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Cardiothoracic Care For Children and Young People: A Multidisciplinary Approach.
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Introduction
No full textThis volume shows how new spaces for engaging with Jane Austen have emerged and evolved since the bicentenaries. These spaces are much more interlocking and related than is usually acknowledged by scholarly publications: the collection itself is therefore a physical space in which essays written by academics, and readers and writers from other realms, have been deliberately put together and brought into conversation. The actual collecting of the essays has been consciously undertaken to refuse the binaries of popular and “high” culture, or of “criticism” and fandom, within Austen discourse, and to show that, while we might talk about Austen in different ways, these are ultimately strands of thinking and producing that feed into and influence each other. Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson remind their largely academic audience that “in these competitive days for academic scholarship, there may be considerable advantages in working on such a popular canonical author.” The present collection goes further to try to dismantle the “popular”/ “academic” divide so that our conversations can merge and forge a more open community. Many events that occurred throughout the bicentenaries have inspired the curation of the essays you find here. Moreover, the essays themselves consider different spaces in which Austen is read and how these impact our engagement with the novels, from classroom to conference, from blog to review.<br/
Traversing the Boundaries and Borders Experienced by Learning Communities Within Online Problem Based Learning.
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No full textThis essay investigates the concept author-illustrator by drawing on two influential essays – ‘Death of the Author’ by Roland Barthes and ‘What is an Author?’ by Michel Foucault. By engaging with the key points of debate that emerge from these positions, this essay argues that the notion of author-illustrator is part of a wider discursive field that is embedded in a complex, commodified, multimedia public sphere where the author is paradoxically reinscribed and erased. This environment is changing the nature of the text, authorship, and reader-text interaction, but until now the concept author-illustrator has been largely absent from these discussions
Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo-Nazi Synthesis
No full textIn 1990 a small self-published journal/magazine called The Watcher was distributed among New Zealand's occult underground. The Watcher described itself as 'the New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path', and was published as the journal of the Order of the Left Hand Path. The Watcher and the Order directed its attentions towards those occultists who identified themselves as Satanists and, as such, the journal articulated a distinctly Satanic philosophy and perspective. However, as the journal evolved and developed, renaming itself as The Heretic and The Nexus in later years, there arose alongside Satanic philosophy an increasing emphases on what could be called esoteric Nazism or esoteric Nationalism. Given that the editor of The Watcher was Kerry Bolton, a man who has been immersed in New Zealand's Nationalist/neo-Nazi movement since the early 1970s, such an increasingly political orientation was perhaps unsurprising.
This thesis examines the way in which the Order bought Satanic and neo-Nazi ideologies together and the resulting synthesis. It also looks at the transition from being a Satanic order led by a neo-Nazi to an openly neo-Nazi Order that uses Satanic philosophy to justify and popularise its conception of National Socialism
Futurescan - Author Contact Details
No full textAuthor names and affiliations for Futurescan: Mapping the Territory. Edited by Sally Wade and Kerry WaltonFebruary 2011ISBN: 978 1 907382 30 7The selected contributions and research papers for this publication were presented at the Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 17-18 November 2009.</div
Kerry Kennedy: Speak Truth to Power
No full textKerry Kennedy, author of the book Speak Truth To Power, highlights issues of human rights during times when the United States is recovering from terrorist attacks and engaging in war with Iraq. She frames her discussion within the notion of maintaining homeland security while upholding and valuing the civil rights of citizens. Women\u27s issues, particularly domestic violence, are mentioned as one area in which Americans are challenged to maintain nationalistic ideologies.
The daughter of Ethel Kennedy and the late Robert F. Kennedy, she served as executive director and is now on the board of directors of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, a nonprofit organization she organized in 1988 that addresses the problems of social justice. She also directed the National Juvenile Justice Project, which helps cities create more effective and less costly programs for dealing with young offenders, and the RFK Journalism and RFK Book Awards, which recognize authors who prod the public conscience and expose the problems of the dispossessed.
Chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council, Kennedy is a judge for the Reebok Human Rights Award and serves on the boards of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the Bloody Sunday Trust. She is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bar associations
Stories Shouldn\u27t Be Easy to Tell : A Chat With Author Kerry Neville
No full textKerry Neville’s just-released collection of short stories, Remember to Forget Me, is described as filled with “enormous compassion.” She lives in Georgia where she teaches at Georgia College and State University. Her first collection of stories, Necessary Lies, received the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize in Fiction and was named a ForeWord Magazine Short Story Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, and Triquarterly, and online in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and The Fix. She has twice been the recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art’s “Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction,” and has also been awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Kay Cattarulla Prize for the Short Story and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize from Crab Orchard Review
Jane Austen and Professional Fanfiction
No full textAfter mapping out an expansive if brief overview of the long history of Austen rewrites, this chapter turns to a formal examination of the four novels that have been published so far in The Austen Project by The Borough Press (a subsidiary of HarperCollins, perhaps the most prolific purveyor of Austenian publications): Joanna Trollope’s Sense & Sensibility (2013), Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma (2014), Val McDermid’s Northanger Abbey (2014) and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible (2016), a modern makeover of Pride and Prejudice. As a curated series, The Austen Project provides a convenient case study for an investigation into the figuration and function of the Austenian author today. Trollope, McCall Smith, McDermid and Sittenfeld were (and remain) established authors in different genres before they were commissioned. In their respective contributions to the series they also present themselves as Austen enthusiasts, thereby bridging the worlds of Jane Austen Fan Fiction (or JAFF, a discrete but large and diverse community) and professional secondary authorship (a broader category of rewriting with a combative literary history). What general observations about modern rewrites can we feasibly extrapolate from such a specific set of circumstances? What, if anything, can such a case study contribute to our critical understanding of rewriting? Rewriting here denotes an ongoing engagement with charismatic literature, with varying levels of textual familiarity, as distinct from ‘the rewrite’, a filmic term that refers to the mending of a failed screenplay by script doctors. Recent fanfiction (fan fiction, fanfic or fic) in this context, I want to suggest, is best understood in terms of enforced or (to use a milder term) belated co-authorship, which invites us to keep the original in parallel view at all times at both the levels of production and consumption: Austen-like works as co-written rather than over-written.<br/
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