324 research outputs found
Conley, "Recycled Things in Surrealist Collections - 2020"
No full textA fascination with objects turned away from their original function lies at the root of surrealist thought. These fundamentally recycled things remained haunted by their previous uses, their former lives. The surrealists connected these objects with aspects of themselves, with the way humans can feel haunted by memories and dreams that lie dormant within them. André Breton, author of the “Manifestoes of Surrealism,” called this life force recycled objects share with humans “force fields,” awaiting activation by the admiring gaze of surrealist thinkers.1 Surrealists lived and worked with their things, going back to their first experiments with automatism conducted in Breton’s apartment, where they sat [2] surrounded by his collection. He already owned oddities discovered in Paris flea markets [3] when he first described the surrealist project as a quest for “revelation” through the “magic dictation” of automatism in 1922.2 The surrealists also prized objects that had had a ceremonial function in their culture of origin, which were available to them, thanks to French colonialism. They exaggerated those parts of the world from which the things they admired things came in their “surrealist map of the world” (1929). [4] When Breton declared « La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas » at the end of Nadja (1928), he was partly describing the physical charge he felt in response to objects he chose for his collection, a visceral, experiential feeling linked to knowing and to wonder, « le merveilleux », a feeling reminiscent of the awe his baroque forebears found essential in their selection of things for their collections.3 Video presentation. Text is attached as supplemental/additional pdf file.Modern Languages & Literature
Peace Chief: A Novel of the Real People
No full textPiece Chief is the 8th of 12 novels in the Real People series by Robert J. Conley (1940-2014). "A young Indian's rise to a high position in the Cherokee nation. He is Young Puppy and through his eyes is seen a war between, on the one side, the Cherokee allied with the French and, on the other, the Indian slave-catchers working for the Spanish. By the author of War Woman." --Worldcat Summar
Author Spotlight on: Garrard Conley
No full textCelebrate the publication achievements of this KSU faculty member! He will discuss his first novel, Boy Erased, and touch on the editing process for his upcoming second novel. This spotlight is the first in a series of events celebrating Fair Use Week 2021 with the KSU libraries
On the two definitions of the Conley index
No full textThe two definitions of the homotopy equivalences between Conley index spaces of an isolated invariant set, the original one of Conley [C] as completed by the author in [K1] and the more recent definition of Salamon [S], are shown to define the same homotopy classes without reference to the difficult proof of [K1] showing the Conley index to be a connected simple system. The equivalences of the original definition are useful in describing certain geometric situations in terms of the index; examples are given.</p
Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories
No full text"The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories" by Robert J. Conley (1940-2014) is a collection of short stories. One short story, "Yellowbird: An Imaginary Biography" won a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Amazon.com says: "Based on Cherokee history, oral storytelling, and personal experience, these stories, taken as a whole, reflect the depth of Cherokee historical experience and the range of contemporary Cherokee life. Several stories, including the one from which the collection takes its name, deal with the spiritual world. In the title story a man and his family are devastated by the evil powers of a tsigli, a witch. In other stories "medicine" is used to more constructive ends. Some of the stories feature human-animal transformations, the ability to become invisible, and the power to manipulate events. In the context of the Cherokee world such stories are not fantasies. They are stories about reality—the reality known to Cherokees.The collection also includes tales of Cherokee "outlaws," one of the most intriguing aspects of Cherokee history to Cherokees and non-Cherokees alike. Set in the days of Indian Territory, before Oklahoma statehood, these stories provide a taste of the wild West, seasoned with Cherokee cultural experience./ Still other stories describe modern-day Cherokees confronting the past and the present and continually struggling to find a place in the white people's world while maintaining a Cherokee belief system and way of life. Some Cherokees confront ignorant whites, others confront ignorant Cherokees, and still others simply make their own way, dealing with each other, with outsiders, with their environment, and with their spirituality in uniquely personal, albeit Cherokee, ways./ Clearly, these stories differ from stories that grow out of a European tradition, for behind them lie completely different cultural referents; different notions about interpreting events, time, and language; and a different view of the purpose and art of storytelling. Their author speaks with a clear Cherokee Indian voice to show how these cultural characteristics have survived centuries of abrupt change and to give readers an understanding of the fullness and humanity of the Cherokees as a people.
Busy Bee
No full textSinclair Conley is an alumna of Lincoln Memorial University and future Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry with Appalachian American roots stretching back to the 1700s. The second academic and author in her family to bear the name ‘Sinclair’, she enjoys writing and playing with her dogs in her breaks between course work
The E-cohomological Conley index, cup-lengths and the Arnold conjecture on T2n
No full textWe show that the E-cohomological Conley index, that was introduced by the first author recently, has a natural module structure. This yields a new cup-length and a lower bound for the number of critical points of functionals on Hilbert spaces. When applied to the setting of the Arnold conjecture, this paves the way to a short proof on tori, where it was first shown by C. Conley and E. Zehnder in 1983
The E-cohomological Conley Index, Cup-Lengths and the Arnold Conjecture on T2n
No full textWe give a new proof of the strong Arnold conjecture for 1-periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems on tori, that was first shown by C. Conley and E. Zehnder in 1983. Our proof uses other methods and is shorter than the previous one. We first show that the E-cohomological Conley index, that was introduced by the first author recently, has a natural module structure. This yields a new cup-length and a lower bound for the number of critical points of functionals. Then an existence result for the E-cohomological Conley index, which applies to the setting of the Arnold conjecture, paves the way to a new proof of it on tori
Nonautonomous Conley index theory. The homology index and attractor-repeller decompositions
No full textIn a previous work, the author established a nonautonomous Conley index based on the interplay between a nonautonomous evolution operator and its skew-product formulation. This index is refined to obtain a Conley index for families of nonautonomous evolution operators. Different variants such as a categorial index, a homotopy index and a homology index are obtained. Furthermore, attractor-repeller decompositions and conecting homomorphisms are introduced for the nonautonomous setting
On homotopy Conley index for multivalued flows in Hilbert spaces
No full textAn approximation approach is applied to obtain a homotopy
version of the Conley type index in Hilbert spaces considered
by the first author and W. Kryszewski.
The definition given in the paper is more elementary and, as a by-product,
gives a natural connection between indices of Kunze and Mrozek in
a finite-dimensional case. Some geometric properties of the index from
a paper of the second author are
discussed in an infinite dimensional situation. Some additional properties for
gradient differential inclusions are also presented
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