The Bowmen of Mons and Mars

This paper examines the shared literary influences of Arthur Machen, author of 'The Bowmen & Angels of Mons' and Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Martian novels featuring John Carter. Both authors used the motif of phantom bowmen in their short stories and novels at a significant period during WW1

Edgar Rice Burroughs\u27 Martian Novels as an Early Paradigm of Racial Toleration

The Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) provide an early paradigm of racial toleration by displacing the heterogeneous race conflicts of the U. S. to an interplanetary location. There, the protagonist John Carter, representing Burroughs himself, introduces a level of racial acceptance and integration almost unheard of on the Earth of that era (the early twentieth century)

Villi Afrikka ja Tarzan

1910-luvun alussa Edgar Rice Burroughs oli, kuten niin monet kaltaisensa Yhdysvalloissa, perin pettynyt. Perinteiset miesten ammatit olivat kadonneet teollistuneesta yhteiskunnasta eikä miehisen miehen ominaisuuksia kaivattu toimistotöihin. Naisetkaan eivät pysyneet lestissään, vaan he vaativat jo kovaäänisesti oikeuksiaan ja osoittivat pystyvyyttään. Itseään viihdyttääkseen Burroughs alkoi kirjoitella todellisuuspakoisia mielikuvitustarinoita, joissa kaikki oli toisin. Syntyi tarina apinain kuninkaasta

Tarzan, un noir: Pour une critique de l’économie politique du nom «Afrique»

Depuis 1912, innombrables textes – romans, radio shows, bandes dessinées, séries de télévision, films – ont produit et articulé représentations de l’Afrique dans histoires dont le protagoniste est Tarzan, créé par l’étasunien Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). En prenant le nom « Afrique » comme référence, les textes qui orbitent et habitent le nom « Tarzan » appartiennent à une généalogie occidentale et à une histoire transculturelle. Après aborder l’économie de la marque « Tarzan ® » dans sa circulation globale, une description bref et schématique de la filmographie de Tarzan me permet d’interroger ce que j’appelle nomenclôture occidentaliste de l’« Afrique ». Finalement, par le moyen d’une lecture attentif de Moi, un noir (Jean Rouch 1959) comme un prisme à travers lequel la circulation globale de Tarzan peut être interprétée et réinventée, je suggère des possibilités de débordement imaginative, en ouvrant l’espacement transculturel de l’écriture de l’Afrique comme économie politique du nom « Afrique ». - Since 1912, countless texts – novels, radio shows, comic strips, television serials, films – produced and articulated representations of Africa in narratives which feature Tarzan, a character created by the US-American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Taking the name of ‘Africa’ as a reference, the texts which surround and inhabit the name of ‘Tarzan’ belong both to a Western genealogy and to a cross-cultural history. After addressing the economy of the trademark ‘Tarzan’ in its global circulation, a brief and schematic description of Tarzan’s filmography allows me to interrogate what I call the occidentalist name-in-closure of ‘Africa’. At last, by means of a close reading of Jean Rouch’s Moi, un noir (1959) as a prism through which Tarzan’s global circulation can be interpreted and reinvented, I suggest possibilities of imaginative overflow, opening up the cross-cultural spacing of the writing of ‘Africa’ as political economy of the name of ‘Africa’

Author recognition using Locality Sensitive Hashing & Alergia (Stochastic Finite Automata)

In today’s world data grows very fast. It is difficult to answer questions like 1) Is the content completely written by this author, 2) Did he get few sentences or pages from another author, 3) Is there any way to identify actual author. There are many plagiarism software’s available in the market which identify duplicate content. It doesn’t understand writing pattern involved. There is always a necessity to make an effort to find the original author. Locality sensitive hashing is one such standard for applying hashing to recognize authors writing pattern

Degeneration, Gender, and American Identity in the Early Fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs rendered a particular construction of womanhood as a remedy for national degeneration and neurasthenia. Progressive-era Americans like Burroughs wondered whether the developmental forces that shaped industrial society might also threaten the character and institutions upon which they believed American society and civilization functioned. Middle-class American observers worried that the character traits responsible for the rise of American greatness were undermined by that very success. In particular, they thought the demands of urban life resulted in neurasthenia, the loss of “nervous energy.” Burroughs employed the powerfully symbolic Pocahontas narrative to construct a vision of womanhood that offered the possibility of redeeming a degenerate and neurasthenic civilization. Burroughs’s construction of womanhood shares much with the traditional ideology of domesticity, yet at the same time challenged Progressive notions of femininity. Burroughs’s female characters are muscular and beautiful, aggressive and independent, and able to handle themselves in dangerous situations. For all of their independence, however, they ultimately perform the traditional roles of wife and mother. Burroughs women fulfill a domestic role, but their muscularity, self-assurance, and independence are seen as a panacea for the perceived problems of degeneration and neurasthenia, not as a threat to gender identity and roles

