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"Why Do They Always Send The Poor?": Antiwar Lyrics In Contemporary Rock, Amy Kepple Strawser

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This presentation focuses upon the impact of antiwar lyrics in contemporary rock and roll songs.

What's Fresh In Contemporary German Poetry? A Look At Two Of Today's Movers And Shakers, Amy Kepple Strawser

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This presentation examines the works of two contemporary German poets, Ursula Krechel and the Iranian-German poet known as SAID.

Review Of El Tren Pasa Primero, By Elena Poniatowska, Traci Roberts-Camps

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Fact Or Fable? Female Gender And Sexuality In Villedieu’S Histoires Allégoriques, Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

In many respects, the Fables ou Histoires allégoriques of Marie-Catherine Desjardins, more commonly known as Madame de Villedieu (1640?–1683), can be read in terms of the sexual politics of neo-classical France. Unlike many of her other works, the Fables serve in part as a defense and illustration of female presence and sexuality. A moral that emerges in the nine tales she classifies as “fables” is that the female gender proves as authoritative and as intelligent as the male and that female sexuality should be considered as natural and as legitimate as its masculine equivalent. In her dedication to Louis XIV, …

Theatre And The Rwandan Genocide, Marie-Chantal Kalisa

French Language and Literature Papers

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of genocide, or more precisely in French, “le théâtre du génocide” (theatre of genocide). Perpetrators and victims played their role while the rest of the world watched the “spectacle” live on television. Perhaps because of its spectacular aspect, the Rwandan genocide has inspired a number of artistic materials. In the last decade, we have indeed witnessed the growth of literary and artistic expression in relation to the Rwandan genocide. Survivors and witnesses have told their stories in books and songs. Journalists, as well as other travelers “to the end of Rwanda,” to use Véronique …

Cuando Vienen Matando: On Prepositional Shifts And The Struggle Of Testimonial Subjects For Agency, Alicia Partnoy

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Developing Teachers Who Are Reflective Practitioners: A Complex Process, Alcione N. Ostorga

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

Teachers everywhere are being held accountable for their professional actions through the test-driven curricula sweeping the nation. The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE, 2002) makes it clear that promotion of reflective practice is an important component of teacher education programs. This multiple case study examines the relationship between epistemic stances and reflective thinking using a set of theories and instruments that allowed for the analysis of these constructs. The participants' epistemic stances were examined through the use of instruments developed by Baxter-Magolda (1992) while the qualitative aspects of reflective thinking were examined through the use of …

Christa Reinig (1926-2008), Amy Kepple Strawser

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

The life and works of the contemporary German feminist lesbian writer Christa Reinig (1926-2008) are examined.

殖民地色彩用語的廢存 : 從「食皇家飯」說起, Hung Kai Lee

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies (1999-2006)

李榮主編，白宛如編纂的《廣州方言詞典》(南京：江蘇教育出版社，1998年）收「食皇家飯」一條，釋義為「指坐牢」（頁484)，祇作了非常簡單的釋義，並沒有說明意義的由來。我懷疑「食皇家飯」這個短語是受了香港粤語的影響。香港在一九九七年回歸祖國之前，長期受英國政府的殖民統治，當時香港人就習慣稱「港英政府」為「皇家」。鄭定歐編纂的《香港粤語詞典》(南京：江蘇教育出版社，1997年），收「皇家垃圾」一條，釋義如下：「指香港政府的剩餘物資。如退役的消防局的救火車、警隊的警車等。港府往往將這些剩餘物資與海關充公物品、郵局無人認領的包裹、市政署從無營業執照的小商販那裏沒收來的貨品，一併公開拍賣。買者被稱為『收垃圾集團』」（頁291)。吳開斌，《香港話詞典》(廣州：花城出版社，1997年）收「皇家工」和「皇家飯店」二條。其中「皇家工」條釋曰：「香港政府僱員」(頁278)，而「皇家飯店」條釋曰：「(謔）監獄，住在裏面可吃皇糧」（頁278)。此外，當時香港警隊的全名是「皇家香港警察」（Royal Hong Kong Police Force)。這些都足以說明「皇家」的用法在回歸前十分普遍。

Concept Map Used In Reading English As A Foreign Language At The University Level, Li Han

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined traditional reading instruction and concept mapping reading instruction using reading and survey data collected from English as Foreign Language (EFL) students in China. Its purpose was to investigate whether there was any difference between these instructional types in three reading areas: main idea reading, subordinate idea reading and reading between the lines. Forty first-year students were randomly chosen from two universities in Southwestern China. They were equally divided into the two instructional methods. Ten sets ofreading materials were used for a six-week period of the study. Concept mapping students were taught with concept mapping techniques and assessed …

Introduction To Viktoria Tokareva’S Life And Works, Lyubov Popov, Radha Balasubramanian

Russian Language and Literature Papers

Viktoria Tokareva, a well-known screenwriter, is also a famous contemporary short story writer in Russia. She began writing short stories and screenplays in the late 1960s and she has distinguished herself as a writer not only in Russia, but also worldwide. Her films have won awards, and her stories have been widely read and translated. She wrote before the break-up of the Soviet Union, when there was tight censorship and after “glasnost”, when the writers began to enjoy greater freedom. The country’s social and political turmoil is set as a vivid background to Tokareva’s portrayal of human beings and their …

Poética De Lo Soez: Luis Rafael Sánchez: Identidad Y Cultura En América Latina Y En El Caribe, Julio César Sánchez Rondón

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

La obra del escritor puertorriqueño Luis Rafael Sánchez ha sido estudiada desde diferentes ángulos críticos y perspectivas metodológicas. Ensayistas y académicos se han abocado al estudio de su obra, con el objeto de indagar sobre la visión que él tiene no sólo del arte narrativo, sino también acerca de su concepción política y social, su visión de la vida y del mundo que le rodea.

