User:Oceanbourne

Oceanbourne is a writer, translator, legal scholar, linguist, and theorist who has written for the popular, trade, news, and academic media on a variety of topics including:

video games and gaming as a cultural aspect

gay rights and gay-oreinted legal issues

law and technology issues

architecture

the literary work of Hélène Cixous

Nordic history and lore

translation theory

transliteration of non-Slavic languages that use Cyrillic orthographies.

medico-legal issues & legal ethics

aviation law

admiralty law

In regard to Wikipedia, his main focus is the creation and editing of articles dealing with:

law and technology

Faroese Culture

Nordic culture and languages

mythologies

Danish writers

military history

computer languages

computer science

transliteration

A few of Oceanbourne's peer-reviewed publications:

"Programming and Analysis of Historic Texts" Multilingual Computing & Technology, 12: 7. pp. 37-39

"Metaphor in Old French and Its Translation: Chrétien de Troyes’ Érec et Énide". The ATA Chronicle. May, 2002.

"Queer manifestations on the Internet: the evolution of legal obstacles and legal freedoms". Mots Pluriels, 19. October 2001.

the above is availible online here[1]

Some Quirky Personal details:

favourite authors:

Fiction and Non-fiction: Jane Austen, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Mann, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Jahoda, Kate Chopin, JT Leroy, Marcel Proust, Dennis Cooper, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Carson McCullers, and Emily Brontë.

Poetry: Robert Frost, John Clare, Muriel Rukeyser, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Terik Trout, Autumn McClintock, and Jorie Graham.

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--Mike 03:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)