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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History (Leo Braudy) (Reviewed by Seth L. Schein, University of California at Santa Cruz)

Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper (Claude Rawson) (Reviewed by Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California)

Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Centurl) England (Pat Rogers) (Reviewed by Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California)

Eighteenth-Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole (Pat Rogers) (Reviewed by Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California)

The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (Marjorie Perloff) (Reviewed by …

Konseptualisasi Ruang Sosial Pendidikan, Ahmad Tarmiji Alkhudri

Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi

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Pengantar Redaksi, Fransisca Sse Seda

Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi

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Asian Diaspora And East-West Modernity, Sheng-Me Ma

Comparative Cultural Studies

Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intuition, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to the experience of diaspora in between East and West, at-homeness and exilic attrition. Diaspora, by definition, stems as much from socioeconomic and collective displacement as it points to emotional reaction. This book thus challenges the fossilized conceptualizations …

Finding A Way Out Of The Ethnographic Paradigm Jungle, Subhadip Roy, Pratyush Banerjee

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, an attempt has been made to develop a hybrid ethnographic paradigm, taking the best points from the different approaches of ethnographic research. The pioneering proponents of ethnography differed in their conceptualization of the method, resulting in the development of three distinct schools of thought-holistic, semiotic and behavioristic. These three ethnographic paradigms have their respective benefits and shortcomings. Following any one of these approaches may lead to only partial comprehension of the phenomenon by the ethnographer. This study wished to address this issue by developing a best practice approach, which will have the virtues of all the three …

Deadline For Southern Appalachian Culture Series Presentation Submissions Extended To Aug. 31, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina is accepting presentation submissions for its biannual Southern Appalachian Culture Series, an interdisciplinary conference to be held Oct. 12-13, 2012. This year will feature presentations on Cherokee culture, although we also invite and encourage other papers that deal with any aspect of Southern Appalachian culture, literature, or tradition. The conference is part of a symposium, which will offer concurrent sessions of presentations by writers and scholars, including graduate and undergraduate students, and prominent Cherokee scholar and storyteller, Freeman Owle.

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After Theory: Postmodernism/Postmarxism (Thomas Docherty) (Reviewed by Lawrence Venuti, Temple University)

Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660 (Lois Potter) (Reviewed by Cedric C. Brown, University of Reading, England)

No Respect: Intellectuals & Popular Culture (Andrew Ross) (Reviewed by Jerry Herron, Wayne State University)

The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and His Media (Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio) (Reviewed by David MacGregor, Wayne State University)

From "God From Lofty Mountains" To "God From Shaman Dance": Natural Aesthetics In Pre-Qin Dynasty, Shilun Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Natural aesthetics in the pre-Qin period (before 221-207 B.C.) is a blend of elements from religion, ethic, art and witchcraft. The idea of "God from lofty mountains" reflects the worship of nature underlined by natural moral law. Human beings feel the overpowering awe of lofty mountains, and the feeling of awe transforms into the sublimity of ethics and morality in the society. "God from lofty mountains" represents people‘s desire and belief in the West Zhou period in their efforts to discover the rules of social development in the nature, but human's value is obscured in the combination between the essence …

"Poetry-Rituals-Happiness" In Chinese Thought And Aesthetics As A Discipline, Chengwan Lao, Meng Qi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Aesthetics as a discipline was constructed under the system of Western philosophy,and then introduced into Chinese intellectual field. In terms of conceptualization of ideas,perhpas the concept of "happiness (le)" can be understood as equivalent to the Western concept of aesthetics. Aesthetics as a discinple in opposition to logic was established by Baumgarten,but its origin was rooted in Plato's concept of "beauty" and Aristotle's "form" in the four-cause elements. Western culture has a materialistic pursuit which emphasizes the essense of the objects as the expression of intuition of existence, and this pursuit in the form of rigorous examination of objects shows …

Globalization And The Culture Of Tourism: A Complex Connectivity From The Postmodern Perspective, Jing Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

From the perspective of globalization,the representation of "connectivity" shows in the essence and extension of expanding tourism culture, and it constantly changes in response to the changes in the cultural dimension of globalization. An exploration into the process of connectivity will reveal the role of culture in intricate network of contacts. The ways by which globalization and the culture of tourism connect to culture are different, and both may promote people's national identification and personal cultural accomplishment. The paper hopes to expand the horizon of the cultural dimension of globalization through its topical focus and point out some practical significance …

