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Review Of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors In Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour And The Birth Of The American Empire, Andrew Morris
Review Of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors In Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour And The Birth Of The American Empire, Andrew Morris
History
No abstract provided.
Of Þam Him Aweaxeð Wynsum Gefea”: The Voyeuristic Appeal Of Christ Iii, Paul Dustin Stegner, Timothy D. Arner
Of Þam Him Aweaxeð Wynsum Gefea”: The Voyeuristic Appeal Of Christ Iii, Paul Dustin Stegner, Timothy D. Arner
English
Christ III’s representation of the rewards offered to the blessed in Heaven raises this question: Why would anyone offered the opportunity to enjoy the beatific vision turn his gaze toward the suffering of the damned in Hell? The poem’s emphasis on vision has conventionally been interpreted as indicating its didactic purpose of effecting repentance in the reader. Critics such as Frederick Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, and, most recently, Sachi Shimomura have connected the poem to standard theological interpretations of the Last Judgment and the penitential tradition.1 However, the unique, and perhaps troubling, issue of how and why the blessed choose …
Rewriting The Passing Novel: Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Kathryn Rummell
Rewriting The Passing Novel: Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Kathryn Rummell
English
No abstract provided.
The Splendor Of Mexican Matins: Sonority & Structure In Jerusalem’S Matins For The Virgin Of Guadalupe, Craig H. Russell
The Splendor Of Mexican Matins: Sonority & Structure In Jerusalem’S Matins For The Virgin Of Guadalupe, Craig H. Russell
Music
No Abstract.
Is It Okay To Wear My Down Vest?, David Seekell
Is It Okay To Wear My Down Vest?, David Seekell
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Nanotechnology Bound: Evaluating The Case For More Regulation, Patrick Lin
Nanotechnology Bound: Evaluating The Case For More Regulation, Patrick Lin
Philosophy
In continuing news, there is a growing debate on whether current laws and regulations, both in the US and abroad, need to be strengthened as they relate to nanotechnology. On one side, experts argue that nanomaterials, which are making their way into the marketplace today, are possibly harmful to consumers and the environment, so stronger and new laws are needed to ensure they are safe. On the other side, different experts argue that more regulation will slow down the pace of business and innovation in nanotechnology, or that self-regulation is the answer, or other opposing positions. This paper will draw …
Mind-Matter For Animals Matters: Science And The Denial Of Animal Consciousness, Estiva Reus, David Olivier
Mind-Matter For Animals Matters: Science And The Denial Of Animal Consciousness, Estiva Reus, David Olivier
Between the Species
Animal people are usually confident that Cartesianism is something of the past and that modern science clearly establishes that animals are sentient beings. But actually the scientific status of sentience is anything but firmly established. Not only is the subjective point of view absent from current science; it is precluded by construction from our fundamental realms of knowledge. Physics — the mother-science once we reject Cartesian dualism — is currently unable to include sentience in its account of the world. A large part of the philosophy of mind describes a mindless mind, from which subjectivity — feeling, qualia — has …
The Phenomenology Of Bigfoot, H. Peter Steeves
The Phenomenology Of Bigfoot, H. Peter Steeves
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
An Ethical Analysis Of The 3 Rs, Lisa Houde, Claude Dumas
An Ethical Analysis Of The 3 Rs, Lisa Houde, Claude Dumas
Between the Species
Even though the 3Rs (i.e., Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) are widely accepted as ethical standards when evaluating research projects using animals as experimental subjects, the ethical status of the 3Rs still remains to be clarified. The 3Rs were not derived from any ethical theory, but they represented an attempt to increase humanity to animal experimentation and at the same time to improve validity of scientific data (Russell & Burch, 1959). The aim of the present article was to provide an ethical analysis of the 3Rs through Engelhardt's bioethics theory (1998). The analysis revealed the 3Rs fitted to some extent Engelhardt ethical …
Tom Regan On Innocents, Lisa A. Kemmerer
Peter Singer On Expendability, Lisa A. Kemmerer
Peter Singer On Expendability, Lisa A. Kemmerer
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
On Responsible Knowledge Making And The Moral Standing Of Animals: Questioning What Matters And Why About Animal Minds, Lesley Mclean
On Responsible Knowledge Making And The Moral Standing Of Animals: Questioning What Matters And Why About Animal Minds, Lesley Mclean
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, Freya Mathews
Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, Freya Mathews
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Nonhuman Chimeras With Human Brain Cells, Eric Sotnak
Nonhuman Chimeras With Human Brain Cells, Eric Sotnak
Between the Species
Many people find the notion of blending humans and nonhumans together to create animals whose brains are composed entirely of human brain cells disturbing. I argue that these moral qualms lack adequate justification. I consider a number of reasons for objecting to the creation of such chimeras and argue that none of these reasons withstand scrutiny. I argue that the only plausible objections to these chimeras would require that they possess morally significant properties that would be lacked by similar, non-chimeric animals, but that there is no good reason to think this would be the case.
Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology, Ed. Andrew Linzey And Paul Barry Clarke, David Corner
Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology, Ed. Andrew Linzey And Paul Barry Clarke, David Corner
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Review Of Gary Steiner’S Anthropocentrism And Its Discontents, Richard Schubert
Review Of Gary Steiner’S Anthropocentrism And Its Discontents, Richard Schubert
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
"Sounds Like Kinky Business To Me": Subtextual And Textual Representations Of Erotic Power In The Buffyverse, Lewis Call
"Sounds Like Kinky Business To Me": Subtextual And Textual Representations Of Erotic Power In The Buffyverse, Lewis Call
History
No abstract provided.
Critical Review: Cometas En El Cielo, Traducción De The Kite Runner, William Martínez
Critical Review: Cometas En El Cielo, Traducción De The Kite Runner, William Martínez
World Languages and Cultures
Cometas en el cielo es la primera novela del Dr. Khaled Hosseini. La narración cruza épocas y fronteras, teniendo como trasfondo la historia moderna de Afganistán, desde el período anterior a la invasión rusa de 1980 hasta la actualidad: justo en el momento después a la invasión de los Talibanes.
El Impacto De "Viernes" En La Poesía Venezolana, William Martínez
El Impacto De "Viernes" En La Poesía Venezolana, William Martínez
World Languages and Cultures
This essay presents a historical review of the poetic production in Venezuela in the 30's and 40's. It reviews the role that "Viernes," a poetic group, had in developing the modern literary movements in Venezuelan literature. The impact that several members of the group had while in and then later after their departure from the group is examined. Equally, the poetic influences inherited by the group, both national and international, are discussed. Finally, the essay deals with the dissolution of the group and its impact in the literature of Venezuela and Latin America after World War II.
The Making Of ‘American’: Race And Nation In Neurasthenic Discourse, Brad Campbell
The Making Of ‘American’: Race And Nation In Neurasthenic Discourse, Brad Campbell
English
This paper considers the underexamined racial and nationalistic components of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century neurasthenic discourse to propose that neurasthenia was as much a discourse of modern American identity as it was a discourse of disease. By closely reading the medical and general texts which helped to popularize it, and by scrutinizing the context of its vogue and supposed subsequent decline, this paper shows how neurasthenia was intimately bound up with the era’s politics of race, nationalism and citizenship. Countering traditional understandings of the disease, this study suggests that neurasthenia did not simply anticipate but was pre-eminently preoccupied with …
"The Wondrous Death": Erotic Power In The Science Fiction Of James Tiptree, Jr., Lewis Call
"The Wondrous Death": Erotic Power In The Science Fiction Of James Tiptree, Jr., Lewis Call
History
James Tiptree, Jr., is surely one of the most controversial figures in the sf field, a field that is rife with controversy. The controversy surrounding Tiptree begins with the very question of his identity. In his introductions to Tiptree's 1975 short-story collection Warm Worlds and Otherwise, sf author and critic Robert Silverberg asked the questions that were on the minds of many in the sf community: "Who is Tiptree? What Is He?" Silverberg infamously concluded that "there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing" (xii). But during the winter of 1976-77, the sf world learned that "James …
Giving Grades, Taking Tolls: Assessing The Impact Of Evaluation On Developing Writers, Brenda Helmbrecht
Giving Grades, Taking Tolls: Assessing The Impact Of Evaluation On Developing Writers, Brenda Helmbrecht
English
This article uses one basic writer’s experience with assessment as a vehicle to explore whether the assessment practices struggling writers encounter on their essays effectively usher them into academic discourse or simply scare them away from that ambition entirely
A Brief History Of Anarchist Studies (So Far), Lewis Call
A Brief History Of Anarchist Studies (So Far), Lewis Call
History
