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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Analysis of Electrode Shift Effects on Wavelet Features Embedded in a Myoelectric Pattern Recognition System
No full textMyoelectric pattern recognition systems can translate muscle contractions into prosthesis commands; however, the lack of long-term robustness of such systems has resulted in low acceptability. Specifically, socket misalignment may cause disturbances related to electrodes shifting from their original recording location, which affects the myoelectric signals (MES) and produce degradation of the classification performance. In this work, the impact of such disturbances on wavelet features extracted from MES was evaluated in terms of classification accuracy. Additionally, two principal component analysis frameworks were studied to reduce the wavelet feature set. MES from seven able-body subjects and one subject with congenital transradial limb loss were studied. The electrode shifts were artificially introduced by recording signals during six sessions for each subject. A small drop in classification accuracy from 93.8% (no disturbances) to 88.3% (with disturbances) indicated that wavelet features were able to adapt to the variability introduced by electrode shift disturbances. The classification performance of the reduced feature set was significantly lower than the performance of the full wavelet feature set. The results observed in this study suggest that the effect of electrode shift disturbances on the MES can potentially be mitigated by using wavelet features embedded in a pattern recognition system.Fil: Fontana, Juan Manuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; Argentina. The University Of Alabama; Estados Unidos. Louisiana Tech University; Estados UnidosFil: Chiu, Alan W. L.. Louisiana Tech University; Estados Unidos. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ; Estados Unido
An Alternative Approach to the Mean
No full textThis article, created by Alan W. Sykes of Swansea University College, describes an alternate calculation of expected value, which illustrates continuous random variables. The author uses charts, graphs and text to help illustrate these mathematical concepts. The author provides external references for those interested in further study of this subject
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
No full textIn one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity
No full textThis paper proposes a revised view of faithfulness in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), relating it to reduplicative identity (McCarthy & Prince 1993). Faithfulness and identity are unified in a theory of Correspondence relations between structures. The theory is investigated by way of a study of over- and underapplication effects in reduplicated structures.The definitive version of this paper was published in Papers in Optimality Theory (1995)McCarthy, J. J., & Prince, A. S. (1995). Faithfulness and reduplicative identity. In J. N. Beckman, L. W. Dickey, & S. Urbanczyk (Eds.) Papers in optimality theory (pp. 249-384). Amherst, MA: GLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.This work was supported in part by grant SBR-9420424 from the National Science Foundation and by research funds from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, at New Brunswic
Klasycyzm w dramacie polskim XVI–XVIII wieku
No full textArtykuł został opublikowany w serii " Humanizm. Idee, nurty, paradygmaty humanistyczne w kulturze polskiej"Autorka wiąże dramat klasycystyczny z antropologią humanistyczną odwołującą się do tradycji starożytnej modyfikowaną przez kulturę judeochrześcijańską. W artykule omówiono problemy polskiego dramatu klasycystycznego w epoce nowożytnej w odniesieniu do teorii rodzaju literackiego oraz do wzorów antycznych i zachodnioeuropejskich, będących przedmiotem naśladowania polskich twórców. Autorka podkreśla, że recepcja Poetyki Arystotelesa w kulturze europejskiej XVI-XVII wieku kluczowa dla formułowania poetyk dramatycznych w literaturze nowożytnej. Przekonuje także, że należy czytać nowożytną tragedię jako pochodną ówczesnych modeli antropologiczno-etycznych.
Z tej perspektywy przeanalizowane zostają najwcześniejsze przykłady dramatu klasycyzującego w literaturze polskiej, jak zbudowana na problemach etycznych Odprawa posłów greckich (1578) Jana Kochanowskiego czy przekład Buchananowskiej tragedii Jeftes (1587) pióra Jana Zawickiego reprezentujący nurt humanizmu chrześcijańskiego. W utworach XVII wieku badaczka dostrzega rosnącą popularność Seneki jako wzorca dla tragediopisarzy (m. in. Jan Alan Bardziński). Równolegle odnotowuje obecność – choć w mniejszym nasieniu – wpływów francuskich, Corneille'a i Racine'a (przejawiającą się w spolszczeniach dokonanych przez Jana Andrzeja Morsztyna i Stanisława Morsztyna, jak i sporadycznie utworach rodzimych, jak np. Ermida Stanisława Herakliusza Lubomirskiego z 1664). Wzory francuskie zostają wyzyskane do dydaktyki teatru szkolnego około połowy XVIII wieku.
W podsumowaniu autorka zestawia klasyczne reguły postulowane przez Arystotelesa z prawidłami tragediopisarstwa oświeceniowego, podkreślając osadzenie tej drugiej w retoryczności, która pozwalała na wiarygodne ujawnienie szlachetności mówiących bohaterów. Ciężar polskich utworów oświeceniowych mieści się więc w sferze wysłowienia, a nie działania.
