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‘Steady Stream … Mad Stuff … Half The Vowels Wrong …’: Water, Waste And Words In Beckett’S Plays, Katherine Weiss

ETSU Faculty Works

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A Dull Soldier And A Keen Guest: Stumbling Through The Falstaffiad One Drink At A Time, Emma Givens

Theses and Dissertations

Theatre history has long interwoven with the production, consumption, and peddling of alcohol. While the seedier aspects of our past generally go unremembered, we can find traces of them in the culture of the times. If we read Shakespeare through the lens of drinking culture, what can we discover about the play and what can that tell us about how to produce his works today? By looking at the rules and customs surrounding alehouses during the English Renaissance I have analyzed the three plays contained within the Falstaffiad (1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Merry Wives …

The Reinvention Of Tradition: Transformation Of Chinese Water Sleeve Dance And Tai Ji In Contemporary Performer Training And Performance Making, Min Zhu

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The aim of this practice-led research was to investigate the nature and characteristics of the notion of reinvented tradition in China through the examination of dance practices. First, this research focused on the continuity of tradition demonstrated in the development of Chinese classical dance. Second, it concentrated on the malleability and applicability of two representative Chinese cultural dance practices, water sleeve dance and Tai Ji, in contemporary performance and performer training.

The central concept behind this research was the commonly held perception in China that “tradition is a river” (P. Huang, 1990) in the context of the Chinese dance …

Head In The Game: A One-Act Play, Carolyn Gage

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

Head in the Game is a fifteen-minute, five-character, easy-to-stage-anywhere play that brings audiences into the world of male "pay-to-play" abuse of women, through a fantasy scenario of "boxing girls," women whom men pay to batter. The world of the boxing girls is an apt analogy for prostitution. The play uncompromisingly brings home the point that paying to use someone for sexual gratification is no more "sex" than paying to punch someone is boxing.

Preserving The Spirit Of African Storytelling In The Pittsburgh Cycle, Elizabeth L. Reeves

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will investigate and examine how August Wilson incorporated African storytelling ceremonials inside of Gem of the Ocean and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. By studying the mannerisms and characteristics of Aunt Ester (Gem of the Ocean) and Bynum Walker (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone), this paper will help educators to understand that Wilson created these characters to preserve African griots inside his Pittsburgh Cycle. This paper will link how theatre educators in the 21st century can capture the spirit of the African griots. The socially responsible theatre practice is a teaching method that theatre …

A Practice Theory Framework For Understanding Vegan Transition, Richard Twine

Animal Studies Journal

A shift in the social norm of meat consumption is a transition that is repeatedly called for in climate change policy discourse. Yet this rarely sets out practically how such reduction might be achieved and, surprisingly, has yet to look to vegans as a knowledge resource. In drawing upon interview data with 40 UK vegans this article outlines an initial framework toward the greater normalisation of plant-based eating via attentiveness to the elements of vegan practice. These vegan narratives illustrate how the practice is already working for a small section of the UK population. In adopting a practice theory approach, …

Provocations From The Field - Extinction, Encountering And The Exigencies Of Forgetting, Rick De Vos

Animal Studies Journal

Stories of species extinction interpellate and legitimate each other, accumulating, in a discrete and synchronous order, a coherent history of extinction that allows them to be utilised in scientific and historical discourses as authoritative signs. These stories also translate and inscribe social and cultural encounters, however, where groups of different human and nonhuman animals interacted and made sense of these interactions. Great auks, for example, possess stories that exceed the overdetermining official account of their extinction, having endured for at least one hundred thousand years learning and passing on the skills to live and flourish in the North Atlantic, co-existing …

The Unnaturalness Objection To De-Extinction: A Critical Evaluation, Carolyn Mason

Animal Studies Journal

De-extinction of species has been criticised for being unnatural, as have the techniques that might be used to accomplish de-extinction. This objection of unnaturalness will be dismissed by those who claim that everything that humans do is natural, by those who claim that naturalness is a social construct, and by those who argue that ethical concerns arising from considerations of unnaturalness rest on a failure properly to distinguish facts from values. However, none of these criticisms of the objection of unnaturalness is convincing, for reasons I will explain in this paper. The objection of unnaturalness might be motivated by concerns …

The Australian Animal Use Industry Rejects Anthropomorphism, But Relies On Questionable Science To Block Animal Welfare Improvements, Malcolm Caulfield

Animal Studies Journal

Public interest in and concern for the welfare of farm animals is increasing. This has been reflected in changes by food retailers and others whereby products are sourced from suppliers which keep animals in improved conditions. Examples include bans on eggs from hens kept in battery cages, or on pork from pregnant sows kept in sow stalls. Those who use farm animals for profit have sought to resist consumer and public pressure for change, arguing that people’s views are based more on emotion than science. This paper presents a review of the way in which those responsible for developing farm …

