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Behind The Symbol -- Warsaw, Paul Young

Paul Young

This is a manipulated image from a series of eight images which incorporate a graffiti symbol created in Adobe Illustrator and merged with a photograph using Photoshop. For more information see http://spark.parkland.edu/symbol/BehindTheSymbol.pdf.

Behind The Symbol -- Bahamas, Paul Young

Paul Young

This is a manipulated image from a series of eight images which incorporate a graffiti symbol created in Adobe Illustrator and merged with a photograph using Photoshop. In order to tell a story, the location name was changed. The actual photograph was taken in Oaxaca, Mexico. For more information see http://spark.parkland.edu/symbol/BehindTheSymbol.pdf.

Behind The Symbol -- Havana, Paul Young

Paul Young

This is a manipulated image from a series of eight images which incorporate a graffiti symbol created in Adobe Illustrator and merged with a photograph using Photoshop. In order to tell a story, the location name was changed. The actual photograph was taken in Oaxaca, Mexico. For more information see http://spark.parkland.edu/symbol/BehindTheSymbol.pdf.

What Type Of Man (Or Woman) Are You? Human Ontology In Narnia, Jim D. Stockton

Jim Stockton

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Claudia Rankine And The Poetry Of Protest, Susan Ayres

Susan Ayres

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The State Of The Art, Jared Brown

Jared Brown

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Memento, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film’s central character, it follows Leonard’s chaotic and visceral quest to discover the identity of his wife’s killer and avenge her murder, despite his inability to form new long-term memories.

This is the first book to explore and address the myriad philosophical questions raised by the film, concerning personal identity, free will, memory, knowledge, and action. It also explores problems in aesthetics raised by the film through its narrative structure, ontology, and …

The Routledge Companion To Philosophy And Music, Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections:

• general issues
• emotion
• history
• figures
• kinds of music
• music, philosophy and related disciplines

Barbarian Bond: Thracian Bendis Among The Athenians, Corinne Pache

Corinne Pache

In this chapter, I gather the evidence for the Athenian cult of the Thracian goddess Bendis, who was officially worshipped both by Thracians and by Athenian citizens from the end of the fifth century B.C. on. I also compare the historical record with the literary characterizations of the Thracians, and I examine the connection between religious, political, and ethnic identity and the ways in which the cult of Bendis reflects ambivalent Athenian attitudes toward their northern neighbors. The cult of Bendis in Athens reproduces on the level of ritual the polarity of Greeks versus barbarians that exists on the level …

Mourning Lions And Penelope’S Revenge, Corinne Pache

Corinne Pache

This paper focuses on the simile comparing Penelope to a lion encircled by men in Odyssey 4.791–94. Lion similes in Homeric poetry typically depict warriors in combat situations and so the description of Penelope as a trapped predator facing battle is surprising. The encircled beast of the simile is in a dangerous situation, but the lion’s plight is left unresolved as Penelope falls asleep. Many critics note the connection between Penelope the lion and Odysseus, who is compared to the same animal on five occasions in the poem, most notably in Books 22 and 23 after he slaughters the suitors. …

Artful Lives: The Francis Watts Lee Family And Their Times, Patricia Fanning

Patricia J. Fanning

Francis Watts Lee and his family hold a special place in the history of American photography. F. Holland Day completed a series of remarkable photographs of Lee’s daughter Peggy, and the striking portrait of the child and her mother titled Blessed Art Thou among Women is one of Gertrude Käsebier’s most iconic compositions. In Artful Lives, Patricia J. Fanning uses these and other significant images as guideposts to explore the Lee family and the art and culture of their age.

A social reform advocate, Francis Watts Lee was an artistic photographer and a talented printer, part of the circle …

"Le Diable Est Dans L'Escalier" : Demonizing The French Female Concierge, Mariah Devereux Herbeck

Mariah E. Devereux Herbeck

What Is Memento? Ontology And Interpretation In Mainstream Film, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

At the end of the flashback, quite late in Memento, when we finally get to see what Leonard remembers of the incident that led to his memory impairment, the camera pans slowly away from a close-up of Leonard's head, oozing blood onto the tiles of his bathroom floor (E, 1:19:27). Just before the flashback fades out, and we return to the present in which Leonard is recounting this memory to Natalie, the frame includes only the bathroom floor, tiled entirely in white with the exception of two black tiles in opposite corners of the screen, like dots begging to …

Silent Music, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Most discussions of the nature of music begin with the vague notion that it is the art of sound. The next step is usually to argue that though sounds may be necessary for music, they are not sufficient, since there are sonic arts other than music, most notably linguistic performance arts, such as poetry and drama. However, at some point the issue of silence inevitably comes up. Most theorists want to allow the possibility of musical silence, that is, silence that is part of a musical work or performance, though this seems to require rejecting the necessity of sounds for …

Piece For The End Of Time: In Defence Of Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Aaron Ridley has recently attacked the study of musical ontology—an apparently fertile area in the philosophy of music. I argue here that Ridley’s arguments are unsound. There are genuinely puzzling ontological questions about music, many of which are closely related to questions of musical value. While it is true that musical ontology must be descriptive of pre-existing musical practices and that some debates, such as that over the creatability of musical works, have little consequence for questions of musical value, none of this implies that these debates themselves are without value.

