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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1
No full text“Lifting the Schorer Curse: The Burden of a Biography,” by Richard Lingeman
“Conference Celebrates Anniversaries of Lewis’s Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal,” by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
“Society and Foundation Join to Sponsor Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“The Reconstruction of Minnesota’s Main Street,” by Jacqueline Koenig
“A Diary of the Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Jacqueline Koenig
“A Bed and Breakfast at Twin Farms,” by Michael Frank
“Vermont’s Award-Winning Twin Farms,” by Jerry Weil
“Lewis’s Early Fiction Still Resonates Today,” rev. of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, ed. by Anthony Di Renzo, by Linda Laird Giedl
“At Last,” rev. of Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography, A Collector’s and Scholar’s Guide to Identification by Stephen R. Pastore, by Daniel Chabris
“Even at 70, Elmer Gantry is Wickedly Funny: A Satirical Look at Evangelism Lewis-Style,” by Roger K. Miller
“Sauk Centre Welcomes Lewis’s Granddaughter,” by Roberta Olson
“Writer’s Hometown Showers Granddaughter Lesley Lewis with Celebrity Status,” by Kris Bergquist
“Nobel Love Letters,” by Kevin Duchschere
“Sinclair Lewis Essay Winners Awarded Scholarships,” includes essays by Rebecca Ann Stepan (Grand Prize winner) and Sabrina Marthaler (1st Runner Up)
Abstracts: From Papers Presented at the Sinclair Lewis Conference:
“Babbitt: The Literary Dimension,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
“A Manless Novel in a Manly Time,” by Todd Michael Stanley
“Sinclair Lewis on the Nineties,” by Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University
“Neil Kingsblood: The Not so Tragic Mulatto,” by Jean Mullin Yonke
“Literary and Racial Tensions in Kingsblood Royal,” by M. Ellen DuPree, University of Nevada, Reno
“Vision, Progress, and Regular Guys: George F. Babbitt’s Rhetorical Ideals,” by Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University
“Jazzing Up American History: Using Babbitt and Elmer Gantry to Teach the History of the 1920s,” by Jane Lamm Carroll, College of St. Catherine
“It Can’t Happen Here: The Liberal Imagination in an ‘Age of Ideology,\u27” by Jonathan Veitch, New School for Social Research
“Iron George: Myths of Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Mantrap,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“From Stereotyping to Social Critique: Babbitt‘s Italian Fortune During the Fascist Years,” by Valerio C. Ferme, University of California, Berkeley
Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
“Babbitt: The Middle-Class Malcontent,” by Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology
“Heinrich Mann’s Der Untertan: ‘A German Main Street’ and More,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondalehttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1035/thumbnail.jp
'The ceasing from the sorrow of divided life: may Sinclair’s women, texts and contexts (1910-1923)
No full textThis thesis explores May Sinclair's female protagonists in her Modernist texts, 1910-1923. 1 look at how Sinclair's work bears witness to her scene of writing and offer an analysis that places Sinclair, most centrally, in a dialogue with contemporary literary, psychoanalytical, and cultural influences.1 draw upon a wealth of unpublished material, medical archives and journals, newspapers, propaganda, novels of fellow female writers, and other artefacts of the day. By appraising these works together, the critical distinction between Modernism and the topical issues of early twentieth century Britain is seen to dissolve, and Sinclair’s writing emerges as an important oeuvre for reading the life of the modem woman. Women’s fiction of the period typically searches for autonomy and agency. However, as 1 show, the desire for radical social change is problematic and often in conflict with the prescribed code of an idealised, fixed female identity. Through an exploration and development of her own concept of sublimation, Sinclair confronts these complex ideological structures in her engagement with the position of women in her fiction. She places her women in a variety of situations—from the tightly knit, domestic home to the unfettered, open terrain of wild landscapes—and analyses the forces that hold women back or set them free. In my study of Sinclair's Modernist texts, 1 argue that Sinclair urges for psychic freedom for women from their cramped, repressive conditions; this is achieved through sublimation
Describing typeforms: a designer's response
No full textThe paper sets out an overview of a pragmatic research investigation initiated within a doctoral enquiry, and which continues to inform design practice and pedagogy. Located within the fields of typography and information design, and very much concerned with design history, enquiry emphasized exploration of alternative design research methodologies in the production of a design outcome loaded with pedagogical ambition.
The issue being addressed within the investigation was the limited scope of existing typeface classificatory systems to adequately describe the diversity of forms represented within current type design practice and thus, recent acquisitions to an established teaching collection in London.
Addressing this issue unexpectedly came to utilize the researcher’s own design practice as a methodology for managing emergent enquiry, and for organizing and generating new knowledge through the employment of visual information management methods.
