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The First World War, Madness, and Reading between the Lines of The Marsden Case
The Marsden Case, Ford’s first published novel after the First World War, has received relatively little critical attention. This paper aims to redress the balance by offering a sustained reading which illustrates how the context of the First World War interacts with a major theme in Ford’s oeuvre, madness. It follows Ford’s maxim that the novel was a place for inquiry and illustrates how Ford’s narrator explores the questions of who succumbs to madness and why. It highlights a debate at work in the novel on the role of talk in creating or curing nervous breakdowns. The novel’s opacity is part of a challenge to the wisdom of directly confronting or revisiting painful experiences, which speaks not only to the effects of the war but to the value of emerging Freudian psychotherapy.
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Junonia
The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
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Shell Shock and the Legacy of the Victorian Past in the Present: Remembering WWI in Pat Barker’s Another World
In her 1998 novel Another World, Pat Barker draws from a topic on which she has written previously with great success—the First World War and the experiences of its combatants—and yet approaches that topic from a completely different perspective. The novel returns to the Great War to consider notions of ‘shell shock’, attitudes towards WWI veterans, and the problems surrounding remembering past violence, but what is perhaps surprising about Another World is that it uses a Victorian storyline to address these concerns, and presents the First World War through the means of references to nineteenth-century culture.
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A whale of a tale
\"Splat's family is going to the beach--and Splat can't wait to find a shell with the sound of the sea inside! But when all he finds are broken shells, can a friend in the ocean help save the day?\"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Saving living diversity in the face of the unstoppable 6th mass extinction: a call for urgent international action
The global scale and impact of current and increasing human population size is incompatible with the survival of biological diversity and the 6th mass extinction cannot be stopped. For the vast majority of species we have neither the knowledge of when they will go extinct nor the capacity to find out. Conventional conservation measures can only amount to token damage limitation. Advances in molecular biology allow low cost options for storing the genetic diversity of numerous species and maximising future options for restoring species.
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Is this a house for Hermit Crab?
\"A hermit crab in need of a new, bigger shell explores the beach, trying on a variety of unsuitable objects before finding the right fit\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia
An international Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia was held during February 23-26, 1999, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The main goal of the workshop was to develop a realistic strategy to rehabilitate depleted northern (pinto) abalone, Haliotis kamtschatkana, stocks in British Columbia.
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“She was born a thing”: Disability, the Cyborg and the Posthuman in Anne McCaffrey'sThe Ship Who Sang
This essay demonstrates the transformative effect of adding disability studies to the array of critical lenses that have been focused on Anne McCaffrey's “The Ship Who Sang” (1961, 1969 as novel). A touchstone in theoretical work on cyborgs and the posthuman, as well as a key text for science fiction scholars, McCaffrey's story has generally been viewed as a vision of cyborg possibility. In contrast, I demonstrate the ways in which the narrative relies upon and reinforces a range of ableist ideologies. I highlight a series of previously unexplored tensions within the narrative, arguing that McCaffrey's bold attempt to depict a race of disabled superbeings is undermined by the strategies of containment she adopts.
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