Bøger af Kathleen Fitzpatrick

From the author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University comes a compelling guide to the art of collaborative leadership.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1872-?) was an Irish author who lived in England. She was a contributor to the Westminster Gazette for which she wrote short articles on Irish peasant life and she wrote one novel The Weans at Rowallan (1905)."Patsy quietly moved his stool back into the shadow of the chimney corner. In that mood Lull, if she saw him, would chase him from the kitchen when the news began; and clearly Teressa was bringing news worth hearing. As far back as Patsy or any of the children could remember, Teressa had brought the village gossip to Rowallan. Neither rain nor storm could keep the old woman back when there was news to tell. One thing only-a dog in her path-had power to turn her aside. The quietest dog sent her running like a hare, and the most obviously imitated bark made her cry."

These beautifully written recollections paint an evocative picture of middle-class life in Melbourne in the eary years of the twentieth century. The awakening of Fitzpatrick's feminist consciousness, her discovery at the University of Melbourne of her true vocation as a historian, and her unhappy years at Oxford are the major themes.

It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for ""serious"" literature. This book traces the ways in which a small cadre of writers of ""serious"" literature - DeLillo, Pynchon, and Franzen, for instance - have propagated this myth in order to set themselves up as the last bastions of good writing.

A provocative exploration of the new modes of scholarly communication