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“A Levinasian Reading Of Grendel By John Gardner, The Retold Narration Of Beowulf Myth”, Negar Basiri 2022 Louisiana State University

“A Levinasian Reading Of Grendel By John Gardner, The Retold Narration Of Beowulf Myth”, Negar Basiri

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.


Pharos The Egyptian And The Gothic Other As Excess, Shruti Jain, Kaushik Tekur Venkata 2022 Binghamton University--SUNY

Pharos The Egyptian And The Gothic Other As Excess, Shruti Jain, Kaushik Tekur Venkata

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

Guy Boothby’s Pharos the Egyptian, published in 1889, employs the category of the Gothic to discuss various anxieties plaguing the late Victorian society. It deals with issues such as the Gothic Other’s ‘magical’ capabilities, revenge, disease, and the colonial extraction of wealth, among others. The novel overwhelms the binary between the rational European self and the Gothic colonial other by presenting the Egyptian Pharos not as an opposite but as an excess of the European self. Pharos is as rational as he is Gothic and in this excess of being both, he destabilizes the hierarchy and binary at once. …


Basque Studies At Boise State University, Ziortza Gandarias Beldarrain, Nere Lete 2022 Boise State University

Basque Studies At Boise State University, Ziortza Gandarias Beldarrain, Nere Lete

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

Boise, the capital of Idaho that we Basques feel so close to and our own despite being far from the Basque Country, is a twinned city with Gernika-Lumo, known to us as the "eighth Basque province". Today, 12-15,000 people of Basque origin live in the state of Idaho. It can be unanimously said that the history of Boise and the history of the Basque diaspora have gone hand in hand since the discovery of gold in the American River in California in 1849. The first Basques arrived in Idaho in 1890, when silver was discovered in De Lamar and Silver …


Claves Y Complicidades De Los Signos En El Universo Digital De Belén Gache, Gioconda Marun 2022 Fordham University

Claves Y Complicidades De Los Signos En El Universo Digital De Belén Gache, Gioconda Marun

Modern Languages Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Importance Of Bilingual Lawyers In The American Legal System, Megan Dosouto 2022 Roger Williams University

Importance Of Bilingual Lawyers In The American Legal System, Megan Dosouto

Modern Languages, Philosophy and Classics Theses

This research thesis project focuses on the benefits of legal professionals being bilingual and my support of utilizing bilingual legal professionals over language translators. This focuses on the communities they support, including their clients, other legal professionals, and all American citizens. There are analyses of language used in English-speaking and Spanish-speaking legal systems, as well as previous bilingual integration attempts. As a pre-law student that speaks both Spanish and Portuguese, I want to know how to advocate for myself as a future attorney and how to advocate for future clients who will need the assistance of a bilingual legal professional. …


"Mi Estilo Lo Confirma Letra Por Letra": La Literatura Criminal En "El Niño Proletario" De Osvaldo Lamborghini, Ana María Mutis 2022 Trinity University

"Mi Estilo Lo Confirma Letra Por Letra": La Literatura Criminal En "El Niño Proletario" De Osvaldo Lamborghini, Ana María Mutis

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

El presente ensayo examina el discurso del narrador en el cuento “El niño proletario” de Osvaldo Lamborghini como una reflexión ideológica sobre la complicidad entre literatura y violencia. Mediante la inspección del estilo lingüístico del narrador asesino, este trabajo propone que el cuento de Lamborghini presenta la escritura como una forma de expresión vinculada a la violencia y acusa a la tradición literaria hispanoamericana, específicamente al naturalismo y al modernismo, de participar en la violencia social que el relato denuncia. De esta manera, el sustrato ideológico del cuento de Lamborghini va más allá del desmonte de la tradicional dicotomía civilización-barbarie, …


Sur Quel Pied Le Danser? Ideas For Using Feu! Chatterton In The French-Language Classroom, Brian Kennelly 2022 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Sur Quel Pied Le Danser? Ideas For Using Feu! Chatterton In The French-Language Classroom, Brian Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

Included in this Dossier pédagogique are suggestions for using a wealth of activities encompassing the three modes of communication, and best-suited for students at the upperintermediate or higher levels. Students will use authentic resources to learn both about the French band, Feu! Chatterton, and analyze some of their recent songs.


