Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Arts and Humanities Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 6271 - 6300 of 12410

Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

En Busca De Una Tipología Maternal: (Re)Considerando La Mujer-Madre En La España De Los Siglos Xix Y Xx, Guiomar C. Fages Apr 2007

En Busca De Una Tipología Maternal: (Re)Considerando La Mujer-Madre En La España De Los Siglos Xix Y Xx, Guiomar C. Fages

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

This dissertation examines different models of motherhood as represented in major modern novels, taking the late Nineteenth century as a point of departure and concluding with the period known as the “Transición” that followed the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco (1939-75). This study emphasizes the novels published during and after the Francoist regime.

The current study examines how the role of the mother evolved as various historical, political, and societal changes occurred in Spain. Although, as a general rule, novels often reflect the dominant ideologies of the patriarchal society in which they are written, each of these novels subverts the …

Go to article

Writing And Circulating Modern America: Journalism And The American Novelist, 1872–1938, Derek John Driedger Apr 2007

Writing And Circulating Modern America: Journalism And The American Novelist, 1872–1938, Derek John Driedger

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

My research began with the question, "How did former journalists depict aspects of the newspaper environment in late-nineteenth, early-twentieth-century fiction?" A historical reading of journalism and fiction places the emphasis on what historical moments or trends these writers documented, and how they presented their worldview. To present findings on how a journalism career proved beneficial for a novelist, I examine arguments debating the shared space between fact and fiction when writers tried to raise their readers' cultural awareness. My study pays particular attention to newspapers such as the New York Herald, the New York World, and the Atchison [Kansas] Globe. …

Go to article

La Presencia Del Dolor En La Obra Poética De Garcilaso De La Vega, Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Gutierre De Cetina, Lope De Vega Y La Madre Josefa Del Castillo, Dilia Hernández Delgado Apr 2007

La Presencia Del Dolor En La Obra Poética De Garcilaso De La Vega, Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Gutierre De Cetina, Lope De Vega Y La Madre Josefa Del Castillo, Dilia Hernández Delgado

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

The present study explores works by Gracilaso de la Vega, Gutierre de Cetina, Diego Hurtado the Mendoza, Lope de Vega and Josefa del Castillo, a group of Spanish language writers whose lives span the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. The thematic focus is upon sorrow or pain, both as subjective experience in the respective biographies and as a force spurring these authors toward the production of their verse. To this end, several poetic compositions have been examined, applying methodological techniques derived from Dámaso Alonso, José María Díez Borque, Tomás Navarro and Elizabeth Wilhelmsen. The exploration has brought to light that it …

Go to article

German-American Nazis And The Meaning Of American Homeland, 1935–1939, Edward S. Price Apr 2007

German-American Nazis And The Meaning Of American Homeland, 1935–1939, Edward S. Price

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

History states that the United States defeated Nazi Germany not only militarily, but ideologically too. This assertion is the central concern of my paper. As the liberal, American identity has endured, and German fascism has not, so too has the idea of irreconcilable differences between two opposing political identities. Since 1945, a postwar need to “castigate fascism as an aberration” has certainly given way to more subtle research, that with “an acknowledgement of fascism’s complexity, ambiguity and seductiveness” (Kallis, 1, 2000). However, the “urge to explain … fascism” has endured and is still the central concern of any project, even …

Go to article

Gumbo Flats And Slim Buttes: Visualizing The “West River” Region In Western South Dakota, Nathan B. Sanderson Apr 2007

Gumbo Flats And Slim Buttes: Visualizing The “West River” Region In Western South Dakota, Nathan B. Sanderson

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

When South Dakota and North Dakota became states in 1889, the powers that be split the old Dakota Territory lengthwise a few degrees south of the 46th parallel, creating two states that each spanned roughly 400 miles east to west, and about 230 miles north to south. The Missouri River ran through the central portion of both states, marking the approximate location of the 100th Meridian. Given the stark differences in annual moisture on either side of the Meridian and the inherent contrasts this discrepancy produces, perhaps these states should have been divided north to south instead.

