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  • 7 - The Yellow Book Circle and the Culture of the Literary Magazine
  • Edited by Dominic Head, University of Nottingham
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
  • Published online: 17 November 2016
  • Print publication: 14 November 2016, pp 118-134
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    Summary

    Few literary endeavours lend their names to an era. For many critics – then and now – The Yellow Book defined the 1890s, a decade whose influence persisted well into the twentieth century, through formal, thematic and discursive innovations that anticipated modernism. (The journal's influence is registered in several essays in this History; yet it is also worthy of a separate treatment, to convey a sense of its formative role in the development of the modern short story.) While art editor Aubrey Beardsley's striking line-block illustrations remain as noteworthy as they were once notorious, the short-lived quarterly made its most lasting literary contributions through its promotion of the short story, a genre its authors redesigned to exploit and to expand the divide between the aesthetic and the commercial. Today, even the most specialized scholar of the Victorian period would be hard pressed to name any one of the stories published in The Yellow Book's thirteen volumes from April 1894 to July 1897; but its association with the form has put beyond question its influence on not only the short story, but also literary magazines and the creative culture they sought to transform.

    No history of the short story seems to be complete without some mention of The Yellow Book. Before short story collections emerged in the 1890s, the short story form was shaped in and by its periodical environments. Because a ‘short story is always printed as part of a larger whole, either a collection of short stories or a magazine, which is a collection of various kinds of texts’, as Mary Louise Pratt observes, ‘individual short stories are usually read as part of a larger reading experience’. From its inception the enemy of philistinism, The Yellow Book made an unlikely environment for cultivating such a popular, yet minor and ephemeral form. It was one that ‘for much of the nineteenth century attracted little critical attention’, with the result that, Harold Orel reasons, ‘many Victorian authors regarded it with suspicion, as a diversion from more profitable novels and plays; even when prospering periodicals paid them decent wages for short stories that pleased readers, authors usually neglected to collect them and reprint them in hard covers’. Before long, the three-decker novel had run its course: readers and writers were looking for something new.

  • Can non-interactive language input benefit young second-language learners?*
  • TERRY KIT-FONG AU, WINNIE WAILAN CHAN, LIAO CHENG, LINDA S. SIEGEL, RICKY VAN YIP TSO
  • Journal: Journal of Child Language / Volume 42 / Issue 2 / March 2015
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2014, pp. 323-350
  • Print publication: March 2015
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    To fully acquire a language, especially its phonology, children need linguistic input from native speakers early on. When interaction with native speakers is not always possible – e.g. for children learning a second language that is not the societal language – audios are commonly used as an affordable substitute. But does such non-interactive input work? Two experiments evaluated the usefulness of audio storybooks in acquiring a more native-like second-language accent. Young children, first- and second-graders in Hong Kong whose native language was Cantonese Chinese, were given take-home listening assignments in a second language, either English or Putonghua Chinese. Accent ratings of the children's story reading revealed measurable benefits of non-interactive input from native speakers. The benefits were far more robust for Putonghua than English. Implications for second-language accent acquisition are discussed.

  • Cohabitation, civil partnership, marriage and the equal sharing principle
  • Winnie Chan
  • Journal: Legal Studies / Volume 33 / Issue 1 / March 2013
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018, pp. 46-65
  • Print publication: March 2013
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    This paper explores certain questions regarding whether the law concerning relief upon the dissolution of civil partnership and cohabitation should parallel that of marriage. It will be contended that while the principle of compensation does have an important role to play in the aftermath of de facto relationships, there remain reasons not to assimilate cohabitation fully with marriage – and in particular, not to apply the key principle of equal sharing that now informs divorce settlements in many jurisdictions, including England. On the other hand, an argument against assimilating marriage with civil partnership can be grounded in the fact that a civil partnership involves two parties of the same gender. This point generates room to argue that a presumption of equal sharing – to the extent that it rests upon compensatory rationales – may be less powerful in civil partnerships. Nonetheless, that claim can be circumnavigated by the argument for equal sharing as an independent principle – one applicable to civil partnership just as much as to marriage.

  • Efficacy, safety and patient satisfaction of propofol for procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department: a prospective study
  • Peter J. Zed, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, Winnie W.Y. Chan, David W. Harrison
  • Journal: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 9 / Issue 6 / November 2007
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2015, pp. 421-427
  • Print publication: November 2007
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    Objective:

    We evaluated the efficacy, safety and patient satisfaction with the use of propofol for procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department (ED).

    Methods:

    All patients receiving propofol for procedural sedation and analgesia in the ED between December 1, 2003, and November 30, 2005, were prospectively assessed. Propofol was administered using a standardized protocol, which included an initial dose of 0.25–0.5 mg/kg followed by 10–20 mg/minute until sedated. Efficacy was evaluated using procedural success rate, recovery time and physician satisfaction. Adverse respiratory effects were defined as apnea for more than 30 seconds or an oxygen saturation of less than 90%. Hypotension was defined as systolic blood pressure < 90 mm Hg or > 20% decrease from baseline. Patient and physician satisfaction were determined using 5-point Likert scales.

    Results:

    Our study included 113 patients with a mean age of 50 (standard deviation [SD] 19) years; 62% were male. The most common procedures were orthopedic manipulation (44%), cardioversion (37%), and abscess incision and drainage (13%). The mean total propofol dose required was 1.6 (SD 0.9) mg/kg. Procedural success was achieved in 90% of cases and the mean patient recovery time was 7.6 (SD 3.4) minutes. No patient (0%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0%–3%) experienced apnea; however, 1 patient (1%, 95% CI 0%–5%) experienced emesis, which resulted in an oxygen saturation <90%. Nine patients (8%, 95% CI 4%–15%) experienced hypotension and 7 (6%, 95% CI 3%–12%) experienced pain on injection. All patients were very satisfied (92%, 95% CI 85%–96%) or satisfied (8%, 95% CI 4%–15%), and 94% (95% CI 88%–98%) reported no recollection of the procedure. The majority of physicians were very satisfied (85%, 95% CI 77%–91%) or satisfied (6%, 95% CI 3%–12%) with the sedation and the conditions achieved.

    Conclusion:

    When administered as part of a standardized protocol, propofol appears to be a safe and effective agent for performing procedural sedation and analgesia in the ED, and is associated with high patient and physician satisfaction.