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Persona
\"In a world where diplomacy has become celebrity, a young ambassador survives an assassination attempt and must join with an undercover paparazzo in a race to save her life, spin the story, and secure the future of her young country in this near-future political thriller.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ambassador Lukman Faily on the future of Iraq
Iraq's ambassador to the US Lukman Faily joined Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) professors Abbas Kadhim and Daniel Serwer at the school's Washington, DC campus on April 7 for a discussion on the future of Iraq. The event was co-sponsored by SAIS and the Middle East Institute. Ambassador Faily began by dismissing the notion that anyone can truly predict the future of Iraq. If anybody can tell you the future of Iraq within a decade or more, then he's afraid he will move more into the fiction than the reality, he said. This, Faily explained, is because there is no way to definitively judge how the numerous domestic, regional and global factors impacting the country's future will play out. With this caveat, Faily expressed optimism about Iraq's future. The rise of ISIS has made the country's different communities and sects appreciate the importance of national cohesion, he said, noting that, as communities, they have realized more and more that they have interdependencies.
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Unquiet land
Leah Frothen has spent five years in self-imposed exile, recovering from a failed relationship and hating herself for abandoning her baby daughter. Now she's back in Welce, determined to find her place in society and learn to be a mother. When the regent asks her to spy on mysterious ambassadors from a visiting nation, Leah finds herself developing a dangerous friendship with an unscrupulous foreign woman and falling in love with a man she's not even sure she can trust. And soon she learns that everyone -- her regent, her lover, and even her daughter -- have secrets that could save the nation, but might very well break her heart.
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Henry James at the Ethical Turn: Vivification and Ironization in The Ambassadors
Taking its cue from recent work by Dorothy J. Hale, this paper begins by exploring the extent to which Levinasian, deconstructive, and Aristotelian critical approaches have associated Henry James's fiction, and the ethical import of reading literature more broadly, with an array of related values including particularity, impulsiveness, and indeterminacy. Seeking to complicate this characterization of the ethical effects of Jamesian fiction, this paper emphasizes the debt of The Ambassadors (1903) to a form of dialectical narration that privileges an array of antithetical values including abstraction, analysis, and understanding. Attending in particular to the novel's opposition between Lambert Strether's imagination and Maria Gostrey's discrimination, I argue that The Ambassadors uses perspectival relations between characters to clarify and challenge the judgments of its characters and, by extension, its readers. By building dialectical oppositions like these into his novels, James does not disrupt structures of thought with immediate feeling so much as he shapes immediate feelings into structures of thought. The paper makes the case that it is through juxtaposition to characters like Maria that the full significance of Strether's feeling -- that is, the perspective of value that motivates his practice -- can be grasped by readers seeking to refine their own ethical thinking. By emphasizing how James's fiction facilitates thoughts that attend to the whole, rather than just provoking feelings that attend to the particular, the paper seeks to expand both received understandings of James's fiction and of ethical approaches to literary criticism more broadly.
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Henry James's Europe
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics—which ultimately lead to a profound reevaluation of his writing.
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A memory called empire
\"Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion--all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret--one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life--or rescue it from annihilation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Experience of (Cultural) Reality in Henry James’s The Ambassadors
The later Henry James's fiction is a productive field of cultural experience. The present paper takes to analyze the creation of symbolic cultural realities in The Ambassadors through the exposition of James's main character to the manifestations of Parisian life. To achieve this purpose, it is argued that his character searches for the salvation of his consciousness mainly in language. But in search still of more new experiences, his consciousness often gets extended even beyond language. Cultural reflection in narrative language, negotiation with the other for interpretive analysis, experience as discursive, meaning as culturally represented in narrative, the quest to the beyond of language in search of experience, and cultural reflection for \"civilized behavior\" are among the issues which the present paper will analyze for the elaboration of its subject. The application of these techniques in James's novel enables his character to infiltrate history through his consciousness for standing in direction connection with the nature of things.
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Persona
\"In a world where diplomacy has become celebrity, a young ambassador survives an assassination attempt and must join with an undercover paparazzo in a race to save her life, spin the story, and secure the future of her young country in this near-future political thriller\"-- Provided by publisher.
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National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2015 highlights
National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW) is an established event on the education calendar to promote the importance of literacy and numeracy as fundamental life skills and highlight effective literacy and numeracy practice on a national scale. The NLNW feedback survey is still open; however, initial feedback about the literacy and numeracy activities has been positive. This year NLNW included the Indigenous Literacy Foundation book swap as an activity to celebrate books and reading and to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to provide books and literacy resources for Indigenous children and families in remote communities. Literacy Ambassador Felicity Castagna is a published author and former high school teacher. Felicity was awarded the 2014 Prime Minister's Literature Award in the Young Adult Fiction category for her book The Incredible Here and Now and uses her knowledge and experience to deliver creative writing workshops everywhere -- from jails, schools, community centres and universities, to writers' festivals and writers' centres.
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