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Vincent John Bruno, 1926-2008, Russell Scott Oct 2008

Vincent John Bruno, 1926-2008, Russell Scott

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of In The Shadow Of The Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations Of The Early Arabian Civilization In Oman, By Serge Cleuziou And Maurizio Tosi, Peter Magee Oct 2008

Review Of In The Shadow Of The Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations Of The Early Arabian Civilization In Oman, By Serge Cleuziou And Maurizio Tosi, Peter Magee

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, Excavations At Barnavos: Final Report, James C. Wright, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Mary K. Dabney, Panagiotis Karkanas, Georgia Kotzamani, Alexandra Livarda Oct 2008

Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, Excavations At Barnavos: Final Report, James C. Wright, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Mary K. Dabney, Panagiotis Karkanas, Georgia Kotzamani, Alexandra Livarda

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

In 2002 and 2003 the 4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP) excavated a robbed Late Helladic (LH) IIIA2 chamber tomb at Barnavos, west of the village of Ancient Nemea. Through application of a novel method of stratigraphic analysis and careful documentation of the scattered remains, it was ascertained that the tomb was opened as many as six times for four or five interments, including a child and probably both male and female adults. No other tomb was found in the vicinity. This is the first Mycenaean tomb discovered in the valley, and …


Review Of The Reception Of Plutarch's 'Lives' In Fifteenth-Century Italy, By Marianne Pade, Julia H. Gaisser Jul 2008

Review Of The Reception Of Plutarch's 'Lives' In Fifteenth-Century Italy, By Marianne Pade, Julia H. Gaisser

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review: Marianne Pade. The Reception Of Plutarch’S Lives In Fifteenth-Century Italy., Julia H. Gaisser Jul 2008

Review: Marianne Pade. The Reception Of Plutarch’S Lives In Fifteenth-Century Italy., Julia H. Gaisser

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review: Sticks And Stones: The Philosophy Of Insults, Macalester Bell Jul 2008

Review: Sticks And Stones: The Philosophy Of Insults, Macalester Bell

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review Of Empires Of The Atlantic World: Britain And Spain In America 1492-1830, By John H. Elliott, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz Apr 2008

Review Of Empires Of The Atlantic World: Britain And Spain In America 1492-1830, By John H. Elliott, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Extra-Ordinary People: Mystai And Magoi, Magicians And Orphics In The Derveni Papyrus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii Jan 2008

Extra-Ordinary People: Mystai And Magoi, Magicians And Orphics In The Derveni Papyrus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Working For The Secret Evangelist: A Review And Memoir, Lee Pearcy Jan 2008

Working For The Secret Evangelist: A Review And Memoir, Lee Pearcy

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


In The Shadow Of Aristophanes: The 1903 Iphigeneia In Tauris In Philadelphia, Lee Pearcy Jan 2008

In The Shadow Of Aristophanes: The 1903 Iphigeneia In Tauris In Philadelphia, Lee Pearcy

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Machi: Neighborhood And Small Town—The Foundation For Urban Transformation In Japan, Carola Hein Jan 2008

Machi: Neighborhood And Small Town—The Foundation For Urban Transformation In Japan, Carola Hein

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

The term machi, signifying both neighborhood and small town, is a key element for understanding Japanese urban form and city planning. After tracing the origins of the term, this article explores the historic and contemporary significance of the concept and its particular spatial and socioeconomic forms. The article then argues that the concept of machi influenced the ways in which Japanese planners picked up foreign concepts through the nineteenth and particularly the twentieth century, absorbing some ideas and rejecting others. Building on their perception of the city as composed of urban units that allowed for planning in patchwork patterns, leading …


Review Of Edmund Husserl: Founder Of Phenomenology, By Dermot Moran, Robert J. Dostal Jan 2008

Review Of Edmund Husserl: Founder Of Phenomenology, By Dermot Moran, Robert J. Dostal

