A. H. Halsey
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266609
- eISBN:
- 9780191601019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266603.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
Who among their British and foreign colleagues are held by the professors of sociology in Britain in the highest esteem either as teachers (‘mentors’) or the most notable contributors (‘models’) to ...
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Who among their British and foreign colleagues are held by the professors of sociology in Britain in the highest esteem either as teachers (‘mentors’) or the most notable contributors (‘models’) to the subject in the twentieth century? The answers are based on a professorial survey (see Ch. 8 and Appendix 1) and on a citation analysis of the three main British journals of sociology (BJS, Sociology, and Sociological Review).The leading ‘mentors’ in the twentieth century have been British. The leading ‘models’ have been German, French, or American. Among the Britons only Anthony Giddens offers a serious challenge to these foreign luminaries.Less
Who among their British and foreign colleagues are held by the professors of sociology in Britain in the highest esteem either as teachers (‘mentors’) or the most notable contributors (‘models’) to the subject in the twentieth century? The answers are based on a professorial survey (see Ch. 8 and Appendix 1) and on a citation analysis of the three main British journals of sociology (BJS, Sociology, and Sociological Review).
The leading ‘mentors’ in the twentieth century have been British. The leading ‘models’ have been German, French, or American. Among the Britons only Anthony Giddens offers a serious challenge to these foreign luminaries.
Michael Bell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199208098
- eISBN:
- 9780191709227
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208098.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, European Literature
This book reflects on humanistic education by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret is not a mystery revealed but an utterance not understood, ...
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This book reflects on humanistic education by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret is not a mystery revealed but an utterance not understood, the likely fate of all instruction based purely on authority. This study reviews the pedagogical relationship in the European Bildungsroman from the point of view of the mentor rather than that of the young hero, but it also extends beyond the novel to encompass works in which the category of fiction has a crucial and constitutive function, for a growing awareness of limited authority on the part of the mentor figures is closely related to fictive self-consciousness in the texts. Rousseau's semi-novelised treatise, Emile, is relatively unaware of the fictive nature of its own authority; whereas in Sterne, Wieland, Goethe, and Nietzsche, the situation is reversed, culminating in the conscious impasse of authority in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. While all these latter writers achieve their impact despite, indeed because of their internal scepticism, in the three subsequent writers, Lawrence, Leavis, and Coetzee, the impasse becomes more literal as the authority of Bildung is eroded in the wider culture. Yet in all cases, awareness of pedagogical authority as a species of fiction, to be exercised in an aesthetic spirit, is a significant prophylactic against the perennial pressure of reductive conceptions of education as instructional ‘production’.Less
This book reflects on humanistic education by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret is not a mystery revealed but an utterance not understood, the likely fate of all instruction based purely on authority. This study reviews the pedagogical relationship in the European Bildungsroman from the point of view of the mentor rather than that of the young hero, but it also extends beyond the novel to encompass works in which the category of fiction has a crucial and constitutive function, for a growing awareness of limited authority on the part of the mentor figures is closely related to fictive self-consciousness in the texts. Rousseau's semi-novelised treatise, Emile, is relatively unaware of the fictive nature of its own authority; whereas in Sterne, Wieland, Goethe, and Nietzsche, the situation is reversed, culminating in the conscious impasse of authority in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. While all these latter writers achieve their impact despite, indeed because of their internal scepticism, in the three subsequent writers, Lawrence, Leavis, and Coetzee, the impasse becomes more literal as the authority of Bildung is eroded in the wider culture. Yet in all cases, awareness of pedagogical authority as a species of fiction, to be exercised in an aesthetic spirit, is a significant prophylactic against the perennial pressure of reductive conceptions of education as instructional ‘production’.
Julie A Gallagher and Barbara Winslow
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042003
- eISBN:
- 9780252050749
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042003.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians is a collection of eighteen essays written by “nontraditional” women historians, all of whom have won the prestigious Catherine ...
