scholarly journals The Domestic Tyranny of Haunted Houses in Mary Wilkins Freeman and Shirley Jackson

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Christine Junker
Keyword(s):  
Single Women ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Shirley Jackson ◽  
Mary Wilkins Freeman ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Haunted Houses ◽  
The Way

Mary Wilkins Freeman and Shirley Jackson, though writing in different time periods, are both invested in recuperating domesticity and using their work to imagine what domesticity removed from the context of marriage and children can offer single women. Both authors assert that emplacement within domestic enclosure is essential to securing feminine subjectivity, but their haunted house narratives undermine that very emplacement. Freeman’s stories, “The Southwest Chamber” and “The Hall Bedroom” anticipate Jackson’s more well-known The Haunting of Hill House in the way that unruly domesticity threatens the female character’s emplacement. Their haunted house narratives show that neither Freeman nor Jackson, for all that they are subversive in some ways, wants to dissolve the traditional ideological constructs of domesticity; instead, they want these ideologies to work in the culturally promised patriarchal fashion. Reading their haunted house narratives together reveals the dynamics and tensions of a domesticity that is fluid, entangled, and vibrant and the feminist potential such sites engender, even if the characters and texts in question cannot fully realize that potential.

scholarly journals A Case Study in Summitry: The Experience of Britain's Edward Heath, 1970-74

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-293
Author(s):  
John Young
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
High Profile ◽  
British Experience ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractWhile summits are well served in the literature on diplomacy, the focus tends to be on specific, high-profile occasions such as Munich and Yalta or on the broad experience of multilateral conferences. Such approaches may obscure the full range of summits that were taking place by the later twentieth century. By focusing on a four-year period in the experience of a particular leader, this article provides a case study of summitry, which might serve as the basis for comparisons with other countries and time periods. It draws out the frequency, type and geographical range of summits experienced by Edward Heath as British premier and, in doing so, also raises issues about how types of summits are defined, the relationship between bilateral and multilateral meetings and the way that summitry has evolved as a diplomatic practice. In particular it emerges that summits were frequent and ofen perfunctory affairs, sometimes held as a simple courtesy to leaders who were passing through London. In this sense the British experience may have been unusual, but it is also evident from the number of Heath's interlocutors and the multilateral conferences that he attended that summits had become an integral part of political life for world leaders in the jet age.

PN: We’ve talked quite a bit about narrative; maybe we should think too about tone and about your exploitation of particular figures of speech. Cast in Doubt is tonally rich, of course, but that’s partly parodic. Other books, particularly Haunted Houses, seem to cultivate a certain lack of tone; sometimes the style reminded me of forms of naturalism. Whole passages of flat, short sentences which made me think of Dos Passos in the way one thing or event is simply placed against another. An emphasis on the local and contiguous rather than on some overall structure or plot, perhaps…? LT: I don’t think of the style of Haunted Houses as flat. It’s angular, sharp. The edges between sentences are tough—take no prisoners. The structure too is angular—three characters who never meet, three chapters for each of the five sections, no greased transitions. I was interested in how gaps make meanings, how juxtapositions work. I’m always involved in that, pushing one set of ideas up against another. That’s maybe what you think of as naturalistic. And all that makes strange disturbances. Haunted Houses is grimly funny sometimes. Motion Sickness is more fluid, playing off a stream of words, associations; its structure is almost circular, with the first chapter, to my mind, a trailer for the upcoming feature. Cast in Doubt is arch, even toying with being precious. The structure is filled with holes, anxious ones. Each work is supposed to have its own integrity. PN: And the style is always aware of itself, of the effects it’s aiming for. At first glance it just seems witty, but there’s another layer where you start stripping away the cottonwool of metaphor: ‘She chooses a piece of silverware as if it were a weapon. But she does not attack her food’ (A, 106). This kind of effect reminds me of Brecht’s advice to his actors, to speak their lines as if they were bracketed within quotation marks. LT: Books are made of words, characters are made of words. I like to call attention to that. To me it’s pleasurable. It’s like watching a movie. If the film-maker isn’t using the camera well, using that medium as if there weren’t a camera, or if the editing isn’t really interesting, what are you watching? You’re not actually watching something that’s taking advantage of the medium. PN: What I called ‘bracketing’ is also something that I think you’ve explored in your work with film. In an interview about Committed you say that you ‘used certain narrative codes but then veered away from them sharply and used other, more avant-garde ones— deliberately going back and forth.’ There’s certainly an emphasis

2005 ◽  
pp. 62-62
Keyword(s):  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Film Maker ◽  
Haunted Houses ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

The Predictions Table: a tool for assessing students' knowledge.

