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Journal articles on the topic "White whale in fiction"

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Sloan, Casey. "POSSESSING DRESSES: FASHION AND FEMALE COMMUNITY INTHE WOMAN IN WHITE." Victorian Literature and Culture 44, no. 4 (November 4, 2016): 801–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015031600022x.

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Margaret Oliphant much preferredThe Woman in White(published serially 1859–1860) toGreat Expectations(published serially 1860–1861). This partiality emerges in a comparative treatment of the texts in her oft-quoted 1862 treatise on sensation fiction, and it rests on the desirability of authors producing thrills using “modest and subtle means” (“Sensation Novels” 569) instead of “by fantastic eccentricities” and “high-strained oddity” (“Sensation Novels” 574). While the existence of an argument against the allegedly regrettable excesses of fantastical narratives will not shock any reader familiar with contemporary criticism of sensation fiction, or, for that matter, Romantic-era novels or Gothic works in general, the primary evidence Oliphant uses to argue her case might come as a surprise. In order to discredit Charles Dickens's ghostly accounts of Miss Havisham's bridal tomb in favor of Wilkie Collins's eerie images of Anne Catherick appearing on a moonlit moor, Margaret Oliphant turns to clothing.
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Carolin, Andy. "Apartheid's Immorality Act and the fiction of heteronormative whiteness." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.7.

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This article traces both the centrality and fragility of the figure of the heterosexual white male to the moral and ideological core of the apartheid regime. Through a comparative reading of Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Gerald Kraak's Ice in the Lungs (2006), the article examines how apartheid's Immorality Act functioned as the legislative mechanism to produce and police heteronormative whiteness. The randomness and unpredictability of sexual desire in both historical novels expose the tenuousness of this idealised heteronormative whiteness that lay at the centre of the apartheid project. Situated within the moral panic and political turmoil of the 1970s, the novels identify sex as a powerful lens through which to read the history of apartheid. While Mda's satirical novel focuses on transgressive interracial sexual desire, Kraak's realist text explores same-sex desire and intimacy. My reading of the two novels engages with the political history of apartheid's sexual policing and insists on the inextricable entanglement of its heteronormative and racial supremacist provisions. The traditional ideological centrality of the vulnerable white woman is displaced in the novels by white men whose transgressive sexual desires for black women (in Mda's novel) and other white men (in Kraak's) refuse the certainty and naturalness of heteronormative whiteness.
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Armengol, Josep. "Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3018.

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Abstract This paper will explore the representation of men’s aging experiences in contemporary U.S. fiction. While most gender-ed approaches to aging have focused on women, which has contributed to the cultural invisibility of older men, this study focuses on men’s aging experiences as men, thus challenging the inverse correlation between masculinity and aging. To do so, the study draws on a selected number of contemporary U.S. male-authored fictional works, which question the widely-held assumption that aging is a lesser concern for men, or that men and women’s aging experiences may be simply defined as opposed. The literary corpus includes male authors from different backgrounds so as to illustrate how (self-)representations of aging men vary according not only to gender but also class (Richard Ford), race (Ernest Gaines), and sexual orientation (Edmund White), amongst other factors. The presentation will thus end up challenging the conventional equation of men’s aging processes with (sexual) decline, exemplifying their plurality as well as irreducible contradictions.
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Birns, Nicholas. "Introduction to John Kinsella's PINK LAKE." Thesis Eleven 155, no. 1 (December 2019): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619892170.

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John Kinsella’s fiction emphasizes similar themes of environmental activism, political protest, and critique of Australian society, as does his widely acclaimed poetry. As in his verse, his orientation as a fiction writer is both local and global, regional and cosmopolitan. But in his fiction Kinsella engages in a double interrogation of both mainstream society and his own posture in opposition to it. In the novella Pink Lake a film director is interviewed by an uncomprehending journalist and driven to desperation by the philistinism of Australian society. But his own arrogance, unexamined white and male privilege, and illusion that just because he practices what he calls cinema vérité he has in fact attained the truth mean that he is part of the problem as well. Kinsella examines the problematics of social critique in a neoliberal world, noting their ironies while still believing in their possibility and necessity.
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Urakova, A. P. "‘Injin gifts’: Interracial exchange and the image of the white avenger in frontier fiction." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (May 27, 2019): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-2-193-206.