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Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians is a collection of eighteen essays written by “nontraditional” women historians, all of whom have won the prestigious Catherine Prelinger Award. The contributors reflect on connections among their lived experiences, their scholarship, the field of women’s and gender history, and women’s professional lives. Key themes include the significance of mentorship; the fragility of financial stability; the persistence of gendered family demands, biases, and expectations; the anxiety of having to explain gaps in CVs as women endeavor to advance from one career stage to the next. Contributors offer vital lessons into challenges as well as rewards that women encounter as they pursue a life of the mind. They also have much to say about the commitment not only to writing histories of women but also preserving their voices in archives and the importance of financial support that the Prelinger Award provided. Motivated by life experiences and their personal philosophies to be change agents in their families, their workplaces, and in society, all of the contributors have written about and engaged in feminist and social justice activism. Finally, these diverse essays point to instructive and essential realities about women’s lives, the field of women.Less
Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians is a collection of eighteen essays written by “nontraditional” women historians, all of whom have won the prestigious Catherine Prelinger Award. The contributors reflect on connections among their lived experiences, their scholarship, the field of women’s and gender history, and women’s professional lives. Key themes include the significance of mentorship; the fragility of financial stability; the persistence of gendered family demands, biases, and expectations; the anxiety of having to explain gaps in CVs as women endeavor to advance from one career stage to the next. Contributors offer vital lessons into challenges as well as rewards that women encounter as they pursue a life of the mind. They also have much to say about the commitment not only to writing histories of women but also preserving their voices in archives and the importance of financial support that the Prelinger Award provided. Motivated by life experiences and their personal philosophies to be change agents in their families, their workplaces, and in society, all of the contributors have written about and engaged in feminist and social justice activism. Finally, these diverse essays point to instructive and essential realities about women’s lives, the field of women.
Barbara B. Heyman
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195090581
- eISBN:
- 9780199853090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195090581.003.0020
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Samuel Barber was a brilliant American composer, whose work reflected European culture and influence. His style was noted to be clean, consistent, and conventional in form. Two points were most ...
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Samuel Barber was a brilliant American composer, whose work reflected European culture and influence. His style was noted to be clean, consistent, and conventional in form. Two points were most admirable in Barber's life. The first was his deep relationship with his greatest mentor and uncle Sidney Homer. Even twenty years after Homer's death, Barber still revered and respected him, and stated that a huge amount of his success was a result of his unwavering guidance. The second was his deep relationship with the performers of his pieces, where he involved them in the creation of his work even in the early stages. Barber's life, with all its triumphs, is in turn an inspiration to the young composers of today.Less
Samuel Barber was a brilliant American composer, whose work reflected European culture and influence. His style was noted to be clean, consistent, and conventional in form. Two points were most admirable in Barber's life. The first was his deep relationship with his greatest mentor and uncle Sidney Homer. Even twenty years after Homer's death, Barber still revered and respected him, and stated that a huge amount of his success was a result of his unwavering guidance. The second was his deep relationship with the performers of his pieces, where he involved them in the creation of his work even in the early stages. Barber's life, with all its triumphs, is in turn an inspiration to the young composers of today.
Barbara F. McManus
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199208791
- eISBN:
- 9780191709029
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208791.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Gilbert Murray devoted a considerable amount of time and energy to mentoring younger scholars and so any modern reassessment of the man should include information about this aspect of his ...
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Gilbert Murray devoted a considerable amount of time and energy to mentoring younger scholars and so any modern reassessment of the man should include information about this aspect of his contribution to the field of Classics. Murray's mentoring relationship with J. A. K. Thomson is significant not only for its extent and duration, but also for the fact that over time Murray formed a close personal friendship with another classicist. This chapter draws upon the long and remarkably unguarded correspondence between the two men to examine such questions as what led Murray to become a lifetime patron and promoter of Thomson and his work, why he ultimately drew Thomson into the sanctum of his personal life, and what this relationship reveals about Murray's ideals, personal judgments, and sense of fun.Less
Gilbert Murray devoted a considerable amount of time and energy to mentoring younger scholars and so any modern reassessment of the man should include information about this aspect of his contribution to the field of Classics. Murray's mentoring relationship with J. A. K. Thomson is significant not only for its extent and duration, but also for the fact that over time Murray formed a close personal friendship with another classicist. This chapter draws upon the long and remarkably unguarded correspondence between the two men to examine such questions as what led Murray to become a lifetime patron and promoter of Thomson and his work, why he ultimately drew Thomson into the sanctum of his personal life, and what this relationship reveals about Murray's ideals, personal judgments, and sense of fun.