Barcelona On Screen: Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999), L'Auberge Espagnole (2002), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Biutiful (2010), Katherine Gatto 2022 John Carroll University

Barcelona On Screen: Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999), L'Auberge Espagnole (2002), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Biutiful (2010), Katherine Gatto

2022 Faculty Bibliography

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Disease, Extinction, And Emergences In T.C. Boyle’S Friend Of Earth And Margaret Atwood’S Oryx And Crake, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan 2022 Trinity University

Disease, Extinction, And Emergences In T.C. Boyle’S Friend Of Earth And Margaret Atwood’S Oryx And Crake, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

In this essay, we address Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth (2000) and Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) as climate fiction that plays out equally devastating yet realistic futuristic scenarios. In creative thought experiments, science fiction helps us to recognize humans as a collective force, a force that conquers, shapes, destroys, and rebuilds the planet in pre- and post-apocalyptic bouts not unlike the pre- and post-pandemic times we are now experiencing. Our focus on these two science fiction novels is on the intersectionality of emergent environments, extinctions, and diseases within the framework of climate change.


Goethes Pflanzen Und Das ,,Dunkle Griin", Heather I. Sullivan 2022 Trinity University

Goethes Pflanzen Und Das ,,Dunkle Griin", Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Abstract: In Goethe's works, plants abound; as such, they offer many insights for this critical plant studies project on plants and humans in the early Anthropocene. From Werther and die Novelle to Hermann und Dorothea, Faust and his scientific writings, we find three categories of plant depictions: first as embodiments of green vitality that elicit emotional responses; second, as humanly-shaped cultivations or horticultural realms; and third, we find inklings of the promise of actual vegetal agency establishing the very world in which we human beings and all other animals live. In Goethe's wide-ranging botanical ideas, the modern collision between …


‘Chismes De La Ciudad Letrada’: Nostalgia, Exilio Y La Construcción Del Canon Cubano En La Ensayística De Cabrera Infante, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas 2022 Loyola University Chicago

‘Chismes De La Ciudad Letrada’: Nostalgia, Exilio Y La Construcción Del Canon Cubano En La Ensayística De Cabrera Infante, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Rafael Rojas afirma que Guillermo Cabrera Infante estetiza “los rumores y chismes de la ciudad letrada”. A propósito de la crítica reciente sobre el chisme y del trabajo de Svetlana Boym sobre la nostalgia, planteo que Cabrera aprovecha el placer ilícito del chisme para recircular historias suprimidas y reintroducirse en el canon cubano. Sus chismes se convierten así en saber aceptado, que preservan la memoria de numerosos intelectuales cubanos y consolidan el propio estado de Cabrera en el canon. El autor valida el chisme como acto nostálgico y demuestra su potencial como estrategia narrativa eficaz y no solo como creación …


Walt Disney And China: How Glocalization Shaped Shanghai Disneyland, Becca MacLellan 2022 Roger Williams University

Walt Disney And China: How Glocalization Shaped Shanghai Disneyland, Becca Maclellan

Modern Languages, Philosophy and Classics Theses

This thesis applies the glocalization theory to a comparative study of the Disney theme parks in the United States and Shanghai, China. It argues that Walt Disney’s glocalization through integrating Chinese culture into the Shanghai Disney theme park brought commercial success to the company. Additionally, it also set up a good example for other businesses interested in global expansion.


Laws For The Support Of Transgenders In Argentina And Brazil, Elias Choclin 2022 Roger Williams University

Laws For The Support Of Transgenders In Argentina And Brazil, Elias Choclin

Modern Languages, Philosophy and Classics Theses

In the last decade, the feminist and LGBTQ+ movements have shown the challenges transgender people face in different countries of the world. Specifically, Brazil and Argentina have proposed different regulations and laws that protect these individuals from violence and that intend to incorporate them into the job market. However, these countries have vastly different policies regarding healthcare for transgenders such as transition medication and surgeries, which will be further identified and explained in the paper.


