Richard Anker
Biographic Data
| ID | 248291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Anker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Anker |
| SIGNATURE | ANKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Clermont Auvergne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Materiality Without Matter in The Wings of the Dove
Cet article étudie la force inscriptionnelle de la lettre dans The Wings of the Dove comme une matérialité qui mine le discours esthétique et affecte le corps de l’héroïne, Milly Theale, contrepartie thématique de la structure formelle du roman conçu comme une totalité organique. Il démontre comment la consomption qui est soupçonnée est en réalité un effet du travail de la lettre, et que la réduction de ce travail à une maladie ou à des causes ps…
Aesthetic Education and Writing in The Wings of the Dove
Cet article explore l’entrelacs de l’esthétique et de l’écriture dans le roman de James. Hétérogènes mais inséparables, ces deux forces, formatrice et scripturale, sous-tendent à la fois l’éducation européenne de Milly Theale et l’inquiétante étrangeté qu’elle produit, notamment sur Merton Densher. L’analyse, largement consacrée à l’épisode de la rencontre de la jeune Américaine avec le portrait de Bronzino, commence par s’intéresser aux principa…
Aesthetic Education and Writing in The Wings of the Dove
Deconstructing Narrative, Deconstructing the death penalty. The case of Billy Budd, Sailor
This article proposes a deconstructive reading of Billy Budd, Sailor partly by situating the narrative in the context of Derrida’s late seminar on the death penalty. Arguing that the core of Melville’s narrative harbours the idealistic fantasy of redeeming the finitude of speech, a finitude which is thematically dramatised in the Handsome Sailor’s stutter, it demonstrates how this fantasy reaches at once its most radical achievement in the execut…
Irony and the Question of Presentation in The American Scene
Several scenarios of The American Scene are studied to emphasize the irreconcilable nature of performative and constative functions of language as a medium of aesthetic presentation, rendering impossible any attempt to reduce the text to a historico-political document, and underwriting on the contrary the ironic character of its discourse. This discursive irony is read as a counter-force to the aesthetic ideology that James sees installing itself…
The Pastoral Ethos of Joseph McElroy’s Writing
This article begins by proposing a very partial reading of Lookout Cartridge (1974) as a means of opening the way to a more comprehensive analysis of Women and Men (1987), an analysis which restricts itself, however, to a treatment of the main “man” of the novel, James Mayn, and in particular to his relation to his apparently suicidal mother. In doing so, it attempts to conceptualize various pastoral themes and intentions that appear in McElroy’s…
Conjunctions of the Literary and the Philosophical in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Writing
Although in the history of the West the relation between the literary and the philosophical has often been conceived in terms of a rivalry, perhaps with one field or regime of discourse attempting to annex or tame the other, what the articles collected in this volume devoted to twentieth and twenty-first century American writing reveal is a rather striking display of conjunctions presenting a less antagonistic image of their relation. This may co…
L’Inquiétante modernité de The Sacred Fount
Just before writing The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, James wrote The Sacred Fount, and attempted to write a novel entitled The Sense of the Past, works in which an ambitious attempt to unearth the “source” of his writing and the mimetic origin of thought came to a head. The author’s apparent repudiation of the first, the failure to complete the latter, and the immense critical success which crowned his return to the “re…
Sécularisation et transferts du religieux
Introduction. Mimesis dans les lettres américaines
This paper borrows its title from one narrator’s comment in Toby Olson’s third novel, in order to try and define the experience of being « touched » by storytelling, and by writing : or, what sort of « touch » may occur on the unstable, evasive limit between body and meaning ? The article discusses the many narrative mediations and obstacles presiding over this story of subjected and liberated bodies, and analyses the radical dissociation establi…
Mimesis travestie, ou le « modernisme épuré » de William H. Gass
Although everything from Cartesian skepticism to Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system of composition has been evoked in discussing the formal logic of William Gass’s novel, The Tunnel (1995), this paper argues that this logic is fundamentally speculative, in the Hegelian sense of the term, and furthermore that the germ of this logic lies in Plato’s double strategy of exclusion and appropriation of mimesis in The Republic. Far from merely repudiating m…
James and the “Paradox of the Comedian”
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New Worlds. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. Written by some of the world’s leading James scholars, this collection offers a comprehensive picture of James’s cross-cultural aesthetics. Building upon detailed analyses of his perception of E…
Traumatisme et Trope dans « The Beast in the Jungle » de Henry James