Isobel Hurst
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199283514
- eISBN:
- 9780191712715
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283514.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Although relatively few Victorian women studied Latin and Greek, earlier female classicists such as Elizabeth Carter acted as models for aspiring scholars. The support of fathers, brothers or mentors ...
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Although relatively few Victorian women studied Latin and Greek, earlier female classicists such as Elizabeth Carter acted as models for aspiring scholars. The support of fathers, brothers or mentors was also crucial to women's classical learning. This chapter deals with the shift from women learning classics in the home, to formal education in girls' schools and women's colleges in the second half of the 19th century. Greek was associated with the New Woman through the figure of the Girton Girl and the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison, who developed a new approach to the study of Greek religion. As Latin and Greek became more accessible to women, the prestige of classical study was in decline: Vera Brittain, studying in Oxford during the First World War, remarked that it could safely be left to women because it had become an irrelevance.Less
Although relatively few Victorian women studied Latin and Greek, earlier female classicists such as Elizabeth Carter acted as models for aspiring scholars. The support of fathers, brothers or mentors was also crucial to women's classical learning. This chapter deals with the shift from women learning classics in the home, to formal education in girls' schools and women's colleges in the second half of the 19th century. Greek was associated with the New Woman through the figure of the Girton Girl and the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison, who developed a new approach to the study of Greek religion. As Latin and Greek became more accessible to women, the prestige of classical study was in decline: Vera Brittain, studying in Oxford during the First World War, remarked that it could safely be left to women because it had become an irrelevance.
Ann Nichols-Casebolt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195378108
- eISBN:
- 9780199932634
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378108.003.0002
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
Good mentors recognize that fostering research integrity and modeling the responsible conduct of research in all their mentoring activities is essential to guiding protégés in what is expected for ...
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Good mentors recognize that fostering research integrity and modeling the responsible conduct of research in all their mentoring activities is essential to guiding protégés in what is expected for the ethical practice of research. This chapter describes various roles of the mentor and mentee, and drawing on the literature about research mentoring, presents strategies and practices that appear to enhance the mentoring relationship. Information about cross-race and cross-gender mentoring is presented. Guidelines for selecting a mentor, as well as a tool for mentors and protégés to assess how effectively they are carrying out their roles are also included.Less
Good mentors recognize that fostering research integrity and modeling the responsible conduct of research in all their mentoring activities is essential to guiding protégés in what is expected for the ethical practice of research. This chapter describes various roles of the mentor and mentee, and drawing on the literature about research mentoring, presents strategies and practices that appear to enhance the mentoring relationship. Information about cross-race and cross-gender mentoring is presented. Guidelines for selecting a mentor, as well as a tool for mentors and protégés to assess how effectively they are carrying out their roles are also included.
Jane Spencer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199262960
- eISBN:
- 9780191718731
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262960.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book argues that kinship relations between writers, both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation of a national tradition of English literature in the years 1660-1830. ...
