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Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics, Naikan Tao Dec 2001

Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics, Naikan Tao

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In his paper, "Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics," Naikan Tao concentrates on Pound's theories regarding comparison and examines the significance of his comparative studies to the formulation of his poetics, an aspect that has not been sufficiently investigated. On the basis of Pound's work, Tao observes that the conception of comparison Pound shaped through his comparative studies is the internal principle that governs the presentation of details and particulars, the method Pound advocated as a reader-oriented approach to truth and as an efficient, self-reliant means to avoid others' generalization and discursive presentation. Pound's view of comparison as an epistemological norm -- …


Entropy In Pynchon's "Entropy" And Lefebvre's The Production Of Space, Jason Snart Dec 2001

Entropy In Pynchon's "Entropy" And Lefebvre's The Production Of Space, Jason Snart

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In his paper, "Entropy in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Lefebvre's The Production of Space," Jason Snart examines Thomas Pynchon's short story "Entropy" for the ways in which it deals with the kinds of disorder(s) associated with entropy as a thermodynamic and informational concept. Those concepts are installed as a framework within which to consider cultural studies work like Henri Lefebfre's thought in his The Production of Space and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and themodynamics: disorder is rendered not as confusion, but rather as a state of potential energy and productivity and Lefebvre's and Bertalanffy's concepts serve to show how …


(Post)Feminism, Transnationalism, The Maternal Body, And Michèle Roberts, Ayako Mizuo Dec 2001

(Post)Feminism, Transnationalism, The Maternal Body, And Michèle Roberts, Ayako Mizuo

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In her paper "(Post)Feminism, Transnationalism, the Maternal Body, and Michèle Roberts," Ayako Mizuo argues that the question and problematics of feminism have diversified over the last few decades. Diverse and competing voices have been, nonetheless, incorporated into the paradigm of an equality and difference sexual dichotomy. Further, recent discussions about feminism suggest the problematization of gender differences. Consequently, exponents of postfeminism are compelled to ask what comes next? Mizuo urges that the issue of the tangibility of the body acquires a particular relevance within this context and that thus the ultimate question is how the site of the maternal body …


Western Culture And The Ambiguous Legacies Of The Pig, Benton Jay Komins Dec 2001

Western Culture And The Ambiguous Legacies Of The Pig, Benton Jay Komins

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In his paper, "Western Culture and the Ambiguous Legacies of the Pig," Benton Jay Komins provides a cultural lineage of the pig by the example and reading of Piggies by the Beatles. Komins observes that Piggies enacts the possibilities of the ubiquitous pig in Western culture by juxtaposing swinish antics with interpretations of limitation and heartbreak thereby forcing listeners to blur the distinctions between struggle, unrequited love, and boorishness. Komins continues his discussion by locating this juxtaposition within the Western pantheon of real, metaphorical, and imaginary animals, where the pig is noted to have obsessively endured. Komins argues that through …


Comparatist Postcolonial Studies: A Review Article Of Books By Coundouriotis, Matthews Green, Yeager, And Gould, Vautier, And Canadian Literature, Angeline O’Neill Dec 2001

Comparatist Postcolonial Studies: A Review Article Of Books By Coundouriotis, Matthews Green, Yeager, And Gould, Vautier, And Canadian Literature, Angeline O’Neill

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Aimé Césaire And Gestures Toward The Universal, Gary Leising Dec 2001

Aimé Césaire And Gestures Toward The Universal, Gary Leising

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In his paper, "Aimé Césaire and Gestures toward the Universal," Gary Leising argues that Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land presents a speaker struggling with his own identity, torn between a double consciousness of his black African heritage and his French-European education. This dichotomy appears in the poem in terms of his perceptions of his ancestry as well as in symbols of the masculine and feminine in the surrounding landscape. For the speaker, the African appears as the "real" around him, while the European is an "absent presence," and he confronts the two at the poem's climax, …


A Study On The Functions Of Minimalism In Three Contemporary Dramatic Texts, Nevine Shoukry Dec 2001

A Study On The Functions Of Minimalism In Three Contemporary Dramatic Texts, Nevine Shoukry

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Language, Vagueness, And Social Communication, Colin B. Grant Dec 2001

Language, Vagueness, And Social Communication, Colin B. Grant

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In his paper, "Language, Vagueness, and Social Communication," Colin B. Grant adopts an interdisciplinary approach to an interrelated complex of language, communication, and society. Grant operates with a modified concept of vagueness as a pragmatic property and attempts to establish a link between pragmatic vagueness and contingency in communication. This communicative contingency takes the form of improbabilities (entropy). Grant observes that the challenge lies in modelling communication as porous networks which nonetheless enable society to function. In this sense, contingency in communication must not be confused with arbitrariness just as cognitive closure cannot be confused with solipsism. This line of …


