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Examining Vergil's Understanding Of Homer Through Nausicaa And Dido, Rebekah Pimentel 2020 Brigham Young University - Provo

Examining Vergil's Understanding Of Homer Through Nausicaa And Dido, Rebekah Pimentel

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Beyond demonstrating that Latin could achieve lilterary monumentality, the Aeneid filled the Augustan regime with echoes of Homer's ancient heroes. An inseparable component of Homer's tales is also found in the manner which Vergil integrates women and goddesses into Aeneas's odyssey towards founding Rome. I am examining gendered interactions in the Odyssey and Aeneid because I want to understand the differences between Vergil's hero and Homer's so that my reader can appreciate particular nuances in the reception of classical literary models in Augustan Rome. When we examine how Homer shows women helping or hindering Odysseus, we find templates that Vergil …


The Moving Image And The Time Of Prophecy: Trauma And Precognition In L. Von Trier’S Melancholia (2011) And D. Villeneuve’S Arrival (2016), Luca Zanchi 2020 Stony Brook University

The Moving Image And The Time Of Prophecy: Trauma And Precognition In L. Von Trier’S Melancholia (2011) And D. Villeneuve’S Arrival (2016), Luca Zanchi

Journal of Religion & Film

Both the deferred recurrence of post-traumatic symptoms and the foresight granted by prophetic vision bring about a disruption of temporality and generate a chronological discontinuity which is often formally rendered as narrative discontinuity. This similarity produces an interpretive ambiguity that is central to the films, Melancholia (2011) by Von Trier and Arrival (2016) by Denis Villeneuve. Both movies begin by hinting at the post-traumatic origin of visions and then gradually shift towards a prophetic explanation. In addressing these two case studies, this article approaches prophecy and its temporality from a narratological perspective, integrating the critical parameters of trauma-theory with the …


Symposium Of Laughter: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity And Sociability In George Knapton's Portraits Of The Society Of Dilettanti, Meredith Hanna 2020 Brigham Young University

Symposium Of Laughter: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity And Sociability In George Knapton's Portraits Of The Society Of Dilettanti, Meredith Hanna

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Ideal masculine conduct for aristocratic and bourgeois circles of the British 18th century entailed polite restraint, and much of the scholarly discussion on 18th century British masculinity treats politeness and how it was taught and modeled. The Society of Dilettanti, a British antiquarian society whose early members met on the Grand Tour, seemed to flout polite ideals in their portraits by George Knapton, executed from 1740-1749. With consideration to expanding dialogue on the nature of ideal masculine conduct in the 18th century, this paper asserts that the portraits create, through depictions of alcoholic ritual and interaction with …


Really, Warren Motte 2020 University of Colorado Boulder

Really, Warren Motte

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

The contemporary French novel is striking in its diversity, its complexity, and its resistance to easy classification. This is not an utterly new phenomenon (one recalls both Gide and Queneau, in the 1920s and 1930s respectively, describing the novel as a fundamentally lawless genre), but it is legitimate to say that the novel's horizon of possibility has broadened during our time, allowing for new kinds of expression. Those latter may be based in formalist experimentation (I'm thinking of writers like Jacques Roubaud, or Paul Fournel, or Stéphane Vanderhaeghe), or personal confession (Édouard Louis, Camille Laurens, Philippe Forest, for instance), or …


Narrateur, Narration Et Roman À Thèse Dans Sérotonine, Gerald Prince 2020 University of Pennsylvania

Narrateur, Narration Et Roman À Thèse Dans Sérotonine, Gerald Prince

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

Le narrateur autodiégétique de Sérotonine, on l'a déjà souvent remarqué, fait le portrait d'une dépression (la sienne) et oppose tradition et modernité, agriculture et industrie, campagne et ville, amour ou sexe (c'est, semble-t-il, un peu la même chose) et solitude ou séparation. Il souligne également les multiples formatages dont nous somme victimes, les nombreux mécanismes qui nous emprisonnent, tout en admettant que nous ne sommes pas entièrement déterminés et tout en détaillant une imposante série d'occasions perdues (qu'il s'agisse de proposer le mariage à la femme qu'on aime, de lui expliquer une infidélité ou de se tuer dans un …


Terre Brûlée : Une Éco-Poétique Du Vide, Pierre Taminiaux 2020 Georgetown University

Terre Brûlée : Une Éco-Poétique Du Vide, Pierre Taminiaux

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

Au XXIe siècle, les sociétés occidentales sont confrontées à de nouvelles formes de chaos. Celui-ci comporte plusieurs dimensions, à la fois sociales, culturelles et écologiques. L’art doit dès lors prendre en considération cette situation d’une manière ou d’une autre. C’est ce qui m’autorise à parler ici de mes images photographiques rassemblées sous le titre de Terre brûlée.

