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E. B. White’S Environmental Web, Lynn Overholt Wake

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

E. B. White called Walden his favorite book and found in it “an invitation to life’s dance.” To read White ecocritically is to accept a similar invitation to broaden our environmental imagination. Although one or two of his essays are often anthologized as nature writing, critics have not read White environmentally. While emphasizing White’s three books for children, this dissertation reads across genre lines to examine his lifelong work. Drawing on Laurence Buell’s prismatic term, the study explores how White’s engagement with the natural world contributes to the renewal of our collective environmental imagination. Examining White’s affinity for animals, evident …

Iowa Physicians: Legitimacy, Institutions, And The Practice Of Medicine, Part Three: Dealing With Poverty And Defending Autonomy, 1929-1950, Susan C. Lawrence

Department of History: Faculty Publications

This article, the last of this three-part series, briefly lays out some of the major changes in medical organization and institutions in Iowa between 1929 and 1950. The bulk of the essay then focuses on the effects that the rising costs of medical care had on ordinary Iowa physicians. Anxiety about the expense of medical services for the respectable working and middle classes joined worries about paying for the basic health needs of the indigent and marginally poor. In the 1910s and 1920s, more physicians and more patients expected hospital stays for surgery and childbirth, looked to laboratory-based tests for …

The Tryphê Of The Sybarites: A Historiographical Problem In Athenaeus, Robert J. Gorman, Vanessa Gorman

Department of History: Faculty Publications

A large number of the most informative fragments of the Hellenistic Greek historians are transmitted by Athenaeus. Unlike the frequently jejune evidence provided by scholiasts, lexicographers, and the like, these texts allow us to draw historiographical conclusions about lost writers: on this basis, scholars have posited, for example, the place of a given author in the Hellenistic “schools” of history. The importance of Athenaeus as a source for history-writing between Xenophon and Diodorus calls for detailed study of the Deipnosophist’s method of citing these lost authors. The present article focuses on Athenaeus’ testimony concerning the downfall of Archaic Sybaris through …

Review Of Exposing Men: The Science And Politics Of Male Reproduction By Cynthia R. Daniels, Rose Holz

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Faculty Publications

To begin with, although Daniels's work could be categorized as political science, part of this book's appeal is that it addresses what we historians might call a massive hole in the historiography--in this case, regarding men's health. In other words, we just do not know very much about this topic, nor do we know much about its history. Ironically, this dearth of knowledge stands in stark contrast to the wealth of information about the history of women's health--something that might seem a bit odd given the feminist argument that history has more often been about men than about women. However, …

Frontier Settlement And Community Development In Richardson, Burt, And Platte Counties, Nebraska, 1854-1870, Nicholas Joseph Aieta

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The Nebraska Territory was established in 1854. Consisting of lands that encompass modern-day Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and parts of Montana, the region was quite extensive. Originally, this land was part of the Louisiana Purchase, and some of the land had been reserved for Native American relocation following various treaties of the 1830s and 1840s. As pressures mounted to open the land for white settlement, both Nebraska and Kansas were established as territories in 1854.

The objective of this research is to examine the foundations of community in Nebraska Territory during the years 1854-1870. Specifically, this dissertation …

Review Of Church Robbers And Reformers In Germany, 1525-1547. Confiscation And Religious Purpose In The Holy Roman Empire. By Christopher Ocker., Amy Nelson Burnett

Department of History: Faculty Publications

This study is valuable not only as an overview in English of a very complicated area of ecclesiastical law which had significant economic ramifications, but also for its implications for understanding the rise of the territorial state in early modern Germany.

