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Life, Art And Potentialities: Agamben's Concept Of Poetics-Politics, Xingkun Wang Apr 2014

Life, Art And Potentialities: Agamben's Concept Of Poetics-Politics, Xingkun Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Human life in the context of modernity, according to Giorgio Agamben, has become a "bare life" and human being is reduced to homo sacer, while the political paradigm has transformed from public space to camp. When taking this into consideration, however, it may not be said that humanism should be resorted as the source for humanist thought. Agamben, following Heidegger, believes that humanism is a degradation of human dignity instead of emancipating and upgrading of the human being. The paper tries to answer how human being's integrity can be recovered to open up new space of politics. This paper focuses …

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Gender As Cultural Production: The Cultural Critique In Contemporary Western Marxist Feminism, Rui Ma Apr 2014

Gender As Cultural Production: The Cultural Critique In Contemporary Western Marxist Feminism, Rui Ma

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The uncovering of the sociality of gender and the reshaping of the consciousness of women are fundamental cultural appeals of feminism, and these appeals may rely on theoretical support from both classical Marxist dialectical analysis of the relationship between society and consciousness and Western Marxist illuminations of the subjectivity and cultural materialism, although the latter may take on more weight for feminist criticism. Since 1970s, Marxist feminism has absorbed the theory of cultural production, developed on Althusser's theory of ideology and British cultural studies, in its analysis of patriarchy, capitalism and gender system, and gender is thus disclosed as the …

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Gloria Castillo, Csusb Apr 2014

Gloria Castillo, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

"Impact of the Citrus Industry on South Colton Residents"

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From Flapper To Philosopher: F. Scott Fitzgerald’S Hidden Cultural Evaluations Of American Society In “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Passionate Eskimo,” “May Day,” And “The Hotel Child”, Lesley Brooks Apr 2014

From Flapper To Philosopher: F. Scott Fitzgerald’S Hidden Cultural Evaluations Of American Society In “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Passionate Eskimo,” “May Day,” And “The Hotel Child”, Lesley Brooks

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the treatment of Native American and Jewish American characters in four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories: “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (1920), “The Passionate Eskimo” (1935), “May Day” (1930), and “The Hotel Child” (1931). Little critical attention has been given to these stories even though they illustrate Fitzgerald’s awareness of the negative ramifications of culturally destructive views and an exploration of new culturally pluralistic ideas. In these stories, Fitzgerald undermines common ethnic stereotypes and demonstrates tension between the intolerance of the American public and the fear of immigrant influence. Fitzgerald is able to re-image the representation of …

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Review And Analysis Of The Marketing Practices Of Independent Local Musicans, Michael Hammari, Dr. Paul Deurden Apr 2014

Review And Analysis Of The Marketing Practices Of Independent Local Musicans, Michael Hammari, Dr. Paul Deurden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

It was the intent of this research to identify and analyze the current and possible marketing practices of independent, local musicians based in the Provo Area. In order to accomplish this objective three methods were employed. First, local musicians were interviewed to examine their current marketing practices. Second, a sample of the public was surveyed to gage their awareness of local music. Thirdly, music events were promoted with the intent of experimenting with different marketing strategies. Over the course of the research more effort was focused on the final aspect of this project.

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El Papel De La Iglesia Católica Durante Y Después De La Guerra Civil Española, Mattie E. Raiford Apr 2014

El Papel De La Iglesia Católica Durante Y Después De La Guerra Civil Española, Mattie E. Raiford

Honors College Theses

La Iglesia Católica tenía muchísimos papeles durante y después de la Guerra Civil Española. Por ejemplo para los republicanos, la Iglesia era horrible y su enemigo pero las fascistas eran a favor de la iglesia y sus papeles tradicionales. En las películas que tratan de la Guerra Civil, la Iglesia suele tener el papel representado de la perspectiva de los republicanos porque muchas películas son en contra de la Iglesia. La literatura tiene un papel diferente porque hay escritores republicanos y fascistas con ideas diferentes. Es la verdad que los republicanos eran crueles a la Iglesia durante la guerra pero …

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Ariadne Auf Naxos, Unlv Symphony Orchestra Apr 2014

Ariadne Auf Naxos, Unlv Symphony Orchestra

Opera

Program listing performers and works performed

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Cultural Identity And Heritage Language Learners, Lydia Reitz Apr 2014

