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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
Post-Newtonian limit of teleparallel Horndeski gravity
No full textWe consider the newly proposed Bahamonde-Dialektopoulos-Levi Said (BDLS) theory, that is the Horndeski analog in the teleparallel framework and thus contains a non-minimally coupled scalar field, including higher order derivatives, that leads however to second order field equations both for the tetrad and the scalar field. This theory was mostly constructed to revive those models that were severely constrained in the scalar-tensor version of the theory from the GW170817, but includes also much richer phenomenology because of the nature of the torsion tensor. For this theory we determine the parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) limit, calculate the full set of post-Newtonian parameters and highlight some special cases
First measurement of the CKM angle ϕ3 with B±→ D(π+π−π0) K± decays
No full textA bstract We present the first model-independent measurement of the CKM unitarity triangle angle ϕ 3 using B ± → D ( K S 0 π + π − π 0 ) K ± decays, where D indicates either a D 0 or D ¯ 0 meson. Measurements of the strong-phase difference of the D → K S 0 π + π − π 0 amplitude obtained from CLEO-c data are used as input. This analysis is based on the full Belle data set of 772 × 10 6 B B ¯ events collected at the Υ(4 S ) resonance. We obtain ϕ 3 = ( 5.7 − 8.8 + 10.2 ± 3 . 5 ± 5 . 7) ° and the suppressed amplitude ratio r B = 0 . 323 ± 0 . 147 ± 0 . 023 ± 0 . 051. Here the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic, and the third is due to the precision of the strong-phase parameters measured from CLEO-c data. The 95% confidence interval on ϕ 3 is ( − 29 . 7 , 109 . 5) ° , which is consistent with the current world average
A brief introduction to the moral vision of Philip K. Dick - by Farid Kheireddine Said Khourchid
No full textThesis (M.A.) -- American University of Beirut. Department of English, 1998;"Advisor: Dr. Christopher Nassar, Associate Professor, English--Member of Committee: Dr. Salwa Ghali, Lecturer, English--Member of Committee: Dr. Saleh Agha, Lecturer, Philosophy"Bibliography: leaves 83-87This thesis introduces briefly the moral vision in the science-fiction of author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) It appears upon reading Dick's corpus that he had a consistent vision of genuine realism at a time when such a concept has been disavowed by the p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
[Memo to W. P. Gannaway from Bob K. Carroll, December 2, 1963 #1]
No full textPhotocopy of an office memorandum addressed to Captain W. P. Gannaway of the Special Service Bureau in Dallas, Texas. In the memorandum, Bob K. Carroll states that a confidential informant said Lee Harvey Oswald applied for employment at the Allright Parking System two weeks prior to the assassination of President Kennedy
[Report to W. P. Gannaway by Bob K. Carroll, January 23, 1964 #1]
No full textReport by Bob K. Carroll regarding information received from a confidential source. The source said that Lee Harvey Oswald made an application at the Allright Parking System. Mr. Hubert A. Morrow, a manager at the Allright Parking System, confirmed that Oswald asked for a job. Mrs. Viola Sapp, however, stated that he never made a formal application
ULAMA DAN IJTIHAD POLITIK KEBANGSAAN: STUDI PEMIKIRAN K. H. HASYIM ASY’ARI DAN SYEKH SAID NURSI
No full textThe concept of a nation state that requires new ijtihad in Muslim-majority countries has become the dominant political strategy. Ulama are considered authoritative actors who play an active role in constructing national politics. In different socio-political conditions, the national political thoughts of K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari and Syekh Said Nursi are present through the Fatwa Resolusi Jihad and Risalah An-Nur as actions to defend Indonesia's independence and confront secularization in Turkey. The fundamental question in this thesis is how the national political thought of K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari and Syekh Said Nursi and how the hermeneutic analysis of the national political ijtihad of K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari and Syekh Said Nursi.
This research is qualitative in nature, with data sourced from library research. The data was obtained from K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari's Fatwa Resolusi Jihad and Syekh Said Nursi's Risalah an-Nur as primary data, and other supporting data from various literature relevant to this topic. This research is descriptive-comparative in nature with a hermeneutic approach. The Jihad resolution Fatwa and Risalah an-Nur use Khaled Abou El Fadl's hermeneutic approach, which emphasizes negotiation between three entities, namely the text, the author, and the reader.
The conclusions of the research on the national political thought of K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari and Syekh Said Nursi are as follows. First, the national political thought of K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari and Syekh Said Nursi has significant differences. Second, there are three key variables in analyzing using hermeneutics. Within the text and authority, it can be seen how these two figures have authority in discussing this topic. At the same time, the differences in their socio-political realities also influence the differences in their methods and legal rulings. In the construction of authoritarianism, legal rulings that are not authoritarian can be reviewed by fulfilling the five prerequisites proposed by negative hermeneutics. Both have differences in fulfilling these five prerequisites. Furthermore, both figures consistently use their respective methods in studying this topic. The Fatwa Resolution on Jihad selectively chooses evidence, while the Risalah an-Nur explores a wider range of evidence. Finally, in balancing various interests, K. H. Hasyim Asy‟ari and Syekh Said Nursi combine two interests: preserving religion and upholding national identity
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