Adam's Lobectomy Operation and the Meaning of All the King's Men

PMLA ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
James C. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Mechanistic Theory ◽  
One Step ◽  
King's Men

The brief scene in which Jack Burden observes the prefrontal lobectomy performed by his friend Adam Stanton is crucial to the novel's meaning, allowing Warren an opportunity to gather economically together most of the major themes of the novel. On one level Warren intends an analogy between Jack Burden and the anesthetized patient on the table who is in a very real sense Jack's double, a grotesque reflection of certain crucial aspects of his own character. And by forcing the confrontation, Warren achieves in a brilliant stroke a parody of portions of the novel's larger action, allowing himself the opportunity to recapture in symbolic form Jack's life and attitudes to date while simultaneously offering implicit criticism of that life and those attitudes. Warren further utilizes the scene to illuminate the meaning of Jack's flight West and the subsequent adoption of the mechanistic theory of the Great Twitch. In addition, the scene, by the nature of the operation, is a symbolic representation of the theme of division so pervasive throughout the book and may be viewed in retrospect as one step toward the resolution of this conflict.

scholarly journals MXene-Ti3C2 assisted one-step synthesis of carbon-supported TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl heterostructures for enhanced photocatalytic water decontamination

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 2077-2088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daixun Jiang ◽  
Xun Sun ◽  
Xilu Wu ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Xiaofei Qu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Charge Separation ◽  
Photocatalytic Performance ◽  
Separation Efficiency ◽  
Salt Flux ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Water Contaminants ◽  
Photocatalytic Removal ◽  
One Step ◽  
Charge Separation Efficiency ◽  
Perovskite Type

AbstractThe strategy to improve the photocatalytic removal efficiencies towards organic pollutants is still a challenge for the novel Sillen–Aurivillius perovskite type Bi4NbO8Cl. Herein, we report carbon-supported TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl (C-TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl) heterostructures with enhanced charge separation efficiency, which were fabricated via molten-salt flux process. The carbon-supported TiO2 particles were derived from MXene Ti3C2 precursors, and attached on plate-like Bi4NbO8Cl, acting as electron-traps to achieve supressed recombination of photo-induced charges. The improved charge separation confers C-TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl heterostructures superior photocatalytic performance with 53% higher than pristine Bi4NbO8Cl, towards rhodamine B removal with the help of photo-induced holes. Moreover, the C-TiO2/Bi4NbO8Cl heterostructures can be expanded to deal with other water contaminants, such as methyl orange, ciprofloxacin and 2,4-dichlorophenol with 44, 25 and 13% promotion, respectively, and thus the study offers a series of efficient photocatalysts for water purification.

Warren's "All the King's Men": Using the Author's Guide to the Novel

1973 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 704
Author(s):  
Allen Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
King's Men

The eye/I upon the event: a study of narrative voice in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Maria Lúcia Barbosa de Vasconcellos
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
King's Men ◽  
The Relationship

This thesis is a study of the relationship between the narrating self and its enunciation in Robert Penn Warren's All the king's men. The concept of point of view is surveyed and discussed and the poetics of narrative is opposed to the poetics of drama, since All the king's men is a novelization of a play by the same author. It is argued that narrative prose allows for a temporal perspective and is thus the adequate genre for the portrayal of man trapped in the complex tensions of time, a major theme of the novel. The narrative discourse is then analyzed through the categories of time, mode and voice, with the narrator's hesitation being examined in terms of function at the linguistic level. Finally, the fragmented and specular pattern of the enunciation is investigated by examining the insertion of the Cass Mastern episode in the narrative. A concluding reflexion focuses on the other voices which permeate the narrator's discourse and confirm the fragmented configuration of the text.

The novel one step syntheses of benzobis- and benzotris[1,2,5]thiadiazole

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 963-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuntaro Mataka ◽  
Kazufumi Takahashi ◽  
Masashi Tashiro
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
One Step

scholarly journals Plug-and-Play Few-shot Object Detection with Meta Strategy and Explicit Localization Inference

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junying Huang ◽  
Fan Chen ◽  
Liang Lin ◽  
dongyu zhang
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Plug And Play ◽  
Tuning Method ◽  
One Step ◽  
Tuning Process ◽  
General Object ◽  
The One ◽  
Parallel Techniques

