Literature, Digital Humanities, And The Age Of The Encyclopedia,
2013
Ghent University
Literature, Digital Humanities, And The Age Of The Encyclopedia, Gunther Martens
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
Western Macedonia University
Using New Media In Teaching Greek Roma Students, Fenia Frangoulidou
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
Leuven University
About The Destruction, Continuation, And Transformation Of Art, Frank Maet
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
Ghent University
Perspectives On Literary Reading And Book Culture, Geert Vandermeersche, Ronald Soetaert
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
University of Tampere
Reading, Literacy, And Education, Mikko Lehtonen
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
Ghent University
Rhetoric, Citizenship, And Cultural Literacy, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
Ghent University
Integrating Social Media In Education, Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe, Pieter Verdegem
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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,
2013
University of Trento
Practical And Theoretical Implications Of Digitizing The Middle Ages, Roberta Capelli
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
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.
Ni Putes Ni Soumises: Unveiling Women’S Voices Through Feminism And Social Media In The 21st Century,
2013
University of Southern Mississippi
Ni Putes Ni Soumises: Unveiling Women’S Voices Through Feminism And Social Media In The 21st Century, Lilianna K. Deveneau
Honors Theses
Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS; English translation: “Neither Whores Nor Submissives”) is a French, largely Muslim, feminist political organization that aims to promote laicité (secularization), mixité (the ability for women to fraternize with men), and gender equality. I have conducted an organizational case study including the triangulation of data comprised of critical analyses of the NPNS website, Facebook group, and other documentation and publications, to identify whether and how this organization has been successful in igniting social change. Findings indicate NPNS has grown its movement from one location (Paris) to forty-eight chapters throughout France, seven international headquarters, and has obtained …
Self-Presentation And Identity In The Roman Empire, Ca. 30 Bce To 225 Ce,
2013
Portland State University
Self-Presentation And Identity In The Roman Empire, Ca. 30 Bce To 225 Ce, Rhiannon Ysabel-Marie Orizaga
Dissertations and Theses
The presentation of the body in early imperial Rome can be viewed as the manipulation of a semiotic language of dress, in which various hierarchies that both defined and limited human experience were entrenched. The study of Roman self-presentation illuminates the intersections of categories of identity, as well as the individual's desire and ability to resist essentializing views of Romanness (Romanitas), and to transform destiny through transforming identity. These categories of identity include gender; sexuality or sexual behavior; social status; economic status; ethnicity or place of origin; religion; and age. Applying the model of a matrix of identity deepens our …
Espacios Recorridos En La Escritura Sobre El Exilio: Luis Enrique Délano, Tununa Mercado Y Saúl Ibargoyen Islas En México,
2013
University of New Mexico
Espacios Recorridos En La Escritura Sobre El Exilio: Luis Enrique Délano, Tununa Mercado Y Saúl Ibargoyen Islas En México, Marcela Patricia Zarate Fernandez
Spanish and Portuguese ETDs
During the second half of the twentieth century, in many Latin American countries, military dictatorships that implemented a National Security Doctrine were developed, as a way to counteract the gradual attacks by socialist or communist groups. These political clashes were characterized by violence, fear instilled into society, the abolition of rights and freedoms as well as exile. The dissertation presented here is focused on the outcome that exile produced on those writers that lived this experience. Novels, biographies, autobiographies and testimonies about exile are characterized by presenting the memories emerging from the journey of exile. Through the observation of this …
Indita Que Si Indita Que No,
2013
University of New Mexico
Indita Que Si Indita Que No, Juan A. Romero Jr.
Spanish and Portuguese ETDs
Much has been written on the balladry of the US. and Mexico. Much has been written on the musical tradition in New Mexico. Much has been written on the tradition of Inditas in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. So one must ask the question, why another study on a subject which many have exhausted? This thesis is written in hopes of adding to the dialogue these scholars have left us. It is also written in hopes of providing an anthology or canon that in times past did not exist or was inaccessible for scholarly analysis. Since most Inditas are dispersed …
Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro,
2013
East Tennessee State University
Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Robert Julius Trumpler And The Cosmos: The Contributions Of A Swiss American Astronomer,
2013
Brigham Young University
Robert Julius Trumpler And The Cosmos: The Contributions Of A Swiss American Astronomer, Kurt Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
S wiss American scientists have made many valuable contributions to a more precise understanding of the universe. Among the most influential of these was the astronomer, Robert Julius Trumpler, who did much to advance our knowledge of the Pleiades star cluster, the planet Mars, globular clusters , and the theories of his fellow Swiss American, Albert Einstein. Trumpler made his contributions at an important time in the development of astronomical theories that more accurately explained the nature of the universe, and his advances are still important today. He is also fondly remembered as one of the most significant astronomers of …
Carla Kelly, Ed. On The Upper Missouri: The Journal Of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851-1852,
2013
Independent Scholar
Carla Kelly, Ed. On The Upper Missouri: The Journal Of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851-1852, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Rudolph Friederich Kurz (January 8, 1818-October 16, 1871) was born in Langnau im Emmental located in the Bern Canton of Switzerland. His talents as an artist were cultivated from an early age, including an extended period of study in Paris where he met the brilliant scholar and explorer, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, and the renowned artist Karl Bodmer. On retrospect, no great effort is required to understand the influence of these early foundations on Kurz's deep attraction for the sublime aspects of the American frontier. Of note is the influence of the American wilderness on the minds and imaginations of …
Herbert Hoover And Belgian Relief,
2013
Brigham Young University
Herbert Hoover And Belgian Relief, Albert Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Two Presidents of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover, are known to have Swiss ancestry. Eisenhower is noted for his generalship in the Second World War and his presidential administration in a time of prosperity for the nation, while Hoover is often remembered only for his unpopular presidency during the Great Depression . This is unfortunate because Hoover contributed to the well-being and survival of many millions of people during times of grave food shortages. His efforts, which began with the feeding of the nation of Belgium during World War I, prevented starvation in many areas of the …
Kevin D. Stringer. Swiss-Made Heroes: Pro.Files In Military Leadership,
2013
Georgia Military College
Kevin D. Stringer. Swiss-Made Heroes: Pro.Files In Military Leadership, R. Edward Shelor
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Dr. Kevin Stringer has brought a much needed look at some lesser- known aspects of history that helped shape the modern world. The Swiss have an influence on world history that far exceeds their numbers in population or their geopolitical status would indicate, but Dr. Stringer has shed some light on nine individuals from the fifteenth to the twentieth century that helps explain the role of Switzerland in history.
End Matter,
2013
Brigham Young University
Officer, Poet, Spy: The Many Lives Of John Andre,
2013
Brigham Young University
Officer, Poet, Spy: The Many Lives Of John Andre, Brian Wages
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The story has characteristics worthy of a James Bond novel. It includes a spy discovered with secret military plans hidden in his boot. The incriminating documents , intended to guarantee safe passage, were complete with the traitor's signature. There is also a love triangle with r woman, her traitor husband, and the handsome spy. All of these events led up to the spy's capture, trial, and hanging. For students of the American Revolutionary War, these are the salient facts of the career of John Andre. However, there is a great deal more to this complex man than his ignominious demise.' …
