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Nurturing The Musical "Open-Earedness" Of Seven-Year-Olds, Diane C. Persellin
Nurturing The Musical "Open-Earedness" Of Seven-Year-Olds, Diane C. Persellin
Music Faculty Research
Today’s 7-year-old children exhibit openness and excitement about many genres of musical styles experienced in their every day lives and in their ever widening world. As these young children from around the world are growing out of their early childhood, they continue to enjoy singing, dancing, moving, and playing at home or on the playground alone or with extended family members as they have since they were toddlers. Many still delight in sharing songs that they have learned at school from their friends and teachers, at home from their parents and siblings, or as they begin to participate in music …
The Poetics Of Unoriginality: The Case Of Lucretia Davidson, Claudia Stokes
The Poetics Of Unoriginality: The Case Of Lucretia Davidson, Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
Literary conventionality and unoriginality have long been presumed to be markers of lesser literary quality. Scholars of women’s literature have argued that this assumption enabled the denigration of nineteenth-century American women writers, many of whose works markedly adhered to literary convention and evaded innovation. Following the work of such critics as Eliza Richards and Virginia Jackson in unearthing the contemporary literary contexts that framed female literary conventionality, this essay argues that the writings of Lucretia Davidson, an enormously popular poet, provides an important data point in our understandings of the social uses of literary unoriginality. Specifically, Davidson’s work suggests that …
Death Ante Ora Parentum In Virgil’S Aeneid, Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Death Ante Ora Parentum In Virgil’S Aeneid, Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Classical Studies Faculty Research
Virgil's Aeneid includes a number of scenes in which children die in front of their parents. While the motif has a Homeric precedent, Virgil's invention of a formula (ante ora parentum: "before the faces of one's parents") suggests a particular interest in the theme. An analysis of scenes where the formula recurs (such as Aeneas's shipwreck, the fall of Troy, and the lusus Troiae) reveals a metapoetic resonance behind the motif, with the parent-child relationship acting as a metaphor for authorial influence and artistic creation. Thus the threat that Aeneas might die as Anchises looks on, for …
Tomboy, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Tomboy, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
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