In South Dakota, …

Go to article

Constructing Virtue, Making Place: Regional Creation In A National Context. The Second Annual James A. Rawley Conference In The Humanities Apr 2007

Constructing Virtue, Making Place: Regional Creation In A National Context. The Second Annual James A. Rawley Conference In The Humanities

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

Program:

Water, Economic Development, and Federal Policy in the American Midwest
Chair: Dr. Kurt Kinbacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Constructing Regionalism through Improvement: The Des Moines River Lands Grant and Improvement Project—Rick Woten, Iowa State University
2. Historians as Divorce Lawyers: The Pick Sloan Plan and a Failure of Regionalism—David Nesheim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. Pumping the Well Dry: Irrigation on the Great Plains—Lisa Schuelke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. David Wishart, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Race and Regionalism
Chair: Chris Rasmussen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Harlem Riots and the White Press’ use of the Brute Negro, the Contested Slave, …

Go to article

‘Riding Well And Shooting Straight’: The Ideal Southern Man In Literature, Catherine Biba Apr 2007

‘Riding Well And Shooting Straight’: The Ideal Southern Man In Literature, Catherine Biba

James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities

Though an oft-parodied stereotype today, the treasured expectations of manliness were intractable and concrete in the South and impacted every stratum of society. Fully developed before the advent of the Civil War, these masculine ideals did not disappear with the Confederate States of America— they lingered and even grew in tenacity, shaping nearly every facet of southern life. Given its deep entrenchment in southern thought and life, the complexity of what Richard Yarborough calls the “mythology of masculinity” occupies much modern southern historical research. Relying heavily on both personal and public documents, southern historians provide a valuable framework for understanding …

Go to article

Review Of Willa Cather And Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing The Real World, Edited By Janis P. Stout, Melissa J. Homestead Apr 2007

Review Of Willa Cather And Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing The Real World, Edited By Janis P. Stout, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In her essay "The Novel Démeublé," American novelist Willa Cather famously protested against the "over-furnished" modern novel, in which "material objects and their vivid presentation" have overtaken artistic vision and skill. In response, she advocates "throw[ing] all of the furniture out of the [novel's] window," leaving behind "the room bare as the stage of a Greek theatre.". In the introduction to this collection of essays and in many of the essays themselves, editor Janis Stout and the essays' authors refer to and rebut Cather's famous artistic manifesto through analyses of material objects in her fiction. Stout's introduction frames the collection …

Go to article

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 19:2 — Spring/Summer 2007, Textile Society Of America Apr 2007

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 19:2 — Spring/Summer 2007, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

"Miao Children's Dress"
President's Letter
TSA News
TSA Member News
Call for Papers TSA Symposium 2008—Textiles as Cultural Expressions
Symposium 2008 Plans
Featured Collection—The Erikson Carpet Collection, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta
Exhibition Reviews
Funding News
Education News
Publications News
Calendar: Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops, Tours
Conferences and Symposia
Collections News

Go to article

Review Of Back To Nature: The Green And The Real In The Late Renaissance, By Robert N. Watson, Elizabeth Spiller Apr 2007

Review Of Back To Nature: The Green And The Real In The Late Renaissance, By Robert N. Watson, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Robert Watsons Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance identifies the Renaissance as the moment of an "absolutely fundamental change in its consensual interpretation of reality" (41). Fear that material reality obscures true knowledge ("things getting in the way of the Word") gave way to concern that words and other forms of human perception were key impediments to truth or knowledge ("words getting in the way of Things") (41). This decentering of medieval religious epistemology made itself felt across the arts and sciences of late Renaissance culture and brought with it a compensatory need to …

Go to article

Blanket Statements, Issue 87, Spring 2007 Apr 2007

Blanket Statements, Issue 87, Spring 2007

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 87, Spring 2007

Go to article

Gender-Linked Stereotypic Content In Youth Magazines, Devon Cadwell Bazata Apr 2007

Gender-Linked Stereotypic Content In Youth Magazines, Devon Cadwell Bazata

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

This study evaluates youth magazines aimed at or read by three different target audiences--boys, girls, boys and girls--and examines whether the magazines reinforce gender stereotypes, and whether the intended audience makes a difference in that reinforcement or lack of it. First, this study established a theoretical framework upon which the selection of the target age group for the sample was based. Piaget and Kohlberg's seminal work, and Gilligan and other feminist theory, is considered in the context of the results. Second, it defined stereotypic, counter-stereotypic, and gender-neutral attributes based on five previous peer-reviewed studies dating from 1957-1975, and confirmed the …