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This book argues that kinship relations between writers, both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation of a national tradition of English literature in the years 1660-1830. Weaving together biographical readings, reception study, and feminist cultural analysis, it offers a new picture of the English literary canon as a symbolic family. Through studies of writing relationships, including those between William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Frances and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it shows that kinship between writers played a significant role not only in individual lives but in key events of literary history, including the rise of the novel and the genesis of Romanticism. As writers looked back to founding fathers, and hoped to have writing sons, the literary tradition was modelled on the patriarchal family, imagined in tropes of genealogy and inheritance. This process marginalized but did not exclude women, and the book highlights the importance both of myths of motherhood and the daughterly position accorded women writers to the formation of literary tradition. The complex role of the literary mentor and its relationship to tropes of paternity are also discussed. The study ranges from the work of Dryden, with its emphasis on literature as patrilineal inheritance, to the reception of Austen, which shows uneven but significant process towards understanding the woman writer as an inheriting daughter and generative mother.Less
This book argues that kinship relations between writers, both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation of a national tradition of English literature in the years 1660-1830. Weaving together biographical readings, reception study, and feminist cultural analysis, it offers a new picture of the English literary canon as a symbolic family. Through studies of writing relationships, including those between William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Frances and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it shows that kinship between writers played a significant role not only in individual lives but in key events of literary history, including the rise of the novel and the genesis of Romanticism. As writers looked back to founding fathers, and hoped to have writing sons, the literary tradition was modelled on the patriarchal family, imagined in tropes of genealogy and inheritance. This process marginalized but did not exclude women, and the book highlights the importance both of myths of motherhood and the daughterly position accorded women writers to the formation of literary tradition. The complex role of the literary mentor and its relationship to tropes of paternity are also discussed. The study ranges from the work of Dryden, with its emphasis on literature as patrilineal inheritance, to the reception of Austen, which shows uneven but significant process towards understanding the woman writer as an inheriting daughter and generative mother.
Stephen Ruzicka
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199766628
- eISBN:
- 9780199932719
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766628.003.0018
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE, World History: BCE to 500CE
Literary evidence, coins, and Persian records of prisoner transfers allow us to reconstruct the story of Phoenician and Cypriot revolt in reaction to Persian efforts to mount another Egyptian ...
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Literary evidence, coins, and Persian records of prisoner transfers allow us to reconstruct the story of Phoenician and Cypriot revolt in reaction to Persian efforts to mount another Egyptian campaign as quickly as possible after the 351 failure. By 348, Phoenician cities, having gained promises of support from Nectanebo, king of Egypt, revolted and succeeded in driving off the Persian response led by Mazaeus. Cypriot revolt followed. Artaxerxes moved slowly and carefully, amassing a huge force to deal with Phoenician cities and Egypt and creating another force led by the Athenian Phocion to deal with Cyprus. The great size of the Persian army carried the day in 345, impelling the surrender of the Sidonian king. Artaxerxes had Sidon burned with great loss of life. This served to bring about surrender of other rebel cities.Less
Literary evidence, coins, and Persian records of prisoner transfers allow us to reconstruct the story of Phoenician and Cypriot revolt in reaction to Persian efforts to mount another Egyptian campaign as quickly as possible after the 351 failure. By 348, Phoenician cities, having gained promises of support from Nectanebo, king of Egypt, revolted and succeeded in driving off the Persian response led by Mazaeus. Cypriot revolt followed. Artaxerxes moved slowly and carefully, amassing a huge force to deal with Phoenician cities and Egypt and creating another force led by the Athenian Phocion to deal with Cyprus. The great size of the Persian army carried the day in 345, impelling the surrender of the Sidonian king. Artaxerxes had Sidon burned with great loss of life. This served to bring about surrender of other rebel cities.
Stephen Ruzicka
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199766628
- eISBN:
- 9780199932719
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766628.003.0019
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE, World History: BCE to 500CE
Artaxerxes finally succeeded in reconquering Egypt in 343/2. He benefited from information provided by Mentor of Rhodes, Nectanebo's mercenary commander, who defected to Artaxerxes at Sidon in 345. ...
