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A Fresh Bestiary: Writing Animals Into Latin American History (Book Review Of Centering Animals In Latin American History, Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, Eds.), Emily Wakild
Emily Wakild
Review of: Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, eds. Centering Animals in Latin American History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 408 pp. $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5383-6; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5397-3.
I Would Rather Not Lie In Hayden's Ferry Review, Eider Rodriguez, Nere Lete
I Would Rather Not Lie In Hayden's Ferry Review, Eider Rodriguez, Nere Lete
Nere Lete
The man shakes her hand. The woman takes a seat in front of him while placing her purse between her legs and leaving her heels exposed in her flat hoes. The man looks at her from over his glasses.
Spring 2012 Brochure, Samantha C. Harvey
Epistemological Intervention And Cross-Disciplinary Research, Stephen Crowley, Ian O'Laughlin
Epistemological Intervention And Cross-Disciplinary Research, Stephen Crowley, Ian O'Laughlin
Stephen Crowley
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"The Sphinx Moth: A Work Of Art" Beyond Bones, Guest Blog For The Houston Museum Of Natural Science, Chad Erpelding
"The Sphinx Moth: A Work Of Art" Beyond Bones, Guest Blog For The Houston Museum Of Natural Science, Chad Erpelding
Chad Erpelding
"The overlap between art and science is a subject rich with potential and currently being investigated by many artists. Damien Hirst suspends animal specimens in large tanks of formaldehyde. Olafur Eliasson, who is currently having a major survey of his work at the Dallas Museum of Art, explores weather systems and natural phenomena. Mel Chin worked closely with a scientist in realizing his piece Revival Field, which uses plants to remove toxic metals from a polluted site. So when Dr. William Godwin, entomologist at Stephen F. Austin State University and adjunct curator at HMNS, brought up the idea of a …
"Surat Bahr Al Rum"(Picture Of The Sea Of Byzantium): Possible Meanings Underlying The Forms, Karen C. Pinto
"Surat Bahr Al Rum"(Picture Of The Sea Of Byzantium): Possible Meanings Underlying The Forms, Karen C. Pinto
Karen C. Pinto
In this paper I will display, examine, and deconstruct the "classical" medieval Islamic conception of the Mediterranean as seen through colorful, miniature maps found in medieval Arabic and Persian geographical manuscripts from the 11th to 17th centuries. In his classic book "Mohammad and Charlemagne" (1939), the Belgian scholar Henri Pirenne set forth what has since come to be known as the Pirenne thesis, expressing the dominant European view that the sudden advent of Islam on the "other" side of the Mediterranean disrupted the unity of the "Roman Lake" forever. "With Islam a new world was established on those Mediterranean shores, …
Delibes And "The Question Concerning Technology", Teresa Boucher
Delibes And "The Question Concerning Technology", Teresa Boucher
Teresa Boucher
Miguel Delibes' considerable novelistic production includes only one text that is an overt continuation of a previous novel. The saga of Lorenzo in Diario de un cazador continues in Diario de un emigrante, following him to Chile, and chronicling his eventual decision to return to Spain. In the prologue to this latter novel, Delibes addresses the issue of second parts and in spite of the traditional wisdom that "nunca segundas partes fueron buenas," avows that Lorenzo, his fictional creation, has yet more life to live.