Go to article

Restoration Declensions, Divine Consolations: The Work Of John Foxe In 1664 Massachusetts, Anne Myles Mar 2007

Restoration Declensions, Divine Consolations: The Work Of John Foxe In 1664 Massachusetts, Anne Myles

Joshua Scottow Papers

Dr. Anne Myles, of the University of Northern Iowa, has recently published an article describing her discovery of a previously unattributed work of Joshua Scottow: Divine Consolations for Mourners in Sion (1664). Her excellent article is titled “Restoration Declensions, Divine Consolations: The Work of John Foxe in 1664 Massachusetts,” and can be found in The New England Quarterly, March 2007, Vol. 80, No. 1, Pages 35- 68. It is available online.

She writes: “In 1664, a text appeared in New England that addressed itself to the uncertainty of the present by once again reaching back into the past—in this case, …

Go to article

Review Of The Correspondence Of Wolfgang Capito, I: 1507-1523. Edited And Translated By Erika Rummel., Amy Nelson Burnett Jan 2007

Review Of The Correspondence Of Wolfgang Capito, I: 1507-1523. Edited And Translated By Erika Rummel., Amy Nelson Burnett

Department of History: Faculty Publications

This is the first of a projected three volumes of the correspondence of the humanist and reformer Wolfgang Capito, covering his early career first as cathedral preacher in Basle, then as advisor to the archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht of Brandenburg, through his move to Strasbourg and his definitive break with Rome. About half of the almost 200 letters are published for the first time; the remaining letters, printed elsewhere in modern critical editions, are summarised.

The translations are colloquial and tend towards the overly literal; the early ones in particular give readers a good sense of humanist rhetorical style. The …

Go to article

Black And On The Border, Edward Ayers, William G. Thomas Iii, Anne Sarah Rubin Jan 2007

Black And On The Border, Edward Ayers, William G. Thomas Iii, Anne Sarah Rubin

Department of History: Faculty Publications

The civil war is often understood in terms of stark oppo¬sites. It seems only natural to think of North and South, of Union and Confederacy, of freedom and slavery. But the habit of thinking in opposites often extends to other parts of the war where it serves us less well: battlefield and homefront, soldier and civilian, male and female, and black and white, as if these places, people, and ex¬periences were not swept up in the same all-consuming war.

Go to article

William Jennings Bryan, The Railroads, And The Politics Of "Workingmen", William G. Thomas Iii Jan 2007

William Jennings Bryan, The Railroads, And The Politics Of "Workingmen", William G. Thomas Iii

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Early in his career as a lawyer William Jennings Bryan took a principled position that set him apart from many of his colleagues at the bar. When he teamed up with Dolph Talbot in a law practice in Lincoln in 1887, the state was growing faster than any other in the nation in that decade, catapulting from 450,000 residents to over 1 million. It was a promising field for the law business by any measure. Talbot took on a wide spectrum of clientele and represented the Missouri Pacific Railroad, but Bryan refused "to accept money from a railroad company." This …

Go to article

How To Preach A Protestant Sermon: A Comparison Of Lutheran And Reformed Homiletics, Amy Nelson Burnett Jan 2007

How To Preach A Protestant Sermon: A Comparison Of Lutheran And Reformed Homiletics, Amy Nelson Burnett

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Preaching was the central function of the Protestant minister. From the very beginning of the Reformation, proclaiming "the pure word of God" from the pulpit was the most important way of making evangelical doctrine known, and both Lutherans and Reformed redefined the functions of pastoral care to place new emphasis on preaching. Both pastors already in the parish and young men training for the ministry needed to know how to preach. To provide the necessary guidance for these pastors, evangelical theologians produced a number of homiletics texts that prescribed how to write a Protestant sermon. Most of these preaching manuals …

Go to article

The Armenian Commercial Houses And Merchant Networks In The 19th Century Ottoman Empire, Bedross Der Matossian Jan 2007