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The essay focuses on the so called ‘Injin gifts’ – a racialist notion that James Fenimore Cooper attributed to his famous frontier hero Natty Bumppo in The Deerslayer (1841). While implying that certain traits of character, as for example vengefulness, was God’s ‘gift’ to the indigenous people, this notion also paradoxically questions the racial boundaries. The ‘gifts’ are both vertical (bestowed by God) and horizontal (liable to exchange) as Cooper’s novel demonstrates. To support this argument, the essay discusses the plot of racial violence and frontier war in the work of Cooper’s contemporaries – James Hall and Robert Montgomery Bird. Both authors introduce a new cultural hero – a white character who kills indigenous people out of revenge. While revenge is justified as an act of counter-violence, it also threatens to blur the racial boundaries since white characters put on the traits and share the spirit of their antagonists. This is especially evident in Bird’s novel Nick of the Woods (1837): Bird’s racist discourse, paradoxically and unwillingly, turns against itself as his white character Nathan Slaughter engaged in the potlatch-like exchange of violence and deaths, ‘mirrors’ the indigenous Americans he is trying to destroy.
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Vitackova, Martina. "Representation of racial and sexual 'others' in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 1 (March 20, 2018): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.3480.

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This article provides a feminist critique of representation, analysing the way sexual and racial others are represented in the work of the Afrikaans popular romantic fiction writer Sophia Kapp. Comparing her first three novels to the latest one, the article points to a development in her writing and tracks the changes it has undergone over the course of the almost ten years of Kapp's writing career. Starting off with exclusively white and heterosexual characters in her first novels, her latest novel includes a number of black and homosexual secondary characters. However, while these characters appear to be equal to the white hero and heroine, an analysis of their representation shows that they are rendered in such a way that they support the white heterosexual marriage as the unquestionable standard, and it becomes clear that the inclusion of sexual and racial others appears for the most part to be in the function of "surrogate and enabler" for the white heterosexual marriage ideal.
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Agho, Jude Aigbe. "Resistance, Liberation, and Aesthetics in the Early Novels of Alex La Guma." Matatu 48, no. 1 (2016): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04801002.

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Alex La Guma, the late South African Coloured novelist and short-story writer, died in exile in Cuba in 1985. Until his death, he was clearly the most ambitious novelist in South Africa of the apartheid era. Even while he was in exile, he kept in touch with the momentum of the anti-apartheid struggle, which culminated in the abrogation of apartheid and the attainment of independence with the ascendance of Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s first non-white president in 1994. Resistance and liberation are unmistakably the credos enshrined in La Guma’s fiction. But these thematic preoccupations did not distract him from his calling as a consummate writer who also needed to pay particular attention to the dictates of the art of fiction in his novels and short stories. Thus, in his fiction we find a true blend or matrix of resistance, liberation, and aesthetics. This essay sets out to unravel the trajectory of La Guma’s depiction of this matrix in some of his early novels which, by and large, could be said to have anticipated the revolutionary imperatives of his later fiction.
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Sen, Sucharita. "Memsahibs and ayahs during the Mutiny: In English memoirs and fiction." Studies in People's History 7, no. 2 (December 2020): 159–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2348448920951520.

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Drawing upon the personal accounts of British women who lived through the Mutiny (1857–58), this article argues that these accounts, being characterised by diversity, both supported and contradicted the official discourse of the British Raj. While the domestic spaces in the household were shaken by the storm of the Mutiny, interpersonal relations sometimes transcended the animosity which the Mutiny had garnered. By bringing the contemporary British fiction into the spectrum of analysis, this article argues that the Mutiny fiction and personal accounts have a common chord in their portrayal of the loyalty of the native servants in the hour of crises for their employers. These relationships, however, also implied the status of white superiority over coloured subordination as also the memsahib’s special preserve of idleness.
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Bercuci, Loredana. "Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) as a Transgressive White-Life Novel." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 191–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.14.