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Artaxerxes finally succeeded in reconquering Egypt in 343/2. He benefited from information provided by Mentor of Rhodes, Nectanebo's mercenary commander, who defected to Artaxerxes at Sidon in 345. As a result of this, Artaxerxes adopted very precise tactical arrangements aimed at addressing Egyptian defenses in very specific ways. This involved the use of a three-tiered approach aimed at gaining entry through Pelusium while separate units (with juxtaposed Persian and Greek contingents) moved further south to cross Egypt's easternmost defensive perimeter. It worked, and within a matter of days after the arrival of the Persian expeditionary force, Artaxerxes took control of the Delta, chasing Nectanebo far to the south, perhaps into Nubia. Wholesale destruction of Egyptian fortifications, temples, and dynastic centers followed. Finally, Artaxerxes restored satrapal government after a sixty-year lapse.Less
Artaxerxes finally succeeded in reconquering Egypt in 343/2. He benefited from information provided by Mentor of Rhodes, Nectanebo's mercenary commander, who defected to Artaxerxes at Sidon in 345. As a result of this, Artaxerxes adopted very precise tactical arrangements aimed at addressing Egyptian defenses in very specific ways. This involved the use of a three-tiered approach aimed at gaining entry through Pelusium while separate units (with juxtaposed Persian and Greek contingents) moved further south to cross Egypt's easternmost defensive perimeter. It worked, and within a matter of days after the arrival of the Persian expeditionary force, Artaxerxes took control of the Delta, chasing Nectanebo far to the south, perhaps into Nubia. Wholesale destruction of Egyptian fortifications, temples, and dynastic centers followed. Finally, Artaxerxes restored satrapal government after a sixty-year lapse.
Sylvia Harcstark Myers
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198117674
- eISBN:
- 9780191671043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117674.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature
This chapter discusses Elizabeth Carter, whose mentor appears to be her work colleague Samuel Johnson, whom she always defended from criticism. However, due to the lack of evidence for building a ...
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This chapter discusses Elizabeth Carter, whose mentor appears to be her work colleague Samuel Johnson, whom she always defended from criticism. However, due to the lack of evidence for building a daily correspondence between Johnson and Carter, the former is not usually considered as Carter's mentor.Less
This chapter discusses Elizabeth Carter, whose mentor appears to be her work colleague Samuel Johnson, whom she always defended from criticism. However, due to the lack of evidence for building a daily correspondence between Johnson and Carter, the former is not usually considered as Carter's mentor.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195065831
- eISBN:
- 9780199854899
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195065831.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
Ambassadors, by contrast to the types of exiting leaders already discussed, leave office quite gracefully and frequently serve as post-retirement mentors. They may remain on the board of directors ...
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Ambassadors, by contrast to the types of exiting leaders already discussed, leave office quite gracefully and frequently serve as post-retirement mentors. They may remain on the board of directors for some time, but they do not try to sabotage the successor. Unlike the generals, the ambassadors do not seek to return to top office positions. Rather, they provide continuity and counsel and want to assist, but no longer lead. The leaders profiled in this chapter were not necessarily humble figures, but their self-esteem was enhanced, rather than threatened, by a firm that would easily survive their departure. Five direct benefits resulted from these leaders' continued engagement with their firms into old age and these are outlined by the chapter.Less
Ambassadors, by contrast to the types of exiting leaders already discussed, leave office quite gracefully and frequently serve as post-retirement mentors. They may remain on the board of directors for some time, but they do not try to sabotage the successor. Unlike the generals, the ambassadors do not seek to return to top office positions. Rather, they provide continuity and counsel and want to assist, but no longer lead. The leaders profiled in this chapter were not necessarily humble figures, but their self-esteem was enhanced, rather than threatened, by a firm that would easily survive their departure. Five direct benefits resulted from these leaders' continued engagement with their firms into old age and these are outlined by the chapter.
William St. Clair
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192880536
- eISBN:
- 9780191670596
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192880536.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
In January 1803 Elgin and his family were to return home as all the drawings and moulds that Elgin wanted had already been constructed. Lusieri did not leave with Elgin. The drawings were thus to be ...
