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Gertrude Stein?s Radical Aesthetics, 2005.
Examines how Stein's "Tender Buttons" uses radical aesthetics to necessitate social change and better the position of women in society.
1,912 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 61.95
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This essay looks critically at Stein's writing style in her book "Tender Buttons," and shows how her syntax draws attention to the binary of man and woman, and ultimately deconstructs this binary.
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"In Tender Buttons, Stein stresses the importance of the direct treatment of objects, as well as how they appear on the page. She employs parataxis, the placement of words side by side, in order to show the importance of simultaneity, and how it affects multiple perspectives. Through parataxis, Stein blatantly rejects traditional realism, and instead shows how truth is not solely rooted in the appearance, but in the overall mood or meditation of a piece."
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Self-Writing and Gertrude Stein, 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes the unique writing style of feminist writer Gertrude Stein in her book "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."
1,525 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper defines the autobiography as one person's decision to chronicle his/her life by writing down the sum of their experiences, which allows readers to gain knowledge about him/her. The writer of this paper focuses on Gertrude Stein's writing in "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" which has since proven to be years ahead of feminist, literary and psychological theory. Stein was one of the first feminist fiction writers to bring the discussion of self-writing and its language to the forefront. The book chronicles the life of Stein and her long-time companion while focusing on the idea of self-definition. The title alone represents the parody Stein was creating by using the language of autobiography against itself. This paper examines Stein's method for breaking down both the societal constraints that foreclose on us and the walls of a genre that women, especially lesbian, expatriate writers, cannot identify with.
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"Essentially, Stein created the impersonal autobiography, a veiled construct allowing readers to enter, but leave with "only a vague idea of its situation." For instance, her descriptions of Alice and Gertrude travelling through the war zones in Europe are devoid of feeling. As she states, the war signaled the beginning of her studies of "the inside as seen from the outside." Readers learn that these two women were involved in history, but only an outline is given, opening the door for interpretation. Thus, the book chronicles her fascination with being "apart" of something, a movement, a nationality, a history, and yet being "a part" from it at the same time. In some instances, her and Alice play out a heterosexual relationship, in which Gertrude is the male and Alice is the female, or vice versa."
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Gertrude Stein and Literary Form, 2006.
A review of the life and work of Gertrude Stein.
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This paper reviews the life and work of Gertrude Stein, who wrote in the modernist period, a time that emerging societal concerns such as feminism and politics enticed many writers to break with conventional forms. Through this alteration in form, writers such as Stein were capable of using words to build their self expression about the world in which they lived.
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Gertrude Stein, 2002.
A biography of the twentieth century writer Gertrude Stein and her unique style.
1,710 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper presents a brief biography of Gertrude Stein and examines her life and work. It begins by describing her education and the people that are said to have mostly influenced her career path. It then discusses her meeting of Alice Toklas and the eventual long-term lesbian relationship of the two. The writer looks at how her controversial and unique style of writing was influenced by her alternative personal life.
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"It is difficult to think of 1920?s Paris without recalling Gertrude Stein. A friend to some of the most prominent artists and writers of the 20th century, Stein is not only known for her own accomplished writing contributions, but also for her personal lifestyle. Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Radcliffe from 1893-1897, where she was a student of William James. One day Stein wrote, ?Dear Professor James, I am sorry but really I do not feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today??the next day James send her a postcard saying ?I understand perfectly how you feel, I often feel like that myself,? and then he gave her the highest mark in his course (World pg). She then began premedical work at Johns Hopkins. In 1902, she decided to take a break from her studies, and went abroad, finally joining her brother Leo in Paris at 27 Rue de Fleurus in 1903. Stein would not touch American soil again for thirty years. She once said, ?I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made? (World pg)."
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Gertrude Stein, 2002.
Examines the life history and works of this writer, as well as her influence on other writers.
4,127 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper focuses on a gifted thinker whose poetic form is sometimes misunderstood, but rarely ignored - Gertrude Stein. It delves into the life of a courageous woman who was a lesbian at a time when there was no gay movement. This paper also examines the tremendous impact Steins' work and life had on two prominent modern poets, Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian.
