Jared E. Berg and Professor Thomas G. Plummer, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature The novel Homo Faber by the Swiss author Max Frisch is an important post-war work that describes the psychic tragedy resulting from the denial of myth, beauty, and the feminine by a mind rooted too firmly in reason and logic. It is a […]
Report on ORCA-Funded Interpretation Research
Brian L. Price and Professor Mariam B. Labrum, Spanish and Portuguese Introduction Last year I submitted a proposal for funding to support a research project aimed at improving the quality of interpreter training at the undergraduate level for all those students with demonstrated interest in the field of interpretation. I claimed that such improvements would benefit […]
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Poland Prior to World War II
Nathan C. Phillips and Professor Walter Whipple, German and Slavic Languages While serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Poland Warsaw Mission, I came across historical records indicating that as early as 1860 branches of the Church were formed in present-day Poland. According to those records, some of […]
Mormonism and the Concept of a Temporal Deity: The Beckwith- Parrish Dilemma
Jeremy B. Pettit and Dr. David L. Paulsen, Philosophy In their book The Mormon Concept of God1, evangelical scholars Francis Beckwith and Stephen Parrish (hereafter referred to as BP) present several critiques of what they understand to be the Latterday Saint (LDS) concept of God which they claim is philosophically implausible. The majority of their […]
CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920-1994): RESEARCH AND CRITIQUE OF AN AMERICAN WORKING-CLASS POET
Dana Anderson and Dr. Lance Larsen, English In 1959, an inconspicuous Los Angeles postal worker named Charles Bukowski published his first book of poetry-Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail in a press run of only 200 copies. Yet, by the time of his death last March he had sold over one and a half million copies […]
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UIGHUR STUDIES
David T. Allred and Dr. David C. Wright, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The Uighur Turks are a minority group several million strong now living primarily in the desert oasis towns of western China. They first appeared on the world stage during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) as a fierce nomadic tribe threatening China from […]
Translation and Commentary of Manuel Canete’s Prologue to the Obras Completas del Duque de Rivas
Emily Bishop Milner and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuquese My project had two phases: first, to translate approximately twenty-five pages of flowery and rather difficult Spanish into clear English; and second, to provide a commentary explaining the relationship of the translated prologue to other similar works within Spanish Romanticism as well as continental Romanticism. […]
CREATIVE RESEARCH RESULTS AND SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Holly A. Abbe and Dr. Susan Howe, Department of English My father, Henry Reed, grew up in a small town in upper state New York where the sleepy hills turn orange and gold in the fall, where a man wearing white brings milk in bottles every morning to each door step, and where the church […]
Walt Whitman, Winslow Homer, and the Civil War
Angela Dawn Lowe and Dr. George B. Handley, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature According to Eric Sundquist, “the actual Civil War has been concealed under layers of comforting legends and nostalgic sentiments” and has been inaccurately portrayed as “a panorama of colorful uniforms, heroic deeds, noble purposes, and sword-and-roses courtships” (45). Walt Whitman and Winslow […]
The Book of Mormon: A Handbook of Hope for the Apocalypse
Nathan Lindsay and Dr. Steven C. Walker, English “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” With this line Robert Frost summed up the world’s uncertainty concerning the new Millennium. For thousands of years people have contemplated and philosophized about the end of the world. Apocalyptic literature is the unique genre […]
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