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Crosses, Flowers, And Toads: Classic Maya Bloodletting Iconography In Yaxchilan Lintels 24, 25, And 26, Kirsten Rachelle Steiger

Theses and Dissertations

The lintels of Yaxchilan Structure 23 seem to be a demonstrable case wherein specific symbols are singled out and deliberately used in an ordered sequence. Taken together as a unified series, Yaxchilan Lintels 24, 25, and 26 summarize the multi-step process of royal autosacrifice. An iconographic study of the huipil patterns depicted on these lintels yields a better understanding of complex bloodletting iconography and the way in which depictions of ceremonial autosacrifice reinforce Classic Maya beliefs relating to the divine role of Maya elite in eliciting communion with the gods and the subsequent rebirth of the cosmos. The rich iconography …

Migrants In A Strange City : (Dis-)Locating The China Imaginary In Post-1997 Hong Kong Films = 陌生城市中的移民 : 後一九九七香港電影中國想像的位(錯)置, Vivian Lee

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Traditional Culture And Contemporary Performance : Adaw Palaf's The Great Flood = 傳統文化與當代表演 : 阿道．巴辣夫的《大洪水》, Terence Russell

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Couching Race In The Global Era : Intra-Asian Racism In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon = 全球化年代的種族表述 : 從《臥虎藏龍》看亞洲內部的種族主義, Nick Kaldis

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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小說家的辯言 : 包天笑的小說和困境 = A Defense Of The Novelist : Bao Tianxiao's Novel And Dilemma, Feng Ying Ming

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Notes On Contributors = 作者簡介

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Liu Yichang And The Temporalities Of Capitalist Modernity = 劉以鬯與資本主義的時間性, Kwai Cheung Lo

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Centering And Decentering Methodologies : Wang Anyi's Migratory Mythology And Descriptive Historiography = 向心與離心 : 王安憶的移民神話與歷史描寫, Y.F., Howard Choy

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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“Disagreement As Duty: On The Importance Of The Self And Friendship In Cavell's Moral Philosophy.”, Jeroen Gerrits

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

This essay focuses on the significance of disagreem ent in what Cavell has coined“Emersonian” perfectionism. This moral outlook hold s that everyday moral duties andchoices, unlike epistemological cases, ultimately r est on our personal assessment andjustification of an action. It is therefore possible (and likely) that disagreements point notto moral incompetence, but to a conflict of desires – crucially including a conflict of onesown desires. As a consequence, the demand of making oneself intelligible is a primary andconstant moral duty, without which we lose sight of the means of coming to an agreement.Perfectionism further assumes that, since people ar e …

Contextos E Pistas: Um Editorial De Pensamento Da América, Luiza Franco Moreira

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

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Heartburn On A Map Called Home : Yau Ching And The (Im)Possibility Of Hong Kong Poetry As Chinese Poetry = 叫做家的版圖上心的抽搐 : 游靜與香港新詩作為中國詩之(不)可能, Jennifer Feeley

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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劉以鬯作品年表 = Liu Yichang's Bibliography

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Reading Hong Kong Literature From The Periphery Of Modern Chinese Literature : Liu Yichang Studies As An Example = 從現代中國文學的邊缘看香港文學研究 : 以劉以鬯研究為例, Yuk Kwan, Amanda Hsu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Ambivalent Laughter : Comic Sketches In Cctv's "Spring Festival Eve Gala" = 曖昧的笑聲 : 中央電視台春節聯歡晚會的小品, Jin Liu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Center And Periphery In Modern Chinese Literature And Culture : An Introduction = 現代中文文學與文化的「中心與邊緣」 : 前言, Christopher Lupke

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Bibliography For Work In Travel Studies, Carlo Salzani, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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What Is My Nation: Visions Of A New Global Order In Ngũgũ Wa Thiong'o'S Wizard Of The Crow, Gĩchîngirî Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Jonathan Ree describes an ideal nation where each national subject can proclaim, "the nation is mine" (1998, p. 89). Ngũgũ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow, depicts a state where the state and its ruler are co-extensive, the subjects exiles. In this paper, I argue that as an external exile, Ngũgũ has become a global citizen. That global citizenship still exhibits a rooted cosmopolitanism. Ngũgũ reclaims his nation vicariously through empowered women who resist the corruption of the nation by the excesses of patriarchal power and global capital. Internally exiled in their own country, the women lead the struggle to …

Hermeneutics Of The Crossroads, Jacqueline S. Farritor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The main question posed in my thesis is whether or not the crossroads is a paradigm that might open the event of reading and interpretation. I believe this profound place of possibility is a valid intellectual model for innovative and uninhabited modes of understanding. The hermeneutics of the crossroads is an imaginative approach that keeps us open to the transformative power of literature transpiring when we bring to the text our working scholarly knowledge, but also allow ourselves to receive what it has to offer us.

Using the crossroads theory of surrendering and receiving, I have interpreted Gayl Jones's novel, …

The Anti-Colonial Revolutionary In Contemporary Bollywood Cinema, Vidhu Aggarwal

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "The Anti-Colonial Revolutionary in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema" Vidhu Aggarwal discusses several contemporary films including Rakesh Omprakash Mehra's Rang de Basanti with focus on the figure of the revolutionary hero. The Bollywood film is a cultural form that combines several aesthetic styles, from within India and from the outside. With its formal heterogeneity and as a product of one of India's largest cities, Mumbai Bollywood has had an ongoing fascination with "arrival," that is, with India's status as a contemporary nation-state. While some Bollywood films seem to celebrate fantasy scenarios of India's arrival on the global scene, at …

Philosophy Of Modernity And Development In Jamaica, Novella Z. Keith, Nelson W. Keith

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Philosophy of Modernity and Development in Jamaica" Novella Z. Keith and Nelson W. Keith postulate that a combined philosophico-practical inquiry is necessary to reduce the systemic asymmetries found in the North-South divide and to promote global interdependence. Proceeding from a deconstruction of European-inflected modernity, Keith and Keith sketch an alternative epistemology of uncertainty and unknowability and illustrate aspects of these epistemologies in theories and practices of modernization and its counter movements, dependency, and underdevelopment while also using them to discuss current practices of an NGO they created, Edu-Tourism , to bridge global divides as experienced in Jamaica. …