Cultural Identity And Heritage Language Learners, Lydia Reitz

Theses and Dissertations

Heritage language learners (HLLs) in college are studied more than other groups of students with differences, and they are becoming more prevalent in the foreign language (FL) classroom. For the purpose of this study, HLL is defined as; an individual who has parents from a Spanish-speaking country, but was born in the United States and has an almost complete speaking proficiency and any range of grammatical dominance of Spanish (Valdés 2001). This definition eliminates those students who were born in Spanish-speaking countries and those who have little to no dominance of either speaking proficiency and grammatical dominance of the language. …

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Student Engagement And Action In Classroom And Community: Place-Based Education And Social Action For The High-Achieving Student, Rachel M. Jank Apr 2014

Student Engagement And Action In Classroom And Community: Place-Based Education And Social Action For The High-Achieving Student, Rachel M. Jank

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This paper briefly discusses the work done in a college-preparatory, Senior English class to combat the disengagement present in many educational institutions. This disconnect does not allow for learning retention and, therefore, does not allow for students to apply the moment of learning to life outside of the secondary classroom. The work I do is based off of Jessica Singer Early, Bruce Bigelow, Linda Christensen, and many other master teachers who work with the educational designs of Place Consciousness and Social Action within their respective classrooms. The theories of John Dewey and Paulo Freire suggest that a non-traditional style of …

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The Art Of Costuming: Interpreting The Character Through The Costume Designer's Eyes, Brianne G. Crist Apr 2014

The Art Of Costuming: Interpreting The Character Through The Costume Designer's Eyes, Brianne G. Crist

Senior Honors Theses

Creating a believable illusion through costume design is a very important aspect in a theatrical production. Every production in theater is the culmination of a collaboration of creative individuals who each have a very explicit role to play. Part of the success of a production depends on set designers, lighting coordinators, directors, producers, props masters, actors, etc. The idea is to create a believable new world that relates to the audience. The costume designer’s job is to use all of the tools that are within their grasp to both research the best option for costuming and to actually construct the …

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Convocation, Unlv Convocations Apr 2014

Convocation, Unlv Convocations

Convocations

No abstract provided.

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Unlv Percussion Ensemble And Moving Light Lab, Dean Gronemeier, Timothy Jones, Brackley Frayer Apr 2014

Unlv Percussion Ensemble And Moving Light Lab, Dean Gronemeier, Timothy Jones, Brackley Frayer

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

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Opera Workshop L, Linda Lister, Jae Ahn-Benton Apr 2014

Opera Workshop L, Linda Lister, Jae Ahn-Benton

Opera

Program listing performers and works performed

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Lithophone, Risd Museum, Shawn Greenlee Apr 2014

Lithophone, Risd Museum, Shawn Greenlee

Channel

This inverted L-shaped stone, gold accenting its design and calligraphy, was meant to be struck with a wooden mallet during imperial musical rituals at the Temple of Agriculture in the Chinese capital. Originally one in a set of 12 chimes—for the 12 lunar months—each stone had a distinct pitch, tuned to reflect a mathematical relationship with the celestial world. 18th Century

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Text Panels For The Museum Of Archeology, Palmyra Syria: The Temple Bel / Palmyra’S Coinage, David Amott, Dr. Cynthia Finlayson Apr 2014

Text Panels For The Museum Of Archeology, Palmyra Syria: The Temple Bel / Palmyra’S Coinage, David Amott, Dr. Cynthia Finlayson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This project helps to fulfill a crucial need for research on a highly important collection of ancient artifacts housed in the Archeology Museum of Tadmor-Palmyra, Syria. The collection is significant in that it documents the history and culture of a major center of the ancient Mediterranean world. This research has been used to create several museum text panels and exhibition layouts that, once assembled, will be shipped to Palmyra, Syria and installed as part of a permanent exhibition in Palmyra’s Museum of Archeology. Below is text that will be featured on panels concerning Palmyra’s Temple Bel, Palmyra’s principle god Bel, …

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The Evolution Of Literary Image Of Peasant Migrant Workers In Urbanization From The Burden-Bearing To The Weightless Existence, Lixin Zhang Apr 2014

The Evolution Of Literary Image Of Peasant Migrant Workers In Urbanization From The Burden-Bearing To The Weightless Existence, Lixin Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Literary image of the peasant migrant workers in China is closely related with the process of urbanization in contemporary China, and during the process, the image of peasant migrant workers has undergone significant transformation with the drastic change of literary ecology. When peasant migrant workers as characters entered the mainstream literature at the beginning of China's reform period, they appeared to be the "new character" that embodied the social ideal and life expectation of the intellectuals. The image changed, however, around the turn of the century when peasant workers became the strugglers of survival who had degraded to the concerns …