The Armenian Commercial Houses And Merchant Networks In The 19th Century Ottoman Empire, Bedross Der Matossian

Department of History: Faculty Publications

The aim of this article is to provide a synopsis of the Armenian merchant networks and commercials houses in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century with a specific concentration on Istanbul. It will discuss some factors that led to the proliferation and the decline of the Armenian merchant networks and commercial houses in the Empire. It will also argue that it is impossible to discuss geographic representations of merchant networks and commercial houses in the Empire as separate entities. On the contrary all were interconnected, not only economically, but also through kinship bonds. Other factors ranging from development of …

Go to article

Venturing Into The Minefield: Turkish Liberal Historiography And The Armenian Genocide, Bedross Der Matossian Jan 2007

Venturing Into The Minefield: Turkish Liberal Historiography And The Armenian Genocide, Bedross Der Matossian

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Historiography normally refers to the act of writing history, the collective writings of history and the history of such activities over time. I This chapter addresses the collective writings of history by a group of scholars of "Turkish origin," mainly deriving from a tradition ofleftist sentiments. What is particular about this group of Turkish liberal historians is that they provide an alternative historical interpretation2 of a specific historical event that is otherwise accepted by the official Turkish history (resmi tarih) as an historical travesty.1 Historical events, which are conventionally regarded as the "building bricks of history," are composed into a …

Go to article

Gender Identity Disorder, Jennifer Mckitrick Jan 2007

Gender Identity Disorder, Jennifer Mckitrick

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

According to the DSM IV, a person with GID is a male or female that feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable stress because of their actual sex (Task Force on DSM-IV and American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The way GID is characterized by health professionals, patients, and lay people belies certain assumptions about gender that are strongly held, yet nevertheless questionable. The phenomena of transsexuality and sex-reassignment surgery puts into stark relief the following question: “What does it mean to be male or female?” But while the answer to that question may be informed by contemplation …

Go to article

A Riddle And A Song: Playing With Signs In A Fourteenth-Century Ballade, Peter M. Lefferts Jan 2007

A Riddle And A Song: Playing With Signs In A Fourteenth-Century Ballade, Peter M. Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

In a rich and learned article, Lawrence Gushee explored the tabula monochordi of Magister Nicolaus de Luduno. The tabula, which was copied into a music theory manuscript of c. 1400 of southern Italian provenance (Rome/St. Paul), consists of three associated parts. The first and third I shall call, following Gushee, the tabula figurarum (an elaborate musical example) and the tabula numerorum (an extremely elaborate table of corresponding information). Between them lies the enigmatic text of a six-stanza musical puzzle poem, 'Ut pateat evidenter', with which Gushee wrestled inconclusively. A concordance to the poem unknown to Gushee in an English …

Go to article

Exhibition Review Of "Cosmophilia: Islamic Art From The David Collection, Copenhagen", Carol Bier Jan 2007

Exhibition Review Of "Cosmophilia: Islamic Art From The David Collection, Copenhagen", Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

THIS EXHIBITION WAS organized by the Isabella V. McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. It is accompanied by a catalogue of the same title published in 2006 by Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom, who also seived as curators, selecting objects in collaboration with the David Collection. The exhibition contains more than I 00 outstanding objects of Islamic art and includes more than 20 significant textiles, which represent diverse geographic origins (Yemen, Spain, India, Egypt, Central Asia, Turkey and Iran); with dates ranging from the 7th through the 19th centuries. Linen, cotton, wool and silk, traditional textile materials, …

Go to article

Vanishing Points, Deformed Planes, Negative Spaces, Empty Solids And Topological Genius – Or, How I Got Lost In Bilbao, Carol Bier Jan 2007

Vanishing Points, Deformed Planes, Negative Spaces, Empty Solids And Topological Genius – Or, How I Got Lost In Bilbao, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Midsummer’s green along the flanks of the Pyrenees in Basque country welcomed us as we drove from Donostia (San Sebastian) west to Gernika and Bilbao. The mountains to the south physically separate this area of northern Spain from the rest of the Iberian Peninsula. To the north lies the Atlantic with its vast expanse of water, gentle waves lapping at the shore. The mountain slopes here are profoundly uplifted and folded – nature’s deformations of the plane – and the steep valleys and rushing rivers exhibit visible geometric perspectives of geological forms. To be here in summer makes one especially …

