New Grub Street Essay -- Essays Papers

New Grub Street New Grub Street is known as George Robert Gissing’s best and most respected novel. This masterpiece gives its readers a taste of the anti-idealistic principle that is shown all throughout Grub Street. This society that Gissing has mirrored from his own life experience is one that revolves around selfishness and money. The reader is supposed to understand that the art of literature cannot exist without good economic means. The term Grub Street continues to be used in reference to authors and journalists who are compelled to struggle desperately to make a bare livelihood, and also to those who have no scruples about what they write so long as it brings them profit or popularity (Ward 32). The novel’s two main characters are Edwin Reardon and Jasper Milvain who just happen to be complete opposites. Edwin is the protagonist who is full of self-pity, brains, and insecurities. He faced poverty and loneliness when he found himself unable to write for social popularity and reputation. Jasper was insensitive and practical. His business like qualities led him to success instead of sheer talent. Charming and ambitious – he shrewdly calculated and did everything that could bring him to success. Morals did not matter nearly as much as being rich. New Grub Street was first published in 1891. It was Gissing’s ninth book out of twenty-three as well as being his most important and enduring work. Smith, Elder, & Co published it in three volumes (Gissing 1). This was his first novel that sold quite well. There was a second printing within one month and two subsequent editions in hardly less than a year. Although the book did very well, Gissing still faced poverty because the copyright was sold ... ...le to make such an impact on its readers. All throughout Grub Street the reader is able to take notice of those with money and less morals and values get ahead while the good guy is left behind. After reading this novel it is easy to see how art can finally be valued. Gissing has undoubtedly shown through his writing that certain important literary men have gone unnoticed and unappreciated. Works Cited Dimauro, Laurie, ed. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 47. Detroit: Gale Research Inc.,1993. 130 vols. Gissing, George. New Grub Street. NY: Random House, 2002. Michaux, Jean-Pierre, ed. George Gissing: Critical Essays. London: Vision Press Limited,1981. Selig, Robert. George Gissing. Twayne's English Authors Ser. 346. NY: Twayne's Publishers, 1995. Ward, A.C. Gissing: Writers and Their Work. Vol. III. NY: Longmans, Green & Co, 1959.

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â€Å"The legislature cannot, according to our constitution, bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation, and it is impossible for Parliament to enact that in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter there can be no implied repeal. If, in a subsequent Act, Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed, effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the legislature. † (per Maugham LJ in Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [1934]). We should recognise a hierarchy of Acts of Parliament: as it were ‘ordinary' statutes and ‘constitutional' statutes. [†¦ ] Ordinary statutes may be impliedly repealed. Constitutional statutes may not. For the repeal of a constitutional Act or the abrogation of a fundamental right to be effected by statute, the court would apply this test: is it shown that the legislature's actual – not imputed, constructive or presumed – intention was to effect the repeal or abrogation? I think the test could only be met by express words in the later statute, or by words so specific that the inference of an actual determination to effect the result contended for was irresistible. The ordinary rule of implied repeal does not satisfy this test. Accordingly, it has no application to constitutional statutes. [†¦ ] A constitutional statute can only be repealed†¦ by unambiguous words on the face of the later statute. per Laws LJ in Thoburn v Sunderland Council [2002]). In the light of these judicial statements, discuss how (if at all) the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty may be said to have altered because of changes to the doctrine of implied repeal. Consider also the effect of increased secondary legislation, devolution, membership of the EU and adoption of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty

Consoles And Women Toys - 1463 Words

Consoles and Women: Toys to be Played With An analysis of game advertisements According to a 2014 study done by the Entertainment Software Association, 59% of Americans play video games, and 51% own at least one dedicated game console. 48% of gamers identify as female, and 39% of all gamers are over the age of 36 (Entertainment Software Association, 2014, p.3). This goes against the perceived audience of young, heterosexual males; however, console companies insist on marketing their products to this imagined audience through the use of sexualised advertisements. Figure 1: Seroussi, L. (Photographer). (2012). Touch both sides. [Photograph], Retrieved October 5, 2014, from:†¦show more content†¦Sony has chosen to advertise their product by comparing their console to a woman created for the express purpose of bringing heterosexual men pleasure. As well as having four breasts, the woman has an unrealistically narrow waist, an elongated neck, and the photo crops her face. This dehumanizes her, and allows the imagined audience to project their fantasies onto her body. The PS Vita, which the ad is trying to sell, does not take up even a quarter of the page. By portraying the woman with impossible physical attributes, and then placing the focus of the viewer on these attributes, this advertisement becomes an astounding example of sexual objectification; however, it is far from the first. Sexual depictions of women in console advertisements have been circulating in the gaming industry for roughly 40 years since Computer Space, a coin operated arcade game, was released. It was the first commercially sold video game (Edwards, 2011, para 1), and its advertisement features a scantily clad woman standing passively beside a game cabinet (figure 3). Over the course of the 80’s and the 90’s, this style of advertisement became more common, until it was one of the most prevalent styles of console marketing (figure 4, 5, 6, 7). Though the ads feature different women posing with different games, they all share the same core concept of sexually posing a woman with the product. Figure 3: