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Henry Roth Correspondence
No full textEntries include the typed transcripts of introductory correspondence from the Maine State Library and receipt of Roth\u27s book gift to the Maine Author Collection
Mobile Exam System – MES: Architecture for Database Management
No full textAs the mobile applications are constantly facing a rapid development in the recent years especially in the academic environment such as student response system (Lópeza, Royoa, Labordab & Calvoa, 2009; Ngai & Gunasekaran, 2007; Mary & Biju, 2008; Nayak & Erinjeri, 2008; Roth, Ivanchenko & Record, 2008; Lu, Stav & Pain, 2009; Lu, 2009; Turning technologies, 2010) used in universities and other educational institutions; there has not been reported an effective and scalable Database Management System to support fast and reliable data storage and retrieval. This paper presents Database Management Architecture for an Innovative Evaluation System based on Mobile Learning Applications. The need for a relatively stable, independent and extensible data model for faster data storage and retrieval is analyzed and investigated. It concludes by emphasizing further investigation for high throughput so as to support multimedia data such as video clips, images and documents
To be or not to be Sade: Philip Roth, "Sabbath's Theater" and Libertine Thought
No full textreservedIl presente elaborato si propone di indagare, all'interno dell'opera di Philip Roth, le forme e le ricorrenze tematiche legate al pensiero libertino. Sebbene si consideri anche la poetica dell’autore in generale, il focus viene posto sulle opere giudicate più rappresentative, in cui "l'argomento" libertinismo risulta essere più pregnante; un ruolo di primaria importanza in questo senso lo ricopre l'opera "Sabbath's Theatre" ("Il teatro di Sabbath"). Nonostante l'indagine sia di tipo tematico-comparatistico non si rifiuta una rigorosa ricostruzione storica della figura del libertino, soprattutto per meglio definirne il profilo e le caratteristiche; inoltre, la fondazione di un canone di autori "libertini" risulta fondamentale per far emergere ricorrenze tematico-stilistiche utili per meglio approcciare l'opera di Roth.This paper aims to investigate, within the great work of Philip Roth, the forms and thematic recurrences related to Libertine Thought. Although it also consider the poetics of the author in its wholeness, the focus is placed on the most representative works, in which "the subject" libertinism is more meaningful; a role of primary importance in this perspective is the novel "Sabbath’s Theatre". Despite the fact that the investigation is of a thematic-comparative nature, it does not elude a rigorous historical reconstruction of the figure of the libertine, especially to better define his profile and characteristics; moreover, the foundation of a canon of "libertine" authors is fundamental to bring out significative thematic-stylistic recurrences to better approach Roth’s work
Peer-Led Team Learning -Evaluation: The Impact of the PLTL Experience on Workshop Leaders: An Investigation PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING EVALUATION THE IMPACT OF THE PLTL EXPERIENCE ON WORKSHOP LEADERS: AN INVESTIGATION
No full textA team at the University of Rochester, composed of Vicki Roth, Nancy Niemi, and Lydia Tien, has been investigating the PLTL experience on peer leaders. They gathered information by designing and conducting interviews with student leaders, in a semi-structured interview format, with the understanding that final grades alone do not capture all of the effects of student participation in this model. While initial reports of higher grades and retention rates are encouraging, they serve equally as catalysts for additional lines of inquiry. The evaluation reported here works on a paradigm that considers the Workshop participants' words and interactions to be data that can be equally as informative as their test scores. This report focuses on peer leaders' descriptions of their experiences and hinges upon two broad questions: 1. Does being a PLTL leader influence what leaders think about and approach their own academic work? If so, how? 2. Does being a peer leader influence that leader's stated professional goals? The first round of interviews, conducted by Nancy Niemi during the 1998-1999 academic year, began with five former student coordinators for the program. One of the coordinators interviewed was a graduate of City College of New York; the remainder were students or graduates of the University of Rochester (UR). Coordinators were included as initial interviewees because they shared a common, extensive set of experiences with the PLTL Workshop model. Moreover, each of them either had graduated from school and gone on to graduate school or were seniors, making definite plans about their future. These people could demonstrate, through their school and career choices, whether their feelings regarding the Workshop leadership translated into concrete actions. Each coordinator interview lasted between one and two hours. Information collected from the transcripts of these interviews became the basis for the second round of interviews with 19 UR Workshop leaders. Each of the peer leader interviews included the following questions, although other topics were also discussed if the peer leaders chose to do so
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Number 10 in the North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series
No full textConvict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the prison system, and convict leasing, as well as important figures in Texas penology including Marshall Lee Simmons, O.B. Ellis, and George J. Beto, and the changing prison demimonde.
