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Is Modernism Really Modern? Uncovering A Fallacy In Postmodernism, William D. Harpine

Faculty Publications

Some postmodernists criticize the view that the logics of Western thought can be employed universally. In doing so, they assume without adequate proof that different human societies have greatly different rationalities and employ completely different logics. This essay argues that, on the contrary, widely different cultures often share noteworthy similarities in rationality.

University Reporter - Vol. 08, No. 05 - January 2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Reading Over The Shoulder Of The Future At The Library Of Congress, Samuel Gerald Collins

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

It is 2003 and I am doing some research at the Library of Congress, the de facto national library for the United States and the largest library in the world. Next to me sit some articles I've printed off of online journals on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Total Information Awareness Project, a plan, still in its formative stage, to throw a panopticon net of surveillance across the United States through a combination of language translation technologies, data search and pattern recognition technologies, and advanced collaborative and decision support tools (DARPA). But I am also doing research …

Endless Enlightenment: Eye-Operated Technology And The Political Economy Of Vision, Michael Gardiner

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Despite a residual popular temptation to see the posts of cultural analysis as signs of temporal closure, the logic of global visual media is strengthening, not weakening, metaphors of visibility which remain intact from the Enlightenment. Here I describe a stand-off between post-Enlightenment critiques (as in some sectors of Cultural Studies) and a narrow power base which is defined by producing light and managing the very conditions of visibility. For the world's most powerful state, still strongly bound to its original Enlightenment foundations, intervention into other states' sovereignty is increasingly justified by evidence from spy planes (rather than …

Visions Must Be Re-Visioned : Gender Politics In Earthsea, Audrey Barton

Theses : Honours

This thesis analyses Ursula Le Guin's interpretation of gender and genre in her Earthsea novels, A Wizarf of Earthsea (1968) and Teha1111 (1990). Examining Le Guin's assertion for the need to "re-vision" her former work with the latter, I interrogate the ways in which she attempts to "break free" from the ideologies that impose themselves upon her work. Part one explores the mode of the hero quest used in A Wizard of Earthsea and examines the significance of this in terms of "gendering" the text. Part two examines the revisioned text Tehanu and the ways in which the …

Qualitative Inquiry Into Art History: A Tribute To Arthur P. Bochner, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

This poem is dedicated to the author's mentor Arthur P. Bochner, Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida.

Performance As Ministry: An Ethnographic Study Of Three Christian Repertory Theatre Troupes, Webster Ford Drake

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This work seeks to define, explain, and place into historical and social context the phenomena of Christian Repertory Theater (CRT). It does so by examining three CRT troupes: Acts 2 from Nashville, TN, sponsored by Two Rivers Baptist Church; The Company from Fort Worth, TX, sponsored by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; and Gen X from Clinton, MS, which operated independent of external support . Ethnographic fieldwork was the primary vehicle of information-gathering in this case study analysis. The author experienced each group as either a participant-observer, observer, and/or interviewer. CRT was ultimately defined as an activity wherein a constituted group …

Spartan Daily, December 3, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 64

L’Aventure Du Discours Critique, Justin K. Bisanswa

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The text traces the course of African Literature’s critical adventure. For a long time, studies have been focused on African identity. The critic is often ethnologic, anthropological, cultural and attracted by exoticism. The critic is also attentive to everything that indicates the difference with occidental culture and without which the African text would only be an outline. There is also the frequent intrusion of empty concepts in African Literature criticism (for example : tradition, relatives, ethnic group, oral character, traditional religion, African rhythm, solidarity, communion between the living and the dead). From the criticism of humor and sources, to criticism …

University Reporter - Vol. 08, No. 04 - December 2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Selected Bibliography Of Work About And Of Edward Said's Texts, Clare Callaghan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

From Plato To Derrida And Theories Of Play, Simona Livescu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "From Plato to Derrida and Theories of Play," Simona Livescu proposes a reevaluation of the concept of play. By examining various critical interpretations of this term from Greek antiquity to modern structuralists and poststructuralist theories, Livescu analyzes the common denominator in philosophical, cultural, and religious facets of the play. In her discussion, Livescu emphasizes the ultimate importance of the ludic presence in every fundamental human action. Among the conclusions of the paper, Livescu suggests that play exists as an essence of consciousness and that it is, actually, a way of being, not only a way of knowing. …

On Edward Said, Scholar And Public Intellectual, F. Elizabeth Dahab

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "On Edward Said, Scholar and Public Intellectual," F. Elizabeth Dahab pays tribute to Edward Said, 1935-2003. Dahab discusses selected aspects of Said's trajectories as a scholar and Palestinian-American activist including aspects of Said's numerous activities and work as a musician, an ardent political polemicist, a music critic, a Columbia University professor of comparative literature, a humanist, President of the Modern Language Association of America, and an exiled Palestinian as evident in the vast corpus of this eminent scholar's publications over the course of almost four decades (twenty-four books and hundreds of articles and interviews). Said's work elicited …

