To what extent did chivalry promote a power difference between the sexes? In romantic works of medieval English literature, knights are commonly seen to project their values onto a female counterpart, which consequently leads them to pin their narrative successes or failures onto that person. This article examines “Le Roman de Tristan” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” under the framework Stephen Ahern presents in “Listening to Guinevere”. The chivalric Tristan idolizes his beloved Ysolt to the point of delusion, causing him to condemn her when she fails to meet his unrealistic expectations, and thus to illustrate the temperamental nature of the relationship between knight and lady. “Sir Gawain” complicates the issue, as Gawain lacks the expected devotion to a lady. Using Amy S. Kaufman and Michelle Sweeney’s models of the configuration of power as lenses, I analyze Lady Bertilack’s manipulation of Sir Gawain’s chivalric values, and his resulting display of frustration towards himself, as a critique of gendered morals. By comparing these knights and their respective treatments of failure, I argue that the chivalric code’s inconstant values ultimately encourage its followers to see any female-encoded morals, whether external or internal, as the cause of knightly failure. Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Tavares
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How was masculinity defined, and for whom, in medieval English epic? Employing Marie de France’s “Lanval” and the anonymous “Beowulf ” as example cases, when examining the social role of gender rather than focus on sexuality as defined by genitalia, these poems flip the script. Wherein titular male-identifying characters swap social responsibilities with female-identifying foils; Beowulf and Lanval become “weaving” humans, while Lanval's lover and Grendel’s Mother take on the “weaponed” roles in order to protect the material existence of their communities. By examining these exchanges, as well as characters that embody the gender role that is expected of them, I argue that early medieval English epic consistently presented a vision of society where a critical part of maintaining healthy communities necessitated the inversion of gender roles. Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth E. Tavares
在中世纪的英国史诗中，男性气概是如何定义的，又是为谁定义的?以玛丽·德·弗朗斯的《兰瓦尔》和匿名的《贝奥武夫》为例，当审视性别的社会角色，而不是关注由生殖器定义的性行为时，这些诗歌颠覆了剧本。其中，名义上的男性身份角色用女性身份的箔片交换了社会责任;贝奥武夫和兰瓦尔成为“编织”的人类，而兰瓦尔的情人和格伦德尔的母亲则扮演“武装”的角色，以保护他们社区的物质存在。通过研究这些交流，以及体现他们所期望的性别角色的角色，我认为，中世纪早期的英国史诗始终呈现出一种社会愿景，在这种愿景中，维持健康社区的关键部分需要性别角色的反转。教师赞助人:Elizabeth E. Tavares
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What do beards indicate beyond physical aspects of sex? What do literary representations of beards and hair suggest in terms of masculinity? In the character portraits from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, male hair and beards are used by the characters to keep their secrets and portray who they want other characters to see while the author uses beards and hair to reveal the hypocrisy of this to the reader. Inversely, in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” hair is used for concealment; in this poem it is used to conceal Bertilak de Hautdesert’s true identity as the Green Knight. In this essay I argue the beards and hair of male characters in both The Canterbury Tales and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” are a synecdoche, standing in for both the key attributes of the figure and revealing his hypocrisy. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth E. Tavares
除了生理上的性暗示，胡须还意味着什么?胡子和头发的文学表现在男子气概方面暗示了什么?在乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》中的人物肖像中，男性的头发和胡须被人物用来保守自己的秘密，描绘出他们想让其他人物看到的样子，而作者用胡子和头发向读者揭示了这种虚伪。相反，在《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)中，头发被用来隐藏;在这首诗中，它被用来掩盖Bertilak de Hautdesert作为绿衣骑士的真实身份。在这篇文章中，我认为《坎特伯雷故事集》和《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》中男性角色的胡须和头发都是一种提喻，既代表了人物的关键属性，又揭示了他的虚伪。教授赞助人:Elizabeth E. Tavares博士
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The boundaries between verbal arguments and physical retribution are complicated and difficult to directly identify. This paper examines the points at which verbal sparring, conventionally dubbed “flyting,” turns to physical altercations. In identifying these points in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Wife of Bath’s Prologue," I find that rhetoric turns to violence after affronts to particular morality-based identities. In my reading of "Sir Gawain," I posit that the eponyms’ flyte and subsequent fight in the fourth fitt represent an attack on both the institution of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table and on Sir Gawain’s personhood. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath,” I suggest a reading wherein the violence between Allison and Janekin represents a fight against the rhetoric of oppression. Throughout the essay, I show how physical retribution is, in these texts, an excusable method of defense against language, particularly when personal and political senses of honor are verbally attacked. Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth E. Tavares
