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Review Of The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry And Ornament In Islamic Architecture, By Gulru Necipoglu, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Reviewed work: The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture, Gulru Necipoglu. Santa Monica, CA: J. Paul Getty Publications, 1996.

Reproducing the patterns from a 15th-century scroll (Topkapi Palace Museum Library, MS H.1956) that served as a guide for architects and artisans, Necipoglu brilliantly explores the juncture of geometry and philosophy that informed art and architecture over the centuries. Lucid essays accompany illustrations the scroll's 114 sequential patterns and place this virtually unknown work the dynamic intellectual discourses on geometry, religion and building that taking place in Europe and parts of the Islamic world during the 15th century. …

Review Of The Truth About The Virgin: Sex And Ritual In The Dead Sea Scrolls By Ita Sheres And Anne Kohn Blau, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

A book about gender in the Dead Sea Scrolls is long overdue. For many years, the scholarly consensus that Qumran (where the scrolls were found) was inhabited by an isolated Jewish sect of celibate “monks” made the subject of gender, peripheral at best. With that consensus increasingly called into question, more writers are discovering material about women in the scrolls (see, for example, the excellent work of Eileen Schuller). A book that brings this material together is therefore very desirable. Unfortunately, this is not the book.

René Descartes (1596–1650), Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Mathematician and founder of modern philosophy, known for his distrust of formal rhetoric. The Cartesian method and effort to achieve philosophic certainty are often cited as a challenge to rhetoric; yet, given Descartes's frequent deployment of rhetorical strategies, it is not surprising that his system makes provision for their provisional use. Furthermore, in spite of Descartes's aspiration toward a philosophy beyond rhetoric, postmodern critics find his system an entirely rhetorical construct.

Port-Royalists, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Seventeenth-Century French Jansenists, authors of the so-called Port-Royal Logic and Grammar. Of the many textbooks written by the Jansenists with ties to the monastery of Port-Royal near Paris, two have significant rhetorical implications: Antoine Arnauld's and Claude Lancelot's General Grammar (1660) and, especially, Arnauld's and Pierre Nicole's Logic or Art of Thinking (1662). The Logic privileges a spare style in which any recourse to the figures must be justified by the subject matter, a distrust of rhetorical methods of invention, and an ideal of transparent language. This approach is born of a convergence of Cartesian epistemology and an Augustinian …

Sharing Grief/Initiating Consolation: Voltaire's Letters Of Condolence, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

The letter of condolence has generally been neglected by students of epistolary discourse in spite of being located at the intersection of a number of recent critical concerns. Interest among historians of death is shifting from the ars moriendi that prepared the dying for a holy death to the grief of those who mourn the deceased. Second, letters of condolence raise the problem of the representation of grief and the adequacy of language to convey it. Finally, a rhetoric of consolation is implicit in the topoi of condolence selected by the letter writer, and while the consolatory discourse of antiquity …

De Didascalie En Diégèse: Le Fantastique Moderne Et «Un Coeur Simple», Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Rattachée à l'étude des genres chez Flaubert, une question qui reste à approfondir concerne le soin qu'a mis le romancier à éviter l'anachronisme dans ses images diégétiques ainsi que dans ses diverses formulations de la causalité, les deux réseaux appartenant souvent à un même ensemble de données culturelles. On voit dans cette attention de Flaubert un souci d'exactitude historique, certes, mais qui va de paire avec le statut générique de son ouvrage. Déjà dans le conte oriental de sa jeunesse, Flaubert savait que c'était le cas pour le merveilleux: certains genres admettent volontiers l'intervention du surnaturel et se définissent même …

Scientific Verses: Subversion Of Cartesian Theory And Practice In The "Discours A Madame De La Sabliere", Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

