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Criticism

Making A Social Body: British Culture Formation, 1830-1864 (Mary Poovey)
The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Christopher Lane) (Reviewed by John R. Reed)

Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City (Deborah Epstein Nord)
Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria (Evelyne Ender) (Reviewed by John Kucich)

Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930 (Carolyn Steedman) (Reviewed by Stephanie A. Smith)

Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories (Mary E. John) (Reviewed by Suchitra Mathur)

Disciplines of Virtue: Girl's Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Lynne Vallone) (Reviewed by …

The Invisible Gland: Affect And Political Economy, Jeff Pruchnic

Criticism

Review of

The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, ed. Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 313. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.)

and

The Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior, ed. W. Russell Neuman, George E. Marcus, Ann N. Crigler, and Michael MacKuen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 453. $60.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.)

Try Anything, Todd Carmody, Heather K. Love

Criticism

Conference Review “Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope . . . A Conference on Political Feeling.” Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, October 19–20, 2007

Caribbean Bodyscapes: The Politics Of Sacred Citizenship And The Transpersonal Body, Josune Urbistondo

Open Access Dissertations

In this project I explore the relationship of sacred citizenship as an alternative and at times overlapping form of politics to national citizenship. Sacred citizenship creates a possibility of belonging for marginalized identities in Caribbean and Caribbean diasporic women’s writing. All the novels examined in this project, Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting (2004), Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (2001), Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda (1998), Mayra Montero’s The Red of His Shadow (2001), Ana-Maurine Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt (2006), and Daína Chaviano’s The Island of Eternal Love (2008), depict protagonists that practice restricted versions of national citizenship. Due to varying degrees of …

Autophagy And Senescence In Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Metabolically Supports Tumor Growth And Metastasis Via Glycolysis And Ketone Production., Claudia Capparelli, Carmela Guido, Diana Whitaker-Menezes, Phd, Gloria Bonuccelli, Renee Balliet, Timothy G Pestell, Allison F Goldberg, Richard Pestell, Anthony Howell, Sharon Sneddon, Ruth Birbe, Aristotelis Tsirigos, Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outshoorn, Federica Sotgia, Michael P. Lisanti

Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations

Senescent fibroblasts are known to promote tumor growth. However, the exact mechanism remains largely unknown. An important clue comes from recent studies linking autophagy with the onset of senescence. Thus, autophagy and senescence may be part of the same physiological process, known as the autophagy-senescence transition (AST). To test this hypothesis, human fibroblasts immortalized with telomerase (hTERT-BJ1) were stably transfected with autophagy genes (BNIP3, CTSB or ATG16L1). Their overexpression was sufficient to induce a constitutive autophagic phenotype, with features of mitophagy, mitochondrial dysfunction and a shift toward aerobic glycolysis, resulting in L-lactate and ketone body production. Autophagic fibroblasts also showed …

Endogenous Dynorphin Protects Against Neurotoxin-Elicited Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neuron Damage And Motor Deficits In Mice, Qingshan Wang, Eun-Joo Shin, Xuan-Khanh Thi Nguyen, Quan Li, Jae-Hyung Bach, Guoying Bing, Won-Ki Kim, Hyoung-Chun Kim, Jau-Shyong Hong

Neuroscience Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: The striato-nigral projecting pathway contains the highest concentrations of dynorphin in the brain. The functional role of this opioid peptide in the regulation of mesencephalic dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons is not clear. We reported previously that exogenous dynorphin exerts potent neuroprotective effects against inflammation-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration in vitro. The present study was performed to investigate whether endogenous dynorphin has neuroprotective roles in vivo.

METHODS: 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and methamphetamine (MA), two commonly used neurotoxins in rodent models of Parkinson's disease, were administered to wild-type (Dyn⁺/⁺) and prodynorphin-deficient mice (Dyn⁻/⁻). We examined dopaminergic neurotoxicity by using an automated video tracking system, HPLC, …

June 11th 2012, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

Muscular Christian Themes In Contemporary American Sport: A Case Study, Andrew R. Meyer

Movement and Being: The Journal of the Christian Society for Kinesiology, Leisure and Sports Studies

Muscular Christianity is often credited as being influential in Western sport ideology but is rarely mentioned in contemporary analysis. This paper identifies instances of muscular Christian ideals, as defined by Thomas Hughes, observable in the contemporary American sport context, addressing the continued religious impact of sport. Muscular Christian themes were identified in various media, including, online videos, magazines, books, and commercials involving American cyclist Lance Armstrong. Two of Hughes’ themes were observable in the media portrayal of Armstrong: a body used for the protection of the weak and a body used for the advancement of all righteous causes. These findings …

