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Schwarz Auf Weiß: The History Of Race Representation And Revision In [German] Children’S Books, Maureen Gallagher Oct 2013

Schwarz Auf Weiß: The History Of Race Representation And Revision In [German] Children’S Books, Maureen Gallagher

Maureen O. Gallagher

In this poster I will attempt to create a visual history of the representation and description of Black characters in select German children’s books in light of the recent controversy that erupted when the Thienemann Verlag announced their new edition of Otfried Preußler’s classic Die kleine Hexe would remove the word “Negerlein.” A full-scale public debate emerged in Germany with Stern, Spiegel, and other prominent publications weighing in to a debate that placed the white literary establishment against a host of Black German artists, activists, and citizens. Denis Scheck even appeared on his popular Druckfrisch program on ARD in Blackface …


Repetitions, Scott Abbott, Zarko Radakovic Jun 2013

Repetitions, Scott Abbott, Zarko Radakovic

Scott Abbott

The two authors follow a character in Peter Handke's novel "Repetition" from Austria into Slovenia. Each writes about the experience from his own perspective.


Forms Of Identity: Stations Of The Cross In Peter Handke's "Die Linkshaendige Frau", Scott Abbott Jun 2013

Forms Of Identity: Stations Of The Cross In Peter Handke's "Die Linkshaendige Frau", Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

The Christian Stations of the Cross, as abstracted by Barnett Newman, structure this novel by Peter Handke, raising questions about the use of religious forms in a work of postmetaphysical literature.


New Wine Into Old Wineskins?: Adding The Visual To Information Literacy Instruction, Carol A. Leibiger, Alan W. Aldrich Mar 2013

New Wine Into Old Wineskins?: Adding The Visual To Information Literacy Instruction, Carol A. Leibiger, Alan W. Aldrich

Carol A Leibiger

Images are significant information carriers in new technologies. Scrutinizing the written word ignores communication work done by images. Intermediality, or information literacy understood as metaliteracy, suggests ways to assess images using many of the same criteria for evaluating verbal content, with added visual-literacy criteria. The presenters combine visual and textual literacy into a holistic critical-thinking approach, which enriches interpretation when learners apply rigorous rhetorical criteria to texts, regardless of their media. Suggestions for such instruction will be provided in a LibGuide.


Number Marking In Western Armenian: A Non-Argument For Outwardly-Sensitive Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy, Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, Karlos Arregi Jan 2013

Number Marking In Western Armenian: A Non-Argument For Outwardly-Sensitive Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy, Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, Karlos Arregi

Bert Vaux

The Western Armenian possessive plural data originally reported in Vaux (1998, 2003) have been asserted by Wolf 2011 to involve outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy, a phenomenon widely argued to be unattested (Carstairs-McCarthy 1987; Paster 2006) and predicted to be impossible by the tenets of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993; Bobaljik 2000). We show that the full complexity of the Western Armenian system is better captured in an account that makes no reference to outwardly-sensitive phonological conditioning of this sort. The analysis is based on standard DM mechanisms of morpheme copying, displacement, and spellout (Harris and Halle 2005, Arregi and …


Obscurity In Medieval Texts, Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider, Alessandro Zironi Dec 2012

Obscurity In Medieval Texts, Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider, Alessandro Zironi

Jeff Rider

Modern readers of medieval texts often find them obscure. Some of this obscurity is accidental and inevitable due to the historical and cultural distance that separates modern readers from medieval authors, but medieval readers and authors also appear to have simply had a higher tolerance for textual obscurity than we do and even to have viewed obscurity as desirable and a virtue. They did not believe that obscurity could ever be eradicated and were not scared of the indescribable, indivisible, and ungraspable; they accepted reality as complex and ultimately unintelligible. Obscurity was not simply a riddle to be solved. It …


Eco-Eschbach – Sustainability In The Science Fiction Of Andreas Eschbach, Sonja Fritzsche Dec 2012

Eco-Eschbach – Sustainability In The Science Fiction Of Andreas Eschbach, Sonja Fritzsche

Sonja Fritzsche

No abstract provided.


Book Review: "Obscene Fantasies:" Elfriede Jelinek’S Generic Perversions By Brenda Bethman, Brigetta Abel Dec 2012

Book Review: "Obscene Fantasies:" Elfriede Jelinek’S Generic Perversions By Brenda Bethman, Brigetta Abel

Brigetta Abel

No abstract provided.


Homeland Earth And The Other: 2001, Solaris, And Eolomea In Dialogue, Sonja Fritzsche Dec 2012

Homeland Earth And The Other: 2001, Solaris, And Eolomea In Dialogue, Sonja Fritzsche

Sonja Fritzsche

No abstract provided.


"Andre Umstände": Erection As Self-Assertion In Kleist's "Die Marquise Von O...", Scott Abbott Dec 2012

"Andre Umstände": Erection As Self-Assertion In Kleist's "Die Marquise Von O...", Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.