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Ketchup and Blood: Documents, Institutions and Effects in the Performances of Paul McCarthy 1974-2013
No full textSince the 1970s, the work of Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) has included live performance, video, sculpture, kinetic tableaux, and installation. Tracing the development of McCarthy’s work between 1974 and 2013, I undertake a critical discussion of the development of performance in relation to visual art practices. Using one artist’s work as a guide through a number of key discussions in the history of performance art, I argue that performance has influenced every aspect of McCarthy’s artistic practice, and continues to inform critical readings of his work.
My thesis follows the trajectory of McCarthy’s performance practice as it has developed through different contexts. I begin with the early documentation and dissemination of performance in the Los Angeles-based magazine High Performance (1978-83), which established a context for the reception of performance art, and for McCarthy’s early work. I then examine specific examples of McCarthy’s practice in relation to his critical reception: live performances and videos from the 1970s are discussed alongside critical readings of his work influenced by psychoanalysis; and the wider public recognition of McCarthy’s object-based art in the 1980s and early 1990s. I then look more broadly at the recent trend of re-enacting historical performances in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time project (2011-12), as a mode of engaging with performance history and exploring how histories of ephemeral art are re-iterated over time. Finally, I discuss a number of McCarthy’s recent exhibitions and installations that mobilises a wider consideration of the histories of performance and ephemeral practices in art institutions.
McCarthy’s work is firmly established in the art world, and I argue that his work also provides a significant touchstone for histories of performance. I look historically at how McCarthy’s work has been documented, disseminated, curated, and re-performed, and open wider discussions about ways of engaging with performance history. In turn, I complicate the relationship between performance and the art world; between ephemeral art and object-based art practices; and between scholarly engagements with performance history, and the public presentation of performance in curatorial practices and institutional contexts.This project was funded by a College Studentship from Queen Mary, University of London. Additional financial support for a research trip to Los Angeles in 2012 to undertake primary research and conduct interviews was provided by the Queen Mary Central Research Fund (now the Postgraduate Research Fund). I would also like to acknowledge the support of the Glynne Wickham Scholarship fund, which contributed to travel expenses for a conference presentation at Stanford University in 2013
Cormac Mccarthy and the Writing of American Spaces
No full textIn Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces Andrew Estes examines ideas about the land as they emerge in the later fiction of this important contemporary author. McCarthy's texts are shown to be part of larger narratives about American environments. Against the backdrop of the emerging discipline of environmental criticism, Estes investigates the way space has been constructed in U.S. American writing. Cormac McCarthy is found to be heir to diametrically opposed concepts of space: as something Americans embraced as either overwhelmingly positive and reinvigorating or as rather negative and threatening. McCarthy's texts both replicate this binary thinking about American environments and challenge readers to reconceive traditional ways of seeing space. Breaking new ground as to how literary landscapes and spaces are critically assessed this study seeks to examine the many detailed descriptions of the physical world in McCarthy on their own terms. Adding to so-called 'second wave' environmental criticism, it reaches beyond an earlier, limited understanding of the environment as 'nature' to consider both natural landscapes and built environments. Chapter one discusses the field of environmental criticism in reference to McCarthy while chapter two offers a brief narrative of conceptions of space in the U.S. Chapter three highlights trends in McCarthy criticism. Chapters four through eight provide close readings of McCarthy's later novels, from Blood Meridian to The Road.Intro -- Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Environmental Criticism and Cormac McCarthy -- 1.1. Environmental Criticism/Ecocriticism -- 1.2. Machine/Garden -- 1.3. Nature/Culture -- 1.4. Biocentrism/Anthropocentrism -- 1.5. Space/Place -- 1.6. Wilderness/Civilization -- 2. A Debate in American Literature: The Nature of U.S. Spaces -- 2.1. Columbus and the Edenic Trend -- 2.2. From the Best of Places to the Worst of Places -- 2.3. Vespucci and the Demonic Trend -- 2.4. "The Greatest Fact": Buffon, De Pauw and Raynal -- 2.5. The Puritans -- 2.6. Hawthorne -- 2.7. Later Manifestations of the Positive View: Crèvecoeur -- 2.8. Jefferson: "The Cultivators of the Earth Are the Most Virtuous Citizens -- 2.9. Emerson -- 2.10. Frederick Jackson Turner -- 2.11. The Dialectic of American Spaces -- 3. McCarthy Criticism -- 3.1. McCarthy as Author: Beginnings of Secondary Literature -- 3.2. Close Readings