GROWING UP IN THE CITY: A STUDY OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN AN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD. By John Barron Mays. Liverpool: The University Press of Liverpool, 1954. 216 pp. 17 s. 6 d

Social Forces ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
W. B. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chisum
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
American West ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dry Spell ◽  
Hall Of Fame ◽  
The University ◽  
Archival Work ◽  
The City

Walter Van Tilburg Clark (b. 1909–d. 1971) was born in Maine, but spent his formative years growing up in Reno, Nevada, where his father served as president of the University of Nevada. Clark’s body of work (notably The Ox-Bow Incident) established him as one of the preeminent writers of the American West during the middle of the 20th century (he was friends with Wallace Stegner, the “Dean of Western Writers”), and in 1988, he was one of the first writers inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Clark’s fiction blends elements of the genre western with a careful eye for the local landscape and a spiritual ambivalence toward nature. The Ox-Box Incident (1940), about a lynch mob that erroneously executes a trio of innocent men, is his best-known work (it was made into an Academy Award–nominated film in 1943), though it’s perhaps the least characteristic of his artistic concerns. Clark’s second novel, The City of Trembling Leaves (1945), is a Künstlerroman that details the growth and maturation of a young, budding composer named Tim Hazard. The novel is a powerfully evocative depiction of early-20th-century Reno, and the scene-setting, characterizations, and development of central themes are all expressive of Clark’s prowess as a fiction writer. His final two creative works—The Track of the Cat (1949) and The Watchful Gods and Other Stories (1950)—are arguably his best. The Track of the Cat is a tense, tightly wound novel about a marauding mountain lion which has been preying on the cattle of the isolated Bridger family, and which begins to prey upon the humans as well. The Watchful Gods, meanwhile, shows Clark’s range as a storyteller, with the title story being perhaps the purest and most focused narrative expression of his main thematic concerns (especially the spiritual connection between humans and the natural environment). Clark did not publish any fiction after The Watchful Gods. This dry spell, from one of the most promising writers of the American West, remains one of the great enigmas of Clark’s career. The secondary literature on Clark ranges from scholarly analysis to exploration of the narrative themes in his work to biographical and archival work. Generally speaking, Clark’s fiction is interpreted through the lens of western American literary criticism and history, with many scholars treating it as both an exemplar of and deviation from western generic conventions.

Juvenile Delinquency and the City

1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
John Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
The City

Humanist Engagements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howell A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Educational Provision ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Composition ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Bodin arrived in Toulouse c.1550, a brief account of the economy, social composition, and governmental institutions of which opens the chapter. There follow comments on its cultural life and identification of its leading citizenry, with remarks on the treatment of alleged religious dissidents by the city itself, and especially on discordant intellectual influences at work in the University, most notably the Law Faculty and the modes of teaching there. The chapter’s second part reviews Bodin’s translation and edition of the Greek poem Cynegetica by Oppian ‘of Cilicia’, assessing the quality of his editorial work, the extent to which allegations of plagiarism levelled against him were valid, and the nature and merits of his translation. The third section recounts contemporary wrangling over educational provision in Toulouse and examines the Oratio in which Bodin argued the case for humanist-style educational provision by means of a reconstituted college there.

The Theatrical Memory of Space: from Piscator and Brecht to Belgrade

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvija Jestrovic
Keyword(s):  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In this article, Silvija Jestrovic introduces the notion of spatial inter-performativity to discuss theatre's relationship to actual political and cultural spaces. Focusing on the Berlin of the 1920s in performances of Brecht and Piscator, then on a street procession of the Générik Vapeur troupe that took place in Belgrade in 1994, she examines how theatrical and political spaces refer to and transform one another. Silvija Jestrovic was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at York University in Toronto, and has recently taken up an appointment in the School of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. She is currently working on a book-length project entitled Avant-Garde and the City.

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