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Translating Poetic Modernity : Zhou Zuoren's Interest In Modern Japanese Poetry = 翻譯詩歌中的現代性 : 周作人與日本現代詩, Frederik H. Green

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

No abstract provided.

Transition And Transformation : With Special Reference To The Translation Practice Of Eileen Chang In The 1950s Hong Kong = 過渡與變革 : 一九五○年代張愛玲等人在香港的翻譯實踐, Yifeng Sun

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

No abstract provided.

《文藝新潮》譯介現代主義詩作的選擇與取向 = A Study Of The Translation Of Modernist Poetry In Literary Current Monthly Magazine, Wai Ping Yau

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

No abstract provided.

Foreword = 前言, Yifeng Sun, Shuk Han Wong

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

No abstract provided.

馬家寶的寫實主義 : 左翼思潮與香港本土藝術 = Ma Jiabo's Realism : A Case Study On Hong Kong Art, Suk Man Law, Ni Na Ng

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

談到香港的本土藝術，焦點往往落在結合中西藝術思潮的藝術家和他們的作品之上。事實上，由六、七○年代的新水墨畫運動開始，至八、九○年代的香港雕塑和裝置藝術，到當今年輕一代的香港藝術家多元媒體的混合創作，他們的作品在融合中西藝 術元素之餘，亦貫注了香港獨有的素質，不難嗅出“本土”的氣味。在藝術創作上，“本土”的氣味在於藝術家在創作時強烈的“本土意識”通過形式表現在作品上而形成獨 特的“本土”特徵，焦點在作品的風格和內容的表現。本文所述的“本土”，焦點卻不在於風格而在於作品所承載的獨特歷史背景，這些作品看似毫無新意，細看卻能看出作品獨有的“本土”意義。

袁水拍和林以亮編譯的美國詩歌 = Yuan Shuipai's And Stephen Soong's Anthologization And Translation Of American Poetry, Zijiang Song

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

No abstract provided.

張愛玲劇本《魂歸離恨天》的文學翻譯和文化改編 = Literary Translation And Cultural Adaptation In Eileen Chang's Screenplay Wuthering Heights, Wenjing Li

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

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Sméagol Versus Gollum: The Bridge Between Fantasy And Reality: Applying Jungian Psychology To Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Courtney C. Randall

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

Many literary critics have observed Tolkien's work through biographical, allegorical, and source analyzing perspectives. Few scholars have considered the significance of Gollum. The complexity of Gollum is revealed through a Jungian lens and, although he is a fictional character, he may not be so far removed from reality. This character's split personality, as determined by the Ring, presents what could eventually become of man if he is not strong enough to resist that which has the potential to consume him. In other words, the worst version of the human condition is presented through Gollum and his internal conflict. He provides …

Sinking Your Teeth Into Popular Culture: Why Reading Twilight Could Kill You, Carolyn Eve Friedman

Honors Scholar Theses

A scholarly criticism of the themes and styles utilized in the popular series Twilight and their implications. Inspects the Twilight series incorporation of values and literary concepts commonly found in romance, young adult, and vampire literature in an attempt to understand the foundation of the series.

The Chess Players, Gerry A. Wolfson-Grande

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Originally conducted primarily as a game of war and strategy, chess has evolved to reflect historical developments in Western civilization as well as inspired literary and artistic endeavors in such a fashion as to provide comment, often as metaphor, on the human condition and our place in a cosmos influenced as frequently by chance as by order. The evolution of the game itself, particularly the promotion of a weak and relatively unimportant piece to the most powerful, at a time when a similar shift was taking place in the real world, ensured its survival as it served as an educational …

La Posthibdridez Fronteriza En La Narrativa De Heriberto Yépez, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas

Modern Languages & Literature

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The Uncertainty Of National And Cultural Identity In Salman Rushdie’S East, West And Midnight’S Children, Tress Klassen

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This project involves the examination of two works by Salman Rushdie: a short story collection, East, West and a novel, Midnight’s Children. Looking at these texts through a postcolonial lens, I analyze Rushdie’s writing in terms of its relationship to the academic debates of the period and the historical context that grounds the works. Throughout the paper, I analyze Rushdie’s portrayal of the relationship between culture, nationhood, and identity, while also focusing on different aspects of the works in the project’s two chapters. In the first, I examine the relationship between postcolonialism and magical realism in East, West, …

After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears And The English Political Novel, 1950-2010, Jackson Ayres

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010 gives a coherent account of the English political novel after World War II, a critical narrative absent from current scholarship. I contend that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a touchstone for political fiction, is underwritten by Orwell's conflicted attitude toward politics: despite embracing politics as the necessary means to genuinely improve people's lives, he also remained suspicious of politics' apparently inherent potential to diminish or even eliminate autonomy. Orwell's simultaneous attraction and vigorous resistance to politics, I argue, is tied to broader contemporaneous anxieties over political and cultural totalization. Such …

Intersections In Immanence: Spinoza, Deleuze, Negri, Abigail Lowe

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The connection between French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Italian political theorist Antonio Negri has drawn attention in academic publications over the last decade. For both thinkers, the philosophical concept of immanence is central to how both respectively conceptualize the world. However, in order to consider their work with regard to a metaphysical grounding, one may benefit from turning to each thinker’s engagement with Jewish Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza whose immanent ontology, or monism, was indeed his Ethics. This essay concentrates on drawing out an ontological distinction between the philosophical projects of Deleuze and Negri by way of a close reading …

