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Agency And Political Engagement In Gide And Barrault's Post-War Theatrical Adaptation Of Kafka's The Trial, Yevgenya Strakovsky

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Agency and Political Engagement in Gide and Barrault's Post-war Theatrical Adaptation of Kafka's The Trial" Yevgenya Strakovsky considers the political themes of André Gide and Jean-Louis Barrault's Le Procès (The Trial, 1947), the first theatrical adaptation of Franz Kafka's Der Prozess (The Trial, 1914). Strakovsky demonstrates that Le Procès, written and staged in the immediate aftermath of World War II, levels a critique against the passive complicity of citizens in unjust persecution in both its script and its staging. The paper also considers the elements of Kafka's prose that lend themselves to …

Timeline Of Fr. Frank Sierra, Hall & Monagle, Llc

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El Español De Canarias Y La Canariedad En La España Autonómica: Un Estudio Glotopolítico, Pablo Guerra

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In this dissertation I intend to analyze the abundance of discourses about the Spanish from the Canary Islands from the 1980’s to present day. I have identified two key processes that are part of the consolidation of an autonomous field of reflection on language in the Canary Islands: the development of descriptive studies of the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands carried out in the Department of Spanish Language at the Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife) during the first twenty five years of democracy in Spain, as well as the creation of the Canarian Academy of Language in the year …

Bodies Of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender In The Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation considers the genres of historiography, romance, hagiography, Chaucerian poetry, and court transcripts. While there are no extant manuscripts depicting transgender-like people’s accounts of themselves, literature of the Middle Ages is replete with fictionalized depictions of ambiguously or transgressively gendered individuals who are meant to symbolize or represent something other than themselves. By investigating how a variety of genres depicts sensationalized and transgressively gendered embodiments, I examine the presentation of transgender-like subjectivity as a manipulation of rhetoric. Viviane Namaste critiques theory such as Marjorie Garber’s Vested Interests, claiming that it reduces the transvestite figure to a rhetorical trope …

Liberal Translations: Secular Concepts, Law, And Religion In Colonial Egypt, Jeffrey Culang

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation is a conceptual history of Egypt’s national formation between the 1880s and the 1930s. This period involved the convergence of nationalism, colonial rule, missionary activity, and new modes of governance at the national and international levels. Drawing on state and missionary archival material, periodicals, legal compendia, laws, and parliamentary transcripts, and adapting methods developed by Reinhart Koselleck, I trace shifts within Egypt’s socio-political lexicon through processes of translation and demonstrate their effects upon social experience and political aspiration. I focus on a set of liberal-secular concepts critical to national politics—religious freedom, public interest, nationality, and the minority—as they …

Never Forgets: Traumatic Trace Within Public Space, Jan Descartes

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This paper will interrogate the ways in which ephemera from events affects the human and non- human environment and how the absence, manipulation or presence of traumatic trace weaves itself into the atmosphere of the past, present and future. It will look at space and the ways that trace manifests itself in hierarchal spaces and Lebbeus Woods’ concept of heterarchial spaces, which are organic and/or horizontally organized. A thread throughout is the question that if trace from trauma can exist in the visual field, i.e. the physical or digital landscape, in a way that maintains a discourse without perpetuating oppression. …

The Politics Of Shorter Hours And Corporate-Centered Society: A History Of Work-Time Regulation In The United States And Japan, Keisuke Jinno

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Shorter working hours drew much attention as a means of fighting unemployment and crisis in capitalism during the first half of the twentieth century. Nowadays, shorter work-time is rarely considered a policy option to fix economic or social issues in the United States and Japan. This dissertation presents a history of work-time regulation in the United States and Japan to examine how and why its developments and stalemate took place.

In the big picture, developments of work-time regulation during the first half of the twentieth century were a part of concessional modifications of class relations, a common phenomenon in many …

When Old Age Changed: Inventing The "Senior State," 1945-1975, Benjamin Hellwege

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation asks why public assistance at the federal level in the United States has become significantly oriented towards the needs of older Americans since the New Deal era. It argues that in effect the United States has developed an old age welfare state – a “senior state,” in other words, which has sought primarily to protect the economic status of older Americans, and that the creation of this “senior state” represents the end-point of a long-term project by social reformers, organized labor, and old age advocacy organizations over the course of the second half of the 20th century to …

Spectacular Politics And Everyday Performance: Tracing Music From Ceauşescu’S Romania To Multicultural America, Benjamin Dumbauld

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Drawing from fieldwork conducted throughout the United States and Canada, this dissertation examines the continued performance of socialist-era music within the Romanian-American community. It addresses why a community largely made up of people who sought to leave the country during the authoritarian regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu continue to perform music tied to that period by tracing the historical performance and reception of multiple genres, ranging from traditional peasant music to folk rock. The dissertation begins by examining the nationalization of Romania’s music industry under the early socialist regime (1944-1965), and locates the difficulties Communist Party members confronted in delineating a …