Aiming at recognizing and localizing the object of novel categories by a few reference samples, few-shot object detection is a quite challenging task. Previous works often depend on the fine-tuning process to transfer their model to the novel category and rarely consider the defect of fine-tuning, resulting in many drawbacks. For example, these methods are far from satisfying in the low-shot or episode-based scenarios since the fine-tuning process in object detection requires much time and high-shot support data. To this end, this paper proposes a plug-and-play few-shot object detection (PnP-FSOD) framework that can accurately and directly detect the objects of novel categories without the fine-tuning process. To accomplish the objective, the PnP-FSOD framework contains two parallel techniques to address the core challenges in the few-shot learning, i.e., across-category task and few-annotation support. Concretely, we first propose two simple but effective meta strategies for the box classifier and RPN module to enable the across-category object detection without fine-tuning. Then, we introduce two explicit inferences into the localization process to reduce its dependence on the annotated data, including explicit localization score and semi-explicit box regression. In addition to the PnP-FSOD framework, we propose a novel one-step tuning method that can avoid the defects in fine-tuning. It is noteworthy that the proposed techniques and tuning method are based on the general object detector without other prior methods, so they are easily compatible with the existing FSOD methods. Extensive experiments show that the PnP-FSOD framework has achieved the state-of-the-art few-shot object detection performance without any tuning method. After applying the one-step tuning method, it further shows a significant lead in both efficiency, precision, and recall, under varied few-shot evaluation protocols.

scholarly journals MUSIK DAN SEKSUALITAS DALAM NOVEL DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN KARYA ELFRIEDE JELINEK (Music and Sexuality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Novel “Die Klavierspielerin”)

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Okky Dwi Hapitta ◽  
Yati Aksa ◽  
Safrina Noorman
Keyword(s):  
Function Theory ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Elfriede Jelinek

Musik banyak diangkat menjadi tema dalam karya-karya yang ditulis Jelinek. Dalam novel Die Klavierspielerin  yang terbit tahun 1983, Jelinek mengangkat tema musik. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan fungsi musik dan keterkaitannya dengan seksualitas tokoh utama. Kajian ini dilandasi oleh teori fungsi musik yang dikemukakan Alan P. Merriam, teori seksualitas yang dikemukakan oleh Padgug, serta teori seksualitas yang berkaitan dengan relasi kuasa yang dikemukakan oleh M. Foucault. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa di dalam novel tersebut terdapat fungsi musik sebagai representasi simbolis yang dijadikan sarana antar tokoh untuk saling menekan antara ibu terhadap Erika sebagai anak, Erika sebagai guru terhadap Klemmer sebagai murid. Musik juga memunculkan relasi kuasa yang mempengaruhi seksualitas Erika.Abstract: Music was mostly taken as a theme in many works written by Jelinek.  In the Die Klavierspielerin novel  published in 1983, Jelinek took theme of music. The study is aimed at revealing music function  and its links with the main character’s sexuality. This study is based on music function theory introduced by Alan P. Merriam, sexuality theory introduced by Padgug, and sexuality theory concerning power relation introduced by M. Foucault. The  results of analysis indicate that in the novel there are musical functions as symbolic representation used as a reference between characters to repress each other, such as,  mother to Erika as a child, Erika as a teacher to Klemmer as a student.

The Stark Regime and American Democracy: A Political Interpretation of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Close Connection ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Political Novel ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
King's Men ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
Insight Into

Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men is a political novel that deserves the serious study of political scientists interested in understanding the formative effects of American democracy. A careful reading of the novel that is informed by the classical approach to the analysis of regimes reveals the close connection between the politics of Willie Stark and the politics of modern American democracy. Furthermore, by viewing Stark's actions through the eyes of Jack Burden, a perceptive narrator who is moving toward self-knowledge, we can gain insight into both why modern democracies encourage the formation of a debilitating nihilism among their citizens and the prospects for countering these effects.

New Instruments and the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Lisa Bromberg
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Scientific Instrumentation ◽  
One Step ◽  
New Instruments

Historians tracing the development of research into the foundations of quantum mechanics have yet to factor in the role of new scientific instrumentation. Yet physicists repeatedly stress its importance when they write about recent work. This paper looks at two experiments done in the 1980s to illuminate Niels Bohr's concept of complementarity. It lays out the novel instruments that were used and examines the motives of the theorists who proposed the experiments and the experimentalists who carried them out. Understanding their attitudes is one step towards exploring the part that "real" experiments played in reconfiguring foundations research.

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