Literary Theory Today, Culler Jonathan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Aesthetic Analogy Between The Human Being And The Nature FromThe Book Of Poetry And Li Sao ToA New Account Of Tales Of The World, Jun Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Two modes of aesthetic analogy developed in The Book of Poetry and Li Sao are "analogy between human virtues and things" and "analogy between human beings and things." These two modes are similar in their tenors and vehicles, and share the same structure, and they are built on the analogy between the beauty of character and the beauty of nature. The aesthetic thought exhibits an unification between the heaven and the human being. However, the paper argues that the two modes essentially follow two different princiles in aesthetics with different cultural spirits. The analogy betwen virtues and things is a …

Experience And History: Hoggart'sThe Uses Of Literacy, Xiangyu Cheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy is generally taken to be an initiation of English cultural studies, and it also became one of the starting points of the "cultural controversy" emerged from the "first" New Left. The focal issues include whether Hoggart and this work fall under Leavisism, and what historical situation his work was born, but the historical specificities and implications have not been given due examination so that the research literature on Hoggart has fallen into an either-or cycle. The paper takes into consideration the historial background of Hoggart's The Uses of Literary and reveals the historical specificities …

The Transformation Of The Self-Congnitive Mechanism In The Left-Wing Intellectuals After The 1927 Revolution, Guanghai Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With the rapid emergence of the petty bourgeoise ideology following the failure of the Great Revolution in 1927, left-wing Chinese intellectuals were widely engaged into debate and reflection on issues about the petty bourgeoisie. The movement was on the one hand rooted theoretically on Marxist theory and on the other hand originated from the reflection over the failure of the 1927 Revolution, while at the same time it was swayed by CCP's class policy. Petty bourgeoisie's revolutionary potential came to be under question following the failure of the 1927 Revolution, and its original sin was overemphasized. However, differences existed among …

Acclaimed Documentarian Bruce Bowers Notches Another Honor For “The Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long And Winding Road”, Office Of University Communications

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Gardner-Webb alumnus and acclaimed documentarian Bruce Bowers (’68) was recently presented the 2012 National Media Award by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) in Washington, D.C. The award is for his documentary film, “The Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road.” The NSDAR National Media Award is given annually to various media that promote historical preservation, patriotism, and education.

Teddie And Friedel: Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, And The Erotics Of Friendship, Johannes Von Moltke

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“Der Riß der Welt geht auch durch mich”: Briefwechsel 1923–1966 by Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer, volume 7 of Briefe und Briefwechsel, by Theodor W. Adorno, edited by Wolfgang Schopf. (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008. Pp. 772. 52.50 euros, cloth; 32.00 euros, paper.)

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Feminist Milton (Joseph Wittreich) (Reviewed by James Grantham Turner, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)

Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres (Leonard Tennenhouse) (Reviewed by Richard Strier, University of Chicago)

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (Houston A. Baker, Jr.) (Reviewed by Mark A. Reid, University of Florida, Gainesville)

A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (Sidonie Smith) (Reviewed by Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University)

When Language Lies: Truth, Silence, And Codes Of Deception, Tammy C. Cline

The Qualitative Report

What does an autoethnography look like? How do you conduct reliable qualitative research when you are both the researcher and the researched? Where do you find truth as an adult when you discover your life as a child was full of secrets? In his book "A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family”, author H. J. Goodall (2006), tells the story of his personal journey investigating his own life growing up with a father who was a counter-intelligence offer in the cold-war era. While this narrative is an engaging and readable account, it is also a work …

Amelioration Of Oral Mucositis Pain By Nasa Near Infra Red Light Emitting Diodes In Bone Marrow Transplant Patients, Brian D. Hodgson, David Margolis, Donna E. Salzman, Dan C. Eastwood, Sergey Tarima, Lisa D. Williams, Jane E. Sande, William P. Vaughan, Harry T. Whelan

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

PURPOSE: To investigate the use of extra-orally applied near infra-red (NIR) phototherapy for the reduction of oral pain secondary to chemo- and radiation-therapy induced mucositis in adult and pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients.

