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Spears, Angela (Fa 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 344. Paper: "Folklore and Media Project on Folklore in Advertisements," written by Angela Spears for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Death Comes Alive; Technology And The Re‐Conception Of Death, Karen Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane

Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Browse through your local bookstore, or glance at a nearby movie marquee. Skim the pages of your nightly newspaper or the listings in your television guide. American culture's current focus poses a surprise. The popular eye is centered on a topic more taboo than the steamiest sexual encounter, more solemn than the deepest economic depression, and more universal than the common cold. The current decade reveals a remarkable up- surge in our collective attention toward death. Indeed in the 1990s, Americans have become nearly obsessed with a world that lurks beyond life as we know it.

Campbellsville - Taylor County, Kentucky Oral History Project (Fa 202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 202. Project includes 22 interviews with African Americans concerning their lives as Taylor County, Kentucky residents. Interviews are on compact discs with interviewer's notes included. Topics discussed include: family life, when and why they live in Taylor County, childhood experiences, community involvement and personal opinions about Taylor County.

Word Of The Day: Harrowing!, Sharon Lomurno

Sharon L Lomurno

Word of the day-Harrowing

So, we all start getting up and shaking off the chill from the night. The sun slowly begins to make it’s presence known. Breakfasts are made, hikes to the creek for one last look-see.

We break camp and load everything into the rental Santa Fe and people pile into Bobo’s truck to head up the mountain. Great, we are getting an early start!

Bobo sped up a little so he wouldn’t dust us out. The sun is getting warmer.

We were traveling a little ways behind Bobo and I was taking video of the crazy ride …

'Indian Rock' Civil Suit To Continue, Kenneth Hart

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Ashland Daily Independent on civil suit against Steve Shaffer in regards to the removal of Indian Head Rock from August 17, 2009.

Where It All Started: The Story Of Portsmouth's Famous Rock, Nikki Blankenship-Hamilton

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Scioto Voice on the Indian Head Rock and the Bannon family of Portsmouth, Ohio from August 13, 2009.

Shaffer Still Faces Suit In Rock Incident: Historian Faces Civil Lawsuit For His Part In Rock's Removal, Benita Heath

Indian Head Rock Project

Article in the Ironton Tribune on the civil suit against Steve Shaffer published on August 12, 2009.

Charge Dropped In 'Rock War' - State Still Fights To Get Ohio River's 'Indian Head Rock' Back, Joe Biesk

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Lexington Herald Leader on the legal dispute surrounding Indian Head Rock from August 3, 2009.

Charge Dropped In 'Rock War' - State Still Fights To Get Ohio River's 'Indian Head Rock' Back, Joe Biesk

Indian Head Rock Project

An Article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on August 3, 2009 describing the legal implications related to the removal of Indian Head Rock.

Wrong Boulder May Be At Center Of Battle Over Possible Indian Petroglyph, Associated Press

Indian Head Rock Project

Article submitted by the Associated Press on the legal battle over Indian Head Rock from August 2, 2009.

Felony Charge Against Rock Expedition Leader Nixed, Kenneth Hart

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Ashland Independent on July 31, 2009 regarding the dismissal of charges to Steve Shaffer in the removal of the Indian Head Rock from the Ohio River.

Felony Charge Against Rock Expedition Leader Nixed, Kenneth Hart

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Ashland Daily Independent on the felony charges against Steve Shaffer in regards to the removal of the Indian Head Rock from July 31, 2009.

Rock Battle Nears Its End - Editorial, Ironton Tribune

Indian Head Rock Project

An editorial published in the Ironton Tribune on the criminal charges against Steve Shaffer from July 31, 2009.

Criminal Side Of Rock Case Over For Shaffer, Benita Heath

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Ironton Tribune on the criminal charges and trial against Steve Shaffer from July 30, 2009.

Kentucky, Ohio Might Have Been Fighting Over Wrong Rock, Lexington Herald-Leader

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on July 26, 2009 stating that there are two Indian Head Rocks in the Ohio River.

Prosecution Files Motion To Dismiss In Rock Fight, Kenneth Hart

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Ashland Daily Independent on the trial related to the Indian Head Rock removal from July 25, 2009.

Kentucky Wants Case Against Shaffer Dropped, Benita Heath

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Ironton Tribune on the charges against Steve Shaffer related to the removal of the Indian Head Rock from July 25, 2009.

Ky., Ohio Might Have Fought Over Wrong Rock, Associated Press.

Indian Head Rock Project

Article published in the Lexington Herald Leader on the Indian Head Rock from July 25, 2009.

Sides Over Rock Dispute Ready For August Trial, Benita Heath

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Ironton Tribune on the dispute over the Indian Head Rock from July 22, 2009.