An Objective Aural-Relative In Middlemarch, Peter J. Capuano

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This article attempts to show that the grammar of perspective governing pictorial realism is less applicable to music because music exists in a place beyond language and because it requires fewer symbolic, re-presentational forms; it is closer to the essence of the thing itself. In “Notes on Form in Art” (1868), George Eliot writes that “boundary or outline and visual appearance are modes of Form which in music and poetry can only have a metaphorical presence.” George Eliot’s “battle ground of conflicting metaphors” then ceases to pose so much of a problem in the aural world of Middlemarch since conflicting …

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Zwischen Himmel Und Erde: Der Junge Friedrich Hölderlin Und Der Württembergische Pietismus, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

Wir schließen also, daß die These, Hölderlin habe chiliastisches Denken von frühauf von seiner pietistischen Umgebung aufgenommen, wohl revisionsbedürftig ist. Obwohl sich die Möglichkeit einer solchen Vermittlung anhand der Köstlin'schen Predigten feststellen läßt, scheint das dualistische Zeitmodell viel tiefere Wurzeln ins Bewußtsein des jungen Dichters geschlagen zu haben als chiliastische Vorstellungen. Wenn Köstlins Predigten und Hillers 'Liederkästlein' für die pietistischen Quellen, mit denen Hölderlin während seiner Kindheit und Jugend in Berührung kam, repräsentativ sind, so kann diese 'Beobachtung nicht überraschen, denn in beiden Fällen kommt das dualistische, auf das Jenseits gerichtete Zeitmodell insgesamt viel häufiger und nachdrücklicher vor als das …

Der Gelenkte Streit Als Didaktisches Mittel In Der Deutschen Kinderliteratur, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

Im Vorwort zu Wolfram Mausers und Günter Saßes Aufsatzsammelband über Streitkultur im Werk Lessings heißt es, der Streit im Lessingschen Sinne sei mit einer bestimmten Auffassung des Aufklärens verbunden, der ,,Öffnung eines kommunikativen Raumes, der sich als Offerte zur Teilnahme am gemeinsamen Räsonnement versteht". Dies stehe im Gegensatz zu einer dogmatischen Art des Aufklärens, die „mit einem herrschaftlichen Gestus verbunden" sei, wo ,,[d]er Wissende [. . .] den Schleier [lüftet]" und „für den Unwissenden Licht ins Dunkel [bringt]". Die Lessingsche Auffassung des Streites setzt eine im Hinblick auf das Wissbare gleichrangige Beziehung zwischen den Streitpartnern voraus, wo jeder auf die …

Aretino's Legacy: L'Ecole Des Filles And The Pornographic Continuum In Early Modern France, Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

The problematic reaction that pornography evokes as both a literary and cultural construct stems partially from the fact that it is as antimodern as it is modern. This paradox is implicitly outlined in Lynn Hunt's definition of pornography. The ironically traditional, if not presumably timeless, quality of pornography she describes as "the explicit depiction of sexual organs and sexual practices with the aim of arousing sexual feelings"; at the same time, however, the "modernity" of pornography, especially in the early modern period, stems from the fact that such works, "us[ed] the shock of sex to criticize religious and political authorities' …

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The Massachusetts Martyrs: A Collection of Works Relating to the Official Persecution of Quakers and Baptists in the Bay Colony 1650-1700

List of works from which a selection will be made for electronic online publication in The Massachusetts Martyrs: A Collection of Works Relating to the Official Persecution of Quakers and Baptists in the Bay Colony 1650-1700

Hidden Identity In The Contemporary Latin American Historical Novel: The Conquest Seen Through The Eyes Of Double Agent Characters, James W. Gustafson Jr.

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Many contemporary Latin American authors explore identity and re-write the past through narrative fiction, often looking to the violent beginnings of the Conquest and Colonization as a logical point of departure. This dissertation examines identity formation through fictional characters living with two identities in the following historical novels: El naranjo by Carlos Fuentes, Gonzalo Guerrero by Eugenio Aguirre, Duerme by Carmen Boullosa, Invasores del paraíso by Herminio Martínez, Memorias del Nuevo Mundo by Homero Aridjis, and Los perros del paraíso by Abel Posse.

