109 research outputs found
Reviewers as Readers with Power : What a Case of Retranslation Says about Author, Translator and Reader Dynamics
No full textThe Black Book, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel in English translation, was published in Güneli Gün’s translation in 1994 and in a retranslation by Maureen Freely in 2006. The decision for retranslation was mainly taken by the author on the basis of the criticism the first translation received from the reviewers, the most significant readers of translations with their power to consecrate foreign authors and their work in their new cultural settings. This study will present an analysis of the two translations of The Black Book, taking as its point of departure the criticism expressed in the reviews. The analysis will reveal the ways in which the first translation served as a criterion for the retranslation and how the two translators represented the author and his work differently, which was mainly enabled because of the changing status of Orhan Pamuk as an author in the English-speaking world between 1994 and 2006.Le livre noir, deuxième roman d’Orhan Pamuk en traduction anglaise, a été publié en 1994 dans la traduction de Güneli Gün, puis dans la retraduction de Maureen Freely en 2006. La décision de retraduire a relevé surtout de l’auteur, sous l’influence de l'accueil réservé à la première traduction par les critiques, ces derniers étant les lecteurs les plus importants des traductions, puisqu'ils détiennent le pouvoir de consacrer les auteurs étrangers et leurs oeuvres dans de nouveaux lieux culturels. Le présent article propose une analyse des deux traductions anglaises du Livre noir, à la lumière de la recension critique. Il permettra de voir la manière dont les choix faits dans la première traduction ont, en quelque sorte, servi de critères pour la seconde, et de constater que les deux traductrices ont représenté l’auteur et son oeuvre différemment, surtout en raison de l'évolution du statut de Pamuk en tant qu'auteur dans le monde anglophone entre 1994 et 2006
Developing Core Leadership Competencies for the Library Profession
Get PDFThe 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
"Going the Full Length": Authorial Shamelessness in the Work of Roth, Adichie, and Miller
No full textM.A.A long line of traditional criticism sees writing as a shameful act. “Going the Full Length” argues that creating fiction is in fact an act of shamelessness on behalf of the author. The authorial shamelessness found in fiction is dependent upon the author’snarcissism, self-indulgence, and willingness to expose themselves and others. This thesis develops a spectrum of shamelessness, and points to metafiction as one of the most shameless literary genres. The occurrence of shamelessness and its resistance is explored in three metafictional texts: Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer (1979), Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie’s 2006 short story “Jumping Monkey Hill,” and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934). Authorial shamelessness is one crucial way in which an author claims their own authenticity and thus works as an act of resistance or de-stigmatization of widely held beliefs or societal norms
The Textual History and Definitive Textual Apparatus for Soldiers\u27 Pay: A Bibliographic Study of William Faulkner\u27s First Novel
No full textThe publication of William Faulkner\u27s first novel, Soldiers\u27 Pay, was beset with a problem that would recur with the publication of many of his later works: he was unable to resist the many editorial emendations that were imposed on his texts. As one close friend and publisher of Faulkner\u27s recently speculated in a letter to this author, Faulkner was so damn glad to get those two books [Soldiers\u27 Pay and Mosquitoes] published that he accepted a great deal of whatever [Liveright editor] Tom Smith did with his manuscript. This dissertation traces the textual history of Soldiers\u27 Pay from its inception through to its publication in this country and England, Also, in a textual apparatus, this study seeks to establish the definitive text of the novel by suggesting emendations to the copy-text which have been determined by a careful collation of the two extant typescripts and the first American edition of the novel. The dissertation is divided into three parts: the History of the Text, the Textual Apparatus, and the Appendices. The first part contains sections on the inception of Soldiers\u27 Pay. and traces the roots of the novel to Faulkner\u27s war poems of 1919 and certain of his sketches, some unpublished, and his essay Literature and War, that were written between 1920 and 1925, The composition section covers the period from January through June 1925 when Faulkner actually wrote Soldiers\u27 Pay. Faulkner\u27s process of writing is discussed here, as is the influence of Sherwood Anderson and the role Faulkner\u27s Oxford friends, Phil Stone, Edith Brown Douds and Grace Hudson, played in the preparation of the novel,..
