Varieties of Rural Experience: Country Communities in Virginia and Wessex

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-48
Author(s):  
J. Hillis Miller
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Organic Community ◽  
Explicit Comparison

After an initial reflection on just what might be meant by ‘rural experience’, the essay turns to an explicit comparison of the author's childhood experiences on his maternal grandparents’ farm in Afton, Virginia, with Thomas Hardy's rendition in his novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, of his childhood experiences in Upper Bockhampton, Dorsetshire. Both Miller and Hardy seem to represent their childhood places as examples of genuine ‘organic communities’, but the essay shows in detail ways in which the model of organic community does not quite work in either case. This ‘non-working’, however, is not the same in each instance. The essay shows this in detail, especially by way of attention to the southern heritage of slavery in modern Afton, and by way of the narrator's ironic detachment in Under the Greenwood Tree as well as through the photographs that illustrated early editions of Hardy's novel and through the reference in the subtitle to the novel as ‘A Rural Painting of the Dutch School’.

scholarly journals Maternal Adverse Childhood Experience Exposure and Resilience During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942110023
Author(s):  
Catherine A. LaBrenz ◽  
Philip Baiden ◽  
Erin Findley ◽  
Patrick S. Tennant ◽  
Sreyashi Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

Since March 2020, families across the United States have faced challenges due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its subsequent restrictions. Although some experts have voiced concern over the impact of COVID-19 on family well-being, few studies have been conducted thus far. This study utilized n = 250 responses from an online survey that was administered between May and June 2020 to gauge family stress and resilience among mothers of children ages 0 to 5 during the pandemic. Adverse childhood experiences were negatively associated with parental resilience among this sample. Furthermore, frequency of child care was positively linked to protective factors and resilience. Implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed, with a particular focus on the role of child care and school openings during the pandemic.

scholarly journals Psychological approach to the novel Look at me, Klara

E-methodology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
JAKUB MAJKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Literary Prizes

Aim. The nomination for important literary prizes is not only a source of pride for thewriter, but also a special encouragement for the readers to get acquainted with the book.The author of the article, subject to this kind of persuasion, tries to get a thorough look atthe novel, especially in the psychological context.Look at me, Klara is a novel about fears and obsessions as well as involvement in toxicrelationships.The concepts discussed. The author of the article interprets the psychological motifs inthe novel based on Antoni Kępiński’s concept of fear (1987) and John Bowlby’s theory ofattachment (2000).Results and conclusions. The attitudes of the heroes of the novel can be identifi edin terms of their childhood experiences, which are unconscious reasons for current lifeproblems.

scholarly journals Gender and racial trauma in Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ramesh Prasad Adhikary
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Voice

This paper analyses racial and gender trauma evoking the tormented state of the narrator, Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Based on the cultural trauma, the researcher analyses the experiences of depressed African American women without identities. The narrator struggles to develop her dignified self and nonconformist outlook comes to block her after she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend Mr. Freeeman. The mysterious murder of her rapist creates the guilt, shame in her psychic as she thinks that she is responsible for his murder. The narrator suffering from the guilt and self-loathing results in her psychic turmoil. She stops speaking to people except her brother, Bailey. In the novel, Angelou tries to raise the voice of Black women to achieve dignified identity in the white racist and sexist America looking back on her childhood experiences. In this regard, this research aims to show reasons that cause the traumatic situation in the narrator due to several events that erupt in African American societies. Not only this, this research work explores issues related to the cause of racial and gender trauma and discusses how the narrator succeeds in working through trauma while in some cases the narrator just acts out it. Key Words: Race, Gender, Cultural trauma, Psychic turmoil, identity, self

The novel steroidal glycoside from the dried bulb of Allium Macrostemon Bunge inhibits platelet activation

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S33-S33
Author(s):  
Wenchao Ou ◽  
Haifeng Chen ◽  
Yun Zhong ◽  
Benrong Liu ◽  
Keji Chen
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Activation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Steroidal Glycoside ◽  
Allium Macrostemon
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