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"The Repairer of Reputations" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. The story is an example of Chambers' horror fiction, and is one of the stories in the collection which contains the motif of the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow.
"The Repairer of Reputations" – a story of egotism and paranoia which carries the imagery of the book's title. " The Mask " – a dream story of art, love, and uncanny science. "In the Court of the Dragon" – a man is pursued by a sinister church organist who is after his soul.
[5] [6] [7] Chambers wrote Special Messenger (1909), Ailsa Paige (1910) and Whistling Cat (1932), novels set during the American Civil War. [7] Chambers also wrote Cardigan (1901), a historical novel for younger readers, set at the outbreak of the American Revolution. [6] [7] Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living.
The characters in the novel express credulity at the very concept of a "repairer of reputations" (rather than simply at Mr.Wilde's obviously imagined success at it). To me this is ironic given that (if one disregards Mr.Wilde's use of mafia-like tactics) the job seems to be essentially that of a spin doctor — Preceding unsigned comment added ...
In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, [4] and in 1999 he delivered the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture on History. [5] As of 2011 he is an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall. [ 6 ] He is well known for his revolutionary article "Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achan", which changed established historical perceptions about what ...
The reputation or prestige of a social entity (a person, a social group, an organization, or a place) is an opinion about that entity – typically developed as a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria, such as behavior or performance. [1] Reputation is a ubiquitous, spontaneous, and highly efficient mechanism of social control. [2]
Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University, [1] University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide, [2] The American University in Cairo, London Review of Books, the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert ...
The Massey Lectures is an annual five-part series of lectures given in Canada by distinguished writers, thinkers, and scholars who explore important ideas and issues of contemporary interest. [1]