For the past fifteen years, AS has been many things: innovative, insightful, provocative, occasionally outrageous - but never boring! AK Press has called Anarchist Studies 'the premier scholarly journal on anarchism ... erudite, and informed.'l AS provokes strong feelings, pro and con - surely a sign of success for any anarchist publication Reviewing the AS archive, one is struck by the remarkable consistency of what we may perhaps call the Anarchist Studies project. Since its inception, the journal has consistently attempted to broaden the scope of anarchist discourse by introducing themes, topics, perspectives and methodologies which have not traditionally …
Illuminating Evil: Hannah Arendt And Moral History, George Cotkin
Illuminating Evil: Hannah Arendt And Moral History, George Cotkin
History
Hannah Arendt’s well-known examinations of the problem of evil are not contradictory and they are central to her corpus. Evil can be banal in some cases (Adolf Eichmann) and radical (the phenomenon of totalitarianism) in others. But behind all expressions of evil, in Arendt’s formulations, is the imperative that it be confronted by thinking subjects and thoroughly historicized. This led her away from a view of evil as radical to one of evil as banal. Arendt’s ruminations on evil are illuminated, in part, by concerns that she shared with her fellow New York intellectuals about the withering effects of mass …
Paraíso Perdido, Paraíso Inventado. La Idealización Del Paraíso En La Literatura Latinoamericana: Un Comentario A Manera De Observaciones, William Martínez
Paraíso Perdido, Paraíso Inventado. La Idealización Del Paraíso En La Literatura Latinoamericana: Un Comentario A Manera De Observaciones, William Martínez
World Languages and Cultures
This essay attempts to present a commentary about the notion of paradise in Latin America, as a whole, with a quick review of literature produced in the last 500 years. The image of paradise arises with Columbus' arrival in the Caribbean. In his letters to the Spanish Crown, Columbus creates the myth of paradise in the Caribbean, an image that never existed and, yet, still appears today within Latin American Literature. In several literary periods the image is re-invented and transformed. The essay deals with the evolution of the notions of paradise, questioning, at the end, a possible future regarding …
Reading Differently, Rereading For Difference In Versions Of Rimbaud's "Mouvement", Brian G. Kennelly
Reading Differently, Rereading For Difference In Versions Of Rimbaud's "Mouvement", Brian G. Kennelly
World Languages and Cultures
How to engage students to reread Arthur Rimbaud’s 1886 poem “Mouvement” differently? What can they learn about the poem and in the process about themselves as readers of literature through its various versions and English language translations? Might rereading for difference hold pedagogical promise? How might a comparative study of the poem’s various versions in French and in English translation favor active reading and help students embrace the poem as differently meaningful because of its modernity?
Sarmiento Y Unamuno: La Pluma Vence A La Espada, Kevin T. Fagan
Sarmiento Y Unamuno: La Pluma Vence A La Espada, Kevin T. Fagan
World Languages and Cultures
Este ensayo propone ser una introducción de dos escritores de protesta política de nuestra historia literaria hispana moderna, Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811-88) en la Argentina y Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936) en España. La personalidad compleja de Sarmiento como ensayista político, literato y promotor de la educación dentro de la Argentina, su análisis de la realidad latinoamericana poscolonial y su visión crítica de España, le proporcionan una visión interesante a Unamuno, cincuenta años después. Unamuno se confiesa devoto lector y entusiasta panegirista de Sarmiento, junto con las riquezas culturales de Argentina y sus tragedias sociales. Unamuno ve a Sarmiento …
Is It True That ‘Evolution Is A Theory, Not A Fact’?, Todd R. Long
Is It True That ‘Evolution Is A Theory, Not A Fact’?, Todd R. Long
Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Graduate Students Hearing Voices: (Mis)Recognition And (Re)Definition Of The Jwpa Identity, Brenda M. Helmbrecht, Connie Kendall
Graduate Students Hearing Voices: (Mis)Recognition And (Re)Definition Of The Jwpa Identity, Brenda M. Helmbrecht, Connie Kendall
English
No abstract provided.
Teaching The Conflicts: (Re)Engaging Students With Feminism In A Postfeminist World, Meredith A. Love, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
Teaching The Conflicts: (Re)Engaging Students With Feminism In A Postfeminist World, Meredith A. Love, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
English
No abstract provided.