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Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters July-Aug 1989, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters July-Aug 1989, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Brethren In Christ, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Brethren In Christ, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Book Orders & Publicity, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Book Orders & Publicity, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Simulacro, Hiperrealidad Y Pos-Humanismo: La Ciencia Ficción En Argentina Y España En Torno Al 2000, Mirta Rímolo De Rienzi Jan 2013

Simulacro, Hiperrealidad Y Pos-Humanismo: La Ciencia Ficción En Argentina Y España En Torno Al 2000, Mirta Rímolo De Rienzi

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This project focuses on science fiction literature of Spain and Argentina produced in the last twenty years (1990-2010). It hypothesizes that in this period a change of perspective substantially modified science fiction productions in both countries and converges into a new model of narrative. As a consequence of this reformulated vision, a new narrative perspective immerses readers in an era of simulation, hyperreality, and post-humanism. When advanced technology is able to modify the basic human anatomy, and persons are trapped between virtual and real universes, simulacra facilitate control of people in an effective and impersonal manner. Simultaneously, fictional scenarios show …


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Cgai Council Of Reference, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Cgai Council Of Reference, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters May-June 1987, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters May-June 1987, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund - Letters July - Dec 1975, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund - Letters July - Dec 1975, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters Jan-Feb 1981, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters Jan-Feb 1981, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Anti-Christian Violence, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Anti-Christian Violence, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters 1986, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters 1986, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters Jan-March 1990, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters Jan-March 1990, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters July-Dec 1991, Roger Hedlund Jan 2013

Correspondence Of Roger Hedlund: Letters July-Dec 1991, Roger Hedlund

Papers of Roger Hedlund

No abstract provided.


“It’S Good To Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies Of Old Southwestern Humor, D. Berton Emerson Jan 2013

“It’S Good To Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies Of Old Southwestern Humor, D. Berton Emerson

English Faculty Scholarship

This essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Durn’d Fool (1867)— arguing for a new point of departure from the level of locality and with special attention to democratic decision making. Most nation-oriented readings portray the humor of the Old Southwest either as a regional subset supplementing nationalization via print culture or as reactionary polemics rejecting the impingements of nation, market capitalism, urbanization, or modernity. This essay, …


Black Women's Post-Slavery Silence Syndrome: A Twenty-First Century Remnant Of Slavery, Jim Crow, And Systemic Racism--Who Will Tell Her Stories?, Patricia A. Broussard Jan 2013

Black Women's Post-Slavery Silence Syndrome: A Twenty-First Century Remnant Of Slavery, Jim Crow, And Systemic Racism--Who Will Tell Her Stories?, Patricia A. Broussard

Journal Publications

One hot summer's day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister's children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after putting all of the children in their beds, the children's father, her brother-in-law, knocked on the door. The young woman assumed that he had come over to see his children and to bring them news of their mother …


In The Cards: A Collection Of Short Stories And Poetry, Alise Vick Jan 2013

In The Cards: A Collection Of Short Stories And Poetry, Alise Vick

HIM 1990-2015

In the Cards is a collection of five interrelated short stories with six related poems in between each piece. Each of the selections features a female protagonist with a focus on two main characters, Shelley and Caroline, half-sisters trying to regain their sisterhood after their father's death. Themes explored in the fiction and poetry include faith and relationships, and how they can be connected. Caroline and Shelley drive the primary storyline with the former, a self-described goody goody who has surrounded herself with superficial friends. Between the expectations of the community that surrounds her and the standards she has set …


The Uncanny And The Postcolonial In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Molly Brown Fuller Jan 2013

The Uncanny And The Postcolonial In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Molly Brown Fuller

HIM 1990-2015

Concluding on this note, the thesis argues that reading The Lord of the Rings in this way renders postcolonial concepts accessible to a whole generation of readers already familiar with the series, and points to the possibility of examining other contemporary texts, or even further analysis of Tolkien's to reveal more postcolonial sensitivities engendered in the texts.; This thesis examines J.R.R. Tolkien's texts The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King from a postcolonial literary perspective. By examining how these texts, written at the decline of the British Empire, engage with the …


