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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Greek Popular Music In An American Cafe, Nancy Sultan
Greek Popular Music In An American Cafe, Nancy Sultan
Scholarship
In my last contribution to Laografia (May/June 1994), I wrote about xenitiá and the poetics of pain associated with emigration in Greece. I examined some modern Greek songs along with some ancient Greek poetry to illustrate the long tradition of negativity associated with the idea of xenitiá. In this issue I will approach this same topic from a different angle; I present some results of field research that I conducted in 1987-88 with a group of Greek musicians who performed weekly at the Middle East Café in Cambridge, MA.
The Living Metaphor Of Orlando: Duration, Gender, And The Artistic Self, Michele L. Herrman '95
The Living Metaphor Of Orlando: Duration, Gender, And The Artistic Self, Michele L. Herrman '95
Honors Projects
Virginia Woolf knows from the beginning what Orlando learns in the end: to be an artist is to be a living metaphor-a self which is not static and discrete, but evolving and "capable of others," to quote Cixous (Laugh, 345). In Orlando, Woolf represents the realization of the artistic self as a "creative evolution" through time; Orlando experiences time as a duration, unlike her peers, which separates her from society and its moment-to-moment constitution of self through gender, allowing her to experiment-with gender masquerade and develop the sensibility with which she can create metaphor.
Writing Russian Women's Lives: Exploring The "Unwritten" Autobiographies Of Karolina Pavlova And Olga Berrgoltts, Kristen Bleakley '95
Writing Russian Women's Lives: Exploring The "Unwritten" Autobiographies Of Karolina Pavlova And Olga Berrgoltts, Kristen Bleakley '95
Honors Projects
In the Soviet Union we see yet another aspect of society which severely restricted the introspection of the individual. This particular suppression was not gender based, however. Rather, it was based on the gender-indifferent ideology of socialism and the belief that the wants, needs, and desires of the individual must be subordinated to the best interests of society as a whole. The Soviet Party sought to incorporate a mass consciousness in a Utopian setting. This they hoped to accomplish by controlling the thoughts and ideas of the entire nation, making spiritual property public just as they had done with material …
Dancin' To Freedom: A Historical Analysis Of The Rise Of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Deborah Obalil '95
Dancin' To Freedom: A Historical Analysis Of The Rise Of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Deborah Obalil '95
Honors Projects, History
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was founded in New York City in 1958. It was the creative product of Alvin Ailey, a young African-American dancer whose early childhood years were spent picking cotton, and it consisted of six additional African American dancers. While it was not the first company of its kind, it would grow to become one of America's leading modern dance companies. Considering the times in which it began, and the fact that many young dance companies never make it beyond local performance seasons, it is amazing that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew beyond its …
The Roots Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 1882-1914, Lorena S. Neal '95
The Roots Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 1882-1914, Lorena S. Neal '95
Honors Projects, History
One of the most intriguing aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the fact that "In 1850, neither Jews nor Arabs viewed themselves as members of an ethnically, culturally, linguistically homogeneous, territorially based nation in the modem sense of the word." And yet, within less than one hundred years, both peoples had developed such strong national ties to the same piece of land that they seem doomed to forever spill the blood of their fellow claimants in a continuous battle for supremacy. For most scholars, the starting point for this conflict seems to be quite clearly established in 1917, when the …
Quest For Empire: The United States Versus Germany (1891-1910), Jennifer L. Cutsforth '95
Quest For Empire: The United States Versus Germany (1891-1910), Jennifer L. Cutsforth '95
Honors Projects, History
The United States and Germany experienced difficulties beyond imperial ist competition during the final years of the nineteenth century. Tariff wars, naval growth, and the Anglo-American rapprochement only added to the German-American rivalry rooted in imperialism.
