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Violence And Sexuality In The Art Of Artemesia Gentileschi, Elisa Zavala, Dr. Steve Bule 2013 Brigham Young University

Violence And Sexuality In The Art Of Artemesia Gentileschi, Elisa Zavala, Dr. Steve Bule

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Dynamism, vibrance, movement and sumptuous color all define the art of the Southern Baroque period. Throughout my study of Art History this period has been the focus of my interest, therefore the opportunity to travel about Italy and Spain was a prime experience to delve deeper into the works and life histories of the artists of the Southern Baroque. I found that simply being surrounded by the environment and the people that influenced the artists of this era took me to a different level of understanding. My main subject of study while in Italy was the artist Artemesia Gentileschi. The …


Bilingual Quotations In Renaissance Poetry And The Relations Of Romance Languages, Treb HW Winegar, Dr. Christopher Lund 2013 Brigham Young University

Bilingual Quotations In Renaissance Poetry And The Relations Of Romance Languages, Treb Hw Winegar, Dr. Christopher Lund

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The study of bilingual quotations, made possible by this grant, has led me into a number of fascinating, related sidetracks which have been very little studied, especially since the waning of the French school of literature compareè. I have taken the time to study some of these sidetracks since they are relevant to the phenomenon I proposed to study. Others I have been able only to marvel at and reserve for future study.


New Voices In The North The Prospect Of Post-National Identity In Scandinavia, Andrew Christensen, Dr. Christopher Oscarson 2013 Brigham Young University

New Voices In The North The Prospect Of Post-National Identity In Scandinavia, Andrew Christensen, Dr. Christopher Oscarson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Europe needs a new political identity. Politicians, political scientists, and philosophers are all clamoring for a change in the definition of European community. Without an emotional glue to bind them together, many fear the noble purpose of the EU’s supranational project will stagnate in a past puddle called the nation-state. My purpose in this project has been to find a new ethos for European identity.


Nourish Tomorrow’S Generations, Karla Passey de Bustamante, Dr. Mark Grover 2013 Brigham Young University

Nourish Tomorrow’S Generations, Karla Passey De Bustamante, Dr. Mark Grover

Journal of Undergraduate Research

“Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness. Our political institutions…cannot rescue us if our basic institution, the family, is not intact. ”


Excavation On The North Slope Of Vesuvius: Establishing A Chronology, Kristina Sycamore, Dr. Roger Macfarlane 2013 Brigham Young University

Excavation On The North Slope Of Vesuvius: Establishing A Chronology, Kristina Sycamore, Dr. Roger Macfarlane

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Centuries of excavation around the south slope of Vesuvius has proven the volcanic eruption of 79 AD to be a boon to Roman archaeology and history. As multiple sites have been uncovered, archaeologists have viewed a snapshot in time. As a result, a great deal has been learned about the city of Pompeii and the surrounding area. It has become an essential resource and textbook example which Roman studies can scarcely avoid. However, for as much as this area surrounding Vesuvius has been uncovered, documented, and researched, the North Slope of the volcano has been largely ignored. Current excavations are …


Selected Bibliography For Work In Reading, Literacy, And Pedagogy, Geert Vandermeersche, Kris Rutten, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek 2013 Ghent University

Selected Bibliography For Work In Reading, Literacy, And Pedagogy, Geert Vandermeersche, Kris Rutten, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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Video Games And Citizenship, Jeroen Bourgonjon, Ronald Soetaert 2013 Ghent University

Video Games And Citizenship, Jeroen Bourgonjon, Ronald Soetaert

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In their article "Video Games and Citizenship" Jeroen Bourgonjon and Ronald Soetaert argue that digitization problematizes and broadens our perspective on culture and popular media and that this has important ramifications for our understanding of citizenship. Bourgonjon and Soetaert respond to the call of Gert Biesta for the contextualized study of young people's practices by exploring a particular aspect of digitization that affects young people, namely video games. They explore the new social spaces which emerge in video game culture and how these spaces relate to community building and citizenship. Bourgonjon and Soetaert also examine whether these social spaces can …


