Tragedy, Loss, and Memory: The Use of Rhetoric in Making and Marking a Site

How can architecture relate to sites of tragedy and loss by serving as an artifact disinterred, reminding a society of an important and forgotten event in its cultural history? I use rhetoric to understand the meaning of sites as they respond to a specific tragic moment. The site\u27s physical objects and narratives influence the formation of the architecture in this thesis. I am interested in the rhetorical implications of the scene setting in post-modern plays, which open an interaction between actors and audience. This interaction functions through an abstract method of visualization, one we can use as architects to understand a site. Architects can use this methodology in the design process to provide opportunities for people to participate with the continuation and evolution of the site\u27s narratives of tragedy and memory

Learning from the Past : The Women Writers Project and Thirty Years of Humanities Text Encoding

In recent years, intensified attention in the humanities has been paid to data: to data modeling, data visualization, ?big data?. The Women Writers Project has dedicated significant effort over the past thirty years to creating what Christoph Schöch calls ?smart clean data?: a moderate-sized collection of early modern women?s writing, carefully transcribed and corrected, with detailed digital text encoding that has evolved in response to research and changing standards for text representation. But that data?whether considered as a publication through Women Writers Online, or as a proof of the viability of text encoding approaches like those expressed in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines?is only the most visible part of a much larger ecology. That ecology includes complex human systems, evolving sets of tools, and a massive apparatus of documentation and organizational memory that have made it possible for the project to work coherently over such a long period of time. In this article we examine the WWP?s information systems in relation to the project?s larger scholarly goals, with the aim of showing where they may generalize to the needs of other projects

Geoffrey Keating, William Thomas, Raymond Williams, and the Terminology of Folklore: 'Bealoideas' as a 'Keyword'

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Of Rectangles and Centuries. A History of the Use of a Garden Pattern from Romanesque Europe to Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Settlers of New Orleans brought with them ideas of gardens that influenced the way they shaped gardens in the colony. Although the influence of those ideas has been acknowledged in studies of New Orleans gardens, specific connections between the ideas and gardens in New Orleans have not been made. To illuminate some of those connections, this study focuses on one garden pattern — a composition of long, rectangular planting beds -- that is common to at least fifty gardens in New Orleans and to European gardens dating from the ninth century. A developmental history that chronicles the use of the garden pattern from ninth-century Europe to nineteenth-century New Orleans is constructed and used to show that the group of New Orleans gardens which contain the pattern can be identified as a distinct garden tradition. In the past New Orleans gardens containing long, rectangular beds have been grouped with other gardens containing geometric garden patterns and have been described with such terms as formal, French formal, or parterre. This study shows that the use of long, rectangular beds predates the development of formal and parterre gardens and suggests that through the more careful use of such terms it is possible to identify other traditions of gardens in New Orleans that also have connections to European ideas of gardens

From Vernacular to World Heritage

This publication brings together the results of the project 3DPAST: Living and virtual visiting European World Heritage, co-funded by the Creative Europe EU programme. The research highlighted the exceptional character and quality of living in vernacular dwellings found in World Heritage sites. This was possible by seizing the cultural space of European vernacular heritage, located in Pico island (Portugal), Cuenca town (Spain), Pienza (Italy), Old Rauma (Finland), Transylvania (Romania), Berat & Gjirokastra (Albania), Pátmos (Greece), and Upper Svaneti (Georgia). New digital realities grant the possibility to visit and to appreciate those places, to non-travelling audiences, who lack the opportunity to experience this unique heritage in situ. Creative potential is highlighted in 3D models and digital visualisations, which associate outstanding local knowledge with the vernacular expression of World Heritage

Cross-Cultural Reception in the Western Yuri Fandom; Assimilationist and Transcultural Readings

This thesis analyses the response to the yuri genre within Anglophone online fan communities. The Yuri genre, dealing with same-sex intimacy between women across a range of media such as manga, anime and games, has been experiencing major growth throughout the past decades, and as with other Japanese media has acquired a fan community in Anglophone spaces, who both produce interpretations of yuri in fan spaces such as forums and new works identified as ‘yuri’ by the creators and community. In this thesis I will analyse how these communities and creators have received the genre and their cross-cultural response to it. I analyse this reception from two angles: firstly focusing on the readings of Japanese yuri in the online fan community itself, represented primarily by the site Dynasty Scans, and secondly on the aforementioned yuri Western texts, in particular several major releases in the visual novel medium, Heart of the Woods, A Summer’s End, and Love Ribbon

False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992)

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Historic Inscriptions of the Northern Plains: Identity and Influence in the Residual Communication Record

During the 19th and 20th centuries, emigrants on the Northern American Plains engaged in a communication behavior that left messages carved, incised, and painted onto the physical landscape. Often mingling with indigenous pictographs and petroglyphs known as rock art, the emigrants\u27 messages are called historic inscriptions and exist in the form of names, dates, text, and ideographs. This information referred to here as residual communication represents archaeological evidence of individuals and groups who influenced and transformed environments and histories in the American West. The goal of this dissertation is to examine historic inscriptions on the Northern Plains to explore how these communication elements convey individual identities, group identities, and cultural values during a period of sudden and drastic transitions in the region. This dissertation research asserts that historic inscriptions are an unexplored cultural resource that can provide information about topics such as cultural identity, the importance of self, and are literal signatures of colonialism via superimposition atop Northern Plains rock art. While many publications have examined the intricacies of rock art, this dissertation is the first of its kind to systematically examine the data potential of historic inscriptions on the Northern Plains as a cultural resource

Metal/Emo Music and Their Effect on Millennials in the United States

The goal of this paper is to understand the relationship between two related genres and a generation. Both genres have different interpretations, some catharsis, and others self-destruction. Finding modern and historical evidence of a need for sad music revealed a need for music that empathizes with a person’s current state. These genres did have the potential to engage in self-destruction, however, it was found this was due to external factors far more than the cause itself. When music is involved in destructive behavior it gives the individual permission to do so, rather than be the motivator towards it. As art was rarely the driving factor, the evidence that lives could be helped or invited to violence, research was required to understand this relationship. Interviews were conducted with four individuals who fit the criteria necessary to give data that applied to the demographic of millennials from the United States. It was found that findings based around the music being largely beneficial with exceptions only extending to unique or extreme circumstances gave credibility to prior findings. To best understand then where these extreme circumstances could potentially change the impact of music from positive to negative a chart was drawn and created to give a numerical template. Giving individuals deeper understanding of musics ability to help them, and what to look for in media that may permit destructive acts