Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by 14 Regional Authors ed. by Lex Runciman and Steven Sher, and: Owning It All by William Kittredge

1988 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-81
Author(s):  
Carol S. Long
Keyword(s):  
Personal Essays ◽  
William Kittredge

scholarly journals Moments of liberty. (Self-)censorship Games in the Essays of Virginia Woolf

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Pająk
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Personal Essays ◽  
Chilling Effect ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Women's Emancipation

What is surprising in Virginia Woolf’s essays is the scale and the audacity of her intellectual searches – in the time of increased repressive censorship and growing totalitarianisms, she approached the themes of freedom which have remained controversial ever since. The article presents the essayistic nature as a strategy applied by Woolf in her personal essays to avoid censorship, and intentionally expand the limits of freedoms important to her. The author offers an outline of the mechanism of repressive censorship and the chilling effect it worked in the interwar United Kingdom based on the examples of suspensions of outstanding modernist works and show-trials of writers. She presents three areas of study of freedom in Woolf’s essays: women’s emancipation, tolerance towards non-heteronormative persons, and pacifism, as well as the areas of private and public (self-)censorship which existed therein.

Sleep Disorders and Dual Masculine Desires in Charles Dickens's “Lying Awake” and “Night Walks”

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-30
Author(s):  
Daniel Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Personal Essays ◽  
Physical Control ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Specific Control

AbstractCharles Dickens's examinations of sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders illustrate a complicated negotiation between hegemonic ideals of masculinity that rest on notions of bodily control and mental acuity, but they also present an ambivalent (and sometimes adventurous) position open to expanding the definition of masculinity to include a desire to relinquish mental and physical control. Hegemonic masculine ideals are often in tension with one another, and Dickens explores the specific control–freedom contradiction in personal essays, namely “Night Walks” and “Lying Awake.” While the depiction of the bedroom as a space of male anxiety appears throughout Dickens's work, he expresses this idea most clearly and directly in the above nonfiction texts. The nonfiction essay, over and against the fictional text, allows Dickens to write about sleep disorders and their relation to male anxiety in more personal and pragmatic terms, and to represent the issue in detail without having to be concerned about plot and characterization.

scholarly journals Introduction to Special Issue on Personal Essays in Social Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Pooja Sawrikar ◽  
Donna McAuliffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Personal Essays

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Correspondence and Personal Essays

Books Abroad ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
Marvin J. LaHood ◽  
Sherwood Anderson ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Ray Lewis White
Keyword(s):  
Personal Essays

Song of Exile, Four-Way Voice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHANG Cheng ◽  
Yun Chan Liao
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Personal Essays ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
The Status

In this chapter, Taiwanese reporters CHANG Cheng and LIAO Yun-chang consider the status of writings by Southeast Asian migrant workers and marriage migrants residing in Taiwan—including writings appearing in multilingual newspaper and book series that solicit and print personal essays written by Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, as well as works submitted for literature prizes that specifically target writings by migrants in Taiwan. This chapters argues that these texts—despite being written mostly by nonprofessional authors who are not Taiwan citizens and furthermore are often not writing in Chinese—should be included within the category of “Taiwan literature”; essays by migrant authors permit these lower-class foreign workers to recount their feelings and experiences and share them with Taiwan’s other residents.

Review of Elliot W. Eisner, The Kind of Schools We Need: Personal Essays;

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera John-Steiner ◽  
Lee B Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Personal Essays

scholarly journals Application of a Documentary about High-risk Newborns in Nursing Education: An Exploratory Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Hyun-Ju Kang ◽  
Juyoun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Personal Essays ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Neonatal Nursing

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students' recognition and understanding of the clinical environment of high-risk neonatal nursing care after watching a documentary about the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where high-risk newborns are treated. Methods: This study was a qualitative content analysis. In total, 151 nursing students’ personal essays describing their reactions to a documentary about the NICU were analyzed using the NVivo 12 program. Results: Nursing students’ experiences of engaging with a documentary about the NICU were structured into four thematic categories: ‘actual observations of the imagined NICU’, ‘observation and recognition of nursing knowledge’, ‘empathy with people related to the baby’, and ‘establishing attitudes and values as a nurse’. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it is suggested that documentaries can be applied in nursing education about high-risk newborns.

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