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"Heaven's Scheme" And Randomness From The Perspective Of Comparative Literary Theories, Mingfen Huang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In classical Chinese literary theories, "Tianji" (Heaven's scheme) as a categorical concept has its root in Taoist concept of inspiration, focusing on the conditions of timing, opportunities and changes in natural existence, and it emphasizes on the artists' reaction in response to the changing circumstances. The concept of "randomness" as applied in the Western theories of digital art, comes from the mathematical theory on probability, which focuses on the contingency of artifact and takes it as the very opportunity of exploring ideas. Neither the heaven's scheme nor randomness falls within the conceptual category of pure probability, but they reflect the …

"Return What Is China’S To China": A Contrapuntal Reading Of "The Veiled And The Unveiled" And "Fu, Bi, Xing", Gang Luo

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Wang Guowei's theory about the poetic states of being "veiled (ge) and unveiled (buge)" derives from Schopenhauer's distinction between concept and intuition as well as the traditional dualistic antithesis of rationality and emotion of modern Western aesthetics. This paper argues that Wang's theory is displaced from and contradicted with the critical paradigm of "Fu-Bi-Xing (straightforward narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison)" in Chinese ancient poetics. Due to this displacement and contradiction, Wang Guowei regards Bi and Xing as "the veiled". The rupture inherent in Wang Guowei's poetics has long been overlooked and his theory of "artistic conception" has been treated as …

A Critical Investigation Into The Evolution Of Zhu Gongdiao's Musical Narrative Scheme, Zhimei Sheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Zhu Gongdiao ("All-Mode Tune") is a composite musical narrative art, which shows as singing various modal tunes to various keys, and it was the popular folk opera form in the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. Musical narrative scheme of All-Mode Tune develops from decreasing use of keys to increasing use of modal tunes, and alongside this development is the change from lyrics-centred form to operatic form. As a folk art form, All-Mode Tune succeeded the ancient "Tanci" (chanting lyrics) after the "bianwen" (transformative text) and preceded the drama in the present form. Therefore, All-Mode Tune was associated with the two …

A Critical Survey Of Xu Zhongyu's Theory Of Literature Around The Anti-Japanese War, Xuezhen Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Around the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945), Xu Zhongyu wrote much in the area of literary theory which covered literary criticism, national literature, literary language, etc. His essays were positive in the value pursuit and methodologically scientific in the methodology, and they still have academic vitality and enlightenment.

An Anthropological Reflection On Lu Xun'sOld Tales Retold, Lili Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective and tries to present an anthropological reflection on the stories in Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold. For Lu Xun, the stories were important, especially the old stories in the ancient classics, and he creatively rewrote the classical stories to get across what he wanted to convey. In his rewriting, Lu Xun combined materials from many classics so as to make the retold stories take on artistic features of creative stories. Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold merged well into the development of fiction writing in Chinese literary history, which evolved from the antique myth and …

An Exposition Of Zhu Xi's "Preface To Annotations ToThe Book Of Songs", Hui Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Zhu Xi (1130-1200) had written three prefaces to The Book of Songs. His "Preface to Annotations to The Book of Songs" was not intended for the book it prefaced but for the aborted earlier book Collected Interpretations of The Book of Songs. This preface was not the later "Prefaces to The Book of Songs," which were generally referred to as The Bigger Preface and The Smaller Preface. The present paper takes "Preface to Annotations" as a transitional critical text in Zhu Xi's thought and tries to explore the dialogic relationship between this preface and the Bigger and Smaller Prefaces. The …

Between Mythos And Philosophia, Keping Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Chronologically, mythos (myth) came into being before philosophia (philosophy). Mythos tends to make people "wonder" and "think" whereas philosophia attempts to work out the meaning of this wondering. Thus it leads to a process of endless exploration. This being the case, philomythos is in a way like philosophos. In other words, he who loves myths is somewhat like a philosopher who loves wisdom and pursues truth. Plato himself is not merely a myth-lover but a myth-maker, and he therefore develops a dialogue-based philosophy saturated with poetic wisdom. It is through the interaction between mythos and philosophia that mythos becomes rationalized …