Gridlocks And Padlocks, Rachel Chapman Jan 2013

Gridlocks And Padlocks, Rachel Chapman

HIM 1990-2015

Gridlocks and Padlocks is a collection of short fiction and personal essays whose goal is to create characters with depth in both real-world and not-entirely-real-world situations. The strength of nonfiction is the capacity to observe the writer's thinking and motivation. "Ashes to Ashes, Trust to Dust" is a personal essay that explores my struggle with the faith I was raised in, with an emphasis on how friendships and relationships have shaped my perceptions. "The List of Unacceptable Faults" is a personal essay about unwanted interactions with the opposite sex; it is an examination of men and boys through the lens …


Lucidity: A Novella, Rafael Lancelotta Jan 2013

Lucidity: A Novella, Rafael Lancelotta

HIM 1990-2015

Lucidity is a novella set in the near future of a man living in a city in the United States as a successful businessman. The novella criticizes the idea of consumerism through Aurora, a character who believes that a drug is being introduced into the water and food supply by the corporate-backed government. Characters find advertising to be almost irresistible, experience strange cravings for things like cheap beer, and are generally preoccupied with the latest products. James Simmons, the protagonist of the novella, finds himself in the lap of luxury. He has a job that pays well, a penthouse apartment, …


Maid For Man, Elyse Kelly Jan 2013

Maid For Man, Elyse Kelly

HIM 1990-2015

This thesis is a novella highlighting the struggle many religious individuals face to maintain a faith with or without physical props and boundaries, and why some people voluntarily live with pharisaical rules that make it harder to reside in the modern world. Maid for Man is the story of Caty, a young woman brought up by the strict conservatism of a combined church and homeschool group, who, after marrying a man and discovering he has no physical interest in her, must decide whether or not to divorce him, even though her family and community believe divorce is an excommunicable sin.


The Service Learning Experience: How Storytelling Evolves In People With Alzheimer's And Dementia And Why This Is Important To The Creative Writing Student And The Community, Alice Spicer Jan 2013

The Service Learning Experience: How Storytelling Evolves In People With Alzheimer's And Dementia And Why This Is Important To The Creative Writing Student And The Community, Alice Spicer

HIM 1990-2015

All meaningful communication is a form of storytelling, according to Walter Fisher, who introduced the narrative paradigm to communication theory, and storytelling is universal across cultures and time as the manner in which people comprehend life. Storytelling is also a creative form of art. This interdisciplinary, multimedia work will explore the creative use of non-traditional storytelling to gather information about how creativity evolves in people with Alzheimer's and dementia and why this is important to both academia and the community. Currently, there is a lot of research available about the debilitating affects of memory loss, but there is very little …


Gvsu Press Releases, 2013, Grand Valley State University Jan 2013

Gvsu Press Releases, 2013, Grand Valley State University

University Press Releases, 1961-Present

A compilation of press releases for the year 2013 submitted by University Communications (formerly News & Information Services) to news agencies concerning the people, places, and events related to Grand Valley State University.


Tensions Between Abstraction And Replication In Early-Twentieth-Century Design : Norman Bel Geddes' Designs For Broadway's The Miracle, John Thomas-Hood Mabry Jan 2013

Tensions Between Abstraction And Replication In Early-Twentieth-Century Design : Norman Bel Geddes' Designs For Broadway's The Miracle, John Thomas-Hood Mabry

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

I make a major contribution to American scenographic historiography with this revised account of Norman Bel Geddes’ set for Max Reinhardt’s 1924 Broadway production of The Miracle, a design theatre scholars have consistently used not only to define Geddes’ aesthetic “versatility,” but also as a prime exemplar of New Stagecraft style. Based on both secondary and primary research material, I contend that the cathedral setting was neither indicative of Geddes’ fundamental aesthetic principles, nor of the aesthetic principles of the New Stagecraft. I firmly establish the principles of the latter within the first definitive, concise demarcation of what constitutes New …


An Original Composition, Symphony No. 1, "Eustace The Monk" And Compositional Techniques Used To Elicit Musical Humor, Samuel Howard Stokes Jan 2013

An Original Composition, Symphony No. 1, "Eustace The Monk" And Compositional Techniques Used To Elicit Musical Humor, Samuel Howard Stokes

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Part I – “Symphony No. 1 – ‘Eustace the Monk’” is based on a figure from medieval legend. Although Eustace Busket is a historically documented person that lived c.1170-1217, the exact details of his life are shrouded in legend. Many of the details of the legend of Eustace were passed down through the anonymous Li Romans de Witasse Le Moine. The legendary tale of Eustace, who is reported to have learned black magic from the devil, became a Benedictine monk in order to corrupt the monastery, and later became a mercenary pirate, is the subject matter of this five-movement dramatic …


