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Quakers, Culture, And The Transforming Power Of Love, Ellen M. Ross

Religion Faculty Works

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Evans's 'The Turducken' And Chekhov's 'The Seagull', Brian R. Johnson

Russian Faculty Works

In his article "Evans's The Turducken and Chekhov's The Seagull" Brian R. Johnson approaches The Turducken as a travesty of The Seagull, examining six iconic scenes from The Seagull, in order to explore the satirical effect of the altered scenes. In December of 2008, Bedlam Theatre of Minneapolis presented The Turducken, "a holiday dinner theater spectacular inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Seagull." Playwright Josef Evans takes Chekhov's 1895 work and turns the classic piece into a musical and farcical satire. The plot of The Turducken follows the plot of The Seagull, and some scenes in The Turducken are recognizable as …

Materializing Monsters: Aurora Models, Garage Kits And The Object Practices Of Horror Fandom, Bob Rehak

Film & Media Studies Faculty Works

Since the explosion of ‘monster culture’ among adolescents in the 1960s, model kits, statues and toys based on horror-movie icons have played a key role in fan activities surrounding fantastic film and television. From magazines such as Famous Monsters to garage kits and collectible companies, these ‘object practices’ provide an alternative means of mapping the history, present and future of fantastic-media franchises, moving beyond reductive conceptions of marketing and promotion to suggest that material incarnations of science fiction, horror and fantasy texts are essential to their cultural persistence and commercial viability.

Review Of "Aristophanes: Sex Und Spott Und Politik" By N. Holzberg, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

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Review Of "Hegel’S Naturalism: Mind, Nature, And The Final Ends Of Life" By T. Pinkard, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Diagnosing Prince Myshkin, Brian R. Johnson

Russian Faculty Works

The article presents literary criticism of the book "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It focuses on the medical history of the character Prince Myshkin. According to the author, Myshkin's diagnosis of and treatment for epilepsy play an important role in his character and in the plot of the novel. Topics discussed include recognition, Dostoyevsky's medical knowledge, and the 19th-century medical concept of idiotism.

A Man's World: Revisiting Histories Of Men And Gender: Review Of "On The Make: Clerks And The Quest For Capital In Nineteenth-Century America; Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus In Nineteenth-Century America" By B.P. Luskey And R. Stott, Bruce Dorsey

History Faculty Works

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Review Of "The Basic Minimum: A Welfarist Approach" By D. Dorsey, Krista Karbowski Thomason

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Matthew Henson And The Antinomies Of Racial Uplift, Anthony S. Foy

English Literature Faculty Works

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Genealogy Of An Execution: The Sodomite, The Bishop, And The Anomaly Of 1726, Farid Azfar

History Faculty Works

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Disease And Humanity: Ba Jin And His "Ward Four: A Wartime Novel Of China", Haili Kong

Chinese Faculty Works

"Family" as Ba Jin’s intense concern seems to be a central icon of his literary works, carrying through from his Family (1933) to Cold Nights (1947). After briefly reassessing Ba Jin’s literary contribution in his early phase, this essay will focus more on Ba Jin’s novels written in the 1940s, particularly his Ward Four, which rarely attracts critical attention. For Lu Xun, mental disease in China was more crucial than physical disease. Ba Jin uses both mental and physical diseases to explore humanity in a wartime hospital. Ba Jin’s early novels were infused with more radical ideas, but as a …

What Did Slaves Wear? Textile Regimes In The French Caribbean, Robert S. Duplessis

History Faculty Works

This study of the dress of enslaved men and women in the French Antilles is based on a critical examination of written and pictorial sources. Analyzing work clothes, by law masters’ responsibility, and festive apparel, which slaves themselves procured, the article focuses on the possibilities and limits of subordinate populations’ innovation in material culture. With comparisons to sartorial practices of enslaved people and other groups in the Caribbean and in the larger world, the paper addresses issues in the history of consumption and of the Atlantic basin in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, arguing that both standardization and diversification were …

Introduction, Pieter M. Judson , '78, Tara Zahra , '98

History Faculty Works

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On The Inflation Of Necessities, Peter Baumann

Philosophy Faculty Works

This paper argues that Kripke’s thesis of the necessity of origin has some implausible consequences.

