“You must kneel, compañero”: The Making of Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote

In the 1970 s and 1980s Graham Greene took up the habit of travelling around Spain to holiday in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration for Monsignor Quixote (1982), which Greene came to regard as his most accomplished novel (Cloetta 2004: 77). Centred around an idealistic, innocent, and somewhat foolish priest who establishes an intimate friendship with a communist ex-mayor, with whom he travels around Spain and talks about the divine and the human, the novel was initially conceived as a kind of friendly caricature of Father Durán, but it soon served as a vehicle to express various concerns that haunted the writer’s mind. The opening of the “Durán papers” collection at Georgetown University enables scholars to delve into unpublished material kept by Durán over the years, which may cast insights into the genesis of Monsignor Quixote from both textual and biographical perspectives. Taking as a major source Durán’s diaries, 16 notebooks recording his meetings and telephone conversations with Greene from 1976 to 1991, this paper aims to clarify some of the relevant background to the book’s inception, complementing the diaries with other accounts such as Greene’s letters to Durán and other friends, Durán’s letters to Greene, and testimonies by witnesses present at the events described.1

Hubungan antara Intimate Friendship dengan Self Disclosure pada Siswa Kelas XI SMA N 4 Kota Padang Pengguna Media Sosial Instagram

The aim of this research is to see whether there is a relationship between intimate friendship and selfdisclosure in class XI students of SMA N 4 Padang City , Instagram social media users . The dependent variable in this study is Self Disclosure and the independent variable is Intimate Friendship . Measuring instrument used in this study was largely skal a Intimate Friendship and Scale Self Disclosure . The sampling technique in this study is probability sampling, namely, a sampling technique that provides equal opportunities for each element (member) of the population to be selected as a sample member. The probability sampling technique used is simple random sampling. The sample in this study were 147 students of class XI SMA N 4 Padang City . The test results show the coefficient of validity on Intimate Friendship moves from 0, 433 to 0.819, while the coefficient of reliability is 0, 962, And the coefficient of validity on Self Disclosure move from 0,327 to 0,839 while the coefficient of reliability is 0,926. Based on data analysis, correlation values of 0, 165 with a level of signifi Kansi 0,046 which means that the hypothesis is accepted. This shows that there is a significant relationship between Intimate Friendship and Self Disclosure in class XI SMA N 4 Padang City Social Media Users Instagram . With the effective contribution of Intimate Friendship with Self Disclosure to class XI students of SMA N 4 Padang City, Social Media Users Instagram 3 %.

Inverse Intimacy: Reconfiguring ‘Personal Relations’ in Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel

Ever since its publication in 1927, Elizabeth Bowen's first novel, The Hotel, has prompted critical responses that have tried to gauge the ways in which the narrative represents intimacy between women. Although one of its earliest reviewers sensed that the ‘dark, forlorn spirit of inversion is all through it’, modern critics have acknowledged that The Hotel is not engaged with the sexological models of inversion that inform Radclyffe Hall's contemporaneous novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928). At the same time, commentators have recognized that The Hotel forms part of a group of 1920s fictions that address female homosexuality with increasing openness. For the most part, readers have focused close attention on the intimate friendship that develops between the young Sydney Warren and the middle-aged widow Mrs. Kerr. This bond, even if it is fraught with tension, remains a source of prurient fascination among the other English residents enjoying a wintertime dolce far niente on the Italian Riviera. Still, the sustained critical focus on the attachment that develops between these two characters has tended to ignore the significance of the partnership between the two single women, Miss Pym and Miss Fitzgerald, that places the whole span of the novel in parentheses. Although recent studies by Elizabeth Cullingford and Maud Ellmann have drawn attention to Bowen's interest in what it means to be a ‘singleton’ or part of stadial series of personal relationships (single, couple, and triad), little has been said about the two spinsters, each of whom is ‘half of a duality’. The present essay concentrates attention on the ways in which the enumerative turn in Bowen studies broadens in scope when we look at how Miss Pym and Miss Fitzgerald appear as both two in one and one in two: a narrative formula that reminds us not of sexual inversion but the inverse number in mathematics. It is this type of inverse intimacy between woman and woman that triumphs at the end of The Hotel.

HUBUNGAN ANTARA INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP DENGAN SELF DISCLOSURE PADA MAHASISWA PENGGUNA WHATSAPP

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan self disclosure�dan intimate friendship�serta untuk mengetahui hubungan antara intimate friendship dengan self disclosure pada mahasiswa pengguna WhatsApp. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif korelasional. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah teknik purposive sampling,�dengan sampel 111 mahasiswa pengguna WhatsApp di Sumatera Barat. Analisis data menggunakan Analisis regresi linier berganda dan analisis tambahan menggunakan Independent sample T Test. Self disclosure pada mahasiswa pengguna WhatsApp cenderung rendah dan intimate friendship pada mahasiswa cenderung tinggi. Berdasarkan analisis data, diperoleh hubungan antara intimate friendship dengan self disclosure�pada mahasiswa pengguna WhatsApp. Nilai R Square penelitian ini sebesar 0.505 yang berarti dimensi intimate friendship mempengaruhi self disclosure sebesar 50.5%. Analisis tambahan menunjukkan tidak terdapat perbedaan self disclosure dan intimate friendship ditinjau dari usia dan jenis kelamin.

