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2013-2014 Junior Recital - Mateusz Jagiello (French Horn), Mateusz Jagiello, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Junior and Senior Recitals

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Letter From The Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film To The Dominican Fathers And Sisters, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Letter from the Department of Theatre, Dance & Film to the Dominican Fathers and Sisters inviting them to the Student Film Festival.

April 25, 2014 (misprinted as 2013)

*Invitation to the Spring Dance Concert also mentioned

Head Of Buddha Shakyamuni, Risd Museum, Gregory Schopen, Vazira Zamindar

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The earliest images of Buddha are found in modern-day Pakistan at sites along ancient trade routes. The region once known as Gandhara was familiar to the Greeks as early as the fourth century BCE. Traces of their influence are visible in the classicizing features of this head of Buddha (top), combined with all the traditional attributes of Buddha—the skull protuberance, the spot or tuft of hairs between the eyebrows, and the elongated earlobes of ancient Indian nobility. The simplified and youthful facial features and the coiled knots of hair are typical of Gandharan representations. This head would probably have been …

Dress, Risd Museum, Kate Irvin, Pradeep Sharma

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Junya Watanabe is a master of shaping and manipulating carefully chosen, often technically advanced material. This dress, designed for his Spring 2008 collection, exemplifies the designer’s keen interest in sculpting novel creations replete with historical references. Collaborating with Liberty of London, Watanabe employed yards of the English firm’s renowned Tana Lawn fabric, patterned in tribute to the Indian export textiles eagerly consumed in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a twist to the story of East-to-West trade, Watanabe worked with Liberty fabric produced in Japan to develop a silhouette that references the Indian dhoti, a traditional garment worn …

2014 Icda Conference Program (Midwest Region)

International Catholic Deaf Association (ICDA) Conferences

Documents from the 39th Biennial ICDA Midwest Regional Conference held in Cincinnati, OH in 2014

• Conference program

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Nō Theater Costume (Karaori), Risd Museum, Anais Missakian, Michelle Liu Carriger

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18th - 19th Century

2013-2014 Master Class - Elmar Oliveira (Violin), Elmar Oliveira, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Olesya Rusina, Yalyen Savignon, Wynton Grant, Alexander Nikolaev, Lilliana Marrero

Master Classes

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Stovall, Bartholomew W., 1759-1841 - Estate Of (Sc 2835), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2835. Holographic transcript of a Tennessee Supreme Court case, Logan D. Key vs. William Stovall, et al., related to the settlement of Bartholomew W. Stovall’s estate.

Spring Dance Concert 2014 Playbill, Providence College

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Spring Dance Concert 2014

Providence College Dance Company

Student Choreography Showcase

April 25, 8:00PM

April 26, 2:00PM

Director: Wendy Oliver

Lighting Designer: Daniel Caplin

Choreographers: Megan Chisholm, Jenna Macone, Olivia Romano, Christina Potts, Jake Goldsmith, Moira Power, Megan Chisholm, Kathryn Graf, Kate Corrigan, Taylor Briggs, Meaghan Lambert, Maria Costa, Alexandra Bartholomew, Jillian Gentile

Dancers: The Providence College Dance Company, Celia Butler, Kate Corrigan, Kathryn Graf, Christina Potts, David Esteban Rodriguez, Ellie Wallace, Laura Angley, Lauren Campbell, Jake Goldsmith, Monica Houghton, Isabella Goldstein, Meaghan Lambert, Moira Power, Megan Chisholm, Maria Costa, Carly Furbush, …

Land Of A Million Poets, Dorothy Bouzouma

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in English by Dorothy Bouzouma on April 25, 2014.

Spring Dance Concert 2014 Poster, Providence College, Logan Bruneau

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Spring Dance Concert 2014

Providence College Dance Company

Student Choreography Showcase

April 25, 8:00PM

April 26, 2:00PM

Poster Design: Logan Bruneau

A Posture Of Removal: Mary Rowlandson’S Location, Position, And Displacement, Aaron Cloyd

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Drawing on work from autobiographical studies that distinguishes between but correlates position and location, this paper examines Mary Rowlandson’s situatedness in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God and argues that she is a figure of removal and displacement. Although Rowlandson seeks to position herself through voice, actions, and text, such expressions of agency occur within the locating structures of culture, expectation, and memory. The resultant tension between self- positioning and other-locating leaves Rowlandson perpetually removed as she is unable to fully reposition herself within any significant site.