Cet article tente d’interpréter la peur chez James à la lumière de la scène antérieure de la conscience. Comme le démontre la réapparition de cette scène, évoquée de manière compulsive dans toute l’œuvre de James, l’impulsion artiste du sujet procède d’une perte « traumatique » de la présence à soi, elle-même causée par l’inscription langagière du sujet et par la rencontre avec l’autre. Dans « The Beast in the Jungle », en une parodie tragique de…
Le Suspens du roman
The figural ontology that authorises the Jamesian novel is constituted in a specular turn erecting before the subject, as in a mirror, an image of its original—or rather pre-original—dispossession, itself constituted by the faculty of language. Man doesn’t possess language like a property; language, on the contrary, dispossesses him of himself. Mimesis, or, more precisely, the mimetic or specular turn which constitutes the principle of James’s wr…
Measuring decent work with statistical indicators
Economic development and labor force participation of older persons
Cross-National Analysis of Labor Force Participation of Older Men and Women
Working Women in Socialist Countries
The focus of this publication is the interaction between female employment and fertility in 6 socialist countries: Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Cuba and the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The country studies that comprise the book were carried out as part of a global project funded by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities on Demographic Change and the Role of Women. Women are fully integrated into the economies of these so…
Fertility Determinants in Developing Countries
Population Growth, Employment, and Economic-Demographic Interactions in Kenya
Women's Roles and Population Trends in the Third World
Reproductive Behavior in Households of Rural Gujarat
This book is based on a household survey directed by the authors in 1970-1971 in 11 Gujarat villages. Approximately 470 married couples were interviewed 4 times making a total of about 1800 interviews. In addition to detailed household level data--including demographic economic social labor force education information--information was also collected on the sample villages themselves. Recent emphasis on community level approaches to development an…
Population Growth, Employment and Economic--Demographic Interactions in Kenya
Fertility Determinants in Developing Countries
The focus of this volume is human fertility and the factors which aid in explaining differentials in fertility rates between households and regions of Kenya. Several features of this study make it somewhat unique: a broad multidisciplinary perspective is employed to develop a theoretical model of the determinants of fertility differentials; 2 independent data sets at different levels of aggregation are employed; descriptive tables are presented a…
An analysis of income transfers in a developing country
An analysis of income transfers in a developing country
Cross-National Analysis of Labor Force Participation of Older Men and Women
An Empirical Analysis of Mortality Differentials in Kenya at the Macro and Micro Levels
Economic development and labor force participation of older persons
Sécularisation et transferts du religieux
The effect of group level variables on fertility in a rural Indian sample
This paper studies reproductive behaviour (ideal family size, completed family size and family planning acceptance) in a rural Indian area which was rapidly industrialising. Two castes and eleven villages were sampled. It was found that family planning was quite common and that fertility differentials among couples were related to the couples’ unique socioeconomic characteristics as well as to two group level variables (caste and village). The la…
An Analysis of Fertility Differentials in Developing Countries
Fertility differentials are analyzed by using two stage least squares and data from developing countries for the period 1968-70. Results confirmed that adult literacy rates levels of childrens education and female labor force participation rates were negatively related to fertility. However life expectancy at birth (up to approximately 50 years) was positively related to fertility and only thereafter were life expectancy at birth and fertility ne…
Demographic Change and the Role of Women
In the past several years considerable attention has been directed toward questions related to the role and status of women -culminating, at least in a political sense, in the United Nation's International Women's Year.Partly as a result, it is now widely recognised that social, political and economic changes have differential effects on men and women and that a conscious effort should be made to improve the relative position of women in the econ…
Research on Women's Roles and Demographic Change
An Empirical Analysis of Mortality Differentials in Kenya at the Macro and Micro Levels
An analysis of income transfers in a developing country
Fertility Determinants in Developing Countries
The focus of this volume is human fertility and the factors which aid in explaining differentials in fertility rates between households and regions of Kenya. Several features of this study make it somewhat unique: a broad multidisciplinary perspective is employed to develop a theoretical model of the determinants of fertility differentials; 2 independent data sets at different levels of aggregation are employed; descriptive tables are presented a…
Population Growth, Employment, and Economic-Demographic Interactions in Kenya
Women's Roles and Population Trends in the Third World
Reproductive Behavior in Households of Rural Gujarat
This book is based on a household survey directed by the authors in 1970-1971 in 11 Gujarat villages. Approximately 470 married couples were interviewed 4 times making a total of about 1800 interviews. In addition to detailed household level data--including demographic economic social labor force education information--information was also collected on the sample villages themselves. Recent emphasis on community level approaches to development an…
Population Growth, Employment and Economic--Demographic Interactions in Kenya
Fertility Determinants in Developing Countries
Working Women in Socialist Countries
The focus of this publication is the interaction between female employment and fertility in 6 socialist countries: Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Cuba and the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The country studies that comprise the book were carried out as part of a global project funded by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities on Demographic Change and the Role of Women. Women are fully integrated into the economies of these so…
Cross-National Analysis of Labor Force Participation of Older Men and Women
Economic development and labor force participation of older persons
Measuring decent work with statistical indicators
Le Suspens du roman
The figural ontology that authorises the Jamesian novel is constituted in a specular turn erecting before the subject, as in a mirror, an image of its original—or rather pre-original—dispossession, itself constituted by the faculty of language. Man doesn’t possess language like a property; language, on the contrary, dispossesses him of himself. Mimesis, or, more precisely, the mimetic or specular turn which constitutes the principle of James’s wr…
James and the “Paradox of the Comedian”
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New Worlds. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. Written by some of the world’s leading James scholars, this collection offers a comprehensive picture of James’s cross-cultural aesthetics. Building upon detailed analyses of his perception of E…
Traumatisme et Trope dans « The Beast in the Jungle » de Henry James
Cet article tente d’interpréter la peur chez James à la lumière de la scène antérieure de la conscience. Comme le démontre la réapparition de cette scène, évoquée de manière compulsive dans toute l’œuvre de James, l’impulsion artiste du sujet procède d’une perte « traumatique » de la présence à soi, elle-même causée par l’inscription langagière du sujet et par la rencontre avec l’autre. Dans « The Beast in the Jungle », en une parodie tragique de…
Introduction. Mimesis dans les lettres américaines
This paper borrows its title from one narrator’s comment in Toby Olson’s third novel, in order to try and define the experience of being « touched » by storytelling, and by writing : or, what sort of « touch » may occur on the unstable, evasive limit between body and meaning ? The article discusses the many narrative mediations and obstacles presiding over this story of subjected and liberated bodies, and analyses the radical dissociation establi…
Mimesis travestie, ou le « modernisme épuré » de William H. Gass
Although everything from Cartesian skepticism to Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system of composition has been evoked in discussing the formal logic of William Gass’s novel, The Tunnel (1995), this paper argues that this logic is fundamentally speculative, in the Hegelian sense of the term, and furthermore that the germ of this logic lies in Plato’s double strategy of exclusion and appropriation of mimesis in The Republic. Far from merely repudiating m…
Sécularisation et transferts du religieux
L’Inquiétante modernité de The Sacred Fount
Just before writing The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, James wrote The Sacred Fount, and attempted to write a novel entitled The Sense of the Past, works in which an ambitious attempt to unearth the “source” of his writing and the mimetic origin of thought came to a head. The author’s apparent repudiation of the first, the failure to complete the latter, and the immense critical success which crowned his return to the “re…
Irony and the Question of Presentation in The American Scene
Several scenarios of The American Scene are studied to emphasize the irreconcilable nature of performative and constative functions of language as a medium of aesthetic presentation, rendering impossible any attempt to reduce the text to a historico-political document, and underwriting on the contrary the ironic character of its discourse. This discursive irony is read as a counter-force to the aesthetic ideology that James sees installing itself…
The Pastoral Ethos of Joseph McElroy’s Writing
This article begins by proposing a very partial reading of Lookout Cartridge (1974) as a means of opening the way to a more comprehensive analysis of Women and Men (1987), an analysis which restricts itself, however, to a treatment of the main “man” of the novel, James Mayn, and in particular to his relation to his apparently suicidal mother. In doing so, it attempts to conceptualize various pastoral themes and intentions that appear in McElroy’s…
Sociology (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Socioeconomics (8 works)