Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Arts and Humanities Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Bryn Mawr College

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 1 - 30 of 885

Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Timecraft, Mallory Fitzpatrick, Alexis G. White Jan 2024

Timecraft, Mallory Fitzpatrick, Alexis G. White

Books, pamphlets, catalogues, and scrapbooks

This catalogue serves as a permanent record for the exhibition Timecraft curated by Alexis White and Mallory Fitzpatrick in conjunction with the 14th Biennial Graduate Group Symposium on the same theme. The exhibition, which ran from November 2023 to May 2024 in Carpenter Library, challenges viewers to rethink their understanding of the way time is shaped, categorized, and created in the past, present, and future.


Geologists As Colonial Scouts: The Rogers Expedition To Otavi And Tsumeb, Namibia, 1892–1895, Selby Hearth Jan 2024

Geologists As Colonial Scouts: The Rogers Expedition To Otavi And Tsumeb, Namibia, 1892–1895, Selby Hearth

Geology Faculty Research and Scholarship

From 1892 to 1895, the South West Africa Company (SWACO) expedition led by geologist Matthew Rogers conducted the first geologic mapping in Namibia’s Otavi Mountains, including the now world-famous Tsumeb Mine. This paper uses archival documents from the Rogers expedition to trace his geologic contributions and to illustrate important themes in the relationships between 19th century colonial geologists, Western colonizing governments, Indigenous communities, resource extraction, and corporations. To carry out his mapping, Rogers performed a continuous balancing act between British and German colonial powers and local African leaders. The local leaders and communities he interacted with variously resisted his incursions, …


Le Diable Au Coeur : Bonjour Tristesse Et La Valeur Littéraire Dans Les Années 1950, Lauren E. Mccouch Jan 2024

Le Diable Au Coeur : Bonjour Tristesse Et La Valeur Littéraire Dans Les Années 1950, Lauren E. Mccouch

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

No abstract provided.


Renaissance As Refreshment In The Mughal Empire The Floral Carpets Of Lahore And The Tarz-I Taza (Fresh Style) In Seventeenth-Century South Asia, Sylvia W. Houghteling Jan 2024

Renaissance As Refreshment In The Mughal Empire The Floral Carpets Of Lahore And The Tarz-I Taza (Fresh Style) In Seventeenth-Century South Asia, Sylvia W. Houghteling

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Le Juif Caché : Analyse Filmique Du Personnage De Vinz Dans La Haine, Viviana Freyer Jan 2024

Le Juif Caché : Analyse Filmique Du Personnage De Vinz Dans La Haine, Viviana Freyer

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

No abstract provided.


Is Landscape Queer?, Kate Thomas Jan 2024

Is Landscape Queer?, Kate Thomas

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Art And Science Of Making The New Soviet Man In Early 20th-Century Russia By Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov, Tim Harte Jan 2023

Review Of The Art And Science Of Making The New Soviet Man In Early 20th-Century Russia By Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov, Tim Harte

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of 'Rethinking The Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies', José Vergara Jan 2023

Review Of 'Rethinking The Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies', José Vergara

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


“The Weird And The Occult” In Carmilla And “The Portrait Of Roísín Dhu”, Eliza Lehman Jan 2023

“The Weird And The Occult” In Carmilla And “The Portrait Of Roísín Dhu”, Eliza Lehman

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

This thesis brings together two Irish Gothic texts that contemplate queer intimacy and reveal similar logics of imagined Irish Catholicism. By reading Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella Carmilla and Dorothy Macardle’s 1924 short story “The Portrait of Roísín Dhu” alongside Heather Love’s Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), this thesis examines the literary treatment of Irish Catholicism and queerness as “backward.” In both texts, the embedded narrative undermines the frame, allowing more subversive and complex themes to haunt the hopeful, nationalist frame of “The Portrait of Roísín Dhu” and the patriarchal, imperial frame of Carmilla.


