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Review Of Marshall Grossman, Ed., Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre And The Canon, And Frances Teague, Bathsua Makin, Woman Of Learning, Carole Levin

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Grossman's book is a collection of essays on Lanyer, who was first brought to public attention by A. L. Rowse's problematic identification of her as Shakespeare's "dark lady." Scholarly and popular interest in Lanyer has grown even stronger since Susanne Woods's 1993 edition of her poems for the Brown University Women's Writers Projects, published by Oxford University Press. Grossman's collection brings together a number of the top Renaissance literary1 cultural scholars who work on Lanyer. A number of themes, such as patronage, female community, and depiction of Biblical women, are developed by the different authors and link the essays in …

Evolution By Numbers: An Exploration Of Functional Pottery, Chad W. Wolf

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

The functional pottery I make is work which is profoundly influenced by the groupings of objects that I have both consciously and unconsciously looked at in my eleven years of retail experience at Menards. Most of these objects are unaesthetic individually, but when stacked and grouped together, become unusually compelling when seen from a distance, or in the field of peripheral vision. When I understood that this aspect of my life was informing my work, I became more attentive to the details like the negative spaces created around and between objects, and the intervals and spacings in and around objects. …

Circumstantial Evidence, Paula Day

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

The American Heritage Dictionary defines the relevant terms as follows: Circumstantial: 1. Of, relating to, or dependent on circumstances. 2. Of no primary significance; incidental. 3. Complete and particular; full of detail. 4. Full of ceremonial display. Pomp and circumstance.

Circumstantial evidence: n. Law. Evidence not bearing directly on the fact in dispute but on various attendant circumstances from which the judge or jury might infer the occurrence of the fact in dispute.

Evidence: 1. A thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgement. 2. Something indicative; an outward sign. ~videnced, -dencing, -dences. 1. To indicate • clearly; …

The Well Considered Pot, Matthew Lee Kelleher

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

Utilitarian objects are accessible and universal. Their forms are recognizable and their utility makes them inclusive. I choose to make utilitarian objects in order to use these characteristics as a foundation for my ideas. This decision invites the viewer to discover my visual and tactile interests.

Process is the vehicle I use for expression. When I use the wheel to create form, I respond to the clay as it passes through my fingers and tools. I search for a clean line that displays a balance of volume pushing out and a force squeezing in. When I work with molds, I …

Maps To Places You Couldn't Find, Michael J. Strand

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

I have been searching for a common ground. A place where my ideas, in all their diversity exist in harmony. I am compelled by memory and its relation to history. In Minnesota there is a group of rune-stones that are said to bear the inscription of ancient people from Northern Europe. They exist in a wonderful state. Part mythical and part historical, their authenticity is uncertain. With these rune-stones as inspiration my work acts as a transmitter of infonnation lost, or memories forgotten.

Over the past 18 months I have made work that exists outside of categories, merging image and …

Storytelling: Artist's Books, Nancy Jo Ann Steele

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

My thesis exhibition presents mixed media artist's books inspired by autobiographical stOlies originating from my family. These stories relate to the lives of my family and the natural environment of my home in a small-town farming community with deep Appalachian roots. With a sense of humor and solemnity, I make artist's books about the events and stories related to our religion, work, animals, neighbors, land and superstitions .

I mournfully watch the slow disintegration of our way of life. Vital aspects of our lives, such as working on the farm as a family, speaking with an accent, and making much …

Rest For The Eye, Jason L. Briggs

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

My work is the product of two chief motivations: a desire to touch and a compulsion to create. Beyond any external inspiration lie these two gut-level responses. The obsessive character of these drives is reflected through an extravagant covering of surface with minute, repetitive markings. The result is intensely focused, highly articulated work that combines passion, beauty, and diverse content.

The very nature of the surfaces--pushed, poked, scored, marked, indented, smoothed, carved, wiped, and sanded--are taken to extremes. As the maker, I am both captivated and at ease; it is just me and the clay. The act of texturing becomes …

Necessary Fictions, Yvonne M. Meyer

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

Photography is a compelling process for exploring, editing, and clarifying. It acts as an increasingly fine sifter of experience. Life is vast 3-D motion full of colors, sounds, expectations, intensities, temperatures, textures, and so many constant sensations. Simplify. Squinting through the viewfinder, I frame visual segments and record their rectangular impressions in black and white. Light and the chemistry of the darkroom transform pieces of what had been in dynamic flow to pauses lying flat on paper. Time, color, and motion now suspended in the print are quiet to allow consideration and sometimes insight.

