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The Valiant Welshman, The Scottish James, And The Formation Of Great Britain, Megan Lloyd Dec 2018

The Valiant Welshman, The Scottish James, And The Formation Of Great Britain, Megan Lloyd

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

When James VI of Scotland and I of England proclaimed himself King of Great Britain, he proposed a merger of the English and Scottish parliaments, and he looked to Henry VIII’s Acts of Union of England and Wales (1536/43) as an example for English Scottish union under one king. On the London stage after 1603 many plays paid tribute to the new king and provided a predominantly English audience a means of accepting the not so palatable ideas of Scottish power, assimilation and unity. The Valiant Welshman is distinctive among these works, as no other extant early modern English drama …


The Corporeality Of Clothing In Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, And The Sacred, Sarah Brazil Dec 2018

The Corporeality Of Clothing In Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, And The Sacred, Sarah Brazil

Early Drama, Art, and Music

Every known society wears some form of clothing. It is central to how we experience our bodies and how we understand the sociocultural dimensions of our embodiment. It is also central to how we understand works of literature. In this innovative study, Brazil demonstrates how medieval writers use clothing to direct readers’ and spectators’ awareness to forms of embodiment. Offering insights into how poetic works, plays, and devotional treatises target readers’ kinesic intelligence—their ability to understand movements and gestures—Brazil demonstrates the theological implications of clothing, often evinced by how garments limit or facilitate the movements and postures of bodies in …


Inventing Modernity In Medieval European Thought Ca. 1100–Ca. 1550, Bettina Koch, Cary J. Nederman Dec 2018

Inventing Modernity In Medieval European Thought Ca. 1100–Ca. 1550, Bettina Koch, Cary J. Nederman

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

One of the most challenging problems in the history of Western ideas stems from the emergence of Modernity out of the preceding period of the Latin Middle Ages. This volume develops and extends the insights of the noted scholar Thomas M. Izbicki into the so-called medieval/modern divide. The contributors include a wide array of eminent international scholars from the fields of History, Theology, Philosophy, and Political Science, all of whom explore how medieval ideas framed and shaped the thought of later centuries. This sometimes involved the evolution of intellectual principles associated with the definition and imposition of religious orthodoxy. Also …


Probing The Promise Of Dual-Language Books, Lisa M. Domke Dec 2018

Probing The Promise Of Dual-Language Books, Lisa M. Domke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Because dual-language books (DLBs) are written entirely in two languages, they have the potential to help readers develop multilingual literacy skills while acting as cultural and/or linguistic windows and mirrors. However, the ways in which publishers choose words when translating, format languages, and represent cultures have implications for readers in terms of identity, readability, and language learning. This content analysis of 69 U.S. Spanish–English dual-language picturebooks published from 2013–2016 investigated trends in DLBs’ cultural, linguistic, formatting, and readability factors. It also determined these trends’ relationships with publisher types, original publication language, and author and character ethnicity. Findings include that publishers …


The Dark And Middle Ages, Edward Jayne Dec 2018

The Dark And Middle Ages, Edward Jayne

English Faculty Publications

For the most part only Plato's teachings supported by a limited version of Aristotelian cosmology supportive of Platonism survived the decline of ancient Greek philosophy during the Roman Empire. Christianity later prevailed, and toward the end of the Middle Ages Aristotle’s secular perspective was only taken into account by Arab philosophers such as Averroes and Avicenna. After the collapse of Arab civilization during the twelfth century, the secular concept of a double truth between belief and reason put philosophy on equal footing with religion in such universities as Cordoba and the University of Paris. After a large assortment of ancient …


Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2018

Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia

Transference

No abstract provided.


Martial Iv.29 By Martial, George Held Dec 2018

Martial Iv.29 By Martial, George Held

Transference

Translated from Latin by George Held.


