J Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 24678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2601-1539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Co‐Development of the CoMUni Intervention
INTRODUCTION: Each academic year, numerous students experience mental health problems. Despite this, many avoid seeking any form of help, which can lead to problems worsening. This paper reflects upon the co-development process of an intervention which aimed to increase help-seeking behaviours in undergraduate students. METHODS: Online workshops were conducted with a student co-production team, including the completion of tasks designed to incorp…
Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015), 142pp., $13.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-87286-669-0
Caring for the future? – a response to Rupert Read
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have yet brought on themselves. It is tragic in the full classical sense – a disaster entailed on the protagonist (here, humanity) by destructive weaknesses inherent in crucial strengths and virtues. There is thus no way of avoiding it by picking and choosing among our values, and its effects can neither be compensated for nor mitigated by prospective gai…
Hope after sustainability – tragedy and transformation
Claims to sustainability are everywhere, from the sides of motorway juggernauts to the spin of a UK government arguing for airport expansion in London while notionally signed up to its carbon emiss
On letting go
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have yet brought on themselves. It is tragic in the full classical sense – a disaster entailed on the protagonist (here, humanity) by destructive weaknesses inherent in crucial strengths and virtues. There is thus no way of avoiding it by picking and choosing among our values, and its effects can neither be compensated for nor mitigated by prospective gai…
Reason in a dark time
As Dale Jamieson opens by acknowledging, we are stuck with climate change. His explanation of the why? in his subtitle is, succinctly, this: Climate change is occurring and is effectively irreversi
Poison and romance
Oscar Wilde considered crime and sin no impediment to art or culture, as the case of the poisoner-artist-critic Thomas Wainewright (1794–1847) allowed him to demonstrate. English society of the time, as George Orwell famously declared, was as fascinated by poisoning as was Wilde. One of Orwell's cases was that of Edith Thompson who, along with her young lover, was convicted in 1922 in London of conspiracy to murder her husband whom it was alleged…
Mythistory
Irish novels, 1890-1940
INTRODUCTION: The Shock of the Old 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Novel 4. 'Their Patience Folly?' Catholicism and Fiction 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Novel 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I 7. 'Society - spelt big': The Condition of Ireland II 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage 9. Metier de Femme: New Woman Fiction 10. Fin…
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual w…
Making sense of stewardship
This paper sketches the fundamental characteristics of metaphorical language which enable it to subserve not only the shaping of particular discourses, but also crucial aspects of our powers of enquiry and understanding. It argues that without metaphorical creativity we cannot make adequate sense of the more complex and open‐ended aspects of our experience. This is illustrated from the way in which we deploy the closely related key environmental …
Options, sustainability policy and the spontaneous order
This paper examines the implications for sustainability policy of environmental uncertainty and indeterminacy, and relates the associated problems with a conventional understanding of sustainable development to Hayek’s critique of collective planning. It suggests that the appropriate recourse is not, however, a Hayekian endorsement of the free market, but an extension of his key idea of spontaneous order to characterise the learning society. The …
Depressive symptoms among Filipino American adolescents
Minority ethnic status has been found to be related to higher levels of depressive symptoms among adolescents and adults. The present study examined the rates of depressive symptoms (as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: CES-D Scale) of 270 Filipino American adolescents residing in rural and small-town areas of Hawaii. CES-D scores were compared with scores of a White group, and no ethnic differences were found. Co…
John Buchan's 'Hesperides
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw be…
From Tiberius to the Antonines. A History of the Roman Empire AD 14-192
The Measure of Paradise
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT VISUAL COMPOSITION in eighteenth-century have mostly been concerned with the influence on the of landscape painting and landscape gardening. Nonetheless, several critics have sought to redress the balance by claiming that the principles and practice of visual composition were generated from within the itself. C. V. Deane, for example, tries to demonstrate that methods of composition in landscape are analogous to, and often ident…
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Songs of Irish Rebellion
A Descriptive Nomenclature for the Study of Folklore Part II
Some Books on Italy
The Art of Archaic Greece
The Art of Classical Greece
John Greenway on Folksong - A Reply
Foster responds to John Greenway's essay on folk music (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3), taking issue with Greenway's 'extended arraignment of contemporary protest folksingers ... [and] his proposition that folksong surpasses what we might for the purposes of argument term sophisticated art
The Art of Crete and Early Greece
Irish novels, 1890-1940
INTRODUCTION: The Shock of the Old 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Novel 4. 'Their Patience Folly?' Catholicism and Fiction 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Novel 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I 7. 'Society - spelt big': The Condition of Ireland II 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage 9. Metier de Femme: New Woman Fiction 10. Fin…
Making sense of stewardship
This paper sketches the fundamental characteristics of metaphorical language which enable it to subserve not only the shaping of particular discourses, but also crucial aspects of our powers of enquiry and understanding. It argues that without metaphorical creativity we cannot make adequate sense of the more complex and open‐ended aspects of our experience. This is illustrated from the way in which we deploy the closely related key environmental …
