作者: Upanishads (Aum FEMA!!)
標題: [轉錄][轉寄] 北美摩托文學相關博士論文摘要
時間: 東吳機研站 Wed Oct 17 14:15:47 2001
※ [本文轉錄自 Upanishads 信箱]
作者: Upanishads.bbs@********
標題: [轉寄] 北美摩托文學相關博士論文摘要
時間: Wed Oct 17 14:14:49 2001
發信人: Upanishads (Aum FEMA!), 信區: MOTO_Magazine
標 題: 北美摩托文學相關博士論文摘要
發信站: 台灣專業汽機車BBS-小老婆俱樂部 (Wed Oct 17 14:14:34 2001), 轉信
不小心逛到的，除了第一篇性質不太一樣之外，
其他幾篇都跟 『萬里任禪遊』一書扯的上點關係。 =)
motorcycle literature
Title: Technological fluency and the art of motorcycle
maintenance: Emergent design of learning environments
Author: Cavallo, David Paul
Degree: PhD
School: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Date: 2000
Adviser: Papert, Seymour
Source: DAI-B 61/07, p. 3681, Jan 2001
Subject: COMPUTER SCIENCE (0984); EDUCATION, GENERAL (0515);
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT (0700)
Abstract: The empirical basis of this thesis is a two-year project
to bring new learning environments and methodologies to
rural Thailand. Five theoretical and practical
innovations are emphasized: (1) A new methodology of
merging education with the actual use of technology to
improve the economy and quality of life of community is
demonstrated. (2) A practice of “<italic>
applied epistemological anthropology</italic>,”
which consists of probing for skills and knowledge
resident in a community and using these as bridges to new
content, is developed. For example, analysis of learning
behaviors led me to identify an “engine
culture” in rural Thailand as an unrecognized
source of “latent learning potential.” This
theory has already begun to spawn a theoretical enquiry
with significant promise for assessment of the learning
potential of developing countries. (3) Pilot
projects were mounted outside of the education system
with the specific purpose of breaking “educational
mindsets” that have been identified as blocks to
educational reform. A salient example is the assumption
that the population and teachers of rural areas lack the
cognitive foundations for modern technological education.
The engine culture is an existence proof for the theory
of unrecognized foundational elements. (4) The work
required a flexible approach to the design of digital-
based educational interventions. Analysis of these design
issues has led to a theoretical framework,
“Emergent Design,” for investigating how
choice of design methodology contributes to the success
or failure of education reforms. (5) The concept of
Emergent Design exposes parallels with developments in
the restructuring of non-educational organizations. To
help explicate this, I draw from my own experience in
reforming a healthcare organization.
The work suggests a conclusion with a very broad sweep:
The latent learning potential of the world population has
been grossly underestimated as a result of prevailing
mindsets that limit the design of interventions to
improve the evolution of the global learning environment.
(Copies available exclusively from MIT Libraries, Rm. 14-
0551, Cambridge, MA ********. Ph. 617-253-5668; Fax
617-253-1690.)
------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Learning to care for experience: John Dewey and Robert
Pirsig on recovering the aesthetic in the everyday
Pub No: 9910873
Author: Granger, David A.
Degree: PhD
School: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Date: 1998
Pages: 357
Adviser: Jackson, Philip W.
ISBN: 0-599-09272-6
Source: DAI-A 59/11, p. 4092, May 1999
Subject: EDUCATION, PHILOSOPHY OF (0998); PHILOSOPHY (0422);
LITERATURE, AMERICAN (0591)
Abstract: This dissertation looks to integrate John Dewey's
aesthetics and educational theory to an extent that Dewey
himself never achieved. Using Robert Pirsig's popular
<italic>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance</italic> as a narrative context, I attempt to
show (rather than simply argue for) the educative value
of teaching students how to cultivate aesthetic
experiences both within and beyond the classroom. I
contend that such experiences are for Dewey paradigmatic
instances of learning and growth. My approach is highly
interdisciplinary throughout, drawing on art, philosophy,
literature, literary criticism, and the social sciences.