Cultures Of Populism And The Political Right In Central Europe, Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, Andrea Petö

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their paper, "Cultures of Populism and the Political Right in Central Europe," Patricia Chiantera-Stutte and Andrea Petö analyze the common points and differences in which imagined and mythologized histories are serving as a mobilizing force for extreme-right movements in three Central European countries, in Austria, Hungary, and Italy. The authors discuss how populist and right-wing political parties in these countries construct their conceptions of an alternative identity for the European Union. Further, the authors analyze the politico-territorial myths constructed by the three populist right-wing parties, the Freedom Party in Austria, the Northern League in Italy, and the Party of …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Reed, Lindsey. University Senate Expected to Vote on Plus/Minus Today
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Staff Seeks Sick Pay
• Clark, Ashlee. Native Song – Larry Yazzie, Native Americans
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Dorms Get New Prefix – Telephones
• Hoang, Mai. Log Cabin to House Cultural Program – Folk Studies & Anthropology
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Online Advising
• Fisher, Lee. Loss of Familiar Friends Makes Area Bare, Drab – Landscaping
• New Online System Will Aid Students – Online Advising
• Reed, Lindsey. Resolution Asks for Notification – Student Government Association, Class Cancellations
• Sainlar, Lindsay. Event …

Spartan Daily, November 5, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 48

Hollins Columns (2003 Nov 3), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Presser Hall to be renovated
• Colleges Against Cancer finds place on campus
• Corrections
• Preparations for Relay For Life under way
• Costumes, laughter abound on Tinker Day
• It's Good to be King
• Political club leaders explore pros and cons of presidential hopefuls
• Joe Serna to increase diversity awareness
• sound off: which building on campus needs the most improvement, and why?
• Sowder's love of Hollisn keeps her climbing
• 'The Children's Hour': A rousing success
• We should be grateful for campus safety
• Horoscopes
• Life lessons learned from editor-hood
• Women's studies class members speak out: Stop singling us out as people …

University Reporter - Vol. 08, No. 03 - November 2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, October 31, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 45

Spartan Daily, October 30, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 44

Spartan Daily, October 29, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 43

Spartan Daily, October 24, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 40

The Guardian, October 22, 2003, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Spartan Daily, October 16, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 35

Prospectus, October 15, 2003, Sarah Ramey, Jarrod Finn, Jesse Woodrum, Patrick Yeagle, Leah Nordness, Tara Gray, Rachel White-Domain, Mark Gillie, Jordan Holmes

Prospectus 2003

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, October 8, 2003, Rachel White-Domain, Patrick Yeagle, Tara Gray, Jordan Holmes, Mark Gillie, Leah Nordness, Jarrod Finn, Peter Gabriel

Prospectus 2003

No abstract provided.

Hollins Columns (2003 Oct 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Campus examines childcare needs
• Old tradition causes division between classes
• Editor's notes
• Horizon student shares story on 'Oprah'
• Party Time
• Former midwife Vincent to speak on campus
• Virus infects campus computers
• Elaine Brown to discuss campus diversity
• OUTloud hosts National Coming Out Day
• Zane Williams to perform on campus
• Cokie Roberts mixes religion and politics in speech
• SGA officers for 2007 share some views
• Sound off
• 'Cabin Fever' begs antidote
• Chick Lit: Quirky satires or trashy novels?
• Quiz sheds light on academic strengths...?
• Horoscopes
• Editor senses excess negativity on campus
• SRLA invites understanding
• ADA growing and changing …

The Cowl - Vol 67 - No. 7 - Oct 2, 2003

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 67 - No. 7 - October 2, 2003. 24 pages.

Community, Fall 2003, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Community

Thirty-six page issue of Community which was published periodically from 1996 through 2011. The magazine focused on news and events at Wright State University relating to faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university.

A Body Of Her Own: Cultural Constructions Of The Female Body In A.S. Byatt's Strange Stories, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Byatt's short fiction, from her first collection Sugar and Other Stories (1987) to Elementals (1998) is marked by a continuous preoccupation with the body: the body as the product of social signifying practices, the body as the site of desires, fears, and anxieties, the body as the source of experience, the body as creator and created. In brief, the body is treated as the centre of existence, consciousness and identity. Yet, these are constantly called into doubt in Byatt's stories, which depict heroines trapped between asserting their identity and submitting to cultural dictates of beauty and behavior. In …