In psychological and managerial literature, the meaning of work boasts a long tradition; in this topic, scholars and researchers have explored sources of meaning and meaningfulness of the working ...activity in workers' motivations, values, and beliefs. Less attention, however, is given to the function work has in terms of signifier of each individual's personal identity. This article aims at deeply examining the relationship between identity construction and meaning of work, focusing on this theme through the exploration of Charles Bukowski's narrative world. My attention was particularly focused on representations and emotional connotations characterizing the relationship between identity and work, deduced by the content analysis of his literary production. Bukowski's difficult working experience sustainability intersects with the instability scenario of the second postwar period in the United States, recursively affecting the development of a self-reflexive thought around which an idea of oneself could be modeled. In this sense, the author's experience is paradigmatic for the contemporary condition, in so far as today's work experience, deprived of a shared meaning system, negatively influences the meaning attribution process involving one's own life experiences.
This mixed media, stop-motion animation, tells the classic Indian tale of Kirdaar—meaning role-play—and features two women with significantly different personalities and approaches to life. Dharti is ...calm while Agni is a warrior; they realize that they are both parts of the same life force.
This thesis includes 25 poems reflecting the theme of struggle and resolution in the life of the author. It contains poems which demonstrate the influence of poets such as Emily Dickinson, Edna St. ...Vincent Millay, T.S. Eliot and many other modernist poets. Several poems in this collection draw upon their poetic techniques. For example, they include a great many experiments in word placement, collage, found language, minimalism, and indeterminate meaning. As a result, several of the poems demonstrate a high level of daring and openness to experimentation with language. Quite frequently, these are the poems which deal with religious themes and speculations regarding the nature of God. Others use more traditional poetic forms to explore the challenges the author’s faced in her relationship with her family, particularly in terms of her mother’s alcoholism, her father’s holocaust background, and her little brother’s early death from multiple malignant brain tumors. These poems provide insight into the dynamics of a family faced with overwhelming challenges, and record how the author came to terms with those challenges despite the difficulty. The narrative voice in these poems achieves a higher level of confidence as well as a mastery of poetic technique which is evident across the board. More important, in progressing through this volume of poems, it becomes more evident, that the author is increasingly able to speak in her own voice and express her unique vision as a poet. The final poem, “Kaddish” epitomizes this achievement in celebrating her father’s life and death and his relationship with his terminally ill son.
Lang remembers her job at the Chicago Review. She was on the poetry staff of the Chicago Review for three issues in 1978; she also contributed a translation to one of those issues and a brief book ...review to another. She had just graduated from college with a writing fellowship that was too little to live on, though she didn't realize that before she tried to live on it. The only place where she could meet others on her own terms and discuss poetry as a fellow writer was in the Chicago Review office, which is small, crowded, dingy, and loud.
Testosterone and Sympathy McKinley, Maggie
Philip Roth studies,
2019, Letnik:
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Journal Article
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...I had no witticism to toss back in reply, no prepared counter-argument for all of Roth's merits as a writer, no concise one-liner that would leave any casual Roth skeptic speechless. ...my ...reaction has always been quite the opposite: I am compelled to look closer. ...I would argue that such an approach misses not only the whole point of reading Roth, but also of reading. Not only had I just met these students on the day we discussed Roth, I had also made the decision to assign student discussion leaders for each text. Since the responsibility for shaping the conversation at the beginning of class resided with them, I walked into the class with little idea of what to expect.
Adán and I first met in Toronto in 2014 when Nothing to See Here (a collaborative art project with Christina Battle) presented two curated programs, namely, Loud!!!, a program of moving image works ...in which the sound component of the work is prioritized, and Denver ≥ Denver, a screening of Denver-based artists. Was Come Steal My Art (2009), an exhibition where you invited people to come and attempt to steal your artwork, your first “real” performance? If you include labour (or my student loans), I didn’t break even; however, that exhibition showed me the potential of performance. In your performance video Arbitrary Self Improvement (2014), you attempt to develop a set of skills that have no practical purpose in everyday life.
