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11	Jonson's and Shakespeare's "Comedy of Affliction" Goossen, Jonathan 23 August 2011 (has links) This dissertation explores the relevance of recent studies of Aristotle’s comic theory to the central dramatists of early modern England, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Applications of the Poetics to Renaissance English drama tend to treat Aristotle’s theory historically, as a set of concepts mediated to England by continental redactions. But these often conflated the Poetics’ focus on literary form with the Renaissance’s predominant interest in literature’s rhetorical effect, reducing Aristotle’s genuinely speculative theory to a series of often pedantic literary prescriptions. Recent scholarship has both undone these misinterpretations and developed the comic theory latent in the Poetics. Ironically, these studies make Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s comedy look much more Aristotelian than do Renaissance ones. So rather than taking the Poetics simply as a possible source for each dramatist, I read it primarily as a literary theory that, when reinvigorated by modern scholarship, can explain structures and effects arrived at practically by these dramatists. Three recent hypotheses are especially pertinent to Jonson and Shakespeare: that comic hoaxes aim to expose comic error, which is for Aristotle a deviation from the mean of virtue; that “righteous indignation” is the comic emotion equivalent to the “pity and fear” of tragedy; and that catharsis is a clarification, rather than purgation, of reason and emotion. In light of these, I offer detailed readings of four plays that demonstrate these authors’ comic range: from Jonson’s satirical Every Man Out of His Humour to the almost farcical Epicoene, and from Shakespeare’s romantic Much Ado About Nothing to the tragicomic Measure for Measure. These plays demonstrate a variety of ways in which catharsis, the end of drama, results directly from the comic hoax and involves both the audience’s and characters’ experience of indignation and their comprehension of its relationship to the emotions of envy and pity. In each case, Aristotle’s incisive but flexible theoretical framework enables an explanation of the emotional pain present in the these “comedies of affliction” and reveals remarkable similarities between dramatists usually described as direct opposites. Aristotle Aristotle's Poetics Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Measure for Measure Ben Jonson Every Man Out of His Humour Epicoene Comic Theory Catharsis Indignation Hoax Comic plot Classical literary theory Comedy
12	Formáty lži / Formats of Lying Čepelka, Michal Unknown Date (has links) I perceive the thesis as a result of long-term considerations of forms of lies and manipulation and their importance in today's society. Based on the research of these forms and the environments in which they occur, I try to detect the effect of the lie on both individuals and society. And with the use of multiple media that capture this exploration process.
13	A Mixed Method Study of Prospective Teachers' Epistemic Beliefs and Web Evaluation Strategies Concerning Hoax Websites Coccaro-Pons, Jennifer 30 October 2018 (has links) Teachers need to be equipped with the tools necessary to evaluate content on the Internet and determine if it is a credible source, or a hoax website since they are expected to instruct and prepare students on how to evaluate the sites which is now a relevant phenomenon. The purpose of the mixed‑method study was to obtain an understanding of the web evaluation strategies of prospective teachers regarding the evaluation of hoax websites and how their epistemic beliefs may influence their evaluation. Another aspect of this study was to find out what outcomes resulted from providing guidance, or not to prospective teachers before evaluating the hoax websites. Seventy‑two prospective teachers from undergraduate education courses completed an online questionnaire, where they evaluated four websites (two hoaxes and two credible) and completed questions regarding their epistemic beliefs. Two groups of prospective teachers were selected. Group A was the control group and Group B was the experiment group. Group A simply took the online questionnaire. However, Group B was provided with an overview of a specific web evaluation strategy, the WWWDOT Framework, before taking the online questionnaire. Sixteen participants were interviewed. Interestingly, almost half of the participants (48.6%), trusted at least one of the hoax websites. The study concluded that teaching the WWWDOT Framework helped to increase the number of people that did not trust the aesthetically appealing hoax website in Group B. Regarding epistemic beliefs, prospective teachers, who displayed feeling‑based epistemic beliefs, tended to trust the hoax website that was aesthetically appealing in Group A. The qualitative results provided additional insights and supported the quantitative data. The qualitative research suggests that lateral reading, spending sufficient time to read and evaluate and knowing the definition of a hoax website as being the most important web evaluation strategies displayed by those that did not trust the hoax websites. Hoax Websites Hoaxes Evaluating Websites Trustworthiness Information Literacy Metaliteracy Fake News Epistemic Beliefs Web Evaluation Strategies Arts and Humanities Communication Computer Sciences Curriculum and Instruction Education Epistemology Language and Literacy Education Online and Distance Education Philosophy Science and Technology Studies
14	Faculty Senate Minutes April 1, 2013 University of Arizona Faculty Senate 01 April 2013 (has links) This item contains the agenda, minutes, and attachments for the Faculty Senate meeting on this date. There may be additional materials from the meeting available at the Faculty Center. GPSC Memorandum of Understanding sequestration Proposal for a University Club Publishers' Expo e-textbooks Dr. Michael Waldrum shooter hoax tuition setting alternate year tuition setting proposal Library fee Stategic Plan Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) RCM 2 Inclusive View of Scholarship Religious Accomadation Policy bounty on basketball coach Sean Miller
15	Fauxtopia Kampf, Raymond William 01 January 2004 (has links) To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... with the hope that it will be a source of edutainment for all the world.Ray KampfFauxtopia DedicationApril 1st, 2004 swindle subterfuge story stooge stereotype stratagem spurious spiel soft-soap snow job simulated aspersion adventure artificial anecdote allegory advertising assumptions belie bluff bogus brainwash calumniation canard cheat chronicle cliche cliffhanger con man conceal counterfeit crooked deal deceit deception disguise dishonest distort double cross ersatz evangelism exaggerate fabrication facade fake falsehood fantasy fib fiction flim flam fool folktale forgery frame up fraudulence fudge gag grifter guile guise history hoax hokey hype hyperbole knavery legend likeness make believe malign mask memoir misrepresentation mockery myth parable parody performance perjury phony placebo player ploy potboiler prevarication propaganda publicity puppet put-on quasi record reproduction romance routine ruse saga scam shtick semblance sequel show serial synthetic tall story trick unnatural untruth veneer verisimilitude white lie whopper Disney politics hyper reality theme park entertainment Art and Design Arts and Humanities

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