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“WE RISE FROM DEATH AND LIVE” \u3cem\u3eTrilogy, Majic Ring\u3c/em\u3e, and H.D.’s Spiritualist War Poetics
Get PDFThis thesis reads the American expatriate poet H.D.’s tripartite poem Trilogy, composed in London during World War Two, as a spiritualist war epic. Though the influence of occultism on H.D.’s work has been given more critical attention in recent years, her foray into spiritualism remains relatively unstudied. The primary aim of this project is to illustrate how H.D.’s experiences in spiritualist séances during the war years, as depicted in the recently published autobiographical text Majic Ring (composed 1943-1944, published 2009), shaped the writing of her modernist epic and its optimistic vision of worldwide spiritual resurrection out of the wreckages of modernity. This reading reveals how spiritualism offered H.D. an avenue for restoring meaning and dignity to death itself under historical circumstances in which death, on a mass industrial scale, was intentionally perpetuated to preclude meaning and signified the absolute annihilation of the body, legacy, tradition, and cultural memory
Experimental Playing and Issues in Music History
Get PDFWritten for MUSC 360 Music History I: From Chant to Bac
James Baldwin and American Identity
No full textJames Baldwin’s nonfiction work—primarily The Fire Next Time— seeks to define the concept of the American identity by exploring the influence of racial relations within the United States on both black and white Americans’ perceptions of the American identity. My research involves the use of academic journals and literary criticism regarding Baldwin’s nonfiction work, as well as a thorough study of The Fire Next Time. In my project on The Fire Next Time, I articulate Baldwin’s argument that the creation and development of the American identity is determined by one’s race and perpetuated by American society
Comparing Milkweed Sources for use in Monarch Conservation in Cities
No full textAsclepias syriaca (common milkweed) grows in both urban and rural areas. These environments may select for different traits. Given the decline of monarch butterflies (Danausplexippus), the appropriate sourcing of milkweed for habitat creation is of great importance. I hypothesize that the highest number of viable seeds will be observed in populations from the seed source consistent with its environment. Urban-sourced seeds, therefore, will outperform rurally sourced seeds when both are planted in urban garden spaces
Experiential Learning on a Global Scale
No full textThis session includes four presentations on the challenges of experientially learning, through an off-campus experience, to become more culturally aware and globally responsible citizens. Students will share reflections on getting the most out of learning within an intercultural environment very different from the Lake Forest College classroom and campus, within rural and city spaces, and when confronted by other languages and/or cultural norms. Experiences range across a variety of global academic, internship, and fieldwork settings, principally in Mongolia, Ecuador, Germany, and Senegal