言语争吵和身体报复之间的界限很复杂，很难直接识别。这篇文章探讨了口头争吵，通常被称为“飞”，转向身体上的争吵。在《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》和《巴斯的妻子的序言》中，我发现，在冒犯了特定的基于道德的身份之后，修辞就变成了暴力。在我对《高文爵士》的阅读中，我认为在第四集中，两位主人公的打斗和随后的打斗代表了对亚瑟王圆桌骑士制度和高文爵士人格的攻击。在杰弗里·乔叟(Geoffrey Chaucer)的《巴斯的妻子》(The Wife of Bath)中，我建议读一篇文章，其中艾莉森和詹纳金之间的暴力代表了一场反对压迫言论的斗争。在整篇文章中，我展示了在这些文本中，身体报复是如何成为一种可原谅的防御语言的方法，特别是当个人和政治荣誉受到口头攻击时。教师赞助人:Elizabeth E. Tavares
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In focusing on the gendered perceptions of shame in “Beowulf” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” I argue that shame is used as a tool to maintain the social order with male characters, while female characters are used in tandem with feelings of humiliation to maintain this order, often severely limiting their agency. In both texts feelings of humiliation and shame were emotions to be utilized in displays of dominance, primarily through the act of flyting; as one man worked tirelessly to belittle the other, his own social power was increased. Shame-based tactics, like the flyte work when maintaining the social order for male characters. Queen Modthryth of “Beowulf,” however, fails at properly fulfilling her role in Anglo-Saxon society, but is not provided with a flyte to acknowledge her behavior. In contrast Lady Bertilak from “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is used to test Sir Gawain’s dedication to the chivalric code, while Morgan le Fay inevitably maintains the social order in her orchestration of the Green Knight’s challenge; shame and its literary representations do not operate in the same ways for women as they do for men. Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth E. Tavares
在关注《贝奥武夫》和《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》中羞耻感的性别认知时，我认为羞耻感被用作男性角色维持社会秩序的工具，而女性角色则与羞耻感一起被用来维持这种秩序，往往严重限制了她们的能力性。在这两篇文章中，羞辱和羞耻的感觉都是用来展示支配地位的情绪，主要是通过飞行的行为;当一个人不知疲倦地贬低另一个人时，他自己的社会权力就增加了。以羞耻感为基础的策略，如苍蝇在维护男性角色的社会秩序时起作用。然而，《贝奥武夫》中的女王莫德思瑞斯没能恰当地履行她在盎格鲁-撒克逊社会中的角色，但却没有得到承认她行为的信。相比之下，《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》中的Bertilak女士被用来测试高文爵士对骑士精神的奉献精神，而Morgan le Fay则不可避免地在她对绿衣骑士挑战的编排中维护了社会秩序;羞耻及其文学表现对女性的作用方式与对男性的不同。教师赞助人:Elizabeth E. Tavares
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The expected gender dichotomy of medieval European heterosexual relationships was simple. There was an active male penetrator and a passive female acceptor. This dichotomy is supported by court records from late medieval France, analyzed by Joseph Roelens, in which two women are put on trial for female sodomy and much importance is placed on the masculine character of one woman and the submissiveness of the other. In this paper, I examine two different stories from Arthurian Legend, Sir Thomas Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife’s Prologue and Tale” from The Canterbury Tales, that depict sexual relationships between the main male and female characters that function within the social norm of the gender dichotomy. In doing so, I argue that these stories use this active and passive gender dichotomy in an attempt to police men’s actions in their sexual relationships with women. I chose to examine these stories because they demonstrate the societal importance placed on this gender dichotomy in a very concrete way. The men in these stories who refuse to become passive, Sir Lancelot being the most prominent among them, are willing to sacrifice not only their life, but the life of the women they love (whether or not the women agree with this decision), in order to avoid breaking the gender dichotomy. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth E. Tavares
中世纪欧洲异性恋关系中预期的性别二分法很简单。有一个主动的男性插入器和一个被动的女性受体。约瑟夫·罗伦斯(Joseph Roelens)分析了中世纪晚期法国的法庭记录，这些记录支持了这种二分法。在这些记录中，两名女性因女性鸡奸而受审，其中一名女性的阳刚性格和另一名女性的顺从性格非常重要。在本文中，我研究了《亚瑟王传奇》中的两个不同的故事，托马斯·马洛里爵士的《亚瑟之死》和杰弗里·乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》中的《妻子的序言和故事》，这两个故事描述了男女主角之间在性别二分法的社会规范下的性关系。在这样做的过程中，我认为这些故事使用了主动和被动的性别二分法，试图监管男性在与女性的性关系中的行为。我之所以选择研究这些故事，是因为它们以一种非常具体的方式展示了这种性别二分法在社会上的重要性。这些故事中拒绝被动的男人，其中最突出的是兰斯洛特爵士，他们不仅愿意牺牲自己的生命，而且愿意牺牲他们所爱的女人的生命(不管女人是否同意这个决定)，以避免打破性别二分法。教授赞助人:Elizabeth E. Tavares博士
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What larger social concern could the continued popularity of the nineteenth-century cannibal stepmother narrative in twenty-first century crime and news reporting be indicating? In this paper, I compare a fictional episode of cannibalism in the non-canonical Brothers Grimms’ tale, “The Juniper Tree,” with the true story of the 2010 murder and subsequent dismemberment of Zahra Baker in Hickory, North Carolina to consider the larger cultural implications of cannibalistic stepmothers. In doing so I argue that, despite the half-hearted attempt by mainstream animation studios to try to create semi-Feminist adaptations of the canonical fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault, narratives similar to “The Juniper Tree” in fact reinforce a pro-male model of inheritance at the sacrifice of both wives and their girl children. These adaptations also communicate modern social anxieties surrounding blended families, especially regarding heteronormative visions of childhood, savior narratives around adoption, and easy answers about inheritance.
