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Adventures In Librarianship: Not Very Smart, Ned Kraft Dec 2001

Adventures In Librarianship: Not Very Smart, Ned Kraft

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Webworthy-Unique And Interesting Websites, Pamela M. Rose, Sandra K. Paul, Albert Simmonds Dec 2001

Webworthy-Unique And Interesting Websites, Pamela M. Rose, Sandra K. Paul, Albert Simmonds

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Millenium Minutes-Changes In Librarianship Over The Past Twenty Years, Heather S. Miller Dec 2001

Millenium Minutes-Changes In Librarianship Over The Past Twenty Years, Heather S. Miller

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch Dec 2001

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

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The Shot Heard 'Round The Publishing World, Kelly Franklin Dec 2001

The Shot Heard 'Round The Publishing World, Kelly Franklin

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Ebooks Two Years Later: The North Carolina State University Perspective, Nancy J. Gibbs Dec 2001

Ebooks Two Years Later: The North Carolina State University Perspective, Nancy J. Gibbs

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From The Reference Desk-Encyclopedia Of Fundamentalism, Encyclopedia Of Christmas, Encyclopedia Of Postcolonial Studies And Encyclopedia Of Ethics, Tom Gilson Dec 2001

From The Reference Desk-Encyclopedia Of Fundamentalism, Encyclopedia Of Christmas, Encyclopedia Of Postcolonial Studies And Encyclopedia Of Ethics, Tom Gilson

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And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-Seminar On The Acquisition Of Latin American Library Materials (Salalm), Sever Bordeianu Dec 2001

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-Seminar On The Acquisition Of Latin American Library Materials (Salalm), Sever Bordeianu

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Bestsellers In Islamic Studies, Francoise Crowell Dec 2001

Bestsellers In Islamic Studies, Francoise Crowell

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The Collection Development Role Of The Library Liaison-A View From Both Sides Of The Fence, Jack G. Montgomery, Sean Kinder Dec 2001

The Collection Development Role Of The Library Liaison-A View From Both Sides Of The Fence, Jack G. Montgomery, Sean Kinder

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Aimé Césaire And Gestures Toward The Universal, Gary Leising Dec 2001

Aimé Césaire And Gestures Toward The Universal, Gary Leising

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In his paper, "Aimé Césaire and Gestures toward the Universal," Gary Leising argues that Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land presents a speaker struggling with his own identity, torn between a double consciousness of his black African heritage and his French-European education. This dichotomy appears in the poem in terms of his perceptions of his ancestry as well as in symbols of the masculine and feminine in the surrounding landscape. For the speaker, the African appears as the "real" around him, while the European is an "absent presence," and he confronts the two at the poem's climax, …


Language, Vagueness, And Social Communication, Colin B. Grant Dec 2001

Language, Vagueness, And Social Communication, Colin B. Grant

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Language, Vagueness, and Social Communication," Colin B. Grant adopts an interdisciplinary approach to an interrelated complex of language, communication, and society. Grant operates with a modified concept of vagueness as a pragmatic property and attempts to establish a link between pragmatic vagueness and contingency in communication. This communicative contingency takes the form of improbabilities (entropy). Grant observes that the challenge lies in modelling communication as porous networks which nonetheless enable society to function. In this sense, contingency in communication must not be confused with arbitrariness just as cognitive closure cannot be confused with solipsism. This line of …


(Post)Feminism, Transnationalism, The Maternal Body, And Michèle Roberts, Ayako Mizuo Dec 2001

(Post)Feminism, Transnationalism, The Maternal Body, And Michèle Roberts, Ayako Mizuo

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In her paper "(Post)Feminism, Transnationalism, the Maternal Body, and Michèle Roberts," Ayako Mizuo argues that the question and problematics of feminism have diversified over the last few decades. Diverse and competing voices have been, nonetheless, incorporated into the paradigm of an equality and difference sexual dichotomy. Further, recent discussions about feminism suggest the problematization of gender differences. Consequently, exponents of postfeminism are compelled to ask what comes next? Mizuo urges that the issue of the tangibility of the body acquires a particular relevance within this context and that thus the ultimate question is how the site of the maternal body …


Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics, Naikan Tao Dec 2001

Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics, Naikan Tao

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In his paper, "Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics," Naikan Tao concentrates on Pound's theories regarding comparison and examines the significance of his comparative studies to the formulation of his poetics, an aspect that has not been sufficiently investigated. On the basis of Pound's work, Tao observes that the conception of comparison Pound shaped through his comparative studies is the internal principle that governs the presentation of details and particulars, the method Pound advocated as a reader-oriented approach to truth and as an efficient, self-reliant means to avoid others' generalization and discursive presentation. Pound's view of comparison as an epistemological norm -- …


Comparatist Postcolonial Studies: A Review Article Of Books By Coundouriotis, Matthews Green, Yeager, And Gould, Vautier, And Canadian Literature, Angeline O’Neill Dec 2001

Comparatist Postcolonial Studies: A Review Article Of Books By Coundouriotis, Matthews Green, Yeager, And Gould, Vautier, And Canadian Literature, Angeline O’Neill

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Western Culture And The Ambiguous Legacies Of The Pig, Benton Jay Komins Dec 2001

Western Culture And The Ambiguous Legacies Of The Pig, Benton Jay Komins

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In his paper, "Western Culture and the Ambiguous Legacies of the Pig," Benton Jay Komins provides a cultural lineage of the pig by the example and reading of Piggies by the Beatles. Komins observes that Piggies enacts the possibilities of the ubiquitous pig in Western culture by juxtaposing swinish antics with interpretations of limitation and heartbreak thereby forcing listeners to blur the distinctions between struggle, unrequited love, and boorishness. Komins continues his discussion by locating this juxtaposition within the Western pantheon of real, metaphorical, and imaginary animals, where the pig is noted to have obsessively endured. Komins argues that through …


Entropy In Pynchon's "Entropy" And Lefebvre's The Production Of Space, Jason Snart Dec 2001

Entropy In Pynchon's "Entropy" And Lefebvre's The Production Of Space, Jason Snart

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In his paper, "Entropy in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Lefebvre's The Production of Space," Jason Snart examines Thomas Pynchon's short story "Entropy" for the ways in which it deals with the kinds of disorder(s) associated with entropy as a thermodynamic and informational concept. Those concepts are installed as a framework within which to consider cultural studies work like Henri Lefebfre's thought in his The Production of Space and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and themodynamics: disorder is rendered not as confusion, but rather as a state of potential energy and productivity and Lefebvre's and Bertalanffy's concepts serve to show how …


Table Of Contents, Editor Nov 2001

Table Of Contents, Editor

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From Your Editor, Katina Strauch Nov 2001

From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

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Deadlines, Editor Nov 2001

Deadlines, Editor

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Rumors, Katina Strauch Nov 2001

Rumors, Katina Strauch

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Problems In The Pipeline: Forces Of Change For Publishers, Distributors And Libraries, Robert W. Birch Nov 2001

Problems In The Pipeline: Forces Of Change For Publishers, Distributors And Libraries, Robert W. Birch

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Technology And Change In The Library Marketplace, Niko Pfund Nov 2001

Technology And Change In The Library Marketplace, Niko Pfund

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch Nov 2001

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

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Competition And Technology As Forces Of Change In The Library Market, Jay Askuvich, Forrest Link Nov 2001

Competition And Technology As Forces Of Change In The Library Market, Jay Askuvich, Forrest Link

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Full Page Ads, Editor Nov 2001

Full Page Ads, Editor

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Understanding The Library Marketplace: A Whimsical Ramble On Human Understanding, Gary Shirk Nov 2001

Understanding The Library Marketplace: A Whimsical Ramble On Human Understanding, Gary Shirk

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Evolution Of The Supply Chain In Academic Library Bookselling, Matt Nauman Nov 2001

Evolution Of The Supply Chain In Academic Library Bookselling, Matt Nauman

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Back Talk-Without A Problem, There Is Blind Groping In The Dark, Anthony W. Ferguson Nov 2001

Back Talk-Without A Problem, There Is Blind Groping In The Dark, Anthony W. Ferguson

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Choices For Libraries, Publishers And Vendors, Marifran Bustion Nov 2001

Choices For Libraries, Publishers And Vendors, Marifran Bustion

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