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Bridging Two Fields: Game Theory And Crime And Punishment, Sarah Matthews, Mark Purves
Bridging Two Fields: Game Theory And Crime And Punishment, Sarah Matthews, Mark Purves
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Many scholars have drawn on the tools of Game Theory to explore the Humanities as a whole, but have failed to make sense of the great contributions of Russian literature. In fact, the only two articles dealing with Russian literary works and Game Theory were made in 1968 and 1988. Therefore, the purpose of our project was to frame Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment through a reading of Game Theory. Approaching the novel in this light allowed us to better understand Raskolnikov’s behavior and the moral implications of his actions and the novel itself.
Generational Attitudes Reflected Through Soviet Socialist Realism, Kelsey Herdman, Tony Brown
Generational Attitudes Reflected Through Soviet Socialist Realism, Kelsey Herdman, Tony Brown
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In his biography “Raising the Banner” artist Geli Korzhev, a Socialist Realist artist, believes that Socialist Realism should have been titled as “social realism”; that “socialism is associated with politics but it should be aimed at social issues,” and that “truth is a means to learn reality.”1 By studying Socialist Realism we see more than just the politics that governed the USSR between the 1940s leading up to its collapse in 1991. My original intent for writing this paper was to show the generational attitudes reflected through Socialist Realism, by comparing how the topics of the pieces changed over time. …
Rediscovering Olga Wisinger-Florian, Nancy Eyre, Michelle James
Rediscovering Olga Wisinger-Florian, Nancy Eyre, Michelle James
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The project Rediscovering Olga Wisinger-Florian culminated in the compilation of an online bibliography of secondary texts about the Austrian artist Olga Wisinger-Florian combined with a biography and catalogue of visual works by the artist published in The Sophie Digital Library (http://sophie.byu.edu). This will make it possible for scholars, students, educators, and the art community around the world to have access to Olga Wisinger-Florian’s work.