To Regulate, To Educate: Sanctions In Ming Dynasty China, Yonglin Jiang, Yanhong Wu Jan 2023

To Regulate, To Educate: Sanctions In Ming Dynasty China, Yonglin Jiang, Yanhong Wu

East Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Reliving The Troubled Past In “Republican Disneyland”: The 1994 Colonial Williamsburg Auction And Living History Representations Of Enslavement, Zoë Kaufmann Jan 2023

Reliving The Troubled Past In “Republican Disneyland”: The 1994 Colonial Williamsburg Auction And Living History Representations Of Enslavement, Zoë Kaufmann

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

No abstract provided.


Entre Métèques Et Cosmopolites : La Place De Paris Dans L’Imaginaire Des Écrivains Du Boom Latino-Américain, Marcos Padrón Curet Jan 2023

Entre Métèques Et Cosmopolites : La Place De Paris Dans L’Imaginaire Des Écrivains Du Boom Latino-Américain, Marcos Padrón Curet

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

No abstract provided.


Skin Deep: Racial Categorization In Herman Melville’S Moby-Dick, Devasha Solomon Jan 2023

Skin Deep: Racial Categorization In Herman Melville’S Moby-Dick, Devasha Solomon

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

This thesis engages skin as a site of racialization and changeability in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Throughout the novel, Ishmael close reads the skins of those around him to fit his vision of the narrative. Lots of skins are sewn together to create a single white skin. He classifies characters into neat categories in an attempt to destroy their ambiguity, but Ishmael himself contains and develops racial ambiguities that he fears. Melville’s narrator fails to force all of his characters into his story because of the counterstories fundamentally engrained in the skins he attempts to violate.


The Faidherbe Statue And Memory Making In Saint-Louis-Du-Sénégal, 1887–2020, Kalala J. Ngalamulume Jan 2023

The Faidherbe Statue And Memory Making In Saint-Louis-Du-Sénégal, 1887–2020, Kalala J. Ngalamulume

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Covid-19 And Colonial Legacies In West Africa, Kalala J. Ngalamulume Jan 2023

Covid-19 And Colonial Legacies In West Africa, Kalala J. Ngalamulume

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure And Peril At The Movies, Pardis Dabashi Jan 2023

Review Of Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure And Peril At The Movies, Pardis Dabashi

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


‘There Is No Gallery’: Race And The Politics Of Space At The Capitol Theatre, New York, Pardis Dabashi Jan 2023

‘There Is No Gallery’: Race And The Politics Of Space At The Capitol Theatre, New York, Pardis Dabashi

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

This essay brings developments in Black film historiography and architecture studies to bear on the study of Northern picture palaces as the period of their prominence coincided with the Jim Crow era. Taking as my focus New York City’s Capitol Theatre – which opened in the immediate wake of the US race riots of 1919 and was the largest movie theater to date – I show how Northern middle-class film culture enforced racial segregation in the absence of legal protection. Southern movie theaters were able either to outlaw Black attendance or relegate their Black patronage to the gallery, a seating …


This Land Is Your Land: Andrei Bitov Travels Through The Caucasus, José Vergara Jan 2022

This Land Is Your Land: Andrei Bitov Travels Through The Caucasus, José Vergara

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

The present article examines Andrei Bitov’s Lessons of Armenia (Uroki Аrmenii) and A Georgian Album (Gruzinskii al’bom) as examples of subversive late-Soviet travel writing. While some scholars have noted imperialist tendencies in the two travelogues, I argue that Bitov effectively challenges the colonial perspective. Besides considering the Soviet state’s push for travel writing and tourism while Bitov was writing his texts, the article uses Mary Louise Pratt’s deconstruction of colonialist travel writing as a theoretical framework. Adapting and extending her work, I examine how Bitov consistently deploys and subverts three key devices: mastery of the seen/scene, …


Review Of 'Nabokov In Motion: Modernity And Movement' By Yuri Leving, Tim Harte Jan 2022

Review Of 'Nabokov In Motion: Modernity And Movement' By Yuri Leving, Tim Harte

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of 'Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement And Affect In Modern Literature And Film', Tim Harte Jan 2022

Review Of 'Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement And Affect In Modern Literature And Film', Tim Harte

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Who Does That?: Further Conversations On Drawing Down The Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii Jan 2022

Who Does That?: Further Conversations On Drawing Down The Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

This paper addresses responses to Drawing Down the Moon by Shannon Grimes, James Davila, Gregory Shaw, and Naomi Janowitz, using the cues of extraordinary efficacy, performance, social location, and ends to determine whether something is labeled magic and by whom. In each of the papers, the cue of social location appears as the most significant, even though the others each play a role as well.