James Joyce And Post-Imperial Bildung: Influences On Salman Rushdie, Tayeb Salih, And Tsitsi Dangarembga, Robert Michael Kirschen

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" functions as an axis around which writers from former British colonies--Salman Rushdie (India), Tayeb Salih (Sudan), and Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)--construct their own Bildungsromans. This nodal point is possible because Joyce's Bildungsroman represents a unique rendering of the genre which has proven useful for narratives of growth and development in newly independent nations. This dissertation focuses on a single narrative paradigm which acts as a common thread among the four authors. In each text (Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", Salih's "Season of Migration to the North", and Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions"), the use of …

No Greater Love: Recognition, Transformation, And Friendship In The Harry Potter Series, Stephen Parish

Masters Theses

Nobody today doubts the momentous influence the Harry Potter series has had on a generation of readers. Many scholars and critics assume Harry's place amongst other great works of children's literature, and indeed the series has brought about a revival in children's literature scholarship. Despite this popularity, many critics question the series' aesthetics, its attention to moral demeanor. Therefore, what element exists in Harry Potter that could enforce its aesthetic quality? Based on a rhetorical reading of the texts, my thesis upholds the aesthetic nature of the books through an analysis of the trio's friendship and and its impact on …

Life Inside The Spectacle: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, And Storytelling In The Age Of Entertainment, John Hawkins

Masters Theses

This project explores George Saunders's In Persuasion Nation and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest as interventionary literature. The thesis asserts that the two works confront the problems of isolation and dehumanization created by entertainment-based consumerism; they do so by depicting satirically exaggerated consumer societies and placing well-developed, sympathetic characters in those settings. The thesis includes a consideration of Jameson and deBord's theories of spectacle and Wallace's stated concerns with postmodern irony as an ineffective form of critique.

Spice Sisters: Religion, Freedom And Escape Of Women In African American And Indian Literatures, Lovely Koshy

Masters Theses

This thesis focuses on women in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Rabindranath Tagore's three short stories. Hansberry writes during a period in America when racism, segregation, and black migration to the North weighed heavy upon the psyche of black women. Tagore writes during a time when British control, sati system, caste system, and dharma leave Indian women voiceless. Both express their disagreement with entrenched norms and institutions that have been in place for hundreds of years, a task that initially may seem to be an impossible undertaking, and unlikely to bring about expected change. This work reveals …

Making Connections: Applying The Ap French Language And Culture Scoring Guidelines To Student Samples, Brian Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

No abstract provided.

Jest In Time: The Problems And Promises Of The Holy Fool In Francesco, Giullare Di Dio, Ordet, And Ikiru, Peter L. Doebler

Journal of Religion & Film

This paper is a study of Roberto Rossellini’s Francesco, giullare di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950), Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), and Carl Dreyer’s Ordet (1955) through the theoretical lens of the religious figure of the holy fool. First, I assert that each film employs a foolish character in order to critique the contemporary culture, particularly resisting modern attempts to soften or ignore extreme elements of Christian teaching, such as sacrificial self-giving for others or the hope of bodily resurrection. Second, I argue that the content of a fool character affects the film’s form, creating a subversive …

Horizons, Volume 28, Spring 2013, Sacred Heart University

Vistas (Horizons)

No abstract provided.

2013 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

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Openings, Spring 2013, Trinity Christian College

Openings

Visual Arts:  Infinitesimal by Sarah Jasperse - 3 / Greek Layouts by Melissa Conrad - 9 / Fruit Bowl by Jessica Timmermans - 12 / Vans Billboard by Danielle Truckenmiller - 16 / Spear Bearer and Aphrodite by Jonathan Engbers - 21

Literary Arts:  Conversations #1 (or planetary parallels) by Ethan Oliver Holmes - 1-2 / Luke by on composing a gospel by Bill Baerman-Cornell - 4-6 / Tiramisu by Vanessa Noonan - 6-8 / thoughts on a winter night by Sara Henreckson - 10 /  Journey to Heaven by Chad Westenbroek - 11 / A Picture is Worth a …

Pathos, Spring 2013, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Deena Anreise

Infanticide And The Anxious Silence Of “Language As Such”, Kevin Godbout

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

No abstract provided.

How Do You Build A Discipline From The Ground Up?, Robert H. Ellison

English Faculty Research

This is the keynote address delivered to the 21^st Annual WV undergraduate literary symposium, hosted by Marshall University on March 2, 2013. It presents a kind of "wish list" for scholars in sermon studies: we still need "a clear sense of the canon," places to "interact and network" with colleagues, and a dedicated journal "where scholars can publish their work." People working in other fields are fortunate in that they can usually take these things for granted, but sermon scholars still have some work to do to bring them to fruition.

Embracing Popular Culture’S Fascination With Mythology, Jeremy Larson

Pro Rege

Jeremy Larson presented this paper in a session for the Popular Culture Conference at Dordt College, November 3, 2012.

David Foster Wallace To The Rescue, James K.A. Smith

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

The Poet Resigns: Poetry In A Difficult World, Robert Archambeau

University of Akron Press Publications

What are we really wishing for when we want poetry to have the prominence it had in the past? Why do American poets overwhelmingly identify with the political left? How do poems communicate? Is there an essential link between formal experimentation and political radicalism? What happens when poetic outsiders become academic insiders? Just what makes a poem a poem? If a poet gives up on her art, what reasons could she find for coming back to poetry? These are the large questions animating the essays of The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World, a book that sets out to …

¡Viva La Vida!, Javier Villarreal

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.