Although Welty barely mentions Light in August in her cautiously respectful reviews of her fellow Mississippian's work, or in any of her comments on Faulkner in her many published interviews, one is tempted to read her William Wallace as a direct descendent of Byron Bunch, for Byron anticipates not only Welty's characteristic comic register but also her effort to use comedy to refigure the misogynistic and doomed masculinity--centered, in Faulkner as in Hemingway, on male fantasies of
autogenesis dependent on pathologized constructions of the female body--explored so exhaustively by the male modernists.
The second type of pathology (including type 21 and 22) that can occur is when
autogenesis is blocked, so that normative coherence cannot develop within the cultural fabric of the plural actor, in part because learning is not possible.
At the same time, the
autogenesis of the work tends to invert causal relations in such a way as to put into question humanist notions of the subject.
(98) From the perspective of this framework, the space-time continuum is not a random phenomenon of cosmic
autogenesis but the creation of God.
In fact, BioItza leaders sought to highlight the authenticity or
autogenesis of their discourses and practices to distance themselves from the group of scholars active in San Jose.
Vilmos Csanyi (in Khalil and Boulding, 1996) uses a different term, "
autogenesis," for a somewhat similar notion.
The recognition of these fundamental features makes it difficult to apply here the concept of climax, considered traditionally as the presumed result of
autogenesis within a stable physical environment.
Theory and practice of induced
autogenesis. New Phytol., 72:1129-1140.
Aristotle considers the possibility of
autogenesis, but he finds no empirical evidence to support it (741a32-34).
When all of the political parties as well as the dominant "coalition" labor union have become national institutions and when the political expression of opposition parties has been stifled, the question arises regarding the level at which the
autogenesis of a new, popular political culture created at the hands of citizens will constitute a counter force to the reigning "theater state" orientation.
1992 '
Autogenesis: A perspective on the process of organizing'.
One grantee,
Autogenesis Inc., an Anchorage-based corporation that manufactures medical automation devices, has attracted international attention.