นวัตกรรมการแสดงหุ่นกระบอกไทย เรื่อง "พระเนมิราช", นิเวศ แววสมณะ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เรื่อง "นวัตกรรมการแสดงหุ่นกระบอกไทยเรื่องพระเนมิราช" เป็นงานวิจัยสร้างสรรค์ มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการนวัตกรรมหุ่นกระบอกไทย เพื่อสร้างสรรค์รูปแบบหุ่นและการแสดงใหม่สำหรับเด็กและเยาวชน โดยเลือกเนื้อหาจากพระเนมิราชชาดก ซึ่งแสดงถึงอธิษฐานบารมีที่มุ่งมั่นในการทำความดีที่ตั้งใจให้สำเร็จ เป็นธรรมมะที่เหมาะกับเด็กและเยาวชน โดยใช้หลักการ "สวย ง่าย ถูก" เพื่อเป็นแนวทางให้ผู้ที่สนใจนำไปสร้างเองได้ นวัตกรรมวิทยานิพนธ์นี้มีการทำบทใหม่ โดยยังคงรักษาขนบเดิมทั้งบทพากย์ เจรจา บทร้องและบทบรรยาย เพื่อให้สื่อกับกลุ่มเป้าหมายทั้งสาระและบันเทิงด้วยภาษาที่เข้าใจง่าย การออกแบบหุ่นให้ดูเป็นไทยด้วยวัสดุที่หาได้ทั่วไปร่วมถึงการเชิดที่เรียบง่าย เพื่อให้กลุ่มเป้าหมายนำไปสร้างและแสดงเองได้ง่าย มีการสร้างฉากแนวใหม่ให้มีการเปลี่ยนและเคลื่อนไหวได้ตามท้องเรื่อง ด้วยการใช้โครงสร้างของร่มขนาดใหญ่ห้อยผ้าเพื่อเป็นจอรับภาพที่หมุนและบังผู้เชิด มีการนำสื่อประสมสมัยใหม่มาเสริมให้การแสดงดูสวยสมจริง เพลงประกอบการแสดงประพันธ์บท เนื้อร้อง และทำนองใหม่ในแนวไทยสากล เพื่อให้กลุ่มเป้าหมายยุคปัจจุบันเข้าถึงมากขึ้น นวัตกรรมการแสดงหุ่นนี้เป็นการร่วมมือจากหลายฝ่ายทำการสร้างและทดสอบจนเรียบร้อย แล้วทำการแสดงเพื่อรับฟังคำวิจารณ์จากผู้เชี่ยวชาญเพื่อปรับแก้ให้สมบูรณ์ จากนั้นทำการแสดงที่มีทั้งการแสดงขนาดใหญ่และขนาดเล็กสู่กลุ่มเป้าหมายจำนวน 3 รอบ 2 สถานที่ จำนวนผู้ชม 300 คน การประเมินผลในรูปแบบการแสดงด้านรูปแบบพบว่า กลุ่มเป้าหมายชื่นชมมีความยอมรับในนวัตกรรมนี้ ฉากที่สร้างสรรค์ด้วยร่มมีต้นทุนประหยัดขนย้ายประกอบได้ง่าย มีรูปแบบที่สวยงามและยังคงทำหน้าที่โรงหุ่นได้เหมือนโรงหุ่นแบบดั้งเดิม รูปแบบตัวหุ่นดูสวยงามสามารถนำไปสร้างเองได้ง่าย ด้านสื่อประสมที่นำมาประกอบการแสดงทำให้การแสดงดูสมจริงและสวยงาม เนื้อหาการแสดงพบว่า มีความสนุก ชื่นชอบชวนติดตามอยากชมซ้ำ และได้เรียนรู้เนื้อหาของพระเนมิราชจากการแสดง มีความเข้าใจในปรัชญาธรรมะในการทำความดีละเว้นความชั่ว และตั้งใจประพฤติดี ซึ่งตรงกับอธิษฐานบารมีที่เป็นหัวใจของชาดกพระเนมิราช การที่ผู้วิจัยได้ทำตามคำอธิษฐานบารมีนั้น ได้นำไปสู่การทำวิจัยสร้างสรรค์ดังกล่าวได้สำเร็จด้วยความตั้งใจมุ่งมั่นที่จะนำหุ่นกระบอกไทยให้ยังคงมีหน้าที่ให้สาระและความบันเทิงต่อสังคมได้นั้น ผู้วิจัยประจักษ์ว่า ผู้วิจัยได้เดินตามคำอธิษฐานบารมี

Settler Sanctuaries And The Stoat-Free State, Anna Boswell

Animal Studies Journal

Aotearoa/New Zealand has forged a contemporary international identity as a leader in the establishment and management of animal sanctuaries. This article treats Aotearoa/New Zealand as a ‘typically exceptional’ or ‘exceptionally typical’ example, seeking to unravel the deeper settler colonial investment in sanctuary as concept and practice. It is especially interested in what animal sanctuaries in Aotearoa/New Zealand might look like from the perspective of the stoat (Mustela erminea), and why such a perspective might matter. Acclimatised by Europeans from the 1880s onwards to help secure agronomic settlement, and more recently named as a so-called ‘animal pest’ to be targeted by …