Chapter One situates this study among the substantial critical corpus dedicated to Latin American novels of the …

An Analysis For Performance Of Selected Unaccompanied Works For Trumpet By Robert Henderson, Hans Werner Henze And Verne Reynolds, Brendan Mcglynn

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

Unaccompanied literature has been gaining a world-wide reputation and importance in the trumpet performance repertoire. This study examined how analysis of these pieces contributed not only to the knowledge of the performer, but to the performance itself. Three compositions were analyzed in this document: Variation Movements (1967) by Robert Henderson (b. 1948), Sonatina (1974) by Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926) and Calls and Echoes (unpublished) by Verne Reynolds (b. 1926).

These composers used a variety of compositional devices that were discussed in detail and showed how knowledge of these techniques benefited the performer. Variation Movements was derived from a nine-note …

An Analytical Directory Of The Latin Endings, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

What reader of Latin has not paused while consciously trying the various possibilities on a final -a ending? Or marched in place momentarily while deciding that a final -is was nominative, not genitive? While English shows meaning by position-in-sequence, Latin shows meaning by case-ending and circumstance: where case-ending fails, circumstance is left.

This book deals with the circumstance. It is, then a backwards grammar. It assumes some familiarity with Latin, and familiarity with the cases. Its intended audience is intermediate Latin students, and teachers of intermediate Latin students.

This is a chapter from an unpublished work, Odds on Latin, a …

The Mechanical Problems In The Corpus Of Aristotle, Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This is a translation of the Mechanical Problems from the TLG Greek text. That it survives in the corpus of Aristotle has been prima facie evidence that Aristotle was the author, although there are many problems with this attribution. At many places I found indications that the date of the work was apt for Aristotle. But eventually, I saw a connection in Vitruvius (as described in the brief essay included here as “Who Wrote the Mechanical Problems in the Corpus of Aristotle”) that led to a conviction of the author's true identity. To “cut to the chase,” I conclude that …

Review Of The Subject Of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, And Representation By Louis Montrose, Carole Levin

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In a clever play on words, Louis Montrose’s important new book on Elizabeth I suggests a study with Elizabeth both as the focus and as a topic of her people’s discourse. The title also suggests the importance of Elizabeth in understanding early modern England; this book is not itself simply about Elizabeth but about how this queen was created, understood, and negotiated by her subjects, male and female. As Montrose points out, all of Elizabeth’s subjects produced and reproduced their queen in a variety of ways throughout their daily practices. And throughout her reign, the queen’s image was manipulated by …

Faulkner In The Fifties: The Making Of The Faulkner Canon, Roland K. Végső

Department of English: Faculty Publications

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As many commentators of the period noted, one of the most significant events of early post-war literary culture in the United States was William Faulkner’s sudden rise to international fame. The most extensive investigation of this dramatic revaluation of cultural status was carried out by Lawrence D. Schwartz in his Creating Faulkner’s Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. Schwartz examines in detail the cultural and political processes that led to Faulkner’s discovery in the 1940s after the primarily negative reception of his works in the 1930s by leftist critics. He argues that Faulkner’s entry into …

How William F. Cody Helped Save The Buffalo Without Really Trying, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Many historical accounts of the restoration of the American bison omit an important piece of that phenomenon. Most historians have focused their attention on two elements: western ranchers who started the earliest private herds and eastern conservationists who raised funds and lobbied for the creation of the first national preserves. However, the perpetuation of the image of buffalo in the hearts and minds of Americans was equally important in the eventual recovery of the species. No one was a more effective popularizer than William F. Cody, despite his belief that bison neither could nor would recover. Buffalo Bill's Wild West …

Max Reger’S Telemann Variations, Op.134: Analysis And Critical Evaluation Of Editions, Including An Examination Of Reger’S Performance Style Based On Concert Reviews, Christian Peter Bohnenstengel

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

Max Reger’s music is not widely known and performed. His music is often thought of as dense, highly chromatic, and hard to digest. The Telemann Variations offer a different view of this highly prolific composer, who was regarded as the most important composer next to Richard Strauss in early twentieth-century Germany. The theme, a minuet in binary form, is taken from Telemann’s Tafelmusik in B-flat Major. The variations exhibit a transparent texture, regular phrases, and formal balance.

