County road 23

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Meagan Ciesla
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Moral Culpability

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is composed of a critical introduction and a creative manuscript. The critical introduction "Deindustrial Half-life: Decayed Whiteness in Postcards and Affliction," contributes to whiteness studies scholarship by arguing that the deindustrial shift from local to global economies in the late 20th century results in the representation of poor white rural New England characters as decayed bodies. The creative manuscript is County Road 23, a novel narrated by an omniscient voice that details the lives of the disenfranchised in rural 1980s Upstate New York. The narrative follows the Savages, a family of three impoverished middle-aged brothers who manage their fourth-generation dairy farm. The brothers' livelihood is threatened by low milk prices, high loan interest rates, and the impending development of a landfill used for surplus garbage shipped westward from the New York City boroughs. The novel leaps across time to reveal the conflict between the Savages and their neighbors, the Keegans, who live in a bordering trailer town. A deal between the Keegans' son and a land developer leads to a drowning as well as the death of the eldest Savage brother. While the novel is interested in the ramifications of disappearing family farms in the face of corporate land development, primarily it questions moral culpability, family allegiance, and the social stigmas regarding work, property, and land ownership in the impoverished rural community.

scholarly journals Comparative Genomic and Morphological Analyses of Listeria Phages Isolated from Farm Environments

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (15) ◽  
pp. 4616-4625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Denes ◽  
Kitiya Vongkamjan ◽  
Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann ◽  
Andrea I. Moreno Switt ◽  
Martin Wiedmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Genomic Diversity ◽  
Comparative Genomic ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Small Genome ◽  
Food Borne

ABSTRACTThe genusListeriais ubiquitous in the environment and includes the globally important food-borne pathogenListeria monocytogenes. While the genomic diversity ofListeriahas been well studied, considerably less is known about the genomic and morphological diversity ofListeriabacteriophages. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 14Listeriaphages isolated mostly from New York dairy farm environments as well as one relatedEnterococcus faecalisphage to obtain information on genome characteristics and diversity. We also examined 12 of the phages by electron microscopy to characterize their morphology. TheseListeriaphages, based on gene orthology and morphology, together with previously sequencedListeriaphages could be classified into five orthoclusters, including one novel orthocluster. One orthocluster (orthocluster I) consists of large-genome (∼135-kb) myoviruses belonging to the genus “Twort-like viruses,” three orthoclusters (orthoclusters II to IV) contain small-genome (36- to 43-kb) siphoviruses with icosahedral heads, and the novel orthocluster V contains medium-sized-genome (∼66-kb) siphoviruses with elongated heads. A novel orthocluster (orthocluster VI) ofE. faecalisphages, with medium-sized genomes (∼56 kb), was identified, which grouped together and shares morphological features with the novelListeriaphage orthocluster V. This new group of phages (i.e., orthoclusters V and VI) is composed of putative lytic phages that may prove to be useful in phage-based applications for biocontrol, detection, and therapeutic purposes.

““A Talent for the Disagreeable””: Elizabeth Stoddard Writes The Morgesons

2003 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
JESSICA R. FELDMAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New England ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Elizabeth Stoddard ◽  
Female Gothic ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
Experimental Novel

ABSTRACT Jessica R. Feldman, ““A Talent for the Disagreeable””: Elizabeth Stod-dard Writes The Morgesons (pp.202––229) Critics have tended to read Elizabeth Stoddard's bewildering first novel, The Morgesons (1862), as a Bildungsroman——anautobiographical portrait of the artist as a young woman in early-nineteenth-century New England——or as an instance of female Gothic, proto-regionalism, or sentimentalism. Such interpretations, often focusing on the narrative arc of Cassandra Morgeson's self-empowerment, tend to ignore the novel's less comforting messages along with its painful, mysteriously awkward, even pathological atmosphere. Aspects of the novel that cannot be restated simply as plot——the structures of its words and sentences, its tone, patterns of imagery, rat-a-tat dialogue——Stoddard has thrust into a prominence that we have not adequately studied. When we begin to explore these formal elements in relation to the artistic environment in which Stoddard wrote The Morgesons, we can see that the novel analogically tracks her troubling personality and her contemporary situation in New York City. She was, for better and for worse, a woman writing among the male ““Genteel Poets,”” a group that was itself quite conflicted and that both helped and hindered her. Moreover, finding a form sufficient to express that complex situation required her to experiment with prose in ways that look forward to high Modernist works of the early twentieth century. Only through an experimental novel of layered and fragmented tales, voiced in language that insists on its own materiality, could Stoddard find adequate self-expression.

