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Feasting at the Threshold: Eucharistic Eroticism and Homonationalism in Diane Duane\u27s \u3ci\u3eThe Tale of the Five\u3c/i\u3e
Get PDFDiane Duane’s ongoing fantasy series The Tale of the Five (1979–present) is set in a world marked by constant bodily transgressions and surprises, where a human and dragon can occupy the same body and become lovers and a one-night stand can bring one face-to-face with God. This essay will argue that Duane’s series articulates eroticism in a manner comparable to Linn Marie Tonstad’s (2016) queer re-visioning of transubstantiation and bodily and spiritual transformation through the Eucharist. Acts of eating and drinking serve to highlight how characters’ pansexual, polyamorous relations with each other and the love of the Goddess spill over into and amplify one another, constructing a theology premised on transformative pleasure. These aspects of Duane’s worldbuilding, however, exist in uneasy tension with the series’ increasing narrative concern with the maintenance of noble bloodlines and divinely sanctioned hereditary monarchies, which transforms a potentially radical queer eucharistic theology into something uncomfortably close to what Jasbir K. Puar (2007) has described as ‘homonationalism’. These tendencies in Duane’s writing highlight the need for fantasy’s queer theological imaginaries to be attentive to the ways religious identity, desire, and nationhood serve as mutually constitutive and socially regulating forces, lest queerness become recuperated as an extension of Western theological triumphalism rather than its dissolution
\u3ci\u3eTolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth\u3c/i\u3e by Sam McBride
Get PDFSam McBride writes the following in his Introduction to Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth “Exploring Tolkien’s legendarium will show the cosmological structure of Middle-earth, but also reveal moments in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when the metaphysical impacts the physical.” (p. x) The book delivers on its promise to show the reader places within the stories of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings likely to be influenced by spiritual beings who are described in The Silmarillion and the other volumes of the Legendarium. McBride’s book gives the reader a convincing description of the divine interventions of both visible and invisible powers from the earlier Ages of Middle-earth as they appear during the Third Age
Graduation Rates 2024-25
Get PDFWelcome to the IPEDS Graduation Rates (GR) survey component. The GR component collects data on the cohort of full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students and tracks their completion status at 150% of the normal time to complete all requirements of their program of study. This information is collected to assist institutions in complying with the requirements of the Student Right-to-Know Act
37. Women\u27s Sexual & Reproductive Health
No full textWomen’s sexual and reproductive health is something that\u27s a very important topic discussed all over the world. Reproductive health is a necessity that all women should have access to. About 35 million women make the devastating decision to have an unsafe abortion due to lack of education, healthcare, and resources. The presenter, Alondra Kinish Nava, has other concerns as well. Nava will address sexual and reproductive health, why it is important for women of all ages to seek it, and how these services can be made accessible for women living in urban as well as in rural areas.https://dc.swosu.edu/rf_2025/1025/thumbnail.jp
03. 90 Degree Sweep Marking Fixture and Solid Fixture
No full textFlogistics gave our capstone group the project of creating a repeatable process for manufacturing a centered hole in their 90 degree sweep elbowlet. This process was described to us as something that each manufacturer does differently and the company did not want that to continue. The purpose of our research was to create a process that cuts the time it takes to manufacture and create a repeatable process of finding the center of the bottom hole on the outside of the elbowlet. Our research was a case study and we were able to provide a time study in the report as well. Our goal was to deliver either a working jig, CAD drawings, or another process in which we thought the manufacturing process could be done. We expected to send Flogistics a 3D printed jig, and the process of how to create a jig so that they can use it in the future. With our fixture and the time study Flogistics can more accurately invest or justify buying a brand new machine, our research could help them save time, money, and labor.https://dc.swosu.edu/rf_2025/1000/thumbnail.jp
Tolkien on Kennings and the River-(woman’s) Daughter
No full textWhile the River-daughter is a prevalent poetic name for Goldberry, Tom introduces her as the River-woman’s daughter when singing and skipping along the banks of the Withywindle. The River-woman variant occurs only once in Goldberry’s narrative but is not easily dismissed. The contrast between the two variant names raises several questions on how to read Goldberry’s enigma. Tolkien’s brief commentaries on the kenning as a poetic device serve as the starting-point for exploring the literary function of the two River- names shaping Goldberry’s enigma. By taking into consideration specific characteristics of eddic and skaldic kenning use, I propose to examine common features and differences between Tolkien’s River-daughter and signature River-woman’s daughter as two variant descriptive compounds. In support, this article interprets the two variants through several key features of recent advances in the scholarship of Old Norse poetics as represented in the work of the Eddic Research Network (2012 - ) as well as the Skaldic Poetry Project (2002 - ), both of which contribute to an analytically rigorous and empirically grounded interpretation of kenning devices. Specific characteristics of various types of kenning diction serve not only to clarify the distinct poetic effects of each river-compound but to align the effect with a mythological signal. The intended result seeks to further the interpretive engagement with Goldberry’s enigma as a divine spirit among the Ainur by taking the River-woman variant into full consideration as a signature poetic expression
2/21/2025 Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony Winter Concert
No full textSymphonic Band and Wind Symphony Winter Concert
Dr. Robert Pippin, Conductor
Mr. Marcus Moore, Guest Composer
Friday, February 21, 2025
Fine Arts Auditorium
7:00 P