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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.
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 …
"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.
"Try What Repentance Can": Hamlet, Confession, And The Extraction Of Interiority, Paul Dustin Stegner
"Try What Repentance Can": Hamlet, Confession, And The Extraction Of Interiority, Paul Dustin Stegner
English
In his film adaptation of Hamlet (1996),Kenneth Branagh under scores the confessional themes present in the play by setting two scenes in a Roman Catholic confessional box. In the first scene, Polonius interrogates Ophelia about her relationship with Hamlet-an interaction that reinforces the common association of the confessional with an obsession over female sexuality. In the second scene, Hamlet listens to Claudius's penitential prayer and becomes,as Mark Thornton Burnett notes, "an unpunctual but unconsoling father confessor."l By depicting Hamlet and Claudius in the confessional box, Branagh introduces a conspicuous anachronism since the device was never used in early modem England …
Visual Communication And The Map: How Maps As Visual Objects Convey Meaning In Specific Contexts, Amy Propen
Visual Communication And The Map: How Maps As Visual Objects Convey Meaning In Specific Contexts, Amy Propen
English
This article reports the results of a case study of two maps, produced by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and their involvement in a federal court case over the deployment of the Navy's low-frequency active sonar. Borrowing from Kress and van Leeuwen's (1996) approach to visual analysis, Turnbull's (1989) understanding of the map, and Latour's (1990) understanding of how visuals work in social contexts, the article offers an analytical approach to studying maps as powerful visual, rhetorical objects.
The Value Of “Dialogue Events” As Sites Of Learning: An Exploration Of Research And Evaluation Frameworks, Jane L. Lehr, Ellen Mccallie, Sarah R. Davies, Brandiff R. Caron, Benjamin Gammon, Sally Duensing
The Value Of “Dialogue Events” As Sites Of Learning: An Exploration Of Research And Evaluation Frameworks, Jane L. Lehr, Ellen Mccallie, Sarah R. Davies, Brandiff R. Caron, Benjamin Gammon, Sally Duensing
Ethnic Studies
In the past five years, informal science institutions (ISIs), science communication, advocacy and citizen action groups, funding organizations, and policy-makers in the UK and the USA have become increasingly involved in efforts to promote increased public engagement with science and technology (PEST). Such engagement is described as taking place within the context of a “new mood for dialogue” between scientific and technical experts and the public. Mechanisms to increase PEST have taken a number of forms. One of the most visible features of this shift towards PEST in ISIs is the organization and staging of adult-focused, face-to-face forums that bring …
"Why Don't They Leave?" Saving Faith And Other Issues Of Catholic Missionization, Kathleen J. Martin
"Why Don't They Leave?" Saving Faith And Other Issues Of Catholic Missionization, Kathleen J. Martin
Ethnic Studies
No abstract provided.