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Isabel Archer's "Delicious Pain": Charting Lacanian Desire In The Portrait Of A Lady, Phyllis E. Vanslyck Jan 2013

Isabel Archer's "Delicious Pain": Charting Lacanian Desire In The Portrait Of A Lady, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

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This essay offers a reading of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady that examines Isabel Archer's choices through a Lacanian lens. This reading traces Isabel's consistent turning away from, even against, the very postulates she claims to live by. Isabel’s discovery of love through the ideal image of herself she finds mirrored in Gilbert Osmond’s gaze leads to a reversal of her most noble impulses. Her choice of a suitor also points to something that would seem the opposite of desire, but which is, in fact, its foundation. In choosing Gilbert Osmond, Isabel seeks to experience, however unconsciously, what Jacques …


Unhinged: Kairos And The Invention Of The Untimely, Robert Leston Jan 2013

Unhinged: Kairos And The Invention Of The Untimely, Robert Leston

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Traditionally, kairos has been seen as a “timely” concept, and so invention is said to emerge from the timeliness of a cultural and historical situation. But what if invention was thought of as the potential to shift historical courses through the injection of something new or alien into a situation? This essay argues that kairos has not been able to free itself from its historical constraints because it has been bound to a human sense of temporality. By evolving along patterns different from print, the apparatus of the cinema developed in a way where it was not bound to illustrating …


Postcards From The Beach, Cheryl Hogue Smith Jan 2013

Postcards From The Beach, Cheryl Hogue Smith

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This article questions the hiring practices of underprepared students, whereby the least qualified teachers teach the most vulnerable population of students.


Dialogue In The Margins, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Nicole Callahan Jan 2013

Dialogue In The Margins, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Nicole Callahan

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This article demonstrates how, through our conversations about holding dialogues in the margins of student papers, we realized that there can sometimes be an advantage to moving students into the margins, where their marginalia constitute a productive and active dialogue about their own thinking.


Placing My Bets On Youtube Futures (For New Media Writing And Publishing), Alexandra Juhasz Jan 2013

Placing My Bets On Youtube Futures (For New Media Writing And Publishing), Alexandra Juhasz

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The work of media scholar, artist, and activist Alexandra Juhasz directly addresses many of the concerns that Lovink and Rossiter raise in the previous two chapters. In this chapter, Juhasz repurposes blog posts about her undergraduate media studies course and “video-book” Learning from YouTube to consider the future of new media scholarship: how academics might write and publish about and in new media. By moving her writing from screen to page, the chapter itself enacts the concerns of circulation, vernacular, standards, and publication at the heart of new media studies projects and the work of writing about them. Juhasz demonstrates …


Youtube Stylo: Writing And Teaching With Digital Video, Alexandra Juhasz Jan 2013

Youtube Stylo: Writing And Teaching With Digital Video, Alexandra Juhasz

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The impact of YouTube on media production and distribution has been breakneck, immense, and seemingly irreversible. In this chapter I argue that media production professors need to embrace, and not to avoid YouTube, as if it was what the French calla stylo: a pen. To do so, we need to better understand YouTube and YouTube videos. I impart here some of the lessons I have learned from teaching an experimental course. Learning from YouTube, in which all the course work has been about, but also on, the site. These lessons illustrate the genres, contents, and styles of …


Conjuring The Close From Afar A Border-Crossing Tale Of Vieques’ Activism And Obama-Empire, Víctor M. Torres-Vélez, Sarah Molinari, Katharine Lawrence Jan 2013

Conjuring The Close From Afar A Border-Crossing Tale Of Vieques’ Activism And Obama-Empire, Víctor M. Torres-Vélez, Sarah Molinari, Katharine Lawrence

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After more than 60 years of military occupation, 30 of these under violent military practices, a social movement forced the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques. This victory would not have been possible without the highly effective organization of civil disobedience carried out on the island. But the sum total of the actions that eventually forced out the U.S. Navy, neither happened exclusively within the boundaries of Vieques, nor was carried out by Viequense residents alone. In this article we want to suggest that this amazing victory—a testament of people’s will in the face of globalization—is also a border- …


Brooklyn And The Bicycle, David V. Herlihy Jan 2013

Brooklyn And The Bicycle, David V. Herlihy

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No abstract provided.


Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture To The Digital Era, Peter L. Manuel Jan 2013

Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture To The Digital Era, Peter L. Manuel

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The history of Indian popular music constitutes in itself a significant development in modern culture, as this set of genres—especially but not only in their Bollywood forms—have been cherished by hundreds of millions of listeners not only in South Asia but internationally as well. At the same time, the trajectory of Indian popular music represents a dramatic case study of media culture as well, as its patterns of ownership, consumption, and even musical structures themselves have been conditioned by technological changes. Most striking is the way that a highly monopolized, streamlined, and homogeneous popular music culture dominated for several decades …


Retention And Invention In Bhojpuri Diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives From The Caribbean, India, And Fiji, Peter L. Manuel Jan 2013

Retention And Invention In Bhojpuri Diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives From The Caribbean, India, And Fiji, Peter L. Manuel

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Macintyre And The Emotivists, James E. Mahon Jan 2013

Macintyre And The Emotivists, James E. Mahon

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This chapter both explains the origins of emotivism in C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, R. B. Braithwaite, Austin Duncan-Jones, A. J. Ayer and Charles Stevenson (along with the endorsement by Frank P. Ramsey, and the summary of C. D. Broad), and looks at Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of emotivism as the inevitable result of Moore's attack on naturalistic ethics and his ushering in the fact/value distinction, which was a historical product of the Enlightenment.


Aplicabilidad De La Tipología De Funciones Retóricas De Las Citas Al Género De La Memoria De Máster En Un Contexto Transcultural De Enseñanza Universitaria, David Sánchez-Jiménez Jan 2013

Aplicabilidad De La Tipología De Funciones Retóricas De Las Citas Al Género De La Memoria De Máster En Un Contexto Transcultural De Enseñanza Universitaria, David Sánchez-Jiménez

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The aim of this paper is to compare the rhetorical functions gathered from the citations of (14) fourteen master´s theses written by seven Spanish and seven Philippine authors. A typology of nine categories was used in order to identify the cultural rhetorical differences that exist in the use of citation from the contrast between contrasting this element in the Philippine and Spanish cultures. The methodology used is textual analysis of the linguistic context of these citations and its subsequent classification within these nine categories. The results show that there are quantitative and qualitative differences between the cultural conventions of citations …


How The Other Half Lives, Aaron Barlow Jan 2013

How The Other Half Lives, Aaron Barlow

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This chapter from The Cult of Individualism: A History of an Enduring American Myth describes the evolution of the culture that, today, is known as that of the Trump supporter, the red-state American culture descended from that of the Scots-Irish Borderers who came to the British colonies, primarily from Ulster Plantation, in the 18th century.


Creating Room For A Singularity Of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange's "We, Robots", Marleen S. Barr Jan 2013

Creating Room For A Singularity Of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange's "We, Robots", Marleen S. Barr

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The accessibility of Lange’s text might mitigate against recognizing its importance. Lange’s simple sentence structure and direct communicative mode convey a presently overlooked logical moral assertion: the impending Singularity is not a male-dominated patriarchal domain. The Singularity, in other words, should not be construed in a manner which excludes women and feminism. This assertion is patently obvious. But, nonetheless, it is often ignored. Before I read Lange’s novella as a description of the Singularity which feminists can embrace, I include the following background information: 1) a discussion about why the discourse relating to the Singularity needs to be expanded and …


Here We Come To Save Tomorrow: A Conversation With Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr Jan 2013

Here We Come To Save Tomorrow: A Conversation With Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr

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This is an interview with Marleen S. Barr conducted by The Octavia E. Butler Society.


