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Allen D. Breck Award Winner: Nothing’S Paradox In Donne’S “Negative Love” And “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’S Day”, Sean Ford

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John Donne's complicated use of paradox is nowhere more inviting than in the grammatical and conceptual use of the word "nothing," especially when Donne chooses to give this noun the quality of substance and presence, rather than using it to denote the absence of anything. Two poems in particular, from the Songs and Sonets, give affirmative existence to a nothing in order to make distinct arguments regard- ing the status of an existing thing. Both “Negative Love” and “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day” rely on this paradox to give a precise definition of the …

Review Essay: Melitta Weiss Adamson, Ed. Regional Cuisines Of Medieval Europe: A Book Of Essays, Debby Banham

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Melitta Weiss Adamson, ed. Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: a Book of Essays. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 304 pp.ISBN 0415929946.

Review Essay: Andrew Hadfield. Literature, Travel, And Colonial Writing In The English Renaissance 1545–1625, Joan Pong Linton

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Andrew Hadfield. Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545–1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 328 pp. $75.00. ISBN 0198184808.

Review Essay: Shari Horner. The Discourse Of Enclosure: Representing Women In Old English Literature, Alison Gulley

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Shari Horner. The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. viii + 207 pp. $21.95. ISBN 0791450104.

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The Prevention Of Infirm Or Monstrous Births, Michael T. Walton, Robert M. Fineman

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From ancient times, humans have tried to improve reproductive outcome, that is, to give birth to healthy, beautiful babies. Both folk traditions and medical theories offered hope that inform or monstrous births could be avoided. While most efforts were ineffectual by modern standards, some may have been beneficial. It was not until well into the twentieth century that clearly demonstrable therapies were developed to improve birth outcomes. However, those therapies were almost as limited as the ancient techniques, in light of the possibilities of genetic therapy in the twenty-first century. In the following essay, we will look at the history …

Review Essay: Lynn Tarte Ramey. Christian, Saracen And Genre In Medieval French Literature, Andrew Cowell

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Lynn Tarte Ramey. Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature. Studies in Medieval History and Culture, vol. 3. New York: Rou- tledge, 2001. 120 pp. ISBN 0415930138.

Beyond The Liberal Peace Project: Toward Peace With Justice, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Many contemporary liberals adhere to the "liberal peace project" (LPP) -- that is, the idea that world peace can be realized through the spread of political liberalism, or capitalist democracy. The LPP is based on projecting toward the future the well-documented fact that secure modern democracies have never fought wars with one another. A spirit of optimism prevails among LPP proponents, bolstered by the recent uprise in democracies, and they argue that their cause can be advanced by a liberal foreign policy that promotes free trade and human rights. I argue that the LPP is flawed by not recognizing that …

Review Of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare In The Kantian State (1999), Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Harry van der Linden's review of: Welfare in the Kantian State. By Alexander Kaufman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xii, 179. ISBN 0-19-829467-0 (cloth). £42.50, $45.00.

On The Grounds Of Globalization: A Topography For Feminist Political Engagement, Cindi Katz

Publications and Research

Globalization is nothing new. Global trade has been going on for millennia—though what constitutes the "globe" has expanded dramatically in that time. And trade is nothing if not cultural exchange, the narrow distinctions between the economic and the cultural having long been rendered obsolete. Moreover, our forbears, like us, were great "miscegenators." If here I gloss the racialized and gendered violence often associated with miscegenation, I do so strategically to note that all recourse to purity, indigeneity, or aboriginality—however useful strategically—should be subject to at least as much scrutiny as the easy romance with hybridity (see Mitchell 1997). Globalization has …

Contextual Unanimity And The Units Of Selection Problem, Stuart M. Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Sober and Lewontin’s critique of genic selectionism is based upon the principle that a unit of selection should make a context‐independent contribution to fitness. Critics have effectively shown that this principle is flawed. In this paper I show that the context independence principle is an instance of a more general principle for characterizing causes,called the contextual unanimity principle. I argue that this latter principle, while widely accepted, is erroneous. What is needed is to replace the approach to causality characterized by the contextual unanimity criterion with an approach based on the concept of causal mechanism. After sketching such an approach, …

Dreams And Reflections Under A Hill: Fragments Of A Triviographic Description Of The Umbra Vale By A Xxth-Century Ex-Soviet Transrational Traveler, T. R. Soidla

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Heidegger Circle Conference 2001 - Proceedings, Babette Babich

Research Resources

Heidegger on Science and Technology. Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the North American Heidegger Conference at Fordham University: May, 2001. Convenor: Babette Babich

Continuity And Modularity In Language Acquisition And Research, Jill De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

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Philosophy In The Wilderness, Jamie P. Ross

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

An analysis of the team-taught course, Knowledge, Art & Power: The Social Construction of Knowledge. It critically analyzes and rejects both of the following claims: 1. Knowledge consists of eternal truths, 2. Knowledge is relativistic. In so doing, we focus on an understanding that knowledge serves selective interests; knowledge has a teleology (purpose)- i.e. power.

In this course we examine and analyze the relationships among and between knowledge, power and art. That means we must first understand what counts as knowledge. One way of understanding what counts as knowledge is to understand the way in which power is defined …

Cosmopolitanism In Early Travel Literature Alexandre De Rhodes In Vietnam, Barbara W. Maggs

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Dangerous Persuasions Correspondence As Presence In Clarissa, Charles E. Gobin

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Smollett's Racial Consciousness In Roerick Random, James G. Basker

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Addison's Mastery Of Locke, William Walker

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Chaos, Contingency, And Candide, Theodore E. D. Braun

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Towards A Geriatric Enlightenment, George Rousseau

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Raped By The System An Account Of Clarissa In The Light Of Eighteenth-Century Law, Beth Swan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Aesthetics Of Terror Burke's Sublime And Helen Maria Williams's Visions Of Anti-Eden, Jack Fruchtman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Intermediality And The "Necessary Connection" In Fuseli's Remarks On The Writing And Conduct Of J. J. Rousseau, Steven Raynie

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The True Story Poetic Law And License In Johnson's Criticism, John L. Mahoney

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Law, Confinement, And Disruptive Excess In Hays's The Victim Of Prejudice, Sandra Sherman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Foliation Jokes In Tristram Shandy, Diana Patterson

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Greeks, Indians, And The Scotticsh Presbyterian Dissident Arguments For Vegetarianism In Enlightenment Scotland, David Allen

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Book Reviews

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