Constructing Abe No Seimei: Integrating Genre And Disparate Narratives In Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji, 2014 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Constructing Abe No Seimei: Integrating Genre And Disparate Narratives In Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji, Devin T. Recchio
Masters Theses
The Onmyōji series has had an incredible impact on Japanese fiction. It has created an entire genre of material called onmyōjimono and sold 5 million copies counting only the novel series. Despite this, it has been woefully understudied by both Japanese and English speaking scholars. The Japanese scholars that do acknowledge it use it as a springboard to launch a survey of Abe no Seimei in written and performed media throughout history, and the English speaking scholars have limited their analyses to the form that oni take in the narrative. My research has revealed that Yumemakura Baku utilizes a complex …
Europe In Crisis, Call For Papers, 2014 University of Cyprus
Europe In Crisis, Call For Papers, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
The European Union in Crisis: Explorations in Representation and Democratic Legitimacy (Forthcoming, Springer Verlag) Please see the attached doc. You are invited to send me your proposed title, abstract and bio (one paragraph).
20140904.2: Classical Studies, 1915-1984, 2014 Marshall University
20140904.2: Classical Studies, 1915-1984, College Of Liberal Arts
Guides to University Archives
These items include materials from the Department of Classical Studies at Marshall University from 1915-1984. Items were received in 2014 and include notable materials from the Classical Language Association, lecture slides, readings, suggested changes in the university calendar, and Marshall University News from May 30, 1984. This is not an exhaustive list. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents
Framing Identity: Repudiating The Ideal In Chicana Literature, 2014 Northern Michigan University
Framing Identity: Repudiating The Ideal In Chicana Literature, Michael A. Flores
All NMU Master's Theses
In the 1960s Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez penned his now canonical, epic poem “I Am Joaquin.” The poem chronicles the historic oppression of a transnational, Mexican people as well as revolutionary acts of their forefathers in resisting tyranny. Coinciding with a series of renewed, sociopolitical campaigns, collectively known as the Chicano Movement, Gonzales’ poem uses vivid imagery to present an idealized representation of Chicanos and encouraged his reader to engage in revolutionary action. Though the poem encourages strong leadership, upward mobility, and political engagement the representations of women in his text are misogynistic and limiting.
His presentation of the “black-shawled …
Augustine, Wannabe Philosopher: The Search For Otium Honestum, 2014 University of Tennessee Knoxville
Augustine, Wannabe Philosopher: The Search For Otium Honestum, Allen G. Wilson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Augustine, Wannabe Philosopher: The Search For Otium Honestum, 2014 University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Augustine, Wannabe Philosopher: The Search For Otium Honestum, Allen Griffith Wilson
EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
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A Response To Abraham's Path, 2014 Georgia State University
A Response To Abraham's Path, Lucy Felker
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Proto-Feminism In Ancient Global Texts, 2014 University of Washington - Tacoma Campus
Proto-Feminism In Ancient Global Texts, Jody A. Dammann-Matthews
Global Honors Theses
This paper was written to explore the patriarchal interpretations of ancient global texts and to uncover erroneous interpretations of the texts highlighted. Two texts were chosen, the biblical story of Deborah and Jael and the story of Shaharazad. They were both analyzed and compared. In this work the stories were scrutinized through the lens of proto-feminism and the patriarchal interpretations that have been accepted through history. The interpretation of these texts have downplayed the proto-feminist aspects of the protagonists and the patriarchal interpretations applied to these texts have subverted and portrayed women in a negative rather than a positive light. …
Sonata Divina Commedia (Part I: Inferno), 2014 Southern Methodist University
Sonata Divina Commedia (Part I: Inferno), Anthony Elia
Bridwell Library Research
Part 1 of planned 3-part violin and piano sonata modeled after Dante's "Divina Commedia." Part 1 "Inferno" is a wild modernist adventure for violin and piano, echoing the terrors of inferno. As the piece is incredibly virtuosic, the composer allows for variation, adaptation, and some minor changes if necessary for performers to execute the piece, as faithfully as they can. The work was written in honor of two superb musicians, who by random chance, the composer met or had connections with separately, before realizing the violinist (Mr. Kerr) and the pianist (Mr. Wallace) actually met and went to school together …
Twice-Made Men: The Journey To The Afterlife And Back, 2014 Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Twice-Made Men: The Journey To The Afterlife And Back, John M. Farkas
Honors Bachelor of Arts
This paper will provide a comprehensive account of the afterlife in modern literature and then a more in-depth analysis of how the near-death experience transforms those who have them in modern accounts. For my modern sources I will be examining Todd Burpo’s non-fiction New York Times Best Seller Heaven is for Real, Dr. Eben Alexander’s non-fiction New York Times Best Seller Proof of Heaven and the BBC’s documentary entitled “The Day I Died,” produced by Kate Broome. I will give the same comprehensive examination of the Underworld in classical literature and then continue to give a deeper analysis of …
“La Masacre De La Rochela: Platón Y El Problema De La Justicia” (The Massacre Of La Rochela: Plato And The Problem Of Justice), 2014 University of Massachusetts Boston
“La Masacre De La Rochela: Platón Y El Problema De La Justicia” (The Massacre Of La Rochela: Plato And The Problem Of Justice), Andrés Henao Castro
Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro
No abstract provided.