There is a fair amount of literature about the life and music of Reger, much of it written in German. However, the Telemann …

Music Circulating Libraries In France: An Overview And A Preliminary List, Anita Breckbill, Carole Goebes

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

The year is 1867 in Paris during the Second Empire. A musician sets off one day from his flat in a building several centuries old situated on the north side of the city. He is mulling over finances, and he feels lucky to have the place. Though the building is six floors tall with a narrow spiral staircase, the ground floor apartment was available when he was looking, and the piano movers were just able to shoehorn in his forty-year- old Erard piano.

He has a package under his arm, and he is on a mission, but he pauses upon …

Review Of Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders By Ronald J. Zboray And Mary Saracino Zboray, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Using letters written and diaries kept by 931 New Englanders living during the antebellum era, Ronald and Mary Zboray beneficially unsettle a number of grand narratives about readers and reading in the nineteenth-century United States. Since the influential work of theorist Rolf Engelsing, the turn from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century has been understood as the transition point from intensive reading and rereading of a select group of texts (such as the Bible) to extensive reading of many texts without rereading. Literary historians under the sway of Michel Foucault who have sought to chart the “rise of …

Working On The Domestic Frontier: American Indian Domestic Servants In White Women’S Households In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1920–1940, Margaret D. Jacobs

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Household employment for young Indian women differed from that of other domestic servants in several key ways. First, they had not journeyed across the Atlantic or Pacific or trudged across a national border in search of wage labor; nor had they been freed from human bondage only to be enlisted into the lowest rungs of the American economy. Instead it was the colonization of their land and the subsequent federal Indian policy of assimilation that drove young Indian women into domestic service.

Second, employment of young Indian women by white families became more than a private labor transaction between employer …

Providing Lumber For The ‘Sawed’ House: The Repeal Of The Southern Homestead Act And Euro-American Settlement Of The Plains, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Within five years, two separate homestead acts became law in the United States. Congress passed the first during the Civil War, which applied to public domain lands primarily in the western half of the U.S. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of public domain and receive title after a period of residence and “improvement.” It also featured other methods to gain title, including cash purchase. Following the war, the Southern Homestead Act became law in 1866. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi collectively held nearly 47,000,000 acres open to claim as a result, although in …

Reseña De ¿Qué He Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto!!: Una Sórdida Comedia Neosurrealista, Pero Menos, Oscar Pereira Zazo

Spanish Language and Literature

España-Francia / 1984 / Color / 101 min. Guión y dirección: Pedro Almodóvar. Producción: Kaktus, PC y Tesauro Hervé Hachuel. Música: Bernardo Bonezzi. Director de Fotografía: Ángel Luis Fernández. Montaje: José Salcedo. Decorados: Román Arango, Pin Morales. Vestuario: Cecilia Roth. Reparto: Carmen Maura (Gloria), Luis Hostalot (Polo, el policía), Ryo Hiruma (profesor de kendo), Ángel de Andrés López (Antonio), Gonzalo Suárez (Lucas Villalba), Verónica Forqué (Carmen Martínez, alias Cristal), Juan Martínez (Juan), Chus Lampreave (Blasa, la abuela), Kiti Manver (Juani), Sonia Anabela Holimann (Vanessa), Cecilia Roth (chica del anuncio de café), Pedro Almodóvar (tele, La bien pagá), Fany McNamara (tele, …

Reseña De Los Amantes Del Círculo Polar: Destellos Narcisistas En La Simetría De Las Superficies, Oscar Pereira Zazo

