Serializing the Self in the Space between Life and Art

2019 ◽  
pp. xiii-xxx
Author(s):  
Janine Utell
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Full Length ◽  
The Self ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Cultural Recognition

The Comics of Alison Bechdel is the first full-length volume dedicated to the comics art of Alison Bechdel, beginning with her early work on the long-running serial comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and including original scholarship on her acclaimed memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?. This introductory essay orients readers to Bechdel’s career—her childhood in Beech Creek, her involvement in LGBTQ activism and lesbian comix, her move inward towards life writing, and the mainstream cultural recognition prompted by the adaptation of Fun Home into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical—as well as to current trends in Bechdel scholarship. The chapter focuses on the themes of intimacy and the self in Bechdel’s work.

The Comics of Alison Bechdel

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Lesbian Studies ◽  
Insight Into

The Comics of Alison Bechdel is the first full-length volume dedicated to the comics art of Alison Bechdel, beginning with her early work on the long-running serial comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and including original scholarship on her acclaimed memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?. The volume is organized into three sections. The first looks at Bechdel’s place in lesbian comics and considers her work in the context of gay and lesbian studies and queer theory. The second looks at kinship, affect, and trauma in Bechdel’s work, with a focus on interiority and the artist’s experiments with comics form. The third looks at place, space, and community, considering the significance of rural queer life, topography and mapping, and forms of LGBTQ community. Archival research and theories of the archive provide new insight into Bechdel’s art, including the composition of Fun Home and the development of the lesser-known Servants to the Cause, which appeared in The Advocate in the late 1980s. An introductory essay orients readers to Bechdel’s career—her childhood in Beech Creek, her involvement in LGBTQ activism and lesbian comix, her move inward towards life writing, and the mainstream cultural recognition prompted by the adaptation of Fun Home into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical—as well as to current trends in Bechdel scholarship.

The Relationship between Seeker and Spiritual Guide as portrayed in contemporary Western Sufi Autobiographies

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-332
Author(s):  
Kate Zebiri
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

This article aims to explore the Shaykh-mur?d (disciple) or teacher-pupil relationship as portrayed in Western Sufi life writing in recent decades, observing elements of continuity and discontinuity with classical Sufism. Additionally, it traces the influence on the texts of certain developments in religiosity in contemporary Western societies, especially New Age understandings of religious authority. Studying these works will provide an insight into the diversity of expressions of contemporary Sufism, while shedding light on a phenomenon which seems to fly in the face of contemporary social and religious trends which deemphasize external authority and promote the authority of the self or individual autonomy.

scholarly journals Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing

Prose Studies ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-308
Author(s):  
Natasha Simonova
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Self

scholarly journals A Revival of Life Writing Genres in Language Pedagogy Settings: The Case of Diary Writing

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2 (4)) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Elena Xeni
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Written Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Diary Writing ◽  
Writing Genres

The article discusses a number of issues contributing to the efficient teaching of a foreign language. Studying Diary Writing as a unique literary genre (a text disclosing the self of the author) the author of the article believes it is very important that students should have diaries since such an assignment highly contributes to the improvement of a written language.

Coptic Life Stories

2020 ◽  
pp. 416-429
Author(s):  
Arietta Papaconstantinou
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Self ◽  
General Lack ◽  
True Source

This chapter highlights Coptic life-writing; identifying its various strands and forms can open new avenues for the analysis of Coptic literature. On the whole, the rise of the biographic that has been noted more generally for Late Antiquity is greatly felt in Coptic texts, perhaps even more strongly than in other languages as a proportion of the overall production. In many ways, the impulses of classical biography can be found in Coptic texts: they are used to define morality, provide examples, obtain adherence, persuade, justify, or legitimize. From the self-denying exemplum to the incredible superhero whose adventures inspired a mix of entertainment, suspense, and fear, the range of admirable individuals was broad. What brings all of those life stories together is their general lack of individuality in the characterization. The stress of these stories is on the authority embedded in a number of exemplary individuals, and the true source of that authority comes from conformity to a model and a set of received criteria. Accordingly, the genre is not at all introspective, despite the meta-discourse on introspection that pervades the ascetic biographies.

Molecular dynamics studies of a β-sheet blocking peptide with the full-length amyloid beta peptide of Alzheimer’s disease

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (10) ◽  
pp. 833-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohreh Amini ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Fatemi ◽  
Arvi Rauk
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Amyloid Beta ◽  
Recognition Site ◽  
Full Length ◽  
The Self ◽  
Amyloid Beta Peptide ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Beta Peptide ◽  
Β Sheet

The region encompassing residues 13–23 of the amyloid beta peptide (Aβ(13–23)) of Alzheimer’s disease is the self-recognition site that initiates toxic oligomerization and fibrillization. A number of pseudopeptides have been designed to bind to Aβ(13–23) and been computationally shown to do so with high affinity. More interactions are available in full-length Aβ than are available in the shorter peptide. We describe herein a study by molecular dynamics (MD) of nine distinct complexes formed by one such pseudopeptide, SGA1, with full-length beta amyloid, Aβ(1–42). The relative stabilities of the Aβ–SGA1 complexes were estimated by a combination of MD and ab initio methods. The most stable complex, designated AB1, was found to be one in which SGA1 is bound to the self-recognition site of Aβ(1–42) in an antiparallel β-sheet fashion. Another complex, designated AB3, also involved SGA1 binding to the self-recognition region of Aβ(1–42), albeit with lower affinity. In both AB1 and AB3, SGA1 formed antiparallel β-sheets but to opposite edges of Aβ. A complex, AB4, with similar stability to AB3, was found with a parallel β-sheet in the self-recognition site. A fourth complex, AB7, also with similar stability, formed a parallel β-sheet in the hydrophobic central region of Aβ. In all cases, complexation of SGA1 induced extensive β-sheet structure in Aβ(1–42).

Self-Observation of One's Own Reflected Image: A Report

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 760-762
Author(s):  
Elton M. Squyres
Keyword(s):  
Full Length ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Social Reference ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Looking Glass

Cooley's (1902/1964) model of the looking-glass self posits that the psychological self develops as a product of social reference and is dependent on social approval for an individual to maintain a sense of continuity about the self. This study tested the prediction that in the absence of direct social approval people would more likely than not seek self-approval of the self-image. Observations of unaccompanied adults with the opportunity to look at their own self-reflections in full-length windows did not support the prediction. A significant difference was found between the responses of males and females.

scholarly journals Determinants of self-rated health of Francophone seniors in a minority situation in Canada

2013 ◽  
pp. 144-170
Author(s):  
Hubert Tote Alimezelli ◽  
Anne Leis ◽  
Chandima Karunanayake ◽  
Wilfrid Denis
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Linguistic Barriers ◽  
Language Minorities ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Developed Nations

Current trends show that governments and health institutions in Canada and other developed nations are responding inadequately to the growing need for health services of the increasingly aging population. The Analysis of Statistics Canada’s 2006 post-census Survey on the Vitality of Official Language Minorities show that in addition to age and other socio-demographic determinants, linguistic barriers affect the self-rated health of seniors of official languages living in a minority situation. This study suggests among other things a greater understanding of Official language minorities’ contextual realities, the improvement of both the linguistic environment and services in the minority language.

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