Arendt's Aesthetics Of The Political And Its Modern Politico-Philosophical Implications, Hecheng Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The love for the world leads to the hatred of the world's evil; the hatred of the claustrophobia from the evil in the private leads to the passionately exploration into the human’s common conditions in the public. Arendt found her solution to the modern political predicament in the performance of virtuosity, which transcends "making" and material production. The transcendence aims to implant into the increasingly perfected political communications the ontological significance of productivity and production relations, while the performance is an experience of modernity (i.e. the aesthetic) in an effort to undermine the will to good and remove the desire …

Chinese Images In English Poetry: A Comparative Reading Between Literary Fictionalization And Western Consciousness, Fanjian Zeng, Hanbo Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

English poetry has a longstanding tradition in creating images about China. The images, from the perspective of literary anthropology by Wolfgang Iser, cannot be freed from interrelated unity of opposites between fictionalization, imagination and facts. While fictionalization and imagination are essential to poetry, their foundation and destination have to be the facts about China and the subjectivity of the Western. If native Chinese poetics is applied into a comparative reading of the images of China in English poetry, especially by focusing on the subject-object relationship shown in literary fictionalization and the Western consciousness through an empirical study based on linguistic …

From "和" To There: Marxist Hermeneutics With Chinese Characteristics, Gregory Mahoney Josef

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

We begin by synthesizing Karl Marx's historical periods qua modes of production with Michel Foucault's epistemological periodizations — epistemes, which we then combine with Fredric Jameson's work on ideologemes. Jameson's acknowledged weakness is a failure to address those positive if not utopian elements that might be instrumentally valuable for deconstructing or disassembling ideologemes in the course of historical progress. We then argue that such alternatives would be, ideally, concrete universals (具体的普遍), and would be both trans-epistemic and trans-historical. We then provide several reasons why it seems reasonable to search for the concrete universal par excellence within Chinese linguistic and philosophical …

Media Ontology: The Philosophical Basis Of The Research Of New Media Literature And Art, Xiaoxi Shan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

To construct media ontology is to lay a philosophical foundation for the research into new media literature and art. Media ontology, compared with media epistemology and media ousiaology, is a post-metaphysical media philosophy grounded on the theories of modern ontology, and the theoretical context is constructed by the theoretical reflections from the perspective of media philosophy and the studies on the transition from classic ontology to modern ousiaology. The three illogically interconnected propositions of media ontology are "to be is to inform," "the medium is information" and "media is being." In this light, being can be interpreted through information activities …

Schultz, Hattie Neil (Scates) Coraine, 1878-1966 (Sc 917), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 917. Two items of correspondence by William Coraine, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky; 1897 certificate of Hattie’s marriage to Coraine; Coraine’s 1903 funeral card; 1905 certificate of Hattie’s marriage to August Schultz; photograph of Hattie and William Coraine; genealogical information and miscellaneous items.

Bledsoe, Henry Peyton, 1841-1907 (Sc 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 918. Photocopies of the Civil War enlistment, promotion, and discharge papers of Henry Peyton Bledsoe, Logan County, Kentucky. He was a member of Company E, 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.

Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.

Third District, Kentucky Branch Of The National Congress Of Parents And Teachers - Minutes (Sc 2687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts 2687. Minutes of the Third District, Kentucky Branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Minutes were kept in a notebook in chronological order.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 037, Number 29, March 25, 2013, Grand Valley State University

2012-2013, Volume 37

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Horse Theft - Insurance Policies (Sc 919), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 919. Horse theft insurance policy issued to James M. Matlock, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky by The Kentucky Insurance Company, Louisville. Descriptions of the two horses insured is noted.

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 53, March 25, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Marshmallow Challenge, Connie I. Reimers-Hild

Kimmel Education and Research Center: Faculty and Staff Publications

I discovered the Marshmallow Challenge when taking an online course through Stanford called, “A Crash Course in Creativity” with Dr. Tina Seelig (http://venture-lab.org/creativity).

The exercise has been used with groups of all ages from around the world by Tom Wujec, who Seelig calls an, “award-winning designer and innovator” (p. 144).