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"James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) as a Transgressive White-Life Novel. In the wake of the Second World War, American literature saw the rise of a type of novel that is little known today: the white-life novel. This type of novel is written by black writers but describes white characters acting in a mostly white milieu. While at the time African-American critics praised this new way of writing as a sign of maturity, many have since criticized it for being regressive by pandering to white tastes. This paper sets out to analyze the most famous of these novels, namely James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). It is my contention that Giovanni’s Room connects blackness and queerness through the use of visual metaphors in the novel, disrupting thus the post-war consensus on ideals of white masculinity. The novel, while seemingly abandoning black protagonists, enacts a subtle critique of white heteronormativity akin to Baldwin’s own positioning within American thought of the post-war era. Keywords: blackness, James Baldwin, post-war fiction, queer, white-life novel "
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Anderson, Brianna. "Revolutionary paratext and critical pedagogy in Nathan Hale’s One Dead Spy." Studies in Comics 11, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 127–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jem_00018_1.

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Autobiographical accounts of historical violence and trauma in comics form have gained widespread recognition as valuable pedagogical tools, particularly in the wake of Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking Maus (1980–91). These comics often draw from the conventions of text-based autobiographies to provide first-person, non-fiction narratives of historical events, contributing to their perceived legitimacy as ‘serious’ texts worthy of inclusion in the classroom. However, this narrow focus on autobiographical comics as authentic windows to history has led educators to largely overlook the unique pedagogical possibilities offered by historical fiction comics, which can use both their fictionality and the comics medium to teach young readers to critically engage with history in different and deeper ways than traditional history textbooks and single-narrator autobiographical comics. This article remedies this gap by analysing how Nathan Hale’s middle-grade historical fiction comic One Dead Spy enacts a critical pedagogy approach to teach children to challenge hegemonic historical discourses and ways of thinking. The comic centres on the Revolutionary spy Nathan Hale (no relation to the comics creator) as he attempts to delay his hanging by narrating the American Revolution to his executioners. Nathan’s purportedly true account hinders children’s critical engagement with history by perpetuating dominant historical discourses, providing readers with a whitewashed, male-centric narrative of the Revolution. By contrast, the backmatter complicates Nathan’s one-sided representation of history by featuring a mini-comic narrated by the former slave Crispus Attucks and by attributing the comic’s non-fiction bibliography to fictional Research Babies. This blending of academic citational practices with absurd metafiction, as well as the introduction of marginalized counter-narrators, teaches middle-grade readers to question the authority of history writers and destabilizes all historical narratives as artificial constructs. However, the paratext also reinforces racist and sexist paradigms by displacing black and female voices to the comic’s supplemental endpapers, underwriting the comic’s well-intentioned attempts to educate readers about important voices excluded from white-centric narratives. Thus, while One Dead Spy demonstrates how historical fiction comics can provoke much-needed discussions about the inherent biases and erasures of dominant historical discourses, it also reveals the dangers of relegating opportunities for children to learn about marginalized perspectives in history to the literal margins.
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Watts, Billie Stephanie Powell. "Talk to me while I'm listening : a novella /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115597.

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Christie, Lisa Karen. "That dam whale, truth, fiction and authority in King and Melville." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ66504.pdf.

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Murray, Brent William. "Major histocompatibility complex class II sequence variation in cetaceans : DQ[beta] and DR[beta] variation in beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) and DQ[beta] variation in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) /." *McMaster only, 1997.

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Caron, Louise M. J. "Status, site fidelity, and behavior of a hunted herd of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in the Nastapoka estuary, eastern Hudson Bay." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64036.

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Doidge, D. W. (David William). "Age and stage based analysis of the population dynamics of beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, with particular reference to the northern Quebec population." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74610.