of Important Secondary Literature -- 3.2.1. John Wegner on The Border Trilogy -- 3.2.2. K. Wesley Berry on The Orchard Keeper -- 3.2.3. John Cant on The Road -- 3.2.4. The Position of the Present Study in Reference to Berry and Cant -- 3.2.5. Georg Guillemin's Ecopastoralism -- 3.2.6. Sara L. Spurgeon on Blood Meridian -- 4. Blood Meridian -- 4.1. The Environment in Blood Meridian -- 4.2. Judge Holden's View -- 4.3. The Consequences of Judge Holden's View: A Changing Environment -- 4.4. Optical Democracy -- 5. All the Pretty Horses -- 5.1. From the World of Blood Meridian to That of All the Pretty Horses -- 5.2. Space According to the Edenic Trend -- 5.3. Two Pictures of Horses: A Developing Notion of Wilderness -- 5.4. Space According to the Demonic Trend -- 5.5. Evil in Texas Versus Evil in Mexico -- 5.6. A Definition of Country in McCarthy -- 5.7. A New Way Forward -- 6. The Crossing6.1. Borders -- 6.2. New Country -- 6.3. Language and the Land -- 6.4. The Trinity Test -- 7. No Country for Old Men -- 8. The Road -- 8.1. Apocalypse in American Literature -- 8.2. Environmental Criticism and (Post-)Apocalypse -- 8.3. A Close Reading of The Road: Ideas of the Natural and Technology -- 8.3.1. Technology is Always Culturally Embedded -- 8.3.2. Nature as a Cultural Construct -- 8.3.3. Good Guys Versus Bad Guys -- 8.4. Rock City -- 8.5. The End of The Road: Biocentric Maps -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- IndexIn Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces Andrew Estes examines ideas about the land as they emerge in the later fiction of this important contemporary author. McCarthy's texts are shown to be part of larger narratives about American environments. Against the backdrop of the emerging discipline of environmental criticism, Estes investigates the way space has been constructed in U.S. American writing. Cormac McCarthy is found to be heir to diametrically opposed concepts of space: as something Americans embraced as either overwhelmingly positive and reinvigorating or as rather negative and threatening. McCarthy's texts both replicate this binary thinking about American environments and challenge readers to reconceive traditional ways of seeing space. Breaking new ground as to how literary landscapes and spaces are critically assessed this study seeks to examine the many detailed descriptions of the physical world in McCarthy on their own terms. Adding to so-called 'second wave' environmental criticism, it reaches beyond an earlier, limited understanding of the environment as 'nature' to consider both natural landscapes and built environments. Chapter one discusses the field of environmental criticism in reference to McCarthy while chapter two offers a brief narrative of conceptions of space in the U.S. Chapter three highlights trends in McCarthy criticism. Chapters four through eight provide close readings of McCarthy's later novels, from Blood Meridian to The Road.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Author-reader relationship at the site of the work
No full textWithin the format of a critical exegesis and four original works of extended prose fiction, this thesis explores the interaction between the author and reader and argues that literary meaning is the outcome of shifts of power between these two entities. It concludes that because these shifts in power are orchestrated by the author, the author is relevant to understanding how meaning is produced
McCarthy, Cameron, Multicultural Discourses and Curriculum Reform: A Critical Perspective, Educational Theory, 44(Winter,1994), 81-98.
No full textReviews several forms of multicultural curricula and makes the case for critical multiculturalism
Neoliberal globalization, racism and education: The model minority thesis in education policy
No full textHow do education policies intended to create equitable educational opportunities for racial minorities in the US unintentionally exacerbate racial inequality? What can we do about it? “Neoliberal Globalization, Model Minority Politics and Education Policy Research” traces current trends in US education policy research discourse about Asians to argue that prevailing conservative and liberal social justice based paradigms abstract race and, in some critical ways, dematerialize potentially transformative anti-racist strategies in education. (Melamed, 2011; Darder & Torres, 2004; Darder, 2012; McCarthy, 1991) I further argue that patterns of racialization and racism are radically shifting in the most recent period of neoliberal globalization such that the power of race to signify, differentiate, and hierarchically order trajectories of educational opportunity is being actualized to an extraordinary degree even while anti racist strategy and social justice initiatives in education increase. (Pedroni, 2011) My final argument is that an interdisciplinary approach to educational policy research, which I summarize as Wave Theory, can rematerialize anti-racist policy analysis, strategy and social justice based initiatives in education.Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin ([email protected]) on 2014-04-23T14:22:06Z
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Faithfulness and Prosodic Circumscription
No full textMorphological processes are often sensitive to the prosodic structure of their inputs. Phenomena like these have been analyzed under the rubric of operational Prosodic Circumscription by McCarthy & Prince 1990.