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In January 1803 Elgin and his family were to return home as all the drawings and moulds that Elgin wanted had already been constructed. Lusieri did not leave with Elgin. The drawings were thus to be finished and turned into engravings for publication as this would serve as an integral step not just in improving the arts in the country but also in making casts and original works available. As four of the seventeen cases of marbles were recovered from the Mentor in Greece, Elgin independently assigned Pietro Gavallo as an Italian messenger to send naval vessels to Cythera and to prioritize the salvaging of the Mentor. Simultaneously, Lusieri was still in Athens after his request for prolonged employment. This chapter looks into Lusieri's endeavours and difficulties in Athens.Less
In January 1803 Elgin and his family were to return home as all the drawings and moulds that Elgin wanted had already been constructed. Lusieri did not leave with Elgin. The drawings were thus to be finished and turned into engravings for publication as this would serve as an integral step not just in improving the arts in the country but also in making casts and original works available. As four of the seventeen cases of marbles were recovered from the Mentor in Greece, Elgin independently assigned Pietro Gavallo as an Italian messenger to send naval vessels to Cythera and to prioritize the salvaging of the Mentor. Simultaneously, Lusieri was still in Athens after his request for prolonged employment. This chapter looks into Lusieri's endeavours and difficulties in Athens.
Jonathan R. Eller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036293
- eISBN:
- 9780252093357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0041
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter focuses on Ray Bradbury's continued relationship with his mentors, offering advice to them while affecting the tone and diction of his apprentice years. In early 1952 William F. Nolan ...
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This chapter focuses on Ray Bradbury's continued relationship with his mentors, offering advice to them while affecting the tone and diction of his apprentice years. In early 1952 William F. Nolan published The Ray Bradbury Review, a booklet documenting Bradbury's creative output as projected through the end of the year. The next year Nolan privately printed a supplemental Bradbury Index and also offered a detailed account of Bradbury's major works-in-progress as well as his media work. This chapter first considers Bradbury's mentorship of emerging and young writers such as Nolan, Charles Beaumont, and George Clayton Johnson during the early 1950s, interacting with them and giving them encouragement. It then discusses Bradbury's conscious efforts to repay the blessings he had received from his old friends and mentors a decade earlier, including Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Hank Kuttner, and C. L. Moore.Less
This chapter focuses on Ray Bradbury's continued relationship with his mentors, offering advice to them while affecting the tone and diction of his apprentice years. In early 1952 William F. Nolan published The Ray Bradbury Review, a booklet documenting Bradbury's creative output as projected through the end of the year. The next year Nolan privately printed a supplemental Bradbury Index and also offered a detailed account of Bradbury's major works-in-progress as well as his media work. This chapter first considers Bradbury's mentorship of emerging and young writers such as Nolan, Charles Beaumont, and George Clayton Johnson during the early 1950s, interacting with them and giving them encouragement. It then discusses Bradbury's conscious efforts to repay the blessings he had received from his old friends and mentors a decade earlier, including Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Hank Kuttner, and C. L. Moore.
John Landsverk
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195325522
- eISBN:
- 9780199893850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325522.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
This chapter addresses the need to organize collaborative research by gathering and using the collaboration of experts, mentors, and consultants. It also details how to move into the ...
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This chapter addresses the need to organize collaborative research by gathering and using the collaboration of experts, mentors, and consultants. It also details how to move into the mentor/consultant role as one's experience grows. The use of investigators from multiple disciplines, moving towards translational forms, and bridging scientific disciplines will maximize the likelihood that research findings will be used. The different forms of complex teams, their creation, expertise areas, and sustainment are discussed. The chapter closes by detailing the use of consultants, their pay, rights, and selection.Less
This chapter addresses the need to organize collaborative research by gathering and using the collaboration of experts, mentors, and consultants. It also details how to move into the mentor/consultant role as one's experience grows. The use of investigators from multiple disciplines, moving towards translational forms, and bridging scientific disciplines will maximize the likelihood that research findings will be used. The different forms of complex teams, their creation, expertise areas, and sustainment are discussed. The chapter closes by detailing the use of consultants, their pay, rights, and selection.
Ruth G. McRoy, Jerry P. Flanzer, and Joan Levy Zlotnik
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195399646
- eISBN:
- 9780199932757
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195399646.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
Chapter three presents a “ readiness to change” framework that administrators, faculty, interested students and community partners may use to assess a department or school’s current research climate, ...
