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Gastronomy And Sexuality: "Table Language" In The Heptaméron, Colette H. Winn

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In his penetrating study on Marguerite de Navarre, Themes, Language and Structure, Marcel Tetel calls attention to the metaphoric usage of food in the Heptaméron. Critics, to date, have failed to pursue this line of inquiry. Readers accustomed to Rabelais's elaborate gastronomic depictions may be disappointed by the extreme sobriety of corresponding scenes in the Hemptaméron. Marguerite eschews the picturesque description of a generously laden table, the exuberance associated with this traditionally jovial event and the gigantism required by the Gargantuan legend in favor of briefer and often less colorful table encounters. Yet relegating these scenes to …

The Anglo-Norman Courtly Lyric, Carol J. Harvey

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Whereas many works of a religious or moral nature survive from the Anglo-Norman era, secular lyric poetry was until quite recently virtually unknown. Isabel S. T. Aspin's Anglo-Norman Political Songs provided the first, and to date the only, readily-accessible modern edition of secular lyrics. This collection of political poems and satires shows that the author of occasional verse is not only interested in singing the praises of the Blessed Virgin Mary or adapting parts of the liturgy into the vernacular; he is moved also to sing of the corruption of state or church, to lament the death of the noble …

Review Essay: David Nicholas, The Domestic Life Of A Medieval City, Francis X. Hartigan

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David Nicholas, The Domestic Life of a Medieval City, University of Nebraska Press, 1985. $26.50

On Ferrera And Chivalric/Epic Poetry In Italian Criticism Today, Maristella De P. Lorch

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Gennaro Savarse, Il "Furioso" e la cultura del Rinascimento. Letteratura italiana: Studi e testi 10. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984. 94 p. Lire 7,000.

Riccardo Bruscagli, Stagioni della civiltà estense. Saggi di varia umanità, 25. Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1982. 236 p. Lire 15,000.

Rosanna Alhaique Pettinelli, L'immaginario cavalleresco nel Rinascimento ferrarese. L'Ippogrifo, 29. Roma: Bonacci, 1983. 301 p. Lire 16,000.

Review Essay: David C. Fowler, The Bible In Middle English Literature, Donald Sullivan

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David C. Fowler, The Bible in Middle English Literature, University of Washington Press, 1984. $25.00

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Fuller's Processual Philosophy Of Law, Daniel E. Wueste

Publications

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Review Essay: James Weisheipl, Nature And Motion In The Middle Ages, Richard Harper

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James Weisheipl, Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages, Catholic University of America Press, 1985. $31.95

Review Essay: Warren Threadgold, Renaissances Before The Renaissance, Gunar Freibergs

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Warren Threadgold, Renaissances Before the Renaissance, Stanford University Press, 1984. $28.50

Review Essay: David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances And The Royal Family, Dorothy C. Jones

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David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family, University of Kansas Press, 1985. $25.00

2. Wondering At The World: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Kio & Gus', Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp

Later Elementary School Curriculum

This instructional manual for the novel Kio & Gus aims at helping children think about the world by encouraging them to acquire reasoning and inquiry skills. Through hundreds of exercises and discussion plans, children are shown how these cognitive skills can be applied to the concepts by means of which we understand the world of nature. As a result, this program is an ideal introduction to science and environmental education, as well as an excellent language arts curriculum. There is also a strong ethical thread in the novel revolving around a myriad of issues in environmental ethics, our relationships with …

Guest Scholar At St. Olaf, Albert Lee Tribune

Collected Papers of Peter Shea

Peter Shea, a nationally-known expert on doing philosophy with children and the convener of the newly-established Minnesota Center for Children's Thinking, will be a guest scholar at St. Olaf College in Northfield, NM.

The Case For Animal Rights, Tom Regan

Animal Welfare Collection

In the space I have at my disposal here I can only sketch, in the barest outline, some of the main features of the book Its main themes-and we should not be surprised by this-involve asking and answering deep, foundational moral questions about what morality is, how it should be understood, and what is the best moral theory, all considered. I hope I can convey something of the shape I think this theory takes. The attempt to do this will be (to use a word a friendly critic once used to describe my work) cerebral, perhaps too cerebral. But this …

Review Essay: Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins Of The University: The Schools Of Paris And Their Critics, 1100-1215, Donald Sullivan

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Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins of the University: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215, Stanford University Press, 1985. $45.00

Wit And Humor In Asl, Keila Tooley

Masters Theses

In his article "Linguistics and the Study of Poetic Language," Stankewicz (1960) characterizes poetic organization as "completely embedded in language and fully determined by its possibilities." The purpose of this study is to examine the form that poetic function assumes in a language that itself has a structural organization fundamentally different from that of oral languages and in which, accordingly, the possibilities for poetic organization are radically different.

In wit and poetry, elements of form and meaning—a linguistic system--are used to create complex multi-layered expressions with multiple meanings and systems of form and meaning. Similarities--and differences—in form, function and meaning …

Instead Of Contempt: Philosophical Complementarity, Christopher John Broniak

Master's Theses

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Philosophy For Children, Bob Elhert

Collected Papers of Peter Shea

A dozen educators in the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District are implementing the Philosophy for Children program developed by Matthew Lipman at the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State College in New Jersey. Peter Shea, a philosophy Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota, is observed facilitating a children's philosophy session and provides commentary.

