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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Evangelicals And American Foreign Policy [Review], Lauren Frances Turek
Evangelicals And American Foreign Policy [Review], Lauren Frances Turek
History Faculty Research
In Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy, Mark Amstutz seeks to respond to the recent efflorescence of scholarly work on the role that American evangelical Christians have played in shaping international affairs in the 20th century. Written from an evangelical perspective, the book sets out to dispel what Amstutz terms “prevalent misconceptions” about the nature and underlying motivations for evangelical political participation and engagement abroad (5). He includes among these the dynamics of evangelical support for Israel as well as conventional periodization that locate the beginning of serious evangelical political involvement in the post-World War II era. The book is …
Exhausting Life, Steven Luper
Exhausting Life, Steven Luper
Philosophy Faculty Research
Can we render death harmless to us by perfecting life, as the ancient Epicureans and Stoics seemed to think? It might seem so, for after we perfect life—assuming we can—persisting would not make life any better. Dying earlier rather than later would shorten life, but a longer perfect life is no better than a shorter perfect life, so dying would take nothing of value from us. However, after sketching what perfecting life might entail, I will argue that it is not a desirable approach to invulnerability after all.
The Death Of The River And The River Of Death: The Magdalena River In El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Cólera And La Novia Oscura, Ana María Mutis
The Death Of The River And The River Of Death: The Magdalena River In El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Cólera And La Novia Oscura, Ana María Mutis
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
This essay focuses on two of these works: El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera) by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez (hereinafter Amor) and La novia oscura (The Dark Bride) by Laura Restrepo (hereinafter Novia). Though it is true that these novels coincide in presenting the Magdalena as the scene of Colombia's deterioration and destruction, the river of Novia explores the connections between natural space, individual conscience, and national reality, all the while commenting on, and questioning, the message the Magdalena is made to convey in Amor. The analysis that follows seeks to …
The Contemporary Relevance Of The Iliad, Erwin F. Cook
The Contemporary Relevance Of The Iliad, Erwin F. Cook
Classical Studies Faculty Research
I initially balked at the request to talk about the contemporary relevance of Homeric poetry. I did so because I am of the camp that maintains great art does not need to be defended on these terms, which is to say its skill, beauty, and profundity give it all the relevance it needs to be of lasting relevance. But I do recognize that my justification, which also keeps me from studying ancient graffiti and medieval doorknockers, assumes that at some level of remove there are enduring qualities to these works that do indeed, and will always, give them contemporary relevance. …
Pre-Raphaelite Painting And The Medieval Woman, Erin Frisch
Pre-Raphaelite Painting And The Medieval Woman, Erin Frisch
Art and Art History Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Expelled Once Again: The Fantasy Of Living The Counterlife In Roth’S Nemesis, Victoria Aarons
Expelled Once Again: The Fantasy Of Living The Counterlife In Roth’S Nemesis, Victoria Aarons
English Faculty Research
In Nemesis (2010) the misguided attempts to create and to live an anxiously figured counterlife turn catasttophic as Roth's Bucky Cantor, the Jewish warrior of the Weequahic playgrounds, attempts to step out of his life and reinvent himself Here the art of impersonation is shown to be an impossible failure. For the deluded Bucky Cantor is inevitably stticken, not only with polio, but with the illusion that he can walk out of^ one life—the life bequeathed to him—and inhabit the lives of others. Roth shows the desire to live out the counterlife to be the ultimate self-delusion, exposing instead, as …
Gender Issues In The Benedictine Rule, Emma Lichtenberg
Gender Issues In The Benedictine Rule, Emma Lichtenberg
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
No abstract provided.
The Genealogical Series In The Late Middle Ages: A Survey Of The Importance Of Lineage For Dynastic Power, Skye Cornelia
The Genealogical Series In The Late Middle Ages: A Survey Of The Importance Of Lineage For Dynastic Power, Skye Cornelia
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
No abstract provided.
Peripheral Envisioning: The Frontier Of Indian Policy And Religion, 1880-1934, And Beyond, Isaiah Ellis
Peripheral Envisioning: The Frontier Of Indian Policy And Religion, 1880-1934, And Beyond, Isaiah Ellis
Undergraduate Student Research Awards
No abstract provided.
