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Wild Men : Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America – Book

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The Pocket Guide to Digital Photography – A Pocket Guide to Digital Photography – Single Copy

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This pocket-friendly guide contains everything you need to take the photographs you’ve always dreamed of! Covering everything from explaining what all the buttons, dials and wheels on modern cameras are for, to teaching you the secrets of good exposure and composition, this book is guaranteed to demystify the daunting world of digital photography. If you’ve always dreamed of taking stunning digital shots, this is the perfect MagBook to help you achieve this!

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Vintage Modern Knits – Book

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Inspired by traditional knits, up-and-coming designers Kate Gagnon Osborn and Courtney Kelley put their own contemporary spin on knitting in Vintage Modern Knits.Vintage Modern Knits features several different traditional techniques-cables, Fair Isle, lace, colorwork, and more- all showcased in modern, luxurious projects that are fun to knit and even more fun to wear. Divided into three sections (Vintage Feminine, Rustic Weekend, and Winter Harbor), Vintage Modern showcases tailored lines, close fit, and easy-to wear style. These classic, yet contemporary projects are sure to enhance any knitt

Modern Solar Facilities – Book

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An international workshop entitled: Modern Solar Facilities Advanced Solar Science was held in Gõttingen from September 27 until September 29, 2006. The workshop, which was attended by 88 participants from 24 different countries, gave a broad overview of the current state of solar research, with emphasis on modern telescopes and techniques, advanced observational methods and results, and on modern theoretical methods of modelling, computation, and data reduction in solar physics. This book collects written versions of contributions that were presented at the workshop as invited or contributed

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Modern Painters is the definitive international source for analysis of contemporary art and culture – from painting and sculpture to photography, film, architecture, design and performance. Visually dynamic artwork with fresh, incisive writing that is above all accessible.

Modern Patchwork – Issue

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Enjoy 148 pages packed with patchwork inspiration! Modern Patchwork is filled with fabulous gift ideas, exciting home-décor projects, items to enhance your cooking and dining experiences, plus totes and bags of all sorts! Explore 37 original contemporary patchwork projects made in the latest fabrics and celebrate the modern revival of patchwork with projects featuring a fresh aesthetic.

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Published for over 45 years, Modern Railways has earned its reputation in the industry as an established and highly respected railway journal. It is essential reading for professionals in the railway industry as well as individuals with a general interest in the state and developments of the British railway network. Providing in depth coverage for all aspects of the industry, from traction and rolling stock to signalling and infrastructure management, Modern Railways carries not only the latest news but also analysis of why those events are happening.

American Modern – Book

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Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O’Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles—from casual to formal, vintage to urban—alongside stunning photography and charming design stories.

Glamour: Making it Modern – Book

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Michael Lassell and the editors of Metropolitan Home define the attitude, elegance and confident seduction that is Glamour. Featuring over 200 stunning color photos from the pages of Met Home, the book represents some of the best interior designers and architects working today and includes a directory and list of resources for available products. Glamour, Making it Modern is purely inspirational and absolutely accessible.

The Great War and Modern Memory – Book

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The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell’s landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blu

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Modern Painters is the definitive international source for analysis of contemporary art and culture – from painting and sculpture to photography, film, architecture, design and performance. Visually dynamic artwork with fresh, incisive writing that is above all accessible.

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Modern Painters is the definitive international source for analysis of contemporary art and culture – from painting and sculpture to photography, film, architecture, design and performance. Visually dynamic artwork with fresh, incisive writing that is above all accessible.