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The vital rates of beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, harvested in northern Quebec are within the range reported by previous studies in Alaska and the Canadian and Soviet Arctic. Small sample size and inadequate estimates of survivorship rates prevent meaningful calculation of population growth rate. The pattern of changes in vital rates over the life cycle of beluga and analysis of errors associated with stage classification indicate that the demographic information in a 6 x 6 age-grouped Lefkovitch matrix is similar to that in a 38 x 38 age class Leslie matrix. A 3 stage, length-based model composed of newborns, juveniles and adults contains less demographic information than the larger matrices, but is superior to a juvenile/adult classification scheme. The 3 stage model applied to length frequency data from aerial photographic censuses should provide an alternate method of demographic analysis when harvests are small or absent. Colour is a poor criterion for stage classification.
Sensitivity analysis of fecundity and survivorship indicates that survival of gray animals (older juveniles and early breeders) has the most influence on population growth rate. Changes in fecundity have little effect on growth rate. The high sensitivity of population growth rate to juvenile and early adult survival demonstrates that these estimates should be improved if more precise knowledge of beluga demography is required for management purposes.
The age-length data used to evaluate errors associated with stage classification indicate that belugas in Hudson Bay are smaller than those elsewhere, but not to the large degree previously reported. Beluga in estuaries are represented by all size classes. Examination of the integumentary heat loss show beluga and narwhal, Monodon monoceros, to be equally insulated, but only belugas frequent warmer estuarine waters.
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Griffith, J. W. "The Half-History of Spiro Elisha White." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1875.

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The intent of this project is to study the use of multiple narrators who occupy the same space over a spread of time. While the subject matter has been one of intense study over the years, the approach to implore this technique of fiction has opened the characters, plot, and story to greater exploration.
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Cosgrave, Isabelle Marie. "'White lies' : Amelia Opie, fiction, and the Quakers." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18686.

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This thesis offers a reconsideration of Amelia Opie’s career as a novelist in the light of her developing religious allegiances over the period 1814-1825 in particular. In twentieth-century scholarship, Opie (1769-1853) was often treated primarily as the author of Adeline Mowbray (1805) and discussed in terms of that novel’s relationship with the ideas of Wollstonecraft and Godwin. Recent scholarship (Clive Jones, Roxanne Eberle, Shelley King and John B. Pierce) has begun a fuller assessment of her significance, but there is still a need for a thorough discussion of the relationship between her long journey towards the Quakers and her commitment to the novel as a moral and entertaining medium. Many scholars (Gary Kelly, Patricia Michaelson, Anne McWhir and others), following Opie’s first biographer Cecilia Lucy Brightwell (1854), have represented Opie as giving up her glittering literary career and relinquishing fiction-writing completely: this relinquishment has been linked to Quaker prohibitions of fiction as lying. My thesis shows that Quaker attitudes to fiction were more complicated, and that the relationship between Opie’s religious and literary life is, in turn, more complex than has been thought. This project brings evidence from a number of sources which have been overlooked or under-utilised, including a large, under-examined archive of Opie correspondence at the Huntington Library, Opie’s last novel Much to Blame (1824), given critical analysis here for the first time, and the republications which Opie undertook in the 1840s. These sources show that Opie never abandoned her commitment to fiction; that her move to the Quakers was a long and fraught process, but that she retained a place in the fashionable world in spite of her conversion. My Introduction gives a nuanced understanding of Quaker attitudes to fiction, and the first chapter exposes the ‘white lies’ of Opie’s first biographer, Brightwell, and their legacy. I then move on to examine Opie’s early works – Dangers of Coquetry (1790), “The Nun” (1795) and The Father and Daughter (1801) – as she flirts with radicalism in the 1790s, and Adeline Mowbray is explored through a Quaker lens in chapter 3. I juxtapose Opie’s correspondence with her Quaker mentor Joseph John Gurney and the celebrated writer William Hayley with her developing use of the moral-evangelical novel – Temper (1812), Valentine’s Eve (1816) and Madeline (1822) – as Opie was increasingly attracted to the Quakers. Chapter 5 analyses Opie’s anonymous novels – The Only Child (1821) and Much to Blame (1824) – alongside her Quaker works (especially Detraction Displayed (1828)) around the time of her official acceptance to the Quakers (1825). The final chapter investigates how Opie balanced her Quaker belonging with her ongoing commitment to fiction, exemplified in her 1840s republications, which I present in the context of her correspondence with publisher friends Josiah Fletcher and Simon Wilkin, and with Gurney. Opie’s ‘white lies’ of social negotiation reveal her difficulties in maintaining a literary career from the 1790s to the 1840s, but her concerted effort to do so in spite of such struggles provides a highly significant insight into the changing religious and literary climates of this long period.
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Bosman, Brenda Evadne. "Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001821.

