the sources of his natural life
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The Sources of 'His Natural Life'
Decie Denholm
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New light on the sources of His Natural Life
Barry Smith
161864735
'There Are French Novels And There Are French Novels' Charles Reade and the 'Other' Sources of Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life
This article looks at the topical elements in Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life by focusing on two pivotal scenes which feature discussion of French literature.
Ian Henderson
148100252
The Historical Basis of For the Term of His Natural Life
MARCUS CLARKE'S For the Term of His Natural Life is unusual in being a work of fiction which cites detailed sources in the manner of an objective enquiry. It is the aim of this analysis to study these sources in their historical context, to examine the novelist's use and adaptation of them, to estimate what licence he has taken with his data and to compare Clarke's account of the convict system with the reality. It is important to bear in mind that Clarke was a novelist not an historian, but since his novel is responsible for some popular opinions concerning the transportation of prisoners to Australia, it is just that his references be traced and appraised.
L L Robson
143319184
The Pattern of His Natural Life: Conflict, Imagery, and Theme as Elements of Structure
The cumulative power of Marcus Clarke's novel on the convict system, His Natural Life, has been acknowledged by every major critic who has written on the work, in spite of certain reservations about the melodrama and overwriting in sections of the novels Nevertheless, relatively little has been done on the source of the narrative, from which much, though not the ultimately significant portion, of the impact of the novel springs.2 That Clarke borrowed heavily from various sources for the events and characterizations of His Natural Life is evident from the
Harold J Boehm
148167018
'His Natural Life' and Its Sources
Harold J Boehm
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Life and the Natural World in the Early Work of Jan Patocka (1930 1945)
This article is a brief overview of Jan Patocka's early interpretation of phenomenology in his academic writings based, on the one hand, on his 1931 doctoral dissertation and his 1936 habilitation thesis, and, on the other hand, on his first critical revision and his own conception of transcendental phenomenology put forward in an important group of manuscripts written between 1940 and 1945, which have recently been published in his Collected Works. The article examines these texts closely and focuses on Patocka's attempts to link phenomenology with a philosophy of life. Important motifs that shaped Patocka's philosophy beginning in the early 1940s were his reflections on the sources of evidence in life, the unity of the world in the life of transcendental subjectivity and a "deeper life correlation" with nature.
Karel Novotny
141822100
Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science
Roy Porter, the historian ofWesternmedicine, once wrote that "the historical record is like the night sky: we see a few stars and group them into mythic constellations. But what is chiefly visible is the darkness" (1997, 13) Florence Bretelle Establet, the editor of this volume, offers a different metaphor, one that has primary sources flashing by like trout. "Upstream from the historians' act of composing a corpus and dealing with sources," she writes, "a great variety of actors imposed their goals and values on the material and social life of documents" (xxxiv) This ecological metaphor is even more apt than Porter's. Both emphasize that what ends up in the historian's constellation or bucket reflects the direction of her gaze and her own skill at observation and capture. But Bretelle Establet's imagery makes it clear that the specific fish darting by in her part of the creek are not random or natural, like the specific stars occupying one corner of the sky. Rather, their distribution reflects the damming, culling, and selective propagation that others have done before us. Some texts have been deliberately suppressed and destroyed through censorship, while others have been preferentially collected and preserved. Before amodern historian ever has the opportunity to impose his categories and biases on extant primary sources, a seventh century commentator, a tenth century compiler, and an eighteenth centuryWestern scholar may already have determined what was available. Whether they prefer to think of primary sources as stars or fish, historians will find much to appreciate in this volume. It is eclectic but coherent. Its "Asia" includes Mesopotamia (three essays) and India (three) as well as China (six) and Vietnam (one) and the historical periods addressed range from the first millennium BCE through the nineteenth century CE. Despite this variety, the thirteen chapters here speak to one another as effectively as the chapters of edited volumes with a narrower geographical and temporal focus. In the present review, I focus on the chapters on China and Vietnam as those most likely to be of direct interest to readers of this journal. However, the sources on India and Mesopotamia also deserve the attention
Hilary A Smith
197082
[J.E. GILIBERT HIS LIFE AND WORK IN THE LIGHT OF A CORRESPONDENCE AND TESTIMONIES OF HIS TIME]
Jean Emmanuel Gilibert (1741 1814) has been the subject of few biographical works. This paper presents the results of research from unpublished documents, unknown by historians until now. The information, publishedin old sources as in Gilibert autobiographical sketches or in catalogues of natural history papers auctions, is critically analyzed here. We also tried to establish a list of documents from those cited by Gilibert biographers, but lost today. The author both presents and comments letters to Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748 1836) and Andre Thouin (1747 1824) as well as a letter to an unknown receiver, in the autograph's collection of Gustave Thuret (1747 1824) and Eduard Bornet (1828 1911) which is conserved in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Precious information about Gilibert and his stay in Lithuania was found in the letters of Antoine Gouan (1733 1821) to Philippe Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse (1744 1818) Research were also conducted in the Museum's herbarium in order to find Gilibert's specimens from Lithuania as well as to discover more information about the naturalist himself. The documents of Jean Hermann (1738 1800) linked with Gilibert were found in Strasbourg's National and University Libraries and in the Municipal Archives; a letter from Gilibert to Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was also discovered in this collection. Some new and interesting data came from a register of Hermann's natural history cabinet visitors Some additional information about Gilibert's life and work was obtained as a result of the analysis of manuscripts conserved in the National Academy of Medicine in Paris, more specifically in Gilibert's correspondences from Lithuania and Lyon about illnesses and epidemics. The information obtained allowed a better knowledge of the history of Gilibert floristic works in Lithuania, his zoological research, his practice of medicine and his study of different pathologies, his way of collecting and the collection itself of natural history specimens and the history of Gouan's herbarium and Pierre Richer de Belleval's copper plates brought from France to Lithuania. Some facts about Gilibert's life unknown to his biographers were also discovered in these manuscripts. We also tried to discover to what extent the information obtained in Lithuania was used by Gilibert in France. The role of Gilibert in the description of the Alps flora and his participation in the work of Dominique Villars (1745 1814) were discussed. We tried to estimate the impact of Gilibert's experience in Lithuania on his bio geographical conceptions, as well as on botany in the XIX century. Based on this information, the character of Gilibert was found to be representative of a typical member of the "republique des savants" while still remaining very specific to his atypical life. We therefore also tried to understand to what extent Gilibert was a typical naturalist of the XVIII century.
Kwartalnik historii nauki i techniki Kwartal'nyi zhurnal istorii nauki i tekhniki
Piotr Daszkiewicz
143119130
THEORETICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL SOURCES OF IBN SINA PHILOSOPHY ON THE ISSUE OF REASON AND FAITH
The article examines the theoretical and ideological sources of Ibn Sina philosophy on the issue of human. The author emphasizes that the studies of Ibn Sina were based on the philosophical tradition of antiquity, on their doctrine of man as a rational and social person. Due to the rational activity of man as his natural qualities, the philosopher based on the modern advanced science and social thought which has significantly expanded the frontiers of knowledge on the issues of human nature, the meaning of his life, his place in the Universe, and role in society.
Saida Zakhro Takikhoni