!Oye Esteban! [DVD]

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!Oye Esteban! collects 18 music videos from the King of Manchester Mope, Morrissey. The former singing star of the Smiths is featured prominently in a majority of the videos. He visits the hometown of his idol, James Dean, for “Suedehead.” “November Spawned a Monster” sees him frolicking pensively in a desert, wearing a see-through shirt and an adhesive bandage over a nipple. His ode to the Kray brothers “The Last of the Famous International Playboys” finds the modern bard lip-syncing in an all-green room. He drives a convertible across California with his band in “My Love Life,” which features gorgeous black-and-white cinematography. “Sing Your Life” repositions Morrissey as a suave doo-wopper. He smirks passionately and stalks a steadicam-mounted camera as he promenades through an old city’s back alleys in “Tomorrow.” Videos that don’t feature Morrissey find an odd array of characters promoting animal rights, looking depressed, or performing any of a number of actions that our hero condones. The Warner Reprise DVD edition is fitted with pristine PCM sound, and all of the shine with vibrant, high-resolution color. A subtitle/lyrics mode makes for a quick-and-easy karaoke session. The camera obviously and absolutely loves Morrissey, and Moz fans will fall head over heals in love with this fine retrospective of videos. It’s a package that drips with a style and grace that would make Morrissey proud. ~ Tim DiGravina, Rovi

De preclaris mulieribus, that is to say in Englyshe, Of the ryghte renoumyde ladyes. Translated from Bocasse, …

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT098559In: ‘The literary museum’, 1792.London : printed for the editor, and sold at no.62, Great Wild-Street; by Mess. Egerton; Mess. Cox and Phillipson; R. Ryan; H. D. Symonds; and W. Richardson, 1789. viii,8p. ; 8°

India’s Prisoner: A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886-1946

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Edward John Thompson—novelist, poet, journalist, and historian of India—was a liberal advocate for Indian culture and political self-determination at a time when Indian affairs were of little general interest in England. As a friend of Nehru, Gandhi, and other Congress Party leaders, Thompson had contacts that many English officials did not have and did not know how to get. Thus, he was an excellent channel for interpreting India to England and England to India.Thompson first went to India in 1910 as a Methodist missionary to teach English literature at Bankura Wesleyan College. It was there that he cultivated the literary circle of Rabindranath Tagore, as yet little known in England, and there Thompson learned of the political contradictions and deficiencies of India’s educational system. His major conflict, personal and professional, was the lingering influence of Victorian Wesleyanism. In 1923, Thompson resigned and returned to teach at Oxford.Interest in South Asia studies was minimal at Oxford, and Thompson turned increasingly to writing Indian history. That work, and his unique account of his experiences in the Mesopotamian campaign in World War I, supply a viewpoint found nowhere else, as well as personal views of literary figures such as Robert Graves and Robert Bridges. Thompson was also a major influence on the work of his son, E. P. Thompson, a modern historian of eighteenth-century England.This important biography covers politically significant events between Thompson’s arrival in India and up to his death, and casts considerable light on Thompson and his struggles with his religion and his relationship with India. The first biography of E. J. Thompson, "India’s Prisoner" will have widespread appeal, especially to those interested in South Asian and English history, literature, and cultural history.

Thou shalt not steal. The school for ingratitude: a comedy, in five acts. Presented – to a manager of Drury-Lane, in March 1797: … Second edition.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++Source Library: British LibraryESTCID: T064439Notes: Attributed to Fisher. The preface accuses Frederick Reynolds of having stolen his play ‘Cheap living’ from this comedy. The imprint includes the phrase “Printed for – the curious in literary – shall we say – ? coincidence!”. Apparently a reissue of the sheets of the first edition, with a new titlepage. The date is given as 1801 on the binding.Imprint: London : to be had of J. Bell, [1798?]. Collation: [3],vi-xxix,[2],x-xvi,[2],83,[1]p. ; 8°

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”A kind of thing that might be”: Toward a poetics of new media.

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This dissertation examines new media by taking as its starting point the definition offered by Lev Manovich, “the shift of all culture to computer culture”—new media are new not so much because they have not existed before but because they must adhere to the conventions of a computer. Media, according to Manovich, become programmable, and in their new programmability, along with a host of other implications and repercussions of that programmability, we human beings experience something new. Articulating that something remains no easy chore, and Manovich continually makes his case that “the language of new media” much resembles the language of that older medium, cinema. However, to nod in agreement with Manovich is not the present task; instead, I take Manovich and place his notion of new media in direct dialogue with rhetorical theorists Aristotle, Plato, Kenneth Burke, Barry Brummett, Jeffery Walker, Michel Foucault, and other writers and thinkers in order to pursue a portion of that “shift of all culture”: I ask, “If new media has a language, what is the poetics of that language?” In order to pursue an answer to this question, I take individual new media objects—the film Saving Private Ryan; the video game Medal of Honor: Frontline; the computer worm MyDoom; the media coverage of the 1996 presidential campaign trail, including the “Dean Scream”; the SanDisk’s cooperation with the Alzheimer’s Association’s “Take Action against Alzheimer’s” campaign; the film The Manchurian Candidate; and the modern database—and analyze how they make meaning. In order to do this, I frequently reach back into antiquity, specifically into the early and predisciplinary areas of philosophy, rhetoric, and poetics.

