Post-Revolutionary Effects: Political Self-Education Of Tunisian Youth,
2011
SIT Study Abroad
Post-Revolutionary Effects: Political Self-Education Of Tunisian Youth, Erica Zarlenga
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Tunisia is a country with a rich and diverse historical and cultural background that has absorbed many ideas from western thought into its political and educational systems. For many years, the Tunisian “Republic” had the appearance of a government similar to Western democracies, yet the president’s actions were very far from those of a democratically elected president. The flaws in former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Ben Ali)’s government in addition to sweeping unemployment and underdevelopment were the factors which led to the major uprising that became the Tunisian revolution. Although the revolution was a great symbolic victory for …
#Reformjo: Jordanian Tweets For Social Reform,
2011
SIT Study Abroad
#Reformjo: Jordanian Tweets For Social Reform, Megan Daily
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
What can be said in 140 characters or less? During what has been dubbed the “Arab Spring”, Twitter has been heralded as the catalyst that sparked revolutions. Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and others have utilized this microblogging site to express opinions, share links, and inform the world what is happening. In the past few months, the number of Jordanians on Twitter has risen sharply. During the course of my research, I aimed to discover if there were “elite users”, people whose opinions had more weight or significance in this dialogue as the Twitter community tends to develop with a distinct …
“Instead Of Growing Under Her Heart, I Grew In It”: The Relationship Between Adoption Entrance Narratives And
Adoptees’ Self-Concept,
2011
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Instead Of Growing Under Her Heart, I Grew In It”: The Relationship Between Adoption Entrance Narratives And Adoptees’ Self-Concept, Haley Kranstruber, Jody Koenig Kellas
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
Adoptees are partially or entirely disconnected from those involved in their birth stories, so adoptive families create adoption entrance narratives to fill that void. Scholars assert that these narratives impact adopted child well-being later in life, but that assumption has yet to be empirically tested. The goal of this study was to examine themes emerging from adoption entrance narratives (n = 105), and to then determine the impact of story content on adoptees’ self-concept. Seven themes emerged: openness, deception, chosen child, fate, difference, rescue, and reconnection. Results indicate the salience of the chosen child, negative reconnection, and difference themes …
Kurosawa, Akira (1910-1988),
2011
Bucknell University
Kurosawa, Akira (1910-1988), James Mark Shields
Other Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Ozu, Yasujirō (1903–1963),
2011
Bucknell University
Ozu, Yasujirō (1903–1963), James Mark Shields
Other Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Miyazaki, Hayao (1941–),
2011
Bucknell University
Miyazaki, Hayao (1941–), James Mark Shields
Other Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Mizoguchi, Kenji (1898-1956),
2011
Bucknell University
Mizoguchi, Kenji (1898-1956), James Mark Shields
Other Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Art As Propaganda In Nazi Germany,
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Art As Propaganda In Nazi Germany, Brianna Louise Dinsmore
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
Tropologies Of Tradition And (Post)Modernity In Nwagwu's Forever Chimes,
2011
Pan-African University of Lagos
Tropologies Of Tradition And (Post)Modernity In Nwagwu's Forever Chimes, James Tar Tsaaior
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Tropologies of Tradition and (Post)modernity in Nwagwu's Forever Chimes" James Tar Tsaaior explores Mark Nwagu's novel and postulates that the author succeeds in constructing a novelistic universe both concrete and fluid in its re-invention or re-fabrication of cultural traditions and identity formation processes. This universe is simultaneously traditional/indigenous and (post)modern. However, rather than to delineate these cultural formations through difference as oppositional categories, Nwagu suggests grounds for multicultural interactions and transactions. In this cultural schema, none of the cultures claims exclusive preserve or pre-eminence over the other as what exists is a democratic space for the …
Science Fiction And A Rhetorical Analysis Of The 'Literature Myth',
2011
Ghent University
Science Fiction And A Rhetorical Analysis Of The 'Literature Myth', Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert, Geert Vandermeersche
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In their article "Science Fiction and a Rhetorical Analysis of the 'Literature Myth'" Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert, and Geert Vandermeersche discuss what we can learn from science fiction about cultural literacy in general and literary culture in particular. From a theoretical and methodological perspective the authors start from the work of rhetorician Kenneth Burke. First, the authors conceptualize literature as "equipment for living" followed by a discussion of science fiction as "equipment for living" based on a description of the genre as "satire by entelechy." Second, they analyze a selection of science fiction narratives using the "dramatistic pentad" as …
Ideologies Present In World War Ii Era Pulp Magazines,
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Ideologies Present In World War Ii Era Pulp Magazines, Joshua Taylor Farris
Communication Studies
This article discusses the ideologies present in World War II era pulp magazine covers. An overview of ideological criticism, its use, contributors, and application is presented. This paper covers themes of patriarchy, women's portrayal in the covers, and superior race ideologies in the magazines.
Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, And Transnational Literacy,
2011
Dongguk University
Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, And Transnational Literacy, Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article, "Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, and Transnational Literacy," Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee explores the juncture of comparative literature, globalization and postcolonial studies as to how creative writers, literary critics, and cultural theorists respond to globalization and its challenges. Arjun Appadurai expounds that globalization has demanded new research conceptualization and invention in academia. Subsequently, Lee investigates methods through which educators and scholars in comparative literature take up such a demand. In turn, Lee proposes a transnational literacy which offers a responsible form of cultural explanation, through which to explore the interrelations between the national and the postcolonial or global paradigms, both …
Motherhood In African Literature And Culture,
2011
Covenant University
Motherhood In African Literature And Culture, Remi Akujobi
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Motherhood in African Literature and Culture" Remi Akujobi analyzes the place and the role of women in African Religion and tradition and also interrogates the place of Motherhood in the production, circulation and consumption of items in African tradition. Akujobi examines Motherhood as a sacred as well as a powerful spiritual component of the woman's life. Emphasis is put on literary discourse where motherhood is a recurrent theme, where motherhood is also a lifelong commitment. The article particularly explores motherhood as a discourse in African women creative efforts. A key intention of the article is to explore …
Osundare's Poetry And The Yoruba Worldview,
2011
University of Lagos
Osundare's Poetry And The Yoruba Worldview, Christopher Anyokwu
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Osundare's Poetry and the Yoruba Worldview" Christopher Anyokwu analyses the use of Indegienous Yoruba concepts found in Niyi Osundare's texts. Anyokwu postulates that Osundare appears to combine in his work concepts and traditions of Yoruba culture and Marxist ideology which, as Anyokwu argues, locates Osundare with other revolutionary-minded radical poets such as Pablo Neruda, Octovio Paz, Nicolas Guillén, Agostinho Neto, or Okot P'Biteke. Further, Anyokwu argues that a major aspect of the sources of Osundare's work, this perspective has either been under-theorized or examined only superficially in the critical corpus of Osundare's texts. Anyokwu both analyzes and …
Gender Performance In The Literature Of The Female Beats,
2011
University of Ulster
Gender Performance In The Literature Of The Female Beats, Gillian Thomson
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Gender Performance in the Literature of the Female Beats" Gillian Thomson examines the re-negotiation of gender boundaries within Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters and Hettie Jones's Drive poems; secondary to this is how the male Beats demonstrate a more concrete, dichotomous version of such gender categories. Thomson intend to demonstrate how the women often write themselves into Beat history and how their revised performance of gender modifies the normative tropes regarding females within the Beat enclave. The theoretical backdrop focuses on how language not only records or expresses reality, but also shapes it. This is a decidedly poststructuralist …
Early Twentieth-Century Fashion Designer Life Writing,
2011
University of British Columbia
Early Twentieth-Century Fashion Designer Life Writing, Ilya Parkins
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Early Twentieth-century Fashion Designer Life Writing," Ilya Parkins examines memoirs of major modernist fashion designers in the, finding that the genre is characterized by a strong geographic cleavage between France and America, overlain by perceptions of epistemic difference. She compares Elsa Schiaparelli's and Paul Poiret's work, finding that despite their differences, the opposition between France as a locale of abstract knowledge and America as a site of empiricism allows them to claim, as French designers, a certain privilege in a profession characterized by an unresolvable tension between art and commerce. The encroachment of American industrial models in …
Two Traumas One Aesthetic In Walsh's Operación Masacre And Kaufman's The Laramie Project,
2011
Pennsylvania State University
Two Traumas One Aesthetic In Walsh's Operación Masacre And Kaufman's The Laramie Project, Henry James Morello
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Two Traumas One Aesthetic in Walsh's Operación Masacre and Kaufman's The Laramie Project" Henry James Morello analyzes the stylistic similarities of Walsh's and Kaufman's texts. Walsh's 1957 testimonio Operación masacre was written as a response to the politically motivated violence perpetrated by the military government after the overthrow of Juan Perón, specifically the kidnapping and murder of a group of men thought to be Peronist sympathizers. In 1998 Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project created The Laramie Project, a play about the reactions of the people of Laramie to the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, …
Echoes Of Sophocles's Antigone In Auster's Invisible,
2011
University of Hong Kong
Echoes Of Sophocles's Antigone In Auster's Invisible, Kathleen Waller
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible" Kathleen Waller discusses Paul Auster's Invisible, a novel that explores Deleuze's and Guattari's ontological idea of becoming in a virtual world versus merely living in the actual, physical world. Sexual and immortal desires in the protagonist's virtual world show a near achieved nothingness, or "a space which is unlimited" and filled with the being's energy, and a being who is becoming, a "univocal being" as a "free spirit" of energy. However, because these desires are only realized through a repression, Auster asks us not to go as far …
Children's Literature In South-East Europe,
2011
University of Ljubljana
Children's Literature In South-East Europe, Milena Mileva Blažić
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Children's Literature in South East Europe" Milena Mileva Blažić begins with an introduction to Maria Nikolajeva's 2000 book From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature in which a theoretical framework of thematics is defined, systematized, and categorized. Nikolajeva's framework for children's literature suggests attention to characteristics through which the maturation process of becoming adult is accomplished. Following the introduction and application of Nikolajeva's concepts, Blažić first applies the frame to selected texts published in South-East Europe, followed by lists of children's book published in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
Chekhov As A Founder Of The Comedy Of A New Type,
2011
University of Pennsylvania
Chekhov As A Founder Of The Comedy Of A New Type, Vera Zubarev
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Chekhov as a Founder of the Comedy of a New Type" Vera Zubarev discusses Chekhov's innovations within the framework of general systems thinking and the predispositioning theory. To this end, the notion of the positional style is used as a subject of systems analysis. Zubarev postulates that Chekhov's innovative style signified a new era of thinking now known as systems thinking. The main principles of the style correspond to those offered by the positional style in chess speedily developed at the time Chekhov worked on his stories and plays. Chekhov's reconstruction of the comedic genre had nothing …