Celles-ci ont été prises à l’automne 2017, au Portugal, près de la ville de Leiria, dans une forêt de bord de mer (une pinède, plus exactement) qui fut longtemps considérée dans l’histoire de ce pays comme un domaine royal. Cette saison fut …


20th & 21st Century French And Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University Of Nebraska, March 26-28, 2020: Call For Papers, Program, And Plenary Speakers, 2020 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

20th & 21st Century French And Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University Of Nebraska, March 26-28, 2020: Call For Papers, Program, And Plenary Speakers

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

Call for Papers

Program

Plenary Speakers: Scholastique Mukasonga, Nicolas Kurtovitch, Marie-Célie Agnant, Stephanie Posthumus

History of the Colloquium

Research Prize

Sponsors

Organizing Committee


« Ceindre La Terre » : Sur Quelques Tours Du Monde, Jean-François Duclos 2020 Metropolitan State University of Denver

« Ceindre La Terre » : Sur Quelques Tours Du Monde, Jean-François Duclos

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

« La vie est ronde », écrit Joë Bousquet en 1946. Le constat, cela va sans dire, est le même s’agissant de la Terre et nourrit l’imaginaire depuis qu’on tient le fait pour acquis. « Métaphore du cercle » de Robert Poulet, « phénoménologie du rond » de Gaston Bachelard, et depuis quelque temps l’idée de « planétarité » : chaque époque offre le moyen de spéculer sur ce que, dans leur essai intitulé « The Planetary Condition », Elias et Moraru décrivent comme « a structure of awareness1 ». Se soumettre à l’évidence de cette géométrie constitue une manière …


2020 Oklahoma Research Day Full Program, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 2020 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2020 Oklahoma Research Day Full Program, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


Ce Que Le Mirage Doit À L’Oasis De Yasmina Khadra: Comment Devient-On Enfant Du Sahara ?, Brigitte Tsobgny 2020 Florida State University

Ce Que Le Mirage Doit À L’Oasis De Yasmina Khadra: Comment Devient-On Enfant Du Sahara ?, Brigitte Tsobgny

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

Être un enfant du Sahara, est-ce seulement être capable d’escalader pieds nus les barkhanes brûlantes ? Dans Ce que le mirage doit à l’oasis, Yasmina Khadra invite le lecteur à découvrir son Sahara natal à travers différents personnages. Pour les uns, le Sahara c’est l’ennui, le silence, l’immobilité. Pour d’autres, c’est un lieu d’inspiration, de méditation, de prières ou d’apaisement. Pour d’autres encore, c’est un terrain vague juste bon pour les courses automobiles ou des essais nucléaires. Les narcissiques y voient une terre de conquête, les jihadistes ont fait de ses grottes des repaires d’assassins. La culture ou l’époque peuvent-elle …


The Returns Of The Roman De La Terre : Défricheurs And Their Migrant Others In The Canadien Imaginary, Alvin Y. Chuan 2020 University of Southern California

The Returns Of The Roman De La Terre : Défricheurs And Their Migrant Others In The Canadien Imaginary, Alvin Y. Chuan

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

The theme “parler la terre” presents an opportunity to reconsider Québec’s romans de la terre—farm novels from the turn of the Nineteenth Century into the Twentieth that are often considered to be the inaugural works of the province’s literary canon. Variously known as the “roman du territoire” or the “roman paysan”, this genre, with its idealized depictions of colonization and rural life, helped articulate what literary historian Dorothee Scholl would call the mythe du terroir—or in her own words, “the mythologizing of the soil as the site of French-Canadian national identity (103).” At the height of their popularity, these …


Reading Antelme With Levinas: Recreational Activities In Concentration Camps, Arwa Reda 2020 University of Minnesota

Reading Antelme With Levinas: Recreational Activities In Concentration Camps, Arwa Reda

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

Whether humanities humanize or not has always been a question that gathered both its proponents and opponents. Between those who confirm the statement and those who adamantly repudiate it, history has provided instances that simultaneously bear out both positions. Rather than attempting to prove or to deny the humanizing aspect of language and literature, this article looks at the matter from a different angle. Instead of the either-or argument, I propose the how as a bedrock of understanding the way humanities can humanize. Many camp survivors extolled what could be qualified as a redemptive force of language and literature. A …


La Terre Natale : À La Source De L’Écriture, Chez Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Michèle Druon 2020 California State University, Fullerton

La Terre Natale : À La Source De L’Écriture, Chez Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Michèle Druon

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

"Mais le pays natal est moins une étendue qu’une matière ; c’est un granit ou une terre, un vent ou une sécheresse, une eau ou une lumière ; c’est par lui que notre rêve prend sa juste substance ; c’est à lui que nous demandons notre couleur fondamentale." --Gaston Bachelard, L’Eau et les Rêves.

Tout au long de son oeuvre, Colette a cherché à ressusciter dans ses textes le « paradis terrestre » de son pays natal, la Bourgogne, et le rêve profond qui lui est attaché. Déjà évoquée dans les scènes campagnardes du premier Claudine (Claudine à l’Ecole, …


Front Matter, 2020 Brigham Young University

Front Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents, 2020 Brigham Young University

Table Of Contents

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Guest Editor’S Note, 2020 Brigham Young University

Guest Editor’S Note

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Edx And Harvardx. China X. China’S Past, Present And Future, Constance Wilkinson 2020 Brigham Young University

Edx And Harvardx. China X. China’S Past, Present And Future, Constance Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter, 2020 Brigham Young University

End Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, 2020 Brigham Young University

Full Issue

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Human Rights, Those Who Are Governed And The Legitimacy Of Law Enforcement, Lynn Rhodes 2020 Brigham Young University

Human Rights, Those Who Are Governed And The Legitimacy Of Law Enforcement, Lynn Rhodes

Comparative Civilizations Review

Most everyone, if not all of us, wants to be happy. Peace is a common denominator frequently sought. It is human nature to seek security, another word for happiness. Human Rights, as we know, are basic rights and freedoms that inherently belong to every person.


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