Eleventh Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 1986-87, University Of Minnesota - Morris. Philosophy Department

Midwest Philosophy Colloquium

Programs for the eleventh Midwest Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Minnesota Morris in 1986-1987.

Introduction To Figure And Landscapes : Paintings And Drawings By Cornelia Foss, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Director's Statement To American Antique And Amish Quilts, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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(1986) On Thinking For Yourself., Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

Address to the Annual Speech Night of Sydney Boys High School, on Wednesday, December 4, 1985, by Laurance J. Splitter, Director of the Australian Institute of Philosophy for Children.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, January 1986, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Euphoria and Temperance by Robert P. Lawry
"News and Notes:" Activities of Members of the Center's Steering Committee
• Some Sharing About the Priorities of The Center for Professional Ethics by Wendy Miano

The First Moment Of Scientific Inquiry: C.S. Peirce On The Logic Of Abduction, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 2, John C. Burnham, Robert M. Khoury, Judith A. Spector, Leslie M. Thompson, Robert Wexelblatt, Pierre Papazian, Donald E. Secrest, Lucile Blanchard, Kelly Cherry, Martha Collins, Malcolm Glass, Robert Harlow, Duane Locke, George Looney, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cynthia S. Pederson, Jim Thomas, Kathleen Spivack, James Armstrong, Stephen Meats, Paul W. Zagorski, Philip Paradis, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Playing JOHN C. BURNHAM's new parlor game, "Who Is Now Great?” unexpectedly forms a negative consensus: the great men and women, like the dinosaurs, seem to belong to an earlier time, not to our own. The author wonders why, and shares his thoughts on the past, present, and future of greatness. Professor of History at The Ohio State University, with a scholarly interest in the history of psychiatry and American medical and social history, Burnham' s most recent book is on the psychoanalyst and physician Jelliffe.

ROBERT M. KHOURY and JUDITH A. SPECTOR explore the …

Gadamer, Habermas And The Death Of Art, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Since the appearance of Jurgen Habermas's critical review of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method [Wahrheit und Methode], there has been talk of the ‘Gadamer-Habermas debate' among those who are interested in the nature of historical understanding and social rationality. More recently a number of philosophers have come to see that the issues involved are of wider scope, and that the opposition of the two can be seen as emblematic of two very general styles or approaches to philosophy, which are at the centre of contemporary discussion. As one might expect, differences at fundamental levels concerning truth and understanding …

Barnabe Googe's Zodiake Of Life: A Translation Reconsidered, Marc Beckwith

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Marcellus Palingenius' Zodiacus Vitae in twelve books (Venice [1535?]) was exceedingly popular in Reformation Europe. In nearly 10,000 lines of Latin hexameters

are conteined twelue seuerall labours, painting out moste liuely, the whole compasse of the world, the reformation of manners, the miseries of mankinde, the pathway to vertue and vice, the eternitie of the Soule, the course of the Heavens, the mysteries of nature, and diuers other circumstances of great learning, and no lesse judgement,

as Barnabe Googe summarized it on the title page of his translation in 1576. The ZV saw over sixty editions as well as translations …

A Moral Voice For The Restoration Lady: A Comparative View Of Allestree And Vives, John A. Thomas

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Following the civil strife of the 1640s and the Interregnum of the 1650s, Anglican England felt the necessity of spiritual housecleaning to tighten its hold on the godly and to ferret out dissenting influences. Evidence of renewed authoritarianism is seen in Richard Allestree's early appointment in the 1660s as a lecturer for the city of Oxford, where his task was to establish the faith and to root out schismatical opinions propagated by "false" teachers of the Interregnum. In 1662 Charles was to pass measures, albeit reluctantly, requiring strict conformity concerning practices in the church not unlike those enforced by Laud. …

Sidney's Debt To Machiavelli: A New Look, William R. Drennan

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"I wish not there should be / Graved in mine epitaph a poet's name," asserts Astrophil late in Sidney's sonnet sequence (AS 90.8-9), and on this point at least we may safely assume that Astrophil speaks for Sidney as well. Indeed, recent scholarship emphasizes that Sidney was drawn more to the arena of politics than to the world of letters, a world that he himself called only his "unelected vocation" (Works 3: 3). James M. Osborn, for example, in his Young Philip Sidney 1572-1577, stresses Sidney's patient preparation for and lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of …

On Public Language And Private Language, Rohit J. Parikh

Publications and Research

It is discussed how a discussion of private experiences and qualia can arise in personal life. The examples used are an accident with a truck and a possible operation by researchers at CUNY.

Dragons And Giants From Frog And Toad Together (1971) By Arnold Lobel, Gareth B. Matthews

Chapter Books

Every story in Arnold Lobel's remarkable collection Frog and Toad Together exemplifies a trait I have called "philosophical whimsy"—humor that prods us readers to reflect on some philosophically interesting issue. In "Dragons and Giants," the humor begins when Frog and Toad look in a mirror to see if they are brave. Bravery is as difficult to be perfectly clear about as it is hard to ignore or devalue. It has puzzled and intrigued philosophers from Plato down to the present day. Children are admonished from a very young age to be brave. Blessed is the adult who invites, recognizes, and …