A primary outcome of the enquiry was a new framework for the description of typeforms. This new framework will be described in terms of its operation, divergence from existing models and potential for application
Catherine of Siena
No full textCatherine of Siena (b. 1347–d. 1380) was an author, spiritual leader, religious reformer, and one of the more remarkable public figures of the Middle Ages. Born to a prosperous family of cloth dyers, in her youth she developed a reputation for unusual piety, and in her late teens or early twenties joined the local community of Dominican female penitents (precursors to what became in the 15th century the Dominican Third Order). She developed a following that included a number of young Sienese nobleman, as well as religious from various orders, and in 1374 was enlisted by the Dominican order and the papacy to help advance several causes, including a Crusade to the Holy Land and peace in Italy. Between 1374 and her death in 1380, through her letters and in person, Catherine advocated for ecclesiastical reform, the return of the papacy to Rome from Avignon, and the Roman observance after the schism of 1378. In addition to her letters—the largest epistolary collection by a woman in the Middle Ages—she is known for a masterpiece of mystical theology, her Libro di divvina dottrina (Book of Divine Teachings), better known today as the Dialogo, a synthesis of her spiritual insights, structured in the form of a dialogue between Catherine and God. It was largely through her Libro, in addition to the hagiographical tradition, that her reputation spread throughout Europe. Catherine became the object of an active cult before her canonization in 1461, and she was embraced in the early modern period as a mystic and model for female monasticism. In the period of Italian nationalism from the Risorgimento through World War II, she became an emblem of Catholic Italy, and more recently she has been valued more for her active engagement with the world as well as for her spiritual writings. Scholars of Catherine of Siena and her devotees—two not-mutually exclusive groups—have over time vacillated radically in their sense of Catherine’s association with Italian politics and society, and in their assessments of her writings and their place in literary culture. Until recently, she has not been taken seriously by Italian literary critical scholarship: the inspired, devotional character of her prose, and its mix of oral with literary characteristics, has seemed to place her outside of literature, properly speaking. But there is currently a renewed interest in Catherine as an author, as well as a return to questions regarding the complexities of her texts and their composition first raised in the initial flowering of Catherinian source criticism in the 1930s and 1940s. She emerged as an important figure in international medieval scholarship with the rise of interest in hagiography, lay spirituality, and women’s religion and gendered religiosity in the last quarter of the 20th century, and is now recognized by historians as a key representative of important trends in late-medieval religion.</p
Edges of the mind : psychic margins and the modernist aesthetic in Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion Fortune and Jane Harrison.
No full textPhDThe question 'Where does she begin and I end, asked in Virginia Woolf's The Years, voices a modernist
concern with the limits of self-identity and related questions of egoism and altruism. In this thesis I argue
that this concern is informed by a pre-history of thinking about selfhood, psychic boundaries and the
spiritual mainly ignored by readings of modernism which map the psyche via psychoanalysis, or Freud's
'discovery of the unconscious'. Our thinking about the self has become colonised by the literary doctrines of
better known canonical figures of the modernist period, generating a way of thinking about the limits of the
psyche which is both literally and metaphorically circumscribed. A reading of more eccentric discourses
explicitly engaged in negotiating the boundaries of individuality can provide a history of the psychic
underpinnings to the modernist conception of the self. The representation of marginal states of
consciousness, or epiphanic moments, is crucial to the literature of modernism: interpretation of these altered
states, or edges, can be refigured through readings of Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion
Fortune and Jane Harrison: five women writing between 1880-1930 for whom pre-Freudian forms of
dissolution and challenge to self-unity are palpably present in the form of telepathy, subliminal selves,
oceanic consciousness and internal multiplicity. In addition to writing non-fictional texts which variously
explore the psychological, philosophical, ethical, spiritual and occult implications of the modernist position,
each of these women, excepting the classical scholar Jane Harrison, also wrote fiction. The aesthetic
questions of modernism dovetail into the theoretical arguments of the writers in this thesis, inviting a
different reading of its psychological sub-text and to suggest that where 'stream-of-consciousness' is
stylistically indispensable, the 'oceanic', as counterpart, thematically haunts the modernist aestheti
The post - expressivist turn : four American novels and the author - function
No full text" The Post - Expressivist Turn : Four American Novels and the Author - Function " proposes a model of the author - function as a " diagnostic " tool. An " author - centred " mode of critique can interrogate the hegemonic narrative of liberal humanism, or " liberal modernity ", in Western culture. The argument in this thesis proceeds from the recognition that the hegemonic convention of the author in contemporary Western culture ( that is, the " expressivist " convention of the author ) has been disarmed of its claims to ideological innocence and commonsensicality. This thesis utilises the insights of poststructuralism, specifically the discourse theory of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, to deploy a new model of the author - function which foregrounds the ideological and discursive precepts that the expressivist model of the author has been assumed to transcend. The thesis examines four novels : The Bostonians by Henry James, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, V. by Thomas Pynchon, and Democracy by Joan Didion. Taken together, these encompass a hundred - year trajectory defined by the literary schools of late realism ( The Bostonians ), modernism ( The Great Gatsby ), late modernism ( V. ), and postmodernism ( Democracy ). Each of these novels is deployed as a stage in a cumulative trajectory which foregrounds a " post - expressivist " operation of the author. This post - expressivist model of the author presumes no claims to epistemological self - evidence or commonsensicality. Consequently, the author - function in each of these novels is freed from its traditionally displaced, reified position in the cultural milieu. Instead, the author is re - engaged in the Western body politic as a discursively - situated material event. It is this discursive engagedness which once more installs the author as a productive diagnostic, as a productive means of interrogation of the hegemony of liberal modernity. This is effected through an interrogation by this post - expressivist author - model of the perceived efficacy of the project of American liberal humanism as a basis for the realisation of a democratic, rational utopia. In tracing a progressive denaturalisation of the author as an extra - contextual function ( The Bostonians ), through to a foregrounding of the author as an enunciative function ( Democracy ), this thesis delineates an " author - centred " model of critique relative to a trajectory that recognises the position of pre - eminence still enjoyed by the author in late - capitalist Western culture.Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Humanities, 2005
Developing Core Leadership Competencies for the Library Profession
No full textThe development of competencies, competency lists, or competency models has become a popular way to assess the strengths, needs, and potential contributions of individuals in an organization. The success of libraries as organizations is determined by the actions of the individuals who work in those libraries; the success of those individuals in carrying out the missions of those libraries is in large measure a reflection of the type and quality of leadership. Successful library leaders demonstrate certain skills that are instrumental in the delivery of desired outcomes. We usually think of the demonstration of these skills as competencies.
