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Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema
No full textThis paper investigates the representation of female family relations— particularly constellations of sisterhood and of mothers and daughters—in US-American films of the 1910s against the backdrop of a larger aesthetics of doubling. It addresses the close interaction of the cinema of the decade
with the variety stage and its predilection for synchronized and ornamental arrangements and then moves on to reflect on the cinematic conventions of double acts and dual roles in the context of the star system. It argues that by enacting female relations as disturbing or delightful doubles, the entertainment culture of the 1910s takes issue with the period’s conceptualization of gender and sexuality
An Interdsciplinary Conference
No full textThe nineteenth century holds an important cultural, social, and economic innovation, which we in the twenty-first century take for granted, but which is slipping through our hands: leisure time. In times of the increasing dilution of the boundaries between work and leisure, the beginnings of mass society and the understanding of leisure time and hobbies are all the more important to explore. From these considerations, conclusions can be drawn about the emerging consumer society in Europe and the United States as well as changes in social relations and the public/private sphere.
This interdisciplinary conference, Spending Time With/In the Nineteenth Century, brings together young scholars from various fields of the humanities to explore the social, political, and aesthetic implications of the emergence of leisure time in the nineteenth century. We invite them to
also think about how we, as scholars, spend time in the nineteenth century and reflect about the possibilities that (digital) scholarship on the century facilitates
Einführung in die amerikanische Kultur und Kulturwissenschaft
No full textGoethe-Universität FrankfurtSummer Term 2021Frankfur
An Exploration of Context Updating Mechanisms from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
No full textPresupposition is what people make use of on a daily basis. It is therefore crucial to comprehend how a presupposition gets projected in a sentence. This thesis focuses on three major presupposition projection mechanisms, namely left-right asymmetric, symmetric and hierarchical approaches. For the reason that the majority of previous research is undertaken on the basis of English data, this thesis evaluates these mechanisms employing Japanese and Chinese empirical evidence. The analyses and experimental data in this thesis confirm that, firstly, the left-right asymmetric account which is substantiated by English empirical evidence is not tenable in Japanese and Chinese. Secondly, the symmetric approach appears to be promising in both English and Japanese, though it has not been sufficiently investigated. Thirdly, the hierarchical framework can account for English, Japanese and Chinese empirical evidence preliminarily. Much more attention should be paid to the hierarchical approach to presupposition projection in further studies. Further investigation into this topic can deepen the comprehension of human language and language processing.https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-491-
Student Scrip and a Capitalist Education at Sherman Institute
No full textIn the late nineteenth century, off-reservation boarding schools became the instrument of choice for the United States federal government to assimilate Indigenous communities. By separating Native American children from their families and placing them in government-operated schools, white officials hoped to transform them culturally, politically, and economically. Although the system was reformed in the early 1930s, boarding schools continued to promote assimilation for several more decades. In fact, white officials even developed new methods to assimilate young Native Americans, including the use of substitute currency, or scrip, as a form of economic training. One of the first off-reservation schools to adopt a scrip system was Sherman Institute in Riverside, California. In November of 1933, school administrators introduced a system of paper money to teach the school’s Native American pupils about life in a capitalist society. Through an analysis of scrip, this essay explores what Indigenous students at Sherman Institute learned about capitalism during the 1930s. Specifically, the article analyzes how the scrip system replicated the US economy with individual consumption at its center in an effort to communicate specific values, and how Indigenous students navigated said system. Thus, this essay argues that administrators at Sherman Institute used scrip to transform school life in a flawed attempt to present an idealized form of consumption-based capitalism to young Native Americans