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"The first thing many beginning poetry students often hear with reference to Gertrude Stein is that she is ?difficult? to read and comprehend. Plus, for some students and poetry aficionados, Gertrude?s eroticism, feminism and lesbianism might be a bit much to swallow. But, the alert instructor can lead a student past those little speed bumps emerging from the difficulties of Gertrude?s work, and into the light of day, to see that she really was presenting two abiding concerns through her artistry: a portrayal of the woman?s experience, and the exploration of how it is we see and organize what we see."
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Gertrude Stein and Filippo Marinetti, 1993.
The lives and careers of the American and Egyptian writers including styles, aesthetics, major works and influences.
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"Gertrude Stein and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti were both known as stylists and innovators, and both wrote in a number of different forms--drama, poetry, essays, and the novel, among others. Stein and Marinetti were both products of the innovative artistic period of the early part of this century into the 1920s and beyond, and each was a leader imitated and admired by the next generation of writers. Stein was influenced by Cubism and other artistic movements that separated the viewer from the expectations of photographic portrayals of the world, and marinetti was a leader in the Futurist movement which was also opposed to strict representation of the world in a realistic way. Stein's life with Alice B. Toklas was somewhat scandalous but relatively quiet by some standards, while Marinetti's life was flamboyant and steeped in scandal and challenge to society as..."
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Psychoanalytic Aesthetics, 2002.
Outlines the concept of psychoanalytic aesthetics as portrayed by clinician Hannah Segal.
5,000 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 126.95
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The psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics enables us to understand the artists' aesthetic experiences as he or she conjures up his perception and response thereof, interpretation and meaning and his or her thoughts and feelings. The paper explains that, primarily divided into applied psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis, the discipline of psychoanalytic aesthetics has been studied and commented upon by many famous psychoanalysts and clinicians over the years. This paper focuses on the comments of clinician Hanna Segal's psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics in general and particularly her quotes on creation and recreation. It examines her comment: ?The essence of the aesthetic creation is a resolution of the central depressive situation and that the main factor in the aesthetic experience is the identification with this process." (H. Segal, 1981).
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"According to Segal, one of the main aims of the artists is to create a world of his own, as Winnicott (1971) also held that the need to create something out of nothing is the main impulse. Segal says that though the artist believes that he is engaged in reproducing the external world, the fact is that the artist is using the external world to rebuild his own inner self. One of the themes used by Segal is of recovering the past and the defragmentation of the pieces."
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?Gertrude and Claudius? and "Hamlet", 2004.
This paper discusses John Updike?s ?Gertrude and Claudius? and
Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet?, upon which Updike based his novel.
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This paper explains that John Updike?s novel ?Gertrude and Claudius?, attempts to provide a past history for the Hamlet?s mother, Gertrude, but creates a far different woman than the sensual, guilty lady of the drama, ?Hamlet.? The author points out that what is so interesting about Updike?s version of the tale is, although the plot of the novel is virtually the same as the drama, Updike takes a completely different view of middle-aged sexuality. The paper relates that, in the Shakespearean play, Hamlet dominates the action, and there are only fleeting glimpses of Gertrude?s greater psychology; whereas, in Updike?s version, Gertrude is at the center of the drama.
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"Updike portrays a much more beautiful vision of middle-aged sexuality than young Hamlet?s mind can possibly dream of. Updike?s Gertrude did not ?sink? into moral turpitude, changing from a weeping widow to a lusty bride, as her son tells the audience. ?Why she would hang on him/As if increase of appetite had grown/ By what it fed on, and yet within a month?. With which she followed my poor father?s body, Like Niobe, al tears?. married with mine uncle.? (1.2.144-149) Rather, the carnal pleasures Gertrude enjoyed with Claudius in Updike?s vision were her first experiences of a full sensuality. When Claudius and Gertrude first enjoy a night together, Updike writes, ?Surges of sensation in her lower parts lifted her so high her voice was flung from her like a bird's lost call.?"
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Wilde Visions of Paterian Aesthetics, 2007.
This paper analyzes works by Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater, examining parallels with regards to ethics and aesthetics.
