Recently added articles from Studies in the Humanities:
Critical vanguard studies: an inter(re)view.(Mike Sell)(Interview)
Jun 01, 2008; ... On March 8, 2008, Professor Mike Vanden Heuvel, Chair of the Theater and Drama Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted an interview with Dr. Mike Sell, English Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with some questions contributed by M.A. and Ph.D. students from ...
Transformative practices and historical revision: Suheir Hammad's born Palestinian, born Black.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... As readers, we need to approach this literature [Arab-American] not with fixed expectations but in a spirit of open inquiry. As writers, our task is not only to claim and reshape the meanings of both "Arab" and "American," but also to explore an identity still in the process of being ...
Heidegger's aesthetics: the art object and history.(Martin Heidegger)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... "In the vicinity of the artwork we are suddenly somewhere else than we usually tend to be." --Heidegger "Pure art ... is the creation of an evocative magic, containing at once the object and the subject, the world external to the artist and the artist himself." ...
The female, the feminist and the feminine: re-reading Tayeb Salih's season of migration to the North.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... This paper inquires into the dynamics and the inner dialectics in the construction of Arab women's identities in Tayeb Salih's "Mawsim al-Hijrah ila Shimal" (Season of Migration to the North 1969). The novel, (henceforth Season) has been acclaimed in the East and the West for its excellent ...
Waiting for the End: Gender and Ending in the Comtemporary Novel.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; ... WAITING FOR THE END: GENDER AND ENDING IN THE COMTEMPORARY NOVEL, by Earl G. Ingersoll. Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007. 288pp. $55.00, hardback. In his critical work, Waiting for the End: Gender and Ending in the Contemporary Novel (2007), Earl G. Ingersoll examines the ...
Editor's introduction to special issue: regency studies.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... The facts of the situation are fairly straightforward: George III, "old, mad, blind, despised, and dying," was declared unfit to rule in 1811 and his son, the Prince of Wales, and future George IV, was installed as Regent--a position he filled until his father's death in 1820. (1) Hence, ...
Silver forks, stereotypes, and regency romance.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... In his cultural study England and the English (1833), Edward Bulwer argues for the political significance of a literary genre little known today: the novel of fashionable life, also called the silver fork novel. (1) By describing and satirizing the follies and vices of high society, ...
"A kind of necessary inhumanity": cultivating negative capability through the clinical gaze.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [Tragedy] makes us all thoughtful spectators in the lists of life. --William Hazlitt, review of Othello The contemporary notion of "medical detachment" demands of physicians a complex ability to be both "actors" and "spectators", as well as an ability to ...
The good, the bad, and the aesthetic: ballerinas and celebrity during the regency.
Dec 01, 2007; ... During its heyday from the 1820s well into the 1840s, the Romantic ballet featured some of the most famous ballerinas the dance world has ever produced. Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, and Fanny Elssler were among the first dancers to be renowned internationally, and they ...
Reading beyond loss (1).(Essay)
Dec 01, 2007; ... This paper proceeds from the notion that literature and film can provide important insights into the production and dissemination of public discourses, as well as interrogating the value of the Western literary canon. My aim in this paper is to evaluate the importance of the canon as an ...
Filming 'princes' and princesses: race, class, and the regency in the 1990s.
Dec 01, 2007; ... In the process of introducing her 1997 anthology, Black British Feminism: A Reader, Heidi Safia Mirza offered what may appear to be an irrefutable proposition: "Gender is not experienced in the same way when you are positioned as working class or black, or both." (1) It would seem equally ...
The perilous pleasures of the cyberpastoral: Electric Dreams and You've Got Mail.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... The computer revolution continues to alter drastically many aspects of our personal and professional lives, and a similar evolution undoubtedly holds true for narrative genres as well. As society continues to move further into the computer age, genres must adapt and evolve in response to ...
Navigating liminal spaces: a rediscovery of Meredith's "The Day of the Daughter of Hades".(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... George Meredith's "The Day of the Daughter of Hades" (1883) is both over-looked and under-appreciated by modern scholars. Often classified as one of Meredith's nature poems, "The Day of the Daughter of Hades" was introduced in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883) and remains, to ...
Taking off into the realm of metaphor: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... In the quarter century since he published his first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), Kazuo Ishiguro has been engaged in an increasingly conflicted relationship with his audience. Unlike many other writers who distrust and avoid interviews, Ishiguro has been willing to submit to a ...
Homeland (in)security, or the new intelligence on mothers.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... <Pre>The simple mindedAnd the uninformedCan be easily led astrayAnd those that cannot connect the dotsHey, look the other way.(John Mellencamp, "Walk Tall") We may be choosing to become a culture that prefers not toread, that prefers not to write, ...
The eternal return: Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... One of the main themes of Gilles Deleuze has been the relation of time and the image. Deleuze's intriguing exploration of this relation appears in his two-volume work on the philosophy of cinema titled Cinema I: The Movement-Image and Cinema II: The Time-Image. Deleuze shows us that the ...
Food preparation, food consumption, and the process of identity formation in Peter Balakian's memoir Black Dog of Fate.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Food for us was a complex cultural emblem, an encoded script that embodied the long history and collective memory of our Near Eastern culture. (47) This passage from Peter Balakian's 1997 memoir Black Dog of Fate suggests the important role that food preparation and food ...
Rev. of Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2007; ... Rev. of Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Ed., Bernard Schweizer, University of Delaware Press, 2006. ISBN 10: 0-87413-950-3. 334 pp. $61.50 hdbk. TO LOVE AN IDEA "TO LOVE AN IDEA IS TO LOVE IT A LITTLE MORE THAN ONE SHOULD." JEAN ROSTAND The ...
Indian Curriculum.(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2006; ... (Indian Curriculum can be used to substitute for courses in mathematics, ancient history, mythology, and religious catechism.) Addition: Long time ago, before human beings were here on earth Grandmother Woodchuck instructed her grandson Gluscap about how to hunt and ...
Introduction.(portrayals of American Indians in the movies 'The New World' and 'Apocalypto')
Dec 01, 2006; ... When I was asked to guest edit a special edition of Studies in the Humanities centered on American Indian Studies, I knew immediately I wanted to focus specifically on the always problematic issue of representation of Indigenous peoples, especially in the Americas. Who is saying what about ...