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Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Charlie Lovett Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Charlie Lovett, author of the bestselling novel The Bookman's Tale. Charlie is the son of Wake Forest Professor Emeritus Robert Lovett, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library rare books collection and special collections reading room were an inspiration for his novel
Meghan Daum
No full textRecording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast February 15, 2016 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMIn part three of our February Celebrity Challenge, Charlie talks to Meghan Daum, newspaper columnist, essayist, and author of My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, and other books, about writing as a profession, writing as a life, and why she would not have rocked blogs
Travels with Charlie: Part II
No full textMy travels with Charlie began a half-century ago
In Building E10 where all was aglow.
Our department was new and full of great promise
Thanks to Luke Teuberʼs dream of a grand synthesis.
He housed strange bedfellows under a single roof:
Fodor, Nauta, and Held—this wasnʼt a spoof.
Charlie was buddies with Peter and Steve;
These “three musketeers,” great science conceived
Exploring (the poetics of) strange (and fractal) hypertexts
No full textThe ACM Hypertext conference has a rich history of challenging the node-link hegemony of the web. At Hypertext 2011 Pisarski [12] suggested that to refocus on nodes in hypertext might unlock a new poetics, and at Hypertext 2001 Bernstein [3] lamented the lack of strange hypertexts: playful tools that experiment with hypertext structure and form. As part of the emerging Strange Hypertexts community project we have been exploring a number of exotic hypertext tools, and in this paper we set out an early experiment with media and creative writing undergraduates to see what effect one particular form – Fractal Narratives, a hypertext where readers drill down into text in a reoccurring pattern – would have on their writing. In this particular trial, we found that most students did not engage in the structure from a storytelling point of view, although they did find value from a planning point of view. Participants conceptually saw the value in non-linear storytelling but few exploited the fractal structure to actually do this. Participant feedback leads us to conclude that while new poetics do emerge from strange hypertexts, this should be viewed as an ongoing process that can be reinforced and encouraged by designing tools that highlight and support those emerging poetics in a series of feedback loops, and by providing writing contexts where they can be highlighted and collaboratively explore
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
No full textCharlie Bucket, a poor child who barely has enough to eat, is one of five lucky children who get to visit Willy Wonka’s mysterious candy factory. Inside, Charlie sees strange beings, incredible inventions, and delicious candies of all shapes and sizes. As the children make their way around the factory, they start disappearing when they decide not to listen to Wonka’s directions. In the end, only Charlie is left and Wonka gifts the entire factory to him and his family, so they never have to live in poverty again
Platelets attenuate oxidant-induced permeability in endothelial monolayers: glutathione-dependent mechanisms
No full textStrange, Charlie, Andrew Gottehrer, Karen Birmingham, and John E. Heffner. Platelets attenuate oxidant-induced permeability in endothelial monolayers: glutathione-dependent mechanisms. J. Appl. Physiol. 81(4): 1701–1706, 1996.—We studied the effects of adding washed human platelets or platelets with nonintact glutathione redox cycles to endothelial cell monolayers treated with glucose oxidase to initiate oxidant stress and increase permeability. Changes in125I-labeled albumin transmonolayer movement were used as the index of monolayer permeability. Washed human platelets attenuated oxidant-induced increases in albumin flux. Platelets treated with 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosurea, 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene, or buthionine sulfoximine to inhibit selective enzymatic steps in the glutathione redox cycle decreased permeability to a lesser degree. We conclude that 1) washed human platelets attenuate monolayer permeability defects in aortic endothelial monolayers exposed to glucose oxidase and 2) the protective effects of platelets are partially dependent on an intact platelet glutathione redox cycle.</jats:p
Roald Dahl: the Author for Two Audiences. A comparison of His Writings for Children and Adults
No full textKatedra anglistiky a amerikanistikyDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Charlie May Simon: Uncovering The Lost Voice of An Arkansas Author
No full textThis dissertation analyzes the life and published novels of noted Arkansas author Charlie May Simon, a woman whose writing career spanned four decades, during which time she remained an Arkansas resident. None of her twenty-nine published novels, biographies, or memoirs remain in print. Although a yearly award was established in 1970 by the Arkansas Department of Education— the Charlie May Simon Book Award— educators and librarians have difficulty obtaining copies of her own writing that set the high bar of excellence each award recipient demonstrates. My purpose in research is to uncover the prose beauty of Charlie May Simon’s writing, examine the history of her life and the times in which she produced her work, and wrestle with the factors that caused her voice to go silent, lost to our current generation. Broader implications of research include the ability to view patriarchy, gendered performance, and gender roles through the lens she provides in her writing of the times in which she lived. The research conducted occurred in four special collections archives: Butler Center of Arkansas Studies (John Gould Fletcher/Charlie May Simon photograph collection, BC.PHO.32 and Charlie May Simon Materials, MSS.97.28), University of Arkansas in Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (Charlie May Simon Papers, UALR.MS.0006), University of Memphis Libraries (Mississippi Valley Collection, Charlie May Simon MSS.41), and Syracuse University in New York (E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Records). Analysis of her published works, including illustrations and text, is taken from my personal library collection of all Charlie May Simon published books. Literary analysis is the primary focus of the study; new historicism is the literary criticism lens of my methodological approach to contemplate the culture, historical events, and life occurrences that fueled the creative spirit of Arkansas’s most prolific author of the 20th century. Areas for further research are outlined in the conclusion, signifying implications which additional scholarship and archival research in the four collections could reveal. In each collection, personal and business correspondence chronicle the indomitable spirit of the Arkansas literary diamond, Charlie May Simon
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