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    Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan

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    This critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications: Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010) Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012) The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art. Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history

    Patrick Chamoiseau Recovering Memory

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    This timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Beginnings: The Enigma of Origin -- 2: 'Une tracée de survie': Autobiographical Memory -- 3: Memory Re-collected: Witnesses and Words -- 4: Memory Materialized: Traces of the Past -- 5: Flesh Made Word: Traumatic Memory in Biblique des derniers gestes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.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

    Replication Data for: Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market

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    The do-file contains the code to replicate "Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market", published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 40(C), pages 32-48, by Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Jens-Uwe Franck. Contact author is Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. E-Mail: [email protected]

    Replication Data for: Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market

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    The do-file contains the code to replicate "Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market", published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 40(C), pages 32-48, by Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Jens-Uwe Franck. Contact author is Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. E-Mail: [email protected]

    The investigation in "Dora Bruder" of Patrick Modiano

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    reservedIl presente lavoro si propone di affrontare il tema dell’indagine, dell’inchiesta investigativa nel romanzo “Dora Bruder” dello scrittore francese Patrick Modiano, pubblicato nel 1997. Si tratta del più noto successo editoriale dell’autore, il quale, in una narrazione al contempo biografica ed autobiografica, si mette sulle tracce di Dora Bruder, una giovane ragazza ebrea scomparsa nel 1941, di cui si sono perse definitivamente le tracce. La presente tesi si compone di tre capitoli. Nel primo, si analizzeranno i motivi che spingono l’autore ad occuparsi della vicenda della giovane ragazza scomparsa proprio durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Successivamente, nel secondo capitolo, si passerà ad affrontare come l’autore compie la propria indagine per comprendere che cosa le sia accaduto, diventando una sorta di investigatore su un vecchio caso di scomparsa. Ed infine, nell’ultimo capitolo, si analizzerà quale sarà l’esito della sua indagine.This work proposes to deal with the subject of investigation in the novel "Dora Bruder" by French writer Patrick Modiano, published in 1997. It’s the most known publishing success of the author, which, in a narrative in the meantime biographical and autobiographical, goes on the trail of Dora Bruder, a young Jewish girl disappeared in 1941, of whom all traces have been definitively lost. This thesis is composed by three chapters. In the first, we will analyse the reasons why the author deal with the story of the young girl vanished during the Second World War. Then, in the second chapter, we will approach how the author does his own investigation to understand what happened to her, becoming sort of a detective on an old case of disappearence. Finally, in the last chapter, we focus on which it’ll be the outcome of his investigation

    William Patrick, 15th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    William Patrick has published a collection of poetry, Letter to the Ghosts, and a novel in poetry and prose, Roxa, which won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for the best first work of fiction. He has also written an original teleplay, Rachel\u27s Dinner , which aired in 1991, and starred Olympia Dukakis and Peter Gerety. Mr. Patrick\u27s most recent screenplay, Brand New Me , has been optioned by Force Ten Productions in Hollywood, and he is the author of Who All Killed Cock Robin?, the play which was adapted from The Death of Cock Robin by W.D. Snodgrass and DeLoss McGraw, and whose premiere opens this year\u27s Literary Arts Festival. He is the Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, and Director of this year\u27s Literary Arts Festival

    The Borders of Exile ˸ Figures and Territories of Foreignness

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    Cette thèse de doctorat, intitulée « Les frontières de l’exil : figures et territoires de l’étranger», vient questionner les notions de frontière et d’exil dans les périodes postcoloniale et post-Shoah. Ces notions sont ici caractérisées comme des territoires à la fois spirituels, politiques, symboliques, et économiques, dans lesquels une expérience de la domination est vécue, souvent subie, par des individus ou des groupes stigmatisés par leur origine ethnique, leur sexe, leur culture, ou leur condition socio-économique notamment. En me rattachant à superstructuration politique, culturelle, et historique de cette expérience de la domination, Selim Rauer tente de montrer comment, dans les ères postcoloniale et post-Holocauste, une économie mondialisée recrée ou intensifie en fait le concept de « zone (s) » - telle qu’il a été défini par Frantz Fanon dans Les damnés de la terre, 1961 – générant ainsi des centres et des marges permettant d’établir des espaces culturels et géographiques procédant d’une généalogie raciale, sexuelle venant soutenir des dynamiques économiques qui dérivent de la théologie politique, comme c’est le cas du néolibéralisme et de l’ultralibéralisme aujourd’hui. La figure de l'ennemi (ou celle de l'adversaire) est au cœur de ce système de pensée. L’ennemi est une représentation biopolitique et théologique essentielle dans une réflexion productive liée à l’altérité, à la figure multiforme de l'étranger, à travers laquelle une conception spécifique de la frontière peut être établie comme limite ou division, plutôt que comme trait d'union. Cette réflexion procède de la lecture et de l’analyse d’un corpus littéraire français et francophone alliant à la fois le roman, le drame, le récit et l’essai de 1945 à aujourd’hui. Les œuvres de ce corpus littéraire sont issues d’écrivains tels que Jean Genet (1910-1986), Patrick Modiano (1945), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), Koffi Kwahulé (1956), Marie NDiaye (1967), Wajdi Mouawad (1968), et Léonora Miano (1973). Chacune de leurs œuvres regroupées ici donne à voir une certaine expérience du pouvoir, de l’aliénation, de la souveraineté et de la biopolitique dans un cadre éthique et morale qui inévitablement met en lumière et sonde le « mal ». Un mal qui, comme l'a exprimé Rüdiger Safranski, dérive d’une certaine pratique de la liberté (Le Mal, ou le théâtre de la liberté, 1997/1999).This doctoral dissertation, entitled The Borders of Exile: Figures and Territories of Foreignness, reinterprets the notion of the border as an expanding territory of estrangement and seclusion in the aftermath of colonialism and the Shoah, in an era characterized by global market economies. While allegedly situated beyond racial and sexual hegemonic claims, Selim Rauer shows how this globalized economy, in fact, recreates or intensifies a concept of “zone(s)” --as defined by Frantz Fanon in Les damnés de la terre, 1961--that draws centers and margins, and establishes sites of domination structured by a historical and political unconscious. At the core of this unconscious lies the figure of the enemy or the adversary. The latter is an essential biopolitical and theological representation of otherness and foreignness through which a specific border definition can be established as limit rather than hyphen. Thus, in this project, Rauer scrutinizes a multidimensional literary corpus comprised of works by figures such as Jean Genet (1910-1986), Patrick Modiano (1945), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), Koffi Kwahulé (1956), Marie NDiaye (1967), Wajdi Mouawad (1968), and Léonora Miano (1973), each of whose works investigate a certain definition and practice of power and sovereignty as part of an ethical and moral reflection on “evil,” or as Rüdiger Safranski defined it, as the moral and ethical burden that accompanies the practice of freedom (Evil, or the Drama of Freedom, 1997)

    Translating Patrick Kavanagh

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    The following concerns the translation I did of a selection of the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh into Spanish, the first translation of this important Irish poet into the Spanish language. It recounts the motives which impelled me to try this daunting task as well as the guidelines I followed, the help I received and the pitfalls I encountered and, hopefully, survived. It looks at some of the images and expressions used by the author and which need to be explained to students and it essays a comparison with the poetry of Antonio Machado, another much loved poet

    Portrait of Senator Patrick McNamara.

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    Handwritten notation: \u27Senator-elect Patrick V. McNamara - Michigan\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1250/thumbnail.jp
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