The Reading Corner.

[Buster's Uncle]

Huh.  My sister's got a PhD in the same field I studied, and she don't write like it's a paper unless it is.

A facility at formal writing is certainly handy when formal is called for - and that does come up in real life.  But Mylochka ain't the only PhD among the members here, and none of them bother to write so dry when posting.  Too much like work, for one, and tends to be distancing, for another...  Smiille when you say that.

[Ordnael]

Started Dune The Butlerian Jihad some time ago...I am enjoying it...but I am slow reader...videogames and Star Trek take all disposable time

[Bertilak]

Inclusion and Exclusion of Rural White American “Mountain People” in Mid-Twentieth Century Midwestern Cities

How did midwestern urban Americans in the immediate post-World War II years through 1970 interpret white rural migrants' promotion of perceived exotic country music, excessive consumption of intoxicating liquors, alleged backward family systems, alleged promotion of perceived backward cultural norms, and perceived exotic religious values from Baptist and Methodist denominations? “Cultural handicaps of the rural working class,” according to social welfare professionals and policy experts on the Mayor’s Friendly Relations Committee in Cincinnati, Ohio, included an indifference for the educational system, support for an “alien ‘code of the hills,’” and promotion of “incest and child marriage” (Max Fraser 147). Midwestern urban Americans from around 1950 through the mid-1960s demanded increased social homogeneity and alleged solutions for incorporation of rural white migrants from alleged backward cultures. Certain early analyses on white rural industrial migrants from the postwar years provided an opportunity for “more sensitive and broader understanding” of systemic changes in the postwar American society’s “economic landscape,” but later sociological experts in the postwar years often wrapped analyses of white rural migrants in similar racialized language as black urban poverty (Fraser 175). Enacted solutions for incorporation of alleged backward rural white Americans into modern urban culture in the postwar years included paternalist education for rural white juvenile migrants, promotion of adult education for rural white migrants, and tolerance of rural white migrants’ religious institutions in broader social paradigms.

Classism and paternalism appeared in zones of contact between rural white migrants from West Virginia, eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, western Virginia, western North Carolina, western South Carolina, and northwestern Georgia and residents of Cincinnati, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, Muncie, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois, Columbus, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, and Akron, Ohio. Rural white migrants from the southern United States of America allegedly lacked characteristics of the “suave and aggressive ‘organization man’” in the 1950s and 1960s, promoted alleged clannism, experienced perceived limitations from minimal emphasis on formal education, and avoided “other markers of social status in urban communities” (Fraser 140; 153). Social welfare reformers in the 1950s and 1960s analyzed sociological constructions for poverty, and seminal sociological analyses of American poverty connected perceived cultural deficiencies in white rural immigrants with their elevated rates of urban poverty. Rural white immigrants’ perceived backward culture generated "hillbilly ghettos,” according to certain educated white professionals of midwestern urban cities, and concerned professionals in many midwestern cities cited frequent moral failures in many rural white migrants’ dilapidated housing, elevated rates of crime, excessive intoxication, and other perceived deviant moral failures (Fraser 142). White rural migrants’ behaviors in midwestern cities received increasing criticism from blossoming experts of social sciences and promoted changes from John F. Kennedy's presidency and London B. Johnson’s War on Poverty in the late 1950s through the 1960s.

Bibliography
Fraser, Max. Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691250298.

[Buster's Uncle]

THAT is a load of bigoted [poop] up one side and down the other.

[Bertilak]

Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class’s discussions on certain rural migrants’ repeated movement between rural homes and urban industrial areas contextualized specific behaviors from certain humans in my grandparents’ and great grandparents’ generations. Similar connections might exist for behaviors in other American members' historical relatives from between seventy-five through one and hundred fifty years. 🤔

[Buster's Uncle]

God save me from Civil War propaganda at THIS late date.

[Geo]

De Scrypturist by Evanby Paul.

A Dutch writer. I looked up on a whim Dutch scifi authors, and came upon this novel.
I'm not so far in yet, but Jack Vance's writing style is the one I compare this author's style the most with.

[Buster's Uncle]

An arrogant protagonist on a dying Earth?

[Geo]

An arrogant protagonist on a dying Earth?

I hadn't thought of the characteristic, but at least one of the protagonists shows arrogant tendencies. But it might be part of her charade.
The Dying Earth wasn't my favorite read among Vance's work. Novels like Demon Princes and The Blue World are more my thing.

[Bertilak]

An internal personal debate occurred on either forming a new topic or simply attaching a short list of new words from my recent readings. If other people support the appropriateness for formation of a new topic on listing newly seen words in literature, then I can start a new topic.

Reading complex literature often involves encountering new words. My favored activity in reading a new book includes writing down new words and finding definitions on the new words. Context sometimes provides a decent interpretation on meaning for older formal words, but translations for foreign words sometimes express ideas outside of words in English, Romance languages, and Germanic languages.