I leave the darkroom with another …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 11:1 – Winter 1999, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

TSA ’98: Wrapping up the New York Symposium
Studying Textiles at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
TSA News
Letter from the President
Career and Research Opportunities
Exhibition Reviews
Publication Opportunities
Calls for Papers
Conferences
Exhibitions
Lectures/Workshops
Tours/Courses
Membership Application
Membership Survey

Robert Henri: A Nebraska Legend, Nancy H. Dawson

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Robert Henri: a Nebraska Legend, the twelfth in a series of Sheldon Statewide exhibitions, is a result of the uniquely successful partnership between the staff of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden and our principal funding support group, the Nebraska Art Association, a nonprofit volunteer membership organization dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts in Nebraska, and twenty-two Nebraska communities that have served as exhibition venues since the inception of the program in 1987. Local sponsors who support the exhibition in their communities, and volunteer docents who disseminate important information to the school children and adults …

The Visual Culture Of Robert Rauschenberg, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The importance of Robert Rauschenberg to the history and development of 20th-century American art has been firmly established for well over three decades. It is, however, the nature of his importance that remains, in large part, unresolved. The recent retrospective exhibition of the artist's work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1997- 98 represents to date the most ambitious attempt to document comprehensively the multiple aesthetic activities of one of the most complex and diverse artists in the history of modern art. By focusing on his involvement in performances, sculpture, and unique and creative engagement with …

Milly Barton And Emma Gwyther, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

For many years the tomb of Emma Gwyther in Chilvers Coton Churchyard in Nuneaton was totally obscured by a massive yew tree until it was recently cut back to reveal the sorry state of the tomb beneath it. Badly broken and its lettering difficult to read, it was clearly in great need of some restoration because of its place in the George Eliot story.

There seems little doubt that Emma Gwyther was the original of Milly Barton, the hard-working wife of the Rev. Amos Barton in Scenes of Clerical Life. Emma's husband was the Rev. John Gwyther, curate of Chilvers …

An Echo Of The "Holy War", Bill Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

George Eliot's 'Holy War' began on 2 January 1842 and lasted for four and a half months. That day her father made a significant entry in his Journal: 'Went to Trinity Church in the forenoon ... Mary Ann did not go'. In the protracted dispute with her father that followed this refusal to accompany him to church, her friends the Sibrees arranged for her to meet the Rev. Francis Watts, Professor of Theology at Spring Hill College, Birmingham, to try to help her resolve her difficulties. Their meeting probably took place in March 1842, and subsequently she wrote him six …

A Tchaikovsky/George Eliot Opera That Never Happened

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The Tchaikovsky Museum at Klin in Moscow in Russia had, amongst the composer's papers, a manuscript of fragments of a scenario for an opera on the theme of 'Mr. Gilfil 's Love-Story', the second story in Scenes of Clerical Life.

Tchaikovsky modestly mentions this in his biography, stating that at first he proposed an opera based on 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', the first story in Scenes but was drawn instead to another of the stories, 'Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story'. The composer's friend, the music critic G. A. Larosh, mentions in his memoirs that for some weeks before …

A Postcard To Rev.F.R. Evans (George Eliot's Nephew)

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

'Re George Eliot' 'A' [in red ink]

(Mary Ann Evans)

Sir, I assume that you read the Ten Commandments in your church - yet in the Nuneaton Chronicle article in The Star of Aug. 7, you are said by A. E. Cross 1 to be in favour of a memorial to this 'evil-liver'. Let us hope that if people who gloat over the uncleanly erect a memorial the 'Scarlet letter' 'A" (Adulteress) will be conspicuously placed - as it is written by many of us on the title page of her works -

Let the silly project die or her …

The George Eliot Review: Journal Of The George Eliot Fellowship 1999 No. 30, Beryl Gray, John Rignall

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors ................................................................................... 5

Editors' Note ........................................................................................... 7

REPORTS Kathleen Adams: Annual Report 1998 ........................................ 9

Yuriko Kani: Japanese Branch Report ................................................... 16

Linda K. Robertson: Report from America .................................................... 18

ADDRESSES Margaret Jennings: Address at the wreath-laying in the George Eliot Memorial Garden, 17 May 1998 ................................................ .19

Lord Hattersley: Address at the wreath-laying in Westminster Abbey, 20 June 1998 .......................................................... 21

Henry Alley: The Twenty-Seventh George Eliot Memorial Lecture, l7 October 1998 ............................................... 23

Tenniel Evans: The Toast to the Immortal Memory: George Eliot Birthday Luncheon, 22 November 1998 ......................................... 36

ARTICLES A.G. van den Broek: …

Henry James And George Eliot: Realism, Reality, And Narrative Form, Nicola Harris

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The narratives of the Victorian writers are infused with detailed expositions of living, felt pictures; it was inevitable given the expectations of their audience. Furthermore, writers-cumcritics such as Henry lames testify to the difficulty of 'drawling] a hard and fast line on the border-land of explanation and illustration'.' lames was central to the protracted Great Debate surrounding 'The Art of Fiction' which took place in 1884, and the discussion encouraged Robert Louis Stevenson to respond with his 'A Humble Remonstrance', a gesture which can be interpreted as a tactical manoeuvre to keep the debate open. Andrew Lang's own 'The Art …

The Politics Of Religion In Felix Holt, A.G. Van Den Broek

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In chapter 3 of Felix Holt, the narrator gives an account of the 'social changes in Treby parish', including the altered character of Trebian Dissent. It had

been of a quiescent, well-to-do kind, represented architecturally by a small venerable, dark-pewed chapel, built by Presbyterians, but long occupied by a sparse congregation of Independents, who were as little moved by doctrinal zeal as their church-going neighbours, and did not feel themselves deficient in religious liberty, inasmuch as they were not hindered from occasionally slumbering in their pews, and were not obliged to go regularly to the weekly prayer meeting.