Niewielki passus poświęcony zostaje uwagom o komedii. Autorka zwraca na osiemnastowieczne tendencje do estetyzacji komedii jako gatunku niskiego oraz wprowadzenia śmiechu jako narzędzia dydaktycznego i moralizującego, głównych wzorców na oświeceniowych utworów komediowych upatrując we francuskiej tradycji pomolierowskiej oraz włoskim komediopisarstwie dell'arte (zwłaszcza w Goldonim).Barbara Judkowiak
Classicism in Polish Drama of the Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
The author links the classical drama with humanistic anthropology referring to ancient tradition modified by Judeo-Christian culture. The article discusses the problems of Polish Classicist drama in the modern era concerning the theory of the literary genre and to ancient and Western European patterns, which are imitated by Polish authors. Barbara Judkowiak emphasises that the reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in European culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is key to the formulation of dramatic poetics in modern literature. She also argues that early-modern tragedy should be read as a derivative of contemporary anthropological and ethical models.
From this perspective, she analyses the earliest examples of the Classicising drama in Polish literature, such as the Odprawa posłów greckich (The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys, 1578) by Jan Kochanowski, built on ethical problems, or a translation of the Buchanan’s tragedy Jephtes (1587) by Jan Zawicki, representing the trend of Christian humanism. In the seventeenth-century works, the researcher notices the growing popularity of Seneca as a model for tragedy writers (including Jan Alan Bardziński). At the same time, she notes the presence – albeit to a lesser degree – of French influences, Corneille and Racine (evident in the adaptations to Polish made by Jan Andrzej Morsztyn and Stanisław Morsztyn, as well as sporadically in native texts, such as Ermid by Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski from 1664). French patterns were used for the didactics of school plays around the mid-eighteenth century.
In summary, the author juxtaposes the Classic rules postulated by Aristotle with the canons of the Enlightenment tragedy writing, emphasising the fact that the latter were embedded in rhetoric, which allowed the credible disclosure of the nobleness of speaking protagonists. Thus, the weight of Polish Enlightenment works falls within the sphere of expression, not action.
A small passus of the text is devoted to comments about the comedy. The author draws attention to the eighteenth-century tendencies to aestheticise comedy as a low genre and to introduce laughter as a didactic and moralising tool, perceiving the main patterns of Enlightenment comedy pieces in the French post-Moliere tradition and the Italian comedy dell’ arte (especially in Goldoni).Ewa Kuczyńsk
Economics, real estate, and the supply of land / Alan W. Evans.
No full text"RICS Foundation"--Cover.Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-255) and index.xiv, 258 pages.
The dispute between Allan Bloom and Martha Nussbaum over the model of general and legal education
No full textTekst stanowi kontekstową analizę myśli dotyczących edukacji ogólnej dwóch współczesnych filozofów – Alana Blooma i Marthy Nussbaum – oraz omawia możliwość praktycznej ich realizacji na gruncie polskiej edukacji prawniczej. Stanowi zatem jednocześnie konstruktywną krytykę dzisiejszego kształcenia prawników. Autorka przybliża poglądy konserwatywnego Alana Blooma zawarte w książce Umysł zamknięty – o tym, jak amerykańskie szkolnictwo wyższe zawiodło demokrację i zubożyło dusze dzisiejszych studentów i konfrontuje je następnie z nowoczesną myślą Marthy Nussbaum, ujętą przede wszystkim w W trosce o człowieczeństwo – klasyczna obrona reformy kształcenia ogólnego. Kontekstem dla prowadzonych rozważań jest edukacja ogólna oraz prawnicza w Polsce. Analizie poddawana jest możliwość praktycznej realizacji postulatów obojga filozofów. Ponadto wskazane są istniejące już rozwiązania, stanowiące odzwierciedlenie prezentowanych idei. Na podstawie ogólnych rozważań formułowane są konkretne postulaty możliwe do wcielenia w życie w polskiej edukacji prawniczej. Ponadto oceniane są możliwe konsekwencje każdego z nich.The article presents the contextual analysis of the thoughts on general education f two great minds of our times – Alan Bloom’s and Martha Nussbaum’s. It also states the possibilities of applying those ideas into polish legal education system. Therefore the article is not only a comparative study, but also the constructive criticism of legal education. Author basis is mainly the Bloom’s „The Closing of the American Mind” and Nussbaum’s „Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education”. The context of the analysis is the polish legal education. Author shows the possible practical applications of presented ideas into Polish legal education and predicts its consequences. Moreover the existing solutions which follow their thoughts are indicated
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