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The texts in this study interrogate the dominant myths which have affected the constructs of identity and history in the white Australian socio-historical context. These myths are exposed by White as ideologically determined and as operating by processes of exclusion, repression and marginalisation. White challenges the autonomy of both European and Australian cultures, reveals the ideological complicity between them and adopts a critical approach to all Western cultural assumptions. As a post-colonial writer, White shares the need of both post-colonising and post-colonised groups for an identity established not in terms of the colonial power but in terms of themselves. As a dissident white male, he is a privileged member of the post- colonising group but one who rejects the dominant discourses as illegitimate and unlegitimating. He offers a re-writing of the myths underpinning colonial and post-colonising discourses which privileges their suppressed and repressed elements. His re-writings affect aboriginal men and women, white women and the 'privileged' white male whose subjection to social control is masked as unproblematic freedom. White's re-writing of myth enbraces the post-modern as well as the post- colonial. He not only deconstructs and demystifies the phallogocentric/ethnocentric order of things; he also attempts to avoid totalization by privileging indeterminacy, fragmentation, hybridization and those liminary states which defy articulation: the ecstatic, the abject, the unspeakable. He himself is denied authority in that his re-writings are presented as mere acts in the always provisional process of making interpretations. White acknowledges the problematics of both presentation and re-presentation - an unresolved tension between the post-colonial desire for self-definition and the post-modern decentring of all meaning and interpretation permeates his discourse. The close readings of the texts attempt, accordingly, to reflect varying oppositional strategies: those which seek to overturn hierarchies and expose power-relations and those which seek an idiom in which contemporary Australia may find its least distorted reflexion. Within this ideological context, the Lacanian thematics of the subject, and their re-writing by Kristeva, are linked with dialectical criticism in an attempt to reflect a strictly provisional process of (re) construction
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Sjare, Becky L. "The vocal behavior of white whales, Delphinapterus leucas, summering in an arctic estuarine habitat /." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63290.

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Wehmann, Andrew. "Sad White Man Stories: and other banana fantasies." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460984420.

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Books on the topic "White whale in fiction"

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Robert, Siegel. White whale: A novel. [San Francisco, CA]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

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Bradbury, Ray. Green shadows, white whale. London: HarperCollins, 1992.

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ill, Cook Scott, ed. Jean Laffite and the big ol' whale. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2003.

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ill, Weiman Jon 1956, ed. Beluga passage. Norwalk, Conn: Soundprints, 1996.

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McCaughrean, Geraldine. Moby Dick, or The white whale. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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McCaughrean, Geraldine. Moby Dick, or, The white whale. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Bradbury, Ray. Green shadows, white whale: A novel. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

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Bradbury, Ray. Green shadows, white whale: A novel. New York: Knopf, 1992.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or, The white whale. [London]: Everyman's Library, 1991.

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Charles, Fuge, ed. Gilbert the hero. London: Simon & Schuster Children's, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "White whale in fiction"

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De Bruyn, Ben. "Whale Song in Submarine Fiction." In The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape, 219–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30122-4_6.

