Making Love: Love Magic in Medieval Romances

This study considers the functions of love magic and the authorial discomfort with which it is treated in high and late medieval romances from continental and insular Europe. I theorize three functions of love magic-to induce love, to disrupt love, and to maintain or facilitate love. I assert that although magic and adulterous courtly love in medieval romances are accepted by medieval authors, the use of love-inducing magic is presented with an authorial discomfort that requires either an implicit condemnation or an explicit divine endorsement due to the violation of free will. I examine this discomfort in a variety of literary examples from insular and continental European romances and contrast it with the romances\u27 presentations of love magic meant to disrupt love or facilitate love. The project concludes with a chapter that turns to the relationships between magical beings-usually fairies or elves (which are somewhat indistinct within later medieval romances)-and humans, with specific attention to how the gender dynamics of these relationships affect the romance\u27s presentation of the relationship

Our Own Devices

A flickering glow welcomed me to my university’s chapel service. Votive candles? If only. No, these were glowing smartphones, as thick as fireflies on a summer’s evening. It was a scene of tremendous absurdity, like a man watching TV while making love to his wife: distracted people distracting themselves during a sacred act. It struck me as oddly understandable (I even joined them to check my email during the sermon), yet also as the foretaste of some looming spiritual crisis. So much has been written lately about the perils of smartphone use that I’m reluctant to join the chorus. Yet I feel that many Christians—I include myself—have yet to find any healthy forms of resistance to this new cultural habit

Making love / making work : the sculpture practice of Sarah Bernhardt

The question this thesis asks is: What does it mean to make the statement 'Sarah Bernhardt, sculptor' based on a massive archive of text and image on one of the nineteenth and early twentieth century's most famous actresses whose sculpture practice has often been dismissed as the work of a part-time amateur? In undertaking to answer this question, I have focussed entirely on what was required for Bernhardt to become a sculptor, to be a sculptor, and to remain a sculptor from c. 1869 until her death in 1923. I examine all these forms of evidence, together with the works Bernhardt produced, under the terms of sculpture history, and not those of biography or visual culture analysis, the usual rubric under which Bernhardt is considered. As such, the thesis aims to distil a substantive analysis and history of one practice of sculpture in nineteenth-century France. The thesis is constructed by asking a series of seemingly simple questions: Did Bernhardt make work? Did she have a dedicated place in which to make work? How was she trained to make work? Did she exhibit and sell or otherwise distribute her work? These questions are answered by paying close attention, in turn, to: one work, the Bust if Louise Abbema (1878, musee d'Orsay, Paris); Bernhardt's studios and homes and the particular function these had as spaces of work and shared, creative and intimate same-sex SOciality; and Bernhardt's training and daily practice as a sculptor, her oeuvre, and exhibiting and sales strategies. Fundamental to Bernhardt's artistic practice was her relationship with the painter Louise Abbema. I consider how the making of Abbema's bust and the reciprocal character of these artists' relationship can be read for, and with, difference in a tripartite configuration of 'living, loving, and working'. The method I use, scholarly lesbian desire, is informed by feminist art history and theory, the social history of art, and queer studies. This method seeks to explore the archive with, and for, desire in an effort to find new ways to research and write that are at once historically and theoretically rigorous and acknowledge the important cultural contribution that 'lesbian' makes to the histories of art

Making Love Easier: Automating Communication for Better Relationship Building for Web Archives

Starting in Fall of 2023, Ruth Bryan and Emily Collier began researching sustainability for the Web Archiving Program, which led them to building communication channels with the University of Kentucky Office of Public Relations and Marketing Web Content Development group. By tightening this channel, we hope to initiate the archival mindset right at the moment of content creation, as well as limit gaps in our web archives collection as the PR team is directly involved in monitoring sites that go live and expire. Part of this tightening of communication has been finding ways to automate alerts when changes are made to the uky.edu domain sites. Zapier, an automation tool capable of linking thousands of apps, was investigated as a means of auto-generating Trello cards when new or altered sites are added to a shared Google Sheet in our communal Google Drive for Web Archiving. This presentation discusses the first trial of Zapier and the potential benefits of adding it to workflows

BEING AND PERFORMING THE MASCULINITY IN KARIM RASLANâS GO EAST

This paper explores the concept of being and performing masculinity in Karim Raslan's short story Go East. Torn between being a man in his own terms and performing socially endorsed masculine roles and sexual desires, the protagonist, Mahmud, negotiates and transgresses gender borders, resulting in his inability to sexually perform with women and incapacity for emotional and physical intimacy with men. Yet, he overcomes his impotence through heterosexual intercourse despite imagining making love to men

Fifth Freedom, 1982-02-01

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sometimes like butterflies

Perhaps the most radical thing to do is to embrace the tension, being between the heavens and earth. Maybe regardless of identity, sometimes the earth is not enough but there are moments I’ve experienced where the distance between heaven and earth blurs. These are instants where my troubles do melt like lemon drop: the smell of freshly cut hay in a field nearby, seeing a baby goat’s tail wiggle while he nurses his mother, or making love behind the barn. These are moments on earth when something else comes into focus