”A revolution in Christian morals”: Lambeth 1930-Resolution #15. History & reception.

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Resolution #15 of the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference, issued a qualified acceptance of artificial birth control use in marriage. Little of substance has been written on this topic, yet many scholars would agree that it is a watershed event in the history of Christian moral thinking. Prior to Lambeth 1930, Christian moral tradition consistently opposed any interference with the God-given natural fecundity of the nature of conjugal relations. Lambeth 1930 officially ended that unanimity. This dissertation represents an attempt to tell that story.;Part of Resolution #15′s story includes an examination of the messages of the early phases of the modern sexual revolution. This sub-theme, unforseen at first, emerges throughout the Anglican bishops’ discussion on birth control. The messages of the early phases of the modern sexual revolution are a source of anxiety and even motivation to competently address what they called “the changed world.”;The dissertation is divided into two sections. Part one treats the historical context with its primary focus on the messages of the early phases of the modern sexual revolution. It contains three chapters. Chapter 1 summarizes the post-World War I era. Chapter 2 treats the changing attitudes about sex and marriage among the middle and upper-classes. Chapter 3 examines the modern birth control, population and eugenics movements. Throughout this section the focus is on the United States and Great Britain because it would be activists from these two nations who led the West in promoting the messages of the modern sexual revolution especially as seen in the spread of birth control. Part two provides the story of Lambeth 1930′s Resolution #15. Chapters 4 and 5 reconstruct the Conference debate on birth control. Chapter 6 covers the analysis of the ensuing public debate. A conclusion reflects on the ramifications of the decisions made on that hot August day in 1930.

”And sympathy unites, whom fate divides”: Reading and social bonds in early America.

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Early American authors were profoundly interested how the integration of reading and sympathy could function as a model for social relations. The authors examined in this project: Benjamin Franklin, William Hill Brown, Phillis Wheatley and Catharine Maria Sedgwick all used their fictional and semi-fictional alternate realities to attempt to stretch the existing social framework toward the directions in which they hoped to see the political and social discourse of early America expand. Relying upon their understanding of reading as an agent for social change, these authors conceptualized a national identity as well as advanced models of how different individuals could become a part of a connected web which constitutes a cohesive national fabric. Sympathetic literacy was a means by which early Americans could gain individual agency, but authors argued that agency should be checked with social reason to minimize the potential for social fragmentation. Yet political and economic pressures, as well as internal ambivalence about their own advocacy, sabotaged their ability to embrace a diverse society in the modern sense. Despite their sometimes striking failures, these authors’ projects should not be dismissed as an example of the increasingly strong drive to declare a singular American identity. Instead, the early American community’s struggle to reconcile pluralism even while it desired a unified identity holds productive avenues for modern discussions of pluralism.

”Dalle sponde del tebro alle rive dell’adria”: Maria Mancini and Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna’s patronage of music and theater between Rome and Venice (1659–1675).