The War Of The Tea Houses, Or How Welsh Heritage In Patagonia Became A Valuable Commodity, Geraldine Lublin

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

The present article will explore how globalization and its economic implications have resulted in the commodification of Welsh heritage in Gaiman, a small town in the Argentine province of Chubut, with a special focus on the collectivity-defining custom of 'Welsh Tea' as offered by the local tea houses. After providing some background on the history of the Welsh community in Patagonia, the discussion will consider how the surge in heritage and culture tourism and tourism-related services has added new value to Welsh Patagonian culture and encouraged the positioning of Welsh cultural products and other aspects of heritage as marketable commodities, …

Manx Language Revitalization And Immersion Education, Marie Clague

e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies

The Manx language is currently enjoying a period of revitalization. The decline of the Manx language as the native vernacular language of the Isle of Man and the subsequent language shift to English are discussed in the first part of this paper. The paper then goes on to consider the revitalization of the language, with the emphasis on Manx-medium immersion education. The results of a questionnaire enquiring into parental motivations for choosing immersion education, and the linguistic backgrounds of the children are then examined in some detail.

"The ‘Sea Of Orality": An Introduction To Orality And Modern Irish Culture’, Seán Crosson Dr., Nessa Cronin, John Eastlake

Seán Crosson

[Introduction to the collection Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)] While the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland have been the focus of much scholarly work in the past, less consideration has been paid to the theoretical concept of “orality” and the corresponding significance of oral texts in modern Irish culture and society. The present collection of essays seeks to explore the relationships between such interrelated islands, and to highlight the connections between orality and textuality that, at different times and for different reasons, have not been recognised, foregrounded or integrated …

Soleil, Sexe Et Vidéo: La Comédie Populaire Aux Antilles, Françoise Naudillon

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The comedy of manners presented in the form of play or in the form of sketches or playlet by the medium of videos and DVDs is a phenomenon that develops in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana, but also in France. These productions are the link between communities in the Creole area (Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana) and the outside (metropolitan France and diaspora). They will be analyzed for their popular and scholarly features between erudite comedy and farce, between traditional and postcréolitaire cultural affirmation, between Creole and French, between Italian theatre and yardplay, between creole comedy and vaudeville, between negropolitan diaspora and …

Enquêtes Occultistes : Les Policiers Antillais Face Au Surnaturel, Françoise Cévaër

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Being rational and Cartesian, the detective novel is often bound by powerful constraints which seem not very compatible with the supernatural and the fantastic often defining West Indian writing. Through the analysis of Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique (1988) and Haitian Gary Victor’s Les cloches de la Brésilienne (2006), we will nevertheless see how well they work together, the irrational taking hold of the detective novel, leading paradoxically to the progressive elimination of Cartesian practices and challenging an exclusively rational portrayal of the world.

L’Imaginaire Du Poisson Amoureux Chez Les Romancières Francophones De La Caraïbe, Christiane Ndiaye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The criticism has rarely studied the Caribbean sentimental novel. This article examines some of the terms of the writing of love among some writers of the Caribbean (Thérèse Herpin, Irmine Romanette, Marie Berté, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, Marie Chauvet, Marie-Célie Agnant, Kettly Mars, etc.) in order to identify significant configurations. Indeed, while novelists incorporate several characteristics of the canonical sentimental novel, we can also detect in these texts miscegenation semiotics which link them both to the sentimental novel as a genre, to the realistic classic novel, and to the conventions of exotic literature and tales. Thus emerges in this corpus …

Les Glissements Policiers Dans Les Romans De P. Chamoiseau, R. Confiant Et F. Chalumeau, Mouhamadou Cissé

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article is linked according to moods of functioning of a few narrative elements resulting from the detective novel, genre which obeys a historically authentic composition. When the narration of inquiry follows usually linearity in the facts scheme of arrangement, Chamoiseau, Confiant and Chalumeau get down to this work without renouncing to creole pictures, thanks to parallel stories which show cultural intertextuality. We so analyze the way of carrying out the police investigations and their generic limits in three novels of these authors who demonstrate, with specific differences, how to adapt the police type in the context of creolity.

Thomas, Patricia (Fa 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 400. Paper: "Murder Ballads of Kentucky" written by Patricia Thomas for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Bush, Brendan David (Fa 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 175. Paper: "Millennium Virus," written by Brendan David Bush for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The Washington Post and the New York Times are referenced.

Elrod, Scott & Kevin Ming (Fa 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 388. Papers: "Bob Fleming: A Life History" written by Scott Elrod and "An Incomplete Life History of One Kentucky Sharecropper" written by Kevin Ming for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Fox, Randy (Fa 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 390. Interviews with Bruce Simmons and Bill Helm concerning war gaming miniatures, done for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.