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The Double: Tracing The Cracks Of Dual Identity In Balinese And European Ritualized Performance, Catherine Diamond

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The Balinese dance legong is compared with two European plays, Jean Genet's The Maids and Tom Stoppard's Resencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead in order to examine different approaches to the function and characterization of the Double. All three contain ritual performance in which the pairs exchange their roles, but for different purposes and with different level of fluidity. All three play with alternating in presentation between exact mirror images and distinguishable individual characteristics. In the two European examples, the Doubles are socially marginalized characters - servants whose double identity hardly equals a full single identity as even together they cannot …

Structuralism, Poststructuralism And New Hermeneutics, Eberhard Lämmert

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

When in European scholarship natural sciences have separated from humanities during the 19th century the concept of hermeneutics won the distinctive mark characterizing the special methods of the humanities in contrast to explanation practiced by natural sciences. The high esteem in literary studies for the individuality of a poet or writer implied that the most important aim of understanding and interpreting was to find the author's secret intention. Maintaining the results of such research in literary studies necessarily must remain subjective or even ideologically determined made the Russian formalists- later the structuralists from Prague and Western Europe- try to find …

Faust's Self-Realization From A Buddhist Perspective, Pornsan Watananguhn

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences between "self-realization" within Christian-western philosophy and Faust's self-realization in Goethe's tragedy as received and interpreted in a Buddhist society. Further, the article examines in what way the author Goethe shows an ironical and critical attitudes towards Faust's life and how can Faust be redeemed from the guilt and set himself free from the "karma's" law of cause and effect.

The Fantastic: Towards A Dynamic Notion Of Genre, Suradech Chotiudompant

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Fantasy has played a crucial role in shaping literature since time immemorial. Yet, proper systematic work on fantasy has not been done until the last century, when scholars began to realize its importance and give it due recognition. First published in 1970, Tzvetan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre represents one of the touchstones of critical work on the fantastic genre. His pioneering ideas have inspired literary critics worldwide to develop their own premises on the genre, some of which bear Todorov's indelible imprints. This essay attempts to chart how Todorov constructs his paradigm by means …

Thai Way Of Saying 'No' To A Request, Nattaporn Panpothong

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This paper investigates what Thai speakers say when they prefer to reject a request and how they make their refusal less face-threatening. Five different situations including refusing a high status teacher, a low status housemaid, a close friend, a classmate, and a stranger are examined. The study has found that for Thai speakers, a teacher and a close friend are more difficult to reject than a low status, a classmate, and a stranger. Even though most of the respondents are not reluctant to reject people at further distance, they prefer to appear polite in refusing their requests. In the politeness …

The Establishment Of The Neutral Passive And The Persistence Of The Adversative Passive In Thai, Amara Prasithrathsint

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This study traces the development of the adversative and neutral passives in Thai to draw inferences about their establishment and change. It shows how the word /thùuk/, which used to occur with only a verb with unfavorable meaning to form an adversative passive, is now used with virtually all transitive verbs in Thai. This suggests that the neutral passive has been established in Thai syntax. However, /thùuk/ is ambivalent because it marks both adversative and neutral passives. This means that the adversative passive still persists in Thai, but it is now likely to be marked by /doon/, which has a …

Privacy: A Philosophy Sketch And A Reach For A Thai Perception, Pirongrong Ramasoota Rananand

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article introduces readers to the concept of privacy in two discourses- a western liberal discourse and a Thai scholarly discourse. It is divided into two sections accordingly. The first part of the article discusses the philosophical and historical roots of the privacy concept, its importance in various dimensions, and an evolving debate whether privacy is a universal moral value. The second part is a review of related literature on privacy in Thailand.

Editors' Note, Roberta M. Marvin, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Testing Textbooks: The Case For Italian Opera, Hilary Poriss

Verdi Forum

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Scriptural Archeology: Excavating The Presence Of Women In The Torah, Vanessa Tess Sibley

Honors Theses

Women's roles in religious history have been traditionally described in terms of their relation and value to men. The normative religious texts provide an androcentric perspective on the gender relationships within the early community, the growth of Judaism in "Jacob's House" and the monotheistic worship of God. Yet these literary representations omit an entire half of the experience of the Jewish community: the perspective and participation of women. As Judith Plaskow argues extensively in Standing Again at Sinai, women are defined not in her own terms or in her own voice, but by her relationship and value to men through …

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Impressions Of Danishness In Chicago And Racine: Selected Results From A Questionnaire, Birgit Flemming Larsen

The Bridge

At the beginning of 1999, The Danish Emigration Archives in cooperation with the Royal Danish Consulate General in Chicago undertook a preliminary investigation of Danish emigrants and their descendants in Chicago and Racine, both of them cities that have attracted large numbers of Danes over a long period of time. According to the 1990 federal census, 1,634,669 Americans claim Danish ancestry. Of these, 70,586 reside in Illinois and 80,791 in Wisconsin. The goal was to obtain a picture of the Danish-American societies in the two selected communities by distributing an extensive questionnaire followed up by personal interviews with selected individuals …

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Peder Kjolhede-Man Of Action, Thorvald Hansen

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Prior to the coming of the Protestant Reformation in 1536, the area in which Peder Kjoilhede (hereinafter Kjolhede) was born and grew up was owned by the Roman Catholic bishops. This area, south of the Limfjord and close to the west coast of Jutland, became the property of the king. It was parceled out by him to those who had rendered service to him, and much later, through division and sales, a portion of it came to be the property of Johan Kjolhede and was known as the farm of Kjolhedegird.