Study of the relationship between science and La Fontaine's Fables has a limited, but thought-provoking past. Beverly Ridgely asserts that while La Fontaine represents himself mainly as an "artist" and "moralist" concerned with depicting the irony and comedy of life, he "also had a genuinely studious and reflective side... [with] a real aspiration to write scientific philosophical verse in emulation of such ancient masters as Lucretius and Virgil" (180). Ridgely analyzes the influence of late seventeenth-century cosmic theory on L'astrologue qui se laisse tomber dans un puits and L'horoscope. The two poems attack the concept of judicial astrology, which …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 8:3 – Fall 1996, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Introducing…TSA President Louise Mackie
Officers Installed at Symposium
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
The Indiana Museum of Art
Doran Ross is Named Director of Fowler Museum
In Memoriam
Announcements
Early Knitting History Group
Classes/Lectures/Workshops
Anawalt is Norton Lecturer
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Exhibitions
Board of Directors

Blanket Statements, Issue 46, Fall 1996

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 46, Fall 1996

Has Every Book Of The Bible Been Found Among The Dead Sea Scrolls?, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

It is a commonplace that every book of the Hebrew Bible except Esther has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Actually, this is true only if you count Ezra-Nehemiah as one book-as, indeed, it is so regarded in Jewish tradition- since only a fragment of Ezra, but not Nehemiah, has been identified. But why not Esther? Some have suggested theological reasons: Esther is not a particularly religious book; it lacks any interest in Judah and its cultic institutions; and it has a sympathetic view toward the gentile King Ahasuerus. Moreover, it is the only book of the Hebrew Bible …

Mallarmé And Internationalism, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Bertrand Marchal’s welcome new edition of Mallarmé’s early correspondence will surely invite a fresh look at the often subtle intersections between text and hors-texte. The question is an engaging one not only because of Mallarmé’s own pronouncements questioning the mimetic function of literary language but because the oblique referentiality that does occur, sometimes in spite of the poet's overt intentions, points to unexpected structures of thought. I have shown elsewhere how these are at work in the verse, where Mallarmé’s cherished notions of friendship among poets and ideal readership play upon his use of the muse figure. A somewhat …

Address At The Unveiling Of John Letts's Statue Of George Eliot At The George Eliot Hospital, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

This is, of course, the second time many of us have attended the unveiling of a statue of George Eliot. The last time was in 1986 and John, I know, will remember what an exciting time that was. Even before the unveiling we had met in Newdegate Square to await her arrival from the foundry. She arrived on the back of a lorry, almost as though she had thumbed a lift up from High Wycombe. When she was unveiled by our President she shone like a new penny.

From that day on I have wished that the George Eliot Hospital …

The Legacy Of Timur: A Small Rug At The Textile Museum, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Among the two hundred lots offered oh the block by Christie's from Bernheimer Family Collection of Rugs in February 1996, a small shaped rug with white ground was acquired by the Textile Museum. The rug was Lot 192, published in the catalogue as an East Persian saddle rug dating to the 19th century. The Textile Museum's interest in the piece was sparked by my hunch, based upon its design, that this rug is far more significant than its published attribution might suggest. A carefully conceived trefoil scroll implies a Timurid heritage. To read the design correctly, it should probably have …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 8:2 – Summer 1996, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Bibliography: 1995
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Announcements
By-Laws of Textile Society of America, Inc. (as amended February 1996)
Symposia
Exhibitions
Board of Directors

Blanket Statements, Issue 45, Summer 1996

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 45, Summer 1996

Wreath-Laying In Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, Graham Handley

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It has always seemed to me, and doubtless to many others, that some of the most moving and evocative words ever written by George Eliot occur near the beginning of the third chapter of her last novel, Daniel Deronda:

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge; …

Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Garden, Nuneaton, Marjorie Bruce

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Yesterday evening Pat Williams and I much enjoyed performing our recital based on George Eliot's words and on her concert-going and home musical entertainment experiences. Usually a recital programme of this kind is given once and never heard again (as is the case with most concerts). Performers in opera, and even more in musicals, will have the pleasure, which may eventually turn into the pain, of reproducing the same performance over and over again. Can they, like Browning's wise thrush, repeat their first fine careless rapture? The cry of encore at the end of a recital often elicits one other …

