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Library Resource-Sharing In The Network-Centric World, Rob Mcgee Dec 2012

Library Resource-Sharing In The Network-Centric World, Rob Mcgee

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Smarter Higher Education: Information Literacy Adds Value, Cathy-Mae Karelse Dec 2012

Smarter Higher Education: Information Literacy Adds Value, Cathy-Mae Karelse

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Gaelic: Consortial Strategies For Survival, Heather M. Edwards Dec 2012

Gaelic: Consortial Strategies For Survival, Heather M. Edwards

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Library Purchasing Consortia: Achieving Value For Money And Shaping The Emerging Electronic Marketplace, David Ball Dec 2012

Library Purchasing Consortia: Achieving Value For Money And Shaping The Emerging Electronic Marketplace, David Ball

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Libraries In Partnership: Defining Our Core Business For The 21st Century, Gaynor Austen Dec 2012

Libraries In Partnership: Defining Our Core Business For The 21st Century, Gaynor Austen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee Dec 2012

Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Contemporary US-American Satire and Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk)" J.C. Lee focuses on contemporary satire's potential (or lack thereof) for change, reform, or rebellion through an investigation of works by Harry Crews, Douglas Coupland, and Chuck Palahniuk, all of which target consumerism. The said writers employ satire not to initiate rebellion or cultural change, but to reflect the problematic role of institutions in modern life and, in turn, the potential, even hope, for personal growth. Lee's analysis of texts by Crews, Coupland, and Palahniuk is intended to question satire's potential as a form of cultural critique and institutional …


Evans's The Turducken And Chekhov's The Seagull, Brian R. Johnson Dec 2012

Evans's The Turducken And Chekhov's The Seagull, Brian R. Johnson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Evans's The Turducken and Chekhov's The Seagull" Brian R. Johnson approaches The Turducken as a travesty of The Seagull, examining six iconic scenes from The Seagull, in order to explore the satirical effect of the altered scenes. In December of 2008, Bedlam Theatre of Minneapolis presented The Turducken, "a holiday dinner theater spectacular inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Seagull." Playwright Josef Evans takes Chekhov's 1895 work and turns the classic piece into a musical and farcical satire. The plot of The Turducken follows the plot of The Seagull, and some scenes …


Intercultural Approaches To Cities And Spaces In Literature, Film, And New Media: A Review Of New Work By Manzanas And Benito And López-Varela And Neţ, Ana María Martín Castillejos Dec 2012

Intercultural Approaches To Cities And Spaces In Literature, Film, And New Media: A Review Of New Work By Manzanas And Benito And López-Varela And Neţ, Ana María Martín Castillejos

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Atg Interviews Helen Henderson And Hazel Woodward, Founding Partners, Information Power Ltd., Tom Gilson, Katina Strauch Dec 2012

Atg Interviews Helen Henderson And Hazel Woodward, Founding Partners, Information Power Ltd., Tom Gilson, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Random Ramblings- Does The Focus On Banned Books Subtly Undermine Intellectual Freedom?, Bob Holley Dec 2012

Random Ramblings- Does The Focus On Banned Books Subtly Undermine Intellectual Freedom?, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings, Sever Bordeianu Dec 2012

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


At Brunning: People & Technology: At The Only Edge That Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning Dec 2012

At Brunning: People & Technology: At The Only Edge That Means Anything/How We Understand What We Do, Dennis Brunning

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Booklover-Poland, Donna Jacobs Dec 2012

Booklover-Poland, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


What Was A University Press?, Doug Armato Dec 2012

What Was A University Press?, Doug Armato

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Profile-Helen Henderson Dec 2012

Profile-Helen Henderson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Indexing And Indices: An Essential Component Of Information Discovery, Donald T. Hawkins Dec 2012

Indexing And Indices: An Essential Component Of Information Discovery, Donald T. Hawkins

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Library Marketplace-Interview With Norman Desmarais, Professor Emeritus, Providence College, John D. Riley Dec 2012

Library Marketplace-Interview With Norman Desmarais, Professor Emeritus, Providence College, John D. Riley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda Dec 2012

Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Metaphor Translation as a Tool of Intercultural Understanding" Ipshita Chanda takes up specific cases of metaphor translation as a methodological exercise towards understanding intercultural exchange. Chanda's study is based on a semiotic and linguistic understanding of metaphor as a signifying and cognitive device. When a metaphor is translated from one linguistic-literary field into another, the process of translation itself yields some specific operational steps for studying inter- and cross-cultural relations. Here, translation is not proposed as a framework but as practical method: the translation of metaphor becomes an exercise in strategy for the pedagogy of …


Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee Dec 2012

Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Aesthetics in Gao's Soul Mountain" Mabel Lee analyses Nobel Laureate 2000 Xingjian Gao's aesthetics. Transnational conglomerates today control the book industry from publishing house to bookshop and through aggressive market strategies they exert considerable influence on readers. Nonetheless, there are writers who refuse to capitulate to market demands and seek only to actualize their aesthetic ideas in the creation of literary texts. One such writer is Gao, author of the novel Soul Mountain. Lee posits that Gao's aesthetics is founded on the close interrogation of both Chinese and European models and practices and explores specific …


