218 research outputs found
My Elvis Blackout and Neverland: Truth, Fiction and Celebrity in the Postmodernist Heterobiographical Composite Novel
No full textA PhD by publication comprising two of my books, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, accompanied by a reflective and critical exegesis, which examines notions of truth, fiction and celebrity in the composite novel through a broadly analytical and practice-based methodology. The exegesis begins by exploring the links between the methodology of the fine artist and the new creative writer. It then demonstrates that My Elvis Blackout and Neverland represent an original contribution to knowledge in the way that they explore and develop literary form (the ‘composite’ novel), and, in their exploration of celebrity, myth-making and fictional hagiography, and that the two books function as performative critiques which probe the boundaries between fiction and the fabricated reality of celebrity culture. My exegesis analyses Linda Boldrini’s term ‘heterobiography’ (2012) with particular reference to Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy The Kid (1981), which as a bricolage relies upon the reader’s pre-conceived recognition of the historicity of its protagonist and continually tests the boundaries between fact and fiction. In this section of the exegesis, I propose that what sets My Elvis Blackout and Neverland apart from Billy The Kid is that whilst Ondaatje’s book certainly does exploit the confusions between fact, fiction, autobiography and history, it remains firmly set within the timeframe that its historical protagonist inhabits. My Elvis Blackout and Neverland remain grounded within their readers’ expectations of American settings contemporary to their nominative protagonists, but both books also feature dilations in both historical and geographical setting. Through analysis I have come to perceive ‘the celebrity persona’ as an identikit image assembled by thousands of witnesses. A photo fit photomontage tiered with impressions of subjective provenance, each layered transparency filtered through the fears and desires of fans and critics. Whereas other historiographic metafictions use historical figures as singular characters, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland can be seen to be utilising an ‘identikit’ concept to present their respective protagonists as manyheaded Hydras, or multiple probability ‘versions’ from parallel universes. By a conflation of terms, Hutcheon’s ‘historiographic metafiction’ (1988) and Boldrini’s ‘heterobiography’ (2012), My Elvis Blackout and Neverland are in fact historiobiographic metafictions. The exegesis concludes by establishing my own works’ live impact on the overarching celebrity metanarratives, and their inevitable organic status
sj-xlsx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231162354 – Supplemental material for Factors associated with adherence and viral suppression among patients on second-line antiretroviral therapy in an urban HIV program in Kenya
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231162354 for Factors associated with adherence and viral suppression among patients on second-line antiretroviral therapy in an urban HIV program in Kenya by Rose Nyaboke, Habib Omari Ramadhani, Taylor Lascko, Patrick Awuor, Elvis Kirui, Emily Koech, Immaculate Mutisya, Carol Ngunu and Rebecca Wangusi in SAGE Open Medicine</p
Resensies: Toe Elvis ophou sing
No full textBook Title: Toe Elvis ophou singBook Author: Juanita AggenbachPretoria: Protea Boekhuis, 2015. 299 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-4853-0271-1
Elvis Richardson : housed
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 15 October to 14 November 200
Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
No full textIn Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century. Author of The Crucible of Race and William Faulkner and Southern History, Joel Williamson is a renowned historian known for his inimitable and compelling narrative style. In this tour de force biography, he captures the drama of Presley\u27s career set against the popular culture of the post-World War II South. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley was a contradiction, flamboyant in pegged black pants with pink stripes, yet soft-spoken, respectfully courting a decent girl from church. Then he wandered into Sun Records, and everything changed. I was scared stiff, Elvis recalled about his first time performing on stage. Everyone was hollering and I didn\u27t know what they were hollering at. Girls did the hollering--at his snarl and swagger. Williamson calls it the revolution of the Elvis girls. His fans lived in an intense moment, this generation raised by their mothers while their fathers were away at war, whose lives were transformed by an exodus from the countryside to Southern cities, a postwar culture of consumption, and a striving for upward mobility. They came of age in the era of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, which turned high schools into battlegrounds of race. Explosively, white girls went wild for a white man inspired by and singing black music while wiggling erotically. Elvis, Williamson argues, gave his female fans an opportunity to break free from straitlaced Southern society and express themselves sexually, if only for a few hours at a time. Rather than focusing on Elvis\u27s music and the music industry, Elvis Presley: A Southern Life illuminates the zenith of his career, his period of deepest creativity, which captured a legion of fans and kept them fervently loyal for decades. Williamson shows how Elvis himself changed--and didn\u27t. In the latter part of his career, when he performed regular gigs in Las Vegas and toured second-tier cities, he moved beyond the South to a national audience who had bought his albums and watched his movies. Yet the makeup of his fan base did not substantially change, nor did Elvis himself ever move up the Southern class ladder despite his wealth. Even as he aged and his life was cut short, he maintained his iconic status, becoming arguably larger in death than in life as droves of fans continue to pay homage to him at Graceland. Appreciative and unsparing, culturally attuned and socially revealing, Williamson\u27s Elvis Presley will deepen our understanding of the man and his times.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/1006/thumbnail.jp
The XMM-Newton long look of NGC 1365: uncovering of the obscured X-ray source
