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A Prep Course for the Month-Long World
A prep course for the month-long World Cup soccer tournament , a worldwide pheno menon to be played in the United States for the first time beginning June 17 , i s available in a set of three home videos . Each of the three volumes by PolyGra m Video lists for $ 14.95 and has a running time of about 60 minutes . The three volumes : `` World Cup USA '94 : The Official Preview , '' which includes a tou rnament history with footage all the way back to the first World Cup held in 193 0 . There 's a look at the training of the 1994 U.S. team and a profile of Brazi l 's Pele , just 17 when he took the 1958 event by storm , repeating in 1962 and 1970 . `` Top 50 Great World Cup Goals , '' highlighting exciting moments from competition beginning in 1966 with favorites such as Pele , Johan Cruyff , Diego Maradona , Roberto Baggio , Salvatore `` Toto '' Schillaci and Franz Beckenbaue r . `` Great World Cup Superstars , '' focusing on the top names in the game , f eatured in the `` Goals '' cassette , and adding some interviews that offer an i nsight into what makes these stars shine . Three new basketball videos available : `` Sir Charles '' takes a look at the on-court intensity and dynamic skills o f Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns as well as his entertaining off-court pers ona. $ 19.98 , 50 minutes , 1-800-999-VIDEO . `` NBA Superstars 3 '' follows up on two previous hit videos meshing the moves of the NBA 's elite with today 's h it music . -
The Afterlives of Fictional Characters: Recharacterization
THE AFTERLIVES OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: RECHARACTERIZATION, COPYRIGHT, AND POSTMODERN LITERARY PRACTICE by LYNN ELIZABETH PAGE WHITTAKER (Under the Direction of Richard Menke) ABSTRACT In the 1960s and 1970s, a form of novel arose that flourished in the late twentieth century and remains popular today. This literary form results from a reading-to-writing, interpretive- creative process in which writers borrow a character from an earlier text and make her or him the protagonist of their novels, giving those characters an “afterlife” in which they exist anew. Whether these novels change the source text’s character/s only some or a great deal, the fictional personae are thus “recharacterized.” My dissertation claims that this form constitutes a definable genre that I call the “recharacterization novel,” and my aim is to present a theory of its cultural production, circulation, and consumption, focusing on the changing conceptions of authorship, reading, publishing, and fictional characters in the postmodern period. After defining the genre’s poetics, I tell the story of its development as the result of an ongoing confrontation between liberating/motivating forces and limiting forces, in which a postmodernizing momentum forward that seeks to free characters from their source texts is countered by legal and economic restrictions. Chapters address key postmodern theories that articulate an environment in which readers are liberated and motivated to write this type of novel; the interaction between reader and character that generates the recharacterization impulse, a relationship I theorize as the staging of an ethical encounter defined by Emmanuel Levinas; and selected ontological and analytic philosophy approaches to fictional characters that support the idea that recharacterization novels keep characters “alive.” After exploring how publishing requirements act as both motivating and restricting forces when these novels become material commodities in an economic system, I turn to the major limitations posed by copyright. -
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
Read and Download Ebook And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks... And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac PDF File: And the Hippos Were Boiled in 1 Their Tanks... Read and Download Ebook And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks... And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enough or he was forced to defend himself. The next day, his clothes stained with blood, Carr went to his friends Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac for help. Doing so, he involved them in the crime. A few months later, they were caught up in the crime in a different way. Something about the murder captivated the Beats, especially Kerouac and Burroughs, who decided to collaborate on a novel about the events of the previous summer. At the time, the two authors were still unknown, yet to write anything of note. Narrating alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and violence, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. They submitted their manuscript—called And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks after an absurd line from a radio bulletin about a circus fire—to publishers, but it was rejected and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. -
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L.A. CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT RECONSTRUCTING HAITI: ERIC GARCETTI ’92, ’93 SIPA YOUNG ALUMNI, STUDENT BRIDGES CITY’S DIVIDES VIEW RAVAGED NATION page 20 page 4 Columbia College March/April 2010 TODAY How To Survive Your Own Financial Crisis Jonathan Dahl ’80, ’81J, editor of SmartMoney magazine and author of 1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You, helps readers by making business writing personal PLUS Columbia Forum: 1959: The Year Everything Changed, by Fred Kaplan Alumni Reunion Weekend 9ebkcX_W9ebb[][ Come Celebrate Alumni Reunion Weekend 2010 — the reunion that everyone is looking forward to! In addition to class-specific events throughout the weekend, you can join all Columbians celebrating their reunions on Friday at the “Back on Campus” sessions, including Core 1945 Curriculum mini-courses, engineering lectures, tours of the Morningside campus and its libraries and more. There even will be unique opportunities to engage deeply with the 1950 city’s arts community with theater, ballet, music and gallery options. 1955 Columbians will be dispersed throughout the Heights and greater Gotham all weekend 1960 long, but Saturday is everyone’s day on campus. This year’s Saturday programming will invite all alumni back to celebrate and learn together from some of Columbia’s 1965 best-known faculty in a series of public lectures, at the Decades BBQs and affinity receptions. The night wraps up with the reunion classes’ tri-college wine tasting on 1970 Low Plaza, followed by our biggest line-up of class dinners ever and a final tri-college gathering for champagne, dancing and good times on Low Plaza.