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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
alanfox/spg_1000m_boundary_fluxes: Code and data used in model analysis for Jones et al. 2023. "Observation-based estimates of volume, heat and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents and the atmosphere"
No full textCode and data used to calculate model fluxes across the subpolar gyre boundary for use in Jones et al. 2023. "Observation-based estimates of volume, heat and freshwater exchanges between the subpolar North Atlantic interior, its boundary currents and the atmosphere".
Author Alan D. Fox @alanfox.
Model analyses use the Viking20x-jra-short run. See Biastoch et al 2021 (https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1177-2021)
Vitamin D and juvenile idiopathic arthritis
No full textBackground: Vitamin D has been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. While the roles of vitamin D in
other autoimmune diseases have been investigated, less is known about the role of vitamin D in chronic childhood arthritis.
Main body: This review summarizes and evaluates evidence relating to 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and chronic
childhood arthritis. A scoping literature review was conducted using Ovid Medline, Ovid Embase, Cumulative Index to
Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Web of Science and Scopus. Further, we geo-mapped the results of the studies to
identify the patterns of the association between vitamin D and chronic childhood arthritis across the globe. Of 38 studies
reporting 25(OH)D concentrations in childhood chronic arthritis, 32 (84.2%) reported that a significant number of children
had suboptimal (< 75 nmol/L) status.
Conclusion: The data indicate suboptimal vitamin D status in children with chronic arthritis. Further
Bess of Hardwick's Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550-1608
No full textIncludes: c.80,000 words of authored content, i.e. web-essays, individual summaries of each letter, and individual biographiers for each letter-writer; edited transcriptions which are XML-generated and available in both diplomatic and normalized versions of the 245 letters to and from Bess; advanced search and browse functionality
A remark on the similarity and perturbation problems
No full textIn this note we show that Kadison's similarity problem for C*-algebras is equivalent to a problem in perturbation theory: must close C*-algebras have close commutants
Higher education in Egypt
No full textEgypt's policy on higher education, the author argues, must take account of the realities of declining government budgets and employment and increasing reliance on the private sector, which must become more competitive internationally. Education in Egypt must increase Egyptians'ability to cope with economic disequilibria: to respond quickly and effectively to changing technological and market opportunities. The Government of Egypt's strategy for achieving this goal is to stabilize the number of university students and raise the quality of instruction. This fundamentally sound strategy, pursued since the mid-1980s, has required considerable courage of policymakers, who are struggling to correct a longtime, inequitable misallocation of educational resources. The Nasser regime greatly expanded higher education and guaranteed jobs to university graduates. As a result of rapidly growing enrollment in the 1970s and 1980s, the quality of education seriously deteriorated. Classes are too big and resources too scarce for anything but professorial salaries, so learning amounts to little more than memorization and repetition. The system does not foster the development of synthesizing, problem-solving, or creative thinking abilities. And with tertiary institutions over-enrolled, academic success requires the use of tutors, whose fees are beyond the reach of students of modest means.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Teaching and Learning,Gender and Education,Tertiary Education
Fluvial Geomorphology on a Glacial Till Plain
No full textTitle: Fluvial Geomorphology on a Glacial Till Plain, Author: Alan D. Jackson, Location: ThodeFluvial channel adjustment on a glaciated till plain in
Southern Ontario is investigated. Mallot River, a component
of the Grand River system is used as an example. Concepts of
equilibrium and underfitness are discussed. Field studies
include over thirty miles of longitudinal and transverse
valley profiles. Laboratory investigation produced a detailed
map from air photographs. It contains more than 15,000 First
Order segments. Morphometric analyses were conducted using
this base. A hierarchy of drainage density is suggested. A
comparison with drainage on non-glaciated material concludes
the study.ThesisMaster of Science (MS
The Policy Governance Model: A critical examination
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By any measure, John Carver has had a substantial impact on thinking about governance in nonprofits. He has authored three books, 14 monographs and over 160 separate articles, as well as a regular newsletter, audiotapes and a videotape (Carver 2002, pp. xli-xlii). His first book Boards that make a difference was reprinted 10 times before going into its second edition. He has consulted in over 19 countries. He has trained over 150 consultants (including the author) and other nonprofit leaders in his advanced Academy workshop, some of whom went on to form the International Policy Governance Association. His influence in Canada in particular has been profound, with one report noting that many Canadian organisations had debated whether ‘to Carver, or not’ (Panel on accountability and governance in the voluntary sector 1998, p. 15). His work has inspired books by other authors (Oliver 1999; Walters & Richardson 1997).\ud
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Probably no other writer on governance has attracted so much publicity, or such controversy, as Carver. As Fletcher (1999, p. 437) notes, Carver’s approach has been ‘both lauded and demonized’. \ud
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After explaining the basic principles and structure of Policy Governance, this paper briefly summarises the advantages of the model. It then examines how poorly the model is understood by some of its critics. The paper then explores in detail the negative critiques of Carver’s writing on governance and of his Policy Governance model. Most of the critics are explicit in their comment on Carver’s work, although one or two critiques have been implied from the general management literature. It should be noted that some of the negative critiques contradict others. Conclusions in relation to practice and research are then drawn
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