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As with our first two issues, the third volume of Proto: An
Undergraduate Humanities Journal features some of the finest
writing and scholarship among undergraduate students in the
Maryland and mid-Atlantic region. This year, as in the past, about
half of the issue is devoted to the top papers from the annual
Undergraduate Conference held at Stevenson University.
Unfortunately, Stevenson University has decided to put the
conference on indefinite hiatus. The journal will carry on despite
this setback; we hope this disappointing news will not deter
Proto's efforts to publish the insights and ideas of today's
emerging scholars. As a sign of the journal's continuing
development, we now have a website At www.protojournal.org,
visitors can browse essays from previous years, download submission
guidelines, contact members of the advisory board, find out more
about our publisher-Loyola University's student-run Apprentice
House Publishing-and link to ordering information for both current
and back issues. We encourage you to visit the site. In this issue,
readers should again be surprised and pleased with the style and
erudition with which students engage a variety of themes. This
year's Undergraduate Conference topic was "Realities-Discovered,
Created, Envisioned." One of the most compelling presentations was
by Tim Powling, whose essay describes the kind of friendship
possible between a dog and a soldier at war. Callie Ingram artfully
examines the complexities of communication in David Foster
Wallace's labyrinthine novel Infinite Jest. Then we turn to Megan
Franey, who argues that the dynamics of the possible realities of
family and self are often best told through the stories we tell one
another. Do we discover or create minds? How we answer this, writes
Amanda Brenner in her lucid essay, points to contrasting approaches
to the idea of artificial intelligence. In the Open Submissions
section, Nathan Dennies focuses on two major writers, Wallace
Stevens and Ernest Hemingway, in order to account for the
significance of shifts in our consciousness. Edward Lasher presents
an imaginative and fragmented reflection about a perplexing figure
named Briley. And Christina Murphy concludes this issue with a
scholarly analysis-in French-of the Spanish film La Vida Perra de
Juanita Narboni. Each accepted admission is reviewed by at least
two members on the editorial board, which consists of humanities
professors from mid-Atlantic colleges and universities. Guidelines
for submission are provided at the end of this issue as well as on
the website. We hope you enjoy this issue, and we look forward to
hearing from you. The Editors: Jean Lee Cole, Department of
English, Loyola University Maryland; Alex Hooke, Department of
Philosophy, Stevenson University
This year's theme is "Men and Women in the Medieval Era." Katherine
Pierpont leads off Volume 4 with a scholarly analysis of the subtle
ways prostitution was condoned and regulated in medieval Europe. In
the subsequent essay, Kathryn Brossa explains how competing notions
of the male and female artist are represented in Tennyson's
medievalesque poem, "The Lady of Shalott." That men cry is hardly a
modern phenomenon, as Colleen Mitchell insightfully discusses in
the context of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. We also include five
additional thoughtful and erudite essays in this volume. David
Gyllenhaal investigates the functions and symbolic significance of
the modern-day shaman. Using the conceptual tools of French
philosopher Michel Foucault, Madeline Collins examines the
discourse underlying the rhetoric and narrative of the IRA Green
Book. While the "Lolita phenomenon" has been widely addressed,
Rosemary Clark offers new insights through her careful accounts of
Nabokov and his anti-hero, Humbert Humbert. Casey Dunn presents a
fresh perspective on the so-called American Dream by looking at two
writers who were deeply concerned with it: Jack Kerouac and Hunter
S. Thompson. Finally, Ben Tarr completes this volume with personal
reflections and meditations on the scope of art and is relation to
human spirituality. Each published essay is reviewed by at least
two members of the editorial board, which consists of humanities
professors from mid-Atlantic colleges and universities. Guidelines
for submissions are provided at the end of this issue as well as on
the website. We continue to be inspired by the number of
undergraduate students who research and write about such a variety
of topics and perspectives. Enjoy the contributions; we look
forward to hearing from you.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Proto, an annual,
humanities-centered journal that will disseminate undergraduate
scholarship from institutions in the mid-Atlantic region. The
journal's title expresses its ethos. According to the Oxford
English Dictionary, the prefix proto- connotes something that is
the "earliest, original; at an early stage of development,
primitive; incipient, potential." At its best, undergraduate
scholarship embodies all of these qualities. While it almost
certainly constitutes scholarship at an early stage of development,
it also has the potential to be original and innovative; the seeds
of future thought often take root during the undergraduate years.
We see this journal as a site for this process of germination and
growth.
Included in this issue: Shift Happens: The Discourse Shift and Its
Implications for Society Sara Mohler, Ursinus College
(Collegeville, Pennsylvania) What the Hack?: Communication
Dysfunction in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 Jacqueline
Boualavong, Honors College, Towson University (Towson, Maryland)
Disobedience, Generational Gaps, and Warren's Court in Andrea Lee's
Sarah Phillips Nathan Dize, University of Maryland (College Park,
Maryland) Grimm Lessons: Animals and a Child's Vicarious Landscape
Christina Elaine Miles, Stevenson University (Stevenson, Maryland)
The Shifting Gaze in Stephen Crane's "The Monster" Abigail Wagner,
Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) Nausica,
Miyazaki's Great Heroine Kelly Thompson, Howard Community College
(Columbia, Maryland) Les Morceaux de ma M re (Bits and Pieces of My
Mother) Sophia Laurenne Altenor, Goucher College (Towson, Maryland)
Tolstoy: An Incomplete Conversion Diana Walsh, University of
Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
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