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"Redefining Literature And Art": Strategies For Reconstructing The Political Dimensions Of Literature, Chuanlan Yin, Fengjie Liu Apr 2014

"Redefining Literature And Art": Strategies For Reconstructing The Political Dimensions Of Literature, Chuanlan Yin, Fengjie Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since the mid 1990s, critics and theorists have begun to "re-visit" the relationship between literature and politics in an attempt to reconstruct the political dimensions in literature, which, as this paper maintains, marks the emergence of the trend of "redefining literature and art." The core theoretical strategy behind the re-politicalization of literature is to emphasize the inseparability of literature from social context or social relationships, but during the process, literary heterogeneity in terms of politics is not scrutinized with sufficient attention. The paper maintains that the relationship between man and literature may be both a reflection of and a choice …

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Is Wang Guowei's Theory Of The Poetic State Focused On Feelings: A Discussion With Mdm. Ye Jiaying, Zhi Geng Apr 2014

Is Wang Guowei's Theory Of The Poetic State Focused On Feelings: A Discussion With Mdm. Ye Jiaying, Zhi Geng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In her book Wang Guowei and His Literary Criticism, Mdm. Ye Jiaying describes the theory of poetic state as "a vivid expression in the work [… of] the feelings of the author." If Ye's interpretation of the theory is interpreted within the context of the book, however, it may be found that Ye's interpretation is insufficiently supported by the theoretical discourse and practice. The problem in Ye's interpretation include the following. Firstly, her interpretation of the essence of the theory dissolves not only the intrinsic characteristic of "the emotion" and "the scene" but also the poet's conscious artistic pursuit and …

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Inaesthetics And Art As Procedure Of Truth: An Introduction To Badiou's Art Thought, Jiang Lan Apr 2014

Inaesthetics And Art As Procedure Of Truth: An Introduction To Badiou's Art Thought, Jiang Lan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

For Alain Badiou, art and its creation do not need a preconceived idea to direct or guide, as art itself is one of conditions for philosophy. In light of this, Badiou replaces the aesthetics that subordinates art to the will of philosophy with an inaesthetics that induces truth out of art. Inaesthetics no longer tries to pursue the idea or notion that governs the works of art, but focuses on how artistic creations penetrate the consistent presentations of everyday discourse and tease out truth from the smoothed discourse. This way to artistic creations is like a journey through darkness, with …

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An Investigation On The Antenarrative In Ancient Chinese Novels, Runbao Wan Apr 2014

An Investigation On The Antenarrative In Ancient Chinese Novels, Runbao Wan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The antenarrative takes many forms in ancient Chinese novels with varied functions, and religions and folklore are among the main source of influences on its formations. The religion-influenced antenarratives may be classified into explicit, implicit, undetermined and multiple antenarratives in terms of their function. The antenarrative plays an important role in the overall design, the narrative schema, and the setup of suspense in the ancient novels, and suggests a unique national characteristic of Chinese classical novels. The folklore-influenced antenarrative takes the form of "the entry to the story (ru hua)," "the head to chapters (tou hui)," the comments of the …

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The Cultural Theme In Terry Eagleton's Critical Theory, Hailiang Mai Apr 2014

The Cultural Theme In Terry Eagleton's Critical Theory, Hailiang Mai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This essay explores the content and exceptionality of Terry Eagleton's idea of culture and its significance for contemporary thinking on culture, and it posits the exploration in the context of current academic heat on culture, the intellectual history of English cultural theory and the tradition of Western Marxism. The paper maintains that Eagleton's proposition of cultural crisis not only reveals the intrinsic contradiction of the cultural heat but also helps for the understanding of the fundamental logic of modern cultural theory. Cultural crisis has been in existence along the modern era and it has intensified into contemporary culture wars. It …

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On The Stylistic Origins And Literary Forms Of Ci And Fu, Zhixi Qian Apr 2014

On The Stylistic Origins And Literary Forms Of Ci And Fu, Zhixi Qian

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper argues that ci (poetic prose) and fu (rhymed prose) were two different genres, each originated from its oral tradition. Ci, a form of poetic prose, originated from various stylistic writings such as ritual presentation on sacrifice and historical events and ambassadors' orations, while Encountering Sorrow by Qu Yuan (343-278 BC) and Nine Songs from the Songs of the South from were related with them. Ci and Fu became merged into one genre at the hands of Song Yu (ca. 298-222 BC), Tang Le (ca. 290-223 BC) and Jia Yi (200-168 BC), and to the time of the Han …