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This dissertation explores the patronage of music and theater of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna, husband and wife and members of one of the most illustrious and ancient Roman families, in the diverse socio-cultural contexts of Rome and Venice (1659-1675). While I examine the Colonna’s support of the most celebrated composers, poets, musicians, singers, and impresarios of their time (Chapter One), I also discuss two of the most compelling, and at the same time neglected aspects in the broad field of music patronage studies.;One of the overarching themes of this dissertation is the relationship between the long-established court patronage system of Rome and the nascent “business” of commercial opera theaters in Rome and Venice. The Colonna’s involvement with the world of Venetian public theaters during the 1660s, which is most evident in the ways they influenced impresarios’ decisions concerning the casting and recruiting of singers and the repertory to be performed, shows that the interaction and overlap between “private” and “public” worlds of opera at this time are more substantial than we used to believe (Chapter Two). After their engagement with the public theaters of Venice, the Colonna played a crucial role in the enterprise of the Teatro Tordinona, the first commercial opera theater in Rome, by shaping its repertory with Venetian-style operas by composers they had protected while in Venice (Chapter Three).;My dissertation is also one of the first studies in musicology to consider the relationship between two patrons of music who were husband and wife and who interacted so closely as did Maria and Lorenzo Onofrio. In Chapter Four I consider Maria Mancini’s sponsorship of public events in the context of the restrictions imposed on married women’s visibility and ability to express themselves in the conservative early-modern Roman society and argue that patronage could deftly and productively serve women’s social and intellectual needs. My discussion

”Diametrically [un]opposed”: More’s ”Utopia” and English labor policies.

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This thesis argues that Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) critiques measures that England took to manage the mobile poor during the late medieval and early modern periods. Facing perceived and actual threats of vagrancy and idleness, England implemented policies between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries that closely monitored, labeled, and restricted the movement of poor bodies. Examining parallels between English labor laws and Utopian practices reveals an ideology in both nations that values economic stability over individual freedom and desire. I first consider the dehumanizing effects of physically labeling mobile bodies through methods such as badging, branding, and public corporal punishment. Second, I discuss the ways in which surveillance arrangements transform charity and community from models of cooperation to ones of discipline. Finally, I argue that labor patterns in Utopia construct a lifestyle, characterized by psychological unsettledness and the disruption of families, which resembles that of England’s mobile laborers. By linking a problematically “ideal” island with English labor laws, More ultimately exposes England’s ethical failure to recognize its citizens as individuals, with legitimate social attachments, who deserve to have control over their own bodies.

”El recreo de los amigos.” Mexico City’s pulquerias during the liberal Republic (1856–1911).

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By 1909, Mexico City had a little more than 720,000 inhabitants, 250 schools, and almost 1,000 pulquerias-drinking establishments serving pulque, a fermented beverage made of the maguey plant. Today, pulquerias have almost disappeared; but just a century ago, people enjoyed gathering there. Since their beginnings in the 1530s, pulquerias became an integral part of the life of Mexico City’s inhabitants. These taverns offered pulque to take out, but far more importantly, a space where men and women drank, talked, danced, and enjoyed themselves as a part of their daily social life. These spaces represented an important place in the city’s lower-class culture and daily life. In this dissertation, I explore the social and cultural development of these businesses. I focus my discussion on the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century when there was a constant effort of making of Mexico a modern nation like England, France, or United States.;Under the influence of liberalism, authorities increasingly sought to control the behavior of the population, especially in the public arena with the goal of creating hardworking and moral citizenry. They saw pulque as the core of social evils, and pulquerias, as centers where inebriated urban masses abandoned their daily routine, procrastinated, and fought. Consequently, authorities strictly regulated schedules, facilities, and all activities taking place in pulquerias. Patrons and owners resisted those regulations in different ways; especially customers, through their everyday practices, developed a vigorous and multi-faceted response to the processes of modernization. Within these places, alcohol consumption fostered an environment of free interaction and gave men and women a platform in which they could demand and contest explanations about the behavior of their neighbors, partners, and coworkers. Their discussions and fights prove to be significant to the understanding of the regulation

”From every shires ende”: Chaucer and forms of nationhood.