Over the years the rodeo arena not only boasted death-defying entertainment that would make professional cowboys think twice, but featured a virtual who’s who of American popular culture. Readers will be treated to stories about numerous American and Texas folk heroes, including Western film stars ranging from Tom Mix to John Wayne, and music legends such as Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Through extensive archival research Roth introduces readers to the convict cowboys in both the rodeo arena and behind prison walls, giving voice to a legion of previously forgotten inmate cowboys who risked life and limb for a few dollars and the applause of free-world crowds. The contents include: Texas prisons: a pattern of neglect -- A cowboy's a man with guts and a hoss -- The Simmons years (1930-1935) -- The only show of its kind in the United States (1936-1939) -- The war years (1940-1946) -- A sad state of affairs (1947-1949) -- The West as it ought to have been (1950-1953) -- Outlaw vs. outlaw (1954-1959) -- The fund just appeared footloose and fancy free (1954-1960) -- The Texas Prison
Joseph Roth and Slovenes
No full textŠtudija, napisana na podlagi primarnih in sekundarnih virov ter spominov, obravnava tista dela avstrijskega pisatelja Josepha Rotha, ki tematizirajo Slovence. V prvi vrsti gre za romana Radetzkyjeva koračnica (1932) in Kapucinska grobnica (1938), kjer so Slovenci kot osrednji literarni liki prvič vstopili v neslovensko svetovno književnost in to skozi velika vrata. V podporo adekvatnejši analizi literarnih likov upošteva tudi Rothove feljtone, objavljene v nemškem dnevniku Frankfurter Zeitung, kjer Roth poroča o južnih Slovanih, njihovi politiki in državi, ki jo označi za eno naslednic propadle Avstro-Ogrske na Balkanu. Avtorica se osredinja na Rothove slovenske like in njihov sprejem pri naših bralcih, pri čemer s primeri iz Rothovih feljtonov in siceršnjih avtorjevih zapisanih izjav dokazuje, da je Roth dobro poznal tako zgodovino kakor tudi zakonitosti literarnega ustvarjanja. Fikcija do neke mere temelji na resničnosti, vendar deluje po estetskih učinkih, ki z le-to niso vedno kompatibilni.The present study is based on primary and secondary literature as well as memoirs. It deals with those works by Austrian writer Joseph Roth that thematize Slovenians. First and foremost, these are the novels Radetzky March (1932) and The Emperor\u27s Tomb (1938). Slovenians are here central fictional characters, entered the non-Slovenian world literature of class for the first time, through the Great Gate. In support of the more adequate analysis of fictional characters of Slovenians, author also takes into account Roth\u27s feuilletons, published in the German daily Frankfurter Zeitung. Here he reports on South Slavs, their politics and the state, which he calls one of successor states in the Balkans of the decayed Habsburg Empire. The author focuses on Roth\u27s Slovenian fictional characters and their reception by Slovenian readers. By quoting his articles and few other statements on Slovenians she is about to prove that Roth knew very well both, the political history and the requests of creation of a work of fiction. Fiction is to some extent based on reality, though it works according to aesthetic effects that are not always compatible with it
Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis
No full textIn her article Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis Emily Budick discusses Philip Roth\u27s novel Nemesis as the culminating work of a career in which one nemesis or another has afflicted almost all of the author\u27s protagonists. During the bulk of Roth\u27s career, the hero\u27s nemesis was generally, as in the ordinary, literary usage of the term, the protagonist\u27s enemy, whether Judge Wapter in The Ghost Writer or the alter-Roth in The Counterlife. In Nemesis Roth restores the word nemesis to its classical meaning: Nemesis, as the goddess of revenge and cosmic balance. The nemesis in Roth\u27s novel, therefore, is mortality itself, against which human beings vainly strive. It is also the condition of disease and filth that human beings shares with each other and the natural world, that some humans would, with hubris, attempt to put themselves beyond
Philip Roth revisited
No full textPhilip Roth is unquestionably one of the major literary voices of our time, one who has combined critical acclaim with a wide readership. Since the publication of Bernard F. Rodgers's Twayne study of Roth (1978), Roth's oeuvre has expanded considerably both in bulk and in range, with the publication of such major works as The Ghost Writer, The Counterlife, and Patrimony. Philip Roth Revisited is an entirely new look at this important writer's life and work. In this sensitive study Jay L. Halio interprets Roth as fundamentally a comic writer in the tradition of that great "sit-down comedian," Franz Kafka. Humor, Halio argues, is for Roth the vehicle of truth. The present volume is more than a study of a single theme in Roth's work, however for Halio gives full consideration to the many complexities of Roth's writings. Roth has always, for instance, been a writer deeply concerned with characteristically Jewish themes, often controversially so, as in his outrageously comic Portnoy's Complaint. Halio places Roth in his Jewish-American milieu, explaining both the similarities and the differences between Roth and other Jewish-American writers, and discussing the reception of Roth's work by the Jewish community. In the latter part of his career, perhaps influenced by the insistence of readers and critics on seeing the author himself in his protagonists, Roth has turned to the complex theme of the interweaving of art and autobiography a concern that has both intrigued and irritated some critics. Halio's analysis of this important element in Roth's work is perhaps the clearest available reading of a notoriously complex subject. Comic, subtle, intelligent, Philip Roth's literary art reps careful and sensitive reading. Halio's study will be valuable to students and scholars of American literature, and to general readers interested in learning about one of America's leading men of letters
As narrativas em Nêmesis, de Philip Roth
No full textEsta resenha trata das perspectivas narrativas no romance Nêmesis, do autor americano Philip Roth. A partir de dois olhares, o da narrativa territorial da Newark dos anos 1940, cidade natal do autor e local de ambientação do romance, e da interpretação do livro no contexto pós-pandemia, é traçada uma breve análise crítica da obra.This review deals with narrative perspectives in the novel Nemesis, by the American author Philip Roth. From two points of view: the territorial narrative of 1940’s Newark, the author\u27s hometown and the novel\u27s setting, and the interpretation of the book in the post-pandemic context, a brief critical analysis of the work is outlined
Joseph Roth als Brieferzähler. Autobiographische Rolleninszenierungen
No full textThe study examines the narrative processes in the letters of the Austrian author Joseph Roth.Die Studie macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die narrativen Verfahren in den Briefen des österreichischen Autors Joseph Roth zu untersuchen
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