Gendered interventions: narrative discourse in the Victorian novel

(print) xvii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmPreface, vii -- Acknowledgments, xvii -- PART I. Proposing a Model : Feminism and Narratology -- Ch. 1. Introduction : Why Don't Feminists 'Do' Narratology? 3 -- Ch. 2. A Model of Gendered Intervention: Engaging and Distancing Narrative Strategies 25 -- PART II. Testing the Model: Interventions in Texts -- Ch. 3. Engaging Strategies, Earnestness, and Realism : Mary Barton 47 -- Ch. 4. Distancing Strategies, Irony, and Metafiction : Yeast and Vanity Fair 72 -- Ch. 5. Women's Narrators Who Cross Gender : Uncle Tom's Cabin and Adam Bede 101 -- Ch. 6. Men's Narrators Who Cross Gender : Can You Forgive Her? and Bleak House 134 -- PART III. Reflecting upon the Model : Gendered Interventions in History -- Ch. 7. The Victorian Place of Enunciation : Gender and the Chance to Speak 159 -- Ch. 8. Direct Address and the Critics : What's the Matter with "You"? 192 -- Notes, 207 -- Works Cited, 223 -- Index, 23

The Victorian Newsletter (Fall 1986)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of Modern Language Association by the Western Kentucky University and is published twice annually.Disraeli and Carlyle's "Aristocracy of Talent": The Role of Millbank in Coningsby Reconsidered / Nils Clausson -- The Reader as Whoremonger: A Phenomenological Approach to Rossetti's "Jenny" / Michael Cohen -- Letters and Novels "One Woman Wrote to Another": George Eliot's Responses to Elizabeth Gaskell / Robyn R. Warhol -- J. E. Millais' Bubbles: A Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / William Sharpe -- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Bildungsroman or anti-Bildungsroman? / Nikki Lee Manos -- Christianity, Spiritualism, and the Fourth Dimension in Late Victorian England / Rosemary Jann -- Great Burke and Poor Boswell: Carlyle and the Historian's Task / Elizabeth Wheeler -- Coming in Victorian Newsletter -- Books Receive

The Role of Creativity in Entrepreneurship

This paper evaluates the contribution of creativity to entrepreneurship theory and practice in terms of building an holistic and transdisciplinary understanding of its impact. Acknowledgement is made of the subjectivist theory of entrepreneurship which embraces randomness, uncertainty and ambiguity but these factors should then be embedded in wider business and social contexts. The analysis is synthesised into a number of themes, from consideration of its definition, its link with personality and cognitive style, creativity as a process and the use of biography in uncovering data on creative entrepreneurial behaviour. Other relevant areas of discussion include creativity’s link with motivation, actualisation and innovation, as well as the interrogation of entrepreneurial artists as owner/managers. These factors are embedded in a critical evaluation of how creativity contributes to successful entrepreneurship practice. Modelling, measuring and testing entrepreneurial creativity are also considered and the paper includes detailed consideration of several models of creativity in entrepreneurship. Recommendations for future theory and practice are also made

Text-derived concept profiles support assessment of DNA microarray data for acute myeloid leukemia and for androgen receptor stimulation

BACKGROUND: High-throughput experiments, such as with DNA microarrays, typically result in hundreds of genes potentially relevant to the process under study, rendering the interpretation of these experiments problematic. Here, we propose and evaluate an approach to find functional associations between large numbers of genes and other biomedical concepts from free-text literature. For each gene, a profile of related concepts is constructed that summarizes the context in which the gene is mentioned in literature. We assign a weight to each concept in the profile based on a likelihood ratio measure. Gene concept profiles can then be clustered to find related genes and other concepts. RESULTS: The experimental validation was done in two steps. We first applied our method on a controlled test set. After this proved to be successful the datasets from two DNA microarray experiments were analyzed in the same way and the results were evaluated by domain experts. The first dataset was a gene-expression profile that characterizes the cancer cells of a group of acute myeloid leukemia patients. For this group of patients the biological background of the cancer cells is largely unknown. Using our methodology we found an association of these cells to monocytes, which agreed with other experimental evidence. The second data set consisted of differentially expressed genes following androgen receptor stimulation in a prostate cancer cell line. Based on the analysis we put forward a hypothesis about the biological processes induced in these studied cells: secretory lysosomes are involved in the production of prostatic fluid and their development and/or secretion are androgen-regulated processes. CONCLUSION: Our method can be used to analyze DNA microarray datasets based on information explicitly and implicitly available in the literature. We provide a publicly available tool, dubbed Anni, for this purpose