Teaching What I’M Not: An Able-Bodied Woman Teaches Literature By Women With Disabilities, Barbara Dibernard

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I had no awareness of disability issues when I saw a sign at a busy intersection of carpeted footpaths at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival in 1985: “Be aware of slow-moving Amazons.” This sign made me look at my surroundings in a different way. When I did, I realized that women with many kinds of disabilities were participat¬ing fully in the festival, and that I wasn’t used to seeing these women in my daily life. Yet I knew instantly that they were there; it was my awareness that had changed. Since inclusiveness was one of my goals as a feminist …

Dr. Harry Edwards, Harry Edwards

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

No abstract provided.

Examining The Experiences Of Black Student Athletes At Predominantly White Ncaa Division 1 Institutions Using An Internal Colonial Model, Billy Joe Hawkins

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

Economic and political exploitation, cultural ad social isolation, and experiences with racism were identified as shared experiences of internally colonized people and Black student athletes.

Prime Time: The Game Behind The Game, R. André Perry, Tom M. Jones

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

“…The sports community must adopt a mandate to seek out, discover, nurture, and develop electronic media professionals and journalists for the 21st century. The boundaries must be removed for people of color and women if we are sincerely committed to diversity in sports, on and off the court.”

For Their Own Good: A Case Study Of The Rules Governing Student¬ Athletes And The Ways In Which They Disadvantage Students Of Color, Mary Ann Cummins Prager, Audrey Moore

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

“A story emerges of student-athletes who trust the institutions to assist them in realizing their dreams, only to find that bureaucratic entanglements may impede their progress toward a degree.”

Educational Reforms: An Afrocentric Critique And New Approaches, Ruth Reviere, Janis Jones-Darrell

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

“A new approach is necessary because the literature is virtually silent on the views of Black people themselves, dealing almost exclusively with European scholars whose analyses are inevitably coloured by European views of Black people.”

Living Within Opaque Worlds: The Balkanized Experiences Of Collegiate Minority Student-Athletes, Franklin Ojeda Smith, G. Larry James

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

A long-term study yielded recommendations for college-wide policies to enhance mainstreaming and ameliorate against institutional balkanization of minority student-athletes.

Black Student Athletes: Why They Under-Utilize Traditional Outreach Programs And Methods For Increasing Utilization Of Those Programs, Shari Richardson

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

“Counselors in higher education settings must be aware of and sensitive to those special needs of the athletes who are to receive the optimum benefits from those services available…”

The Pre-Collegiate Student-Athlete Performance Camp, David C. Hill

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

The proposed pilot program would add an emphasis on academic preparedness to existing preseason combines and athletic testing.

The Predictive Validity Of Traditional Admission Criteria For African-American Student-Athletes: An Analysis From One Predominantly White University, Stephen P. Robinson, Steve R. Uryasz, Agatha D. Anderson

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

A linear regression analysis of data collected at one predominantly white institution found little correlation between admission test scores and college grade point averages for African-American student-athletes.

African American Student Athletes As African American Role Models, Maureen Smith

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

On many campuses, Black students remain a minority. “While their talent and impact on the athletic program has certainly increased…their athletic ability remains their primary mission or ‘perceived’ primary mission on the campus.”

An Orientation To Ease The Transition Of A Minority Student-Athlete, Reginald A. Morton, Michael L. Lindsey

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

“How college professors teach, the greater independence required of students, writing skills, and the requirement to male individual and group presentations, may be different from what the minority student athlete experienced in high school.”

Athletic Case Management Service: Enhancing Self-Efficacy, Academic Services And Support Network Systems, Annette Renee Wilson

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 1st Annual Conference (1996)

“Case Management Services is a student athlete driven strategy designed to coordinate academic services and strengthen support network systems for the retention, development, and graduation of student athletes.”