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Prifysgol Bangor University, Jan 19, 2007
Report on pedagogical practices and methods in e-learning Prepared by the School of Education, Un... more Report on pedagogical practices and methods in e-learning Prepared by the School of Education, University of Wales, Bangor for the Engaging Diversity Development Partnership Tanya Hathaway,Eben J. Muse & Torsten Althoff 19 January 2007 Page 2. Table of Contents ...
UMI Dissertation Services eBooks, 1992
Journal of American Studies, Apr 1, 1993
Prifysgol Bangor University, Jan 19, 2007
This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the... more This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.
This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the... more This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.
Report on pedagogical practices and methods in e-learning
This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in acco... more This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in accounting, investment, project or systems management, tax advice and merchant banking three principal questions: whether and how the study of English increased their efficiency, what they think creativity is in their profession, and how English academics might be of use in extending their business or providing training.
This book aims to provide insights into how second lives in the sense of virtual identities and c... more This book aims to provide insights into how second lives in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specificallyin the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The books philosophy is multi-disciplinary and itsgoal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, which manifests itself in natural and built environments as well as the triad of space, place and landscape. The contributors disciplinary backgrounds include media, communication, cultural and literary studies, and they examine issues of reception and production, identity, community, gender, spatiality, natural and built environments using a plethora of methodological approaches ranging from theoretical and philosophical contemplation through social semiotics to corpus-based discourse analysis.
Journal of American Studies, 1998
CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Download a branded Cambridge Jo... more CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Download a branded Cambridge Journals Online toolbar (for IE 7 only). What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Eben J. Muse, The Land of Nam: ...
"The passage . . . provides a good example of what I have called . . . 'persecution text... more "The passage . . . provides a good example of what I have called . . . 'persecution texts.' By that I mean accounts of real violence, often collective, told from the perspective of the persecutors, and therefore influenced by characteristic distortions." -Rene Girard, The Scapegoat "The happy endings of life, as of literature, exist only for survivors." -Northrop Frye, The Secular Scripture In November of 1966, a squad of American soldiers fighting in Vietnam kidnapped, raped, and murdered a young Vietnamese woman. One member of the squad refused to participate in the crime and subsequently brought the four other members to trial. These four were convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to hard labor; American review boards later reduced those sentences. In 1969 Daniel Lang interviewed the man who had refused to participate (identified by the alias of Sven Eriksson) for the 18 October 1969 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Twenty years later, Michael J. Fox portrayed Eriksson in Brian DePalma's film version of the story, Casualties of War. Both versions of Eriksson's story parallel the romance narrative of Perceval, the innocent hero who descends into a nightmarish "other" world-the laws of which he does not understand-struggles to find a viable code of action for this country (causing through his efforts a certain amount of pain for the inhabitants), and finally achieves power through the knowledge he gains. For Eriksson, this knowledge includes the persecution texts of the American soldiers in Vietnam, texts aptly related by the squad's defense attorneys. According to Lang, during the courts-martial "the general demeanor of the other defendants was that of incredulity at being tried"; they felt that they had taken part in "a reasonable enterprise." By reiterating various narratives that justify their actions-including the rigors of combat, the youth of the soldiers, and the impracticality of peacetime law in a combat zone-the defense lawyers in the article offer various explanations why this sensibility was a reasonable one for the combat soldiers. As one of them argues: There's one thing that stands out about this particular offense ... It did not occur in the United States. Indeed, there are some that would say it did not even occur in civilization, when you are out on combat operations." (Lang 102) The effect of the film's romance elements is to confirm this view that the crime and the justifications for it belonged in an "other," romance world. Bruce Weber notes in an article on the making of Casualties of War that this film "is, in fact, different from other celebrated movies about Vietnam largely because it makes presumptions about what audiences have learned from them"(117). Since 1977, when the first postwar wave of Vietnam War films arrived, America has increasingly become dependent on Hollywood films for its understanding and knowledge of the war. This is in part due to the mistrust other sources engendered of themselves during the war years. Neither politicians nor the press made any secret of their own agendas in telling the story, and part of each one's agenda was to discredit the other. The film industry, its agenda being largely to offer popular entertainment, remained aloof. When it finally did begin telling the story, it did so from the point of view of one source that had undergone a resurgence of popularity and trust: the soldier. The soldier's point of view is extremely limited during a war, however. Although soldiers may have espoused or opposed the reasons for a war before entering it, once they have joined or have been drafted into the army, their primary goal is survival-at least according to their drill instructors. Soldiers are seldom privileged with strategic information; what they know is primarily the immediate, experiential reality. The cumulative effect of this limitation on the point of view of Vietnam War films has been to eliminate the context of the war from the story of the war. …
Journal of American Studies, 1993
This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in acco... more This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in accounting, investment, project or systems management, tax advice and merchant banking three principal questions: whether and how the study of English increased their efficiency, what they think creativity is in their profession, and how English academics might be of use in extending their business or providing training.
