Bostonia: 1998-1999, no. 1, 3-4

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The century guild hobby horse and Oscar Wilde: a study of British little magazines, 1884-1897

This thesis is a detailed examination of subversive aesthetic and decadent British periodicals from 1884 until 1897. Viewed as cultural documents, the magazines The Century Guild Hobby Horse, The Dial, The Yellow Book and The Savoy are explored with particular reference to their positioning of the artist in relation to society. Major secondary sources are the works of Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry. The Hobby Horse is viewed as being the origin of a particular discourse on the importance of the artist for society at large, and its editorial bias is examined as being a product of certain Hellenic elements in Oxford of the 1860s and 1870s. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray features heavily in the first section. The book is initially used as a touchstone for exploring the issues of the Socratic master-pupil relationships, clandestine and subversive sexuality, the duality of subversive literary texts, and the transition from aestheticism into decadence, after which Wilde's only novel is shown to have been inspired in part by specific writings within the Hobby Horse itself. The second section examines the importance of Catholicism to a renaissance of the Hellenic within artistic communities of the 1880s and '90s, and the third and final section explores the legacy of these elements of the Hobby Horse in the later magazines The Dial, The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Specific attention is paid to the perceived relationship between Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Book in the final chapters, where the erroneous nature of the supposed links between Wilde and the Yellow Book is exposed, and Wilde's true connection with the little-known Century Guild Hobby Horse is revealed

The Emergence Computation of Overflow in Dynamic XML Tree Based on Prefix and Interval Labelling Schemes

Despite the fact that dynamic XML labelling schemes have been investigated widely, some challenges still need to be tackled. Dynamic XML documents are subject to change. An efficient dynamic labelling scheme is able to maintain the node relationships throughout continuous changes to the XML tree structure. Such a scheme generates labels for new nodes to avoid the need to relabel the whole tree. The main problem for dynamic XML is overflow that occurs when the label length of the new node is over the reserved space limit. There has not been sufficient analysis to determine the class of labelling scheme which faces this problem in the early stages of update. To this end a series of experiments were performed when updating the Nasa XML database, which contains real data. Five sets of new nodes (50, 100, 400, 800, 1200) were inserted into this dataset using two versions of XML node indexing system: a Prefix and an Interval labelling scheme. It was found that Interval falls victim to the problem of overflow after the insertion of only 100 nodes whereas Prefix has no problem even when adding 1200 nodes

Modulare Aufbereitung von multimedialen Lerninhalten für eine heterogene Lernumgebung

Der Einsatz multimedialer Lerninhalte ist durch die vielfältig vorhandenen und sich ständig verbessernden technischen Möglichkeiten ein aktuell weit verbreitetes Thema. Ihre Erstellung gestaltet sich allerdings äußerst aufwendig. Daher beschäftigen wir uns mit der kooperativen Entwicklung von multimedialen Lehr-/Lerninhalten, die von verscheidenen Autoren in unterschiedlichen Kontexten für verschiedene Zielgruppen eingesetzt werden können. Unser Ansatz basiert auf dem Modularisierungskonzept zur Unterstützung der Wiederverwendbarkeit von Lernmaterialien. Um solche "universellen" Lernmodule zu entwickeln, die sowohl die Bedürfnisse verschiedener Zielgruppen als auch verschiedener Autoren erfüllen, werden mehrere Modularisierungsebenen eingeführt und die Erzeugung verschiedener Modulsichten ermöglicht

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Corporeal tales : an investigation into narrative form in contemporary South African dance and choreography

In the years following the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, dance and choreography have undergone considerable transformation. This investigation stems from one observation relative to this change that has been articulated by two of South Africa's most respected dance critics, Adrienne Sichel and Matthew Krouse. Both critics have noted a growing concern for narrative in South African contemporary choreography, coupled with an apparent propensity for narratives of a distinctly personal and 'autobiographical' nature. In Part One: 'Just after the beginning', the proposed preoccupation with narrative in South African contemporary choreography is discussed in light of the relationship between narrative and the notion of personal identity. The use of the performed narrative as a medium to explore questions about identity is offered as one explanation underpinning this increased proclivity, where the interrogation of the form of the danced narrative provides a site for exploration of personal identity. Part Two: 'Somewhere in the middle' interrogates the notion of form through an in-depth discussion of the experimentation with form within theatrical and antitheatrical dance traditions over the last fifty years. Specific works by three selected South African choreographers (Ginslov, Maqoma and Sabbagha) are discussed in terms of their general approach to narrative form. This provides an illustration of some of the approaches to narrative form emergent in contemporary South African choreographic practices. Part Three: 'Nearing the end' offers Acty Tang's Chaste (2007) as a case study to illustrate the practical application of the dance narrative as a means to interrogate questions relating to personal identity. A detailed analysis of Tang's particular approach to forming the narrative of Chaste is conducted, exposing the intertextual, multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to creating the danced narrative

British orientalism and representations of music in the long nineteenth century ideas of music, otherness, sexuality and gender in the popular arts

This thesis explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during the long nineteenth century; it utilises recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering to analyse primary source materials in the forms of opera libretti, popular fiction and the visual arts (alongside contextualising non-fictional materials), and ๒ conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, and thus explores how ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists. Section I The Musical Stage discusses elements of libretti of this period, and the occasionally contradictory ways in which the Other was represented through text and music; it particularly explores the depiction of 'Oriental' women and ideas of sexuality. Through examination of this collection of libretti, the ways in which the writers of these texts filter and romanticise the changing intellectual ideas of this era is explored. Section II Works of Fiction is a close study of the works of H. Rider Haggard, using other examples of popular fiction by his contemporary writers as contextualising material; a primary concern of this section is to investigate how music is utilised in popular fiction to other non-Europeans and in the creation of orientalised gender constructions. Section III Visual Culture is an analysis of images of music and the 'Orient' in "high art", illustrations and photography, investigating how the musical Other was visualised. Through these analyses the author considers the means by which musical concepts were employed to create a wider Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain