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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
No full textIn one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Alan F. Clark
No full textALAN F. CLARK
Inducted: 2011
Citation:
For research and leadership excellence in cryogenic properties of materials, superconductivity, and electrical and magnetic standards
Tenure: 1964-2004
Birth: 1936, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Education:
University of Wisconsin, BS (Physics), 1958
University of Wisconsin, MS (Nuclear Engineering), 1959
University of Michigan, PhD (Nuclear Science), 1964
Positions held:
National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate, NBS (Boulder), 1964-1966
Physicist, Cryogenics Division, Institute for Basic Standards (Boulder), 1966-1977
Leader, Thermophysical Properties of Solids Group, Thermophysical Properties Division, NML (Boulder), 1978-1980
Leader, Superconductor & Magnetic Measurement Group, Electromagnetic Technology Div., NEL (Boulder), 1981-1987
Liaison Scientist, Office of Naval Research, London, UK, (1988-1989)
Leader, Fundamental Electrical Measurements Group, Electricity Division, EEEL (Gaithersburg), 1989-1998
Deputy Chief, Optoelectronics Division, EEEL (Boulder), 1998-2000
Chief, Magnetic Technology Division, EEEL (Boulder), 2001-2003
Chief, Materials Reliability Division, MSEL (Boulder), 2004
Honors:
US Department of Commerce Silver Medal (1987)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1988)
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1995)
Chairman and President of Board of Directors, Applied Superconductivity Conference
Memberships:
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Editor-in-Chief (1994–1997)
Cryogenics, Americas Editor (1982–1994), Advisory Editor (1977–1981)
Superconductivity, Advisory Editor (1987–1998)
Advances in Cryogenic Engineering—Materials, Plenum, Co-Editor, (1975–1988)
International Cryogenic Monographs, Plenum, Co-Editor (1978–2005)
Materials at Low Temperatures, American Society for Metals, Co-Editor and author (1983)
Founded and chaired: International Cryogenic Materials Conference, International Critical Currents Conference, APS Instrument and Measurement Science Topical Group, Joseph F. Keithley Award Committee, IEEE Committee on Superconductivity, and ASTM B01.08 Committee on Superconductors
Publications:
More than 150 publications and a patent including:
Clark, A.F., Zimmerman, N.M., Williams, E.R., Amar, A., et. al., “Application of Single Electron Tunneling: Precision Capacitance Ratio Measurements,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 2588 (1995)
Early, E.A., Clark, A.F., and Char, K., “Half-Integral Constant Voltage Steps in High-Tc Grain Boundary Junctions,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 3357 (1993)
Moreland, J., Clark, A.F., Goodrich, L.F., Ku, H.C., and Shelton, R.N., “Tunneling Spectroscopy of a La-Sr-Cu-O Break Junction: Evidence for Strong Coupling Superconductivity,” Phys. Rev. B 35, 8711 (1987)
Ekin, J.W., Fickett, F.R., and Clark, A.F., “Effect of Stress on the Critical Current of NbTi Multifilamentary Composite Wire,” Adv. Cryo. Eng. 22, 449 (1977)
Clark, A.F., Childs, G.E., and Wallace, G.H., “Electrical Resistivity of Some Engineering Alloys at Low Temperatures,” Cryogenics 10, 295 (1970)
Clark, A.F., “Low Temperature Thermal Expansion of Some Metallic Alloys,” Cryogenics 8, 282 (1968
Estimating diameter inside bark at various heights in young Douglas fir trees
No full textFaqir Mohammad Khan, Graduate Student, John F. Bell, Professor of Forest Management, Alan B. Berg, Professor of Forest Science.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 2).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Development and application of a generalized physiologically-based toxicokinetic model for environmental risk assessment:
No full textThis thesis presents the development, evaluation, and application of a generalized toxicokinetic model for mixtures of chemicals. Humans are exposed to mixtures of chemicals that are found together in multiple exposure media (soil, food, and air), and at levels that have been shown to cause adverse effects due to toxic interactions. Although several physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) models exist
for different environmental chemicals, using them in assessing risks to co-occurring contaminants is often impractical.
This is especially true for the case of toxic metals, where half-lives in the human body span days (e.g. arsenic), months (e.g. methylmercury), and decades (e.g. lead, cadmium). Several differences in the formulation of these models exist with respect to (a) physiological structure (e.g. body tissue volumes and blood flow ratios), (b) general modeling assumptions (e.g. for transport and transformation of the chemicals within the body), and (c) exposure-relevant parameters. Since assumptions made for one metal or metal compound can be incompatible with the assumptions made for another metal, current formulations are inadequate for use in assessing health risks from mixtures of toxic metals. Further complications arise when assessing risks of both metals and nonmetals, which also interact at the toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic levels. The issues of consistent representation of physiology and chemical interactions across different classes of chemicals such as mixtures of metals and mixtures of metals and organics are addressed through the development of a Generalized Toxicokinetic Model for Mixtures of chemicals (GTMM).
The GTMM resolves inconsistencies by standardizing the physiology across all models, and by allowing simulations of different models to be done simultaneously. It has been implemented as a set of modules in Matlab and as a user-oriented graphical interface in Matlab-Simulink. The GTMM has been evaluated with multiple existing PBTK models for individual chemicals, and the results demonstrate that the GTMM produces identical results as the original published formulations. Subsequently, the GTMM has been applied to different problems relevant to population risk assessment.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237)by Alan F. Sass
A zero-dimensional F-space that is not strongly zero-dimensional
No full textWe present an example of a zero-dimensional F-space that is not strongly zero-dimensional.Analysi
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