Older literature either frequently contains variations on contemporary words or utilizes more formal language for familiar concepts.

Primary sources and formal secondary sources on ancient and medieval history often utilize obscure language for foreign social concepts and abandoned social constructions.

Newly seen words and concepts from reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables from 1851 include:

Hepzibah (Name of a protagonist and related with a biblical figure)
Escribtoire in Chapter 2
Appositeness (127)
Apothegm (127)
Pertinacious (211)
Obstreperous (219)
Matutinal (224)

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables combines gothic horror with late sentimental tropes. Sentimentalism directly appears in Romantic American and English literature from the early to mid-nineteenth century, and sentimentalism promoted humans' expression of appropriate levels of emotion in human interactions. Sentimentalism directly addressed the Enlightenment's perceived cold logic and emotional suppression. Phoebe Pyncheon's sentimentalism invigorates and ennobles other declining humans in the Pyncheon family. Phoebe's gracious sentimental expressions generate emotional vigor for a new generation of the Pyncheon family and indirectly destroy old curses in the Pyncheon family.

[Bertilak]

Honor and Conscience on the Western American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century: A Brief Inspection of Historical Hegemonic American Social Systems

Daniel Justin Herman’s Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West examined conflicts on the American western frontier between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ranchers, merchants, and the federal government in the mid-nineteenth century through the late-nineteenth century. Honor culture in Arizona’s Rim Country demanded displays of physical strength, protection of the family, drinking, gambling, fighting, and hospitality and generated the Pleasant Valley War. Cultures of conscience in the LDS Church promoted inner morals, thrift, hard work for religious and economic purposes, temperance, elevation of other people, and usage of guilt for social control. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ purported usage of blood atonement, promotion of political independence in the area around contemporary Utah, and refusal of several demands from the American federal government culminated in the American federal government's passage of the Edmunds Act of 1882 and economic punishment of Mormon leaders. Polygamy and conscience from Mormon settlers generated social and economic conflicts with other Americans’ expectations on monogamy, honor culture, and financial corporate motivations in the mid through late-nineteenth century.

Frank Grey’s fictional depictions of life on the American western frontier challenged American norms in the early twentieth century on the inevitable victory of conscience over honor and technology over perceived human moral and physical strength. Frank Grey, and other relevant novelists, in the 1920s and 1930s attacked “libertinism” and the perceived “staid life of a married man” (Herman 274; 275). Frank Grey’s depictions of past figures on the American western frontier contained certain hypocritical stances since libertinism often countered Victorian expectations on propriety and restraints on excessive behaviors. Americans around the 1900s, and especially after World War I, witnessed rapid expansion of the federal governments’ power over local and state governments and homogenization of American culture. Centralized federal power and incorporation of American cultural institutions increasingly homogenized American culture through technological advancements, resulted from American conscientious reformers’ demands for improvement on perceived moral flaws in certain Americans, and likely generated Frank Grey’s and related authors’ backlashes in the 1920s and 1930s against promotion of perceived avarice, technological reliance, and alleged physical weakness. Perceived moral propriety and honor, independent manual workers, and vital humans, according to Frank Grey's literature, generated strength against modern moral weaknesses.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' historical practice of polygamy and Frank Grey’s attacks on modernity inspired a few personal inquiries and questions. How might have polygamous marriages and culture threatened hegemonic American traditions on monogamous marriages? Polygamous cultures exhibited slightly increased rates of murder and physical violence over monogamous human cultures and generated rebuttals from conscientious moral reformers. Frank Grey’s historical depictions of life on the American western frontier cultivated questions on the potential debasement of Americans from an easy life. How might have convenient and easy lives, reliance on technology, broad acceptance of new psychological science on the id, and discovery of new laws on nature affected Americans' interactions with each other? Frank Grey’s literature depicted protagonists' rebellion against early twentieth century restraints on behavior and downfalls of characters who adopted modern technological conveniences and the “New Woman’s” perceived loose morality in the early twentieth century.

[Geo]

WDH?
Stands for "WaDaHeck".

[Bertilak]

Whom should have received and potentially answered the previous poster's question of "WDH"?

[Green1]

Whom should have received and potentially answered the previous poster's question of "WDH"?

"what the heck" is what it meant.

You need a forum Posting style.

Your posts read like a delusional ChatGPT quoting in APA. No one uses APA past college unless they are writing papers as a PhD that only other PhD's read. Or a college kid trying to meet a word count on short answer.

Shorten posts to be more concise

[Buster's Uncle]

Cities in Space, edited by Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr.

I turned up stronger reading glasses last week, and suddenly I'm through the Hornblower book, and over halfway through this anthology.  Pournelle's politics are pretty hard to shrug off -which strongly tends to undermine the case he tries to make for space habitats- someone who brags of Dan Quayle's support unselfconsciously is in no position to expect my respectful attention.