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Authorship, Collaboration, And Art Geography, Martin De La Iglesia

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In his article "Authorship, Collaboration, and Art Geography" Martin de la Iglesia explores the connection between geographical spaces and works of art, a connection often made, but hardly theorized, by scholars in the field of art geography. He suggests that the link between space and object is established by the creator of the object. A feasible method is devised to determine the creator's geographical identity, which in turn determines which space is assigned to the object. Particularly, the implications of multiple authorship for such a methodology are considered. The procedure is exemplified by a geographical analysis of the comic book …

A Consilient Science And Humanities In Mcewan's Enduring Love, Curtis D. Carbonell

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In his article "A Consilient Science and the Humanities in McEwan's Enduring Love" Curtis D. Carbonell provides a reading of a Third Culture novel that foregrounds the relationship of the sciences and the humanities. In Ian McEwan's novel we see a perfect example of how literary thinkers are listening to the world of science and speaking to it in return. This article responds to Stephen Greenberg's ideas about how Neo-Darwinian themes in the novel point to social themes by arguing that what underlies both of these is a deeper structure: the tension between C.P. Snow's Two Cultures, which is only …

Gender In Winterson's Sexing The Cherry, Paul Kintzele

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In his article "Gender in Winterson's Sexing the Cherry" Paul Kintzele examines the ways in which Jeanette Winterson's 1989 novel explores and critiques aspects of gender and sexuality. While acknowledging the importance of the performance theory of gender that derives from the work of Judith Butler, Kintzele contends that such an approach must be complemented with a psychoanalytic approach that insists on a particular distinction between sex and gender. Although some scholars map the sex/gender distinction onto the perennial nature/nurture binary and thus reduce sex to biology or anatomy, scholars of psychoanalysis such as Joan Copjec and Charles Shepherdson, read …

About Intermedialities: A Review Article Of New Work By Paech And Schröter, Chapple And Kattenbelt, And Ellerström, Arno Gimber, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

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The Stereotyped Image Of Christ In Villiers's "Les Amants De Tolède", Graciela Susana Boruszko

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In her article "The Stereotyped Image of Christ in Villiers's 'Les Amants de Tolède'" Graciela Susana Boruszko discusses images in Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's text. The embedding of icons of foreign cultures, histories, and religions into a literary narrative results in a work of art enriched by the images fashioned by the "foreign eye." The narrative strategy of Villiers creates a kaleidoscopic representation of themes and images that merge the fields of religion, literature and history. These themes and images — transposed into the domain of littérature fantastique — follow the initiation of the reader to a supernatural world that …

Pelecehan Seksual Terhadap Tokoh Perempuan Dalam Novel Perempuan Di Titik Nol Karya Nawal El-Saadawi Dan The Colour Purple Karya Alice Walker, Dwi Sulistyorini

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

The purpose of this study is to know what kinds of sexual abuse that have been done to the women figures in the novels “Perempuan di Titik Nol” by Nawal El Saadawi and “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. Besides, the purpose of the study is to know the impact of sexual abuse that happened to the women. To achieve the objectives above, the study used qualitative design and feminism approach. The re- sult of the studyshows that sexual abuse happened to the leading women figures in the novels from before, during, and after theirmarriage. The kinds of sexual abuse …

Aesthetic Self-Reliance: Emersonian Influence On American Art, Adrienne Lynn Rumsey

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This essay is an examination of the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on the development of American art through his essays, specifically his writings on nature and self-reliance. Through emphasizing individual potential, Emerson also influenced the visual arts. Instead of following the required formula in Europe of attending certain ateliers and seeking prestigious patronage, American artists, namely the Luminists and the Ashcan School, sought to address the issues of their day and portray life as it existed around them. Each of these groups formed during periods of time when American society was shifting and the American identity was evolving. Through …

Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno In Cormac Mccarthy's The Road, Emily Lane

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Dante's the Inferno contain textual and thematic comparisons. While the Inferno creates a world that exhibits the worst fears of the medieval Catholic subconscious of Dante's time, The Road paints a world of the darkest fears of the current American subconscious. Both texts reflect a critical dystopia that speculates on human spirituality and offers a critique of society through a tour of sin and suffering in a desolate setting.

