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Neither Surrogate Nor Complement: The Long Life Of Visual Narratives, Ann L. D'Orazio Jul 2017

Neither Surrogate Nor Complement: The Long Life Of Visual Narratives, Ann L. D'Orazio

English Language and Literature ETDs

Visual narratives are contested territory. They require tools from a variety of academic disciplines, and they defy the usual sets of interpretive strategies and systems of nomenclature in traditional humanities disciplines. This dissertation fills in one of the missing approaches to visual narratives; that is the long historical, interconnected view that renders visible significant connections among graphic narratives from the medieval manuscript to the contemporary comic book and graphic novel. The project articulates a theory of the long material and cultural life of visual narratives in a variety of media forms, including the manuscript, the early printed book, the lithograph …

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The Prince Of This World, Michael Murphy Jul 2017

The Prince Of This World, Michael Murphy

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A review of Adam Kotsko's book The Prince of This World written by Michael Murphy.

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Envisioned Simplicity, Karen Dempsey Jul 2017

Envisioned Simplicity, Karen Dempsey

All Student Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation accompanies compilation of my thesis work, consisting of a succession of digital photographs printed on canvas. Within the dissertation, I summarize the theoretical, historical, and applicable influences that have affected the production of my images. I contend that the digital photographic process is the dominant component in my works, and describe how it has developed and evolved in a contemplative approach throughout the growth of my thesis work. The progression of capturing my body of work was enabled through continuous practice and guidance by those responsible for furthering my studies as an artist. The dissertation moves to explore …

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"The New Millennium's Passion For Standing Live Witness To Things:” The Epidemiology Of Isolation, Addiction And Redemption In David Foster Wallace’S Infinite Jest, Natalie C. Helberg Jul 2017

"The New Millennium's Passion For Standing Live Witness To Things:” The Epidemiology Of Isolation, Addiction And Redemption In David Foster Wallace’S Infinite Jest, Natalie C. Helberg

All Student Theses and Dissertations

Infinite Jest is a one-thousand, seventy-nine page novel and it weighs almost three pounds; it is heavy in a literal and a spiritual sense. The novel is David Foster Wallace’s greatest achievement. It portrays characters who are dramatically isolated from one another and who cannot cope without some form of addiction. This addiction manifests itself in the form of an extreme dependence on drugs and/or technology to escape reality. This thesis first discusses the effects of technology on a society that is lonely and isolated. Then, two major characters with substance abuse issues are analyzed in an effort to understand …

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The Living Syllabus: Rethinking The Introductory Course To Art History With Interactive Visualization, Caroline Bruzelius, Hannah L. Jacobs Jul 2017

The Living Syllabus: Rethinking The Introductory Course To Art History With Interactive Visualization, Caroline Bruzelius, Hannah L. Jacobs

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

This essay describes an experiment in adopting mapping and timeline technologies in the Introduction to Art History course taught at Duke University. The creation of an interactive, “living,” syllabus in Neatline and Omeka allowed us to embed maps, course powerpoints, links to museum websites, news articles, videos, and clips from movies. In this article, we describe how the integration of mapping tools and multimedia transformed our approach to the discipline of Art History, enabling us to engage with trade and exchange networks for raw materials, artistic ideas and motifs, and the art market.

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Making Pictures, Writing About Pictures, Discussing Pictures And Lecture-Discussion As Teaching Methods In Art History, Jari M. Martikainen Jul 2017

Making Pictures, Writing About Pictures, Discussing Pictures And Lecture-Discussion As Teaching Methods In Art History, Jari M. Martikainen

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

This article discusses making pictures, writing about pictures, discussing pictures, and lecture-discussion as methods of teaching art history in Finnish Upper Secondary Vocational Education and Training (Qualification in Visual Expression, Study Programmes in Visual and Media Art Photography). A total of 25 students majoring in Visual Expression participated in the research by studying art history using picture-based–visual and verbal–methods and reflecting on their learning experiences. This article introduces the concept of ‘contextual subject-related didactics,’ by which conceptions of contemporary art history, together with the objectives and aims of the curriculum, guide the choice of teaching methods. The article argues that …

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Bloom's Taxonomy For Art History. Blending A Skills-Based Approach Into The Traditional Introductory Survey, Laetitia La Follette Jul 2017

Bloom's Taxonomy For Art History. Blending A Skills-Based Approach Into The Traditional Introductory Survey, Laetitia La Follette

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

The large-enrollment, lecture-based introductory survey still forms an essential part of art history curricula, particularly at public institutions of higher learning, despite recognition of some of its pedagogical drawbacks. This paper lays out the advantages of a blended model, one that adds student-centered activities in the form of team-based learning to the traditional lecture format. Bloom’s taxonomy, translated for art history, became the logical framework for the types of activities and learning outcomes developed using team-based learning in this blended approach.