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Jens Christian Jensen And Family: The Story Of An American Pioneer From Denmark And His Family, Lois Eagleton

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Family stories, by their very nature, never stop being a work in progress. My mother had kept her family tree for many years, as had her mother before her. When I decided to update what they had done and bring it into the electronic age, I really had no idea what I was getting into. My mother had attempted to keep everything organized over the years. It was organized, sort of, here and there, in drawers, in boxes, on shelves, in closets, stacked on tables, you name it. She had kept everything! Thank goodness she did, for I have found …

A Trip To Denmark In 1906, Lois Eagleton

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In the spring of 1906, Niels Pedersen and his wife Minnie Oensen) traveled to Denmark to visit relatives and friends and to see the homeland. Niels had left Denmark to go to America, apparently to avoid having to join the King's army. There he met and married Maren Jensen (who preferred to be called "Minnie").

My Danish Background, Waldemar Westergaard

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Editor's Note: This essay brought back fond memories for me, because I had the opportunity, some forty years ago, to meet Professor Waldemar Westergaard (1882-1963) in his pension in Store Kongensgade, near Kongens Nytoro in Copenhagen. It was the summer of 1962. My graduate school advisor, Professor Lawrence D. Steefel, was an old friend of his and recommended me to him. Professor Westergaard was eighty years of age but full of energy, charm, and good stories. He gave me the names of all kinds of people to contact in Copenhagen. The cordiality and intellectual acumen that characterize the following memoir …

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The Relationship Between Academic Self-Concept And The Achievement Expectancies On The Academic Achievement And Persistence Rate Of African-American Freshmen Students, Ira Falls Iii

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study addressed the use of certain noncognitive variables and their relationship to the academic achievement and persistence rate of African-American freshmen students attending a large, predominately white institution. Academic achievement was defined as a student's cumulative college grade point average and cumulative credits earned at the end of the freshmen year of study. Persistence rate was defined as the number of freshmen who enrolled compared to the percentage of those who re-enrolled for the Fall semester of their sophomore year. Moreover, the purpose of this study was to identify selected variables that are associated with increased African-American academic achievement …

Wedge And Bridge: A Note On The Rhetoric Of Distinction And Identification, Henry W. Johnstone, Mari Lee Mifsud

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Henry Johnstone (1970 p. 124, 1990) has advanced the slogan "Rhetoric is a wedge" to suggest the ways in which rhetoric calls attention to hitherto unnoticed consequences or assumptions, or even to features of the physical world that have escaped an audience's attention. Here, however, we intend to supplement the notion of rhetoric as "wedge" by suggesting the ways in which it is, and also must be, a "bridge."

Revision And Immortality In Philosophical Argumentation: Reconsidering The Rhetorical Wedge, Mari Lee Mifsud

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This essay explores Johnstone's idea that "rhetoric is a wedge." In particular, it explores the place of this idea in Johnstone's philosophy of argument, the need to confront this idea with argument, and ways of confronting it with ad rem and ad hominem arguments.

Lahav Forest A-3508/2001, Nimrod Negev

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In October 2001, a salvage excavation was conducted in Lahav Forest (Permit No. A-3508/2001; map. ref. 18584/58707). The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), was directed by N. Negev, with the assistance of H. Lavi (administration), A. Hajian (surveying and drafting), and C. Amit (field photography).

Ḥorbat Bet Ha-Gaddi, A-3370/2001, Alexey Zelin, Volda Nikolsky

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In February 2001, a salvage excavation was conducted at the site of Bet Ha-Gaddi (Permit No. A-3370/2001; map. ref. 16334/59220), following damage to antiquities caused by infrastructure works. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was directed by A. Zellin, with the assistance of V. Nikolsky (field supervision), V. Essman and V. Pirsky (surveying), Y. Gorin-Rosen (glass finds), and T. Rodin (finds illustration).

Walt Whitman: The Optimism Of An Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults

Masters Theses

E.M. Forster may have best described Walt Whitman's prevailing optimism in the following passage:

He is the true optimist—not the professional optimist who shuts his eyes and shirks ... but one who has seen and suffered much and yet rejoices. He is not a philosopher or theologian; he cannot answer the ultimate question and tell us what life is. But he is absolutely certain that it is grand, that it is happiness, and that 'wherever life and force are manifested, beauty is manifested.' (Allen, World 52)

Whitman was aware of the social taboos and social evils of his time, witnessing …