Prifysgol Bangor University, Jan 19, 2007
Report on pedagogical practices and methods in e-learning Prepared by the School of Education, Un... more Report on pedagogical practices and methods in e-learning Prepared by the School of Education, University of Wales, Bangor for the Engaging Diversity Development Partnership Tanya Hathaway,Eben J. Muse & Torsten Althoff 19 January 2007 Page 2. Table of Contents ...
UMI Dissertation Services eBooks, 1992
Journal of American Studies, Apr 1, 1993
Prifysgol Bangor University, Jan 19, 2007
This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the... more This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.
This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the... more This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.
Report on pedagogical practices and methods in e-learning
This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in acco... more This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in accounting, investment, project or systems management, tax advice and merchant banking three principal questions: whether and how the study of English increased their efficiency, what they think creativity is in their profession, and how English academics might be of use in extending their business or providing training.
This book aims to provide insights into how second lives in the sense of virtual identities and c... more This book aims to provide insights into how second lives in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specificallyin the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The books philosophy is multi-disciplinary and itsgoal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, which manifests itself in natural and built environments as well as the triad of space, place and landscape. The contributors disciplinary backgrounds include media, communication, cultural and literary studies, and they examine issues of reception and production, identity, community, gender, spatiality, natural and built environments using a plethora of methodological approaches ranging from theoretical and philosophical contemplation through social semiotics to corpus-based discourse analysis.
Journal of American Studies, 1998
CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Download a branded Cambridge Jo... more CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Download a branded Cambridge Journals Online toolbar (for IE 7 only). What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Eben J. Muse, The Land of Nam: ...
"The passage . . . provides a good example of what I have called . . . 'persecution text... more "The passage . . . provides a good example of what I have called . . . 'persecution texts.' By that I mean accounts of real violence, often collective, told from the perspective of the persecutors, and therefore influenced by characteristic distortions." -Rene Girard, The Scapegoat "The happy endings of life, as of literature, exist only for survivors." -Northrop Frye, The Secular Scripture In November of 1966, a squad of American soldiers fighting in Vietnam kidnapped, raped, and murdered a young Vietnamese woman. One member of the squad refused to participate in the crime and subsequently brought the four other members to trial. These four were convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to hard labor; American review boards later reduced those sentences. In 1969 Daniel Lang interviewed the man who had refused to participate (identified by the alias of Sven Eriksson) for the 18 October 1969 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Twenty years later, Michael J. Fox portrayed Eriksson in Brian DePalma's film version of the story, Casualties of War. Both versions of Eriksson's story parallel the romance narrative of Perceval, the innocent hero who descends into a nightmarish "other" world-the laws of which he does not understand-struggles to find a viable code of action for this country (causing through his efforts a certain amount of pain for the inhabitants), and finally achieves power through the knowledge he gains. For Eriksson, this knowledge includes the persecution texts of the American soldiers in Vietnam, texts aptly related by the squad's defense attorneys. According to Lang, during the courts-martial "the general demeanor of the other defendants was that of incredulity at being tried"; they felt that they had taken part in "a reasonable enterprise." By reiterating various narratives that justify their actions-including the rigors of combat, the youth of the soldiers, and the impracticality of peacetime law in a combat zone-the defense lawyers in the article offer various explanations why this sensibility was a reasonable one for the combat soldiers. As one of them argues: There's one thing that stands out about this particular offense ... It did not occur in the United States. Indeed, there are some that would say it did not even occur in civilization, when you are out on combat operations." (Lang 102) The effect of the film's romance elements is to confirm this view that the crime and the justifications for it belonged in an "other," romance world. Bruce Weber notes in an article on the making of Casualties of War that this film "is, in fact, different from other celebrated movies about Vietnam largely because it makes presumptions about what audiences have learned from them"(117). Since 1977, when the first postwar wave of Vietnam War films arrived, America has increasingly become dependent on Hollywood films for its understanding and knowledge of the war. This is in part due to the mistrust other sources engendered of themselves during the war years. Neither politicians nor the press made any secret of their own agendas in telling the story, and part of each one's agenda was to discredit the other. The film industry, its agenda being largely to offer popular entertainment, remained aloof. When it finally did begin telling the story, it did so from the point of view of one source that had undergone a resurgence of popularity and trust: the soldier. The soldier's point of view is extremely limited during a war, however. Although soldiers may have espoused or opposed the reasons for a war before entering it, once they have joined or have been drafted into the army, their primary goal is survival-at least according to their drill instructors. Soldiers are seldom privileged with strategic information; what they know is primarily the immediate, experiential reality. The cumulative effect of this limitation on the point of view of Vietnam War films has been to eliminate the context of the war from the story of the war. …
Journal of American Studies, 1993
This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in acco... more This project asked a small sample of English graduates now in senior and junior positions in accounting, investment, project or systems management, tax advice and merchant banking three principal questions: whether and how the study of English increased their efficiency, what they think creativity is in their profession, and how English academics might be of use in extending their business or providing training.