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Gadamerian Hermeneutics And Irony: Between Strauss And Derrida, Robert J. Dostal Jan 2008

Gadamerian Hermeneutics And Irony: Between Strauss And Derrida, Robert J. Dostal

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

Against the background of Gadamer's hermeneutics of trust, for which the primary concern of the hermeneutical enterprise is the matter under discussion, the Sache, this essay raises the question of Gadamer's treatment of irony. Gadamer and Gadamerians have criticized the hermeneutics of suspicion—a hermeneutics that always looks under the surface of what is said to see what is hidden. This would seem to make irony a problematic aspect of texts and discourse for a Gadamerian hermeneutics. Nowhere in Gadamer's corpus can we find an extensive discussion of irony, but Gadamer does raise the question of irony in a provocative way …


Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 12 (2008), Bryn Mawr College Library Jan 2008

Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 12 (2008), Bryn Mawr College Library

Mirabile Dictu: Newsletter of the Bryn Mawr College Libraries

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Feminist Redemption Of The Witch: Grimm And Michelet As Nineteenth-Century Models, Qinna Shen Jan 2008

Feminist Redemption Of The Witch: Grimm And Michelet As Nineteenth-Century Models, Qinna Shen

German Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Alimentary: Arthur Conan Doyle And Isabella Beeton, Kate Thomas Jan 2008

Alimentary: Arthur Conan Doyle And Isabella Beeton, Kate Thomas

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

In 1893, overwhelmed by readers' insatiability for Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle killed his detective off at the height of his popularity. Writing to a friend in 1896, Doyle described how literally sick he was of the figure he had created: “I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards pâté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day” (Chabon 17). Holmes's (first) literary demise was marked by his creator with a culinary simile, one …


Cross-Cultural Reception In The Absence Of Texts: The Islamic Appropriation Of A Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket, Alicia Walker Jan 2008

Cross-Cultural Reception In The Absence Of Texts: The Islamic Appropriation Of A Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket, Alicia Walker

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The reception of art and architecture in the Middle Ages is typically studied through the verbal accounts of medieval viewers. This paper explores possibilities for interpreting artistic reception in the absence of texts, through the material record of works of art themselves, specifically, a Byzantine ivory casket altered through the addition of Islamic gilded bronze fixtures. I propose that the transformation of the box expresses a viewer’s cognitive appropriation of the original program, which reconfigured the iconography of the ivory container to accommodate a secular Islamic system of meaning. Rather than representing the changes as misreading or disfigurement of the …


Review Of The Origins Of Medieval Architecture: Building In Europe, A.D. 600-900, By Charles B. Mcclendon, Dale Kinney Jan 2008

Review Of The Origins Of Medieval Architecture: Building In Europe, A.D. 600-900, By Charles B. Mcclendon, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Meaningful Mingling: Classicizing Imagery And Islamicizing Script In A Byzantine Bowl, Alicia Walker Jan 2008

Meaningful Mingling: Classicizing Imagery And Islamicizing Script In A Byzantine Bowl, Alicia Walker

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Triconch Sanctuaries Of Sohag, Dale Kinney Jan 2008

The Triconch Sanctuaries Of Sohag, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


First-Generation Diptychs In The Discourse Of Visual Culture, Dale Kinney Jan 2008

First-Generation Diptychs In The Discourse Of Visual Culture, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction, Pim Higginson Jan 2008

Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction, Pim Higginson

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

This essay examines the gendering of the crime novel in an African context. Specifically, it proposes that Malian Author Aida Diallo's novel Kouty, memoire de sang uses the gendered body to critique the West's delight in pornographies of sub-Saharan African violence while challenging the masculinist tendencies of African male authors of crime fiction. Most powerfully, the protagonist abides by and disturbs the continuity between gender and genre. By introducing recognizable tropes from the romance novel, Diallo productively challenges the persistent hegemonic strains residing latently within this popular literary tradition. In so doing, she finally, and this through a strategic manipulation …