No full textWe present an analysis of the extreme obscuration variability observed during an XMM–Newton 5-d continuous monitoring of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in NGC 1365. The source was in a reflection-dominated state in the first ∼1.5 d, then a strong increase in the 7–10 keV emission was observed in ∼10 h, followed by a symmetric decrease. The spectral analysis of the different states clearly shows that this variation is due to an uncovering of the X-ray source. From this observation, we estimate a size of the X-ray source DS < 1013 cm, a distance of the obscuring clouds R∼ 1016 cm and a density n∼ 1011 cm−3. These values suggest that the X-ray absorption/reflection originates from the broad-line region clouds. This is also supported by the resolved width of the iron narrow Kα emission line, consistent with the width of the broad Hβ line
The Memphis Monomyth: The Real Rock and Roller, Cultural Obsession, and Archetypal Motifs within Historical Narrative (Special Issue: Echoes of Elvis --The Trajectory of a Global Cultural Icon)
No full text立木康介 訳時に, 歴史的過程は, 神話や伝承, そして叙事詩的ストーリーテリングに伝統的に見られる諸サイクルに流れ込む。ジョーゼフ・キャンベルがその先導的著作『千の顔をもつ英雄』のなかで英雄のサイクル--離別, イニシエーション, 帰還--を記述するとき, 明らかになるのは, イエズス・キリストやアーサー王, そして文学史全体にわたる何万もの, とはいわないまでも, 何百もの英雄たちの物語に合致するひとつのパターンである。これらの英雄たちの旅路は, 彼らの立身へと通じる数々の試練と闘いの単神話的セットにほかならない。エルヴィス・プレスリーの社会的上昇, 彼のライフスタイルのある意味で夢幻的な物語, 彼の早すぎる死, そして, 私たちが彼を記念すること, そうしたことすべてが組み合わさって, ジョーゼフ・キャンベルの英雄サイクル理論のパターンを用意する。つまり, 実在する人物であるエルヴィスは, 生前から, そして死後にも, 非実在的で変形力をもつアメリカ的神話になるのである。世間的人気とは比較的うつろいやすい現象であるのにたいし, エルヴィスのキャリアとその死後のキャリアに伴う反響は, 年々大きくなり, けっして衰えを見せない。エルヴィス・プレスリーの顔は, 人類史全体のなかで最も認知度の高い人間のイメージである可能性がきわめて高い。エルヴィスの人気の異例さは, エルヴィスの名声の「いかに」と「なぜ」, そして, 21世紀に入っても変わらぬ彼のイメージの増殖の秘密を, 私たちが吟味するよう促さずにはおかない。本稿はまたとくに, 死後のエルヴィスの歴史文献学とエルヴィス神話の進化を提示するものである。Sometimes historical processes feed into cycles traditionally seen in myth, lore, and epicstyle storytelling. When Joseph Campbell, in his seminal work Hero With a ThousandFaces, describes the cycle of the hero̶separation, initiation, and return̶Campbell is describing a pattern that fits the epic cycle of the stories of Jesus Christ, King Arthur, and hundreds, if not tens of thousands, of heroes throughout literary history. The journey of these heroes is the monomythic set of trials and battles that lead to the rise of these heroes. The ascent of Elvis Presley and the somewhat fantastic tales of his lifestyle, his untimely death, and our memorializing of him all combine to serve the pattern of Joseph Campbellʼs theory of the cycle of the hero. That is, Elvis, the real man, becomes in his lifetime and after his death, an unreal and transformative American myth. While celebrity is a relatively ephemeral phenomenon, Elvisʼs career and his post-mortem career carry a resonance which increase yearly and have never suffered decay. It is quite possible that Elvis Presleyʼs face is the most recognizable human image in the entire history of man. The unusual nature of Elvisʼs celebrity prompts us to examine the how and why of Elvisʼs fame and the proliferation of his image well into the 21st century. This paper will also specifically address the historiography of the post-modern Elvis and the evolution of the Elvis myth
ELVIS iLab
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).iLabs are remote online laboratories that allow users to perform experiments through the Internet. As an educational tool the iLab platform enables students and educators, who do not have access to laboratories, to complement their theoretical knowledge by carrying out experiments remotely on equipment located anywhere in the world and at any time of the day. Students perform experiments on actual instruments allowing them to get real data, instead of relying on simulations. The iLab project has been deployed in 3 universities in Africa using the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrument Suite platform which is a cheap all-in-one electronics workstation for electronics experiments. This thesis describes an increase in the functionality available on the current version of the ELVIS iLab in order to enable a wider range of experiments to be run on the platform. The functionalities explored include adding two arbitrary waveform generator channels and bode analyzer for frequency domain analysis, which was not possible in the previous designs.by Adnaan Jiwaji.M.Eng
Improving vision for surgeons during laparoscopy: the Enhanced Laparoscopic Vision System ELViS
No full text12 mois d'embargo sur la version "Author Accepted Manuscript" (celle déposée ici)International audienceBackground: For many abdominal surgical interventions, laparotomy has gradually been replaced by laparoscopy, with numerous benefits for the patient in terms of post-operative recovery. However, during laparoscopy, the endoscope only provides a single viewpoint to the surgeon, leaving numerous blind-spots and opening the way to peri-operative adverse events. Alternative camera systems have been proposed, but many lack the requisite resolution/robustness for use during surgery or cannot provide real-time images. Here, we present the added value of the Enhanced Laparoscopic Vision System (ELViS) which overcomes these limitations and provides a broad view of the surgical field in addition to the usual high-resolution endoscope. Methods: Experienced laparoscopy surgeons performed several typical procedure steps on a live pig model. The time-to-completion for surgical exercises performed by conventional endoscopy and ELViSassisted surgery was measured. A debriefing interview following each operating session was conducted by an ergonomist, and a System Usability Scale (SUS) score was determined. Results: Proof of concept of ELVIS was achieved in an animal model with 7 expert surgeons without peroperative adverse events related to the surgical device. No differences were found in time-tocompletion. Mean SUS score was 74.7, classifying the usability of the ELViS as "good". During the debriefing interview, surgeons highlighted several situations where the ELViS provided a real advantage (such as during instrument insertion, exploration of the abdominal cavity or for orientation during close work), and also suggested avenues for improvement of the system. Conclusions: This first test of the ELViS prototype on a live animal model demonstrated its usability and provided promising and useful feedback for further development
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