Knowledge Commons | Shawn Marie Keener | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/shawnmariekeener/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Shawn Marie Keener is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:40:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8b34632df8b320903afc1736e431282d Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:35:22 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on "Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire" that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for more details. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 638e7e0117ad13579f2e48d1d9b07b13 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:25 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

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]]> 80fb5ce0a0c19bae826157dc8a99fabd Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-16/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:37 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> b8379afe605651c33052960cab24f839 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-9/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:42:10 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> e66c645b49b99ca26a968b8b3eea4b5d Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Convergence of Theories in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899092/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Much of today's research into the nature of musical pleasure can be divided into two distinct areas - the study of the overtone spectra of musical consonance and the study of human physiological responses to musical sounds. The former is largely focused on adult participatory responses and the latter on the detection of biochemical activity.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cccb65ee978b8dc40aa6313c76b0ec3a Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Mathematician's Perspective in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896377/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:01:03 -0400 Recent studies of consonance combined with related neurological studies of musical pleasure both point to the prenatal exposure to the human voice as the origin of our affinity for harmonics sounds. The response of a neonate to the maternal voice is compared to the adult response to music, and the physical components of tonal sounds provide an…[Read more]

]]> 0 979feb4f497ce72fafae4925b086f1b4 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891475/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:26 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fcf8064a2c01347aca265f94f847b8 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891472/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:10 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 5374a10a192da8a5a86362dfcf2a1d43 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889652/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:00 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 28366b3b6babbc3a1c665997332d6ec3 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887548/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 353e3276aeb475fee839c03ed58b4f2e Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886884/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:19:23 -0400 692aa0918ce4eb45edb644e6ba5bcf89 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886883/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:18:17 -0400 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3b66849dde3b35c4b74490db101001b Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884700/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:54 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd7198dab9e3df44922471ef354e76a9 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884697/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:39 -0400 In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses.…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd86ffaca9f3dd047290d7b65ff6f028 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884661/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:14 -0400 As the meeting ground of language, the body, and subjectivity, voice has become a key con- cept in the humanities and social sciences. Nevertheless, analyses of the voice that do justice to all these three dimensions are rare. This also applies to linguistic anthropological work on the voice, whose main strength is investigating the interplay of…[Read more]

]]> 0 116ff10cd548994627fd53817cbe8df2 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884658/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:54 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bfb2f941f3b6dffd31463153e1b783a Claus Tieber deposited Screenwriting sound and music: Towards a new field of study in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882924/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:58 -0400 Extensive research in film and media studies on film music and sound has delved into various aspects of their role in cinema, recognizing their significance. However, a crucial element in film production – the screenplay – has often been overlooked in the exploration of sound and music integration. Concurrently, studies on screenwriting have dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ac8895aba3324b69cfcda7aa22d6ff Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881705/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc314049bc8d0b62b1b2a731882e91bf Paulino Capdepon deposited CONMEMORACIONES DEL PRIMER CENTENARIO DE LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN EN MADRID (1927): LA ACTIVIDAD ORQUESTAL in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875795/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:02:41 -0500 In 1927, Madrid experienced a great musical activity to celebrate the first anniversary of Beethoven's death. This chapter focuses on the activities organized by orchestras, societies, associations, etc., and their reflection in the press of that time. Critics from the main Madrid newspapers such as Adolfo Salazar, Juan José Mantecón, Víctor Es…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c8203a222ffd963d0abeb97edb6ef81 Paulino Capdepon deposited EL ESTRENO DE LA NOVENA SINFONÍA EN RE MENOR OPUS 125 DE BEETHOVEN EN ESPAÑA (1882): HISTORIA Y RECEPCIÓN in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875791/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:01:37 -0500 The premiere in 1882 of the Ninth Symphony by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) at the Teatro Principal in Madrid marked a significant historical and musical milestone for the history of Spanish symphonic music. Until then, the reception of the great German composer in Spain had been limited since the 1840s to individual…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4969cb67a3019b37d641bf56026afb8 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Reconstructing Relationships of Desire: Homosexuality in Spanish Golden Age Theater in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874118/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:04:59 -0500 The figure of the marión, maricón or puto—the male homosexual—appears in many Spanish Golden Age plays. The critical approaches to this dramatic type have centered on thematic and textual issues, ignoring the performative cues inscribed on the character. For this reason, this paper reconstructs the acting of male homoeroticism in the comed…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a56710a3e462cba3905ca47e3aae13b Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871309/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:00:37 -0500 The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

]]> 0 085832a14c7e6f2f0937d52730bc339e Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865830/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c8c657a39d703b753c1ae2849503746 Eric Dienstfrey deposited "Introduction" from Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863577/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:13 -0400 Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, and argues that their endurance owes primarily to…[Read more]

]]> 0 f88890b56addb291db769c325765c4d3 Jeremy Fradkin deposited Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862463/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:00:07 -0400 This article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9358875e80710245073548c4944439b Cristian Martinez Vega created the doc Database Report 2022 - International Society for Chilean Music (SIMUC) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862284/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:55:20 -0400 d9388f332d689899dede8ff32d2cfb70 Christopher Crosbie deposited Publicizing the Science of God: Milton's Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859610/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:25 -0400 This essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]