1992 ◽  
Vol 263 (6) ◽  
pp. S33 ◽  
Author(s):  
A A Rovick ◽  
J A Michael
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Cardiovascular System ◽  
Blood Pressure Regulation ◽  
Physiological System ◽  
Pressure Regulation ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Computer Classroom ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

The Predictions Table (PT), a tool for determining students' knowledge, is described. The PT is a matrix consisting of a group of variables and a set of time periods. Students enter in the PT their qualitative predictions of the effects of a perturbation on a physiological system. The instructor or a teaching program can then evaluate the students' knowledge from these entries. An example is given from the teaching program CIRCSIM, which deals with blood pressure regulation. It shows the way that the program uses errors in the students' PT entries. CIRCSIM was evaluated and was found to have a statistically significant effect. It reduced the number of errors that students made in predicting the responses of the cardiovascular system to a perturbation. Also, students who worked in groups had significantly greater improvement than did control students. Using CIRCSIM also significantly reduces the number of relationship errors that the students make. They made even fewer errors when an instructor was present in the computer classroom while the students used CIRCSIM.

scholarly journals Product or Production: On the accumulative Aspect of Rock Art at Nämforsen, Northern Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-269
Author(s):  
Ylva Sjöstrand
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Way

In this article the accumulative aspect of rock art is dis- cussed. In light of the simple fact that we are seeing rock art panels in their final form, questions concerning the interrelation between figures deriving from differ- ent time periods are addressed. The author’s aim is to draw attention to the long continuity of rock art sites and show how greater awareness of this aspect will af- fect the way we comprehend this material in general. The continuity of rock art sites is exemplified by means of a case study of Nämforsen, located in the province of Ångermanland, northern Sweden.

Before Jonathan Edwards

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaan C. Neele
Keyword(s):  
Political Transition ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Book Studies ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
The Way

This volume will present the first comprehensive study of Jonathan Edwards’s use of Reformed orthodox and Protestant scholastic primary sources in the context of the challenges of orthodoxy in his day. It will look at the way he appreciated and appropriated Reformed orthodoxy, among other topics. The book studies three time periods in Edwards’s life and work, the formative years of 1703–1725, the Northampton period of 1726–1750, and the final years of 1751–1758. A background of post-Reformation thought, but with particular attention to Mastricht, is offered for each period enabling readers to assess issues of continuity and discontinuity, development and change in Edwards. Since there has been limited research on Edwards’s use of his primary sources this study analyses the theological ideas of the past that found their way into Edwards’s own theological reflections. The book argues that the formation, reflection, and communication of theological thought must be historically informed. The teaching, preaching, and practice of theology must be rooted in the classical curricula, methods of preaching, and systema of theology. Inherited theology must be evaluated on its own terms, historically and theologically, so that meaningful answers for the present can be constructed. Tracing Edwards’s discerning engagement with past ideas exemplifies how theology unfolds in an era of intellectual, religious, social, and political transition.

Flight from the Womb

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-737
Author(s):  
Charmaine Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Chick Lit ◽  
The City

Although chick lit, epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones’s Diary, has been analyzed by feminist critics as an example of postfeminist culture, the transnational spread of the genre has resulted in transformations that invite fresh consideration. In the Indian context, chick lit emerged in the aftermath of economic liberalization, contributing to the configuration of a new feminine subjectivity—“the single woman in the city.” This article argues that the discourse of singleness in Indian chick lit is deployed not so much to solve the problem of singleness through marriage but to resolve the tension between the demands of “Indian tradition” on middle-class young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by neoliberal discourses of autonomy. This dichotomy is symbolized in the novels in the tension between mothers and daughters and plays out primarily across the domains of choice of spouse, food, and dress. While tradition and modernity are conceptualized as binaries, the single women in these novels seem to be wrestling with a way of articulating a selfhood without having to pick a side. In their refusal to conform to ideas of Indian selfhood wherein individualism is circumscribed by autonomy, the “single woman” presents, if not ideally represents, the idea of synthesis.

The Bill of Sale

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The South ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
Direct Target ◽  
Critical Conversation ◽  
Haunted Houses ◽  
The Way

The introduction explores how the American dream of being able to create one’s identity is entangled with the American nightmare of slavery where personhood is denied. Both the dream and the nightmare depend on the same system of property rights. The very first American narratives use gothic markers, such as ghosts or haunted houses, to question the American dream revealing anxieties about property and property rights, but those anxieties are magnified in narratives that depict slavery. While critics have long argued that American gothic works are driven by slavery, what is missing in the critical conversation is the more direct target of the gothic energy in the eleven texts this book examines: the way that slavery turns people into property. This chapter introduces the four key components of the book’s argument: the gothic, property, slavery, and the South.

Development Through Epistemicide: The Case of Indigo

Social Change ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-589
Author(s):  
Krishnamurari Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Specific Time ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Indigo Dye ◽  
The Way

This essay strives to probe the trajectory of politics of knowledge in the context of India’s politics of development in two specific time periods—the colonial and the post-colonial. The chosen empirical case through which the inquiry will be undertaken is the case of cultivation of the indigo dye. The primary interrogation of this work stands as follows: can a case for epistemicide be made with regards to certain practices of development instantiated herein by the cultivation of the indigo dye in the time-periods cited above? If so, then how? Furthermore, the essay also seeks to understand the differences that exist in the way which the politics of epistemicide plays out in both these temporal contexts. Hence, if there are any differences, what would they be? Finally, how does such politics of knowledge implicate a developmental democracy like India? The methodology pursued is analytical and comparative.

scholarly journals Considerations on the derailment causes over the years on the Romanian railway network

2018 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 08010
Author(s):  
Mircea Nicolescu
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Way

This paper has analysed a series of railway accidents produced by derailment in two different time periods: 1938-1945 and 2010-2011, in attempting to compare direct causes typologies. The comparison serves as purpose to establish the way in which technological development produced several changes and the conclusions can be surprising. In spite of the technical evolutions in the railroads industry during 70 years, a lot of the causes remain the same.

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