Una parte de esta crítica ha tratado de indagar sobre la situación histórica de Puerto Rico; país que ha soportado 400 años de colonialismo español, y que desde 1898, con la presencia norteamericana en la …

Literary Symbolism, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

As a school of literature, Symbolism refers to three phases of a vital part of the development of literary modernism: first to an artistic movement in France and Belgium during the last decade and a half of the nineteenth century; then, retrospectively and most importantly, to its immediate sources in French poetry beginning in the 1850s; and finally to the influence that both of these had on European and American literatures throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The designation then, had its original and official application to the second and, it must be owned, from a literary point …

English Or Spanish?! Language Accommodation In New York City Service Encounters, Laura Callahan

Modern Languages & Literature

Speech accommodation theory refers to an individual's adaptation of his or her speech to more closely approximate that of an interlocutor. A change to the interlocutor's language is one of the most obvious and observable forms of accommodation. Language choices are shaped by the linguistic proficiency of both speaker and interlocutor, the ingroup or outgroup status of each, and the situational norms for the setting in which an exchange takes place. Language choices in the workplace are further influenced by company policies and by the asymmetrical power dynamic in worker-customer interactions.

This paper reports on data from service encounters with …

Carolyn Forché (1950-), Amy Kepple Strawser

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This article provides a profile of the life and work of Carolyn Forché, an American editor, poet, translator, and teacher. Much of her lyrical poetry has been politically focused and frequently deals with themes related to human rights abuses and issues.

German Film Of The New Millennium: Innovation Vs. Nostalgia, Amy Kepple Strawser

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This presentation explores both conventional and innovative trends in contemporary German cinema.

‘Der Mensch Prüfe Sich Selbst ...’: Eine Predigt Nathanaël Köstlins Als Kontext Für Hölderlins Ersten Erhaltenen Brief, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

Wohl im Herbst 1785, kurz nachdem er von seiner Herbstvakanz in Niirtingen zur niederen Klosterschule in Denkendorf zurückgekehrt war, schrieb der funfzehnjährige Hölderlin einen Brief an seinen ehemaligen Pfarrer und Lehrer, den Nürtinger Diakon Nathanaël Köstlin (1744–1826). Es handelt sich um Hölderlins ersten erhaltenen Brief und den einzig erhaltenen Brief des Dichters an Köstlin. Die im Brief geäußerte Zuneigung und Verehrung, sowie der Wunsch, sich dem Pfarrer anzuvertrauen und ihn als Vater zu betrachten, deuten auf die Wichtigkeit dieses Verhältnisses für den jungen Hölderlin, das sich wohl erst während des täglichen Privatunterrichts bei dem Pfarrer zwischen seinem zwölften und vierzehnten …

Grammatica Avanzata Della Lingua Italiana: Chapter Seven, Roberto Tartaglione, Susanna Nocchi

Books/Book Chapters

Tutto quello che uno studente straniero dovrebbe sapere sulla lingua italiana e non ha mai osato chiedere! Grammatica avanzata della lingua italiana si rivolge infatti a studenti già in possesso di una buona conoscenza dell'italiano che vogliano perfezionare la loro competenza della lingua (dal livello B1 al livello C1 del Quadro Comune Europeo).

Presenta forme, costrutti sintattici, stilemi di livello medio e avanzato, anche della lingua parlata, molto diffusi ma generalmente poco trattati nei testi d'italiano per stranieri: quando e come usare l'articolo, la posizione dell'aggettivo, l'uso di parole particolari (anzi, magari, mica, addirittura, macché), l'alterazione dei …

Critiques Of The "Novela Rosa": Martín Gaite, Almodóvar, And Etxebarría, Debra J. Ochoa

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

At the end of the twentieth century, film director Pedro Almodovar (b. 1949), in La flor de mi secreto (1995), and writer Lucia Etxebarria (b. 1966), in Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, una novela rosa (1998), continue to analyze the novela rosa, a project begun by Carmen Martin Gaite in El cuarto de atrds (1978) and Usos amorosos de la postguerra (1987). Martin Gaite argues that women of her generation were victims of the Francoist ideology found in popular romance novels. Like many others, including Franco's own daughter Carmen, she received a limited education that did not allow women …