With the main body of the dissertation, I reveal that a
thought-provoking and relatively coherent philosophical
position can be gleaned from Pirsig's writings, and that
this position, given its markedly Deweyan sentiments and
vivid narrative mode of expression, can serve as a
valuable illustration of and commentary on many of
Dewey's ideas. In staging such an encounter, moreover,
some of the potential pitfalls of pursuing an artful life
come to light, pitfalls that relate rather directly to
current debates surrounding the notion of
“authenticity” and various private practices
of self-fashioning. I maintain that becoming aware of
these pitfalls as an educator can be powerfully
instructive, especially when contrasted with the overt
social dimension of Dewey's aesthetics of the everyday.
The concluding section of the dissertation uses the
material from the previous several chapters to develop a
comprehensive vision of aesthetic education. It closes
with a call for educational environments that serve to
enhance students' intellectual and emotional
responsiveness to the everyday; that is, environments
that encourage students to affirm their limitations and
half-knowledge by taking an active interest in
<italic>all</italic> of the constituents of experience.
------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Motorcycle menace: Media genres and the construction of a
deviant culture
Pub No: 9731796
Author: Fuglsang, Ross Stuart
Degree: PhD
School: THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Date: 1997
Pages: 258
Adviser: Smith, Jeffery A.
ISBN: 0-591-41105-9
Source: DAI-A 58/05, p. 1488, Nov 1997
Subject: MASS COMMUNICATIONS (0708); AMERICAN STUDIES (0323)
Abstract: Outlaw motorcycle clubs have long been meaningful symbols
of what is wrong with society. They have been the not-a-
citizen, symbols of sexual, social and criminal deviance.
Over time the outlaw myth grew to encompass more than a
one-dimensional stereotype. It is varied in its message
and, depending on the context, can represent an attitude
and lifestyle to be admired, despised, feared or emulated
by both men and women. As uniquely qualified non-
conformists, bikers were made to order for the media's
penchant for addressing the various definitions of
deviance and communicating at any given time just where
the line is between obeying the law and stepping out of
bounds.
Media response to the outlaw motorcycle clubs suggests a
comparative analysis of select genres. Using bikers and
motorcycle clubs as concrete examples of outlaw behavior
allows analysis, across genres, of the variations in
their definitions of deviance and responses to rule-
breaking behavior. The study considers how, and to what
extent, the media act as instruments of social control,
and how changes in definitions of deviance reflect
changes in the media's perceptions of deviant behavior
and the outlaw myth. It is an opportunity to examine
larger aspects of America's perceptions of deviance and
the myth of the motorcycle outlaw. The research questions
addressed are: (1) How do the genres described here
construct and use biker myths and images of outlaw clubs?
(2) What do the images reveal about the genre's
relationship to social boundaries, deviance and the
status quo? (3) What differences in methods and freedom
from the strictures of the status quo exist among media
genres?
Genres analyzed include mainstream newspapers, national
news magazines, situation comedies, literary non-fiction
and biography, masculinist fiction, comic books, biker
movies and biker magazines. Representative texts from
each genre reveal their visions of reality and how they
communicate that reality to an audience. The research is
not an exhaustive analysis of every representation of
bikers. Rather it is concerned with providing a flavor
for the variety of myths and images used to portray a
subculture.
------------------------------------------------------------
Title: On the road with monkey: The transmission of Zen Buddhism
in two contemporary American novels
Pub No: 9736383
Author: Storseth, Terri Lee
Degree: PhD
School: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Date: 1997
Pages: 246
Adviser: Shulman, Robert
ISBN: 0-591-46278-8
Source: DAI-A 58/06, p. 2213, Dec 1997
Subject: LITERATURE, AMERICAN (0591); RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY OF
(0322); AMERICAN STUDIES (0323)
Abstract: The novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by
Robert Pirsig and The Brothers K by David Duncan are
works promulgating the Zen Buddhist world view to
America. Currently, the postmodern theoretical climate is
conducive to an exposition of the Zen perspective.
Postmodernism and Zen concur in their postulation of a
decentered universe. There are no absolutes upon which we
can rely. A corollary assumption negates the existence of
an abiding 'self.' Our self identity is contingent and
transitory, emerging from competing discourses. But
whereas postmodernism holds there is no experience free
of the contingencies of language, Zen Buddhism teaches
that it is possible to transcend the boundaries of
language and awaken to a vast store of consciousness
uncontaminated by preconceptions. According to Zen, we
are habitually deluded about the nature of world by the
mental structures we impose on our perceptions, dividing
reality into an assembly separate entities and selves. We
are consequently unaware of the interconnectedness of all
phenomena and of the potential magnitude of our own
consciousness. Inducing this awareness heightens the
intuitive powers and expands our affective responses.