Displaying intimate friendships: Chinese children’s practices of friendships at school

Through an intensive ethnographic fieldwork, this project explores rural Chinese children’s understandings and experiences of peer friendships at school. When talking about ‘friend’ and ‘friendship’, children tended to brag that they were friends with many peers, but at the same time to particularly highlight a very small number of peers as the most intimate friends, in other words, their ‘best friends’. Inspired by Finch’s concept of ‘display’, this article explores how these Chinese children used different approaches to highlight their intimate friends’ particularity in intimate friendship displays at school. This article, first, unpacks three commonly used approaches in these children’s displays of intimate friendships: 1) building up an exclusionary ‘intimate friends only’ policy; 2) imparting to certain objects, actions and language sentimental and specific meanings as ‘tokens’ of their friendship; and 3) giving ‘priority’ to intimate friends. Second, it discusses the importance of audiences and cooperation between actors in intimate friendship displays.

The Ladies’ Home Journal, Sororal Publics, and the Wages of White Womanhood

Chapter 2 argues that the Ladies’ Home Journal fashioned white women’s culture as a mediating force for racial sorority—an imagined sisterhood that provided the comforting sense of familiarity across distance—while also responding to a perceived crisis in women’s intimate friendship by providing detailed guidance for befriending. I argue that both scales of white social practice (sorority and intimate friendship) attached white women’s social forms to antiblackness. On the one hand, the Journal infused its imagined sisterhood with a deep sense of white supremacy (through frequent use of racist humor, for instance), providing white women a compensation that at least partially made up for the harms produced by gender inequality. On the other hand, by revitalizing intraracial friendship as a necessary departure from antiseptic social life, the Journal engaged an Aristotelian politics of friendship in which the precondition for befriending (whiteness) naturalized itself as the precondition for citizenship.

Intimasi Pertemanan ditinjau dari Self-Disclosure pada Mahasiswa Jurusan Kebidanan Universitas Prima Indonesia

This study aims to know the relationship between the intimate friendship with self-disclosure. The hypothesis in this study is there is a positive relationship between self-disclosure with intimate friendship, in assumption that the higher self-disclosure, the higher intimate friendship is and the lower self-disclosure, then the lower intimate friendship itself. The subjects that used in this study are the midwifery students at the Prima Indonesia University, in which the population consists of 103 students. Data obtained from the scale to measure self-disclosure and intimate friendship. The calculation of the datas began by doing a test prerequisite analysis (the test of assumptions) that consists of a test of normality and a test of linearity. The data analysis in this study uses the Product Moment Correlation with SPSS 25 for Windows. The results of analysis showed the correlation coefficient at 0.731 of the significance 0.000 (p < 0.05). This shows there is a positive relationship between self-disclosure with intimate friendship. The results of this study indicate that the variable of intimate friendship can be predicted by self-disclosure at 53.5 percent and 46.5 percent of the rest are influenced by other factors which not examined in this study. Based on the results of this study, the hypothesis of there is a positive relationship between self-disclosure with intimate friendship is acceptable.

“Banuroja” (One Village with Three Religions): A Model of Social Harmony in Gorontalo

Banuroja is an acronym for “Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Gorontalo and Java”. From its naming identity, it appears that the community is heterogeneous both in terms of ethnicity, language, culture and religion. The heterogeneity of the people of Banuroja Village is actually an element that strengthens the harmony between them. There does not appear to be arrogance from followers of a particular religion, there is no excessive militancy, there is no intrigue to negate each other. This study shows that there are five aspects which are the key words of the Banuroja social harmony, namely (1) aspects of education and youth; (2) aspects of settlement and tradition; (3) aspects of work; (4) aspects of village government institutions; and (5) other aspects such as the prominent figures / religious elites. The driving aspects of integration on the one hand are actually at the same time a trigger for conflict on the other side. The author argues that the people of Banuroja have succeeded in showing that harmony is not just passive co-existence, not an artificial harmony. Living in diversity, in the context of Banuroja, actually being actualized by active co-existence in intimate friendship dissolves in the specialness of each rite without denouncing the other rites.

‘Anything was possible’: (In)fidelities, (dis)connections and narcissistic (self-)love in Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’

In one of Alice Munro’s longer works of short fiction, ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’, readers are thrust into a narrative in which the protagonist, Grant, is forced to place his ageing and forgetful wife Fiona into a residential care facility. So amnesic is Fiona that, no longer remembering she has hitherto existed happily alongside Grant, she soon forms an intimate friendship with another resident, Aubrey. But Grant is no sympathetic protagonist and Munro reveals how, over the decades, he has habitually conducted a series of secretive extramarital affairs, often with the students he teaches at the local university. Reading a range of texts making taxonomical survey of love (including Plato’s Symposium, Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse and Comte-Sponville’s A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues), this article surmises Grant to be dangerously non-empathetic, unwittingly self-parodying and unthinkingly transgressive; within phallogocentric orders, time and again the women surrounding this husband–teacher–lecher are shown to be merely instrumental to his gratifications. When Aubrey’s wife Marian arrives on the scene, Grant falls immediately into the role of fetishizing, perplexingly ordinary-seeming predator; in his flirtations, his actions can be read as methodically self-impoverishing. Beyond a stylized performance devoid of meaningful content, this is a narcissist with nothing to declare beyond a duplicitous and blind, dizzying, self-justifying internal chaos.