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Chapter three presents a “ readiness to change” framework that administrators, faculty, interested students and community partners may use to assess a department or school’s current research climate, culture, capacity, resources and motivation, and its readiness to promote a research climate and culture in order for faculty and students to become productive researchers. The framework can be used to help schools assess where their department or school of social work is, as compared to others, on a continuum of research climate and culture, intensity, and readiness to implement research. The authors report findings from surveys and interviews with faculty and staff throughout the country to assess their research capacity and they provide examples of models of infrastructure development in schools and departments of social work and action steps that can be taken from either an institutional or faculty perspective.Less
Chapter three presents a “ readiness to change” framework that administrators, faculty, interested students and community partners may use to assess a department or school’s current research climate, culture, capacity, resources and motivation, and its readiness to promote a research climate and culture in order for faculty and students to become productive researchers. The framework can be used to help schools assess where their department or school of social work is, as compared to others, on a continuum of research climate and culture, intensity, and readiness to implement research. The authors report findings from surveys and interviews with faculty and staff throughout the country to assess their research capacity and they provide examples of models of infrastructure development in schools and departments of social work and action steps that can be taken from either an institutional or faculty perspective.
Marva Griffin Carter
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195108910
- eISBN:
- 9780199865796
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195108910.003.0014
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter discusses the final rites for Will Cook. It explains that his final rites were simple for Will himself requested it. The chapter also talks about how Will was admired by many of whose ...
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This chapter discusses the final rites for Will Cook. It explains that his final rites were simple for Will himself requested it. The chapter also talks about how Will was admired by many of whose careers he advanced for he served as father, mentor, teacher, and tutor to black and white artists alike. It describes Will as someone who did not maintain a traditional family lifestyle, but someone who was a surrogate father to his orchestral members and close friends. It characterizes Cook as someone who had a knack for recognizing talent and providing the appropriate channel for its development. It notes that Will Cook tried to foster and implement racial consciousness and pride through agitation. It underlines his memoirs, revealing his ultimate challenge to destroy wrongs, and at the same time write beautiful music.Less
This chapter discusses the final rites for Will Cook. It explains that his final rites were simple for Will himself requested it. The chapter also talks about how Will was admired by many of whose careers he advanced for he served as father, mentor, teacher, and tutor to black and white artists alike. It describes Will as someone who did not maintain a traditional family lifestyle, but someone who was a surrogate father to his orchestral members and close friends. It characterizes Cook as someone who had a knack for recognizing talent and providing the appropriate channel for its development. It notes that Will Cook tried to foster and implement racial consciousness and pride through agitation. It underlines his memoirs, revealing his ultimate challenge to destroy wrongs, and at the same time write beautiful music.
Michael Bell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199208098
- eISBN:
- 9780191709227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208098.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, European Literature
This chapter considers how the ironic treatment of Wilhelm Meister's process of maturing is coloured by Goethe's self-conscious irony with respect to the authority of the novel's own fictive world. ...
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This chapter considers how the ironic treatment of Wilhelm Meister's process of maturing is coloured by Goethe's self-conscious irony with respect to the authority of the novel's own fictive world. Just as Wilhelm's mentors within the novel, the self-styled Society of the Tower are revealed to be divided and uncertain, so the last book of the novel subjects some of its own most powerful poetic elements, Mignon and the Harpist, to prosaic explanations. The gim-crack theatricality of the ceremony in the tower is an image of the book's wisdom. At the same time, as the principal mentor, the Abbé, with his policy of non-interference, enacts Rousseau's risky principle of delay, he is vindicated by the optimistic providence of the novel. Goethe's trust in life is given a transparent veil of fiction, with an irony that is protective and pre-emptive rather than destructive.Less
This chapter considers how the ironic treatment of Wilhelm Meister's process of maturing is coloured by Goethe's self-conscious irony with respect to the authority of the novel's own fictive world. Just as Wilhelm's mentors within the novel, the self-styled Society of the Tower are revealed to be divided and uncertain, so the last book of the novel subjects some of its own most powerful poetic elements, Mignon and the Harpist, to prosaic explanations. The gim-crack theatricality of the ceremony in the tower is an image of the book's wisdom. At the same time, as the principal mentor, the Abbé, with his policy of non-interference, enacts Rousseau's risky principle of delay, he is vindicated by the optimistic providence of the novel. Goethe's trust in life is given a transparent veil of fiction, with an irony that is protective and pre-emptive rather than destructive.