In his autobiographical novel, Robert Pirsig attempts to
undermine the subject/object dualism that Zen postulates
is the principal ground of delusion. During the course of
a cross-country motorcycle journey, he analytically
demonstrates the 'irrationality' of our subjugation to
reason at the expense of affect. Seeing the world in
terms of self verses other, we have dominated nature at
the cost of becoming enemies to natural processes and one
another. The practice of Zen mindfulness, of profound
identification with the objects of perception, is offered
as a means of gradually diminishing the power of
dualistic thinking in our lives.
David Duncan presents Zen practices as useful in
overcoming entrapment in narrow and deluded subject
positions. He describes the evolution of relationships
among members of the Chance family over a twenty year
period when the family is torn apart by ideological
battles. The fissures are healed by the characters who
learn to be dialogically open and ideologically liminal.
Thus, the Zen ideology of no-ideology is promoted.
------------------------------------------------------------
Title: THE AESTHETICS OF INDETERMINACY: A MEETING GROUND BETWEEN
EASTERN MYSTICISM AND POSTMODERNISM AND SELECTED NOVELS
BY TOM ROBBINS, RICHARD BRAUTIGAN, AND ROBERT PIRSIG
(BRAUTIGAN RICHARD, ROBBINS TOM, PIRSIG ROBERT,
MYSTICISM)
Pub No: 9329535
Author: SHIN, DOO-HO
Degree: PHD
School: INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Date: 1993
Pages: 424
Adviser: VELLA, MICHAEL W.
Source: DAI-A 54/06, p. 2153, Dec 1993
Subject: LITERATURE, AMERICAN (0591); RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY OF
(0322)
Abstract: Indeterminacy has become a dominant concern in postmodern
literature and literary criticism as well as in other
postmodern cultures and the research done these areas
demonstrates an abiding interest in indeterminacy.
However, little effort has been made in establishing a
meeting ground between Eastern mystical traditions and
Western postmodernist thought. And even less research has
been done on the postmodern writers who pave a new way of
understanding postmodern Western culture by establishing
dialogue between the traditions of the East and literary
postmodernism of the West.
This dissertation explores a meeting ground between
Eastern mystical traditions and postmodern Western
culture, attempts to account for it theoretically, and
discusses how such dialogue works in selected novels by
postmodernist writers, who not only employ postmodern
indeterminacy but also incorporate Eastern mystical ideas
in their works: Tom Robbins's Another Roadside
Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Richard
Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, and Robert Pirsig's
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A general
discussion of my method covers the historical and current
debates concerning the issue of determinacy and
indeterminacy in the areas of the new physics, deep
ecology, deconstruction language theory, and philosophy
in each chapter, in relation not only to literature and
literary criticism, but also to Eastern mysticism.
Eastern mystical traditions share striking similarities
with postmodern thinking about indeterminacy in these
areas. Indeterminacy has been constantly accepted in
Eastern mystical traditions, while in the West it has
only recently gained attention. And these writers who
were familiar with both traditions well developed the
theme of indeterminacy in their writing.
By studying these three authors' dominant concerns as
these radiate out from indeterminacy, we get a better
sense of how far they have taken us in a postmodernist
East-West dialogue of contemporary thought and expression
and how the Easterners are potentially well equipped with
spiritual traditions not only to understand Western
postmodern literary phenomena which are still new to most
Eastern readers but also to develop their own culture
specific versions of postmodern literature and criticism.
------------------------------------------------------------
--
※ 來源:‧台灣專業汽機車BBS-小老婆俱樂部 jorsindo.twbbs.org
‧[FROM: 61-217-60-137.HINET-]
--
※ 轉寄:‧台灣專業汽機車BBS-小老婆俱樂部 jorsindo.twbbs.org‧[FROM: 61-217-60-137.HINET-]
--
※From: 東吳機研 scumotor.twbbs.org Upanishads From 61-217-60-137.HINET-IP.h� ...
一個玩車人的天地/各車系專屬區/GP SBK TIS賽事討論區/進口車討論區/