Four Poems From The Divine Way Station By Shaojun Li, Shelley Kristina Hu Dec 2018

Four Poems From The Divine Way Station By Shaojun Li, Shelley Kristina Hu

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Translated from Chinese by Shelley Kristina Hu:

  • At Dusk
  • The Divine Way Station
  • Confession
  • Green Jade


Five Poems From Miss Suki, Or America Is Not Far By Utz Rachowski, Louise Stoehr Dec 2018

Five Poems From Miss Suki, Or America Is Not Far By Utz Rachowski, Louise Stoehr

Transference

The five short poems selected from Utz Rachowski’s (1954- ) 2013 volume Miss Suki oder Amerika ist nicht weit! mark a shift in his poetic work. His poetry and prose focus almost exclusively on life in the former German Democratic Republic. During the time the GDR existed, his critical poems were cause for his arrest and imprisonment and eventual exile to West Germany. Rachowski has continued to examine his experiences of life under state oppression, including the ramifications of unification. With the 2013 publication of Miss Suki, Rachowski added a new tone of lightness to his writing, which nevertheless …


Two Poems By Robert Desnos, Armine Kotin Mortimer Dec 2018

Two Poems By Robert Desnos, Armine Kotin Mortimer

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Translated from French by Armine Kotin Mortimer:

  • So often have I dreamt of you
  • No, love has not died


Poems By Rilke, Catullus, And Baudelaire, Susan Mclean Dec 2018

Poems By Rilke, Catullus, And Baudelaire, Susan Mclean

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Translated by Susan McLean:

  • From German - Die Erblindende (The Woman Going Blind) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
  • From Latin - Catullus 11 by Catullus (c.84 - c.54 BC)
  • From French - Les Deux Bonnes Sœurs (The Two Sisters of Mercy) and Bien loin d'ici (Very Far from Here) by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)


Four Poems By Yu Xiuhua, Xinlu Yan Dec 2018

Four Poems By Yu Xiuhua, Xinlu Yan

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Translated from Chinese by Xinlu Yan:

  • My Dog, Little Wu
  • I Crossed Half of China to Lay You
  • An Evening in Early Winter
  • I Please This world With Pains


Three Poems By Alfred De Musset, Zack Rogow Dec 2018

Three Poems By Alfred De Musset, Zack Rogow

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Translated from French by Zack Rogow:

  • To Ulric G.
  • I love the first shiver of winter
  • Venice


Three Poems From The Fabric Of The Universe By Andrée Chedid, Kathryn L. Kimball Dec 2018

Three Poems From The Fabric Of The Universe By Andrée Chedid, Kathryn L. Kimball

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Translated from French by Kathryn Kimball:

  • Still Here Passing Through
  • Growing Old VI
  • Dying IV


Four Poems In Diverse Styles By Natsume Sōseki, Erik R. Lofgren Dec 2018

Four Poems In Diverse Styles By Natsume Sōseki, Erik R. Lofgren

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Translated from Japanese by Erik Lofgren.


Three Laisses From The Franco-Italian Song Of Roland, John T. Duval Dec 2018

Three Laisses From The Franco-Italian Song Of Roland, John T. Duval

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These three laisses, that is, decasyllabic verse-paragraphs of various lengths whose lines end with the same assonance, are from the thirteenth-century Franco-Italian version of The Song of Roland, known as the V4 manuscript of St. Mark's Church, Venice. They illustrate creative thirteenth-century innovations, in a slightly different language, added to the much better known twelfth-century Anglo-Norman French Chanson de Roland, known as the Oxford version.

“La Chanson de Roland”: The French Corpus, Vol. 1, Part 2, The Venice 4 Version, 2005, Brepols, 2005, pp. 97, 100-1, 246-7.


Four Poems By Yoshiko Hanabusa, Rina Kikuchi Dec 2018

Four Poems By Yoshiko Hanabusa, Rina Kikuchi

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Translated from Japanese by Rina Kikuchi:

  • The State of My Day
  • Fallen Blossom
  • Over the Winter Mountains
  • The Battle of Sparrows


Better Left Unsaid And Other Poems, John Brugaletta Dec 2018

Better Left Unsaid And Other Poems, John Brugaletta

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Translated from Classical Greek by John Brugaletta:

  • Better Left Unsaid by Philodemus (110-35 BC)
  • Still Young by Philodemus
  • Le Moment Psychologique by Rufinus (340-410 AD)


To The Arab Nation: After “Damn You,” You Are No Longer Worthy Of Greetings, Houssem Ben Lazreg Dec 2018

To The Arab Nation: After “Damn You,” You Are No Longer Worthy Of Greetings, Houssem Ben Lazreg

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Translated from Arabic by Houssem Ben Lazreg.