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Periodizing Postmodernism, Mchale Brian Apr 2014

Periodizing Postmodernism, Mchale Brian

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Looking back over the postmodern decades from the perspective of the twenty-first century, we are now in a position to begin distinguishing internal breaks and discontinuities, as well as continuities, within the period itself. The present paper undertakes to sketch out three phases internal to the postmodern period: first, an onset phase in the Euro-American sphere in the mid-sixties; next, the major phase of "peak postmodernism" in the seventies and eighties; finally, a late-postmodernist or transitional period in the nineties, widely experienced as a pause or lull, a kind of interregnum between postmodernism and whatever comes next. The consensus view …

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Two Main Routes Of The Construction Of Western Marxist Literary Theory, Xianguang Feng Apr 2014

Two Main Routes Of The Construction Of Western Marxist Literary Theory, Xianguang Feng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper starts with the observation that unique thoughts and routes distinguish various kinds of Marxism literary theories when they were constructed. The constructive differences lie in both the so-called "orthodox" and the later Western Marxist literary theories, and different developing routes and modes were developed especially in the later during its early and later periods. After an analysis of the periodization and the different features of Western Marxist literary theory, the paper concludes with the significance of the analysis to the construction of a Chinese Marxist literary theory.

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In The Right Mirror: We Are All Gods, Aaron Koehn Apr 2014

In The Right Mirror: We Are All Gods, Aaron Koehn

Theses and Dissertations

I look to the common and mundane as sources for inspiration and imagination. In an attempt to evolve a veneer away from representing a coveted material, I have taken phenomenological events from my own personal experience and have searched for commonalities with them to create a new idea for veneering. My exploratory use of Google as a grammar-less machine deciphers the very nature of naming and its ambiguous attachment to an image. I am interested in the multiplicity of personal associations that become attached to images, and the subjectivity thus involved in the naming of an image.

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2013-2014 Performance Forum - April 25, 2013, Yalyen Savignon, Nora Lastre, Roberto Henriquez, Akmal Irmatov, Vijeta Sathyaraj, Jesse Yukimura, Lilliana Marrero, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Carlos Ortega, Josiah Coe, Ricardo Pozenatto, Felicia Besan, Nicole Kukieza Apr 2014

2013-2014 Performance Forum - April 25, 2013, Yalyen Savignon, Nora Lastre, Roberto Henriquez, Akmal Irmatov, Vijeta Sathyaraj, Jesse Yukimura, Lilliana Marrero, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Carlos Ortega, Josiah Coe, Ricardo Pozenatto, Felicia Besan, Nicole Kukieza

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

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Minnesota Public Radio (Mpr) News/Gary Eichten Fellowship, Alex Forster Apr 2014

Minnesota Public Radio (Mpr) News/Gary Eichten Fellowship, Alex Forster

Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day (2011-2017)

The College of St. Benedict and St. John's University offer two summer student fellowships with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). These MPR/Gary Eichten Fellows complete an internship at MPR and learn the basics of news writing, reporting, and production with a goal to write and produce material for MPR newscasts.

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The Santa Clara, 2014-04-24, Santa Clara University Apr 2014

The Santa Clara, 2014-04-24, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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Origin Narratives And The Making Of Dynastic History In Al-Dīnawarī’S Akhbār, Abed El-Rahman Tayyara Apr 2014

Origin Narratives And The Making Of Dynastic History In Al-Dīnawarī’S Akhbār, Abed El-Rahman Tayyara

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

This article takes the reader on a journey into the historical writing of the ninth century Muslim historian al-Dīnawarī (d. 895) and examines the motives behind composing his al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl. The themes and narrative arrangements of this work give insight into al-Dīnawarī's historical agenda that demonstrates his interest in royal histories that exemplify the rise and fall of nations, dynasties, and powerful rulers. Al-Dīnawarī's emphasis on specific episodes and events demonstrates that only certain ethnic groups whose political legitimacy derives from a respectable and prominent origin can bring about political and social stability. By dealing with these sociopolitical concerns, …

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Japanese Kawaii Culture (かわいい文化), Kaileigh Nicklas Apr 2014

Japanese Kawaii Culture (かわいい文化), Kaileigh Nicklas

Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day (2011-2017)

No abstract provided.

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