John Buchan's 'Hesperides
Hope after sustainability – tragedy and transformation
Claims to sustainability are everywhere, from the sides of motorway juggernauts to the spin of a UK government arguing for airport expansion in London while notionally signed up to its carbon emiss
On letting go
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have yet brought on themselves. It is tragic in the full classical sense – a disaster entailed on the protagonist (here, humanity) by destructive weaknesses inherent in crucial strengths and virtues. There is thus no way of avoiding it by picking and choosing among our values, and its effects can neither be compensated for nor mitigated by prospective gai…
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw be…
Options, sustainability policy and the spontaneous order
This paper examines the implications for sustainability policy of environmental uncertainty and indeterminacy, and relates the associated problems with a conventional understanding of sustainable development to Hayek’s critique of collective planning. It suggests that the appropriate recourse is not, however, a Hayekian endorsement of the free market, but an extension of his key idea of spontaneous order to characterise the learning society. The …
A Descriptive Nomenclature for the Study of Folklore Part II
The Tree Line in the Alps
The Art of Crete and Early Greece
John Greenway on Folksong - A Reply
Foster responds to John Greenway's essay on folk music (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3), taking issue with Greenway's 'extended arraignment of contemporary protest folksingers ... [and] his proposition that folksong surpasses what we might for the purposes of argument term sophisticated art
Some Books on Italy
The Art of Archaic Greece
The Art of Classical Greece
A Descriptive Nomenclature for the Study of Folklore Part II
Songs of Irish Rebellion
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
The Measure of Paradise
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT VISUAL COMPOSITION in eighteenth-century have mostly been concerned with the influence on the of landscape painting and landscape gardening. Nonetheless, several critics have sought to redress the balance by claiming that the principles and practice of visual composition were generated from within the itself. C. V. Deane, for example, tries to demonstrate that methods of composition in landscape are analogous to, and often ident…
From Tiberius to the Antonines. A History of the Roman Empire AD 14-192
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw be…
Depressive symptoms among Filipino American adolescents
Minority ethnic status has been found to be related to higher levels of depressive symptoms among adolescents and adults. The present study examined the rates of depressive symptoms (as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: CES-D Scale) of 270 Filipino American adolescents residing in rural and small-town areas of Hawaii. CES-D scores were compared with scores of a White group, and no ethnic differences were found. Co…
John Buchan's 'Hesperides
Making sense of stewardship
This paper sketches the fundamental characteristics of metaphorical language which enable it to subserve not only the shaping of particular discourses, but also crucial aspects of our powers of enquiry and understanding. It argues that without metaphorical creativity we cannot make adequate sense of the more complex and open‐ended aspects of our experience. This is illustrated from the way in which we deploy the closely related key environmental …
Options, sustainability policy and the spontaneous order
This paper examines the implications for sustainability policy of environmental uncertainty and indeterminacy, and relates the associated problems with a conventional understanding of sustainable development to Hayek’s critique of collective planning. It suggests that the appropriate recourse is not, however, a Hayekian endorsement of the free market, but an extension of his key idea of spontaneous order to characterise the learning society. The …
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual w…
Mythistory
Irish novels, 1890-1940
INTRODUCTION: The Shock of the Old 1. 'A Deplorable Facility': Popular Fiction 2. 'When the Tide Turns': After the Victorians 3. A New Theology: Protestantism and the Novel 4. 'Their Patience Folly?' Catholicism and Fiction 5. Bad Blood: Sectarianism in the Novel 6. Studies in Green: The Condition of Ireland I 7. 'Society - spelt big': The Condition of Ireland II 8. Tiercel and Lure: Love and Marriage 9. Metier de Femme: New Woman Fiction 10. Fin…
Poison and romance
Oscar Wilde considered crime and sin no impediment to art or culture, as the case of the poisoner-artist-critic Thomas Wainewright (1794–1847) allowed him to demonstrate. English society of the time, as George Orwell famously declared, was as fascinated by poisoning as was Wilde. One of Orwell's cases was that of Edith Thompson who, along with her young lover, was convicted in 1922 in London of conspiracy to murder her husband whom it was alleged…
Reason in a dark time
As Dale Jamieson opens by acknowledging, we are stuck with climate change. His explanation of the why? in his subtitle is, succinctly, this: Climate change is occurring and is effectively irreversi
Caring for the future? – a response to Rupert Read
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have yet brought on themselves. It is tragic in the full classical sense – a disaster entailed on the protagonist (here, humanity) by destructive weaknesses inherent in crucial strengths and virtues. There is thus no way of avoiding it by picking and choosing among our values, and its effects can neither be compensated for nor mitigated by prospective gai…
Hope after sustainability – tragedy and transformation
Claims to sustainability are everywhere, from the sides of motorway juggernauts to the spin of a UK government arguing for airport expansion in London while notionally signed up to its carbon emiss
On letting go
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have yet brought on themselves. It is tragic in the full classical sense – a disaster entailed on the protagonist (here, humanity) by destructive weaknesses inherent in crucial strengths and virtues. There is thus no way of avoiding it by picking and choosing among our values, and its effects can neither be compensated for nor mitigated by prospective gai…
Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015), 142pp., $13.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-87286-669-0
Art (16 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · History (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Literature (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works)