Rhetorical Analysis Of Literary Culture In Social Reading Platforms, Joachim Vlieghe, Kris Rutten 2013 Ghent University

Rhetorical Analysis Of Literary Culture In Social Reading Platforms, Joachim Vlieghe, Kris Rutten

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In their article "Rhetorical Analysis of Literary Culture in Social Reading Platforms" Joachim Vlieghe and Kris Rutten present a case study of the discourse surrounding literary phenomena that are emerging within social media. The case study is part of a methodological exploration within literacy studies whereby the social media's transformative effects on literary literacies are studied by focusing on language as symbolic and situated action. Vlieghe and Rutten have identified unique social reading platforms based on a prolonged study of the social media environment. The analysis of the developers' discourse on social reading platforms shows how developers are formulating new …


Introduction To Literacy And Society, Culture, Media And Education, Kris Rutten, Geert Vandermeersche 2013 Ghent University

Introduction To Literacy And Society, Culture, Media And Education, Kris Rutten, Geert Vandermeersche

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No abstract provided.


Literature, Digital Humanities, And The Age Of The Encyclopedia, Gunther Martens 2013 Ghent University

Literature, Digital Humanities, And The Age Of The Encyclopedia, Gunther Martens

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In his article "Literature, Digital Humanities, and the Age of the Encyclopedia" Gunther Martens takes his cue from Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities in order to discuss the way in which literature relates to new developments in technology. Martens argues that it is useful to situate some of the fears accompanying literature's renewed (and debated) exposure to media and technology against the background of a similar discussions earlier: the historical perspective allows to identify and link three specific discourses underpinning the debate, namely: education, rhetoric, and the concept of the encyclopedia. The encyclopedia and encyclopedic literature comprise and …


Using New Media In Teaching Greek Roma Students, Fenia Frangoulidou 2013 Western Macedonia University

Using New Media In Teaching Greek Roma Students, Fenia Frangoulidou

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In her article "Using New Media in Teaching Greek Roma Students" Fenia Frangoulidou discusses the use of media material as a supplementary teaching tool in a Roma classroom. Since 2011, Aristotle University has been running a European Union funded project that deals with a wide range of supportive measures for Roma students. Sociologists, social workers, and educators are the primary participants responsible for its implementation. In her study Frangoulidou discusses gender relations and racism and presents an analysis of the participation and interaction of six high school students in a mixed class of twenty-eight students. The purpose of the study …


About The Destruction, Continuation, And Transformation Of Art, Frank Maet 2013 Leuven University

About The Destruction, Continuation, And Transformation Of Art, Frank Maet

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In his article "About the Destruction, Continuation, and Transformation of Art" Maet offers an answer to the question raised by Arthur C. Danto's thesis how to discern art from non-art? Maet considers art from the perspective of a technologically mediated reality and he distinguishes three different views on contemporary visual art: the destruction, the continuation, and the transformation of art. Maet considers these three artistic views as different strategies to deal with our current technological condition and evaluates the merits of each of them. He argues that our thoroughly designed reality turns the strategy of artistic destruction into a dangerous …


Perspectives On Literary Reading And Book Culture, Geert Vandermeersche, Ronald Soetaert 2013 Ghent University

Perspectives On Literary Reading And Book Culture, Geert Vandermeersche, Ronald Soetaert

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In their article "Perspectives on Literary Reading and Book Culture" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert provide a narrative framework for analyzing literary scholars' argumentation in the debate on literature and the humanities. Starting from MacIntyre's narrative description of epistemic "crises" they analyze the stories authors construct and the positions they take and ascribe to others within larger developing (grand) narratives on the value and function of literary reading. Both traditional narratives and new alternative (i.e., enlarged) narratives are discussed in how they set up and frame the argument and how they create dichotomies.


