English Language and Literature Publications (UMKC)
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The items in this collection are the scholarly output of the faculty, staff, and students of the English Language and Literature.2024-03-29T04:58:17ZCritical Realism and the Biographical Film Project
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/10095
Critical Realism and the Biographical Film Project
Childress, Stephen E.
This paper explores aspects of a critical realist approach that have practical application to biographical documentary filmmaking as an ontological and methodological guide in the planning, production, and editing processes. An interdisciplinary approach from social science philosophy, critical realism is a tool with the potential for gaining a greater understanding of the mechanisms underlying events because of its focused ontology, view of society as multi-layered with emergent properties, and the use of abduction and methodological pluralism. This approach results in a circular historical perception that connects backward and forward in a continually recursive fashion to reveal contemporary events not as predestined points along a 'linear' continuum, but as interrelated elements of a contextualized whole that brackets any temporal point of investigation. The biographical subject is shown connected outside as well as inside their time, and in relation to different levels of agency in the context of their culture.
2008-01-01T00:00:00ZGoethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/10078
Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution
Kelley, Tanya
It has long been debated whether
the scientific writing of Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
provided the seeds for the theory of
evolution. Scholars have argued both
sides with equal passion. German
biologist and philosopher, Ernst Haeckel
(1834-1919) wrote, “Jean and Lamarck
and Wolfgang Goethe stand at the head
of all the great philosophers of nature
who first established a theory of organic
development, and who are the illustrious
fellow workers of Darwin.”1 Taking the
opposite stance was Chancellor of Berlin
University, Emil du Bois Reymond
(1818-1896). Du Bois was embarrassed
by Goethe's forays into science. He
wrote, “Beside the poet, the scientist
Goethe fades into the background. Let
us at long last put him to rest.”2 I argue
that Goethe's scientific writings carry in
them the seeds of the theory of evolution.
Goethe's works on plant morphology
reflects the conflicting ideas of his era on
the discreteness and on the stability of
species. Goethe's theory of plant
morphology provides a link between the
discontinuous view of nature...
2007-01-01T00:00:00Z“I Cannot Rule Myself” The Pitfalls of Sensibility in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/10080
“I Cannot Rule Myself” The Pitfalls of Sensibility in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Sager, Diane A.
2007-01-01T00:00:00ZLeon Mercer Jordan, the Founder of Freedom, Inc. : Following in the Footsteps of His Father and Grandfather
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/15690
Leon Mercer Jordan, the Founder of Freedom, Inc. : Following in the Footsteps of His Father and Grandfather
Farnsworth, Robert M.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-261) and photo index.
2012-10-08T00:00:00Z