scholarly journals The US shale oil production, market forces and the US export ban

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilayda Taneri ◽  
Nukhet Dogan ◽  
M. Hakan Berument
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Shale Oil ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The Us ◽  
Positive Shock

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the novel data from the primary vision to determine the main financial and economic drivers of this revolutionary shale oil production and how these drivers changed after 2016 when the US removed its oil-exporting ban. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors use the vector autoregressive model to assess the dynamic relationships among the Frac Count (FSCN) from the primary vision and the set of financial/macro-economic variables and how this dynamic relationship is altered with the effects of the US export ban before and after the lifting of the export ban. Findings The empirical evidence reveals that a positive shock to New York Mercantile Exchange, Standard and Poor’s 500, rig count, West Texas Intermediate or the US ending oil stocks increase the FSCN but higher interest rates and oil production decrease the FSCN. After the US became one of the major oil producers, it removed its crude export ban in December 2015. The empirical evidence suggests that the shale oil industry gets more integrated with the financial system and becomes more efficient in its production process in the post-2016 era after the export ban was removed. Originality/value The purpose of this paper is to use the novel data from the primary vision to determine the main financial and economic drivers of this revolutionary shale oil production and how these drivers changed after 2016 when the US removed its oil-exporting ban.

Industrial Borrowing by the New England Textile Mills, 1840–1860, A Comment

1961 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Vatter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
New England ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Interlocking Directorates ◽  
Textile Mills ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
General Business

Lance E. Davis, writing in the March 1960 issue of The Journal of Economic History, found that comparatively low interest rates were paid by eight “Massachusetts-type” cotton textile mills on loans from 1840 to 1860. These firms were voracious borrowers throughout the period, and the textile industry as a whole was a major user of credit. Davis attributed the continued low interest rates primarily to well-enforced usury laws and to the influence of nonprofit lending agencies, with occasional references to effects of the New York money market (not important before 1853). Many other factors—for example, the Tariff of 1846, removing protection from important classes of cotton textiles, die general business cycle, technological changes, alternative investments in railroads and other industries, the relation of increased savings to increased investment demands—should all be explored for an adequate explanation. Of these factors, only the general business cycle is taken up by Davis in a brief reference. The purpose of this note is to suggest that interlocking directorates between financial and textile firms rather than usury laws were probably chiefly responsible for the low rates paid.

Google Hangout with Annie Baker, Playwright 1/25/16, 2:33 PM

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Genevieve Yue
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
The Past

Genevieve Yue interviews playwright Annie Baker, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Flick focuses on the young employees of a single-screen New England movie house. Baker is one of the most critically lauded playwrights to emerge on the New York theater scene in the past ten years, in part due to her uncompromising commitment to experimentation and disruption. Baker intrinsically understands that arriving at something meaningful means taking a new way. Accordingly, Baker did not want to conduct a traditional interview for Film Quarterly. After running into each other at a New York Film Festival screening of Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie (2015)—both overwhelmed by the film—Yue and Baker agreed to begin their conversation by choosing a film neither of them had seen before and watching it together. The selection process itself led to a long discussion, which led to another, and then finally, to the Gmail hangout that forms the basis of the interview.

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Redefining Fundamentalism in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Quratulain Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Immigrant Student ◽  
American System ◽  
American Nationalism ◽  
Globalized World

This article is based on a study of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), a novel by a Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid.  The novel is based on the  story of  transformation of an expat Pakistani living in New York from a true cosmopolitan to a nationalist. The article will explore the crisis of identity suffered by the protagonist in a new land where he reached as an immigrant  student and worker. However, he experienced a resurgence of nationalist and patriotic sentiments within him as 9/ 11 happened in 2001.  The force of American nationalism that was imperial in nature, resulting in the invasion of Afghanistan and Iran, triggered resentment in the protagonist who decided to leave America and went back to the country of his origin, Pakistan. During his stay in America, the protagonist redefined fundamentalism as an imperial tendency in the American system while rejecting the accusations hurled towards him of an Islamic fundamentalist. The article will explain that there is a loss of cosmopolitan virtue  in the post 9/11 era and the dream of universal peace and harmony  is shattered due to unbridled  state ambitions to invade foreign territories.   The article will conclude with the assertion that the loss of cosmopolitanism and reassertion of national identities give way to confrontation and intolerance destroying the prospects of peace and harmony in a globalized world.

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