Review Of "Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, And The Invention Of Greek Prose" By L. Kurke, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

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The Solace Of History: Reflections On Quakers And The Environment, Ellen M. Ross

Religion Faculty Works

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Unexpected Subversions: Modern Colonialsm, Globalization, And Commodity Culture, Timothy Burke

History Faculty Works

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Historia / Historia De La Enfermedad / Historia De La Salud Pública, Diego Armus

History Faculty Works

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Gli Studi Classici E Il Precario Raggiungimento Della "Rilevanza", Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

This talk addresses how the concept of 'relevance' has tended to be used and abused in our time, and how it has affected public attitudes towards the place of Classics in the academy. As the modern world has become increasingly pluralistic and internationalised, Classics has lost not so much its ability to appear an, indeed, be, relevant to our times, but rather its status as a cultural marker of class, sophistication, or even virtue. Over the next decades, a major challenge facing the Classics will be to discover ways in which it can reconstruct itself as a discipline so as …

Russian Folktale, V. Y. Propp, Sibelan E.S. Forrester , Translator

Russian Faculty Works

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Translation Of "A Love Letter" By H. Kyojiro, H. Kyojiro, William O. Gardner , Translator

Japanese Faculty Works

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Translation Of "Advertising Tower!" By H. Kyojiro, H. Kyojiro, William O. Gardner , Translator

Japanese Faculty Works

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Japanese Modernism And "Cine-Text": Fragments And Flows At Empire's Edge In Kitagawa Fuyuhiko And Yokomitsu Riichi, William O. Gardner

Japanese Faculty Works

This article notes that Kitagawa Fuyuhiko's writings from the 1920s and 1930s, together with the contemporaneous works of prose author Yokomitsu Riichi, are strongly marked by the confluence of the literary and the cinematic. Kitagawa and Yokomitsu's engagement with film was not limited to a fascination with the precision, objectivity, or mobility of the “camera eye.” Rather, it extended to the entire ability of the cinematic apparatus to capture the temporality of objects in motion, and of the ability of the filmmaker to organize segments of space into a new synthetic whole. The article explores this confluence through a brief …

Review Of "Contemporary Art And Classical Myth" Edited By J. Hirsh And I. L. Wallace, Grace M. Ledbetter

Classics Faculty Works

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Teaching Queer Cinema With Independent Media, Patricia White

Film & Media Studies Faculty Works

In lieu of an abstract, this is the article's introductory paragraph:

One of the most exciting dimensions of teaching film (and popular culture) is learning what students already know and then generating an informed and critical epistemology from the familiar. Teaching LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) representation in film and media presents rich opportunities to build on student familiarity — with such mainstream breakthroughs as Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (2006) and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (2003-07) — and to formalize the knowledge and challenge the assumptions that students have about LGBT history, lives, and struggles for representation. …

Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Visionary Media In Edgar Allan Poe And Edogawa Rampo, William O. Gardner

Japanese Faculty Works

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Herodotus And The Heroic Age: The Case Of Minos, Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Classics Faculty Works

In the fifth century, traditional myths about gods and heroes of a remote age still constituted a shared cultural language for speaking about a variety of more or less specific current issues of a philosophical, ethical, social, and political nature. Other than tragedy and epinician poetry, we should especially remember the role of myth in Thucydides, whose ‘Archaeology’ sets down his fundamental, and ideologically charged, view of history. It is time to reassess Herodotus' participation in this contemporary coded discourse and examine the ways in which he uses the mythical past as well as the cases when he appears to …

Persians In Thucydides, Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Classics Faculty Works

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The Common Reader And The Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History For The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan

English Literature Faculty Works

The essay draws on archival research to reconstruct the midcentury classrooms of Cleanth Brooks and Edmund Wilson. Our description of these classrooms - the participants, texts, and the exemplary as well as the undertheorized moments gathered within them - dissolves the divisions between research and teaching, historicist and formalist methods, skeptical critics and invested common readers, disciplinary spaces and public ones, that have particularly plagued the discipline of English in recent years. In Brooks's classroom - long figured as a foundational site for our discipline - we draw out, alongside Brooks's strong theory of the marginal and rarified status of …