19,650 words (approx. 78.6 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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In this work, Oscar Wilde's plays are partially taken into deep consideration as an analysis of his playwright identity. In the process of the discovery of his decadent resentment of the late nineteenth century orders, the influential figures of the new movement are also indicated. Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater have important parallels among their Epistemologies, ethics and aesthetics. The writer uses extensive examples primarily regarding to Pater's first book, Marius The Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas (1885) and Wilde's plays of 1894, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, to display their aesthetic ideology to demonstrate the precise link between the two, for it has never been convincingly interjected. The main question underlying this paper is of how Wilde perceives art. While exploring his conception of art, dandy-ism is comprehensibly touched in order to reveal his aesthetic identity. However, this paper discusses his aesthetic ideology in the context of individualism through the referencing of some of his works, particularly his aforementioned plays. The question at the basis of this preoccupation is of how Wilde displays the expressing of individuality and idiosyncrasies through art and in particular the value of art.
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"The use of Puns is another concept that pars to both the aesthetic identity of Walter Pater as well as the aesthetic identity of Oscar Wilde. In this play "The Importance of Being Earnest", the pun, which is generally believed to be the lowest structure of oral humor, is hardly ever just a humor on words. The duality of the title in itself is proof of that. One example of such a notion lies in the earnest/Ernest humor that is utilized to hit the very truth of all the Victorian ideas and rules regarding propriety and responsibility. Gwendolen wants to be betrothed to a man named Ernest, without giving a thought to whether the man bearing such a name bears its qualities too or not. She, nevertheless, immediately exonerates Jack's dishonesty in personifying a man who is originally neither "earnest" nor "Ernest," and who, because of forces stronger than his own power, consequently develops both "earnest" and "Ernest." Jack is a perfect paradox and a compound emblem of Victorian duplicity."
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Quebec Radical Cheerleaders, 2007.
This paper explores how the activities of the Toronto faction of the radical cheerleaders in Quebec City were both reactionary and revolutionary.
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The paper explains that individuals and groups use civil disobedience to protest a wide range of issues raging from environmental pollution to political or social corruption. The paper looks at the activities of the Toronto faction of the Radical Cheerleaders during the anti-FTAA (Free Trade of the Americas Act) protests in Quebec City. The paper shows how the radical cheerleaders displayed a combination of reactionary and revolutionary characteristics.
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"People all have interests and opinions. Groups of people and individuals tend to show a wide range of interests and opinions. In society some of these people's interests and opinions will receive a great deal of attention while others will be ignored or suppressed. People that do not have their interests meet or their opinions heard usually have to rely on alternative methods to make their voices heard. One of the more common ways is civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is defined as, "refusal to obey governmental commands especially as a nonviolent means of protest"(Anonymous 96)."
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A Radical Society through History, 2002.
The radical and revolutionary society of 18th and 19th century America, as described in "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair and "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody.
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This paper reviews American history from the perspective that the society was radical and revolutionary, by focusing on the the works "The Jungle" and "Coming of Age in Mississippi". It shows how radical reform and revolutionary ideas are at the very foundation of freedom in America, and how this tradition of freedom of speech and rebellion has continued from 1865 onwards.
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"In 1865, the nation had just lived through a Civil War that divided the nation, families, and races. Now, America was ready to move on, but there were still issues dividing the nation ? issues that would continue to foster revolution and radicalism, and bring out the best and worst in the people of the United States. After the Civil War, "Reconstruction" began in the South, and Northerners, called "carpetbaggers," swarmed in. Most of them hoped to take advantage of the South's surrender and weakness, while furthering their own moneymaking goals. The politicians and carpetbaggers were only interested in making money, and corruption flourished. All this did was create animosity in the South. he beaten southerners blamed the newly freed blacks for their troubles, and if the blacks had it bad before the Civil War, it was no better after. They still worked for meager or no wages, while living in run-down shacks on the plantations of their former owners. Only now, they had to fend for themselves, and many of them had no idea how to take care of themselves, or earn a living. Persecution of blacks has continued in the South since the Civil War, eventually leading up to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s."
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Radical Individualism, 2006.
This paper examines radical individualism as discussed in 'American Democracy in Peril: Seven Challenges to America's Future' by William Hudson.