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Despite Geoffrey Chaucer’s longstanding reputation as the English nation’s first writer, his relation to the problem of nationhood has just begun to receive extensive critical attention. This dissertation clarifies the nature of Chaucer’s national imagination by drawing on recent developments in postcolonial critique, in particular the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. It argues that Chaucer’s concept of nationhood relies on his engagement with internationalism. It argues further that Chaucer finds the first possibilities for the concept in vernacular language and popular access to British history. The latter characteristically involves anachronism, a tool which, paradoxically, Chaucer uses to reshape the two fundamental components of his national ideals: sovereignty and domesticity. Chaucerian nationhood predates modern nationalism, but they cannot be divorced. The dissertation argues that nationhood can be better understood by comparing historically disparate forms.;The first chapter surveys nationhood’s place in Chaucer’s reception history. Chapter two considers his relation to thinkers like Dante, Marsilius of Padua and Nicole Oresme, and fourteenth-century politics. Chapter three argues that by imagining England as a national homeland in the Canterbury Tales’ General Prologue and frame narrative, Chaucer uses nationhood to understand why people participate in political community even when its costs outweigh its benefits. Chapter four exposes tensions between the Knight’s Tale’s imperial and national ambitions. Chapter five presents the Man of Law’s Tale and the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale as complementary facets of the Matter of Britain. In its reading of the Man of Law’s Tale, English national sovereignty depends on anachronistic misreadings of Islam. Chapter five then argues that the Wife of Bath amends the Man of Law’s conception of sovereignty, rendering it a cross-class, cross-gender affair that extends expectations of love and continuity

”Gliding through our memories”: The performance of nostalgia in American musical theater.

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American musical theater reverberates with both idealized and ironic representations of the past, with complex forms of unthinking, reassuring nostalgia and self-conscious anti-nostalgia. The American past, as the dominant setting for what is often called a uniquely “American” art form, becomes the vehicle whereby individual musicals both glorify and problematize American culture and values. At the same time, musical theater as a whole is riddled with either appreciation for or disaffection with the “golden age” inaugurated by Oklahoma! (1943). Musical theater needs its ghosts—the nostalgic memories of performances, tropes, and past icons—to reconfigure and fill in gaps in communal memory.;Methodologically, this study seeks to unify an archive fragmented between libretti, cast recordings, sporadic records of past performances, and traces of critical responses. One of the reasons for the persistence of nostalgia with American musicals is its fragmentary archive. Musicals perform a narrative through an articulation of prose, verse, music, and dance; none of these elements can be ignored in understanding a particular show. Study of each musical as a performative whole elucidates the contradictory ways in which nostalgia is performed.;This study examines the work of both nostalgia and anti-nostalgia in seven plays. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! has often been mistaken as a purely nostalgic work, although contemporaries conceived and appreciated it as a modern production redefining “musical theater.” David Henry Hwang’s 2002 revisal of one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s last musicals, Flower Drum Song, is compared to its original incarnation (1958), revealing two attempts not only to make musical theater relevant in a changing American culture, but also to look back to the musical comedies that Oklahoma! helped to overturn. The non-narrative revue format of Stephen Sondheim’s “anti-musical” Assassins (1991) displays the most resistance toward the golden age

”Indians in the house”: Revisiting American Indians in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ”Little House” books.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s eight-novel Little House series, published between 1932 and 1943, is among the most acclaimed and controversial examples of modern children’s literature. The narrative tells the true story of Wilder’s pioneer childhood in the 1870s and 80s, including her family’s encounters with American Indians. Recently some scholars have argued that Wilder’s depiction of American Indians is derogatory, but examining Wilder’s literary devices and contextualizing the story in the eras in which it occurred and was written about reveals a more complex portrayal of Native themes. Biographical information about Wilder suggests that she deliberately crafted her story as she recorded it; such changes afforded opportunities to emphasize her political values and critique mythology associated with America’s frontier era. Analyzing the narrative in the context of frontier Kansas, and more specifically as women’s frontier literature, reveals the literary uniqueness of the Little House story and highlights fallacies inherent in the premise of Manifest Destiny. As Wilder recorded her memories with the help of her well-known libertarian daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, during the Depression they often emphasized their anti-New Deal politics and cautioned readers about the dangers of buying into “big government” policies. The Little House story also reflects trends of the Golden Age of children’s literature which demonstrated respect for children by removing didactic lessons from the literature; thus the Little House texts present the controversial subject of America’s frontier history in a manner that allows children to draw their own conclusions about it. Finally, two television versions of the Little House story present didactic, positive lessons about American Indians on the frontier, but diminish the possibility for multiple interpretations of the events inherent in Wilder’s original story. In a non-fiction article in The Missouri Ruralist in 1920, Wilder reminded her

”Just another one of God’s gifts”: Prince, African-American masculinity, and the sonic legacy of the eighties.