Stage As Street: Representation At The Juncture Of The Arts And Justice, E. Gabriel Dattatreyan, Daniel L. Stageman Jan 2013

Stage As Street: Representation At The Juncture Of The Arts And Justice, E. Gabriel Dattatreyan, Daniel L. Stageman

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Arts educators working with court-involved youth face a set of complex and imbricated challenges. First, how do we gain the interest of the young people we would have participate in what we imagine are col-laborative and mutually generative projects? Second, how do we mediate representational tensions when the project is not solely therapeutic but has a broader public pedagogical purpose—to disrupt the simplistic and pathologizing discourses of poverty and violence that so often capture young men and women of color in the United States? (Bourgois, 2002; Noguera, 2008). Third, and not least, how do we navigate the institutional settings where …


Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki Jan 2013

Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki

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"Scientificity" and appeals to political independence are invaluable tools when institutions such as the American School of Classical Studies at Athens attempt to maintain professional autonomy. Nonetheless, the cooperation of scientists and scholars with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), among them archaeologists affiliated with the American School, suggests a constitutive affinity between political and cultural leadership. This relationship is here mapped in historical terms, while, at the same time, sociological categorizations of knowledge and its employment are used in order to situate archaeologists in their broader social and political context and to evaluate their work not merely as agents …


Estudio Transcultural De Las Funciones Retóricas De Las Citas En El Género Académico De La Memoria De Máster, David Sánchez-Jiménez Jan 2013

Estudio Transcultural De Las Funciones Retóricas De Las Citas En El Género Académico De La Memoria De Máster, David Sánchez-Jiménez

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No abstract provided.


Trascendencia De La Ortografía En La Clase De Español Como Lengua Extranjera Y Su Aplicación Didáctica, David Sánchez-Jiménez Jan 2013

Trascendencia De La Ortografía En La Clase De Español Como Lengua Extranjera Y Su Aplicación Didáctica, David Sánchez-Jiménez

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This article proposes a reflection on the importance of spelling for the speaker in his own native language and in learning a foreign language by a non-native speaker. First, from a cognitive perspective, the difficulties encountered by a foreign learner in the processing of spelling in both the following ways: phonological and orthographic are examined. Further, it is studied how the literal orthography and the phraseology affect the meaning of the text. Likewise, the relevance that these mistakes bring in the sociocultural field is analyzed. Finally, a performance model is recommended with some specific didactic methods to fill in the …


The Cult Of Individualism: A History Of An Enduring American Myth, Introduction, Aaron Barlow Jan 2013

The Cult Of Individualism: A History Of An Enduring American Myth, Introduction, Aaron Barlow

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Why do we have the Red State/Blue State divide in the United States today? This book traces the background of contemporary political strife to immigration from Ulster Plantation and the Scottish lowlands of the 18th century.


Barnett Directs The University Museum At Siue, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Barnett Directs The University Museum At Siue, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Lyman Teaches Importance Of Scriptwriting, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Lyman Teaches Importance Of Scriptwriting, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Frick Teaches About Women In The Renaissance, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Frick Teaches About Women In The Renaissance, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Students Of Black Theater Break Stereotypes, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Students Of Black Theater Break Stereotypes, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Weissinger Studies Impact Of Black Churches, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Weissinger Studies Impact Of Black Churches, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Paulette Studies Good, Bad Of Colonial America, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Paulette Studies Good, Bad Of Colonial America, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Murals Take On New Form And Purposes, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Murals Take On New Form And Purposes, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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19th Century Literature Reflects Modern Life, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

19th Century Literature Reflects Modern Life, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Ireland Trip Exposes Students To Turbulent History, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Ireland Trip Exposes Students To Turbulent History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Music Student Shares Dream For Native Country, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Music Student Shares Dream For Native Country, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.