Allusion as Form: The Waste Land and Moulin Rouge!

Allusion is usually considered a literary technique, but relatively little attention has been paid to the notion of allusion as a literary form. In this essay, I attempt to describe the allusive form based on two prominent examples, T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! Though radically different, the two works embody distinguishing characteristics of the allusive form. These are intertextuality, or a dependence upon outside sources for sense and significance; heightened and self-conscious artificiality; a confrontational attitude toward the audience; elitism, based on the exclusivity of allusions; appropriation of multiple cultures; and pervasive anachronism. Though prone to numerous failures, the allusive form allows the creation of a unique dialogue between artist and audience, as well as a precarious simultaneity of past, present, and future

The Captivity Narrative in Octavia E. Butler\u27s Adulthood Rites

Octavia E. Butler’s novel Adulthood Rites incorporates an enduring genre of American literature, the captivity narrative. By drawing on the familiar tale of a civilized protagonist held captive by brutal savages, Butler echoes traditional themes of spiritual growth and identity formation. Manipulating the trope of “going native” allows her to hold several opposed values in tension: oppression and protection, appreciation for a native culture and betrayal of it, difference and identification. A hybrid creature, Akin must bridge a variety of opposites as he matures, a theme Butler reinforces by making a hybrid structure of the captivity narrative itself

Public Justice and Private Mercy in Measure for Measure

As the only one of Shakespeare’s plays to carry a biblical title, Measure for Measure draws on an explicitly Christian body of thought about law, mercy, justice, and the right exercise of authority. The pervasive influence of the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7) over Measure for Measure’s action has led many critics to interpret the play as a straightforward Christian allegory where Mercy pleads before God in a grand Last Judgment.1 Another group, perhaps in reaction, has found in the play a subversion of the expected outcomes of justice, or even a radical subversion of all authority.2 During the Reformation, the Sermon on the Mount was also the subject of controversy. Radical reformers such as the Anabaptists concluded that the exhortation “judge not” obliged Christians to withdraw from the exercise of civil authority, including the magistracy. More moderate reformers, such as Martin Luther, tried to reconcile the public demands for order and justice with the Christian law of love, but did so only by dividing the public and the private into strictly separate realms. Against this background, Shakespeare lays out the action of Measure for Measure, in which a strictly moral Christian is placed in the office of magistrate and fails spectacularly in both roles. The clash of the public role and the private person in the proper exercise of justice clearly echoes contemporary debate over the meaning of the “judge not” passage

Ready, Set, Go: Preparing for a Successful ERM Migration

The California State University is a consortium representing 23 campuses that went live on Alma in June 2017. This presentation shares the steps we took for a successful migration of our electronic resources. While the focus is on a consortium that used several different electronic resources management systems, many of the topics covered are also relevant for standalone libraries. We\u27ll provide you with pre- and post-ERM checklists to help navigate the transition from your ILS to Alma. We\u27ll discuss the advantages of having a task force and policies to provide oversight and guidance in decision making. We’ll help you prepare for the P2E List, develop search queries specific to ERM, and we’ll talk about link resolver migration issues, whether SFX, Serials Solutions or others. We’ll touch on what\u27s involved with setting up Google Scholar, Integration Profiles, and General Electronic Services. We\u27ll leave you with lessons learned, practical ideas and action items for your migration

Troubleshooting Alma Link Resolver-ILLiad Pain Points

The chain of data exchange between a database record, the Alma link resolver, and your Interlibrary Loan form is complex and prone to breakage. Are you mystified by errors or missing data in your ILLiad user requests? This presentation will review where those errors can creep into the data chain and what you can do to address them. Special attention will be given to databases hosted on the EBSCOhost platform

Discovery Imports for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

Using bepress Digital Commons as a use case, we will introduce importing data into PrimoVE, with a particular focus on norm rules. Never wrangled VE norm rules before? Wondering where your data vanished to? This presentation is for you

ERM Panel Webinar (CDI Issues)

Are you confused by all those CDI settings? Wondering how choices made in Alma will affect your users? This presentation will highlight CDI best practices for a consortia NZ environment as well as using CDI in individual IZs for collections, ebooks, and streaming videos. Come join members of the CSU ERM community to learn more about ERM and CDI in particular

Content Working Group : Real experience with content

Learn what the Content Working Group has been working on, and hear from Alma, SFX, 360Link, Summon and Primo Central indexes users about their experiences using content – metadata, electronic resource linking, discovery system collections and searching