PSU Magazine Spring 1999

Twilight Stories by Darrell Grant (music faculty). 32 Jazz, 1998. Thi new CD by jazz pianist and composer Grant offer up a variety of musical styles from swing to Afro– Latin reggae to blues to gospel. The record ing is a collaborative effort and the first under Grant's own name with other artists' composit ions. He is joined by Don Braden, tenor sax; Joris Teepe, bass; and Cecil Brooks Ill, drums. Grant is no tranger to the recording studio. In the past he has worked for some of the greats: Woody Shaw, Betty Carter, Terence Blanchard , Roy Haynes, and Tony Williams. Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory by Jhan Hochman '86. University of Idaho Press , 1998 . Hochman, who holds a master's in cinema studies and a doctorate in English, investigates the intertwined qualities of culture and nature in his chosen mediums. Humans take on animal attributes in Silence of the Lambs and animals take on human attributes in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love. In Deliverance, a forest contributes to fear, and yet in Beloved, ind ividual trees contribute to comfort. Through examination of nature as setting, character, and motif, Hochman produces careful read ings of 20th-century works that illuminate texts, authors, and their interp lay within the politics of green cultural studies. Story, Story, Story: Conversations With American Authors by Jim Schumock '87. Black Heron Press , 1999 . A collection of 19 interv iews with award-winn ing North American writ– ers taken from Schumock's weekly radio program, "Between the Covers," on Portland's KBOO. Interviewees include William Styron, Carol Shields, Paul Theroux, Wi ll iam Kennedy, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Each interview foc uses on the relationship between the author's life and his or her literary work. The writers respond to Schumock's thoughtful and probing Secrets of the Ancient Goddess by Brenda Gates Smith '89. Signet, 1999. Smith, a former advertising executive, had a vivid dream about a goddess– worshipping community. Her dream, questions with personal and literary views, portraying the true story– tellers that they are. backed by a lot of historica l r -----L._____ research, led to this, Face to Face: Men and Women Talk Freely About Their Plastic Surgery by Dr. James T. Nolan '74. BookPartners, 1998. Were their expectations met? Did the surgery correct the imperfec– tion ?Would they do it agai n ?More than 50 women and several men tell their personal stories of cosmetic surgery– from flattened ears and smoothed noses to augmented chins and enlarged breasts. Nolan, a Portland plastic urgeon , found that patients considering plastic surgery want to talk with someone who's already experi– enced the hope, pain, healing, and final results of cosmetic surgery. Die Goe the-Rezeption Arno Schmidts by Timm Menke (foreign language facu lty). Aithesis Verlag, 1998 . The book investigates the influence of famous German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749- 1832 ) on Arno Schmidt (1914-79), a German author who has been called "the German James Joyce." Menke takes as a start– ing point the theory that every impor– tant author is unconsc iously influenced in a variety of ways by great precursors, and in his or her writing attempts to overcome such literary father figures. Menke demonstrates how, in spite of Schmidt's numerous critical and polemic attacks on Goethe, he admired, adapted, and exploited Goethe's writings fo r his own oeuvre. her first novel. Secrets is set at the birth of civi– lization in what is now Turkey. Told from a woman's perspective, the tale follows the lives of two women: one who is exiled from her people after the birth of her second deformed son; the other, abducted by barbaric northern invaders who worship a foreign god. Both must re ly on their intuition and the guidance of the Great Goddess to survive. Plagiarism, Copyright Violation and Other Thefts of Intellectual Property by Judy Anderson (library faculty). McFarland, 1998. Imitation may be the sincerest fo rm of flattery, but imitation that reproduces another's words or research without cred it is plagiarism-a form of thiev– ery. Thi annotated bibliography of more than 600 articles p ov ides a fasc inating overview of the subj ect of plagiari m: what it is, why it happened, how to avoid it, who has been charged in famous and not-so– famous cases. D Reviews are of faculty and alumni books, recordings, and Web publica– tions. To have a work considered for this page, please submit pertinent information to Mary Ellen Kenreich, PSU Library faculty, via e-mai l kenreichm@pdx.edu, by fax at (503) 725-5799, or mail to Portland State University, PO Box 1151 , Portland , OR 97207- 1151. SPRI G 1999 PSU MAGAZINE 7