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Sutherland, John. "Writing The Woman in White." In Victorian Fiction, 28–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230596344_2.

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Sutherland, John. "Writing The Woman in White." In Victorian Fiction, 28–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23937-5_2.

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Black, Michael. "The White Peacock." In D. H. Lawrence: The Early Fiction, 41–77. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05576-0_3.

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Birmingham, David. "Black and White in Angolan Fiction." In Portugal and Africa, 174–85. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27490-1_15.

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Halldorson, Stephanie S. "White Noise: The Hero Defended." In The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction, 109–43. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230609785_4.

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Price, Jason D. "Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in The Whale Caller." In Animals and Desire in South African Fiction, 115–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56726-6_3.

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Langland, Elizabeth. "The Woman in White and the New Sensation." In A Companion to Sensation Fiction, 196–207. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444342239.ch15.

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Duvall, John N. "Artificial Negroes, White Homelessness, and Diaspora Consciousness." In Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction, 1–16. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230611825_1.

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Kamblé, Jayashree. "White Protestantism: Race and Religious Ethos in Romance Novels." In Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction, 131–56. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137395054_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "White whale in fiction"

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Rodríguez, José-Víctor, Enrique Castro-Rodríguez, Juan-Francisco Sánchez-Pérez, and José-Luis Serrano-Martínez. "UPCT-Bloopbusters: Teaching Science and Technology through Movie Scenes and related Experiments." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.7992.

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In order to change the preconceptions of youth towards science and technology subjects (which, usually, are perceived as difficult or boring), new educational methods aimed at motivating and engaging students in learning are becoming more and more necessary. In this sense, an educational project called ‘UPCT-Bloopbusters’ through which a group of professors of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), Spain, use science fiction movie scenes ─as well as experiments─ within the lecture room to teach both physics and engineering technology is hereby presented. The methodology of the project is properly described and the results of a survey carried out among the students of a course in which such methodology has been used are shown. In view of this survey, it can be concluded that the project has been more than welcome by the students while at the same time has favored the learning of a great deal of physics and technology concepts.
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Kizhakkethil, Priya. "Information experience in a diaspora small world." In ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. University of Borås, Borås, Sweden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/irisic2022.

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Introduction. Leisure is considered important in the settlement and acculturation experiences of refugee and immigrant communities. Perceiving a gap in the literature which has taken a diaspora perspective, this on-going study looks at an online community converging around a leisure activity from a gender and diaspora standpoint, while looking to understand what would be experienced as information in that context. Method. Employing a qualitative research approach, data was obtained through semi-structured interviews with fourteen participants and also through the collecting of comments posted on fan fiction blogs. Analysis. Qualitative thematic analysis is being carried out using Nvivo software. Results. Early observations by way of themes lend credence to the importance of social context and point towards the role of meaning making in the information and document experience of the participants. Conclusions. Going beyond information seeking and problematic situations, adopting an experience approach can contribute towards conceptual and theoretical development in the field. The study also hopes to contribute towards literature that has looked at diaspora communities from a gender and leisure perspective.
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Lhuillier, Charles, Romain Oddos, Lisa Zander, Finn Lückoff, Katharina Göckeler, Christian Oliver Paschereit, and Neda Djordjevic. "Hydrogen-Enriched Methane Combustion Diluted With Exhaust Gas and Steam: Fundamental Investigation on Laminar Flames and NOx Emissions." In ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2017-64885.

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Hydrogen utilization in conventional power plants can offer a possibility to cover the residual load of volatile renewable energies while at the same time reducing the carbon footprint of power production. The challenge here is the high reactivity of hydrogen posing a risk of flashback, whereas increased flame temperature may result in higher NOx emissions. A promising approach to overcome this challenges is the dilution of combustion mixtures by exhaust gas recirculation or by steam injection. The present paper provides experimental laminar burning velocities of hydrogen-enriched methane/air mixtures diluted with major components of exhaust gas and with steam. The corresponding numerical study based on a fictive species approach is used to quantify the chemical and physical effects of dilution on laminar burning velocities. The influence of hydrogen-enrichment and dilution on NOx formation is studied numerically. The results demonstrate high potential of dilution with steam or exhaust gas to ensure stable operation even for hydrogen-rich mixtures while maintaining low NOx emissions.
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Emami, Anahita, Seyedmeysam Khaleghian, Chuang Su, and Saied Taheri. "Comparison of Multiscale Analytical Model of Friction and Wear of Viscoelastic Materials With Experiments." In ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2017-71537.