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Active Learning In Art History: A Review Of Formal Literature, Marie Gasper-Hulvat Jul 2017

Active Learning In Art History: A Review Of Formal Literature, Marie Gasper-Hulvat

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

This article surveys the formal, academic literature on active learning in art history. It considers the history of active learning in art history and outlines the unique combination of approaches that art history takes towards active learning. A meta-analysis of the literature considers its relationship to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This survey of literature indicates that although scholarly research on active learning in art history is a burgeoning field of scholarship, it also leaves many avenues open for additional research.

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Editors’ Introduction: Continuing The Conversation, Renee Mcgarry, Virginia Spivey Jul 2017

Editors’ Introduction: Continuing The Conversation, Renee Mcgarry, Virginia Spivey

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

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Freud On Writing: Some Historicist Perspectives, Sanja Perovic Jul 2017

Freud On Writing: Some Historicist Perspectives, Sanja Perovic

Episteme

The author looks at three readings of Freud by Derrida, Michel de Certeau, and Deleuze/Guattari, trying to answer the question: For Freud, how does writing produce meaning and what does this historicizing function imply about the psyche in general? The author inspects two of Freud’s analogies that are to explain and justify psychoanalysis: books avoiding political censorship and the mystic writing pad. These become doorways to the ensuing criticisms. The three commentaries trace sections of Freud’s thought as they relate to his fundamental concepts and to the work those concepts are supposed to do. Read together, the readings each supply …

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The Value Of Natural Kinds From A Kripkean Perspective: A Critique Of Eric Katz's 'Organism, Community And The "Substitution Problem", Jessica H. Mitchell Jul 2017

The Value Of Natural Kinds From A Kripkean Perspective: A Critique Of Eric Katz's 'Organism, Community And The "Substitution Problem", Jessica H. Mitchell

Episteme

The author endeavors to extend the Kripke/Putnam theory of reference in order to improve Eric Katz’s argument in “Organism, Community, and the ‘Substitution Problem.” Katz criticizes the organism model for species and supports the community model, which supposedly strikes a balance with a species’ intrinsic value and functional purpose within a natural ecosystem. But since it can be shown that the so-called organism model includes intrinsic value, too, the substitution problem (which had plagued it for Katz) is unfounded. Because Katz’s real goal is to differentiate between the intrinsic and instrumental value of a given species, Kripke’s theory of natural …

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Persons, Materialism And Consciousness, Brendan Neufeld Jul 2017

Persons, Materialism And Consciousness, Brendan Neufeld

Episteme

In this article, the author criticizes the materialist theory of mind but salvages the causal insights put forth by neurophysiology’s linkage of the mind and the brain. P. M. S. Hacker’s exegesis of Wittgenstein argues that materialist philosophers and neuroscientists make grammatical contradictions when accounting for the mental. To begin to pinpoint the error of physicalism, the author provides examples that elaborate on Norman Malcolm’s two distinct senses of the term “consciousness.” Materialism’s (and neurophysiology’s) causal nature accounts for intransitive consciousness, but neither are especially promising when it comes to transitive consciousness. In the background, there is a major problem: …

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Explanatory Pervasion And The Unity Of Science, Andrew Miller Jul 2017

Explanatory Pervasion And The Unity Of Science, Andrew Miller

Episteme

The philosophy of science has seen a range of theories since the radical introduction of reductionism as an offshoot of the logical positivists. This author argues that while the various sciences may not be unified by law, there is every reason to believe that they are unified by explanation. In essence, Alan Garfinkel and David Owens are judged to be less convincing that the arguments given by Karen Neander and Peter Menzies. The author shows the insufficiency of Garfinkel’s attempt to illustrate the missing link between macro and micro explanation in the theory of explanatory pervasion. The author then supports …