La Narrativa De Roberto Ampuero En La Globalizacion Cultural, Gioconda Marun

Modern Languages Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Another Look At Calderón’S El Príncipe Constante As Tragedy, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The forms and definitions of tragedy have been a frequent preoccupation for James Parr over the course of his distinguished career. One of his more influential articles was "El príncipe constante and the Issue of Christian Tragedy," published in 1986. Parr's approach was primarily ethical and formalist, dealing with the Aristotelian requirements of tragedy: areté, hubris, catharsis. He countered the long and distinguished scholarship that maintains that Christian tragedy is an impossibility by reconsidering, even redefining, hamartia and anagnorisis, and essentially ignoring peripeteia. Hamartia, in his reading, is much more than a flaw or an …

Defining The Comedia: On Generalizations Once Widely Accepted That Are No Longer Accepted So Widely, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Defining the comedia is a challenge that is rarely addressed directly in the pages of the Bulletin of the Comediantes. Those of us who spend our professional lives working with the plays that are brought together under this cover term have a visceral or intuitive understanding of what falls into the category of comedia and what lies outside of it. We are hardly exempt from having to articulate our definitions in concrete terms, however, because students, colleagues, and organizations to whom we write grants all want us to establish the limits, scope, and parameters of our field of study. …

La Fe De Don Quijote En La Perspectiva De Miguel De Unamuno, Kevin Fagan

World Languages and Cultures

No abstract provided.

Úrsula: Identidad Cultural Afro Y Crítica A La Situación De La Mujer En El Brasil De Mediados Del Siglo Xix, María Cristina Burgueño

Modern Languages Faculty Research

Ursula: Afro Cultural Identity and Criticism to Women’s oppression in Brazil at the middle of the 19th Century

Ursula (1859), by Maria Firmina dos Reis (Brazil, 1825-1917) is one of the Brazilian’s first novels. It is an abolitionist romance written from the author’s perspective as female of Afro descent. In the plot, the appeal of the love story is diminished by the account of actions and stories of the slaves. That account introduces a variety of issues such as race representation and Afro culture in Brazil, slavery, and gender oppression. This one is imposed on the female characters independently of …

Los Espacios Ideológicos En Carmen Baroja, Escritora Del 98, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En las memorias escritas por Carmen Baraja en 1946, tituladas, Recuerdos de una mujer de la generación del 98, se aprecian claramente las diferentes etapas que ella misma establece para su vida: la niñez, la juventud, la madurez y la vejez, y cómo siempre en todas ellas exceptuando en la primera y en la última hay uná dialéctica entre la realidad y la voluntad o el deseo. Esta oposición se vehicula a través del espacio: el privado, representado en las distintas residencias de la familia Baroja, y el público, que se materializa en el exterior del hogar. En este …

Review Of The Book : "What's Where" In Manchu Literature, Thomas W. Larsen

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

A review of the book "What's where" in Manchu literature by Giovanni Stary

Student Perceptions Of Native And Non-Native Speaker Language Instructors: A Comparison Of Esl And Spanish, Laura Callahan

Modern Languages & Literature

The question of the native vs. non-native speaker status of second and foreign language instructors has been investigated chiefly from the perspective of the teacher. Anecdotal evidence suggests that students have strong opinions on the relative qualities of instruction by native and non-native speakers. Most research focuses on students of English as a foreign or second language. This paper reports on data gathered through a questionnaire administered to 55 university students: 31 students of Spanish as FL and 24 students of English as SL. Qualitative results show what strengths students believe each type of instructor has, and quantitative results confirm …

Rulfo En Donoso: Comala Y El Olivo Como Espacios Infernales, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En 1965 José Donoso viaja a México para un simposio, a instancias de su amigo Carlos Fuentes. El salir de su país, Chile, y encontrarse con un nuevo espacio y con una gran diversidad de escritores supuso un cambio importante en su quehacer como narrador. Llevaba un tiempo obsesionado con lo que después sería su novela El obsceno pájaro de la noche, pero por entonces no era capaz de plasmar en papel las ideas que flotaban en su mente. Además, se sentía atrapado en Chile, donde no disponía de muchos momentos para dedicarse a su obra, ya que era …

El Mar Y La Pared: El Exilio Histórico Frente Al Exilio Existencial En La Poesía Final De Ernestina De Champourcin, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

La guerra civil española (1936-1939) tuvo como consecuencia en el ámbito cultural vasco el exilio de muchos intelectuales, tanto de ideología nacionalista como republicana. Sin embargo, ésta no era la primera vez en la que el pueblo vasco se veía obligado al alejamiento de su tierra, ni tampoco la última, aunque fue la ocasión en que más personalidades de la esfera de la cultura partieron hacia otras latitudes. San Miguel y Ascunce diferencian dos momentos migratorios vascos en torno a la guerra: uno anterior a 1936, debido a razones laborales, y otro posterior a 1939, causado por la situación política. …

The Closest Reading: Creating Annotated Editions, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Teaching old literature of any kind to undergraduates is a challenge. The language is difficult, the themes often lack resonance for today's students, and the cultural references are abstruse. When one adds to the mix that the works are in an archaic version of Spanish, not the native language of most students in the United States, and that the plays are written in florid, baroque poetry, the task of helping students to appreciate the Spanish comedia for its literary value is made considerably more demanding. A great many students simply do not understand what is going on with the plots …