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TO VIEW THE CULTURAL ARTIFACTS and works of art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, one has to walk first through [...]

A litany of mythical criticisms of the Green Revolution has so often been repeated and so widely disseminated that the critics' slogans have been accepted by many educated observers as […]

Humanitarian intervention was supposed to have gone the way of the 1990s. The use of military force across borders to stop mass killing was seen as a luxury of an [...]

Many US authors feel critic William Logan is too harsh, personal, prescriptive and acerbic in his approach to their work. Logan feels the best poetry is formal with traditional rhyme and meter as prominent elements.

Issues discussed concern the critical and popular reception of the 'Jalna' series of novels by Canadian author Mazo de la Roche. Topics addressed include de la Roche's relationship with her publishers, critical perceptions of high and low culture, and the distinctions set by reviewers concerning serious versus popular literature.

The author expresses his frustration with the 1998 International James Joyce Symposium organizers for failing to adequately schedule conference discussions and accommodations for attending scholars. The many detractions and few benefits of the conference are summarized.

Vissarion Belinskii is regarded as the father of the Russian liberal intelligentsia and was an ardent supporter of radical socioeconomic reform in 19th century Russia. However, he was critical of the Ukrainian nationalist struggle and attacked Ukrainian literature. Belinskii believed that since Ukraine cannot prepare its people for a higher historical purpose, it would be better if the country become assimilated into imperial Russia.

The controversy regarding the first law of the Gortyn Code reflects an interest over the question of its status. Haim Rosen and Raphael Sealy argue that the first law refers to the prohibition of seizure of a person over whom one claims authority before trial. However, the explanation that the first law prohibits seizure only in the case of persons whose status is in dispute is correct. The law addresses balancing the rights of the rich and the poor and reinforces faith in the legal system. The provisions were enacted in the fifth century and not taken from the traditional rules.

LIKE BEACHCOMBERS, architecture critics are at the mercy of whatever happens to drift in. They may stare for a decade at an empty horizon, or a typhoon or some other [...]

The tenets of literary criticism in the English-speaking world underwent significant changes during the first half of the 20th century. The complacency and conformity characteristic of literature in the late 19th century was replaced by the difficult text of modernist literature. However, the works of H.L. Mencken and Van Wyck Brooks already signalled future change when they criticized the materialist and philistine tendencies of American culture during the Gilded Age. The attitudes of the critics of this transitional era are presented.

Let's briefly consider this tension, this issue, always a live one, of individual personality, individual conviction and critical openness. On the one hand, have the virgin slates, the human hard [...]

The author describes his experiences at the 1998 International James Joyce Convention in Joycean fashion. Topics include the weeks' events and the interaction between the scholars.

Although researchers and critics agree that criminal behavior is poorly defined, heterogeneous, and socially constructed, they differ on the respective contribution of genes and social environment in shaping deviant behavior. While critics believe that all genetic contributions are slight, researchers expect strong and interpretable results from genetic behavior researches. Critics feel that heritability research is diminishing because of the futility of dividing causality into environment and genetic factors while researchers expect neurogenetic research to overtake heritability.

The argument that all books cannot provide a singular reading experience is described. The various critics on reviews are criticized with their show-offs and career-killers and experiences of poet and common person are presented.

A discussion between critics on interpretation is presented, focusing on the obligations of a reader in applying hermeneutics to a given text. Topics include hierarchy of value, disagreement over interpretive approaches and standards, and the level to which a text achieves identity.