'Shored Against The Ruins': Edifying Romantic And Modernist Thought, Leslie Haines

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This thesis explores the continuing aesthetic, philosophical, and social influences of Romantic and Modernist poetics. I trace the influence of Romanticism and Modernism as one that allows for a medium of expression that more clearly interprets both the act of reading and writing. These artistic periods and styles mutually serve to establish and validate enlightened ways of thinking that are currently lacking in the present day. I look to the poetry, philosophy, and prophecy of artists from both eras as they fuse and diffuse demonstrating the unique points of connection and disconnection for each of the poets whose texts are …

Tensions Between Word And Image In Amalie Skram's Professor Hieronimus, Benjamin A. Bigelow

Theses and Dissertations

In her 1895 novel, Professor Hieronimus, Amalie Skram describes the struggle of Else Kant, a young mother and artist, against a tyrannical and apparently unfeeling doctor who keeps her at a Copenhagen asylum for more than a month against her will. Else feels terrorized by the constant surveillance to which she is subjected. This voyeuristic tendency in psychiatry is not only a reflection of Amalie Skram's own experience at a Copenhagen asylum, but is also indicative of a new psychiatric epistemology that understood visual observation as the key to ascertaining objective truth. Skram's novel is thus read against the …

Paradox And Paradise: Conflicting Perspectives On Race, Gender, And Nature In Aminata Sow Fall's Douceurs Du Bercail, Catherine Gardner Guyon Van Uitert

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In my thesis, I examine Aminata Sow Fall's sixth novel Douceurs du bercail "The Sweetness of Home" through three lenses: race, gender, and nature. I analyze the way Sow Fall approaches each of these three areas in terms of paradox to emphasize her understanding of the complexity of these issues and her reluctance to outline them rigidly. Instead of putting forth hard opinions about how race, gender, or nature should be understood, Sow Fall exhibits a propensity to allow each area to remain complicated. I study why she allows racial, gendered, and environmental paradoxes to circulate around one another in …

Crosses, Flowers, And Toads: Classic Maya Bloodletting Iconography In Yaxchilan Lintels 24, 25, And 26, Kirsten Rachelle Steiger

Theses and Dissertations

The lintels of Yaxchilan Structure 23 seem to be a demonstrable case wherein specific symbols are singled out and deliberately used in an ordered sequence. Taken together as a unified series, Yaxchilan Lintels 24, 25, and 26 summarize the multi-step process of royal autosacrifice. An iconographic study of the huipil patterns depicted on these lintels yields a better understanding of complex bloodletting iconography and the way in which depictions of ceremonial autosacrifice reinforce Classic Maya beliefs relating to the divine role of Maya elite in eliciting communion with the gods and the subsequent rebirth of the cosmos. The rich iconography …

Migrants In A Strange City : (Dis-)Locating The China Imaginary In Post-1997 Hong Kong Films = 陌生城市中的移民 : 後一九九七香港電影中國想像的位(錯)置, Vivian Lee

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Traditional Culture And Contemporary Performance : Adaw Palaf's The Great Flood = 傳統文化與當代表演 : 阿道．巴辣夫的《大洪水》, Terence Russell

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Couching Race In The Global Era : Intra-Asian Racism In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon = 全球化年代的種族表述 : 從《臥虎藏龍》看亞洲內部的種族主義, Nick Kaldis

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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小說家的辯言 : 包天笑的小說和困境 = A Defense Of The Novelist : Bao Tianxiao's Novel And Dilemma, Feng Ying Ming

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Notes On Contributors = 作者簡介

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Liu Yichang And The Temporalities Of Capitalist Modernity = 劉以鬯與資本主義的時間性, Kwai Cheung Lo

