This dissertation examines the emergence of modern racism as a re-creation of human bodies and relations constructed through the entanglement of play, sport, and theology. After constructing a revolutionary theology of play, I examine the racial and gender impacts of nineteenth-…
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This work is a play about the suffering of Job, written in an effort to help people answer the “Why?” questions that are asked when evil, suffering, and sorrow invade a person's life. The project involved translating the Hebrew text into more easily understood conversational Eng…
The illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis from northern Italy is the most important family of late fourteenth-century health handbooks. The handbooks are based on the Latin translation of an Arabic health treatise from the eleventh century, the Taqwim al-sihha by Ibn Butlan, which trea…
Background: Play impairments in autism are intrinsic to its definition but there is continuing debate about whether they are specific to symbolic play or found across all play behaviours. In typically developing children, play development is strongly linked to other aspects of d…
Since the advent of the "talking cure," (Breuer and Freud, 1893) questions have been raised as to how, specifically, a particular kind of verbal interaction between two individuals is thought to bring about the kinds of change associated with therapeutic outcomes. This essay use…
This qualitative study was conducted to acquire a description of low income African American mother's beliefs about play's relationship with cognitive development. African American mothers of preschool children attending a Head Start program in the central region of Florida were…
The play follows a prosperous family in an Oklahoma rural town. Garret Bedford is the owner of a large oil company. The town was founded on the Bedfords’ wealth, therefore the residents regard Garret as a saint. However, Garret is an alcoholic, abusive man who has an adulterous …
Playful Citizens explores the contemporary novel, especially as written by Canadians, in terms of how it deals with ideas about play, game, and sex, and how it relates these ideas to constructions of civic responsibility. Considered as strategies for human interaction, play, gam…
Drawing from my background in architecture, I have attempted to apply design sensibilities to the production of fiction. Conceptualized as a set of three separate yet interconnected stories, my thesis--And Other Stories --experiments with different genres and writing styles that…
In this dissertation I defend Rawlsian political liberalism against a challenge posed by Frantz Fanon; I justify my defense through interpretations of post-WWII Jewish American humor. Fanon claimed that stigmatization traps stigmatized people in distorted and devalued self-under…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of the recurring motif of play in post-dictatorship narratives in Argentina. I analyze play, including game-playing, along with other motifs and practices associated with childhood such as rhymes and singing games, in the constr…
How does one begin to analyze an inexplicable history? A history with no actual proof, just the words of those who've claimed to see—experience—these "things". With wars, or other events of the like, there are hundreds—thousands—of witnesses. Treaties are signed. Declarations ar…
Within the environmental aesthetics literature, there is a noticeable schism between two general approaches to understanding the aesthetic value of nature: the ambient approach and the narrative approach. focus on the character of aesthetic appreciation of nature, the way in whi…
The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomena of play by exploring kindergarten teachers’ perceptions of play, specifically investigating teachers’ perspectives on the importance of play, the role of the educator in play, and the changing face of play in response to evo…
This written thesis serves as a companion to the body of work I developed while pursuing my MFA at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. It traces the trajectory of my graduate school experience and culminates with my series, In the Act of Playing You Forget Where You Are…
Play is recognized as a critical public health factor for optimal child development. It is widely known that play has a positive impact across all developmental domains in children. However, the view that play is fundamental to all aspects of children’s development seems to be m…
Taking its direction from seminal works in the field of play theory, this dissertation examines ludic elements in the textual practices and intellectual community of the Union of Real Art (Ob”edinenie real’nogo iskusstva or OBeRIu). I use the concept of play to elucidate how the…
In this literature review, the therapeutic modality of play therapy and the utility of identifying and interpreting children’s play themes during play therapy sessions is explored. The foundation and history of play therapy, as well as three of the major theories of play therapy…
Mammalian carnivores play complex and sometimes keystone roles in structuring terrestrial ecosystems and facilitating biodiversity by driving trophic cascades that link predators to prey to plant communities. Carnivores have emerged as excellent ecological models that provide ev…