Jean Rhys Remembering the "Riot"

The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys' Quartet

This article evaluates the application of dominant institutional discourses, such as psychoanalysis, in the interpretation of literary fiction. I take up the case of Jean Rhys and her 1929 novel, Quartet. Both author and novel have been analyzed through the concept of masochism, as creating masochistic characters or a masochistic aesthetic. But what do we mean when we so classify or “diagnose” ...

Riot Surgery

Sir,?The statement made by Dr. A. IC. Basu in his article 'Experience of Riot Surgery' (I.M.G., August 1947, p. 465) that 'shock for some reasons is conspicuously absent in these cases in the first few hours (Som and Mukherjee, 1947). In my experience this is dangerous teachingis utterly untrue and misleading. We never said that shock was conspicuously absent in all cases. We said in summary th...

Riot Surgery

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...

Riot Control Agents