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General Rules And The Normativity Of Causal Inferences In The First Book Of Hume's Treatise, Joshua Derman Jul 2017

General Rules And The Normativity Of Causal Inferences In The First Book Of Hume's Treatise, Joshua Derman

Episteme

In the paper, the author has undertaken the task of illuminating the meanings and connections that constitute Hume’s account of causality. The author’s method is critical, questioning the logical consistency and explanatory power of Hume’s skeptical causality and inference, only to eventually reveal the validity of Hume’s argument. Much of the analysis is spent making sense of the seemingly contradictory or confusing statements Hume makes in his Treatise; lots of examples help this process. The paper includes addressing the paradoxical connection between our internal/subjective general rules and our customs. It also examines the interesting question of how to judge the …

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Thomistic Metaphysics And The Synthetic A Priori, Brent D. Timmons Jul 2017

Thomistic Metaphysics And The Synthetic A Priori, Brent D. Timmons

Episteme

Aquinas’ metaphysics is a powerful, comprehensive system, but one that is subtle and demands careful attention. The author here argues that Henry B. Veatch’s paper, which attempts to reconcile Aquinas with Kant’s metaphysics, mistakenly turns Aquinas’ thought into a mere empirical science. The article begins with an overview of Kant’s two types of judgments and Aquinas’ notion of principia per se nota, or first principles. Aquinas’ first principles are analytic on Kant’s analysis yet are also said to give information about the world, according to Thomist thought. But “how are the principia per se nota informative about the world?”—Kant would …

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Dale Vande Griend, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat Jul 2017

Dale Vande Griend, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat

The Voice

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Danielle Roos, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat Jul 2017

Danielle Roos, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat

The Voice

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Josh Louwerse, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat Jul 2017

Josh Louwerse, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat

The Voice

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Endings And Beginnings: Two Sides Of The Coin, Amy Westra Jul 2017

Endings And Beginnings: Two Sides Of The Coin, Amy Westra

The Voice

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Pre-Vet Life @ Dordt College, Kate Henreckson Jul 2017

Pre-Vet Life @ Dordt College, Kate Henreckson

The Voice

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Following Your Gut, Sally Jongsma Jul 2017

Following Your Gut, Sally Jongsma

The Voice

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Core 100: Setting Students On A Common Kingdom Trajectory, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat Jul 2017

Core 100: Setting Students On A Common Kingdom Trajectory, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat

The Voice

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New Research Institute Brings New Funding, Sally Jongsma Jul 2017

New Research Institute Brings New Funding, Sally Jongsma

The Voice

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Culture As Divine Gift, David Henreckson Jul 2017

Culture As Divine Gift, David Henreckson

The Voice

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Baseball Inspires Other Sports To New Heights, Mike Byker Jul 2017

Baseball Inspires Other Sports To New Heights, Mike Byker

The Voice

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Taking Climate Action, Lydia Marcus Jul 2017

Taking Climate Action, Lydia Marcus

The Voice

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Seniors Create Original Musical, Lydia Marcus Jul 2017

Seniors Create Original Musical, Lydia Marcus

The Voice

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Environmental Studies Students Help Restore Park, Kate Henreckson Jul 2017

Environmental Studies Students Help Restore Park, Kate Henreckson

The Voice

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Three Faculty Leave Their Mark At Dordt, Contributing Writer Jul 2017

Three Faculty Leave Their Mark At Dordt, Contributing Writer

The Voice

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Inchoate Feminism In Plato's Republic V, Amy Coplan Jul 2017

Inchoate Feminism In Plato's Republic V, Amy Coplan

Episteme

Is Plato a feminist from the classical era? No, but he comes closer than any other man from that time. Although by no means reducible to modern feminist arguments about equality, Book V of the Republic espouses some important ideas about women, nature, and society. There is no doubt that Plato challenged the prevailing wisdom in Athens and sought a utopia that produced the best possible men and women—at least for the guardian class. We should understand that it is Plato’s elitism, not his misogyny, which influences his handling of the lower social strata. And furthermore, his sexist remarks are …

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