Toward The Ideal Of A World Civilization: Progressive Exploration By Japanese Scholars,
2026
Brigham Young University
Toward The Ideal Of A World Civilization: Progressive Exploration By Japanese Scholars, Kōji Yoshino
Comparative Civilizations Review
What kind of academic discipline is the comparative study of civilizations? To begin with, it can be described as a scientific field that takes civilization as its object of study, researching the various civilizations of the world, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, through the method of comparison. However, what exactly is this object of study, "civilization"? Specifically, to what does it refer? Furthermore, when we speak of "comparison," what kind of method does this entail? It is difficult to provide clear answers to these numerous questions. The primary reason for this difficulty stems from the inherent polysemy and …
Review:Linklater, Andrew. Violence And Civilization In The Western States-Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2017.,
2026
Brigham Young University
Review:Linklater, Andrew. Violence And Civilization In The Western States-Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2017., Stephen T. Satkiewicz
Comparative Civilizations Review
The late Andrew Linklater (1949-2023) has been considered one of the most influential scholars within the field of International Relations. This was the result of his innovative synthesis into the field, with others, of the historical sociology of Norbert Elias (1897- 1990), work that addressed the long-term figuration processes of societies. This synthesis was enriched with the insights of the English School of International Relations, as devised by Martin Wight (1913-1972) and Hedley Bull (1932-1985), scholars who analyzed the many and differing interlocking networks and connections amongst geopolitical actors on the world stage. These efforts led Linklater to his final …
Full Issue,
2026
Brigham Young University
Entendre L’Inouï: Resonance, Volume, And Transduction In Gilbert Gatore’S Le Passé Devant Soi,
2026
Illinois State University
Entendre L’Inouï: Resonance, Volume, And Transduction In Gilbert Gatore’S Le Passé Devant Soi, Rebecca Saunders
Faculty Publications – English
This paper analyses three features of sound – resonance, volume, and transduction – in Gilbert Gatore’s novel of memory and the Rwandan genocide, Le passé devant soi [The Past Before Us]. Theorising two modes of resonance in Gatore’s novel – thematic and semiotic – I demonstrate how the novel is structured by semantic forms of resonance, how those resonances incite significance, and how they are augmented by a semiotic resonance that produces “vibratory meanings”. I subsequently examine the novel’s depiction of shatteringly loud volume, its ability to obliterate thought, and to cause physical harm. Elaborating reasons why the …
The Criterion Contributors,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Letter From The Editors,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Table Of Contents,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Embodied Memory: Somatic Expressions Of Trauma In The Gathering,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Embodied Memory: Somatic Expressions Of Trauma In The Gathering, Caroline Kramer
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Coleridge’S Living Power: “The Eolian Harp”,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Coleridge’S Living Power: “The Eolian Harp”, Thomas Formichelli
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Truth In Fragments: Narrative Multiplicity In Gloria Naylor’S Mama Day,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Truth In Fragments: Narrative Multiplicity In Gloria Naylor’S Mama Day, Lilly Patton
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Looking Towards The Past And Future With Waiata: Māori Historical Traditions In Ka Eke Ki Wairaka,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Looking Towards The Past And Future With Waiata: Māori Historical Traditions In Ka Eke Ki Wairaka, Nuala Reynolds
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Dryden: Master Of Rhetoric,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
The Ruination Of A Creator By His Own Hand: Doctor Faustus’ Self-Distance From Godliness And Unimaginative Sloth,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
The Ruination Of A Creator By His Own Hand: Doctor Faustus’ Self-Distance From Godliness And Unimaginative Sloth, Amanda Sopchockchai
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Finding “Humberland”: The French Language As A Privatized Signal In Lolita,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
Finding “Humberland”: The French Language As A Privatized Signal In Lolita, Mae Legare
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Flickers Of Desire: Shared Consciousness And Queer Ethics In Mrs. Dalloway,
2026
College of the Cross
Flickers Of Desire: Shared Consciousness And Queer Ethics In Mrs. Dalloway, Maeve Doherty
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Complete Issue,
2026
College of the Holy Cross
From Sorochyntsi To St. Petersburg: National Identity In The Works Of Nikolai Gogol,
2026
Colby College
From Sorochyntsi To St. Petersburg: National Identity In The Works Of Nikolai Gogol, Gary Jay Kogoy Jr.
Honors Theses
Nikolai Gogol's extant works depict a man torn between his birthplace of Ukraine and the nineteenth-century milieu of Imperial Russia. Notably, he did not reveal his name for some time after publishing his first story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka; as a result, readers attributed the tales of Ukrainian life within not to Gogol, but to the charming "Ukrainian jester" persona of Rudy Panko. Even after revealing his identity and garnering respect in the St. Petersburg literary scene, his contemporaries often viewed him as sly and suspicious because of his ancestry. Perhaps due to external doubts regarding …
From Voice To Noise: Accented Speech, Constructed Languages, And Subtitling Practices As Markers Of Difference,
2026
Emerson College
From Voice To Noise: Accented Speech, Constructed Languages, And Subtitling Practices As Markers Of Difference, Alice Alonso Limongi
Course Work
This monograph explores three main strategies of vocal exotification in Anglophone film: representations of accented speech, inclusion of constructed languages, and non-subtitling of snippets of other languages. Using Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding framework, I approach these practices as rhetorical devices that both construct and are constructed by the complexity of our social landscapes. Portrayals of accented speech, constructed languages, and subtitling practices form a gradient of abstraction, where the denotative meaning of words gradually loses importance to the sonic characteristics of the voice. Combining broader cultural scholarship from Edward Said, sound studies writings on power and language from Nina Sun Eidsheim …
Life As Art: David Foenkinos’S Charlotte (2014) And Creepiness In (Auto)Biography,
2026
Bryn Mawr College
Life As Art: David Foenkinos’S Charlotte (2014) And Creepiness In (Auto)Biography, Juliana Vair
Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses
No abstract provided.
Toward A World History Of Pre-Modern Coin Imitations,
2026
Brigham Young University
Toward A World History Of Pre-Modern Coin Imitations, Niv Horesh
Comparative Civilizations Review
Among historians, it has become axiomatic that coinage over three millennia served three purposes: as a medium of exchange, as a store of value, and as a unit of account. The communicative aspects of coinage, i.e. the imagery it carries often by way of issuer propaganda, have been of less interest even if it remains the mainstay of numismatists. But in the world of numismatics, globally framed studies of imagery or iconography are rare. This article is aimed at correcting this imbalance, at least provisionally. It will explore the main archetypes of coinage imitation by way of inferring commonalities or …
