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A Wealth of Absence: Visualising the Body in Winckelmann, Lessing and Blake [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (published 1755), Johann Joachim Winckelmann sets a precedent, through a series of metaphysical exclusions and affirmations centred on the nature of ...
The Suburban Body in American Modern Poetry [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Critics seem only recently to have taken note of the prevalence of the suburbs as content in American poetry. Robert Van Hallberg ends his American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 with a brief discussion of the poetry that ...
The Performing Body: Physical Self-Concept in Athletes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper presentation will present a review of literature on the unique way the body is negotiated in athletics and pivotal role it plays in identity development and global selfesteem. Current findings will be extended ...
Jane Austen's Dirty Jokes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
While folklorists, including Katherine Briggs, have asserted that Jane Austen's novels contain no folklore, Jill Heydt-Stevens and other Austen scholars have argued that Austen knowingly inserts obscene humor, puns, and ...
Music and the body: modern pedagogical techniques for teaching Afro-Cuban rhythms [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Music is a ubiquitous part of our lives, inescapable and unforgettable. Its power moves our body, invokes peaks and valleys of emotion, and can cause vivid recollection of events long past. And why is it that an anatomist ...
Mere Shadows of Human Forms: Intersections of Body Theory and Literary Adaptation in Jane Eyre [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I have recently developed an interest in cinematic body theory and the ways women are presented in mass media. Although current scholars recognize the limitations of psychoanalytic ideologies of spectatorship, their works ...
Look into My Eyes: Subalternity and Physicallity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" She maintains that no the subaltern cannot speak. This is because the subaltern's identity has been constructed and shaped by western ideologies, and there is no space outside ...
From Landscape to Body : The White Body in Contemporary American Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Whiteness," as both a field of study and an even an identity, has very often been viewed through its connections to postmodernity, most particularly with the assumption that whiteness equals a body situated within a ...
Identifying and transforming normalcy : challenges to compulsory able-bodied oppression in the deaf community [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper integrates excerpts taken from a fieldwork-based, thesis-length project that examines the personal experience narratives of Deaf and Hearing mothers of Deaf children. Driven by the goal of joining folkloric ...
Smashed Brains in German Literature [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Depictions of dissevered heads and smashed brains are abundant in German Literature: starting from descriptions of violence in the medieval literature, to the splattered brains of Dr. Faustus in early modern times to the ...
Binding the body, binding the mind : the limitations of empathy in John Gabriel Stedman's “Narrative of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam” [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) is laced with discussions of cruelty -- to slaves, to soldiers, even to monkeys. Throughout, Stedman prides himself ...
E-community support for weight loss [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This is an exploratory study with a qualitative content analysis of the e-community forums to examine how these forums promote healthy eating, exercise, and social networking to encourage weight-loss. Two websites have ...
Dynamics of Gas Exchange through the Fractal Architecture of the Human Lung, Modeled as an Exactly Solvable Hierarchical Tree [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The acinar airways lie at the periphery of the human lung and are responsible for the transfer of oxygen from air to the blood during respiration. This transfer occurs by the diffusion-reaction of oxygen over the irregular ...
The Posthuman Body in the Works of Andy Warhol, David Cronenberg and Matthew Barney [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Today, it has been assumed that in the mixed reality of virtual and physical realms, the body is not perceived as a whole. The instances of how the unity and homogeneity of the body is challenged by technology come in a ...
The Rhetoric of Guilt and the Body [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Guilt is an emotion common to most individuals. It is also a less common rhetorical device used to persuade an audience toward making one decision or another. Yet, when we look at the history of rhetoric, Aristotle in ...
Rendering the Body: Creative Expressions and Body Projects [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This panel will consist of five graduate students from the Department of English: three poets (John A. Nieves, Liz Fletcher, Marc McKee), a fiction writer (Joanna Luloff) and a creative non-fiction writer (Robert Foreman). ...
The Logic of Recovery [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Body," as vague of a term as it is, can encompass any number of possibilities. My creative nonfiction essay The Logic of Recovery discusses the intersection of "body" as a physical, mental and emotional form existing ...
The body and photography : examinations on the being [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
As a visual artist my choice of mediums in my research are the body through photography. My photographs show an elusive, immaterial reality that attempt to reach an understanding of the metaphysical world. ... My images ...
What You Looking At Me For? : The Black Comedian as Fetish Object [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Through numerous descriptions of Africans and indigenous peoples, travel writing and other historical documents reveal that Europeans continually fetishized the bodies of the people they encountered. By thrusting the ...
Scratching the Surface : Female Scarification in the Nuba of Sudan [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This proposed paper presentation is based on research I conducted at the University of Florida for my M.A in Art History. My secondary area of interest was African art, and this will paper explore the treatment of the ...