Egypt's Police State In The Work Of Idris And Mahfouz, David F. Dimeo Dec 2012

Egypt's Police State In The Work Of Idris And Mahfouz, David F. Dimeo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Egypt's Police State in the Work of Idris and Mahfouz" David F. DiMeo examines how two leading twentieth-century authors of politically committed fiction addressed an angry generation's confrontations with former members of the oppressive state police apparatus. Yusuf Idris's The Black Policeman (1962) and Najib Mahfouz's al-Karnak (1974) remain particularly relevant as today's Egyptian activists confront the vestiges of the former regime's security forces. Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnival as a paradigm for analysis, DiMeo examines how both texts present sharp contrasts between hollow quests for public revenge through purges and a genuine overturning of …


Nostalgia In Oral Histories Of Israeli Women, Yael Zilberman Dec 2012

Nostalgia In Oral Histories Of Israeli Women, Yael Zilberman

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Israeli Women" Yael Zilberman explores the narration of nostalgia of elderly women about the city of Be'er Sheva. In their narration, the subjects of the study create textual and spatial practices which are engendered and create analogies between the city, their maturing/ed bodies, and by-gone youth. Further, the grief owing to the perceived condition of the city intensifies the idealized description of the city and the longing for its past. Zilberman's study brakes new ground in that the study of urban experience within folklore is a lesser explored field as the urban …


Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson Dec 2012

Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Victims of the City in Novels of Zola and Dostoevsky" Marta Wilkinson argues that urbanity in its nineteenth-century setting functioned as the culpable agent in criminal behavior found in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and in several of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Wilkinson an analysis of the novels based on Merlin Coverly's concept of psychogeography which supports the extension of the cityscape as an integral part of the novels' characters. Further, Wilkinson illustrates how in Zola's and Dostoevsky's novels the city reigns triumphant as characters fall victim to disease, drink, or are left with desperate choices: in Dostoevsky's novel …


Evoking A Memory Of The Future In Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Doro Wiese Dec 2012

Evoking A Memory Of The Future In Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Doro Wiese

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Evoking a Memory of the Future in Foer's Everything is Illuminated" Doro Wiese discusses Jonathan Safran Foer's novel. In the text a photograph plays a decisive role: the image of two young people drives the Jewish American Jonathan to visit the Ukraine. The photograph is presumably of Jonathan's grandfather Safran and a woman named Augustine who saved Safran's life during a nazi raid of his village: the photograph becomes an ekphrasis, a description of a visual work of art in another medium which transforms the generic characteristics of written and photographic representations. According to Anselm …


Barthelme's "Paraguay," The Postmodern, And Neocolonialism, Daniel Chaskes Dec 2012

Barthelme's "Paraguay," The Postmodern, And Neocolonialism, Daniel Chaskes

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Barthelme's 'Paraguay,' the Postmodern, and Neocolonialism," Daniel Chaskes explores the analytic opportunities afforded by conjoining globalizing critical approaches with a story by an author who has often been circumscribed by the postmodern rubric. Donald Barthelme's "Paraguay," written the summer after Nelson Rockefeller's fact-finding mission to South America in 1969, provides a chance to consider modes of anti-colonial critique in Barthelme's work. It also offers examples of a more self-reflective criticism aimed at the U.S. counterculture and the indeterminacies of postmodernism. Chaskes reads "Paraguay" with the aim of understanding Barthelme's hemispheric interest and he investigates the multiple cultural …


New Forms Of Contemporary Aesthetics: A Review Article Of New Works By Camerotti And Quaranta, Marina Mantini Dec 2012

New Forms Of Contemporary Aesthetics: A Review Article Of New Works By Camerotti And Quaranta, Marina Mantini

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu Dec 2012

Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Supplemental Pictorial Freehand Sketches On The Construction Of Cad Models, Maria Nizovtseva Nov 2012

The Effect Of Supplemental Pictorial Freehand Sketches On The Construction Of Cad Models, Maria Nizovtseva

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

This study explored the effect of pictorial freehand sketches on CAD model building for first and second year engineering students. Thirty one students from CGT 163 Graphical Communication and Spatial Analysis course at Purdue University completed the study. Subjects were divided into two groups, one of which was required to use pictorial freehand sketches in the visualization process while the other one was not. Subjects were provided real models of physical objects of different complexity and were asked to model a part that would fit in the original one to form a rectangular prism. Outcomes were then analyzed in terms …


The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Marinus Swanepoel Nov 2012

The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Marinus Swanepoel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Anita Sundaram Nov 2012

The Digital Library: The Next Sigmoid Curve Of The Information Profession, Anita Sundaram

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Network At Work: Tailoring Digital Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen, Talikka Pasanen-Tuomainen, Marja Pasanen-Tuomainen Nov 2012

Network At Work: Tailoring Digital Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen, Talikka Pasanen-Tuomainen, Marja Pasanen-Tuomainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.