Creating a list of competencies for library leaders is a key objective envisioned in the strategic plan of the Library Leadership Administration and Management Association (LLAMA). This task was assigned to five members of the 2008 class of the American Library Association’s Emerging Leaders Program. The project is a critical first step toward a list of competencies or standards that would serve at least three types of users: library educators planning curricula, aspiring library leaders hoping to advance their careers, and experienced library leaders seeking to advance the profession. This article will provide an overview of the library literature addressing competency models, describe the process used to develop the competency model for library leadership, review competency models found in the literature of other professions, and discuss the proposed core competency model for leadership in our profession
Using Accelerometry to Detect Upper-Extremity Motor Deficits and Delays in Early Childhood
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
Identifying subtle motor delays in early childhood is challenging. Accelerometry is a novel way to characterize upper-extremity motor patterns in typically developing children. Differences were identified between typically developing children and children with hemiparesis ages 0–5 yr.
Primary Author and Speaker: Catherine Hoyt Drazen
Contributing Authors: Annie Nguyen, Elyse Everet, Melanie Berner, Jonathan Koller, Dustin K. Ragan, Nico U. F. Dosenbach</jats:p
Acteurs et institutions. La dynamique des marchés du travail
No full textNoting the changing theoretical perspectives of French sociology, which has been marked by a renewal of interest in individual behaviors, the author tests the new possibilities of a dialogue about labor market studies between sociologists and economists. An examination of the changing sociology of P. Bourdieu, of the theory of investment of forms as formulated by T. Thévenot, and of the societal analysis advanced by M. Maurice, F. Sellier and J. -J. Silvestre is used to advocate an interactionist approach to labor markets, which are thus taken to be the product of the dynamic interrelation of actors and institutions.Prenant acte d'une évolution des perspectives théoriques de la sociologie française, marquée par le renouveau d'intérêt pour le comportement individuel, l'auteur teste les nouvelles possibilités d'un dialogue entre sociologues et économistes pour l'étude des marchés du travail. A partir d'un examen de révolution de la sociologie de P. Bourdieu, de la théorie de r investissement de formes de L. Thévenot et de F analyse sociétale de M. Maurice, F. Sellier et J.-J. Silvestre, Fauteur prône une approche interactionniste des marchés du travail. Ils y sont conçus comme le produit de l'interrelation dynamique des acteurs et des institutions.Paradeise Catherine. Acteurs et institutions. La dynamique des marchés du travail. In: Sociologie du travail, 30ᵉ année n°1, Janvier-mars 1988. La gestion du travail. Traditions et nouveautés. pp. 79-105
La plasticità delle forme: Catherine Malabou e la configurazione plastica fra trasformazione e distruzione
No full textIn the volume “Avant demain. Épigenèse et rationalité” the French thinker Catherine Malabou states that every kind of form (artistic, biological, but also conceptual form) emerges through epigenesis, a term borrowed from the natural sciences. In other words, forms “become” because each of them acquires its configuration gradually and progressively through incorporations, modifications and adaptations, processes inscribed, according to the author, within the so-called paradigm of the “plasticity of forms”. If, however, any form is constructed through epigenesis, then the concept of plasticity does not escape this view either: it emerges progressively during philosophical thought, incorporating accidental events that, as we will attempt to highlight in the course of this article, contribute to its very definition. Our aim, therefore, is to grasp the conceptual path of plasticity, a term that, deriving from the Greek expression πλαστική τέχνη (plastic art), proves to be central to the aesthetic understanding of forms
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