Eastern Atlantic Coast, 2014 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eastern Atlantic Coast, Elizabeth S. Chilton, Meredith D. Hardy
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Mammonymy, Maternal-Line Names, And Cultural Identification: Clues From The Onomasticon Of Hellenistic Uruk, 2014 University of California Berkeley
Mammonymy, Maternal-Line Names, And Cultural Identification: Clues From The Onomasticon Of Hellenistic Uruk, Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Laurie Pearce
Art History Research
The onomasticon of Hellenistic Uruk demonstrates that, in some cases, individuals with Greek names were included in otherwise Babylonian families. Often, such Greek names have been interpreted by scholars as evidence for Hellenization. This article suggests an alternate explanation, based on evidence throughout the family trees for a series of naming practices that focus on the perpetuation of names of female relatives and transmission of preferred family names through maternal lines. Particularly important to this discussion are the practices of mammonymy, a term coined here to refer to papponymy’s gendered parallel, i.e., the naming of a girl after her grandmother …
Ancient Greek Music: The Aulos And The Kithara, 2014 Bowling Green State University
Ancient Greek Music: The Aulos And The Kithara, Carina Carbone
Honors Projects
The aulos was one of the foremost woodwind instruments in ancient Greece; likewise, the kithara was one of the foremost string instruments. They varied in both form and function throughout time and by region. Given the popularity of both instruments, there are many surviving art pieces which illustrate them and their uses. There are also surviving samples of the instruments themselves.
The Chimerae Of Their Age:Twelfth Century Cistercian Engagement Beyond Monastic Walls, 2014 Pomona College
The Chimerae Of Their Age:Twelfth Century Cistercian Engagement Beyond Monastic Walls, Daniel J. Martin
Pomona Senior Theses
One of the great paradoxes of the medieval period is the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1225), in which monks of the Cistercian Order took an active and violent role in campaigning against the heretics of the Languedoc. Why, and how, did this order officially devoted to prayer and contemplation become one of the prime orchestrators of one of medieval Europe’s most gruesome affairs? This thesis seeks to answer that question, not by looking at the crusading Cistercians themselves, but at their predecessor Bernard of Clairvaux, who—I will argue—made the Albigensian Crusade possible by making it permissible for monks to intervene in the …
Rape And Revolution: Tacitus On Livia And Augustus, 2014 Xavier University - Cincinnati
Rape And Revolution: Tacitus On Livia And Augustus, Thomas E. Strunk
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Brill Companions To Classical Reception Series, 2013 University of Cyprus
Brill Companions To Classical Reception Series, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
This is a revised updated Call for the series launched by Brill Academic Publishers, "Companions to Classical Reception". A list of forthcoming Companions appears at the end of the document.
Domitian's Lightning Bolts And Close Shaves In Pliny, 2013 Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Domitian's Lightning Bolts And Close Shaves In Pliny, Thomas E. Strunk
Faculty Scholarship
Pliny's portrayal of his public life under Domitian has often come under fire from both those who approach Pliny'sLettersfrom a historical perspective and those who study them as a literary production. This article reevaluates Pliny's experiences in five significant areas: public speaking,amicitia, political promotion, threats of political persecution, and survival and reconciliation. In all of these circumstances, Pliny is found to be an honest narrator of his own political struggles under Domitian and an eloquent voice for his generation's endurance.
Asking For Plato's Forgiveness. Floyer Sydenham: A Platonic Visionary Of 18th-Century Britain, 2013 University of Cyprus
Asking For Plato's Forgiveness. Floyer Sydenham: A Platonic Visionary Of 18th-Century Britain, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Floyer Sydenham (1710–1787), the eminent British Platonist, has been unduly neglected in the interpretative historiography of the modern Platonic tradition. Amid a climate of indifference, he set out to offer the first complete English translation of the Platonic dialogues, begging for subscriptions that never materialized. He died in debtors’ prison on April 1, 1787. Between 1759 and 1780 he managed to translate nine dialogues incorporating a large number of explanatory notes and linguistic emendations to the existing texts. Set in the context of the intellectual and discursive tradition of the era, Sydenham’s Platonism expanded on Lord Shaftesbury’s teleological views of …
“Una Oda Para Las Farc-Ep: El Legado De Esquilo” (An Ode To The Farc-Ep: The Legacy Of Aeschylus), 2013 University of Massachusetts Boston
“Una Oda Para Las Farc-Ep: El Legado De Esquilo” (An Ode To The Farc-Ep: The Legacy Of Aeschylus), Andrés Henao Castro
Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro
No abstract provided.