A Translation And Cultural Adaptation Of The Japanese Version Of The Outcome Questionnaire 45 (Oq), Risa Takara

Theses and Dissertations

The need for psychotherapy outcome research is growing in Japan as the societal demands for psychotherapy have increased in recent years. Although researchers in Japan recognize the importance of integrating clinical practice and empirical research in evaluating psychotherapy outcome, most Japanese studies to date have relied heavily on qualitative case studies (Haebara, 1997; Kanazawa, 2004; Tanno, 2001). With the help of six translators and 116 native Japanese pilot respondents, this study adapted the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ; Lambert et al., 1996), one of the most common quantitative measures of clinical outcome, for use in Japan. The translation of the original OQ …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism (James L. Kastely) (Reviewed by Richard Marback, Wayne State University)

Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Clement Hawes) (Reviewed by Teresa Feroli, University of Tulsa)

Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism (Ed. James Acheson and Romana Huk)
Out of Dissent: A Study of Five Contemporary British Poets (Clive Bush)
(Reviewed by Keith Tuma, Miami University)

The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk (George L. Hersey) (Reviewed by Barbara Dickson, Wayne State University)

Mistaken Identities: Poetry …

Introduction: Rethinking The Disciplinary Confluence Of Anthropology And Literary Studies, Brad Evans

Criticism

No abstract provided.

Frank O’Hara And The Turn To Friendship, Benjamin Lee

Criticism

Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Andrew Epstein)
Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (Lytle Shaw)

A Comparison Of The Effects Of Negative Communication And Spirituality On Relationship Quality Among Different Groups Of Latino And Anglo Couples, Sergio Benjamin Pereyra

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the direct relationship between actor/ partner effects of negative communication, spirituality and relationship quality and also examined negative communication when mediated by spirituality among four types of couples. The sample included 300 heterosexual Anglo couples (AC), 319 heterosexual female Anglo/ male Latino couples (FAML), 292 heterosexual female Latina/ male Anglo couples (FLMA), and 177 heterosexual Latino couples (LC) who completed a survey questionnaire known as the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE). Variables from this questionnaire that were used in the study included measures of negative communication, spirituality, and relationship quality. Results from Structural Equation Modeling indicated that negative communication …

Keywords (The Remake), David R. Shumway

Criticism

New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris)

Some Avenues For Feeling, Adam Frank

Criticism

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (Charles Altieri)
Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (ed. Lauren Berlant)
Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation (Winfried Menninghaus)
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick)

The Sublime Triplets Of Historical Consciousness, Susan A. Crane

Criticism

On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath (Ernst Breisach)
Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (Peter Fritzsche)
Déjà vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (Peter Krapp)
History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (Dominick LaCapra)
Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting (Harald Weinrich)

Inside And Outside Romanticism, Michael Scrivener

Criticism

The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (Ian Balfour)
The Historical Austen (William H. Galperin)
Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory (Paul Hamilton)
The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period (ed. Steven E. Jones)
The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (Marc Redfield)
William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Saree Makdisi)

Intersections Of Science, Sensation, And Culture, Charles J. Stivale

Criticism

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Brian Massumi)

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London (Jane Rendell) (Reviewed by Claire Nicolay, Loyola University Chicago)

Faulkner and the Politics of Reading (Karl F. Zender) (Reviewed by John Bassett, Clark University)

Perceiving Animals, Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture (Erica Fudge) (Reviewed by Ron Broglio, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Book Reviews , Criticism Editors

Criticism

Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity (Seyla Benhabib and Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves)
The Power of Dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault (Hans Herbert Kögler)
(Reviewed by John Rapko, University of California, Berkeley)

Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton (Leah S. Marcus) (Reviewed by Thomas L. Berger, St. Lawrence University)

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Kim F. Hall) (Reviewed by Karen Newman, Brown University)

The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton (John Rogers) (Reviewed by Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University-Chicago)

Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray mid Masculine Friendship …

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 63, June 4, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Annual Report, 2011, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. J. William Fulbright College Of Arts And Sciences. King Fahd Center For Middle East Studies

King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies Annual Report

Program Director: Tom Paradise, 2005-2009; Joel Gordon, 2009-

Political Emotions: Toward A Fresh Perspective On Collective Emotion In Composition Work, Ingrid Jonna Gilfus

