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The Middle Ground Between Good And Evil: The Role Of Young Adult Literature In Modern Understandings Of German History, Bonnie Kristin Mary Jendrek University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Middle Ground Between Good And Evil: The Role Of Young Adult Literature In Modern Understandings Of German History, Bonnie Kristin Mary Jendrek

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.


Interview Of Thomas J. Wurtenberger, Thomas J. Wurtenberger, Charles D. Muzyczek La Salle University

Interview Of Thomas J. Wurtenberger, Thomas J. Wurtenberger, Charles D. Muzyczek

All Oral Histories

Thomas J. Wurtenberger was born and raised in the Lower Olney (Feltonville) section of Philadelphia in 1935. He was raised primarily by his mother after the death of his father in 1944. Tom attended North Catholic High School where he took business courses. He did not have aspirations to attend college right out of high school. He was encouraged by a former employer to better himself by going to college and earning a degree. One year after graduation Tom enrolled at La Salle College. He chose La Salle because of its reasonable tuition and proximity to home. Originally Tom desired ...


Interview Of John J. Mcgoldrick, F.S.C., Ph.D., John J. McGoldrick F.S.C., Ph.D., Christine M. Thieme La Salle University

Interview Of John J. Mcgoldrick, F.S.C., Ph.D., John J. Mcgoldrick F.S.C., Ph.D., Christine M. Thieme

All Oral Histories

Brother John Joseph McGoldrick (b. 1948), grew up in Southwest Philadelphia with his parents and older brother. Attending Most Blessed Sacrament School and later West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys, Brother John was part of a strong Catholic community. It was here at West Philadelphia Catholic High School, where Brother John was introduced to the Christian Brotherhood. It was at this time that he realized that the life of service with the Brotherhood was the type of life he’d like to lead. At the age of fifteen, Brother John attended the junior novitiate and after graduating high school ...


Active, Disorienting, And Transitional: The Aesthetic Of Boredom In The Works Of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon Washington University in St. Louis

Active, Disorienting, And Transitional: The Aesthetic Of Boredom In The Works Of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon

Undergraduate Research Symposium

The term boredom has a long and complex history. Boredom has been a topic of interest for both critical theorists and artists from various disciplines since antiquity. In the sixties, the meaning of the term boredom took on new significance as several art critics employed the term “boredom” to describe contemporary artworks. One artist from this period did not hesitate to describe his artworks as boring: Nam June Paik (1932-2006), a multimedia artist known for his avant-garde installations, sculptures, videos, and films. In my study, I argue that an aesthetic of boredom underlies certain works by Paik that employ particular ...


Kreuzberg/Calvary, Utz Rachowski, Michael Ritterson Gettysburg College

Kreuzberg/Calvary, Utz Rachowski, Michael Ritterson

German Studies Faculty Publications

Utz Rachowski's poem "Kreuzberg," first published in 1995, appears here in English translation surrounded by the work of much younger talents.


Soldate Jeanette, John C. Lyden University of Nebraska Omaha

Soldate Jeanette, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Soldate Jeanette (2013) directed by Daniel Hoesl.


Angelica Kauffmann Reads Goethe: Illustrations In The Goeschen Edition, Waltraud Maierhofer McMaster University

Angelica Kauffmann Reads Goethe: Illustrations In The Goeschen Edition, Waltraud Maierhofer

The Sophie Journal

This article discusses the use of illustrations -- and their relinquishment -- in the first edition of collected works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Goethe's Schriften, 1786--90) and focuses on three illustrations by the pre-eminent eighteenth-century artist Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807), done in Rome. They form, I argue, real illustrations, not mere decor or images independent from the text.

The images in question are:

1. A scene from Goethe’s play Iphigenie auf Tauris

2. A scene from Goethe’s play Egmont

3. an allegorical portrait of Goethe/a poet with the muses of tragedy and comedy.

In his published descriptions in ...


