James J Donahue
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J Donahue |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J |
| FAMILY NAME | Donahue |
| SIGNATURE | DONAHUE J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Routledge (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Holy, Holy, Holy
Were Byzantine writings about the intermingling of human and angelic voices within ecclesiastical settings merely reflections of mystical theology, or were they actual observations about the movement of sound? Focusing on Thessaloniki, we consider how Byzantine writers described the voices of angels, how certain chants in the divine services animated the voices of celestial beings, and how and where painters represented angels, particularly withi…
Voicing His Objections
In God's Country, Percival Everett employs a variety of tropes from traditional Westerns in order to call out the inherent racism of the genre. In this article, I explore the means by which Everett also employs the narrative form itself as part of his critique. In his use of the first-person point of view, Everett highlights the various forms of racism in American culture while simultaneously demonstrating how that racism was knowingly transmitte…
Soundscapes of Byzantium
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in order to provide objective and phenomenological accounts of how sound—both chanted and spoken—was produced and received. Framing the soundscape of each church through an examination of its original shape, furnis…
Tonal Poetry, Bop Aesthetics, and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard
In the following article, I will attempt to outline a new reading methodology for Beat fiction, based on some of the principles of bop aesthetics. This reading understands fiction—especially Beat fiction—as an aural art, as opposed to merely a textual phenomenon (and so considers fiction in much the same way that poetry and music are often considered). Jack Kerouac composed his novel Visions of Gerard in 1956 (released in 1963), the same year Cha…
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
Item embargoed for five years
Soundscapes of Byzantium
Previous articleNext article FreeSoundscapes of ByzantiumSpyridon Antonopoulos, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James DonahueSpyridon Antonopoulos, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James DonahueSpyridon Antonopoulos, University of London ([email protected])Sharon E. J. Gerstel, University of California, Los Angeles ([email protected])Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern Ca…
Skinner Sweet, American Vampire
In their series American Vampire, Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque create a new breed of vampire, one specific to America. In the full-length collections of their current series, Snyder and Albuquerque explore issues of American identity through the improbable birth and activities of this new breed and those who encounter it. Reborn as a vampire during the American west of the 1880s, Skinner Sweet embodies an American identity defined by the m…
Focalization, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism in James Welch’s Fools Crow
Focalization, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism in James Welch’s Fools Crow James J. Donahue (bio) 1. Introduction Building on the work of philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, literary theorist Arnold Krupat (Red Matters) defines a cosmopolitan ethnocriticism as one that engages with a variety of methodological tools in order to explore the complicated tensions in literary works. Although aware of the pitfalls of what some critics might charge is another …
Soundscapes of Byzantium
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in order to provide objective and phenomenological accounts of how sound—both chanted and spoken—was produced and received. Framing the soundscape of each church through an examination of its original shape, furnis…
Soundscapes of Byzantium
Previous articleNext article FreeSoundscapes of ByzantiumSpyridon Antonopoulos, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James DonahueSpyridon Antonopoulos, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James DonahueSpyridon Antonopoulos, University of London ([email protected])Sharon E. J. Gerstel, University of California, Los Angeles ([email protected])Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern Ca…
Focalization, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism in James Welch’s Fools Crow
Focalization, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism in James Welch’s Fools Crow James J. Donahue (bio) 1. Introduction Building on the work of philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, literary theorist Arnold Krupat (Red Matters) defines a cosmopolitan ethnocriticism as one that engages with a variety of methodological tools in order to explore the complicated tensions in literary works. Although aware of the pitfalls of what some critics might charge is another …
Skinner Sweet, American Vampire
In their series American Vampire, Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque create a new breed of vampire, one specific to America. In the full-length collections of their current series, Snyder and Albuquerque explore issues of American identity through the improbable birth and activities of this new breed and those who encounter it. Reborn as a vampire during the American west of the 1880s, Skinner Sweet embodies an American identity defined by the m…
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
Item embargoed for five years
Soundscapes of Byzantium
Previous articleNext article FreeSoundscapes of ByzantiumSpyridon Antonopoulos, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James DonahueSpyridon Antonopoulos, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James DonahueSpyridon Antonopoulos, University of London ([email protected])Sharon E. J. Gerstel, University of California, Los Angeles ([email protected])Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern Ca…
Soundscapes of Byzantium
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki. This article examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in order to provide objective and phenomenological accounts of how sound—both chanted and spoken—was produced and received. Framing the soundscape of each church through an examination of its original shape, furnis…
Tonal Poetry, Bop Aesthetics, and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard
In the following article, I will attempt to outline a new reading methodology for Beat fiction, based on some of the principles of bop aesthetics. This reading understands fiction—especially Beat fiction—as an aural art, as opposed to merely a textual phenomenon (and so considers fiction in much the same way that poetry and music are often considered). Jack Kerouac composed his novel Visions of Gerard in 1956 (released in 1963), the same year Cha…
Voicing His Objections
In God's Country, Percival Everett employs a variety of tropes from traditional Westerns in order to call out the inherent racism of the genre. In this article, I explore the means by which Everett also employs the narrative form itself as part of his critique. In his use of the first-person point of view, Everett highlights the various forms of racism in American culture while simultaneously demonstrating how that racism was knowingly transmitte…
Holy, Holy, Holy
Were Byzantine writings about the intermingling of human and angelic voices within ecclesiastical settings merely reflections of mystical theology, or were they actual observations about the movement of sound? Focusing on Thessaloniki, we consider how Byzantine writers described the voices of angels, how certain chants in the divine services animated the voices of celestial beings, and how and where painters represented angels, particularly withi…
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