Go to article

Review Of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women In America, 1850-1900, Melissa J. Homestead Jan 2007

Review Of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women In America, 1850-1900, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Like Naomi Z. Sofer's Making the America of Art (2005) and Anne E. Boyd's Writing for Immorality (2004), Susan Williams Reclaiming Authorship seeks to recreate and analyze how American women authors in the second half of the nineteenth century understood their own authorship. All three include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson as subjects, but Williams includes authors who did not conceive of their authorship in a high cultural mode (Maria Cummins, Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Abigail Dodge), and she traverses the careers of Alcott and Phelps so as to emphasize their movements in and out of …

Go to article

A Response To A Frontier Conversation (Review Of Documentary), Margaret D. Jacobs Jan 2007

A Response To A Frontier Conversation (Review Of Documentary), Margaret D. Jacobs

Department of History: Faculty Publications

This intriguing and soft-spoken documentary brings together scholars of Indigenous history from both North America and Australia to meet with Indigenous communities and their locally-based historians in the Northern Territory. In these encounters, it becomes clear that scholarly, academic approaches to history often clash with the ways that Indigenous communities and their historians tell their histories. This is not news to most readers of Aboriginal History; however, the film goes beyond this observation. It aims to show the possibilities for dialogue and fruitful exchange, as well as productive debate, when historians trained in different traditions of knowledge production meet …

Go to article

Structure And Properties Of Chicken Feather Barbs As Natural Protein Fibers, Narendra Reddy, Yiqi Yang Jan 2007

Structure And Properties Of Chicken Feather Barbs As Natural Protein Fibers, Narendra Reddy, Yiqi Yang

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

The structure and properties of chicken feather barbs makes them unique fibers preferable for several applications. The presence of hollow honeycomb structures, their low density, high flexibility and possible structural interaction with other fibers when made into products such as textiles provides them unique properties unlike any other natural or synthetic fibers. No literature is available on the physical structure and tensile properties of chicken feather barbs. In this study, we report the physical and morphological structure and the properties of chicken feather barbs for potential use as natural protein fibers. The morphological structure of chicken feather barbs is similar …

Go to article

Blanket Statements, Issue 90, Winter 2008 Jan 2007

Blanket Statements, Issue 90, Winter 2008

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 90, Winter 2008

Go to article

Beautiful Objects, Jenni Brant Jan 2007

Beautiful Objects, Jenni Brant

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I believe that the experience of beauty is important for its ability to inspire reflective contemplation. Beautiful things have the power to arrest our attention, to take over our consciousness and move us to new places in unexpected ways. Beauty has the power to make us more aware of the present moment, more aware of those we are sharing it with, and of the consequences of our actions. The experience of beautiful objects is an enriching and necessary facet of human existence. My work is life affirming and reminds us to celebrate the ordinary as well as the extraordinary: the …

Go to article

Self, Justin D. Shaw Jan 2007

Self, Justin D. Shaw

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

am proud of my traditions. My work is a conglomeration of my life 's worth of teachings and skills. I see my past in my sculpture, not specific events or dates, but periods of developmental growth. I respond to my surroundings being either location or company. These reflect in my actions and attitude, and although humorous in some regards, items like clothing and other subject matter are closely related to my upbringing and were fundamental in my development as an artist and a person. My interest in the figure comes from our natural ability to relate to other human beings, …

Go to article

Textile Society Of America 19:1 — Winter 2007, Textile Society Of America Jan 2007

Textile Society Of America 19:1 — Winter 2007, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

"Lillian Elliott Award Presented at TSA Symposium"
Symposium 2006 Wrap-Up—"textile narratives + conversations"
President's Letter
TSA News
Symposium 2006 Reports
TSA Member News
Exhibition Reviews
Collections News
Calendar: Exhibitions, Lectures, Workshops
Calls for Papers
Conferences and Symposia
TSA Symposium 2008 Attractions

Go to article

First Prev Next Last