The Cowl - v.78 - n.14 - Feb 6, 2014

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 78 - No. 14 - February 6, 2014. 24 pages

'Eastern' Elegy and 'Western' Epic:reading 'orientalism' in Propertius 4 and Virgil's Aeneid

This article explores the extent to which the genres of epic and elegy can be considered ‘occidental’ and ‘oriental’ respectively. Such a polarity is apparently constructed in the ‘epic’ and ‘elegiac’ movements of Propertius 4.1, but it is also progressively deconstructed in Propertius’ reception of Virgil’s Aeneid in elegies 4.1, 4.6 and 4.9. On the one hand, Propertius reads the Aeneid for its oriental components (e.g. the Phrygian immigration as viewed by native Italy ; its oriental ‘heroines’ : Dido, Cleopatra and, if the episode to which she lends her name is not an interpolation, Helen). On the other hand, Propertian elegy has for its part become more occidental (Propertius sings of maxima Roma and the Roman victory at Actium ; Cynthia is dead). In this way, Propertius shows that the narrative of elegy is no less bound up with occidental hegemony than that of Virgilian epic, and that elegy’s literary exoticism is, like Virgil’s intertextual appropriation of Greek literature, itself contingent on Roman imperialism

The Cowl - v.80 - n.9 - Nov 12, 2015

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 80 - No. 9 - November 12, 2015. 24 pages

Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays: a story of two dynasties or social commentary on a nation? Discuss with reference to Shakespeare’s texts and the BBC’s television productions from 1983 and 2016.

William Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays are often perceived as solely being about the Wars of the Roses. The texts, in particular 3 Henry VI, do follow the dynastic progression that leads to the Wars of the Roses, but their complexity means they are not just a story of the English line of succession. The presentation of the characters provides a social commentary, critiquing them both directly and indirectly. In the 1983 television productions, part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series, the social commentary is undercut by buffoonish humour, although the director was keen to alert viewers to the horrors of war. The 2016 versions, presented under the banner of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, brought the dynastic plot to the fore. By cutting subsidiary characters and storylines, it also vastly reduced the social commentary. However the director uses the texts to raise awareness of the impact of war, this time on the individual. In conclusion, the Henry VI plays provide both social commentary and a story of two dynasties, but the way they do this varies, depending on the way they are presented

Shakespeare's history plays: the family and the state

(print) xii, 261 p. ; 22 cmBased on the author's thesis, Harvard, l964Preface ix -- I. Introduction 3 -- II. The Henry VI Plays 35 -- III. Richard III 89 -- IV. King John 125 -- V. Richard II 149 -- VI. The Henry IV Plays 171 -- VII. Henry V 225 -- VIII. Conclusion 241 -- Index 25

1967-2016, celebrating 50 years of geoscience in the mid-continent guidebook for the 50th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, April 18-19, 2016

Field Trip 1: The Quaternary geology of the southern Chicago metropolitan area; the Chicago Outlet, morainic systems, glacial chronology, and Kankakee Torrent; Field Trip 2: Fluorite deposits within the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district and how they relate to the Hicks Dome cryptoexplosive feature, Hardin County, Illinois; Field Trip 3: Quaternary geology of the upper Sangamon River basin; glacial, postglacial, and postsettlement history; Field Trip 4: Provenance, age, and depositional mechanisms of the Grover Gravel; evidence for multiple erosion cycles, volcanic eruptions, and early glaciations; Field Trip 9: Project-based field trips to the Starved Rock area for geoscience educators, northern IllinoisOpe

Climate change refugia for the flora and fauna of England

A variety of evidence suggests that species have, in the past, been able to withstand the effects of climatic change in localised environments known as refugia, where specific environmental conditions acted as a buffer against broader-scale climatic changes. Therefore, an important question for conservation is whether refugia might exist under current and future anthropogenic climate change. If there are areas that are likely to remain relatively climatically stable and so enable species to persist despite climate change making surrounding areas unsuitable, identifying and protecting these places will be an important part of future conservation strategies. This report is part of a project that is investigating this question. The report was commissioned to identify the characteristics of potential refugia, to investigate evidence for the existence of contemporary refugia by analysing patterns of local persistence and disappearance of over 1000 species across a range of taxa, and to identify sites in England with the potential to function as refugia for different taxonomic groups at a range of spatial scales