This article re-examines certain of the principal cases supporting positive prosodic circumscription, arguing that they can be better explained as effects of prosodic faithfulness within Optimality Theory using Correspondence. Two main types of circumscription-as-faithfulness are discussed: (i) Circumscriptional effects emerging from faithfulness to the edges or heads of prosodic constituents (Yidiny, Rotuman, Cupeno, Berber). (ii) Circumscriptional effects emerging from faithfulness to moras and mora-segment associations (Arabic broken plural).
Circumscription-as-faithfulness complements the results obtained in re-analyzing infixation within OT (Prince & Smolensky 1991, 1993; McCarthy & Prince 1993ab) and it supports the explanatory goals of the theory of Prosodic Morphology.The definitive version of this paper was published in Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition (2000)McCarthy, J. J. (2000). Faithfulness and prosodic circumscription. In J. Dekkers, F. R. H. van der Leeuw, & J. M. van de Weijer (Eds.) Optimality theory: Phonology, syntax, and acquisition (pp. 151-189). Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN: 0198238436 (Published book)This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant SBR-942042
The year’s work in stylistics 2009
No full textAt a recent conference on the linguistics of English (ISLE, Freiburg, 2008) I was
surprised by the number of talks on topics that for me were clearly related to stylistics.
My surprise was not that stylistics papers should be so prevalent at a linguistics conference
but that the presenters of these papers seemed not to consider their work as primarily
stylistic in nature. Most positioned themselves as historical linguists or sociolinguists
and presented their work as contributions to historical linguistics and sociolinguistics
respectively, despite the fact that all of them were concerned with aspects of style. Along
with a number of PALA colleagues, I gave a paper in a dedicated stylistics strand, though
in retrospect it now seems that it would perhaps have been more valuable to have integrated
our explicitly stylistic papers into the conference generally; after all, the interest
in stylistics was clearly there, even if it was not designated as such
Prospects for the Study of Cormac McCarthy
No full textABSTRACT
Cormac McCarthy studies is currently a vibrant and active field of inquiry that came along late in his career. A small group of scholars associated with the Cormac McCarthy Society and The Cormac McCarthy Journal initiated study of his novels in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Presently, particularly after the publication of the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses in 1992, a new critical tradition has expanded, producing a number of essay collections and single-author books. These studies have dealt with a range of topics, from religious and philosophical inquiries to narratological analyses, and few of these topics have been exhausted. Much remains to be done. The topic of McCarthy's religio-philosophical concerns is broad and deep and invites further inquiry. In addition, influence and innovation, sociopolitical concerns, transnational and transcultural study, and ecocritical issues invite attention. These and other critical areas will advance in valuable ways our understanding of this important contemporary author.</jats:p
The Senate and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
No full textA study of the United States Senate\u27s reaction to the activities of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, of Wisconsin, based on the premise that the Senate, operating under its present rules of procedure, is both incapable of and unwilling to deal with demagogues within its midst. The nature of the censure that was reluctantly imposed upon Senator McCarthy was for only the most trivial offenses, lending support to the author\u27s premise
McCarthy\u27s God : determining a worldview from Cormac McCarthy\u27s fiction
No full textFollowing the growth of criticism related to Cormac McCarthy, this study examines the author\u27s early works in such a way that treats the different novels as a group, deriving a worldview that functions for McCarthy\u27s works when viewed together, as opposed to treating each novel separately as has been the only previous mode of criticism for this award-winning author. Specifically, the study examines three main themes of the first five novels in McCarthy\u27s oeuvre: The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. In order, the themes are ontological equality, survival of ruder forms, and time as it relates to permanence and transience. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche\u27s texts regarding the concepts of rationality, morality, war, and philosophy itself greatly inform parts of this study, especially relating to the fifth novel, Blood Meridian. Nietzsche\u27s notion of rationality and morality (pre-revaluation) as inimical to survival ( and his conception of war, albeit as a metaphor) directly corresponds to how McCarthy\u27s universe functions as constructed by the characters and action of the novels
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