Anisotropy and deformation in the Earth's mantle : seismological observations, geodynamical models, and laboratory experiments
Get PDFThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2006.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections."June 2006."Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316).In this thesis I report the results of several studies of elastic anisotropy and deformation in the Earth's mantle, using shear wave splitting measurements, numerical models of geodynamical processes, and laboratory experiments on mantle minerals. I evaluate the performance of several methods for measuring shear wave splitting at broadband stations, and discuss how different measurements can inform our interpretation of mantle anisotropy. I describe a set of shear wave splitting measurements from both teleseismic and local earthquakes at 65 stations of the F-net array in Japan. I find considerable evidence from the measured splitting patterns for complex and heterogeneous anisotropy beneath Japan associated with the subduction of the Pacific and Philippine Sea plates beneath Eurasia. The comparison of teleseismic and local splitting at stations in southwestern Japan provides strong evidence for trench-parallel anisotropy in the mantle wedge above the subducting slab. I consider several scenarios that would produce the observed anisotropy and conclude that the most likely model for deformation beneath the Ryukyu arc is corner flow in the mantle wedge, with a region extending ~ 150 kilometers from the trench dominated by B-type olivine fabric.(cont.) To characterize further the detailed pattern of flow and anisotropy, I evaluate a series of two-dimensional finite element models that describe the subduction of the Philippine Sea plate beneath southwestern Japan, and compare the resulting flow field, strain, and anisotropy in the mantle wedge to F-net shear wave splitting observations. To complement this forward modeling approach, I develop and implement a method for the 2.5-D inversion of shear wave splitting intensity measurements for anisotropic structure in the upper mantle. I present preliminary anisotropic models for southwestern Japan and discuss strategies for explicitly integrating the tomographic inversion of splitting intensity data with numerical models that describe geodynamic processes in the wedge. Finally, I describe a series of laboratory experiments characterizing deformation and the resulting lattice preferred orientation in magnesiowüstite, a lower mantle mineral, and discuss the implications for the interpretation of seismic anisotropy at the base of the mantle.by Maureen Devaney Long.Ph.D
"Thank me therefore": Social Prestige, Probity and Self-determination of Nymue's character in Malory's "Le Morte Darthur"
Get PDFMichael Bérubé, Ph.D. - Professor of Literature and Author of What\u27s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?
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Michael Bérubé, Ph.D., called “one of the 101 most dangerous academics in America” by right-wing activist/commentator David Horowitz, is an avid defender of freedom of academic inquiry in his literature classes at Penn State, on the National Council for the American Association of University Professors, and as an influential blogger on his website. www.michaelberube.com
Bérubé is the author of What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006), and his seventh book, The Left at War: Cultural Studies and Democratic Internationalism After 9/11, will be published in 2009 by NYU Press.
His earlier work Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998) is Bérubé’s personal account of raising a son with Down’s syndrome. It won the 1996 New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was chosen as one of the best books of the year by National Public Radio’s Maureen Corrigan.
Bérubé is also the editor of The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2004), and, with Cary Nelson, of Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 1995). He has written numerous essays for a wide variety of academic journals such as American Quarterly, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as more popular venues such as Harper’s, the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and The Nation.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1048/thumbnail.jp
The Nursing Shortage: a Fresh Perspective
Get PDFThe current nursing shortage in the United States has the potential to become a major public health crisis (US Department, 2004). In recent years, a trend has developed that demonstrates a lack of interest on the part of young adults aged fifteen to eighteen years old towards nursing careers (Hoke, 2006). This research examines the attitudes and perceptions of young people, aged fifteen to eighteen years old; towards the field of nursing. The Methodology used to answer the research question was a survey tool developed by the author. The survey was created using the survey development site, Zoomerang©. Following IRB approval, the survey was piloted and then made available to the target population via the social networking site, Facebook©. Descriptive statistics were run on the 223 total responses received. The results of the survey suggest that students in the target population have a positive view towards nursing and may see it as a very lucrative career option; however, it does not seem as if they are being provided with the necessary information they might need to make the decision to become a nurse. The methodology for this study was very effective and provides a great opportunity for future research to be done. The hope is that this study will open doors for additional research to be done in the future, and that it will also spark an interest and possibly change the way that administrators and others think about and act upon recruiting young people towards the profession. Providing students with the necessary information and resources to make career decisions will impact the lives of future generations for many years to come
No-Drama Obama: Personal Memoirs, Bestsellers, and Qualitative Research: A Review
Get PDFPersonal memoirs and life histories are forms of qualitative research that from time to time appear on bestsellers lists. These forms of research detail the authors’ experiences of living and reflecting upon their everyday lives—lives that may be unique in some sense or lives made unique by the richness of the interplay of living, reflecting, and writing. In this review, I make the case for viewing moments in all lives as worthy of the development of personal memoir or life history and for using memoir as a way of generating takeaways or lessons learned. I review Elyn Saks’ (2007) memoir and bestseller about her life with schizophrenia, The Center Cannot Hold, and the British actor, author, and comedian, Stephen Fry’s 2006 documentary about bipolar disorder Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive. Both are examples of life histories that provide an abundance of opportunities for learning about what we might otherwise never know
"Maastricht 2042 and the Fate of Europe: Toward Convergence and Full Employment"
Get PDFUnemployment in the European Union (EU) is a serious problem that threatens to disrupt the integration of accession countries, the character of individual countries, and the continued existence of the EU. According to Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith, European integration poses a huge conundrum for European employment because the conventional theory explaining unemployment in EuropeÐlabor market rigiditiesÐis wrong. The application of this policy will not cure European unemployment, but it could destroy the economic promise of the EU for its poorer regions and the accession countries.
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