METHODS: 80 HSCT were divided into regular (R) and low (L) risk groups, then to experimental (E) and placebo (P) groups, resulting in 4 groups (ER, EL, PR, PL). Experimental subjects received (670 (+/- 10) nm gallium-aluminum-arsinide light emitting diode (LED) device for 80 sec at an ~50mW/cm2 energy density and power exposure of 4J/cm2. Placebo patients received the same procedures, but with a placebo …

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Against Deconstruction (John M. Ellis) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Williams, East Carolina University)

When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (Trinh T. Minh-ha) (Reviewed by Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University)

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (Patrick Brantlinger) (Reviewed by Ajay Heble, University of Guelph)

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics (Bruce R. Smith) (Reviewed by Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College)

Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (Michael C. Schoenfeldt) (Reviewed by Claude J. Summers, University of Michigan-Dearborn)

Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Michael Moon) (Reviewed by Patrick …

Singing Japan’S Heart And Soul: A Discourse On The Black Enka Singer Jero And Race Politics In Japan, Neriko Musha Doerr, Yuri Kumagai

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

This article analyses a discourse around the ascendancy of Jero, an ‘African-American’ male dressed in hip-hop attire singing enka, a genre of music that has been dubbed ‘the heart and soul of Japan.’ Since his debut in Japan in February 2008, Jero has attracted much media attention. This article analyses a prominent discourse, ‘Jero is almost Japanese because he sings enka well.’ While many argue that to challenge stereotypes and racism is to introduce alternative role models, we show that such alternative role models can also reinforce the existing regime of difference of Japanese vs. the Other and perpetuate …

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Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism (Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden) (Reviewed by Gerald MacLean, Wayne State University)

A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Emmet Kennedy) (Reviewed by Donald C. Spinelli, Wayne State University)

Reading Romantics: Texts and Contexts (Peter J. Manning) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivner, Wayne State University)

Technoculture (Constance Penley and Andrew Ross) (Reviewed by Cynthia Erb, Wayne State University)

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Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Laura Kendrick) (Reviewed by Barrie Ruth Straus, University of Florida)

Victorians and Mystery: Crises of Representation (W. David Shaw) (Reviewed by Jon Kucich, University of Michigan)

The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914 (Thomas Richards) (Reviewed by Jon Kucich, University of Michigan)

The Crime of Innocence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison (Terri Otten) (Reviewed by Paul Sporn, Wayne State University)

Mechanical Stretch And Pi3k Signaling Link Cell Migration And Proliferation To Coordinate Epithelial Tubule Morphogenesis In The Zebrafish Pronephros, Aleksandr Vasilyev, Yan Liu, Nathan Hellman, Narendra Pathak, Iain A. Drummond

Neuroscience: Faculty Publications

Organ development leads to the emergence of organ function, which in turn can impact developmental processes. Here we show that fluid flow-induced collective epithelial migration during kidney nephron morphogenesis induces cell stretch that in turn signals epithelial proliferation. Increased cell proliferation was dependent on PI3K signaling. Inhibiting epithelial proliferation by blocking PI3K or CDK4/Cyclin D1 activity arrested cell migration prematurely and caused a marked overstretching of the distal nephron tubule. Computational modeling of the involved cell processes predicted major morphological and kinetic outcomes observed experimentally under a variety of conditions. Overall, our findings suggest that kidney development is a recursive …

Surfing As Adventure Travel: Motivations And Lifestyles, Zachariah Reynolds, Nancy M. Hritz Dr.

Journal of Tourism Insights

The purpose of this study was to create a profile of the adventure traveler’s lifestyles, values and travel motivations. An understanding of the lifestyle and attitudes of today’s adventure traveler can aid tourism marketers in designing messages tailored to this unique target market. Differences and similarities between genders and the age cohorts of Generation Y, Generation X and Baby Boomers were examined. Across the sample most participated in a “traditional” type of sport before migrating to an adventure activity and they also engaged in more than one type of adventure activity.

Across the sample, the participants traveled in order to …

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Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (Sharon Achinstein) (Reviewed by David Norbrook)

In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (Julie A. Carlson) (Reviewed by Alan Richardson)

Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment (David Collings) (Reviewed by Scott Harshbarger)

Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832 (Alan Richardson) (Reviewed by Celeste Langan)

Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory (Ed. Tilottama Rajan and David L. Clark) (Reviewed by Terence Allan Hoagwood)

Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America (Joan Burbick) (Reviewed by Henry Golemba)

Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark …

Interview With Clay Steinman, Professor Of Media And Cultural Studies, Clay Steinman

Media and Cultural Studies Oral Histories

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Final Report As A Member Of The Lgbtq Center Staff, Joseph A. Santiago

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

It is with a heavy heart that I write my final report as a member of the LGBTQ Center Staff. I have been part of the Center since 2002 and have seen it grow in many ways over the years. It is my hope that it will continue to improve and establish the programs and services that make it a leader and innovator in LGBTIQQ and cultural studies. The following is a brief breakdown of the spring 2012 semester.