The Religious Revival: Narratives Of Religious Origin In Us Culture [Review], Claudia Stokes
The Religious Revival: Narratives Of Religious Origin In Us Culture [Review], Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
The administration of George W. Bush ushered in a new era of public religious discourse. Before the 2000 election, a politician’s religion generally remained in the shadowy recesses of private life, politely referenced only as metonymic evidence attesting to his or her strong moral foundation and character. The presidential campaigns of George W. Bush moved religious rhetoric from the political margins to the center, by speaking openly about the effects of his midlife conversion to Christianity and by using coded religious language to mobilize conservative Christian voters. This explicit inclusion of religious rhetoric has dramatically changed the texture of American …
Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró In The 1920s, Michael Schreyach
Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró In The 1920s, Michael Schreyach
Art and Art History Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Pre-Objective Depth In Merleau-Ponty And Jackson Pollock, Michael Schreyach
Pre-Objective Depth In Merleau-Ponty And Jackson Pollock, Michael Schreyach
Art and Art History Faculty Research
Pollock’s drip technique generated certain unconventional representational possibilities, including the possibility of expressing the pre-reflective involvement of an embodied, intentional subject in a perceptual world. Consequently, Pollock’s art can be understood to explore or investigate the pre-objective conditions of reflective and intellectual consciousness. His painting—here I consider Number 1, 1949—motivates viewers to consider the relationship between intention and meaning as it appears in both primordial and reflective dimensions of experience. The account proceeds in three stages. First, I review key features of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the pre-objective and attempt to clarify the reflexive nature of investigating it by considering his …
Barnett Newman's “Sense Of Space”: A Noncontextualist Account Of Its Perception And Meaning, Michael Schreyach
Barnett Newman's “Sense Of Space”: A Noncontextualist Account Of Its Perception And Meaning, Michael Schreyach
Art and Art History Faculty Research
Barnett Newman professed that a beholder's encounter with his paintings was like meeting another person for the first time. He believed the experience produced the conditions for apprehending an ethical relationship that would entail both the individual's achievement of his or her own understanding of “self” and his or her acknowledgment of another individual. But it would be their mutual recognition of separateness as the condition of possibility for communication — for sharing worlds — that would ground the ethical relationship between them. Not just interested in matters of theory, the artist was also specific about the modes of spatial …
When Apostles Become Philosophers, Rubén R. Dupertuis
When Apostles Become Philosophers, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Religion Faculty Research
No other death in the ancient world was as well known as that of Socrates. By the early Roman imperial period, Socrates have become the pre-eminent martyr, the prototype of the philosopher unjustly accused, tried, and executed. His prominence is due, in part, to being the subject in some of the writings of his students, Plato and Xenophon, which became standards of the Greek educational curriculum. In the literature of the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods, Socrates' death became a widely imitated model of how to die nobly. Given the importance of Socrates as a cultural model at the …
Bold Speech, Opposition, And Philosophical Imagery In The Acts Of The Apostles, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Bold Speech, Opposition, And Philosophical Imagery In The Acts Of The Apostles, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Religion Faculty Research
This chapter focuses on three related aspects of the function of the term parrēsia in the characterization of the philosopher that stand out and will be useful for the subsequent assessment of the function of the term in Acts; they are: (a) the association of parrēsia and conflict with ruling authorities; (b) divine commission as the source of parrēsia; and (c) the significance of Socrates as the model for later philosophers.
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement And Space [Review], Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement And Space [Review], Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Classical Studies Faculty Research
Archaeologists and historians have set out to reconstruct Rome, in one way or another, from the very beginning of the profession. More recently, scholars have begun to design 3-D simulations of ancient sites and monuments; even Google Earth offers the option of ‘visiting’ ancient Rome as it appeared in A.D. 320. According to the editors of this stimulating volume, however, these reconstructions, with their vast empty spaces and pristine monuments, ignore an important part of ancient Rome: the people, animals, and vehicles that moved through the cityscape. And as anyone who has ever traveled knows, different cities move in different …
Adaptation, Steven Luper
Adaptation, Steven Luper
Philosophy Faculty Research
Some ways of dealing with a threatened evil will be self-defeating, in the sense that the response is no better for us, or even worse, than the evil it prevents. A way of adapting to death might be self-defeating in precisely the same way. Perhaps, however, we can adapt to death by suitably modifying our interests, and do so in a way that is not self-defeating. I will call this claim the adaptation thesis. Elsewhere, I have argued against it. In this chapter, I reinforce that conclusion.