How do you use the Marshmallow Challenge? I use it in a number of different ways:

1. As an icebreaker
2. As a teambuilding exercise
3. To stimulate creativity and innovation
4. As an experiential exercise that adds FUN to learning!

Seelig and I have the same thoughts on the importance of …

Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available

Phantom Islands A Collection Of Short Stories, Marie Buckner

Dissertations and Theses

This collection of short stories takes its name from various islands historically believed to exist and at one time or other located on maps, sometimes remaining on them for centuries, but later removed after they were proved to be illusory. Reports of these islands usually came from sailors as they explored new realms, mistaking actual islands for imaginary ones or by geographical error. Illusions can persist unchallenged for ages. A similar yet modern illusion is the persistence of vision, a phenomenon by which an afterimage, say, on a screen, is thought to persist on the retina for approximately one twenty-fifth …

The Process Of Preparing A Historical Exhibit Involving Textiles: Conservation And Mounting Techniques, Emily Kelley

Honors Theses

"The Process of Preparing an Historical Exhibit Involving Textiles: Conservation and Mounting Techniques" This project revolves around textile conservation, with an undertone of collections management. The processes detailed are to serve as a guide for creating mounts for historic textiles and to give preliminary information on how conservation works and how to identify textiles that are appropriate for conservation and display. Addressed in this project are the methods behind choosing which textiles to exhibit, mounting different types of textiles, and the three basic types of textile conservation. Choosing objects for an exhibit requires thought and consideration, for the desired story …

Mask, Mannequin, And The Modern Woman: Surrealism And The Fashion Photographs Of George Hoyningen-Huene, Hillary Anne Carman

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis I consider photographs of the mannequin by Vogue's fashion photographer, George Hoyningen-Huene. Little scholarship has been written on Huene, as well as many other fashion photographers of the twentieth century. I examine four of Huene's works and his appropriation of the surrealist aesthetic, specifically the use of the mask and mannequin, which were directed at female spectators during the interwar atmosphere and development of the identity of the interwar modern woman. These images include Life-mask of Dolores Wilkinson (1933), Antoine with One of His Creations (1933), Scarf and Gloves by Chanel, Mannequin by Pierre Imans (1934) …

Gender Issues In The Benedictine Rule, Emma Lichtenberg

Undergraduate Student Research Awards

No abstract provided.

Guest Artist Recital: Mark Baldin, Trumpet; March 25, 2013, Mark Baldin

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 25, 2013
Monday Evening
8:00 p.m.

How Parodic Tourism Explains The Rhetorical Force Of A Trailer For Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made, Megan Myers

Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

As social media and content-sharing sites become an increasingly familiar part of daily life, the need to understand the effects of such mediums is also increasing. This essay explores the means by which A Trailer for Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made dissects its cultural landscape though use of parody and metatext. Following Ott and Bonnstetter’s theory of parodic tourism, the author explains how the complex format of this YouTube video presents the audience with certain tools to construct or reconstruct their own cultural landscape. In addition, it will be demonstrated how these tools are being used increasingly in the …

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, March 24, 2013

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, March 24, 2013

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

March 24, 2013: Premiere Of New Bentley Film Features Wmu Alum, Faculty, Students, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Mormon History, Vol 39, No. 2 (Spring 2013)

Journal of Mormon History

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

--Mr. Samuelsen Goes to Copenhagen: The First Mormon Member of a National Parliament, Richard L. Jensen, 1

TANNER LECTURE

--The Latter-day Saints, the Doughnut, and Post-Christian Canada, David B. Marshall, 35

ARTICLES

--Minding the House of Church History: Reflections of a Church Historian at the End of His Time, Marlin K. Jensen, 78

--Writing an Honorable Remembrance: Nineteenth-Century LDS Women’s Autobiography, Katherine Sarah Massoth, 91

--Community of Christ’s Evolving Approach to Mission, Steven L. Shields, 139

--“A Negro Preacher”: The Worlds of Elijah Ables, Russell W. Stevenson, 165

REVIEWS

--Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark …