63 research outputs found
Trusted Tales: Creating Authenticity in Literary Representations from Ex-Yugoslavia
No full textThis research deals with questions of authority and authenticity and how they are expressed, constructed, and appropriated within the Anglophone book market. It considers the body of literature written about ex-Yugoslavia since the 1990s Balkan conflicts by exiled writers from the region which has entered the international literary canon. Books’ routes from original publishers into English translation are discussed through practices of trust, one of the crucial social devices underpinning their exchange. Within these cross-cultural processes, the role of cultural brokers is crucial. Symbolic and cultural resources are specifically mobilised through their powerful author brands.
By exploring authenticity in the context of book publishing, I further look at how ideas and practices of community are employed and negotiated by writers and those who promote their books. My field is multi-sited and fluid, reflecting how different individual and national positions are enacted and performed through strategies ranging from unconscious dispositions to deliberate intentions. This research thus brings together ideas of the author as an authentic, representative voice together with exile as a position that grants them a new lease of relevancy in the post-socialist context.
Although ex-Yugoslav books occupy a ‘high end’ niche of the UK market, constrained by commercial as well as political, cultural, and institutional forces, in public discourse ideas of the ‘free market’ and ‘free speech’ are mobilised to produce various types of modernisation narratives. The (post)socialist production of literature is perceived as having to ‘evolve’ into a capitalist model: this would allow not only healthy competition and consumer choice but guarantee an individual writer ‘free speech’ as a basic human right. Therefore, the most general question this research raises is what kind of foreign literature gets translated into English, under what socio-cultural conditions and which politics of representation it serves within the project of world literature
Author E. Hughes, Jr.
No full textBlack and white photograph of Author Art Hughes, Instructor in Business Education, 1955-1957.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/archives_faculty_eh/1294/thumbnail.jp
Studies of Artists: An Annotated Directory
No full textThis annotated directory documents more than 80 different studies of artist populations. The directory provides information about how the researcher in each study has defined the artist and identified the population. Studies are arranged by type of artist population and, within each category, by study date. Each entry indicates, in so far as possible from available materials, the study investigator, the artist population, the way in which artists were identified, sampling procedures, number of respondents and response rates, and publications based on the study. This directory should provide researchers and other interested parties with a range of definitions, identification methods, and sampling procedures currently used in studies of artists. The introduction to the directory provides a critical overview of the numerous methods for identifying and defining "artists."
Workshops in art therapy at the Nursing Home for Persons with Chronic Mental Illnesses
No full textThe author – art therapist, describes art therapy which he runs at the Nursing Home for Persons with Chronic Mental Illnesses. The article includes Nalepa’s sincere and moving reflections on his art work with people with mental illnesses
Terapia przez sztukę w Pracowni Plastycznej w Domu Pomocy Społecznej dla Osób Przewlekle Psychicznie Chorych
No full textThe author – art therapist, describes art therapy which he runs at the Nursing Home for Persons with Chronic Mental Illnesses. The article includes Nalepa’s sincere and moving reflections on his art work with people with mental illnesses
William B. Barrett, Richard W. Cambridge, and Author E. Hughes, Jr.
No full textBlack and white photograph of Business Education faculty members William Barrett, Richard Cambridge, and Author Art Hughes. (Cropped version of photo was published in the 1957 Warbler yearbook, page 25.)https://thekeep.eiu.edu/archives_faculty_ad/1352/thumbnail.jp
Gertrude Stein: A Physician Who Wasn’t to Be
No full textAfter a tumultuous time in the United States, including flunking out of medical school in 1901, Gertrude Stein, an iconic American author, art lover, and critic, moved to Paris in 1903 as an avant garde modernist who became a leading and legendary guru in the Parisian art and literature world
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