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The Confessions Of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life Of The Old South, By Edward Isham, Edited By Charles C. Bolton And Scott P. Culclasure, Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
The Confessions Of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life Of The Old South, By Edward Isham, Edited By Charles C. Bolton And Scott P. Culclasure, Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
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A review of The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, by Edward Isham, edited by Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure
Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott
Gettysburg: An Exhibit For The First-Year Reading Experience, Patrick G. Scott
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Based on an exhibition for University of South Carolina students reading Michael Shaara's bestselling book The Killer Angels, this catalogue recounts the story of the battle of Gettysburg day by day, with an opening section introducing the major participants and a final section dealing with the commemoration of the battle and its treatment in later American literature. All the items in the exhibition are drawn from the Francis A. Lord Civil War Collection and the Robert S. Chamberlain Military History Collection, both in Rare Books & Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.
The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images Of Boys, David Lee Miller
The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images Of Boys, David Lee Miller
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"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb
"A Man In A Painted Garment:" The Social Functions Of Jesting In Elizabethan Rhetoric And Courtesy Manuals, Christopher Holcomb
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Many Elizabethan rhetoric and courtesy manuals offer jesting as a powerful rhetorical strategy for managing specific situations. Although highly pragmatic, the manuals' treatments of the subject imply a sociology of humor that classifies jests according to the broader social functions they serve: jests which preserve existing social relations and jests which disrupt, or even challenge, them. What eludes this classificatory scheme, however, are the properties of jesting itself. Jesting is always a flirtation with disorder and often serves conservative and disruptive functions simultaneously. If this is so, then the manuals' discussions of jesting replay (and magnify) ambiguities and anxieties characteristic …
Innocence And Experience, Kevin Lewis
Conceptual Clarification And Policy-Related Science: The Case Of Chemical Hormesis, Kevin C. Elliott
Conceptual Clarification And Policy-Related Science: The Case Of Chemical Hormesis, Kevin C. Elliott
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This paper examines the epistemological warrant for a toxicological phenomenon known as chemical hormesis. First, it argues that conceptual confusion contributes significantly to current disagreements about the status of chemical hormesis as a biological hypothesis. Second, it analyzes seven distinct concepts of chemical hormesis, arguing that none are completely satisfactory. Finally, it suggests three ramifications of this analysis for ongoing debates about the epistemological status of chemical hormesis. This serves as a case study supporting the value of philosophical methodologies such as conceptual clarification for addressing contemporary scientific disputes, including policy-related scientific disputes that may be heavily influencedby social and …