Writing Program – Dissertations

This dissertation examines theories of emotion in politically contentious discourse in order to better understand the implications for teachers and students in composition classrooms where critical pedagogical practices lead to contentious political work. I suggest that partly as a result of the social and political turn in composition studies, the expectation for disrupting the normative political values and beliefs of students has become part of the curriculum in many writing classrooms. Yet teachers and students charged with such learning goals may be largely unaware of and unprepared for the role emotion might play in this teaching and learning situation. I …

Review Of Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, And Nations, Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Recent years have seen the publication of several excellent collections of essays devoted to nineteenth-century Latin American cultural studies. Works such as Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen, and special numbers of journals such as Revista Iberoamericana’s issue on cultural change and periodical reading in nineteenth-century Latin America (January–March 2006), to adduce but two examples, have amplified our understanding of the complex ways in which hegemonic and nonhegemonic discourses functioned in the nineteenth century and how the divisions between elite and popular cultures were …

Using Ubuntu: A New Research Trend For Developing Effective Communication Across Cultural Barriers, Cecile W. Garmon, Mandhla Mgijima

Communication Faculty Publication

Language and communication provide great challenges in a global world. New trends in communicating effectively across cultural and geographic boundaries face inherent and often subtle barriers. Generally, communicators do not even realize that they have missed hidden cues until the occasion and opportunity have passed. Enhancing communication requires an individual or group to understand the underlying concepts upon which the language and communication practices depend; these concepts also serve as the basic elements for developing social, economic, educational, political, and other related structures. These underlying concepts form our world views. Comprehending the complex interconnections between language and communication and these …

Posthumanist Rhetorical Agency, Matt Dunn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The postmodern criticism of humanist agency initiated by Dilip Gaonkar nearly twenty years ago set in motion a discipline wide discussion concerning the conceptualization rhetorical agency. Rhetorical agency is difficult but vital to conceptualize because the term bears directly on the discipline's theorizing about the speaker or rhetor, the effect of the speaker or rhetor's rhetoric on an audience, and the extent to which the speaker or rhetor's agency is constrained by ideology and discourse. What emerged from this discussion about agency did distance the discipline from the humanist conceptualization of rhetorical agency that persisted at the time Gaonkar published …

Just A Mutt: A Narrative Ethnography Of The Denver Dog Park Master Plan Process, Stephen M. Griffin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This ethnographic study explores the phenomenon of citizen participation in the decision-making process of their local government. The researcher explored this topic by observing the Dog Park Master Plan process conducted by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City and County of Denver from June 2009 through April 2011.

The researcher attended and observed seven meetings of a citizens committee convened by the Denver Parks and Recreation Department to act as a mini-public to test the elements of the Dog Park Master Plan before presenting the Plan to the public, and the three public meetings held to allow the …

Reconciling Eros And Agape: The English Catholic Artistic Response To Reforms, Nicole M. Coonradt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the English Catholic artistic response to reforms--reforms being both internal and external to the Catholic Church--as part of the Catholic Reformation. "Response," for the purposes of this project, may be defined in terms of an "answer" in an ongoing dialogue about the Catholic position and may be seen as both conciliatory and apologetic in nature. Understanding this response is useful when we consider the role of rhetoric and poetry in society and the attendant contemporary theories thereof, in their historical context, especially the duty of the poet. The recent "revisionist" history is central to understanding art contextually. …

Fostering And Foreclosing Student Learning Potential: Portraits Of Performativity, Emotion, And Relationality In The Classroom, Jeanne Marie Jacobs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation endeavors to build a much-needed bridge between the fields of communication and education. Using critical pedagogy and critical communication pedagogy as theoretical frameworks, this project advances an understanding of classroom communication as constitutive of power relations, and teachers and students as agents who can work together to foster learning potential and social justice. I look to interdisciplinary scholarship on affect to craft a nuanced conceptual framework of the connection between communication and emotion, and how they create learning opportunities for some students and construct barriers to learning for others. Through ethnographic fieldwork at an urban magnet school, I …

Examining The Mediation Of Power In A Collaborative Community: Engaging In Informal Science As Authentic Practice, Anton Puvirajah, Geeta Verma, Horace Webb

Education Publications

Focusing on the interplay of context and language, this study examined a group of high school students and their mentors’ use of language during a robotics competition. This informal setting allowed us to gain insights into the mediation and manifestation of power within the group. Using critical discourse analysis of competition transcripts and interviews we found that both students and mentors felt a sense of ownership and community leading to symmetry in power amongst them. The shift in power led to greater student ownership and agency and created a space for authentic and meaningful science learning. The context of the …