Money For Monkeys, And More: Ensuring Sanctuary Retirement Of Nonhuman Primates, Erika Fleury

Animal Studies Journal

Reputable animal sanctuaries have existed for decades, yet it is only in more recent years that their work has been validated by the oversight of accreditation bodies and sanctuary coalitions. Through these relationships, sanctuaries are able to differentiate themselves from roadside zoos and private owners. Sanctuaries exist solely to provide enriched lifetime care to animals retired or rescued from exploitation or mistreatment, and thus their missions and facility management differ greatly from those of zoos, farms, circuses and other for-profit, entertainment, research and educational institutions. Primate sanctuaries specifically are more in demand than ever before due to the mass exodus …

[Review] Annie Potts (Ed). Meat Culture, Carol Gigliotti

Animal Studies Journal

Annie Potts has curated a particularly strong and essential group of perspectives on ‘meat culture,’ described here as a coherent framework within which exist ‘a wide range of domains of production and consumption of animals.’ Meat Culture distinguishes itself in its clearheaded focus on the centrality of the misery and slaughter of animals without which the culture of eating meat would not exist.

The Fall Of The Tenor With The Rise Of The Larynx, Gregory Turay

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The range and use of the tenor voice in classical music has long been established since the late 19^th century. It is widely accepted among pedagogues that the range is C3-C5 (with obvious exceptions depending on the fach). However, with the advent and development of the American Musical as a genre since the early 20^th century, the ‘tenor’ has taken on an entirely new direction and range altogether. Several well-known sources have stated that the ‘Broadway tenor’ has a range of A2-A4. This is (as it widely accepted in the classical profession) the range of a baritone. The …

Captive Wildlife At A Crossroads – Sanctuaries, Accreditation, And Humane-Washing, Delcianna J. Winders

Animal Studies Journal

We are living through a pivotal moment for captive wild animals in the United States, with increased attention to their wellbeing and major changes by businesses as a result. At the same time, a desire to get up close with wild animals persists and may even be on the rise. These two concurrent phenomena are resulting in a plethora of deceptive claims. Through ‘humane-washing’ – using unregulated terms like ‘sanctuary’ and participating in misleading accreditation programs – captive wildlife facilities are profiting from making consumers feel better. After detailing this state of affairs, this article raises important questions, the answers …

What Is An Animal Sanctuary? Evidence From Applied Linguistics, Sabrina Fusari

Animal Studies Journal

This paper addresses the meaning of the word ‘sanctuary’ from the point of view of its usage in English, as it emerges from dictionary and corpus sources, in contexts related to nonhuman animals. Specific attention is paid to the semantic prosody (Louw; Stewart) and semantic preference (Sinclair ‘The Search’) of this word, as well as to the relationship between ‘sanctuaries’ and other semantically related lexical items that identify places where nonhuman animals are confined and/or protected (e.g. nature reserves, national parks, animal shelters, zoos). Firstly, the paper provides a general overview of the main theoretical issues behind the nature and …

A Guide For Modern Sanctuaries With Examples From A Captive Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Amy Fultz

Animal Studies Journal

As the need for animal sanctuaries continues to grow, and the numbers of species being housed increases, there is a desire from both current and future sanctuaries for guidance. Guidance from those with experience in the sanctuary, ethics, and animal welfare communities is important and helpful to the founders of new sanctuaries as well as current sanctuaries that may struggle with their identity. I will discuss some of the many definitions of sanctuary, and encourage organizations to consider which definition is the best fit for them. The ethos and philosophy a sanctuary embraces are likely to guide best practices, and …

Captive Wildlife Sanctuaries: Definition, Ethical Considerations And Public Perception, Catherine Doyle

Animal Studies Journal

In its truest form, the modern captive wildlife sanctuary offers a lifelong home in a more natural environment for wild animals living in captivity. Tigers, lions, elephants, bears, chimpanzees and other animals are provided relative freedom and autonomy after years spent in zoos, circuses, laboratories, or private menageries. These sanctuaries provide specialized habitats in which wild animals can express more species-specific behaviors and experience a higher quality of life. Though they share some practical issues of caretaking with other forms of captivity – as well as many ethical problems – important distinctions separate them. Research suggests that public attitudes are …

Animal Studies Journal 2017 6 (1): Cover Page, Table Of Contents, Editorial And Notes On Contributors, Melissa Boyde

Animal Studies Journal

Animal Studies Journal 2017 6 (1): Cover Page, Table of Contents, Notes on Contributors and Editorial.

On The Authenticity Of De-Extinct Organisms, And The Genesis Argument, Douglas Campbell

Animal Studies Journal

Are the methods of synthetic biology capable of recreating authentic living members of an extinct species? An analogy with the restoration of destroyed natural landscapes suggests not. The restored version of a natural landscape will typically lack much of the aesthetic value of the original landscape because of the different historical processes that created it – processes that involved human intentions and actions, rather than natural forces acting over millennia. By the same token, it would appear that synthetically recreated versions of extinct natural organisms will also be less aesthetically valuable than the originals; that they will be, in some …