Six Poems From Cargo Of Stars — Coolitude By Khal Torabully, Nancy Naomi Carlson Dec 2018

Six Poems From Cargo Of Stars — Coolitude By Khal Torabully, Nancy Naomi Carlson

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Translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson:

  • I refuse
  • I have faith in the rhythm of waves
  • I know the echo
  • No grammar can express
  • My cargo mother-of-pearl
  • Night will shower the hidden flowers


Three Inscriptions For Paintings By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel Dec 2018

Three Inscriptions For Paintings By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.


Four Poems From Thorny Roses By Ichinohe Kenzō, Joshua Solomon Dec 2018

Four Poems From Thorny Roses By Ichinohe Kenzō, Joshua Solomon

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Translated from Japanese by Joshua Solomon:

  • Thorny Roses
  • Sand Pear Petals
  • Rice Fish
  • Early Spring

Author acknowledges Ito Yumiko of Tsugaru Shobo for securing translation and publication rights.


Four Poems From To Young Utari By Yaeko Batchelor, Laurel Taylor Dec 2018

Four Poems From To Young Utari By Yaeko Batchelor, Laurel Taylor

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Translated from Ainu and Japanese by Laurel Taylor:

  • Wild stag...
  • Had I even...
  • Raised on...
  • My utari...


The End Of The World And Other Poems, Gregory Divers Dec 2018

The End Of The World And Other Poems, Gregory Divers

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Translated from German by Gregory Divers:

  • The End of the World by Jakob van Hoddis
  • The Dreaming Man by Jakob van Hoddis
  • natura morta by Yaak Karsunke
  • dazzling deception by Yaak Karsunke


Four Poems By Yang Chia-Hsien, Tina Z. Shan Dec 2018

Four Poems By Yang Chia-Hsien, Tina Z. Shan

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Translated from Chinese by Tina Z. Shan:

  • Waltzing Violence
  • The Drill
  • Breakfast on Pluto
  • The Keepsake


Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2018

Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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No abstract provided.


Transference Vol. 6, Fall 2018 Dec 2018

Transference Vol. 6, Fall 2018

Transference

Complete issue with covers of Transference Vol. 6, Fall 2018


Conscious Consumerism: A Design Process For Stylish Sustainable Apparel, Luz Becerra Dec 2018

Conscious Consumerism: A Design Process For Stylish Sustainable Apparel, Luz Becerra

Honors Theses

The main objective of this paper is to explore current consumer behavior and perspective on sustainable apparel as well as future trends in the market place such as willingness to buy. I investigated the market for organic apparel brands, and identified potential areas of growth. My findings concluded that young consumers lack interest in sustainable apparel because they are not sufficiently educated in the topic and are not willing to sacrifice their style identity, consequently purchasing trendy fast-fashion items. The fashion industry is famously claimed to be the second most polluting industry in the world, so I designed a line …


Research-Based Music Composition For Anxiety Reduction, Carly Crusius Dec 2018

Research-Based Music Composition For Anxiety Reduction, Carly Crusius

Honors Theses

The following undergraduate honors thesis utilizes the Therapeutic Function of Music (TFM) Plan worksheet conceived by Dr. Deanna Hanson-Abromeit as a template to guide research and analysis for how the musical elements should be structured to support the goal of anxiety reduction for college-aged students. Anxiety is a mental health concern that is prevalent among college students due to the variety of social, environmental, and academic stressors that affect their day-to-day lives. The TFM was established to provide transparency and a common language within the field of music therapy and beyond when discussion the elements of music. Research was conducted …


Nostalgia And Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories: Salience And Content In Musicians Vs. Non-Musicians, Taylorlyn Mehnert Dec 2018

Nostalgia And Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories: Salience And Content In Musicians Vs. Non-Musicians, Taylorlyn Mehnert

Honors Theses

This paper examines a subsection of data from a larger study conducted by Alycia Sterenberg titled, “The determinants of affect, emotional arousal, and autobiographical memories on music-evoked nostalgia”. The question being examined was: when examining musicians and non-musicians, what difference is there in the intensity of nostalgic memories between the two groups; what elements of a memory are either group more likely to be nostalgic about when listening to music they have labeled as nostalgic for themselves? The data was acquired from questionnaires participants filled out after listening to music generated to be similar to that which they had labeled …