Vertrag Und Frust Statt Peitsche Und Lust? - Der Masochistische Sklavenvertrag Als Parodie Und Theater In Leopold Von Sacher-Masochs Venus Im Pelz, Anna Walburga Nisch University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Vertrag Und Frust Statt Peitsche Und Lust? - Der Masochistische Sklavenvertrag Als Parodie Und Theater In Leopold Von Sacher-Masochs Venus Im Pelz, Anna Walburga Nisch

Masters Theses

This thesis addresses the masochist slave contract in Leopold von Sacher-Masochs Venus im Pelz and reads the slave contract between Severin and Wanda as a parody of the 19th century marriage contract. This interpretation points to the need to understand masochism less as a sexual perversion and more as a reaction to specific political and historical conditions. By becoming a cruel woman, the dominatrix symbolizes female emancipation from the dominant role of men. Especially in the marriage contract, the woman is suppressed by male power and has only limited rights. The masochist uses acontract to legitimate the woman´s liberation ...


Blood, Organs And Other Tissues For Sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto A La Carne And The Afterwards Of The Neoliberal Development In Latin America., Wanda I. Ocasio- Rivera Western University

Blood, Organs And Other Tissues For Sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto A La Carne And The Afterwards Of The Neoliberal Development In Latin America., Wanda I. Ocasio- Rivera

Hispanic Studies Publications

Abstract

Blood, organs and other tissues for sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto a la carne and the afterwards of the neoliberal development in Latin America.

As Marx elaborated in Capital: Volume I at the moment human labour is sold, the subject participates in an ominous plot where she/he becomes a commodity. In a capitalist mode of production, the subject’s alienation from his/her humanity occurs because the individuals can only express labor through a privately-owned system of production in which he/she is an instrument, an object. This dehumanization process submits the subject under the exchange transactions of ...


Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott Utah Valley University

Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

An exploration of the possibilities of painting a novel, of producing an abstract response to characters and plot of Zarko Radakovic's novel Pogled/Der Blick/The View.


Philosophische Figuren, Frauen Und Liebe: Zu Nietzsche Und Lou, Babette Babich Fordham University

Philosophische Figuren, Frauen Und Liebe: Zu Nietzsche Und Lou, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

No abstract provided.


Fixing The Sonosopher, Scott Abbott Utah Valley University

Fixing The Sonosopher, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

Essay on the Documentary Film by Travis Low and Torben Bernhard


Bluebook Training For Foreign Law Students, Jennifer Allison Pepperdine University

Bluebook Training For Foreign Law Students, Jennifer Allison

Jennifer Allison

This presentation provides an overview of key Bluebook citation rules. It includes examples of how legal sources are to be cited pursuant to Bluebook citation rules in a legal seminar paper at an American law school. It was presented to foreign law students at Pepperdine Law School in September 2012.


From The Enlightenment To Genocide: The Evolution And Devolution Of Romanian Nationalism, Shawn E. Wooster Grand Valley State University

From The Enlightenment To Genocide: The Evolution And Devolution Of Romanian Nationalism, Shawn E. Wooster

Shawn E Wooster Mr.

Romanian nationalism, developed during the first phase of modernization, was significantly influenced by Enlightenment philosophy and by its corollary, Enlightened Despotism. Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson's theories of nationalism's origins are pertinent explaining Romanian nationalism, but are too narrow to consider Romania's unique geographical and cultural conditions. Romania's uniqueness facilitated the creation of "Romanianness,"or ethic consciousness, in eighteenth-century, preindustrial Transylvania without a well-established elite, and it continued to evolve without state-sponsored educational policies. Ethnic consciousness eventually transformed into the racism and genocidal nationalism of World War Two, thus straying from typologies expounded by Gellner and ...


From The Enlightenment To Genocide: The Evolution And Devolution Of Romanian Nationalism, Shawn E. Wooster Mr. Grand Valley State University

From The Enlightenment To Genocide: The Evolution And Devolution Of Romanian Nationalism, Shawn E. Wooster Mr.

Shawn E Wooster Mr.

No abstract provided.


Introduction To American Legal Research For Foreign Law Students, Jennifer Allison Pepperdine University