2014 Icda Conference Report (Midwest Region)

International Catholic Deaf Association (ICDA) Conferences

Documents from the 39th Biennial ICDA Midwest Regional Conference held in Cincinnati, OH in 2014

• Pre-conference Breakfast Board Meeting agenda and minutes
• Board Meeting agenda
Pre-conference Board Meeting minutes
• Conference General Meeting agenda and minutes
• Post-conference Board Meeting agenda and minutes

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A Jaded Romantic: Uncovering The True Nature Of Ambrose Bierce, S. Marianne Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1913?, has become renowned in the Civil War world for his sharp-witted and cynical short stories that frequently feature ghastly death and the terrible irony of survival. His life has become somewhat of a caricature, used by historians such as Mark Snell and Gerald Linderman to demonstrate the utter disillusionment of the common soldier and the retreat into hibernation in an attempt to escape the trauma experienced during the war. This view of Bierce fails to capture the complexity of the man and his war experience. Rather than a skeptical realist, Bierce demonstrates the characteristics of a jaded …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Guitar Studio Graduate Recital, Kareem Mccullough & Rodrigo Almeida, Kareem Mccullough, Rodrigo Almeida

All Performances

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Looking Through Endgame: On Adorno's Conceptions Of Modernist Theatre, Cheng Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Beckett's theatre of absurd was regarded by Adorno as the most quintessential modernist artworks. In Notes to Literature, Adorno interpreted Beckett's Endgame against the background of the post-WWII historical and psychological crisis. Firstly, the meaningless living of the characters in Endgame leads to Adorno's delineation of a declining subject in a rational age. Secondly, Adorno found in Endgame some anti-existentialist literary elements, which prompted him to re-interpret the relations between subject and situation and endow Beckettian absurdity with novel theoretical significance. Thirdly, Adorno considered Endgame as a parody of traditional drama, which was, for Adorno, a deviation from the rational …

The Poetic Education In Academies Of Classical Learning In The Qing Dynasty, Nensheng Cheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the context of imperial examination, academies of classical learning in the Qing Dynasty could not afford not to stress the techniques of examination-required poetry and regulated prose composition, with some academics teaching technique for composing other forms of poetry. The purpose of turning the coarse writing into the elegant corresponded with the government's aims of promoting noble style in writing so that the technique pursuit of composing poems was not meant to be instrumental for passing the imperial examination only but also nurture the person for the country. To that end, many academies developed methods that focused on the …

The Voyage Of Gremais' Matrix, Han Qian, Xiuduan Huang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Gremas' semiotic matrix has been very popular among Chinese critics through the introduction of Jameson. Jameson has revised the semiotic matrix, and made it deviated from semanteme analyses and structuralism calculation. The revised version depends more on intuition, which oversimplifies the conflict between value and the view of value. The paper argues that a more objective and thorough analyses of value and significance may be conducted by returning to the original version of the semiotic matrix.

The Transformation From Being To Dasein: Agnes Heller's Neo-Marxist Aesthetics As A Breakthrough On Lukács' Theoretical Framework, Qilin Fu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Agnes Heller's neo-Marxist aesthetics is based on the individual construction of Dasein and the human condition of contingency, and it can be argued as a breakthrough of Lukács' aesthetics of Being. By way of humanist aesthetics, she accomplishes the transformation from the philosophy of consciousness into the selective construction of everyday life. This transformation is doubtlessly a great contribution to postmodernist Marxist aesthetics, and is valuable for both theory and practicum in the era of contemporary socialism and late capitalism or postmodern human condition.

The Connotation And Referent Of Chuanqi In The Study Of Fiction In The Ancient China, Qinghua Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Through a critical examination of the connotation and referent of the term chunaqi (legendary story, literally, "transmission of the strange") in the study of fiction in the ancient China, the paper points out that the term chuanqi in the ancient critical discourse was not a concept of genre but a concept of content and thematic type. When chuanqi is referred to as a genre, it was often called as a then homophonic term zhuanji (biographical record), while chuanqi referred to "a book-length account of an event from the beginning to the end." This term of chunaqi referred to a literary …

The Constructs Of Literary Form And Its Multilateral Relationships, Fan Nan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Literary form is often regarded as a mythical concept. For a fairly long period of time, literary form is always a suppressed object. Be that as it may, scholars have been making attempts to establish a self-contained system of literary form beyond the dimensions of logos, subjecthood and historical contents. This paper investigates the construction of literary form and its relationships with peripheral elements, especially the relationship between literary form and historical content. History has constantly intervened in the structure of literary form, and the literary content is often rendered as a transitory space between them. In this sense, the …

The Ming-Dynasty Restorative Trend Of The Study Of Qu And The Canonization Of The Yuan-Dynasty-Style Qu, Yun Cheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper sorts out the restorative trend in the Ming Dynasty in terms of the respect for, elaboration on and the creation of the style (zun ti, bian ti and chuang ti) and re-interprets its claims such as promoting the orthodox prosody, appreciating the original tonal quality, and emulating the Yuan-Dynasty style. The respect for the style promoted the reception of the Yuan-Dynasty style of Qu (opera) to the mainstream ideology and literary orthodoxies. The elaboration on the style focuses on establishing uniform aesthetic norms for Qu as a literary genre. The creation of a genre as the "new legend" …

Man's Sash (Patka), Risd Museum, Brooks Hagan, Mallica Kumbera Landrus

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ca. 1700-1750

Tapestry Of Space: Domestic Architecture And Underground Communities In Margaret Morton’S Photography Of A Forgotten New York, Irina Nersessova

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

This article addresses the impact urban space has on individuals through the use of Situationist International theory and psychogeography. Representations of homelessness in New York in Margaret Morton's photography are used to demonstrate the interconnectedness among space, people, and social issues. Social issues manifest themselves in urban decay, and the inhabitants react to this phenomenon emotionally and artistically. Some inhabitants demonstrate their relationship with space by responding with material production of housing and art, which they accomplish by building without exploiting the environment the way the manufacturing of commodities often does.

Six Poems On Sixteenth-Century Maps, Jeremy Dae Paden

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Enclosed are seven poems that explore the topic of mapping. Six of these form part of a series of ekphrastic poems on sixteenth-century "mappa mundi." They use the trope of the "cosmographic heart" or the "cordiform map" to tell the story of early European and American contact. Four of them use actual sixteenth-century mappa mundi (Fineaus's cordiform map, Bunting's clover-leaf map, Hand an anonymous Flemish map that uses Ortellius's cordiform map as the face of a jester) as points of departure. These maps by iconographically distorting the world make visible through representation the Early Modern Europe had with understanding the …

A Schizocartography Of The University Of Leeds: Cognitively Mapping The Campus, Tina Richardson

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Since 2009 I have been walking and mapping the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) campus as part of the research for my thesis which I shall be submitting shortly. While not a cartographer, nor artist, I am a psychogeographer: someone who studies and critiques the urban environment using walking as part of the methodology.While this mapping aspect of my thesis sits within a larger project of critiquing the historical use and acquisition of campus space by the university, the cartographical part stands in its own right. Some of the examples provided in this essay are created as a response to …

The Evolution Of The Verse Of Irregular Lines From The Unregulated To The Regulated Verse With Irregular Lines, Yufeng Xie

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The lyrics for singing in the ancient Chinese literature, in terms of stylistic form, falls into two types: qiyan (lines of regular lengths) and zayan (lines of irregular lengths). In the early Tang period, Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen established the versification of qiyan poetry, while the regulating course of zayan poetry began in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty. If the unregulated zayan poetry can be defined as Qu (the later opera verse) and the regulated zayan poetry as Ci (fixed rhythm lyrics), the evolution of zayan (the verse with irregular lines) in the past thousand-odd years was following …

The "Central Land Prosody" And The Rise And Fall Of The Musical Verse From The North And The South, Shunhua Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the Yuan Dynasty when China became a united sovereignty, there appeared various new prosodic systems. Zhou Deqing (1277-1365) made great efforts to dismiss The Broad Rimes (guangyun, compiled from 1007 to 1008 under the auspices of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty) and to construct a new prosodic system based on the musical verse from the northern part of China so as to promote it into the system of "the Central Land Elegant Prosody (zhongyun yayun)." He claimed that the orthodox prosody should be in the Music Bureau verse from the North while the verse from the South was …

Play And Liminality In Chinese Cinema: Star Studies In The Perspective Of Performance Theory, Yingjin Zhang, Qianliang Yi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Star studies sees film stars as "structured polysemy" and anticipates a salient system of meaning for us to decode and appreciate. Performance theory treats meaning as "conjunctural" rather than "structured" and privileges coincident, improvisation and juxtaposition. Approaching star studies through performance theory helps explore a wealth of filmic techniques and performance tactics. This article focuses on Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's "self-effacing" performance of repetition and examines special cases of play and liminality as well presence and absence in Chinese cinema. These cases challenge our conventional habit of thought and cognition and reveal an unlimited potential of alternative and alteration vis-à-vis history …

On The Methodological Evolution And Its Limitation Of Literature Anthropology, Daqiao Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper is a critical survey of literary anthropology in Chinese context. In the early 20th century in China, the main areas of investigation of literary anthropology are myths and ballads; during the Post-Mao Period, literary studies from the anthological perspective expand to literary texts and cultural texts, due to the influence of experimental ethnography and postmodernism. Practices in the above two periods show a consistent interest of research in the approaches of literary anthropology which evolves into the methods of cross-cultural comparison, primitivism, contextualism and field study etc. The paper concludes with the reflection on the potentialities and limits …