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A Moderately Gay History, Henry Abelove

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The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday. Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America series. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 296, 6 illustrations. $29.95 cloth.

"I Won't Grow Up", Kathryn R. Kent

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The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Bond Stockton. Series Q. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 312, 44 illustrations. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Trading Futures: Queer Theory's Anti-Antirelational Turn, Drew Daniel

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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz. Sexual Cultures series. New York City: New York University Press, 2009. Pp. 240, 29 illustrations. $19.00 paper.

Leo Bersani And The Universe, Brian Glavey

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Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays by Leo Bersani. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 224. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Unreason, Love, And Un-Becoming Queer, Renée C. Hoogland

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Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory by Lynne Huffer. Gender and Culture series. New York City: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 376, 10 illustrations. $84.50 cloth, $27.50 paper.

Introduction, Erin Murphy, J. Keith Vincent

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This special issue grew out of the event "Honoring Eve: A Symposium celebrating the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick," which was held on 31 october 2009 at Boston University (BU), about six months after Sedgwick passed away on 12 April. More than two hundred people came to the symposium from all over the United States and as far away as Spain and Israel. they were not just academics, but artists, musicians, writers, and many others who had been touched by Sedgwick's work. Within BU, faculty members from across the university prepared for the symposium by assigning Sedgwick's work in courses …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

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Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael (Paul Christensen) (Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California)

Charles Olson: The Scholar's Art (Robert von Hallberg) (Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California)

Olson's Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry (Sherman Paul) (Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, University of Southern California)

The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Wolfgang Iser) (Reviewed by Wallace Martin, University of Toledo)

The Failure of Criticism (Eugene Goodheart) (Reviewed by Michael Grimaud, Wellesley College)

What is Literature? (Paul Hernadi) (Reviewed by Michael Grimaud, Wellesley College)

The Sceptical Vision of Moliere (Robert McBride) (Reviewed by …

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Subject Criticism (David Bleich) (Reviewed by Mark Shechner, State University of New York-Buffalo)

Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and Literatzwe: A French-American Inquiry (Alan Roland) (Reviewed by Murray M. Schwartz, Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo)

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire (Gordon Williams) (Reviewed by K. R. Walters, Wayne State University)

The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition (2 vols.) (Gerard J. Brault) (Reviewed by Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University)

Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature (William J. Kennedy) (Reviewed by Thomas O. Sloane, The University of California, Berkeley)

Whatever happened …

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Names on Trees: Ariosto into Art (Rensselaer W. Lee) (Reviewed by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University)

The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene (Judith H. Anderson) (Reviewed by Judith Dundas, University of Illinois)

The Harmonies of "The Merchant of Venice" (Lawrence Danson) (Reviewed by Marilyn Williamson, Wayne State University)

Virginia Woolf: Sources of Madness and Art (Jean O. Love) (Reviewed by Diane Filby Gillespie, Washington State University)

Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England: The Decline of a Classical Norm (Howard D. Weinbrot) (Reviewed by Thomas E. Maresca, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Carlyle …

2012 Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture, Peter Dawson

Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture

An unwavering commitment to Indigenous social justice issues in Australia and excellent leadership qualities have earned Notre Dame student Peter Dawson the 2012 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship.

The scholarship, presented by the Law Council of Australia, is in honour of John Koowarta - a traditional owner of the Archer River region in the Cape York Peninsula who famously challenged the Queensland Government in the High Court from breaching the Federal Racial Discrimination Act 1975. His case created an important precedent for the Mabo trial in 1992 which found the existence of native title in Australia.

The aim of …

Prior Learning And Equivalence Class Formation, Michelle Peoples, Kevin J. Tierney, Maeve Bracken, Cara Mckay

The Psychological Record

Verbally competent volunteers, 6 male and 6 female, served as participants. They were exposed to two experimental procedures. Initially two nonsense syllables (A2 and C1) were paired with positive adjectives and two nonsense syllables (A1 and C2) were paired with negative adjectives, using a procedure analogous to classical conditioning. Following this they were exposed to a stimulus equivalence training procedure. They were taught to match three nonsense syllables A1, A2, and A3 to three novel nonsense syllables B1, B2, and B3 respectively, and subsequently to match B1, B2, and B3 to three new nonsense syllables C1, C2, and C3. Testing …

Stimulus Familiarity And The Delayed Emergence Of Stimulus Equivalence Or Consistent Nonequivalence, Per Holth, Erik Arntzen

