional parent-child linkages using the SIPP linked to decennial censuses and the ACS. Last, we outline our model to create linkages across earlier census data (e.g., 1980 and 1990) and contemporary surveys.

Tenses in translation: Benveniste’s ‘discourse’ and ‘historical narration’ in the first-person novel

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Mallier
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way ◽  
Passe Compose

This article deals with Emile Benveniste’s theory of enunciation (see ‘Subjectivity in Language’ and ‘The Correlations of Tense in the French Verb’ in Problems in General Linguistics, 1971 [1966] and ‘L’appareil formel de l’énonciation’ in Problèmes de linguistique générale, tome 2, 1970), in particular his distinction between historical narration and discourse, and the way it applies to the translation of first-person fiction. In French narratives, the main tense of discourse is the passé composé, which is related to the time of enunciation, while the tense of historical narration is traditionally the passé simple, which is related to the moment of the events reported. The passé composé thus draws attention to the narrating I’s retrospective gaze, while the passé simple reflects the experiencing I’s perspective within the story. This raises complex issues of translation because the narrative use of the passé composé has no equivalent in English, so that the distinction between the perspectives of the retrospective narrator and of his former self are expressed differently in the two languages. This article explores the impact of this phenomenon on four different French translations of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Llona, 1926; Tournier, 1996; Wolkenstein, 2011 and Jaworski, 2012).

Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
John Keats ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Tender Is The Night ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that sympathetic ambivalence is the hallmark of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mode of narration (for instance, exemplified in The Great Gatsby (1925) by Nick Carraway’s curious ambivalence towards the subject of his narration, Jay Gatsby). Paradoxically, Fitzgerald portrays subjectivity as involved in both an intimate immediacy from within and an incisive viewpoint marshalled from without. Fitzgerald’s narrative technique – one of empathetic engagement and critical distance – constitutes a form of Keats’s negatively capable poetics. Fitzgerald’s negatively capable poetics depict a process of self-dissolution which reconfigures the relationship between inner and outer identities, as well as the dynamics between self and world. Such fictions of the self, for Fitzgerald, are paradoxically a release from and an imposition on subjectivities (as played out through Dick Diver’s dilemma in Tender is the Night (1934)) and the environs they occupy.

scholarly journals The Great Gatsby Curve

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven N. Durlauf ◽  
Andros Kourtellos ◽  
Chih Ming Tan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Socioeconomic Outcomes ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Behavioral Mechanism ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Relationship

This paper provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work on the Great Gatsby Curve, the positive empirical relationship between cross-section income inequality and persistence of income across generations. We present statistical models of income dynamics that mechanically give rise to the relationship between inequality and mobility. Five distinct classes of theories, including models on family investments, skills, social influences, political economy, and aspirations are developed, each providing a behavioral mechanism to explain the relationship. Finally, we review empirical studies that provide evidence of the curve for a range of contexts and socioeconomic outcomes as well as explore evidence on mechanisms. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)

The Type of Temperament, Mood, and Strategies of Categorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Wytykowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In Strelau’s theory of temperament (RTT), there are four types of temperament, differentiated according to low vs. high stimulation processing capacity and to the level of their internal harmonization. The type of temperament is considered harmonized when the constellation of all temperamental traits is internally matched to the need for stimulation, which is related to effectiveness of stimulation processing. In nonharmonized temperamental structure, an internal mismatch is observed which is linked to ineffectiveness of stimulation processing. The three studies presented here investigated the relationship between temperamental structures and the strategies of categorization. Results revealed that subjects with harmonized structures efficiently control the level of stimulation stemming from the cognitive activity, independent of the affective value of situation. The pattern of results attained for subjects with nonharmonized structures was more ambiguous: They were as good as subjects with harmonized structures at adjusting the way of information processing to their stimulation processing capacities, but they also proved to be more responsive to the affective character of stimulation (positive or negative mood).

Understanding prescription in language. A corpus-based approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Kibbee ◽  
Alan Craig
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
French Tradition ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

We define prescription as any intervention in the way another person speaks. Long excluded from linguistics as unscientific, prescription is in fact a natural part of linguistic behavior. We seek to understand the logic and method of prescriptivism through the study of usage manuals: their authors, sources and audience; their social context; the categories of “errors” targeted; the justification for correction; the phrasing of prescription; the relationship between demonstrated usage and the usage prescribed; the effect of the prescription. Our corpus is a collection of about 30 usage manuals in the French tradition. Eventually we hope to create a database permitting easy comparison of these features.

On (Not) Translating Lacan: Barbara Cassin's Sophistico-Analytical Performances

Paragraph ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Michael Syrotinski
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Barbara Cassin's Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis, recently translated into English, constitutes an important rereading of Lacan, and a sustained commentary not only on his interpretation of Greek philosophers, notably the Sophists, but more broadly the relationship between psychoanalysis and sophistry. In her study, Cassin draws out the sophistic elements of Lacan's own language, or the way that Lacan ‘philosophistizes’, as she puts it. This article focuses on the relation between Cassin's text and her better-known Dictionary of Untranslatables, and aims to show how and why both ‘untranslatability’ and ‘performativity’ become keys to understanding what this book is not only saying, but also doing. It ends with a series of reflections on machine translation, and how the intersubjective dynamic as theorized by Lacan might open up the possibility of what is here termed a ‘translatorly’ mode of reading and writing.

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