Reading, Literacy, And Education, Mikko Lehtonen 2013 University of Tampere

Reading, Literacy, And Education, Mikko Lehtonen

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In his article "Reading, Literacy, and Education" Mikko Lehtonen outlines a contextual approach to literacy. He asks how the changing relations of culture and economy, transformation of nation states and national cultures and changing notions concerning affect and cognition, transform notions of literacy and reading. Relying on the results of a recent Finnish research project on new reading communities and new ways of reading, Lehtonen highlights substantial continuities in the reading habits of the so called Google generation when compared to other generations of readers. Print media is not, however, connected self-evidently to cognitive reading among the said generation. Lehtonen …


Rhetoric, Citizenship, And Cultural Literacy, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert 2013 Ghent University

Rhetoric, Citizenship, And Cultural Literacy, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert

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In their article "Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy" Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert start from concerns in contemporary educational debates about a growing lack of civic literacy. These complaints are raised both in the public sphere, in institutions of pedagogy, and in scholarship about the form, content, and function of civic literacy and civic education. Although there is an ongoing debate about the alleged decrease of political interest and the current state of civic literacy, it is clear that civic education has become an important focus of different governmental initiatives. Rutten and Soetaert aim to move away from a straightforward …


Integrating Social Media In Education, Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe, Pieter Verdegem 2013 Ghent University

Integrating Social Media In Education, Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe, Pieter Verdegem

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In their article "Integrating Social Media in Education" Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe and Pieter Verdegem propose a framework in order to integrate social media literacy in an educational setting. In today's networked society students are new media users and hence the relevance in curricula to include social media literacy. Vanwynsberghe and Verdegem propose a multidimensional conceptual framework of social media literacy that includes the practical, cognitive, and affective competencies needed to deal with information of social media, to communicate with others through social media, to create content on social media, and to handle the consequences related to these three activities. On the …


Practical And Theoretical Implications Of Digitizing The Middle Ages, Roberta Capelli 2013 University of Trento

Practical And Theoretical Implications Of Digitizing The Middle Ages, Roberta Capelli

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In her article "Practical and Theoretical Implications of Digitalizing the Middle Ages" Roberta Capelli discusses scholarship about and the teaching of medieval culture in digital humanities. While every medieval manuscript is an individual entity, displaying a series of unique and unrepeatable material, structural and aesthetic characteristics, digital devices are able to generate only two-dimensional photographic reproductions. However, the digital medium brings about some major improvements in the study — and teaching — of medieval manuscripts because the hypertextual nature of its applications allows us to analyse simultaneously synchronic and the diachronic dynamics. From a theoretical point of view, the difference …


Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013, 2013 Western Michigan University

Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013

Transference

Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese, and Russian into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.


Pencitraan Bangsa Jerman Dalam Novel Generation Golf, Desti Nur Aini, Dudy Syafruddin 2013 Universitas Negeri Malang

Pencitraan Bangsa Jerman Dalam Novel Generation Golf, Desti Nur Aini, Dudy Syafruddin

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

This research aims to describe the various stereotypes, prejudices, and ethnocentrism that appear in the characters of the novel Generation Golf. A qualitative approach was applied in this research. The note-reading technique was used for data collection, and the data were analyzed using domain analysis. The results indicate that various forms of stereotypes, prejudices, and ethnocentric attitudes are present. The stereotypes identified include both negative and positive types; the prejudices appear in the form of negative feelings, beliefs, and actions; and ethnocentric attitudes are expressed through the attribution of German culture in comparison with other nations.


Conservation Of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study, Maseria De Carolis, Rosalie Sharp, Dr. Roger McFarlane 2013 Brigham Young University

Conservation Of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study, Maseria De Carolis, Rosalie Sharp, Dr. Roger Mcfarlane

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The original purpose of my research was to develop a conservation plan for Maseria de Carolis (MDC), an archaeological site on the north slope of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy. Professional conservation of archaeological sites is a relatively new area of study. While conservation principles were first discussed in the 19th century, it was not until the 20th and 21st centuries that real steps were taken in developing principles for the conservation of structures, and conservation of structures became its own official sub-group of conservation, determined by the American Institute of Conservation (Matero 1993, 1). Because this sub-group is so new, codes …


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