E.L. Doctorow’s fictional autobiography: <i>World’s Fair </i> (1985) as a carnivalesque <i>Bildungsroman</i>

The Autobiography of Edward Jarvis: Part I

/1/ Edward Jarvis, son of Francis and Melicent [sic] Jarvis recorded in the life of Charles Jarvis, was born in Concord, Mass., Jan. 9th, 1803.' From early childhood he attended the town schools, almost without interruptions, until he was sixteen years old. He was fond of mechanics. In his boyhood, he made windmills, water mills, trip-hammers, and put them on the corner of the buildings, or in ...

Abraham A. Ungar's Autobiography

This autobiography presents the scientific living of Abraham Ungar and his role in Gyrogroups and Gyrovector spaces.‎

Economic Review. Quarter I 1985

Beauty and the Bulls: The Investment Characteristics of Paintings . . . . . . . . . . 2 T h e rate of increase in fine paintings prices was large when compared with many other investments during the 1970s and was extraordinarily large from 1977 to 1980. One prominent explanation for the behavior of fine painting prices over this period is the ability of this asset to hedge against uncertain inf...

Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque as Voiced Through Gilman’s Carnivalized Herland-Ourland Saga

This article explores the use of different techniques in carnival and carnivalized texts in the creation of new meanings and alternatives, as Mikhail Bakhtin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman did, the former regarding the social hierarchy and the latter more on feminist issues. Its main objective is to provide an overview on some diverse devices that are used in relation to the fight against authori...

When "I" Was Born: Women's Autobiography in Modern China (review)