Contingent Catastrophe Or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric Of Violence In Classical Athenian Curses, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii Jan 2022

Contingent Catastrophe Or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric Of Violence In Classical Athenian Curses, Radcliffe Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

The surprising absence of violent language from classical Athenian curses is best understood as a rhetorical strategy appropriate for getting the divine powers to enact the curser's desire to harm his or her enemies and to gain an advantage in the particular agonistic context. A contrast with the extravagantly violent language of other contemporary curses, which call for unmitigated catastrophe to befall their targets, shows that the fundamental difference between these curses is the audience that they primarily address, which shapes the nature of the request that is made in the imprecation. Whereas contingent curses primarily address the human community …


Sarah Winchester: Silicon Valley Developer, Homay King Jan 2022

Sarah Winchester: Silicon Valley Developer, Homay King

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of 'The Work Of Politics: Making A Democratic Welfare State', Thimo Heisenberg Jan 2022

Review Of 'The Work Of Politics: Making A Democratic Welfare State', Thimo Heisenberg

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Goethe’S Faust And The Philosophy Of Money, Thimo Heisenberg Jan 2022

Goethe’S Faust And The Philosophy Of Money, Thimo Heisenberg

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

Philosophers today do not think of Goethe’s Faust as an important contribution to the philosophy of money. But to discount the work in this way is a mistake, I argue. Underneath Faust’s lyrical form, Goethe develops a comprehensive view of money that came to be an important influence on left-wing (Karl Marx) and right-wing (Oswald Spengler) discussions of money. Centrally, Goethe argues that modern economic practices have transformed money obsession (long conceived of primarily as an individual vice) into a structural problem: social structures are now set up to systematically require individuals to engage in quasi-obsessive behaviors towards …


Review Of José Luis Nogales Baena, Editor. Obras Completas De Juan Manuel Torres: Tomo 1., Enrique Sacerio-Gari Jan 2022

Review Of José Luis Nogales Baena, Editor. Obras Completas De Juan Manuel Torres: Tomo 1., Enrique Sacerio-Gari

Spanish Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Surface Impressions: Materiality, Affect, And Bodily Reading Methods In Melville’S Moby-Dick (1851), Sydney Chun Jan 2022

Surface Impressions: Materiality, Affect, And Bodily Reading Methods In Melville’S Moby-Dick (1851), Sydney Chun

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

By reading different surfaces of Moby-Dick (1851), from the figurative to the material to the embodied, I examine how surface is a relational state. This essay tracks Ishmael’s textual participation with surfaces—or, in other words, how he comes to read, know, and feel—across relational and sensual modes of affect, form, and materiality. Drawing on material text studies, affect studies, New Materialism, and queer studies, I argue that imagined and actual embodied contact enables a kind of sensory, intimate reading method. I engage bodily textual inscription through “impressibility,” following the sensed impressions occurring at the skin. More broadly, I explicate how …


Review Of Die Wiener In China. Fluchtpunkt Shanghai-Little Vienna In Shanghai, Qinna Shen Jan 2022

Review Of Die Wiener In China. Fluchtpunkt Shanghai-Little Vienna In Shanghai, Qinna Shen

German Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of A Foreigner’S Cinematic Dream Of Japan. Representational Politics And Shadows Of War In The Japanese-German Coproduction New Earth (1937), Qinna Shen Jan 2022

Review Of A Foreigner’S Cinematic Dream Of Japan. Representational Politics And Shadows Of War In The Japanese-German Coproduction New Earth (1937), Qinna Shen

German Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of 'Painting In Stone: Architecture And The Poetics Of Marble From Antiquity To The Enlightenment', Dale Kinney Jan 2022

Review Of 'Painting In Stone: Architecture And The Poetics Of Marble From Antiquity To The Enlightenment', Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.