Dialogism or Interconnectedness in the Work of Louise Erdrich
Author: J. Marta Lysik File Type: pdf This study portrays how Louise Erdrichs writing extends Bakhtins concepts of dialogism and the novel through an investigation of a selection of her works, as well as her practices of writing, co-writing, re-writing, and reading novels. Erdrichs hallmark dialogic literary style and practice encompasses writing a series of books re-cycling protagonists, narrators, events, themes and settings re-writing previously published novels employing heteroglossia and polyglossia co-authoring texts, blogging about books translating different epistemologies for different audiences and spotlighting families as the main thematic concern in dialogue with her own parenting experiences as depicted in her memoirs. She writes a growing series of novels, compost pile-like, capitalizing on former novels, as well as adding new elements and new stories in the process. Thus, a dialogic intra-textual microcosm emerges. Erdrich suffuses her writing with an incessant quality of changing and becoming. Her novels resist closure, while protagonists return and demand attention, and the author answers dialogically by penning new tales. Erdrichs writing can be accessed because it concerns shared human experiences and relationships, both their ambivalence and their beauty. Erdrich includes instead of alienating, sympathizes instead of judging, which makes her an internationally acclaimed author, with her work crossing topographies, epistemologies, and identities. **
Author: Edward Limonov
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Edward Limonov was born on February 22, 1941, in Gorky, USSR. His father was a member of the secret police. Eddie spent his childhood and adolescence in Harkov, that Detroit of contemporary Russia. He attended high school, mastering the art of the petty crook. Between 1967 and 1974 Limonov published eight volumes of samizdat poetry in the USSR. His poems have appeared in translation in Spain, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.In 1974 Eddie emigrated to the West and in 1975 he settled in New York City. Edward Limonov has been a construction worker, a waiter, a tailor, a painter, a steelworker, a mover and a caretaker of an elegant New York town house. Among his other works are Diary of a Loser.Edward Limonov currently resides in Paris, that is Paris, France.
Author: Mark Connelly
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has for decades pursued the goal of unifying its homeland into a single sovereign nation, ending British rule in Northern Ireland. Over the years, the IRA has been dramatized in motion pictures directed by John Ford (The Informer), Carol Reed (Odd Man Out), David Lean (Ryans Daughter), Neil Jordan (Michael Collins), and many others. Such international film stars as Liam Neeson, James Cagney, Richard Gere, James Mason and Anthony Hopkins have portrayed IRA members alternately as heroic patriots, psychotic terrorists and tormented rebels. This work analyzes celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter Rising to the peace process of the 1990s. Topics include Americas role in creating both the IRA and its cinematic image, the organizations brief association with the Nazis, and critical reception of IRA films in Ireland, Britain and the United States. **Review This interesting volume on political cinema examines depictions of the Irish Republican Army in film and television--Reference & Research Book News. About the Author Mark Connelly teaches literature and film at Milwaukee Area Technical College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is vice president of the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center.
Author: Arthur S. Hulnick
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With the end of the Cold War and the dawning of a new century, the U.S. intelligence system faces new challenges and threats. The system has suffered from penetration by foreign agents, cutbacks in resources, serious errors in judgment, and what appears to be bad management nonetheless, it remains one of the key elements of Americas strategic defense. Hulnick suggests that things are not as bad as they seem, that Americas intelligence system is reasonably well prepared to deal with the many threats to national security. He examines the various functions of intelligence from intelligence gathering and espionage to the arcane fields of analysis, spy-catching, secret operations, and even the business of corporate espionage. Hulnick offers a variety of ideas for making the system work better and for attracting the kinds of new intelligence professionals who will build a stronger intelligence system in the next century. Fixing the Spy Machine suggests that the role of the Director of Central Intelligence, the person who runs both the CIA and oversees the U.S. Intelligence Community, should be depoliticized and made stronger. It also concludes that people are responsible for making the system function, not its bureaucratic structure. Still, intelligence managers are going to have to become less risk-averse and more flexible if the system is to function at its best. **Review Hulnicks Fixing the Spy Machine is a valuable addition to the literature on intelligence and a wake-up call to intelligence agencies to take stock of their establishments that no longer remain special in the information warfare and artificial intelligence age.-U.S.I. Journal Hulnicks book is well written and researched...the paperback version will be an excellent text for undergraduate courses in intelligence and national security. Undergraduate collections as well.-Choice ?Hulnicks book is well written and researched...the paperback version will be an excellent text for undergraduate courses in intelligence and national security. Undergraduate collections as well.?-Choice ?Hulnicks Fixing the Spy Machine is a valuable addition to the literature on intelligence and a wake-up call to intelligence agencies to take stock of their establishments that no longer remain special in the information warfare and artificial intelligence age.?-U.S.I. Journal At a time when many lurid and exaggerated charges are circulating in the general public, Arthur Hulnick has provided one of the most accurate guides to understanding American intelligence operations. Drawing upon long years of first-hand experience, his clear and cogent critique deserves a wide hearing among specialists and non-specialists alike.-Jefferson Adams Professor of History Sarah Lawrence College Chair of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association Publication of Fixing the Spy Machine will be welcome news to those teaching the growing number of college courses on intelligence, as well as to students and general-interest readers. Art Hulnick, drawing on his own roots as an intelligence practitioner and his considerable experience as an intelligence author and teacher, gives us a candid and highly readable survey and commentary on what makes Americas intelligence machinery tick, and what it might take to make it run smoothly in the 21st century.-John Hollister Hedley, Ph.D. Author and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Recently Retired as Chairman of CIAs Publication Review Board Art Hulnick has succeeded where many others fail by summarizing decades of experience inside the U.S. intelligence community with todays students of intelligence in mind. In this lively review of enduring intelligence issues, he identifies the core problems created by the presence of secret organizations in American democracy. Fixing the Spy Machine also explains how the communication revolution is changing the way intelligence agencies do business and the steps needed to bring U.S. intelligence into the information age. Students will enjoy the way Hulnick describes the nuts and bolts of the U.S. intelligence community, while experts will appreciate the way he describes how organizational cultures hampter innovation and performance. If you ever wanted to learn about the day-to-day issues that confront intelligence professionals, Fixing the Spy Machine is the book for you.-James J. Wirtz Associate Professor of National Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California and author of The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War About the Author ARTHUR S. HULNICK is a thirty-five year veteran in the intelligence profession, including seven years as an Air Force Intelligence Officer and twenty-eight years in various assignments in the Central Intelligence Agency.e He has been teaching about intelligence at Boston University since 1989, first as a CIA Officer-in-Residence, and, after his retirement from the CIA in 1992, as a regular member of the faculty. He has published numerous articles on intelligence matters and serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. He is an active member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and is a member of the board of its New England chapter.
