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c a iia^niii J Valentine's Day isn't the only thing i happening Feb. 14. i David Cowart, director of graduate studies in USC's English department, f will give the annual USC Educational a Foundation Research Award in f Humanities and Social Sciences lecture d at 8 p.m. in Gambrell Hall, Room 250, c 6 0 m which is tree and open to the public, a Cowart was the recipient of the a 1995 USC Educational Foundation COLLEG JM STUDENl My4t MAJORING I Allied Health Professions Discover a challenging rcwdiunig iuiuic Liiai puis you in touch with your skills. Today's Air Force offers ongoing opportunities for professional development with great pay and benefits, normal working hours, complete medical and dental car and 30 days vacation with pay pe year. Learn how to qualify as an Air Force health professional. 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Most postmodei iction attempts to show how literatu loesn't convey reality, but instef reates reality via literaiy constructioi nd the reader's preconceive ssumptions. "One of the things that emerges E N I o 11 5 Bonus yment Program up to Montgomery G.I. Bill Montmy Faycheck y National Guard more. Not bad for a you can serve and go ne. :all SSG L.C. Green 6-1616 712-1537 ?MBV is Debate p. ary 13,1996 .m. treet sell House ONI si ductlons and Student Government The Qamecock B8Ki modern . David Cowart offers USC the chai knows reality. rs postmodernistic practice is a work"Lol deconstruction of the ideal of originality." "Lolit in Cowart said. "Originally, we thought desire tc .n that the artist was capable of creation through le of something altogether new. Now, substantiv >n we're realizing at least the Cowarts? a f postmodernists are affirming that the Cowar original is a copy, which is a paradoxical introduct id kind of statement." author sj jd Cowart believes individuals such means no ? as Pynchon, who has written several "That's books including "The Crying of Lot 49" postmod rn and "V", and DeLillo, who wrote "White (Postmod m Noise", epitomize the essence of there are rn postmodernism, as does Vladimir absolutes re Nabokov, who is well-known for his all of ther id By Stephanie Soir Features Edil in | | More than 27,000 pairs ol I CAl/Cl unv l 25% \ throughout our 1 store from February 5-14. 1^5 g Phone: 803/256-6666 Fa Excludes textbooks and A /II already-discounted items. w Tuesday, February 13, 1996 Delight ice to experience a world of fictioi ita." said, a' absolutely confounds your Cowart, whose area o i move through the play, 20th-century American the persona to something Literature, received his d< e, some affirmation of reality," Rutgers University, wh< ud. his dissertation on Thorn t went on to quote Nabokov's Published works by Cc ion to the novel where the "Thomas Pynchon: The An lys "reality is a word that "Arches and Light: The Fi thing without quotes." Gardner," "Histor i a classic statement of where Contemporary Novel," a: ernism is coming from. Symbiosis: The Reconfig ernists) are affirming that Twentieth-Century Writ: no positions, no truths, no In addition to teachir ? all of them are traditional, classes from British Li n are materialistic," Cowart Modern American Literat each semester), Cowart has n ^3 the Amoco Outstandin Ld-OJ-LJ. Award, USC's highest re< hryn teaching. Cowart was a] the 1995 Michael J. Munj f eyes will read page 10 today...C iua ono loco njicn nL.... onn /-?-*-? IA. OUO/?3?-UH39 rilUlld. OUO/ / //" ? 1,000,000 BRAINS 5ew< expertise and British jctorate from jre he wrote Las Pynchon. iwart inrlnrJp ction of John y 2l n d the tfe*px<x$??? <0* <?-.?? <?**?*?' r??< ad "Literary w" ';::"""': "''' ' "; ': ured Text in outstanding teaching, ing." But, all awards and published works ig a range of aside, Cowart is really only hoping terature to attendees of his lecture "get a couple ;ure (varying of insights from the images all around ; also received them, which are part of the g Teaching postmodernist picture, and I hope they cognition for would get a sense of the absolute delight [so awarded to be had in many of the postmodernist go award for texts." lassifieds Work ? 777-1184 A i H j Get a FREE gift with the purchase of three greeting cards. See store for details. 4160 Fax: 803/777-8673 x*