2,714 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the subject of radical individualism, looking at 'American Democracy in Peril: Seven Challenges to America's Future' by William Hudson and other sources. The writer discusses how
Hudson espouses a viewpoint that turns what most people think is right with America, that is its individualism, and makes it a lethal weapon to the democracy Americans also say they support. The writer describes that for Hudson and Stivers and other writers of distinction about the American experiment, individualism without corresponding community, at times is a prescription for disaster. The writer contends that radical individualism, as practiced in modern America, is isolating and depressing, hollow and waiting to be filled.
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The Argument for a Constitutional Monarchy
Collectivism vs. Community
Conclusion
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"Hudson went much further back than that in proposing that Radical Individualism was at cause for the slow destruction of the American experiment, and that the problem could be traced to the very founding of the nation, although modern factors such as the media were certainly culpable as well. But at base, it is not a 'thing' that is to blame, but adherence to a concept all too easily pushed to an unworkable extreme. Myers called the current expression of the excesses noted by Hudson a "social recession."
Hudson called it a Pathological Politics of Rights and Interests. Although Hudson is at pains to trace the problem to the very foundations of the nation and before, certainly the pathological 'rightism' that has been increasing for several decades is a prime factor in making the U.S. democracy unworkable."
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Gertrude and Religious Iconization of English Queens, 1998.
A discussion of religious iconography and the virgin-whore dichotomy in pre and post Elizabethan England using Elizabeth I. and Hamlet's Gertrude as examples of the virgin and whore characterization.
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A discussion of religious iconography as it relates to the Catholic Queens of England, Elizabeth I. and Hamlet?s Gertrude. This paper contains a discussion of the virgin-whore dichotomy as it relates to the depictions of the Catholic Queens of England and Elizabeth I. in comparison to Gertrude. It also deals with an interesting change in religious iconization as England made its movement in support of the Protestant faith. The argument defines and discusses three areas in which queens are compared to religious icons and how their success and failure in these areas establishes their places in the virgin-whore dichotomy.
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"To give the queen the desired position in the dichotomy as the virgin, queens were often equated with religious icons, making their legacies almost saintly. These images of holiness defined both the queen?s positions in the monarchy and the standards to which the future queens were held. After the fall of Catholicism in England, the iconizsation of the queen changed. Elizabeth in particular wasn?t associated by allegory alone to the Virgin Mary, but rather became the Virgin Mother of England in body as well as by allegory. This strengthened both her political position and her position in the virgin-whore dichotomy of the time. By comparing Queen Elizabeth, who was seen as a saintly, virginal figure, to Shakespeare?s character Gertrude, who was seen as lusty and betraying, the major virgin-whore dichotomy of the Elizabethan and post-Elizabethan age can be exemplified."
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Radical Behavior Therapy, 2005.
Presens answers to two questions on Radical Behavior Therapy.
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Radical Behavior Therapy (RBT) in correctional settings involves a shift from past-focused approaches geared to finding the origins of criminality, often in adverse early experiences. This paper responds to two set questions involving the controversial subject of Radical Behavior Therapy as pioneered in prison populations.
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"Proponents of RBT for criminal populations emphasize modification of patients' behaviors and attitudes as an effective 'shortcut' in exercises making the offender aware of how his or her responses or actions do interfere with cooperative adjustment to settings, away from the correctional facility. For instance, the emphasis placed on Anger Management can, at least, help the offender to see how uncontrolled anger affects interactions with others, produces reactions unacceptable to others, or that endanger them, and that by learning methods of coping with the temper that other positive shifts can be expected."
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"Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society", 2008.
A review of the book "Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society" by Ted Peters.
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This paper discusses how in his book, "Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society", Ted Peters tackles the subject of sin and evil in human lives and the lives of society. It looks at how, according to Peters, sin is a progression that leads to radical evil, or evil pursued in the name of evil.
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"In order for humans to believe that concupiscence may succeed, they invent lies, and seek self-justification, which Peters defines as "identifying ourselves with the good." This self-justification can result in prejudice and profound racism and culture wars. This self-justification is essential for hypocrisy, as Peters shows in Jesus' discussions with the Jews. However, as self-justification results in bigotry and hypocrisy, justification by faith brings freedom. In it "God creates new life out of death just as he first brought the creation into existence out of nothing." God's justification is the only way we can find freedom."
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