367 research outputs found
Author Lynda Barry Brings Gospel of Creativity to Lawrence University Convocation
No full textAward-winning cartoonist and author Lynda Barry brings her message of tapping into your innate creativity to Lawrence University in the convocation “Crossing the Fox River: From Thought to Action.”
The third presentation in the college’s 2012-13 convocation series, Barry’s address on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 11:10 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel, is free and open to the public.
Barry has enjoyed a 35-year career as a cartoonist that began as an undergraduate at Washington State’s Evergreen State College, where she shared her comic strips with Evergreen classmate Matt Groening, the future creator of the TV hit show “The Simpsons,” who secretly slipped them into the school newspaper.
Along the way, she forged a unique path in the art world. Her weekly comic strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” which ran in alternative newspapers from 1979-2008, is widely credited with expanding the literary, thematic and emotional range of American comics.
A truly multidisciplinary artist, Barry is the author of 18 books, has worked as a commentator for NPR and written monthly features for a numerous magazines, among them Esquire, Mother Jones, Mademoiselle and Salon. She recorded a spoken word album called “The Lynda Barry Experience,” adapted her first novel, “The Good Times are Killing Me,” into an off-Broadway play and has been a guest of David Letterman on his television show numerous times.
A Wisconsin native who makes her home today in rural Rock County, Barry conducts more than a dozen writing workshops a year, including some specifically for non-writers in which she coaxes her students to find that part of the brain where the story-telling talent resides.
Barry has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including two Eisner Awards, which honor creative achievement in American comic books. Her illustrated novel “Cruddy” has been translated into French, Italian, German, Catalan and Hebrew and her book “One! Hundred! Demons!” was required reading in 2008 for all incoming Stanford University freshmen
Linda Barry 3-29-2005
No full textDr. Anne Panning and Dr. Alicia Chase interview Linda Barry. Linda Barry is a cartoonist, the creator of "Ernie Pook's Comeek", author of "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "Cruddy", "One! Hundred! Demons!", and "What It Is". In 2004, she won the Lulu Award from the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame. The interview segment opens with Lynda reading and excerpt from "What It Is". The discussion begins with Lynda's time in college and how she developed her art style. She mentions this time in her life was a period of doing her best to keep her work "serious" so she'd one day become respected as an artist. She explains how she went about submitting comics and what the general public opinion about comic strips was at the time and how that impacted her early work. Lynda talks about where the stories for her comics come from and how she conceptualizes them into comics. Lynda outlines her creative process and how that pushes her work forward. The discussion is closed with Lynda reading an excerpt from "One! Hundred! Demons!".Archived web conten
The collected letters of Robert Southey, Part Two: 1798-1803
No full textThis project is a new, complete edition of all of the letters written by the controversial author and polemicist Robert Southey (1774-1843). Part Two covers the years 1798-1803.Edited by Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt</p
Sins against science : the scientific media hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and others /
No full text"Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history - the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And - what is a hoax?"--Jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.A brief natural history of hoaxing -- Method -- Poe's hoaxing and the construction of readerships -- Mark Twain and the social mechanics of laughter -- The hoaxes of Dan de Quille: building and defending the west -- The mechanics of hoaxing."Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history - the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And - what is a hoax?"--Jacket
Structure-function analysis of the non-helicase domain of Sgs1, the Bloom Syndrome ortholog from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
No full textBloom’s Syndrome (BS) is a rare human disease characterized by genome instability and cancer predispostion. The gene mutated in BS, BLM, encodes a member of the RecQ family of DNA helicases. BLM is unique among this family because it is the only RecQ member conserved in unicellular eukaryotes. Apart from the DNA helicase domain, BLM/SGS1 orthologs contain a poorly characterized N-terminal domain of about 650 amino acids (aa). In yeast, this domain (Sgs1 1-652) is known to be physiologically important although it’s only known roles are to bind Top3 and Rmi1 through its N-terminal 100 aa, and in vitro single-strand DNA (ssDNA) binding, ssDNA annealing and strand exchange (SE) activities, through its SE domain (Sgs1 103-323) My research consisted of structure/function analyses of Sgs1 in its poorly characterized N-terminus of aa 323-652 and I found a domain that is important to Sgs1’s function. I interrogated this region by doing systematic deletions and tested these sgs1 mutants for complementation of synthetic lethality. The allele with the smallest deletion that did not complement sgs1slx4 synthetic lethality was found to be sgs1-∆386-621, and the allele with the smallest deletion that did not complement sgs1slx5, was found to be sgs1-∆500-621. I found that sgs1-∆386-621 is physiologically important also through the Top3 slow growth assay. Furthermore I believe that the difference in results between sgs1slx4 and sgs1slx5 will prove significant and warrants further investigation. I also used a BLM/GCN4 chimera where the SE domain was replaced with the coiled coil GCN4, and again tested alleles with systematic deletions within aa 323-652 in synthetic lethality assay. I found the smallest essential domain to be sgs1/gcn4-∆500-621 in the sgs1slx4 background, and interestingly the same deletion in sgs1-∆500-621 did grow weakly and complemented synthetic lethality. Therefore I postulate there is some interaction between the SE domain and aa 500-621 that could be physiologically important and again warrants further investigation.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Lynda Tuberty-Vaugha
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five: 1816-1818
No full textThis project is a new, complete edition of all of the letters written by the controversial author and polemicist Robert Southey (1774-1843). Part five covers the years 1816-1818Edited by Tim Fulford, Ian Packer, and Lynda Pratt</p
White Oleander (1999) by Janet Fitch and The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (2005) by Kim Edwards: A Psychoanalytical Reading
No full text57p. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)The present dissertation is a psychoanalytical study of the two novels White Oleander (1999) by Janet Fitch and The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (2005) by Kim Edwards. Our main interest is to analyse the character’s state of mind and their psychological development, as well as the examination of their past experiences and how it affected their present, additionally highlighting each one's distinct personality and individual peculiarities. For this purpose, we have relayed on two main theories which are the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious by Carl Gustav Jung and Matter and Memory by Henry Louis Bergson. The major concern of these theories lies in the fact that it helps us to discuss the psychoanalytic background of the characters during their lives in order to comprehend their responses, behaviours, and the impact of their history on their present
Writing Madness in the Contemporary Era Interview with Lynda-Nawel Tebbani
No full textThe journal Paradigmes presents in this interview a reflection on the theme of madness as a human condition, by interviewing the academic and novelist Lynda-Nawel Tebbani, particularly about her latest novel titled Tell Me Your Name Madness.
We aimed to question the author about madness in literature as a central theme in her novel, which combines madness with art, as well as the poetics of her so-called contemporary writingLa revue Paradigmes souhaite revenir vers un entretien qu’elle avait consacré à l’auteure Lynda Nawel Tebbani avec une nouvelle réflexion autour du thème de la folie en tant que condition humaine, et ce en interviewant l’auteure sur son dernier roman intitulé Dis-moi ton nom folie.
Ainsi, nous nous sommes proposé d’interroger l’auteure sur la folie dans la littérature comme thème central dans son roman qui conjugue la folie avec l’art, aussi bien que’avec la poétique de son écriture dite contemporaine
Countering the secularization of the discourse on evil: an Augustinian theological perspective
No full textSaint Augustine of Hippo did not shy away from the problem of evil, despite the fact that its existence challenged his faith. In his search for God, Augustine confronted and explored the problem and meaning of evil. Augustine's analysis of evil shows that when God is not at the center of an individual's life and the individual's will is not willingly and completely submitted to the will of God that individual is capable of evil. It is when a person is capable of evil acts or of rationalizing evil that evil is possible. Moreover, evil remains evil regardless of whether an individual or a group collectively regards it as such. Augustine developed an understanding of human nature and mankind's capacity for evil that is worth studying and recognizing as wisdom 1500 years after he wrote it. Only by recognizing and understanding the root causes of evil can we hope to combat its existence. It is essential that we abandon secular biases and revisit the works and words of Saint Augustine to reach a thorough understanding of humanity's propensity for evil and for the existence of evil in a good world created by a good God.M.A.Includes bibiographical references (p. 42-44)
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