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 04, August 31, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Trail Blazer Bound Volumes & Loose Issues, 1941-2012, Department Of Communication, Media & Leadership Studies

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Account Ledgers, 1924-1966, Office Of Budgets And Financial Planning

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Identity Behind Glass: The Second Gore Place Greenhouse, Sean P. Romo

Graduate Masters Theses

This thesis examines the second greenhouse at Gore Place, a historic country estate in Waltham, Massachusetts. Gore Place was owned by and named for Christopher and Rebecca Gore, members of the 18th- and 19th-century political and economic elite in New England. The greenhouse was constructed in 1806, and excavation at the site took place in 2004, 2008, and 2012. The latter two projects were data recovery excavations, which exposed portions of the greenhouse’s foundations and interior, as well as several features in the yard surrounding the building. Historic greenhouses were prestigious structures, financially accessible only to institutions, governments, and the …

120mm And 4x5 Inch Photographic Negatives Collection, 1930-1973, Communications & Marketing Office

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Department Office Files, 1962-2009, University Library

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 01, August 29, 2017, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Revisiting Fredericksburg: Using Provocation To Explore New Questions, Jonathan Tracey

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

To Freeman Tilden, provocation was an essential ingredient to effective interpretation, and I tend to agree with that idea. Both my walking tour at the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center and the interpretive exhibits at Chatham Manor utilize provocation in different forms, with different challenges and opportunities. Overall, the atmosphere of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park is one that supports and encourages provocative thinking by visitors.

Guide To The Sherwood Community Music School, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Sherwood Community Music School archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. The Sherwood Music School opened in 1895 and has served as a degree-granting institution for musicians, a hub for the students of music distance education, and a community music school offering lessons and programs for musicians of all ages.

Guide To The Columbia Chronicle Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Columbia Chronicle collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. The Columbia Chronicle is the student newspaper of Columbia College Chicago.

Guide To The Alumni Magazine Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Alumni Magazine collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. The Alumni Magazines are published by the Office of Alumni Relations and have acted as newsletters for Columbia College Chicago's alumni, staff, faculty, and students since the 1950s.

Guide To The Robert Enrietto Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Robert Enrietto archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Robert Enrietto (1941-2003), an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago, spent over three decades working in the motion picture industry as a production manager, assistant director, set designer, and producer.

Guide To The Nena Ivon Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Nena Ivon archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. At age 17, Nena Ivon was promoted to Assistant Fashion Director of the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Chicago and later became the Director of Fashion and Special Events for forty years. She began teaching in the Fashion Studies program at Columbia College Chicago and works extensively with Fashion Columbia.

Guide To The Archie Lieberman Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Archie Lieberman archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Archie Lieberman (1926-2008) was a photographer for magazines, advertising, and corporations.

Guide To The William Russo Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the William Russo archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. William "Bill" Russo (1928-2003) was a composer, conductor, musician, teacher, and author; he was also the founder of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble at Columbia College Chicago, the founder and Director of Chicago Free Theater, and the director of High School Jazz Festival.

Guide To The Richard C. Heyser Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Richard C. Heyser archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Richard C. Heyser (1931-1987) was a pioneer in research relating to audio and acoustic measurement techniques.

Guide To The Phi Sigma Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Phi Sigma archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Phi Sigma is a social organization which was founded in 1878 in Chicago, Illinois and is dedicated to oratory and public speaking.

Guide To The Clyde Caswell Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Clyde Caswell collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Clyde Caswell (1909-1958) was a radio pioneer in the 1940s and 1950s whose on-air name was Jim Christie. He also served as the head of the Columbia College Radio Department and later, as Dean of Students at the College.

Guide To The Youth Communication Chicago Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Youth Communication Chicago archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Youth Communication Chicago is an non-profit organization established in 1976 to foster the art of journalism among urban minority high school students.

Guide To The Gallery 312 Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Gallery 312 archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Gallery 312 was founded in 1994 by Lewis S. and Anne Neri Kostiner as a nonprofit art organization at 312 North May Street in Chicago, Illinois, focusing on the development of local artists and exhibiting works by local and international artists alike.

Guide To The Cheryl Johnson-Odim Anti-Apartheid Collection, College Archives & Special Collections

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This guide describes the organization and scope of the Cheryl Johnson-Odim archival collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. An element of the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, the Cheryl Johnson-Odim Collection is comprised of materials related to Dr. Johnson-Odim’s time as a community activist.  View additional online content from the Cheryl Johnson Odim Collection and the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection from the links.