Search Results for marine science

... dramatizes a citizen-science response to marine debris and theorizes marine science as a mode of witnessing and a mode of reading. Furthermore, by bringing her depictions of marine science into conversation with the Zen Buddhist practice of not-knowing, Ozeki meditates upon the idea that attempts to know...

... and featured prominently in Samuel de Champlain’s 1639 Voyages de la Nouvelle France as God’s Providence to help mariners through great dangers. Variously described as a finely tuned art and a practical science, “reckoning” was translated in Champlain’s English edition as “conjecture”; in the eighteenth...

... human right: the right to mobility. It starts by explaining how this right is articulated in the early modern period at the international geopolitical scale as the freedom of navigation. It then links the freedom of the seas to the empowered agency of Crusoe and fellow mariners across the history...

... III . Paris: Seuil, 1972 . Godeau , Antoine . Discours de la poésie chrestienne . Paris: J. Camusat, 1633 . Roy , Gomberville Marin Le . seigneur de. Discours des vertus et des vices de l’histoire, et de la manière de la bien escrire . Paris: Toussainct du Baly, 1620...

..., Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways , sees Moby-Dick as modeling the image of an emergent world-system alongside modes of resistance to it, similar to what Jelly-Schapiro finds in contemporary fiction of all stripes. With all this in mind, the absence of any mention of James's literary scholarship...

... all three were born in the nineteenth century, Conrad is so much more of it. Perhaps because of his longer steeping in a culture pervaded with spiritualism and occultism, perhaps because of his ­Polish background or his long experience of superstitious marine life, Conrad is also a more...

... critical attention, even though Melville demonstrates his engagement with the Spanish author in one of his book's most famous passages. When Melville, via Ishmael, announces his intention to “ascribe high qualities, though dark” to the “meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways,” he invokes as a muse...

... not these fictions rather stage as their primary conflict the pathetic attempt of an embattled con- science to breach the inviolability and irreducibility of an established fact? As Marlow reminds us repeatedly about Jim's story, "[tlhere was no incertitude as to facts" (56). What we see in Jameson here...

... the opening passages of his utopian vision, Brave New World (1932), to providing an insight into the science fictional advancements that enable genetic replication, as we join a group of eager visitors on a tour of the impressive “hatcheries” to observe firsthand “[t]he technique for preserving the excised...

... with generic persistence. In a much-publicized debate between Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. LeGuin, genre fiction still evokes accusations of the subliterary. “Science fiction has monsters and spaceships,” Atwood scoffed in a 2003 interview; “speculative fiction could really happen” ( Potts ). 3 Speculative...

... . 313 –55. Blackmore , Edward . The British Mercantile Marine: A Short Historical Review . London: Griffin, 1897 . Brantlinger , Patrick . “Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent.” “Race,” Writing, and Difference . Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chicago...

... . “ Encountering the Holocaust in J. G. Ballard’s Post-War Science Fictions .” Textual Practice 26 . 3 ( 2012 ): 379 – 98 . Beckett Chris . “ The Progress of the Text: The Papers of J. G. Ballard at the British Library .” Electronic British Library Journal 12 ( 2011 ): 1 – 24 . Bewes...

... of Revolution: Images of Romanticism . Eds. Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest. New York: Routledge, 1993 . 26 –38. Brilliant , Richard . Portraiture . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991 . Cooter , Roger . The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent...

...-Female Double Bildungsroman .” Novel 17 . 1 ( 1983 ): 28 – 43 . Hardy Barbara . “ Life and Art in The Mill on the Floss .” The Mill on the Floss and Silas Mariner: A Casebook. Ed. Draper R. P. . London : Macmillan , 1977 . 170 – 87 . Holder Alex . Anna Freud, Melanie...

... rather than economic science as an "autonomous force .. . was a damnable heresy from the Marxist standpointJ' and Wells came under criticism from Marx's supporters throughout his career (262). Though Wells disagreed with the Marxist narrative of social change-just as he would later split...

... Sciences .” Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe: Essays from Annales . Ed. Burke Peter . New York : Harper , 1972 . 241 – 76 . Bray Patrick . The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century France . Chicago : Northwestern UP , 2013 . Casanova Pascale...

... of the Aristocracy .” SEL 33 . 2 ( 1993 ): 309 – 25 . Coleman Dawn . “ Daniel Deronda and the Limits of Sermonic Voice .” Studies in the Novel 40 . 4 ( 2008 ): 407 – 25 . Dames Nicholas . The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction . Oxford...

...SANJAY KRISHNAN Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Works Cited Abraham , C. E. R. Divide and Rule: The Roots of Race Relations in Malaysia . Kuala Lumpur: INSAN, 1997 . Adas , Michael . Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western...

... characterization of Hume’s empiricism as ‘‘a kind of universe of science fiction: as in science fiction, the world seems fictional, strange, foreign, experienced by other creatures; but we get the feeling that this world is our own, and we are the creatures’’ (162). 346 NOVEL FALL 2014...

... into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences...