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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In three of J. M. Coetzee’s recent novels, Disgrace (1999), Elizabeth Costello (2003), and Slow Man (2005), the South African author explores notions of authorship and challenges the possibilities of the sympathetic imagination. The notion of the sympathetic imagination has roots in Romanticism, and it connotes inhabiting another in order to understand or interpret. Romantic poet John Keats described the poet as “continually in for [sic] and filling some other body” (Letter to Richard Woodhouse), and Coetzee addresses the notion of the sympathetic imagination in his work. There are two facets of the sympathetic imagination: that which governs social relations and that which authors and creative minds attempt to claim as a driving force behind their work. It is important not to conflate the two separate facets of the sympathetic imagination. The social facet encourages good citizenship and allows humankind to behave in humane ways. It counters one’s private desire for mastery and balances self-interest with self-sacrifice; the sympathetic imagination helps others attain their goals and places others’ needs alongside one’s own selfishness. A sympathetic imagination is an essential quality in society, yet it will always yield only partial success. It cannot achieve complete success because truly inhabiting and embodying another living person is simply impossible, but in fiction, Coetzee explores the possibilities and limits of the sympathetic imagination at the level of language and metaphor. The other facet of the sympathetic imagination is often claimed by authors, poets, and artists to allow them to inhabit the subjects of their creativity. Coetzee tests the limits of authorial claims that writing is accomplished by applying a sympathetic imagination. In doing so, he creates metaphysical frames in which his own author-characters interact with other characters to reveal that some characters resist being written. In these metaphysical frames of fiction, Coetzee suggests that an author’s sympathetic imagination will never have total success; he sets forth a notion of partial success that helps address what is gained when the sympathetic imagination runs up against limits. My argument is that the authors and characters in these three novels attempt acts of sympathetic imagination and recurrently encounter limits. Coetzee questions perceived notions of authorship and the possibilities of the sympathetic imagination without offering alternatives. He critiques common notions of authorship and character writing but offers no real solutions.

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur hemhjälpsnämnden i Växjö arbetade under åren 1944 till 1950. I arbetet undersöks hur Växjö kommun och Hemhjälpsnämnden samarbetade med organiserandet av den sociala hemhjälpsverksamheten vad gäller bostad, utbildning, lön och kläder för hemvårdarinnorna. Det undersöks även vilka dessa kvinnor var och vad de hade för utbildning och bakgrund. I undersökningen har kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder använts samt forskning som berör de första kvinnliga yrkena och hemvårdarinneyrkets uppkomst som ett välfärdsstatsprofesionellt yrke. Undersökningens resultat visar på en organiserad Hemhälpsnämnd med flertalet anställda , utbildade , hemvårdarinnor som är naturligt moderliga, varmhjärtade, pålitliga och kunniga. Dessa hemvårdarinnor arbeta med att hjälpa barnfamiljer som ansökt om hjälp vid sjukdom, skada eller förlossning. Arbetsuppgifterna i hemmet bestod av allt från barnuppfostran, matlagning, boskapskötsel, städning, enklare sjukvård till införskaffande av hushållsartiklar och matvaror. Hemvårdarinnorna höjde levnasstandarden och hjälpte modern att tillfriskna så att hon snabbt kunde återgå till sin familj.

<p> The patterns of working class settlement for New York City were established using occupation statistics found within the 1940 census. The health areas of the city's boroughs were shaded based on location quotients. Location quotients were calculated for craftsmen, operatives and labourers individually and then as a group, defining the term "total working class". The urban structure of New York City, presented in the four maps of working class settlement, failed to show the existence of five distinct concentric areas which Burgess identified in Chicago in 1925. The complicated topography, peripheral location of manufacturing industries, and lack of evenly dispersed transportation modes and bridges have contributed to the unique arrangement of settlement in New York City. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2018

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Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2018