The Role Of Supeman In American Culture: 1938 To 1955, Elayne Wehrly '95
The Role Of Supeman In American Culture: 1938 To 1955, Elayne Wehrly '95
Honors Projects, History
In Superman's dualistic world, chaos and human suffering are the result of individual criminals who violate established rules of authority, rogue nations seeking to conquer the world and impose "undemocratic" principles on its citizenry, or corrupt political or business leaders lured from good by the base instincts of greed and lust for power. For Americans the black and white comic book fantasies provided escape from an increasingly complex reality and encouraged a simplistic view of cataclysmic changes both in American society and the world at large. Within this dualistic context, Superman is presented as a redemptive figure: the hero who …
Bright Hopes And Bloody Realities: The Diplomatic Preclude To The Winter War, Steven D. Webster '95
Bright Hopes And Bloody Realities: The Diplomatic Preclude To The Winter War, Steven D. Webster '95
Honors Projects, History
For Finns, the sixth of December is a day to celebrate. Along with the frolicking, frivolities, and the fireworks, the beer and vodka flow, celebrating the most magnificent event in Finnish history. On that day in the monumental year of 1917, Czarist Russia, fat from hundreds of years of imperialist expansion but reeling from military defeat and internal chaos, witnessed one comer of its crumbling empire do the unthinkable--declare independence. Although it was widely known that under the nominal rule of the Czar, the Finns had quite a bit of independence both economically and politically, it had been some 600 …
What's The Difference? (Text And Audio), James D. Matthews
What's The Difference? (Text And Audio), James D. Matthews
Honorees for Teaching Excellence
No abstract provided.
Blessing : Before The Ending Of The Day (Jeremy’S Book Vii), Jonathan Green
Blessing : Before The Ending Of The Day (Jeremy’S Book Vii), Jonathan Green
Jonathan D Green
SATB choir, 2 minutes
The Duality Of Soviet Culture: Manufactured And Organic Cultures, Mark Thomas Fletcher '95
The Duality Of Soviet Culture: Manufactured And Organic Cultures, Mark Thomas Fletcher '95
Honors Projects
In place of what actually existed -a still industrializing country with very many workers living in privation, a peasantry in a new enserfment, a huge caste of slave laborers in concentration camps, a priviledged service nobility living in relative luxury minus security of tenure, a similarly insecure court circle at the top functioning at the pleasure of a new tsar-autocrat, a heavily terrorized society honeycombed with police informers, in which an overheard careless word or anecdote was a potential ticket to hell -Stalinist culture depicted a democratic Soviet Russia whose nonantagonistic classes of workers and peasants and intelligentsia "stratum" lived …
Inclusio, Michael Theune
Inclusio, Michael Theune
Scholarship
Originally published in The Iowa Journal for Cultural Studies and used with permission.
"The Power To Hurt": Lincoln's Early Use Of Satire And Invective, Robert Bray
"The Power To Hurt": Lincoln's Early Use Of Satire And Invective, Robert Bray
Scholarship
How did Abraham Lincoln become a great speaker and writer? How did he get from doggerel in a copybook to the mastery of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the speeches of the presidential years? This is an abiding mystery in Lincoln biography, and its obscurity will probably never be dispelled fully.1Still, we cannot help wondering, and so we look for early signs of precocity and power in the boy "back home in Indiana" during the 1820s and the young man of the New Salem, Illinois, years from 1831 to 1837. We continue to search and speculate despite few and questionable sources …
Cut On The Norman Bias: Fabulous Borders And Visual Glosses On The Bayeax Tapestry, Daniel Terkla
Cut On The Norman Bias: Fabulous Borders And Visual Glosses On The Bayeax Tapestry, Daniel Terkla
Scholarship
Harold Godwinson, King of England for nine months in 1066, was undeniably an assertive opportunist - albeit a brave one -and perhaps a traitor; Edward the Confessor was a misguided monarch -or at least a bad judge of character-and William of Normandy was a righteous conqueror, a ruler asserting his legal right to the English crown. This, at least, is the interpretation of historical events presented by the Bayeux Tapestry, the late eleventh-century embroidery that Otto Pacht has called the ‘earliest work of secular art on a monumental scale which has survived from the Middle Ages.’3 In this study, I …
"Til Death Do Us Part:" Lyric Opera In Two Acts (Honors), D. Christopher Wolff
"Til Death Do Us Part:" Lyric Opera In Two Acts (Honors), D. Christopher Wolff
Compositions
No abstract provided.
Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde
Grupo Ubú: El Edificio De La Identidad En Barriendo Sombras, Cesar Valverde
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Fanny Rubio O El Anverso Y Reverso De Lo Cotidiano, Carmela Ferradans
Fanny Rubio O El Anverso Y Reverso De Lo Cotidiano, Carmela Ferradans
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Legacy Of Love, Jennifer Shurtleff '95
A Legacy Of Love, Jennifer Shurtleff '95
Honors Projects
The paper that I am presenting is a bit unconventional. It is a narrative and historical piece which tests many of the theoretical claims I have been studying over the past two years. I took three courses important to this work: one on the women pioneers who settled the American frontier, another on the relationship of gender to genre, and I am currently studying the creation of self in autobiography. After studying different theories on women writers and the experiences of women pioneers, I decided to test the things I had learned by writing my own story.