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Vampires have been discussed for millennia, appearing in folklore throughout various cultures. From the Egyptians and the Chinese to the Slavs, there have been numerous iterations of these bloodsucking fiends, but do their characteristics have any basis in fact, perhaps predicated upon misunderstandings of certain diseases? Using medical journals to discern plausible diseases for obscure and typical vampire traits, this paper functions on two levels. On one hand, it offers a repository of medical information for researchers who may want to delve further into the interdisciplinary field of pathology and folklore, especially where vampires of Western culture are concerned. On the other hand, it offers visual popular culture sources to serve as examples for each trait/disease, seeing as pop culture is where many people, myself included, get their ideas and renderings of vampires. Technology and medicine have advanced considerably since bloody, bloated corpses were mistaken as vampires, but some traits—eye color, charisma, allure, and fangs, among others—of certain, often diseased individuals could still be traced back to a vampiric condition.
{"title":"What's at Stake: Is it a Vampire or a Virus?","authors":"K. M. Schneider","doi":"10.7710/2168-0620.1131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7710/2168-0620.1131","url":null,"abstract":"Vampires have been discussed for millennia, appearing in folklore throughout various cultures. From the Egyptians and the Chinese to the Slavs, there have been numerous iterations of these bloodsucking fiends, but do their characteristics have any basis in fact, perhaps predicated upon misunderstandings of certain diseases? Using medical journals to discern plausible diseases for obscure and typical vampire traits, this paper functions on two levels. On one hand, it offers a repository of medical information for researchers who may want to delve further into the interdisciplinary field of pathology and folklore, especially where vampires of Western culture are concerned. On the other hand, it offers visual popular culture sources to serve as examples for each trait/disease, seeing as pop culture is where many people, myself included, get their ideas and renderings of vampires. Technology and medicine have advanced considerably since bloody, bloated corpses were mistaken as vampires, but some traits—eye color, charisma, allure, and fangs, among others—of certain, often diseased individuals could still be traced back to a vampiric condition.","PeriodicalId":167127,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134474942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This fiction short story parallels the function of the corpus callosum in the brain with the daily life of humans. It was inspired by the work of Ursula Le Guin, namely her piece "Schrödinger's Cat."
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Andrea M. Bonetto, Sheiny Tjia-Fleck, Ethan Zeller, B. Wheeler, S. H. Stonedahl
The hyporheic zone is the region of sediment under a stream where water from the stream flows before returning to the stream itself. Many studies focus on steady water flow through this region, however, in natural systems, water levels and water flow rates change due to storms, tides, dams, or melting snow. To investigate flow under unsteady conditions, we built a system that allows us to control the water level and thus the flow rates. We used a pressure sensor that is connected to an Arduino board to measure the water level. The Arduino board uses the measured pressure value to control a water pump. When the water level is lower than desired, the pump will turn on and when it is higher than desired, it will turn off. This allowed us to hold the water level constant or tell it to oscillate. We then evaluated our system by comparing our desired water level functions to those measured with our pressure sensor, those measured by a pressure transducer connected to a separate Arduino, and those we extracted from videos of our system. Faculty Sponsor: Susa H. Stonedahl
潜流带是河流下的沉积物区域，在这里水流在返回河流本身之前流过。然而，在自然系统中，由于风暴、潮汐、水坝或冰雪融化，水位和水流速率会发生变化。为了研究非定常条件下的流量，我们建立了一个系统，使我们能够控制水位，从而控制流量。我们使用了一个连接到Arduino板的压力传感器来测量水位。Arduino板使用测量的压力值来控制水泵。当水位低于期望时，水泵将启动，当水位高于期望时，水泵将关闭。这让我们可以保持水位不变，或者让它振荡。然后，我们通过比较我们期望的水位函数与我们的压力传感器测量的水位函数来评估我们的系统，那些由连接到单独的Arduino的压力传感器测量的水位函数，以及我们从系统视频中提取的水位函数。教师赞助人:Susa H. Stonedahl
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