]]> 0 78328ca5455964c48418e28faa4de8b7 Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859608/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:10 -0400 This article examines how Thomas Hughes's "The Misfortunes of Arthur" pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

]]> 0 fd4f994f707175fb94c7a6b7a21e56aa Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858430/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:06:27 -0400 From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7889b4220743f92692f7a1f87100e403 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "Explorando la presencia de personajes femeninos en la comedia en tiempos de Lope de Vega desde las Humanidades Digitales" (Hipogrifo 11.1, 2023) pp. 39-54 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856823/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:08:38 -0400 Este artículo visibiliza el uso que se le puede dar a una serie de proyectos de Humanidades Digitales, como son las bases de datos de Rolecall, DICAT y CATCOM o la biblioteca digital EMOTHE, a la hora de analizar las dinámicas escenográficas en el teatro español de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, coincidiendo con las déc…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0edb8d487b1b857c8d1a016c7d9907c Bernd Brabec deposited Auditive Wissenskulturen: Wissen, Macht und die Welt der Klänge in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856724/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:41 -0400 In der Einleitung zum Sammelband Auditive Wissenskulturen – Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis stellen die Autoren zuerst die Diskrepanzen der jeweiligen Beziehungen des Visuellen und des Auditiven zu Wissen anhand einiger Beispiele vor. Sie exemplifzieren auch, wie sowohl auditive Praxis als auch die Hervorbringung und Vermittlung von Wissen in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c699252eda54ba4b52e6d1e3afa7ae6 Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855433/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:44 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d29f07309eca519883dc5faa2febed9 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853082/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:27 -0400 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ed83c7c25f374a237bc134b88ba0e8 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852310/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:25:10 -0400 The aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.

]]> 0 f1463f2949ddd5c12d0ec8a428d29b0f Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852307/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:57 -0400 This article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]

]]> 0 915f3633dbc3d07b8a40b0f50f0abd26 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852304/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:42 -0400 This chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8aab43c04ad59e42c274bb0993ec8ff5 Joel Edelman deposited A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852217/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:24:45 -0400 Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaec9d0d9e5e74ff697a28daa4884424 Adrian Curtin started the topic CfP for online symposium: The Experimental Orchestra (December 13, 2023) in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-for-online-symposium-the-experimental-orchestra-december-13-2023/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:22:31 -0400 Event date: December 13, 2023

Submission deadline: September 1, 2023

Orchestras around the world are conducting experiments related to performance, to the constitution of the orchestra, and to its operation. Professional classical music ensembles, like many other organisations and institutions in the cultural sector, face an existential…[Read more]

]]> c34146f5b33c25d77f5250a8d936f059 Joel Edelman deposited Clarifying Musical Consonance in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850890/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:24:39 -0400 Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f63bf7eba945b2cb15fe3ba120c96f1 Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-listing-the-world-before-the-age-of-print-imc-sessions-leeds-2024-4/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:29:07 -0400 We all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]

]]> 18d5bd67f67140b1f3b1eb96fbc202fb Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849985/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:24:06 -0400 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 181da490155d7cc606929f21b1b565fc Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen - a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848164/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:24:45 -0400 "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4dd346b4d67366706c8069ca38ce411 Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley's novel in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/new-movie-frankenstein-musical-based-on-mary-shelleys-novel-3/ Sat, 27 May 2023 04:49:40 -0400 I'm excited to tell you that my musical, "Frankenstein" that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration.  It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com  or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com

]]> 627cf0637a267b3333b7bfff4597400c Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845034/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:42 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fdb90ba4e2fd9e5a29d7e449ad0400 Christopher Crosbie deposited “The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation” in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843571/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:23:44 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 607f70bdc1d802079ea1382112f7b528 Christopher Crosbie deposited Refashioning Fable through the Baconian Essay: De sapientia veterum and Mythologies of the Early Modern Natural Philosopher in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842936/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 02:24:33 -0400 Shortly after publishing the first edition of his Essays in 1597, Francis Bacon drafted De sapientia veterum, a series of unpublished essays designed to re-read classical mythology as indicative of political and scientific truths. An early, if partial, expression of Bacon’s project to facilitate mastery over the natural order, De sapientia has c…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cf5858e02b977c73541d04edab46b52 Christopher Crosbie deposited “'Strange Serious Wantoning:' Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842217/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -0400 This essay examines English Renaissance chess manuals in order to understand why chess, a game that encourages subterfuge and stratagem, was nonetheless figured as the paradigmatic example of a virtuous pastime. Particular attention is given to da Odenara Damiano’s The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts (1564), Arthur Saul’s The Famous Gam…[Read more]

]]> 0 fca73e1b06cb814162ef807ff501f2b6 Eric Dienstfrey deposited The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839775/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:26:06 -0400 This article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 f44c2b608692388f0e3c01e27c453e39 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy's Regulation of Power in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839772/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:51 -0400 In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

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