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December 3, 2013 College Council Minutes, Cuny Guttman Community College
December 3, 2013 College Council Minutes, Cuny Guttman Community College
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Surviving The City: Resistance And Plant Life In Woolf’S Jacob’S Room And Barnes’ Nightwood, Ria Banerjee
Surviving The City: Resistance And Plant Life In Woolf’S Jacob’S Room And Barnes’ Nightwood, Ria Banerjee
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In Jacob’s Room (1922) and Nightwood (1936), Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes use plant life to express a profound ambivalence about the masculine-inflected ordering functions of art and morality. They show that these processes codify lived experience and distance it from the feminine and sexual. To counter this turn towards the urban inauthentic, both novels depict non-urban spaces to upend conventional notions of usefulness. They fixate on evanescent flowers, wild forests, and untillable fields as sites of resistance whose fragility and remoteness are strengths. In Jacob’s Room, I argue that the eponymous protagonist is destroyed by his conventional education …
Ireland Trip Exposes Students To Turbulent History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Ireland Trip Exposes Students To Turbulent History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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Tarrying With The "Private Parts", Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Tarrying With The "Private Parts", Robert F. Reid-Pharr
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Two-thirds of the way through Object Lessons (2012), Robyn Wiegman's provocative study of the institutional and ideological development of what she names identity-based modes of inquiry in US colleges and universities, the author recounts a 2003 trip she took to Leiden to attend the inaugural meeting of the International American Studies Association. There, she was regularly met with the claim that American studies, at least as it is practiced by citizens and long-term residents of the United States, was deeply provincial and too caught up with rehearsals of the humdrum difficulties of American social and cultural life, particularly our always …
On Kripke's Puzzle About Time And Thought, Rohit J. Parikh
On Kripke's Puzzle About Time And Thought, Rohit J. Parikh
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We discuss a variant of a puzzle introduced by Saul Kripke.