Deconstructing Books, Reconstructing Women, Summers Esther Morris Jan 2013

Deconstructing Books, Reconstructing Women, Summers Esther Morris

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of my thesis project is to examine the notion of choice encountered by females with respect to gender roles. I intend to underscore the turmoil which often comes from choices that leave many classic feminine roles left unattended by either sex. I have created three altered books that address these struggles, as I have personally experienced these, regarding marriage, motherhood, and domesticity. Each book analyzes the conflicting nature of choice and, according to my own decisions as a modern feminist, concludes accordingly. This in-depth look at the struggle for women to not only choose gender roles to adopt, …


A Historical Review Of Music Therapy And The Department Of Veterans Affairs, Jenna Spencer Jan 2013

A Historical Review Of Music Therapy And The Department Of Veterans Affairs, Jenna Spencer

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the history and development of music therapy within the veteran population, specifically in regards to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This research will be conducted qualitatively utilizing narrative inquiry and historical review. Using numerous sources of literature, the researcher will conduct a thorough historical review in order to fully portray the development of music therapy practice within the veteran population. The researcher will explore various sources of relevant literature in order to discover when and how music therapy was first used to treat the veteran population and how music therapy programs …


Forgotten Russian Piano Music: The Sonatas Of Anatoly Aleksandrov, Irina Pevzner Jan 2013

Forgotten Russian Piano Music: The Sonatas Of Anatoly Aleksandrov, Irina Pevzner

Theses and Dissertations

This historical and analytical study focuses on the piano sonatas of Anatoly Aleksandrov (1888-1982), the longest-living Russian and Soviet composer-pianist of the twentieth century. The fourteen piano sonatas, written between 1922 and 1971, reflect not only the composer's evolution of style, but also reveal the vast array of influences which characterize the music of the twentieth century. Chromaticism that results from stretched harmonic sequences, strong melodic lyricism that threads these epic compositions, rich writing for piano, and hints of Russian folklore all contribute to the composer's original style, which synthesizes Aleksandrov's four main figures of influence, namely Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, …


Public Intellectuals: Styles, Publics, And Possibilities, Matthew David Kay Jan 2013

Public Intellectuals: Styles, Publics, And Possibilities, Matthew David Kay

Theses and Dissertations

The status of the public intellectual is debated continuously in the United States, but what is not up for debate or theoretical examination is how public intellectual practice is mediated between style and publics. To that end, this study examines three public intellectual figures: Saul Alinsky, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Reich. Each examination analyzes and describes particular public intellectual styles — performances of culture — which trace three dominant public intellectual practices. These styles contain, invite, and deploy certain publics to engage with the public intellectual and vice versa. First, the study is a theoretical engagement with public intellectual practice …


Into A Wild New Yonder: The United States Air Force And The Origins Of Its Information Age, Robert Howard Lass Jan 2013

Into A Wild New Yonder: The United States Air Force And The Origins Of Its Information Age, Robert Howard Lass

Theses and Dissertations

The United States Air Force is an organization operationally focused on gathering, processing, and utilizing vast quantities of information, so much so that it added "cyberspace" to its core missions of air and space in 2005. Service leaders have argued that a USAF information revolution - its entrance into the "Information Age" - began as early as the first computers in the 1940s or as late as the proliferation of networks in the 1990s. Upon close inspection, however, it becomes clear that such assertions overlook decades of information operations and management, and overemphasize the concept of a single information age. …


The Indian Removal Debate And The Rise Of Partisan Identity In The Age Of Jackson, Benjamin Greene Jan 2013

The Indian Removal Debate And The Rise Of Partisan Identity In The Age Of Jackson, Benjamin Greene

Theses and Dissertations

The election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1828 coincided with the rise of the nation's "second party system." The divide which emerged between Jacksonian Democrats and their opposition party, the Whigs, is generally accepted as marking the origin of an American political culture defined by a partisan divide. Political historians of the period have often focused on the key divisive issues: South Carolina's nullification agitation, the Bank Crisis, and working class identity politics have been most often featured in this scholarship. The Indian Removal Debate has generally been examined as ancillary to these partisan developments, an after-effect for …


What Is Below? Mysteries Of Leviathan In Jewish Pseudepigrapha And Mishnah Hagigah 2:1, Andrei Orlov Jan 2013

What Is Below? Mysteries Of Leviathan In Jewish Pseudepigrapha And Mishnah Hagigah 2:1, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.