Spanish Language and Literature

España / 1998 / Color / 112 min. Director: Julio Medem. Producción: Fernando Bovaira, Fernando de Garcillán, Enrique López Lavigne, Txarly Llorente. Guión: Julio Medem. Director de fotografía: Gonzalo F. Berridi. Montaje: Iván Aledo. Música: Alberto Iglesias. Casting: Alberto Iglesias. Dirección artística: Satur Idarreta, Montse Sanz. Reparto: Najwa Nimri (Ana joven), Fele Martinez (Otto joven), Nancho Novo (Alvaro, padre de Otto), Maru Valdivieso (Olga, madre de Ana), Peru Medem (Otto niño), Sara Valiente (Ana niña), Víctor Hugo Oliveira (Otto adolescente), Kristel Díez (Ana adolescente), Pep Munné (Javier), Jaroslav Bielski (Alvaro Midelman), Rosa Morales (Sofía), Joost Siedhoff (Otto Midelman), Petri Heino …

Reseña De La Flor De Mi Secreto: Relevancia De La Feminidad En La Identidad Masculina, Oscar Pereira Zazo

Spanish Language and Literature

España / 1995 / Color / 107 min. Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Producción: Agustín Almodóvar (productor ejecutivo), Esther García (directora de producción). Guión: Pedro Almodóvar. Director de Fotografía: Alfonso Beato. Montaje: José Salcedo. Música: Alberto Iglesias. Reparto Marisa Paredes (Leocadia Macías), Juan Echanove (Ángel), Carmen Elías (Beatriz), Rossy de Palma (Rosa), Chus Lampreave (Jacinta), Kiti Manver (Manuela). Artistas invitados: Joaquín Cortés (Antonio) y Manuela Vargas (Blanca). Colaboración especial de Imanol Arias (Paco).

Reseña De Calle Mayor: España, O La Ciudad Asediada Por La Cobardía Y El Aburrimiento, Oscar Pereira Zazo

Spanish Language and Literature

España-Francia / 1956 / BN / 95 min. Dirección: J. A. Bardem. Producción: Manuel J. Goyanes para Suevia Films-Cesáreo González (Madrid) y Play Art-Iberia Films (París). Guión: J. A. Bardem. Director de Fotografía: Michel Kelber. Montaje: Margarita Ochoa. Música: Joseph Kosma, Isidro B. Maiztegui. Decorados: Enrique Alarcon. Reparto: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard, Luis Peña, Dora Doll, Alfonso Godá, Manuel Alexandre.

Reseña De Jamón, Jamón: La Telenovela De España En El Año De Gracia De 1992, Oscar Pereira Zazo

Spanish Language and Literature

España / 1992 / 90 min. Director: Bigas Luna Producción: Andrés Vicente Gómez. Guión: Bigas Luna, Cuca Canals y Quim Monzo. Director de Fotografía: José Luis Alcaine. Música: Nicola Piovani. Montaje: Teresa Font. Casting: Consol Tura. Arte y decoración: Noemí Campano, Chu Uroz, Julio Esteban y Pedro Gaspar. Vestuario: Neus Olivella. Reparto: Stefania Sandrelli (Conchita), Anna Galiena (Carmen), Juan Diego (Manuel), Penélope Cruz (Silvia), Javier Bardem (Raúl), Jordi Mollá (José Luis), Tomás Martín, Armando del Río, Diana Sassen, Chema Mazo, Isabel de Castro Oros, Nazaret Callao, Marianne Hermitte, Nadia Godoy, María Reniu, Susana Koska, Miguel García, Roberto Bermejo.

Visions Fugitives: Insights Into Prokofiev's Compositional Vision, Steven Edward Moellering

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

In his autobiographical notes, Sergei Prokofiev detailed “five lines” along which his early work had developed. This analysis concerned works composed until his graduation from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire in 1914. The five lines are termed: classical, modern, toccata, lyrical and grotesque. The analysis portion of this document will incorporate these five lines. Furthermore, I will concurrently analyze the Visions Fugitives using my own list of 10 characteristics as a foundation. The 10 characteristics are: (1) dissipating endings - or, endings that do not end emphatically, (2) sharp dynamic contrasts, (3) disjunct melody, (4) chromatic melody and free counterpoint, (5) …