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2010

Arts and Humanities

Selected Works

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Review Of African Culture And Melville's Art, The Creative Process In Benito Cereno And Moby-Dick.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Sep 2010

Review Of African Culture And Melville's Art, The Creative Process In Benito Cereno And Moby-Dick.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

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Comrade Father Thomas Mcgrady: A Socialist Priest's Quest For Equality Through Socialism, Jacob H. Dorn Apr 2010

Comrade Father Thomas Mcgrady: A Socialist Priest's Quest For Equality Through Socialism, Jacob H. Dorn

Jacob Dorn

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The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, And The American Indian Woman, Debra Merskin Jan 2010

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, And The American Indian Woman, Debra Merskin

Debra Merskin

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A Discursive Construct Of Xxi Century: The New Italian Epic, Maurizio Vito Jan 2010

A Discursive Construct Of Xxi Century: The New Italian Epic, Maurizio Vito

Maurizio Vito

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The Constitution Of Toussaint, Michael J. Drexler, Ed White Dec 2009

The Constitution Of Toussaint, Michael J. Drexler, Ed White

Michael J Drexler

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Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2009

Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

This essay examines how poetic memorials by women writers written over the multiple generations of the Romantic period often seek to establish and sustain the individual writer's presence and authority as much as they aim to memorialize the memory of a lost forebear.

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"A Defect In Their Education": Blake, Haydon, And The Misguided British Audience.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt Dec 2009

"A Defect In Their Education": Blake, Haydon, And The Misguided British Audience.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C Behrendt

This essay examines the attitudes of William Blake and Benjamin Robert Haydon to the subject of grand-style history painting and traces their frustrations with an English viewing audience whose tastes both artists considered to be misguided, unimaginative, and generally hostile to the "highest" forms of visual art.

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12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow Dec 2009

12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

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Whatever You Say, Say Something: Remembering For The Future In Northern Ireland, Margo Shea Dec 2009

Whatever You Say, Say Something: Remembering For The Future In Northern Ireland, Margo Shea

Margo Shea

The question of how to ‘deal’ with the past in post‐conflict Northern Ireland preoccupies public conversation precisely because it separates a violent history from a fragile peace and an uncertain future. After a brief examination of contemporary Northern Ireland's culture of remembrance, this article provides some analysis of the potentials and dangers of efforts to confront the legacies of the Troubles. I argue here that the challenge for post‐conflict heritage work in Northern Ireland lies in forging practices that permit and facilitate different ways of encountering complex and contradictory histories. These new efforts to remember encourage citizens to incorporate disparate, …

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The Childhood Of Human Rights: The Kodak On The Congo, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2009

The Childhood Of Human Rights: The Kodak On The Congo, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

This article examines the Congo reform movement’s use of atrocity photographs in their human rights campaign (c. 1904–13) against Belgian King Leopold, colonial ruler of the Congo Free State. This material analysis shows that human rights are conceived by spectators who, with the aid of the photographic apparatus, are compelled to judge that crimes against humanity are occurring to others. The article also tracks how this judgement has been haunted by the potent wish to undo the suffering witnessed. 

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