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Friction and wear of viscoelastic materials like rubbers are topics of extreme practical importance such as the construction of tires, shoe heels and soles, rubber O-ring seals, and wiper blades. Friction of viscoelastic materials differs from the frictional properties of the elastic solids as friction is directly related to energy dissipation via the internal damping of such materials while purely elastic materials do not dissipate energy. Based on hysteresis properties of viscoelastic materials, physics based multiscale models were developed by Persson for fiction [1, 2] and powdery wear [3] of rubbers sliding on rough surfaces. In this research, these theories were studied and the theoretical results were compared with experimental results obtained from a dynamic friction/wear tester. The inputs to the theoretical models were the fractal properties of the rough surface, the dynamic modulus, and the fatigue behavior of the viscoelastic material. The fractal properties of the rough surface was obtained from the 3D profile of the surface measured using an optical profilometer. The dynamic modulus of the rubber samples was characterized via dynamic mechanical analysis at different frequencies and temperatures. The fatigue crack growth behavior of the samples were found from experimental results of crack propagation versus tearing energy obtained from the fatigue test. Then, the friction coefficient between different rubber samples and rough surfaces was calculated as a function of sliding velocity using both analytical model and experimental approach. In the dynamic friction/wear tester, normal force was adjusted and measured accurately, in addition, the frictional force was measured using a load cell in longitudinal direction along the sliding axis. The experimental sliding friction coefficient was calculated as the ratio of longitudinal force at a constant velocity to the normal force. The mass loss of rubber sample was measured by weighting the sample before and after each test to obtain the wear rate. The comparison between experimental and analytical results showed that the friction model could predict the friction coefficient accurately while the theory of powdery wear is unable to capture all the physics involved in rubber wear on rough surfaces.
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Stenfelt, Mikael, Valentina Zaccaria, and Konstantinos G. Kyprianidis. "Automatic Gas Turbine Matching Scheme Adaptation for Robust GPA Diagnostics." In ASME Turbo Expo 2019: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2019-91018.

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Abstract When performing gas turbine diagnostics using Gas Path Analysis (GPA), a convenient way of extracting the degradations is by feeding the measured data from a gas turbine to a well-tuned gas turbine performance code, which in turn calculates the deltas on the chosen health parameters matching the measured inputs. For this, a set of measured parameters must be matched with suitable health parameters, such as deltas on compressor and turbine efficiency and flow capacity. In aero engines, the number of sensors are in general limited due to cost and weight constraints and only the necessary sensors for safe engine operation are available. Some important sensors may have redundancy in case of a sensor loss but it is far from certain that this applies to all sensors available. If a sensor malfunctions by giving false or no values, the functions using the sensor will be negatively affected in some way causing them to either synthesize a fictive measurement, changing operating scheme, going into a degraded operating mode or shutting down parts or the whole process. If an onboard diagnostic algorithm fails due to sensor faults it will lead to a decrease in flight safety, thus there is a need for a robust system. This paper presents a strategy for automatic modifications of the gas turbine diagnostic matching scheme when sensors malfunction to ensure a robust function. When a sensor fault is detected and classified as malfunctioning, the gas turbine matching scheme is modified according to predefined rules. If possible, a redundant measurement replaces the faulty measurement. If not, the matching scheme will be modified by determining if any health parameters cannot be derived by the functional set of measurements and remove the least valuable health parameter while maintaining a working matching scheme for the remaining health parameters.
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Ritzi-Lehnert, Marion. "Entering a New Era of Diagnosis." In ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm-icnmm2010-30174.