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The popular recording artist Prince is known for his ability to fuse musical styles considered mutually exclusive on the basis of race—funk and new-wave, R&B and hard rock. Prince has also made a name for himself by moving between different identities—sexual savant, devout man of god, androgynous sprite—a strategy that fit the 1980s, an era of shifting identity politics. This dissertation expands on previous scholarly work, which has claimed Prince as a quintessentially “post-modern” figure, by showing how his music manifests a history of the struggle for African-American self-representation. As an artist well versed in American pop history and deeply engaged with the black church, Prince was bringing the liberatory strategies of African-American culture to bear even as he de-constructed gender and sexuality. This dissertation takes a fresh approach to the question of music and identity: by analyzing Prince’s music with an ear for particular genre references, I present a snapshot of racial politics, music, and American society during a time period that few scholars have yet addressed. Musical genre is the discursive arena in which popular musicians navigate identity and history, and in each of my chapters I have focused on how Prince manipulates genre references, taking instrumental idioms as the signifiers of genre and identity. My introduction considers Prince’s use of the guitar, a “white” rock instrument; chapter one deals with keyboard synthesizers, and how Prince blended R&B horn idioms with new-wave music; chapter two discusses the relationship between funk drumming and black identity, exploring Prince’s symphonic transformations of the funk and his ambivalence to hip-hop. Chapter three connects Prince’s vocal styles to gospel music and the cosmology of the black church; and chapter four details how Prince re-integrated horns into his music, engaging with jazz and R&B as a way to reclaim black musical history. In its blend of musicology,

”Rise to thought”: Augustinian ethics in Donne, Shakespeare, and Milton.

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This dissertation considers the development of an ethics stemming from the Augustinian revival of early modern England, and the subsequent effect of this ethics on the literary culture of the period. The Preface claims that religious and textual communities operate according to a “cultural mobility” that eludes conventional neo-historicist approaches to literary culture, and Paul Ricoeur’s aphorism, “the symbol gives rise to thought,” serves as a model for thinking through this mobility. Augustinian ethics is a cultural phenomenon in the period, because people are thinking about Augustine, giving new life to his works through their own expressions of thought. After exploring the ways in which the Augustinian revival was brought about during the early modern period in the Introduction, one such expression of thought, John Donne’s relationship with early modern print culture, is examined in Chapter One. Following the theoretical outline of Augustine’s Christianization of Ciceronian rhetoric in his De Doctrina Christiana, it is suggested that though Donne’s aversion to the print publication of his poetry may have begun as a result of his “gentlemanly disdain” of the press, it ultimately found its sustenance in the form of an Augustinian ethic. Chapter Two examines the possibility of a metaphorical acquisition of Augustinian hermeneutics in the metadrama of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This hermeneutics ultimately calls into question the epistemological framework of Theseus’s skeptical aesthetics, suggesting that a more inclusive aesthetics based on charity can elevate the stage to its proper dignity. The last chapter turns from the communal implications of Augustinian ethics to its subjective implications by examining Augustine’s inner light theology and the role it plays in John Milton’s late poetry. Instead of falling in line with criticism that sees the simultaneous publication of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes as a dialectical meditation on the virtues of

”Syncretisms” for wind quintet and percussion: A study in combining organizational principles from Southeast Asia with Western stylistic elements.

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Syncretisms is an original composition scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and marimba (2-mallet minimum, 4 recommended) with an optional percussion part requiring glockenspiel and chimes, and has an approximate duration of 6 min. 45. sec. The composition combines modern western tuning, timbre, and harmonic language with organizational principles identified in music from Southeast Asia (including music from cultures found in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia).;The accompanying paper describes each of these organizational principles, drawing on the work of scholars who have performed fieldwork, and describes the way in which each principle was employed in Syncretisms. The conclusion speculates on a method for comparing musical organizational systems cross-culturally.

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