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Fantasy and --two genres that are products of imagination. Both present alternate worlds governed by their own laws and values, but it is the plausibility of events in each world that sets the two apart. Here, Krapp recognizes the importance of individualism that subsequent authors have found this genre, which fills a void for readers who seek ways to feel comfortable about being different.
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Drawing upon the genre of ethnographic fiction, this paper explores the challenges that occur when third- and fourth-tier colleges and universities seek accreditation from AACSB. Deans and change leaders normally see the process of achieving accreditation in terms of bureaucratic and behavioral change. This paper argues that more focus must be placed on understanding how the demands of accreditation challenge faculty members' self-image. Therefore, achieving accreditation requires individuals to have a change in their self-identity so that behavioral change can follow.
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The C.S.I. Effect
Through a proliferation of forensic programs, from Law and Order to C.S.I, to Criminal Minds, the mass media have offered the public...
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Here are some novels and fiction titles that have crossed our desks recently.
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An Uncertain Age
Ulrica Hume
Blue Circle Press
PO Box 460055,
San Francisco, CA 94146
9780966919356, $17.95, www.ulricahume.com
Through ge...
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The adults had been there for hours--the ones from out of town for days--and they all seemed happy, huddled in little groups that opened up whenever I...
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Requisite Variety
Lior Samson
Gesher Press
58 Kathleen Circle
Rowley, MA 01969
9780984377237, $14.95, www.liorsamson.com
Science is an ave...
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[...] writing fiction is, in a number of ways, essentially private - it's a private activity. If we want to live in a world that's rich in idiosyncratic faces and idiosyncratic personalities and idiosyncratic art, rather than a world of infinitesimal and trivial variation, we must be particularly vigilant, at this moment, not only as writers, but as readers, too, about protecting the areas of mind in which our imaginations and true organs of communication live; we need to draw on all the fortitude with which our natural predisposition for, or at least entitlement to, perversity endows us, in order to defray forceful assaults on the mind in the forms of what in all frankness have to be called coercive snooping and propaganda.
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When Ireland Fell Silent
Harolyn Enis
Rose Rock Publishers
PO Box 20040, Oklahoma City, OK 73156
9780984482115, $25.95, www.amazon.com
A str...
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Few people (save die-hard aficionados) would guess that the legendary critic and journalist Henry Louis Mencken once wrote fiction. Now Douglas Olson, a Mencken aficionado himself, has collected 17 short stories, published between 1900-1905, even unearthing one previously unrecorded by Mencken's expert bibliographer, Betty Adler.
The newly launched independent publisher, Forgotten Stories Press, is "devoted to rediscovering the forgotten works of famous writers." In this volume, Mr. Olson has provided a service to scholars and Mencken fans alike. Not since 1973, when scholar Carl Bode assembled "The Young Mencken," have we been given a ticket into the world of Mencken - before he was Mencken.