Lost In Adaptation:The Silencing Of The French Female Concierge, Mariah Devereux Herbeck 2022 Boise State University

Lost In Adaptation:The Silencing Of The French Female Concierge, Mariah Devereux Herbeck

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fictional representations of the female concierge frequently underscore her negative attributes, above all her meddlesome discourse. The female concierge character in Georges Simenon's 1933 novel, Les fiançailles de M. Hire, however, provides an exception to the rule as local law authorities give credence to her word and base their investigation on her testimony. However, in two filmic adaptations of the novel—Duvivier's Panique (1946) and Patrice Leconte's Monsieur Hire (1989)—the female concierge character is practically absent. This article demonstrates how, from page to screen, the concierge's role is dissected, disembodied, and displaced in Duvivier's and Leconte's films, and finally reflects …


An Outline Of Romanticism In The West, John C. Isbell 2022 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

An Outline Of Romanticism In The West, John C. Isbell

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it. Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or Germaine de Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie, Isbell provides a foundation through which to investigate core concepts, such as the continuum of Romance, the Romantic hero, …


La Voz 2022, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department 2022 Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School

La Voz 2022, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department

La Voz Student Journal

LA VOZ is published by the Modern Languages & Literatures Department, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.


Denouncing Gender Violence In Spain And Rewriting The Female Narrative, Irene Kotyk 2022 The University of Akron

Denouncing Gender Violence In Spain And Rewriting The Female Narrative, Irene Kotyk

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This paper analyzes how Spanish female artists across Spain denounce domestic violence by exposing abuse and the culture of women domination in public spaces. Gender violence is important to analyze because it is a current issue in Spain, and globally, as there is a fight for gender equality in countries around the world. Technically speaking, domestic violence includes physical, emotional, and sexual abuse occurring between partners or within a family (Dutton). Recently, many artists across Spain are looking to reconstruct a new narrative for women. This paper will look at how gender-based violence against women was practiced throughout the Spanish …


Fostering Successful Communities Of Collaboration Through Educational Partnerships: Strengthening Bilingual Learners' Language And Literacy Achievement Along The Texas-Mexican Border, Isela Almaguer 2022 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Fostering Successful Communities Of Collaboration Through Educational Partnerships: Strengthening Bilingual Learners' Language And Literacy Achievement Along The Texas-Mexican Border, Isela Almaguer

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

There is an undisputable need to form collaborative partnerships between schools, families, homes, and communities across the nation. Collaborative educational partnerships are the cornerstone for student success. With increasingly diverse student populations, schools must communicate and collaborate with families and communities to bridge the wide gap that exists between home and school. With a dominant Spanish-speaking population of Mexican descent, as that of children living in the Southern tip of the Texas-Mexican border, known as The Rio Grande Valley, barriers such as low social economic status and limited English proficiency may impede much-needed communication between schools, homes, and communities. These …


8 National Perspectives On Mexican Transnational Eal Teachers: Ideological And Professional Challenges, David Martinez-Prieto, Kristen Lindahl 2022 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

8 National Perspectives On Mexican Transnational Eal Teachers: Ideological And Professional Challenges, David Martinez-Prieto, Kristen Lindahl

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


"Rerum Vel Dictu Obscenarum" De Subventione Pauperum And The Ambivalence Of The Humanitarian Narratives Of Early Modernity, Luis Fernando Restrepo 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

"Rerum Vel Dictu Obscenarum" De Subventione Pauperum And The Ambivalence Of The Humanitarian Narratives Of Early Modernity, Luis Fernando Restrepo

World Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

This essay examines the De Subventione Pauperum treatise (On Assistance to the Poor, 1526) by the humanist Juan Luis Vives as a humanitarian narrative of early modernity. Contradictorily, the plan to help the indigent population presents a derogatory view of poverty that reflects the inconsistencies of the civilizing project of Renaissance Christian humanism and reveals the biopolitics of the nascent modern state and humanitarian imperial reasoning. The first section analyzes the treatise as a humanitarian narrative, with special focus on the role of emotions in the interpellation of the reader, especially the ambivalent presence of the discourse on disgust …


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