Michael Bell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199208098
- eISBN:
- 9780191709227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208098.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, European Literature
This chapter shows how Goethe's much later Wilhelm Meister novel presses even more radically the critique of Wilhelm's Bildung. It becomes not just a critique of Wilhelm, but a renunciation of his ...
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This chapter shows how Goethe's much later Wilhelm Meister novel presses even more radically the critique of Wilhelm's Bildung. It becomes not just a critique of Wilhelm, but a renunciation of his very ideal of rounded humanistic culture. Following hints in the last book of the Apprenticeship, Wilhelm rejects theatre for the pursuit of medical science as his contribution to the Society of the Tower of which he is now a member. The later book advocates acceptance of specialisation as the best form of personal development in modernity, avoiding the seductive illusions of dilettantism. Meanwhile the book itself, renouncing narrative authority and the more accessible attractions of the earlier novel, derives its material, largely as a series of sub-narratives, from the archive of the Society. Thematically, it concentrates on the follies of parenthood and middle age while its aphoristic wisdom is constantly bracketed with self-undercutting irony.Less
This chapter shows how Goethe's much later Wilhelm Meister novel presses even more radically the critique of Wilhelm's Bildung. It becomes not just a critique of Wilhelm, but a renunciation of his very ideal of rounded humanistic culture. Following hints in the last book of the Apprenticeship, Wilhelm rejects theatre for the pursuit of medical science as his contribution to the Society of the Tower of which he is now a member. The later book advocates acceptance of specialisation as the best form of personal development in modernity, avoiding the seductive illusions of dilettantism. Meanwhile the book itself, renouncing narrative authority and the more accessible attractions of the earlier novel, derives its material, largely as a series of sub-narratives, from the archive of the Society. Thematically, it concentrates on the follies of parenthood and middle age while its aphoristic wisdom is constantly bracketed with self-undercutting irony.
Michael Bell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199208098
- eISBN:
- 9780191709227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208098.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, European Literature
This chapter shows how Nietzsche develops Goethe's critique of Bildung. The early essays on Schopenhauer as Educator and on The Uses and Disadvantages of History raise questions about the authority ...
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This chapter shows how Nietzsche develops Goethe's critique of Bildung. The early essays on Schopenhauer as Educator and on The Uses and Disadvantages of History raise questions about the authority of the mentor and of the relation of humanistic culture to historical agency. These themes come to a culmination in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which until the late 20th century was commonly read as an expression of Nietzschean doctrine through a rather idealised eponymous mouthpiece. Only recently has it been recognised that Zarathustra is a character who represents the conscious crisis of Nietzsche's own authority, or capacity to make himself understood, is less troubled by his critics than by his disciples, and is at his most despairing the more accurately these repeat the formulae of his doctrine. At the same time, it is precisely his radical, and self-encompassing, critique which gives Nietzsche's thought its almost unique and enduring power.Less
This chapter shows how Nietzsche develops Goethe's critique of Bildung. The early essays on Schopenhauer as Educator and on The Uses and Disadvantages of History raise questions about the authority of the mentor and of the relation of humanistic culture to historical agency. These themes come to a culmination in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which until the late 20th century was commonly read as an expression of Nietzschean doctrine through a rather idealised eponymous mouthpiece. Only recently has it been recognised that Zarathustra is a character who represents the conscious crisis of Nietzsche's own authority, or capacity to make himself understood, is less troubled by his critics than by his disciples, and is at his most despairing the more accurately these repeat the formulae of his doctrine. At the same time, it is precisely his radical, and self-encompassing, critique which gives Nietzsche's thought its almost unique and enduring power.
