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...that has captured the attention of Americans since the Victorian era. What’s more, vampires are now being marketed to children, exposing them to content that was once intended for a much more mature, albeit repressed, audience. Meyer and many others today are taking the reins of mythology??steeped in perverse sexuality and racism—without much consideration of the implications of its wholesome family marketing.Meyer’s exploitation of the genre can be contrasted with the recent successes of the series “True Blood” and the Swedish film...
...American studies. The comprehensiveness of the new name would allow the committee to develop a “more integrated and broader” curriculum that could better accommodate students’ intellectual needs under a larger umbrella, Lamont said. Foster—a senior lecturer on folklore and mythology??added that faculty can likely use the name makeover as an opportunity to develop new courses. The proposal—presented at yesterday’s meeting by FAS humanities dean Diana Sorensen and African and African American studies and English professor Werner Sollors—will undergo...
...Music and American Mythology??: A Talk by John Adams Radcliffe...
...concentrate in one of the smaller programs they are more interested in?” Foster said. “Or, alternatively, will students all pick the concentration that seems to flow more fluidly into the future?” Nevertheless, the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology??s decision to submit a secondary field proposal was “totally unanimous,” according to Foster.“If secondary fields will enable students who are very interested in the topics and methodologies of our field to have some piece of it, we?...
...courses at the University of Kansas, both taught by professors with doctorates from Harvard, will evaluate the fiercely contested issue of intelligent design and its place in science classrooms. The planned courses have incited resistance, largely due to the professors’ use of the term “mythology?? in reference to intelligent design. Kansas has been at the center of the debate over intelligent design, the theory that natural selection cannot account for all of life’s evolution and that an “intelligent designer” must have guided the process...
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