Definition, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Much of the time most of us can tell whether, and which of, the sounds we are currently hearing are music. This is so whether or not what we are listening to is a familiar piece, a piece we have not heard before, or even music from a culture or tradition with which we are unfamiliar. In cases where we are unsure, or initially mistaken in our judgment, we will often change our opinion based on further information. This near-universal agreement suggests that the concept of music is one shared by different people, and has boundaries which we are implicitly …

Spiritual Discipline And Psychological Dream-Work: Some Distinctions, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"The world's great religious traditions and spiritualities commonly contain two essential elements. The first doctrine, a distinction between the Real and the unreal; the second is method, a way for human consciousness to concentrate upon the Real. 'Prayer' and 'yoga' are probably the two most inclusive generic terms coming under what I here designate as method. they are ways that human beings, in their living consciousness, endeavor to lessen the existential 'distance' between themselves and ultimate Reality. For the purpose of this essay, let us group those psychotransformative strategies known to religious traditions under the common heading of 'contemplative discipline.''' …

America Without Violence By Michael Nagler, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"Everyone one of us, by deciding and willing to do something within our own personal spheres, can begin to rid America, and the planet, of violence. Nagler's whole book is a gentle, yet uncompromising, prod to awaken us to this fact. Arguing against the social forces, collective illusions and individual myopia that blind us to the real possibility of zero violence, he argues for certain points of view, attitudes and even our effectiveness. He is convincing throughout; hopeful, but never unrealistically so." ~ from the article

Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"A new biography of such a seminal figure could hardly be anything but welcome. Yet I can only recommend Hardy's book with reservations. Though written lovingly by a professor of spirituality who seems to share John of the Cross' contemplative sensibilities, and who, moreover, has done his homework, the book remains curiously one-dimensional. In a word it lacks, depth." ~ from the article

Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"A new biography of such a seminal figure could hardly be anything but welcome. Yet I can only recommend Hardy's book with reservations. Though written lovingly by a professor of spirituality who seems to share John of the Cross' contemplative sensibilities, and who, moreover, has done his homework, the book remains curiously one-dimensional. In a word it lacks, depth." ~ from the article

America Without Violence By Michael Nagler, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"Everyone one of us, by deciding and willing to do something within our own personal spheres, can begin to rid America, and the planet, of violence. Nagler's whole book is a gentle, yet uncompromising, prod to awaken us to this fact. Arguing against the social forces, collective illusions and individual myopia that blind us to the real possibility of zero violence, he argues for certain points of view, attitudes and even our effectiveness. He is convincing throughout; hopeful, but never unrealistically so." ~ from the article

Hogging The Limelight: The Queen's Wake And The Rise Of Celebrity Authorship, Jason Goldsmith

Jason Goldsmith

In the following essay, Goldsmith argues that The Queen's Wake is commentary on the literary name branding inaugurated by the periodical culture of Hogg's day. For Goldsmith, the "crisis of reception" staged in the poem--sixteenth-century provincial bards in a first encounter with royal spectacle--is not unlike the uneasy celebrity Hogg experienced as the Ettrick Shepherd of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Courtroom And Classroom Across The Curriculum: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Jason Goldsmith

Jason Goldsmith

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde draws on Robert Louis Stevensons intimate knowledge of Victorian legal culture knowledge Stevenson acquired while studying law at the University of Edinburgh. (Although he was called to the Scottish bar in 1875, he abandoned the legal profession and never practiced it.) Its trace can be found in the work's title, main characters, and narrative structure: the title suggests a legal action; Mr. Utterson is the legal representative of Henry Jekyll, who is himself both a doctor of law (LLD) and a doctor of Civil laws (DCL); and the final two chapters …

Red Herring (2011), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

Michael Henson, clarinet Jay Young, tenor saxophone February 2013 Indianapolis, IN USA

Play Us Chastity On Your Violin (1984) Movement 3: Rhumbaba, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For solo violin and chamber orchestra. Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Sherry Kloss, violin David Stock, conductor Pittsburgh, PA 1985 The title is a line taken from "THE GAS HEART", an iconic 1921 experimental / surrealistic play by Tristan Tzara. Commissioned by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and winner of the 1984 Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Competition, PLAY US CHASTITY ON YOUR VIOLIN was a conscious move to simplicity, economy, innocence and intimacy .... all things not evident in the composers music up to 1984 . .

Resilience (2015) Movement 3: Blast Of Silence, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

for viola, cello and orchestra - on the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2

Heartland (2007) Movement 2: Hawkeye Feeder, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For the great heartland state of Iowa, HAWKEYE FEEDER is the 2nd movement of the 7 movements of HEARTLAND (which was commissioned and premiered by the Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble at Symphony Space in NYC in March 2008).

Rain (2009), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

Text: Vladimir Nabokov Music: Michael Schelle Commissioned by the St. Petersburg (Russia) Chamber Orchestra Julia Kogan, soprano Jeffery Meyer, conductor This is an excerpt (the final 3:00 of the piece)

Sprechstisambastimme (2011), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

THE LIGEIA QUARTET (Chicago) Cyril Wang, violin Ursula Steele, violin Alaina Rea, viola Joshua DeVries, cello

Resilience (2015) Movement 2: Rising Sun, Fallen Sky, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

for viola, cello and orchestra - on the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2