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The modern urban in the journalistic prose of Théophile Gautier : ‘Crayonnons à la hâte…’.
No full textThe chapter forms part of a volume entitled Aesthetics of Dislocation in French and Francophone Literature and Art: Strategies of Representation, published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2009, co-edited with two other colleagues, Dr Daisy Connon and Dr Gillian Jein. This chapter is concerned with a new articulation of poetic discourse in the writings of the nineteenth-century French poet and journalist Théophile Gautier. Through analysis of his profuse feuilletons, travel writings and art criticism, this chapter argues that Gautier’s prose exhibits and acute perception of the facts determining its construction as text and dramatizes these as a means to explore a range of complex objects of representation which are encountered throughout the topography of the modern urban; the latter include train stations, ports and the Universal Exhibition halls. Taken together, these texts identify the shifting urban environment as a source of poetic renewal. In so doing, they reveal a dramatically more comprehensive and dynamic vision than is permitted by the narrowly aestheticist views by which Gautier’s work is normally characterized
Author, Geraldine Brooks at the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author, Geraldine Brooks during her visit to the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Summer of Service: Greg Jao
No full textGreg Jao, Vice President of Campus Engagement for InterVarsity, speaks on Nehemiah and the importance of investing where God has placed you.
A second-generation Chinese American, Greg helped develop The Daniel Project, a leadership acceleration program for Asian American InterVarsity staff, and formerly served as National Field Director for InterVarsity in the Northeast. He has emceed several Urbana conferences, speaks often to student groups, and is a volunteer preacher at his church. Greg is the author of Your Mind’s Mission, The Kingdom of God, and Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents (all IVP)
Portrait of Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008, 1 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Portrait of Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008, 2 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Introduction : Aesthetics of Dislocation
No full textThis introduction forms part of a volume entitled Aesthetics of Dislocation in French and Francophone Literature and Art: Strategies of Representation, published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2009. I scripted one third of the introduction text with Drs Connon and Jein and co-edited the rest of the volume. The premise of the book, as set forth in this introduction, is that while dislocation implies alienation, disruption and the disintegration of meaning, it may also be viewed as a productive state or experience, which gives rise to new expressive potentialities and orders of discourse. The introduction thus argues that dislocation has the potential to be as enabling as it is disabling, since it instates ‘an ambiguous space of relation through separation’, as Dr Douglas Smith writes in the foreword to the volume. The more sophisticated understanding of space which this volume seeks to promote therefore opens onto new accounts of subjective experience and creative agency. While Benoît Goetz has theorized the concept of dislocation in his 2001 work La Dislocation: architecture et philosophie (Paris: Passion, 2001), the present book is the only work of its kind to do so in English, and to extend its analyses to a broad range of objects in literature, film and the visual arts
Greg Bottoms, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGreg Bottoms is the author of the memoir Angelhead, which was named one of the best five works of nonfiction of 2000 by Esquire magazine. His second book, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Tales, was released in September 2001 by Context Books. His stories and essays have appeared in a number of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including The Beacon Best of 1999, Creative Nonfiction, and Esquire. He is currently the Teaching and Writing Fellow at Sweet Briar College
Greg Larson, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGreg Larson is an author, editor, and stand-up comedian in Austin, Texas. His memoir, Clubbie (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), was his graduate thesis for Old Dominion University’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Library Journal called it “[A] necessary addition to current baseball literature.” He has since been featured by NPR, CBS Sports Radio, ESPN, and the MLB Network. He has edited clients’ work that has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List, the USA Today Bestseller List, and more
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
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