In the …

Annual Report 1998, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Every year I begin this report by saying what a busy year the Fellowship has had. Every year it seems to get busier; certainly the workload increases each year - which must be a measure of our success in reaching out in all directions, not only in the UK but abroad as well.

We begin each year in a fairly uneventful way with the Annual General Meeting, and 1998 was in the same mould, although we followed the business meeting with an excellent slide show by John Burton of the George Eliot Country in the past. John was elected to …

The Twenty-Seventh George Eliot Memorial Lecture: Ego, Anonymity, And Healing In George Eliot, Henry Alley

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Eliot's ultimate goal- morally, aesthetically - was to free the individual ego from the suffering of reflecting upon itself. Her fiction, which she saw as a series of evolving psychological phases, achieves this liberation through strongly argued models of balance and through the kinds of recognition linked to anonymous heroism. Mental anguish is to be escaped through the contemplation of others, and it would follow that Eliot's cumulative effort would clarify what it means to acquire achievements on the level of quiet and anonymous bequeathal, rather than self-aggrandizing glory.

Eliot discovered that a broad perspective beyond ego may be developed …

Daniel Deronda- 1921 Style, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

While we are still awaiting news of the completion of a new film of Daniel Deronda, something that has been in the pipeline for some years, it is interesting to discover that in 1921, a cinema film of the novel was made by Butcher's Film Services Ltd of Camera House, Farringdon Avenue, London EC4. In the 5,500 feet of film Butcher's made a gallant attempt to transfer George Eliot's last great novel onto the screen but previews seemed somewhat disenchanted with the results. The Kinematograph Weekly of 19 May 1921 reported that 'Although George Eliot is not ideally suited to …

Report From America, Linda K. Roberston

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The ninth annual George Eliot Dinner was held during the Modem Language Association meeting in San Francisco, California. Members of the Fellowship and friends met at Puccini and Pinetta on December 29 for excellent conversation and food. The evening included the traditional Toast to the Immortal Memory, greetings from members who could not attend, and much discussion of recent books on George Eliot and related topics. Harriet Williams located the superb Italian restaurant, which was very conveniently located, and made the arrangements.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 20 (1999), Virginia Gunn, Molly Miles, Valerie S. Rake, Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff, Zöe C. Smith, Carolyn O'Bagy Davis, Cynthia Dimock-Quaglia

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

The Kezia D. Benton Quilt: A Life Uncovered by Molly Miles

A Thread of Continuity: Quiltmaking in Wayne County, Ohio, Mennonite Churches, 1890s-1990s by Valerie S. Rake

Three Louisiana Acadian Colonnade Quilts: Adding Pieces to a Puzzle by Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff

Between Two Worlds: The Quilts and Life of Caroline Hoffman Christman Chew by Zoe C. Smith

Goldie Tracy Richmond: Indian Trader and Quiltmaker by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis

The "Vampire" Quilt: A Material-Culture Study by Cynthia Dimock-Quaglia

Authors and editor

In memoriam: Alma Wallace Lesch (1917-1999)

Indez

Paintings, Susan L. Arthur

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

This body of work is an endeavor to explore the connection of form to environment that mirrors my interaction with the external. In painting, I limit means in terms of subject and range of color in order to allow deeper examination of my perceptions. By imposing such external restrictions, a new awareness in painting emerges.

The insistence on the connection of the form to its surroundings is key to the formal and emotional content of the paintings. Form- frequently a chair- is found in relation to the color, intensity, and temperature of space and other forms . In finding incremental …

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"Searching For The Route Of Inventions": Retracing The Renaissance Discovery Narrative In Gabriel García Márquez, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

If, as Harold Bloom suggests. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is a "supreme fiction," it achieves that status as it reformulates early modern narratives of self-discovery and dominion. Garcia Márquez signals his intention of rewriting the great Renaissance narratives of discovery when he begins his 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech with an account of Antonio Pigafetta's Viaggio attorno al mondo (1522). As a navigator aboard Magellan's 1519–21 voyage around the world, Pigafetta kept a log that Garcia Márquez categorizes as an ancestor "of our contemporary novels." Where many Latin American writers might describe their work as postcolonial. García Márquez …

"Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich", William Grange Prof. Dr.

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

The idea performing comedy, and performing a lot of comedy, during one the most systematic reigns of terror the world has ever known may at first blush seem somewhat degraded. The perception of most people, especially in the English-speaking world, is that “German comedy” in the first place is an oxymoron. The fact is, however, that 42,000 productions were staged between 1933 and 1944 in the Third Reich, and the majority of them were comedies. The most frequently performed were plays by the now forgotten likes of August Hinrichs, Maximilian Böttcher, and Fritz Peter Buch, Jochen Huth, and Charlotte Rissmann. …