The Psychological Record

Stimulus equivalence, defined as C-A matching, was tested in 80 adults following training in a matching-to-sample task involving arbitrary A-B and B-C matching. In Experiment 1, 50 subjects, successively assigned to one of five groups, were exposed to specific stimulus material. The stimuli for subjects in the first group were Greek letters only. In the remaining groups, pictures were incorporated as A-, B-, and/or C-stimuli. The probability of equivalence was low when the stimulus material consisted only of Greek letters. For the remaining groups, the probability of equivalence varied considerably depending upon whether the A-, B, and/or C-stimuli were pictures. …

The Effects Of Sexually Explicit Words On The Formation Of Stimulus Equivalence Classes, Joseph J. Plaud, George A. Gaither, Michael Franklin, Louise A. Weller, Jeannie Barth

The Psychological Record

Stimulus equivalence is a behavioral approach to the analysis of the "meaning" of stimulus sets. The formation of three-member (A-->B-->C) stimulus equivalence classes was used to investigate the effects of three different sets of sample and comparison stimuli on emergent behavior. The three stimulus sets were composed of sexually explicit words, sexually ambiguous words, and a third category of neutral words. Forty-one female and male subjects participated in a modified matching-to-sample experiment. Using a mixed crossover design, subjects received training and emergent relationship training in the three stimulus set conditions, controlling for serial order effects. Results revealed a …

Superstitious Math Performance: Interactions Between Rules And Scheduled Contingencies, H. A. Chris Ninness, Sharon K. Ninness

The Psychological Record

Experimental conditions were designed to examine students' sensitivity to scheduled contingencies and accurate or fallacious rules as these variables influence performance during computer-generated math problems. Experimental subjects were provided: scheduled contingencies followed by extinction, follow-up extinction, and a rules condition promulgating accurate or fallacious rules for accessing reinforcement. Control subjects did not have access to rules; however, sensitivity to direct-acting contingencies was measured during response independent reinforcement. Performing with accurate rules and scheduled contingencies, most experimental subjects correctly answered math problems at accelerated rates and extended durations. Also, providing fallacious rules during response independent reinforcement induced high rates and extended …

Is Acquired Tolerance To Hypothermia Susceptible To Extinction?, Mitchell M. Metzger, Steven B. Harrod, Steven C. Kissinger, David C. Riccio

The Psychological Record

Studies examining adaptation to thermoregulatory challenges have shown that tolerance to hypothermia is mediated, in part, by associative (Pavlovian) learning mechanisms. This study examined whether acquired tolerance to deep body cooling (hypothermia) could be extinguished by conditions in which presentations of the environmental cues were presented in the absence of hypothermia treatment. The results of Experiment 1 indicate that five extinction exposures in which the context was presented alone were not sufficient to extinguish established hypothermia tolerance in rats. Experiment 2 demonstrated that tripling the number of daily extinction exposures from 5 to 15 also did not disrupt adaptation to …

The Phantom Array: A Perisaccadic Illusion Of Visual Direction, Wayne A. Hershberger, J. Scott Jordan

The Psychological Record

Naive observers (N = 75) were asked to saccade in the dark across a point light source blinking on and off at 200 Hz and to describe the resultant phantom array (Hershberger, 1987). The vast majority represented this perisaccadic illusion of visual direction essentially as Hershberger described it. Replicable features of the phantom array imply that the perisaccadic shift of retinal local signs (i.e., spatiotopic coordinates) is discontinuous, comprising two separate parts, a discrete partial shift that occurs before the eyes start to move, and a continuous partial shift that is completed at about the same time as the eye …

Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) Counting In A Computerized Testing Program, Michael J. Beran, Duane M. Rumbaugh, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

The Psychological Record

Using computer-mediated joystick manipulation, the ability of a common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) to select arrays of items equal to a given target number was examined. A random dot condition was included in which all sequence cues were eliminated as a means to reach the target numbers 1 to 4. The participant, Austin, had only the quantity of items already selected as a record of how high the count had progressed. Performance on the random dot trials was found to be significantly above chance and improvement over time was also statistically significant. Results of this experiment provide evidence that Austin behaved …

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The Art of William Blake (Anthony Blunt) (Reviewed by Geoffrey Keynes, Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, England)

The Piper and the Bard: a Study of William Blake (Robert F. Gleckner) (Reviewed by F. W. Bateson, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

The Theory of the Novel in England: 1850-1870 (Richard Stang) (Reviewed by Bruce McCullough, New York University)

Heiress of All the Ages. Sex and Sentiment in the Genteel Tradition (William Wasserstrom) (Howard W. Webb, Jr., Southern Illinois University)