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Sentimentalism, interracial romance, and Helen Hunt Jackson and Clorinda Matto de Turner's attacks on abuses of Native Americans in Ramona and Aves sin nido.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Helen Hunt Jackson and Clorinda Matto de Turner's novels Ramona (1884) and Aves sin nido (Birds Without a Nest, 1889) share much in common. Perhaps most importantly, both authors wrote their novels as part of a program of advocacy for Native Americans. In this essay, I argue that in their ...
Toward a Heideggerean Eco-Phenomenology.(environmentalism)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... <Pre> "Let us make Heidegger truly the name, not of a man, but of a matter of thought." --John D. Caputo (1)We believe, however, that we may not need something new, but need to reawaken something old, to reawaken our understanding of Earth wisdom. In the broadest sense, ...
Dammed dreams: dams in a cross-section of literary perspectives.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Introduction Flood is one of the most archetypal images in literature, symbolizing god's wrath, punishment for sin and a cleansing transformation. But what of flood induced by man? What sort of symbolism does it generate? A cross-cultural sample of literary works on dams ...
The politics of sacrifice: Mel Gibson and Georges Bataille.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... This paper analyzes Mel Gibson's depictions of human sacrifice in Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ in conjunction with Georges Bataille's writings on sacrificial rituals in The Accursed Share, Inner Experience, and related texts. Gibson at the dawn of the twenty-first century, like ...
Cadalso, Jose de. Lugubrious Nights. An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Romance.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Cadalso, Jose de. Lugubrious Nights. An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Romance. Translated from the Spanish with an Introduction by Russell P. Sebold. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 86pp. Russell P. Sebold's elegant edition and translation of Jose de Cadalso's ...