Author: Mark Hewson
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Blanchots writings on literature have imposed themselves in the canon of modern literary theory and yet have remained a mysterious presence. This is in part due to their almost hypnotic literary style, in part due to their distinctive amalgam of a number of philosophical sources (Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille), which, although hardly unknown in the Anglophone philosophical world, have not yet made themselves fully at home in literary theory. This book aims to make visible the coherence of Blanchots critical project. To recognize the challenge that Blanchot represents for literary criticism, one has to see that he always has in view the self-interrogation that characterizes modern literature, both in its theory and its practice. Blanchots essays study the forms and the paths of this research, its solutions and its impasses and increasingly, they sketch out the philosophical and historical horizon within which its significance appears. The effect is to revise the terms in which we see the genesis of the modern literary concept, not least of the manifestations of which is literary criticism itself.ReviewHewsons book offers a highly lucid introduction to the literary criticism of Blanchot. Beyond that, however, it is also a quite exceptional introduction to a certain Western European Modernism. Along the way he also broaches a series of larger questions What is literary criticism? What is the relationship of modern literature to philosophy? What is remarkable is the way in which Hewson makes his text accessible to those who have yet to read deeply and widely in Blanchot while maintaining such a high level of intellectual reflection that those who know Blanchot well will be fascinated and find they have a great deal to learn from the carefully traced readings. Carol Jacobs, Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA.Hewsons book offers a highly lucid introduction to the literary criticism of Blanchot. Beyond that, however, it is also a quite exceptional introduction to a certain Western European Modernism. Along the way he also broaches a series of larger questions What is literary criticism? What is the relationship of modern literature to philosophy? What is remarkable is the way in which Hewson makes his text accessible to those who have yet to read deeply and widely in Blanchot while maintaining such a high level of intellectual reflection that those who know Blanchot well will be fascinated and find they have a great deal to learn from the carefully traced readings. Carol Jacobs, Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA.Hewsons book offers a highly lucid introduction to the literary criticism of Blanchot. Beyond that, however, it is also a quite exceptional introduction to a certain Western European Modernism. Along the way he also broaches a series of larger questions What is literary criticism? What is the relationship of modern literature to philosophy? What is remarkable is the way in which Hewson makes his text accessible to those who have yet to read deeply and widely in Blanchot while maintaining such a high level of intellectual reflection that those who know Blanchot well will be fascinated and find they have a great deal to learn from the carefully traced readings. -- Carol Jacobs, Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA.About the AuthorMark Hewson teaches literature and philosophy at the Universityof Melbourne, Australia.
Author: Kalyana Malla
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A Hindu poet, Kalyana Malla, renders in classical Sanskrit a biblical story for his Muslim patron, a Lodhi prince of the sixteenth century, in this unusual intermingling of cultural traditions. The sensual unfolding of David and Bathshebas love story-the bathing scene, Davids infatuation, his pursuit of Bathsheba, and their eventual union-is strikingly portrayed in the language of the gods through its shringara rasa, or the erotic mode, by a writer better known for the sex manual Ananga Ranga. This marvellous, first-ever English translation of Suleiman Charitra-a delightful Sanskrit rendering of Hebraic and Arabic tales-elegantly brings together the east and the west.
Author: Emily Spiers
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In Pop-Feminist Narratives, Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of pop-feminism and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterised by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in relation to female agency and its thematisation of intergenerational feminist discord, portrayed either as a damaging discursive construct or as a verifiable phenomenon requiring remediation. Central to this volume is the question of theorising the female subject in a postfeminist neoliberal climate and the role played by genre and narrative in the articulation of contemporary pop-feminist politics. The heightened visibility of mainstream feminist discourse and feminist activism in recent yearsespecially in North America, Britain, and Germanymeans that the time is ripe for a coherent comparative scholarly study of pop-feminism as a transnational phenomenon. This volume provides such an account of pop-feminism in a manner which takes into account the varied and complex narrative strategies employed in the telling of pop-feminist stories across multiple genres and platforms, including pop-literary fiction, the popular guide to feminism, film, music, and the digital. **
Author: Geoffrey Chamberlain
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This fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and revised with new photographs and illustrations. This ABC addresses some of the current most controversial issues such as the role of the midwife and GP, need for decentralisation of management, home births and screening and will be invaluable to GPs, medical students, midwives, nurses and trainee obstetricians.**