Music, Andrew Kania
Music, Andrew Kania
Philosophy Faculty Research
It is unsurprising that there are chapters on literature, painting and music in this volume - if they're not arts, nothing is. It is almost as predictable that there are chapters devoted to topics such as depiction and metaphor. The issues raised by depiction and metaphor are central to the artistic use of pictures and language, yet these topics do not pertain exclusively to art (there are lots of pictures that are not artworks, such as maps, diagrams and holiday snaps; people use metaphors in all sorts of contexts). Should it be surprising that there is no such counterpart chapter …
Platonism Vs. Nominalism In Contemporary Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania
Platonism Vs. Nominalism In Contemporary Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania
Philosophy Faculty Research
Ontological theories of musical works fall into two broad classes, according to whether or not they take musical works to be abstract objects of some sort. I shall use the terms 'Platonism' and 'nominalism' to refer to these two kinds of theory. In this chapter I first outline contemporary Platonism about musical works—the theory that musical works are abstract objects. I then consider reasons to be suspicious of such a view, motivating a consideration of nominalist theories of musical works. I argue for two conclusions: first, that there are no compelling reasons to be a nominalist about musical works in …
Irony In Emmanuel Carrère’S La Moustache, Nina Ekstein
Irony In Emmanuel Carrère’S La Moustache, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The subject of irony in film is a problematic one, in no small measure because of the assumption of referentiality in what is shown onscreen. I examine a form of irony that is tied to undecidability and use it to analyze La moustache (2005), which is a cinematic exploration of the possibilities for creating undecidability and its attendant tensions, exemplifying how irony may be visually communicated. Carrère's film moves into the domain of irony through a wide-ranging critique worked out through discordance.
Glittery Poetics: Joteando En San Antonio, Tejas, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Glittery Poetics: Joteando En San Antonio, Tejas, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
Part(Iend)O El Alma: Rebirthing The Self, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Part(Iend)O El Alma: Rebirthing The Self, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
The Chica Rara As Observer In Concha Alós’S Los Cien Pájaros, Debra J. Ochoa
The Chica Rara As Observer In Concha Alós’S Los Cien Pájaros, Debra J. Ochoa
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The article focuses on how the protagonist of the book "Los cien pájaros," by Concha Alós can be understood through the concept of chica rara or strange girl given by author Carmen Martín Gaite. Topics discussed include the use of the term chica rara by Martín Gaite in the novel "Nada," by Carmen Laforet, the issues involving prostitution and sexuality in the "Los cienpájaros," and the portrayal of independent woman in the book.
Orality, Folktales And The Cross-Cultural Transmission Of Narrative, Lawrence Kim
Orality, Folktales And The Cross-Cultural Transmission Of Narrative, Lawrence Kim
Classical Studies Faculty Research
The last several decades have witnessed a renewed interest in exploring the remarkable similarities of motifs, plots and themes between Greco-Roman narrative and that of other ancient literary traditions (e.g., Egyptian, Persian, Jewish). If such commonalities are not coincidental or the result of independent development (and research indicates that they are not), it would be reasonable to raise the question of transmission, that is, by what means they passed from one culture to another. In the past, however, scholarly energies, caught up in the debate over the novel's origins, were more directed toward establishing the chronological priority of one narrative …
David Foster Wallace And Lovelessness, David Rando
David Foster Wallace And Lovelessness, David Rando
English Faculty Research
The article focuses on the American writer David Foster Wallace and his way of expressing emotions in his works. Topics discussed include Wallace using irony in his fictions to express genuine emotions, critics of his work reproducing Wallace's own thoughts to criticize him, and his books "Oblivion," and "Infinite Jest," and the unfinished novel "The Pale King." It also refers to the book "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf in comparison to deaths in Wallace's works.
Woman Trouble: True Love And Homecoming In Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006), Corinne Ondine Pache
Woman Trouble: True Love And Homecoming In Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006), Corinne Ondine Pache
Classical Studies Faculty Research
A meditation on the notion of return, Pedro Almodóvar's 2006 Volver focuses on the modern experience of love, memory, and identity in a manner that is at once indebted to the past and resolutely contemporary. Some films represent the ancient world directly, drawing on historical or literary sources, but many that focus on contemporary narratives can be shown to be inspired—directly or not—by ancient myths whose history is so influential that they pervade many of our notions about the human experience. In particular, insofar as Homer's poem is the foundational text in Western culture of the very idea of homecoming—or …