"Ich Tarzan.": Affenmenschen und Menschenaffen zwischen Science und Fiction

Im 19. Jahrhundert noch ein Skandalon, scheint die Vorstellung vom 'Affen in uns' heute eher faszinationsbesetzt. Die Soziobiologie und die Evolutionspsychologie reduzieren menschliches Verhalten auf ein genetisches Erbe aus der Evolution. Wohl keine Ikone der Populärkultur kündigte diese Wendung so plakativ an wie Tarzan, der von Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 erstmals in Szene gesetzte Affenmensch. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge in diesem Band orientieren sich an der seither in zahllosen Variationen repräsentierten Figur. Sie streben eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Diskursen um und den Bildern von Menschenaffen und Affenmenschen an

Freshman Summer Reading Display

Karen Joy Fowler’s latest work, We are all Completely beside Ourselves, is this year’s Freshman Summer Reading selection. Using this work as a foundation, a display of further research and leisure reading material has been set up in Cooper Library. The display will be up throughout the month of August and everything on display is available for checkout

Pattern Discovery of Sequential Symbolic Data using Automata with an application to Author Identification

Author Identification is the process of identifying a piece of text to ascertain if it has an inherent writing style or pattern based on a certain author. Almost all literary books can be accredited to a certain author since it has been signed. However, there also exist a plethora of unfinished books or manuscripts that could be attributed to a range of possible authors. For example, William Shakespeare has written many plays that have not been signed by him. In order to assess the importance of such texts that do not bear the authors signature, it could be vital to know who was the writer. I plan to solve this dilemma using the characteristics of finite state automata coupled with the ALERGIA algorithm

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2014

Table of Contents: From the Director: Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College (Robin Wagner); Popular Middle East Series Continues; Letter from Edgar Rice Burroughs Explains Origin of Tarzan\u27s Name; Library Celebration Owl & Nightingale\u27s 100th Anniversary (Chelsea Bucklin \u2710, Chris Kauffman \u2792, Elyse Bennett \u2710); Encore! Owl & Nightingale Players Take Center Stage at Homecoming (Paul Di Salvo \u2713, Chelsea Bucklin \u2710, Aliena J. (Fischer) Garnard \u2793, Kelsey Lamagdeleine \u2709, Sean Valentine \u2705); Research Reflections: Shakespeare Folio (Chris Kauffman \u2792); GettDigital- The Story Continues: Professor Visits Italy and Recreates WWII Photos (Alan Perry, Catherine Perry); Don\u27t Be Antisocial; Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Soldier Who Died at the Battle of Gettysburg; Civil War Correspondence Describes Pennsylvania Militia (Gabor Boritt, Bryan Caswell \u2715); An Imaginative Gift (Geoffrey Jackson \u2791); 19th Century Bell Adds to Library;s Historic Ambiance; Flag Reunites Ogden Family; Graduates\u27 Art on Exhibit (Danielle Janela \u2714, Rebecca A. Grill \u2714); Internet Outage Yields Abundant Harvest (Meggan Smith \u2704, Mallory Jallas); Summer Makeover at Library; Book Returned 19 Years Later!; Puppets Continue to Tell the Story of Asia\u27s Past (Georgeanna Knisely \u2754, Robert Hanson \u2739); Focus on Philanthropy: Friends Fund \u27Great Work\u27; Featured Endowment: Stephen J. Nelson \u2769 and Janet Cooper Nelson, Lou Hammann \u2751); What is the Highest Circulating Book in the Library?; Report of Library Gifts, July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014; Rare Works by Stephen Crane Donated (Geoffrey Jackson \u2791); Billy the Bullet (Mary Ann Shearer Craver \u2755); WWII Red Cross Volunteers on Campus (Ruthe Fortenbaugh Craley \u2750