Review of The Mill on The Floss

In the radio dramatization of a novel, it is left to the actors to persuade us that they are the individuals whose roles they undertake, but it remains the responsibility of the scriptwriter to select and organize those roles with respect for the overall vision of the originating artist. How well, then, did Radio Four\u27s recent five-episode dramatization of The Mill on the Floss serve George Eliot? It is axiomatic that, without Maggie Tulliver, there would be no Mill on the Floss; but, in this most autobiographical of George Eliot\u27s novels, it is not Maggie who is omnipresent, but the narrator. Though Maggie is the protagonist, it is the narrator\u27s spirit that pervades; the narrator\u27s voice that compels - that guides us into the intimately known, sensuously remembered, and possessively loved locality of Dorlcote, and draws attention to the rapt little girl who is to be the story\u27s heroine. Why, then, were the lachrymose introductory tones (perhaps intended to sound dreamy, merely) in this production those of a male? We had to wait until Episode Two for the answer. George Eliot\u27s narrator had been eliminated, and Philip Wakem - Maggie\u27 s sensitive, deformed, and highly partial friend, absent for long tracts of the novel - promoted to fulfil her office. This depressing device automatically dispensed both with George Eliot\u27s epic scope, and with the ironic perspective within which she holds Philip himself. From the outset, then, it was apparent that, in the case of this production, to dramatize meant to diminish. But we could still hope that some of the life in the novel would be transmitted

Research on vibration of steering gear of automotive vehicle

The paper presents chosen solutions and technical elements for minimising of vibration effects in special vehicles. Due to volume and scope of the impact, forces and load generated in special vehicle during operating these elements are extremely important for isolation and absorbing of vibration affecting human or load. As the example of such solutions frame, suspension of car-body and cabin adopt in high mobility wheeled platform were described

Travellers

A new, original poetry collection, which explores cross-cultural themes and contexts, ranging from Middle Eastern historiography through the twentieth century, across retelling of Biblical themes and motifs, dovetailing themes of love, piety, anguish and conflict. The means and methods of the collection delve into the contradictions and overlappings of prosaic narrative and poetic suggestion and suggestibility

Therianthropy : "animal studies" and (un)becoming a human

The subject of the paper is animal studies: a new field of research that is rapidly growing in popularity within the humanities. The author attempts to identify the fundamental assumptions that tacitly dominate the field. One such premise discussed in the article is the thesis that Judeo-Christian tradition underlies the oppressive model of human-animal relations. To support her arguments, the author provides an analysis of animal topics and ideas of animal nature held by humans that are found in ancient literature, first of all in the Bible and the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Further in the paper, these readings are confronted with a different neo-Spinosian paradigm of thinking about the human-animal relation that emerged in the second half of the 20th century. The leading motif of the analysis is the literary and philosophical concept of therianthropy (metamorphosis of a human into an animal), which is common to all the narrations discussed. The author highlights the continuity of the tradition of the monistic and pantheistic ways of thinking about nature. She interprets the highly syncretic paradigm of animal studies, which is now dominant, as a new form of such thinking. The article is also an attempt to formulate a different rationale for the studies that is founded on the delimiting theoretical proposition of Michael Lundblad and the critical revision of post-Deleuzian rhetoric

Look back in gender : Sexuality and the family in post-war British drama

In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the representation of the family and different forms of sexuality in these plays and re-reviews them from a perspective that throws into sharp relief the function of gender as an important determinant of plot, setting and the portrayal of character. Juxtaposing the period before 1968, when statutory censorship was still in force, with the years following its abolition, Wandor scrutinises the key plays of, among others, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Arden, and Delaney. Each one is analysed in terms of its social context: the influence of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the Welfare State and changes in family patterns, and the impact of feminist, Left-wing and gay politics. Throughout the period, two generations of playwrights and theatregoers transformed the theatre into a forum in which they could articulate and explore the interaction of their interpersonal relationships with the wider political sphere. These changes are explored in this title, which will allow readers to re-evaluate their view of post-war British drama

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