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"Gavin Stevens is a lawyer and the county attorney in Jefferson in Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. He was educated at Harvard (Phi Beta Kappa) and Heidelberg universities. He is shrewd, observant and tolerant of the quirks and foibles of his fellow Southerners. He takes part in the detection and prevention of crime in the county community, and in handling the human passions released by violence in the community. The stories are mostly narrated by his nephew Charles (Chick) Mallison, who calls him Uncle Gavin. His best friend is V. K. Ratliff (Suratt). He is described as heroic, idealistic, tireless, and meddlesome. He finally marries the Widow Harris, the sweetheart of his youth. Gowan Stevens is related; he is described as Gavin’s cousin in The Town and Gavin’s nephew in Requiem for a Nun. Novels with Gavin Stevens *Sanctuary (1931) *Light in August (1932) *Go Down, Moses (1942) *Intruder in the Dust (1948) *Requiem for a Nun (1951) *The Town (1957) in which he narrates Chapters 2,5,8,13,15,17,20,22 Short stories with Gavin Stevens All the stories listed here were included in the volume Knight's Gambit (1949): *Smoke (1932) *Monk (1937) *Hand Upon the Waters (1939) *Tomorrow (1940) *An Error in Chemistry (1946) *Knight's Gambit (1949) Film adaptations with Gavin Stevens In the 1961 film Sanctuary, adapted from the original novel and its sequel, he is known as Ira Bobbitt and is played by Harry Townes. Gene Phillips of Loyola University of Chicago wrote that the name was likely altered to avoid confusion with Gowan. // Cited: p. 269. Note that the article says "Ira Stevens" is the new name even though credits state the name is "Ira Bobbitt". References * =Notes= Category:Fictional characters from Mississippi Category:Fictional Harvard University people Category:Fictional lawyers Category:William Faulkner characters Category:Male characters in literature "
"Nigronia is a genus of megalopterous insects (dark fishflies) in the family of Corydalidae. The typical size of species in the Nigronia genus are 20-30 millimeters. Species There are 2 species in the genus Nigronia; Nigronia serricornis and Nigronia fasciata. The main thing that distinguishes the two species is that Nigronia fasciata has continuous and large white areas on its wings, whereas Nigronia serricornis has white spots on its wings which are isolated, rather than large and continuous. References See also *Fishflies *Corydalidae *Nigronia serricornis *Nigronia fasciata Category:Corydalidae Category:Insect genera "
"Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan () is a Qing dynasty novel first printed version in 40 chapters in 1878. It is written by Yanbei Xianren (燕北闲人), the pen name of Wen Kang (文康 fl. 1821-1850), a Manchu of an Eight Banner family. The novel is composed of vignettes that concern He Yufeng (何玉凤), also called "Thirteenth Sister" (十三妹). He Yufeng seeks revenge for her father, who died in prison because of persecution by a high official. She rescues a virtuous young woman, Ms. Zhang, and a heroic young scholar, An Ji (安骥) from cannibals. When An Ji becomes a high official, he marries both Hu and Zhang and when a new emperor ascends the throne, her father finally receives justice. Her actions are characterized by the traditional Confucian virtues, loyalty, piety, righteousness, love and heroism but the resolution of the novel comes through luck, or fate. Place in the history of the Chinese novel The outline of the plot seems to borrow from Haoqiu zhuan, a 17th-century Scholar-Beauty romance in which a well-educated young lady acts independently but within the confines of propriety. The novel brings together two separate genres, chivalric fiction and Scholar-Beauty Romance, among the first to do so. The critic Lee Haiyan remarks that the novel is also "highly original in its efforts to incorporate the moral and aesthetic insights of the cult of qing into orthodox Confucianism," that is, the cult of "feeling." The scholar Maram Epstein finds the novel "remarkable" for its "depiction of elite women who assume the roles of scholars, statesmen, and knights-errant." In contrast to Dream of the Red Chamber, where the women were "ten times" better than the men but were confined to the domestic sphere, the women in this novel displace men in their traditionally male roles, even in the Confucian roles of social engagement. It opens with this observation: > Most people nowadays regard ernü and yingxiong as two different kinds of > people... They mistakenly think that those who indulge in force and like > fighting are "yiongxiong", while those who toy with rouge and powder or have > a weakness for catamites are "ernű" ... What they don't realize is that only > when one has the pure nature of a hero can one fully possess a loving heart, > and only when one is a truly filial child can one perform heroic deeds.... Lee contrasts this with the homosocial world of chivalric fiction of earlier times, which displayed a hostile attitude toward women and their corrupting influence. The novel was adapted a number of times into films and television. References and further reading * * , esp Ch. 6"Masterful Women and Deficient Men in Jinghua yuan and Ernü Yingxiong zhuan. * * , esp. "Ernü Yingxiong As Confucian Romantic," pp. 51–58. Notes External links * Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan - The Story of Hero Boys and Hero Girls Cultural China * 儿女英雄传 (Text in Chinese). Category:Qing dynasty novels Category:Wuxia novels Category:19th-century Chinese novels "