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Mitificar Con Los Escombros De Las Desmitificacions, Marianella P. Machado Apr 2011

Mitificar Con Los Escombros De Las Desmitificacions, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

En el onton de 1996, asisti a un seminario sobre Antonio Buero Vallejo, dictado por Patricia O'Connor en la Universidad de Cincinnati. Al final de una de las sesions del seminario, O'connor me dio un ejemplar de Mito: libro para una opera, obra escrita por Buero en 1967.


El Concepto De Textura Musical Aplicado A La Poesia Contemporanea, Marianella P. Machado Jan 2011

El Concepto De Textura Musical Aplicado A La Poesia Contemporanea, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

La palabra textura generalmente es usada para describir percepciones tactiles, visuales y auditivas. La textura tactil se percibe al tocar la superficie de un objeto y sentir su aspereza o suavidad.


Aspectos Estructurales Y Formales Comunes A La Creacion Poetica Y Musical En Mozart: Quinteto Para Clarinete Y Cuerdas En La Mayor De Jose Emilio Pacheco Y Reflejos De La Noche De Mario Lavista, Marianella P. Machado Jan 2010

Aspectos Estructurales Y Formales Comunes A La Creacion Poetica Y Musical En Mozart: Quinteto Para Clarinete Y Cuerdas En La Mayor De Jose Emilio Pacheco Y Reflejos De La Noche De Mario Lavista, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

Si en algo han de ser comparables la musica y la poesia, es en cuanto a la creacion de la forma. En Mozart: Qunteto para clarinete y cuerda en La mayor de Jose Emilio Pacheco tanto com en Reflejos de la noche de Mario Lavista, el proceso creativo que ambos creadores utilizan nos lleva a definir los aspectos de composicion que dichas artes comparten.


Whatever Happened To Jane's Baby? Still Another Examination Of 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Barbara Szubinska Jan 2008

Whatever Happened To Jane's Baby? Still Another Examination Of 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Barbara Szubinska

English Faculty and Staff Research

Despite all the critical ink spilled over Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic story, one complex question still persists in college classroom and critical journals: what is the precise condition of the story's narrator and why is the baby presented in such a cursory manner?


Keeping Mason's 'Shiloh' C.R.I.S.P., Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2008

Keeping Mason's 'Shiloh' C.R.I.S.P., Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

English Faculty and Staff Research

As Kansas foreshadowed for us in "Dust in the Wind" (1978), "nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky." This past year the two of us have transitioned from teachers into our new roles as co-directors of the university's Teaching & Learning Center, but we have still spent a lot of time in the classroom-as observers. One of our unit's services is assessing the classroom presentation of instructors, especially that of new faculty, and we have been overwhelmed by one major pedagogical problem shared by over 90% of the teachers. In short, no matter the discipline, a common problem stands …


Using Knowledge Surveys And Tests To Teach Literature: Do We Assess And Make Asses Of Ourselves, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2008

Using Knowledge Surveys And Tests To Teach Literature: Do We Assess And Make Asses Of Ourselves, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

English Faculty and Staff Research

Even before the end of the twentieth century, literature teachers were under a great deal of pressure to join the assessment movement, but recently the screws have been tightened, this time by the federal government through the six regional accrediting agencies.


Una Interpretacion Del Ritmo Poetico En Mester De Lejania De Pedro Lastra, Marianella P. Machado Jan 2008

Una Interpretacion Del Ritmo Poetico En Mester De Lejania De Pedro Lastra, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

En Metrica Espanola, Tomas Narro Tomas dice ques "el espanol ha enriquecido las experiencias de su versificacion mediante el cultivo del ritmo". Tal afirmacion pone un enfasis supremo sobre el ritmo como conductor principal en la creacion de un poema.


Modeling The Writing Assignment On Literature, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Oct 2007

Modeling The Writing Assignment On Literature, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

English Faculty and Staff Research

Charlie has been teaching his junior-level American Lit Survey II for 36 years, but last summer after reflecting on the course with Hal, he decided to try a new way of teaching students to write. He set up critical writing communities in his class and then he created one for himself in order to model a particular writing skill.


Composition And Analysis Of Music Using Mathematica, Marianella P. Machado, Christopher W. Kulp, Dirk Schlingman Jan 2007

Composition And Analysis Of Music Using Mathematica, Marianella P. Machado, Christopher W. Kulp, Dirk Schlingman

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

In this paper we demonstrate how to create and analyze musical compositions using Mathematica. In §1, we begin by demonstrating how to create a musical composition for an orchestra based on the butterfly curve using traditional means. In §2, we then show how a computer generated piece based on any curve can be composed using Mathematica. Finally, in §3, we show how Mathematica can be used to analyze musical compositions using the methods from nonlinear time series analysis.


La Interpretacion De La Musica Contemproranea Vista Como Un Sistem Complejo, Marianella P. Machado Jan 2007

La Interpretacion De La Musica Contemproranea Vista Como Un Sistem Complejo, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

A partir del siglo XX, la creacion musical se ha enriquecido con una gran diversidad de tecnicas, multiplicidad de medios y facilidad de recursos expresivos.


What Do We Really Want To Teach In Alice Munro's 'Walker Brothers', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Jan 2006

What Do We Really Want To Teach In Alice Munro's 'Walker Brothers', Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

English Faculty and Staff Research

No matter how long or often we teach a course, in order to keep ourselves fresh, to provide a challenge, and to adapt to the shifting academic environment, we like to change the syllabus. Next semester, to include more contemporary and non-USA Americans in our Introduction to American Literature II survey, we're adding Alice Munro's "Walker Brothers Cowboy."


Reflexiones Sobre La Relacion Poesia-Musica, Marianella P. Machado Jan 2005

Reflexiones Sobre La Relacion Poesia-Musica, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

A lo largo de la historia de la cultura universal es posible apreciar que la poesia y la musica siempre han estado muy intimamente unidas.


Una Lectura Musical De Registro De Roberto Picciotto, Marianella P. Machado Jan 2004

Una Lectura Musical De Registro De Roberto Picciotto, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

Desde na primera lectura de la poesia de Roberto Picciotto es posible darse cuenta de la intensa y profunda carga musical que habita en sus poemas.


The Mini-Casebook--Easy As Pie, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe Apr 2003

The Mini-Casebook--Easy As Pie, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

English Faculty and Staff Research

Presents a casebook on the song "American Pie" that considers how to define the parameters of short narrative. Describes the creation of an end-of-term cumulative writing project that the authors have successfully employed for the last decade. Discusses how they put together a casebook that teaches the necessary research skills.