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Articles 1 - 15 of 15
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Review: Daniel Belgrad, The Culture Of Spontaneity: Improvisation And The Arts In Postwar America (Chicago, 1998), Wendy Martin
Review: Daniel Belgrad, The Culture Of Spontaneity: Improvisation And The Arts In Postwar America (Chicago, 1998), Wendy Martin
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Book review.
Mla Interviews From The Candidiates Point Of View, Lee Joan Skinner
Mla Interviews From The Candidiates Point Of View, Lee Joan Skinner
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
This article is based on Lee Skinner's presentation at the 1998 MLA convention in San Francisco, California.
Carnality In ‘El Matadero', Lee Joan Skinner
Carnality In ‘El Matadero', Lee Joan Skinner
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
Esteban Echeverria's short story "El matadero" is generally acknowledged as a literary masterpiece in miniature. It is widely anthologized and has been called the inaugural work of Argentine short fiction, if not the first Latin American short story. Seymour Menton positions it as the first story in his influential anthology El cuento hispanoamericano and calls it "una verdadera obra de arte" (34); David William Foster refers to it as "the founding text of Argentine fiction" (Sexual Textualities 135). Although the story has been popularly and critically acclaimed, it also presents certain problems for its readers. Written by an avowed Romantic, …
Family Names, Gayle Greene
Family Names, Gayle Greene
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
I was ten when my mother changed our name from Greenberg to Greene. I had no idea why she did this, nor, presumably, did she. It had to do with the breakup of her marriage, that was clear-she no longer wanted his name. But why, I asked later, when I was old enough to wonder about such things, didn't she go back to her maiden name?
Images Of/And The Postmodern. Review Of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing And The Politics Of Seeing By Josh Cohen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Images Of/And The Postmodern. Review Of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing And The Politics Of Seeing By Josh Cohen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Josh Cohen, in his new book Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing, argues that postmodern American novelists ranging from Norman Mailer to Joan Didion, Robert Coover to James Ellroy, do not merely fall into accord with this critique -text good; image bad- but are in fact using the allegorical nature of their encounters with and representations of visual culture as a means of reintroducing the image to history, an attempt to construct a new critical politics of visuality. The possibility of a critical visual agency is raised for Cohen in these writers’ gendered representations of the …
Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management In The Southwest, Char Miller
Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management In The Southwest, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
In February of 1999, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Michael Dombeck, placed a moratorium on road building on most roadless areas. In October, President Clinton put forth an initiative to prohibit road building on 40 million acres of roadless area. Such modifications in Forest Service land management decisions is not new as suggested by Char Miller in this look back at early grazing decisions by Pinchot. To be proactive and reactive at the same time in relation to changing social pressures and political realties may be the legacy of the agency.
Film Review: The Thin Red Line, James Morrison
Film Review: The Thin Red Line, James Morrison
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
In Malick's new film, his first in 20 years, this tension is gone. The Thin Red Line, based on James Jones' 1962 novel of World War II, pursues the strains of ardent feeling of the director's earlier work but, without seeming to renounce it, forsakes the irony. The core of the film follows an American battalion's fight against the Japanese for a hill at Guadalcanal, and although this core provides dramatic grounding for the movie, it is flanked at both ends, beginning and end, by stretches of storytelling so fragmentary, so mercurial, they're nearly abstract.
Stalker, James Morrison
Closing History's Door: Nationality, Identity, And The Wars Of Independence In Nineteenth-Century Latin American Historical Novels, Lee Joan Skinner
Closing History's Door: Nationality, Identity, And The Wars Of Independence In Nineteenth-Century Latin American Historical Novels, Lee Joan Skinner
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Review: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts In The Middle Ages: The Living And The Dead In Medieval Society (Chicago, 1998), Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Review: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts In The Middle Ages: The Living And The Dead In Medieval Society (Chicago, 1998), Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Reviews the book `Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society,' by Jean-Claude Schmitt Jr. and translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Parallel Traditions: State Folk Dance Ensembles And Folk Dance In "The Field", Anthony Shay
Parallel Traditions: State Folk Dance Ensembles And Folk Dance In "The Field", Anthony Shay
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
In this introductory essay I put forth several concepts and elements that can be profitably examined before any meaningful analysis of these ensembles and their choreographic output can be properly addressed. These include issues of authenticity and representation, as well as the variety of social and technical restrictions and limitations—political, financial, artistic—faced by the artistic directors of these companies. Thus, the main intent of this essay is to establish a theoretical and methodological model for the study of professional and semi-professional state folk dance ensembles as well as the numerous amateur performing and exhibition groups that emulate the state dance …
Book Review: Columba Stewart, Cassian The Monk, Vincent L. Wimbush
Book Review: Columba Stewart, Cassian The Monk, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
This is a book review.
Was Joseph Smith A Gentleman? The Standard For Refinement In Utah, Richard Bushman
Was Joseph Smith A Gentleman? The Standard For Refinement In Utah, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
The question of refinement cut even more deeply in Utah in the early days when the governance of the territory was at issue. The Latter-day Saints worked with a double handicap in striving to win respect from eastern travelers: in addition to the usual doubts about civilization in the West, the visitors were skeptical about Mormon religious fanaticism. Travelers came expecting that the poor credulous fools who submitted to the rule of Brigham Young would lack education, manners, taste, and intelligence—in short,would be as degraded as the woodcutters Trollope sighted along the banks of the Mississippi. The Saints for their …
A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman
A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
For the past few days in Harpers Ferry we have been inventing and reinventing American nationalism in a marvelous variegation of scholarly papers. We have heard about nationalism and travel, nationalism and antislavery women, nationalism and male identity--and southern artisans, and black nationalists, and even luxury hotels. Although we try to put ironic distance between ourselves and the more egregious forms of nationalism, the papers seem to share the popular fascination with American identity. We cannot resist staring into history and asking who we are as a nation, how did we come to be so wonderful, and why have we …
An M.F.A. In L.A., Ken Gonzales-Day
An M.F.A. In L.A., Ken Gonzales-Day
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The author, an artist, discusses M.F.A. (Masters of Fine Arts) degree programs in the Los Angeles area, with attention to the balance of theory and practice in these programs. Article is in both English and Spanish.