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Looking at the development of diagnostics from prehistorical days up to know and even further visioning into the future the shamans of the old days were slowly replaced by the early “all-round” doctor having first simple diagnostical and surgery possibilities, changing to nowadays specialized physicians doing the diagnoses based on analytical results provided by decentralized specialized labs. Future visions present doctors offices harboring small instruments that allow the physicians to do analyses directly as fast and as minimally or even non-invasive as possible advantageously combined with a connection to a smart health care database providing anamnesis and providing possible therapeutical measures. Already in the 1960s’ science fiction series Star Trek the spaceship crew used very small instruments for fast, non-invasive diagnosis and treatment. Although, such analyzers are future vision actual developments lead to less and less complex and small systems. Using micro- and nano-technologies manifold approaches addressing so-called “Lab-on-a-chip (LoC)” or “micro total analysis systems (μTAS)” where described during the last two decades. Huge progress can be seen in miniaturization not only of electronics but also of mechanics. While presently, table-top systems reach the market handheld systems providing complete analysis from sample taking to result are rare. Presently, often complex sample preparation methods have to be performed to reach the sensitivity and robustness needed for reliable results. In addition, specific disease markers are still missing that give clear conclusions about health status. In this field, intensive research is going on identifying new better and more specific markers for fast and easy reliable determination of diseases, infections, predispositions and more. Having markers available where each marker gives a non-misleading conclusion that a person will have or already has a certain disease, being able to determine these markers directly from the sample without complex sample preparation steps and having instruments available being preferably portable and applicable by non-specialists such a vision is getting closer. The actually developed miniaturized instruments are an important step towards the envisioned future systems demonstrating the basic proof of concept and thereby heralding a new era of diagnosis.
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Reports on the topic "White whale in fiction"

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Martínez, Déborah, Cristina Parilli, Carlos Scartascini, and Alberto Simpser. Let's (Not) Get Together!: The Role of Social Norms in Social Distancing during COVID-19. Inter-American Development Bank, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003044.

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While effective preventive measures against COVID-19 are now widely known, many individuals fail to adopt them. This paper provides experimental evidence about one potentially important driver of compliance with social distancing: social norms. We asked each of 23,000 survey respondents in Mexico to predict how a fictional person would behave when faced with the choice about whether or not to attend a friend's birthday gathering. Every respondent was randomly assigned to one of four social norms conditions. Expecting that other people would attend the gathering and/or believing that other people approved of attending the gathering both increased the predicted probability that the fictional character would attend the gathering by 25% in comparison with a scenario where other people were not expected to attend nor to approve of attending. Our results speak to the potential effects of communication campaigns and media coverage of, compliance with, and normative views about COVID-19 preventive measures. They also suggest that policies aimed at modifying social norms or making existing ones salient could impact compliance.
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Kamminga, Jorrit, Cristina Durán, and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan. Oxfam, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2020.6959.

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As part of Oxfam’s Strategic Partnership project ‘Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network’, the graphic story Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan was developed by Jorrit Kamminga, Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The graphic story is part of a long-standing Oxfam campaign that supports the inclusion and meaningful participation of women in the Afghan police. The story portrays the struggles of a young woman from a rural village who wants to become a police officer. While a fictional character, Zahra’s story represents the aspirations and dreams of many young Afghan women who are increasingly standing up for their rights and equal opportunities, but who are still facing structural societal and institutional barriers. For young women like Zahra, there are still few role models and male champions to support their cause. Yet, as Oxfam’s project has shown, their number is growing, which contributes to small shifts in behaviour and perceptions, gradually normalizing women’s presence in the police force. If a critical mass of women within the police force can be reached and their participation increasingly becomes meaningful, this can reduce the societal and institutional resistance over time. Oxfam hopes the fictional character of Zahra can contribute to that in terms of awareness raising and the promotion of women’s participation in the police force. The story is also available on the #IMatter website.
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