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Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined early lives as both men became labour intellectuals and powerbrokers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It reveals the underappreciated role each man played in the events that defined the modern Australian Labor Party - its first experience of national government, the turmoil of war, the great conscription clash and party split of 1916, and the heated debates over the party's socialist objective. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin shows how they became the leaders that history knows best by painting a portrait of two young men struggling to establish their identities and find their place in the world. It tells of their great friendships, loves and passions, and reminds us that these were real men, with real weaknesses, desires and dreams. It explains how their early political careers set the scene for their later prime ministerships as they honed the techniques of power that led them to the summit of Australian politics. This is the story of two young men striving to better the world they had inherited, a story of optimism and hope with enduring relevance for today's troubled politics.
Political science --- Politicians --- Prime ministers --- History. --- Curtin, John, --- Scullin, James Henry, --- Australian Labor Party.
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'In Wibke Schniedermann's book relational sociology meets narrative criticism to help probe gender-based inequality in some of Henry James's major novels. In her outline of the theoretical underpinnings and in her meticulous analyses ranging from James's first popular success in Daisy Miller to his last finished novel in The Golden Bowl, Schniedermann offers an exciting new way of reading symbolic economy in James's fiction at the interface of the social, the psychological and the literary.' - Mirosława Buchholtz, Professor of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels. Reading James’s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, specifically Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic domination, reconciles some of the most fiercely disputed positions in James studies of the past decades. The close readings focus on three novels, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, providing a systematic relational analysis into the specifically Jamesian method of narrating the socio-psychological, embodied responses to masculine power and oppression. James persistently narrates his characters as social agents whose perception, affects, and bodily practices are products of the social structures that they in turn continue to shape and reproduce. The chapters trace a development throughout James’s career that reflects a growing sensitivity for the concealment and attendant misrecognition of gendered domination.
Fiction. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Literary Theory. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture and Gender. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Study and teaching. --- James, Henry, --- James, Henry. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cultural studies --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- جميس، هينري، --- جيمز، هنرى --- James, Henry
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