Morning, Sickling, Mark Harris Nov 2001

Morning, Sickling, Mark Harris

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Impact Of Irish Ireland On Young Poland, 1890-1918, John A. Merchant Oct 2001

The Impact Of Irish Ireland On Young Poland, 1890-1918, John A. Merchant

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

John. A. Merchant examines the impact of a contemporary cultural movement, Irish Ireland, on its Polish counterpart, Young Poland. He traces the reception of Irish literature in the form of translations of works by W. B. Yeats and John Millington Synge in Poland through translations by Jan Kasprowicz, Zenon "Miriam" Przesmycki and others as well as through a variety of cultural commentaries by Polish critics and by means of stage productions of Irish plays by theater directors, such as Tadeusz Pawlikowski.


Editorial: The Word, Gary Culpepper Sep 2001

Editorial: The Word, Gary Culpepper

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


The More In The Less: Notes On Shakespeare’S Sonnet 116, Tom D’Evelyn Sep 2001

The More In The Less: Notes On Shakespeare’S Sonnet 116, Tom D’Evelyn

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Divinely Revealed: The Qur’Ân And Non-Believers, Sandra Toenies Keating Sep 2001

Divinely Revealed: The Qur’Ân And Non-Believers, Sandra Toenies Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Inheriting The Revolution: The First Generation Of Americans, William E. Hudson Sep 2001

Inheriting The Revolution: The First Generation Of Americans, William E. Hudson

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Crosses In Cellars: Toward A Comparative Literature Of The Faithful, John R. Harris Sep 2001

Crosses In Cellars: Toward A Comparative Literature Of The Faithful, John R. Harris

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2001, Providence College Sep 2001

Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2001, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


From Latin To Romance Languages: Celtic Contributions, Paul R. Lonigan Sep 2001

From Latin To Romance Languages: Celtic Contributions, Paul R. Lonigan

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Blessed Words: Duality Of Language In Edwin O’Connor’S The Edge Of Sadness, James Silas Rogers Sep 2001

Blessed Words: Duality Of Language In Edwin O’Connor’S The Edge Of Sadness, James Silas Rogers

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Aquinas And Obedience To Authority, Sandra Jane Fairbanks Sep 2001

Aquinas And Obedience To Authority, Sandra Jane Fairbanks

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Bartolomé De Las Casas, The New Evangelization, And The Hispanicization Of The North American Church, Christopher J. Walsh Sep 2001

Bartolomé De Las Casas, The New Evangelization, And The Hispanicization Of The North American Church, Christopher J. Walsh

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Frontmatter, Providence College Sep 2001

Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


The Parisian Worlds Of Frédéric Chopin, Catherine Gordon-Seifert Sep 2001

The Parisian Worlds Of Frédéric Chopin, Catherine Gordon-Seifert

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


W. H. Auden: Lectures On Shakespeare, John F. Hennedy Sep 2001

W. H. Auden: Lectures On Shakespeare, John F. Hennedy

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Where Mathematics Comes From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being, Liam Donohoe Sep 2001

Where Mathematics Comes From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being, Liam Donohoe

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


The Creation Of The Modern World: The Untold Story Of The British Enlightenment, Donald Rohr Sep 2001

The Creation Of The Modern World: The Untold Story Of The British Enlightenment, Donald Rohr

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Martin Luther: The Christian Between God And Death, Thomas D. Mcgonigle, O.P. Sep 2001

Martin Luther: The Christian Between God And Death, Thomas D. Mcgonigle, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


The Promise Of Hermeneutics, Robert J. Randall Sep 2001

The Promise Of Hermeneutics, Robert J. Randall

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Notes On Contributors, Providence College Sep 2001

Notes On Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Mary Wollstonecraft, A Revolutionary Life, Deborah Johnson Sep 2001

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Revolutionary Life, Deborah Johnson

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.


Literary Careers: Breaks And Stalls, W. Ray Crozier Sep 2001

Literary Careers: Breaks And Stalls, W. Ray Crozier

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In his article, "Literary Careers: Breaks and Stalls," W. Ray Crozier argues that biographical evidence points to considerable individual variation in writers' output over the life span even when allowance is made for longevity and length of writing career. This issue has been neglected by psychological accounts of creativity. Crozier outlines a theoretical framework for understanding variation in terms of an "artistic career." This is conceptualised as a sequence of projects, the success of which are influenced by intra-project factors such as the rewardingness and difficulties of literary projects and extra-project factors such as work pressures, poverty, and competing demands …