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Centering And Decentering Methodologies : Wang Anyi's Migratory Mythology And Descriptive Historiography = 向心與離心 : 王安憶的移民神話與歷史描寫, Y.F., Howard Choy

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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“Disagreement As Duty: On The Importance Of The Self And Friendship In Cavell's Moral Philosophy.”, Jeroen Gerrits

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

This essay focuses on the significance of disagreem ent in what Cavell has coined“Emersonian” perfectionism. This moral outlook hold s that everyday moral duties andchoices, unlike epistemological cases, ultimately r est on our personal assessment andjustification of an action. It is therefore possible (and likely) that disagreements point notto moral incompetence, but to a conflict of desires – crucially including a conflict of onesown desires. As a consequence, the demand of making oneself intelligible is a primary andconstant moral duty, without which we lose sight of the means of coming to an agreement.Perfectionism further assumes that, since people ar e …

Contextos E Pistas: Um Editorial De Pensamento Da América, Luiza Franco Moreira

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

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Heartburn On A Map Called Home : Yau Ching And The (Im)Possibility Of Hong Kong Poetry As Chinese Poetry = 叫做家的版圖上心的抽搐 : 游靜與香港新詩作為中國詩之(不)可能, Jennifer Feeley

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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劉以鬯作品年表 = Liu Yichang's Bibliography

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Reading Hong Kong Literature From The Periphery Of Modern Chinese Literature : Liu Yichang Studies As An Example = 從現代中國文學的邊缘看香港文學研究 : 以劉以鬯研究為例, Yuk Kwan, Amanda Hsu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Ambivalent Laughter : Comic Sketches In Cctv's "Spring Festival Eve Gala" = 曖昧的笑聲 : 中央電視台春節聯歡晚會的小品, Jin Liu

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Center And Periphery In Modern Chinese Literature And Culture : An Introduction = 現代中文文學與文化的「中心與邊緣」 : 前言, Christopher Lupke

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Bibliography For Work In Travel Studies, Carlo Salzani, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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What Is My Nation: Visions Of A New Global Order In Ngũgũ Wa Thiong'o'S Wizard Of The Crow, Gĩchîngirî Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Jonathan Ree describes an ideal nation where each national subject can proclaim, "the nation is mine" (1998, p. 89). Ngũgũ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow, depicts a state where the state and its ruler are co-extensive, the subjects exiles. In this paper, I argue that as an external exile, Ngũgũ has become a global citizen. That global citizenship still exhibits a rooted cosmopolitanism. Ngũgũ reclaims his nation vicariously through empowered women who resist the corruption of the nation by the excesses of patriarchal power and global capital. Internally exiled in their own country, the women lead the struggle to …

Hermeneutics Of The Crossroads, Jacqueline S. Farritor

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The main question posed in my thesis is whether or not the crossroads is a paradigm that might open the event of reading and interpretation. I believe this profound place of possibility is a valid intellectual model for innovative and uninhabited modes of understanding. The hermeneutics of the crossroads is an imaginative approach that keeps us open to the transformative power of literature transpiring when we bring to the text our working scholarly knowledge, but also allow ourselves to receive what it has to offer us.

Using the crossroads theory of surrendering and receiving, I have interpreted Gayl Jones's novel, …

Robert Clive And Imperial Modernity, Nigel Joseph

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In his article "Robert Clive and Imperial Modernity" Nigel Joseph analyzes the work of Robert Clive by postulating the questions of why Clive would be emblematic of the bleak modernity of Tocqueville, Weber, and Foucault? Rapacious yet docile, personally ambitious yet capable of curbing ambition in others, Clive seems to be an anomalous figure. Joseph posits that Clive's career is a metaphor for both the trajectory of the imperial state and for the imperial subject. In order to retain his Indian-derived wealth, Clive is forced into a series of paradoxical postures: beginning as the archetypal private marauder, he transforms himself …