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Abstract The sociologist Michel Crozier went to North America several times, including visits to the universities of California, Harvard, Michigan, and Stanford. He always saw himself as a friend, even [...]

In a letter to Carlyle from January 1, 1828, Goethe frets about the extent to which his German play about an Italian Renaissance poet, Tasso, 'can be considered English' in [...]

Abstract: This article focuses on the relation between philosophy and literature in early Sartre, showing how his literary writing can be seen as philosophically significant by interpreting Sartre as practising [...]

The Islamization of Syria, a multi-faceted social and cultural process not limited to demography, was slow and highly variable across different locales. This article analyzes geographical works--ten in Arabic, one in Persian, and one in Hebrew--as well as the earliest Ottoman defters of the province to outline the process of Islamization in Syria from the Islamic conquest in the seventh century to the Ottoman conquest in the sixteenth. Geographical texts cannot be mined as databases, but when interpreted as literature they provide often detailed information regarding the foundation of mosques, the slow conversion of multi-religious shrines, and areas within Syria known for particular religious affiliations., INTRODUCTION When Khalid b. al-Walld invaded Syria in 13/634, the region was inhabited by a religiously mixed population with multiple kinds of Christianity present alongside Judaism and paganism. When the [...]

Summary The purpose of this article is to describe and engage the Zambian writer Stephen Mpashi's work entitled Pano Calo (1956). Mpashi's material is. presented in the Bemba language, one [...]

When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, Ellery Channing, his walking companion and first biographer, asked questions about him that resonate more clearly than any replies to them then did [...]

INTRODUCTION"Kenya's public service is today faced with tremendous challenges including uncertain economy, political changes, globalized markets, privatization and outsourcing of services, mergers, takeovers, rapidly advancing technology, and uncertain change. Change [...]

Modern cosmopolitanism is largely an affair of philosophy and the social sciences. Whether one thinks of the ideal ethical projects of worldwide solidarity of the eighteenth-century French philosophes or Kant, [...]

for Karen and Jim Shepard I Staying on in the Garden After a small press published my first book of poetry in 1970, I happened to be visiting my parents […]

[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 [...]

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 first writer whose prose style I ever admired was Bernard Shaw. I was between eleven and twelve years old at the time, and did not arrive at my judgment […]

When Amy Lowell died in 1925 at the age of 51, she was at the height of her fame. Her two-volume biography of John Keats, published in the last year […]

An article on the shift in attitude towards the thought of sexuality as an element in character, personality, in emotions and as a theme in literature is presented.

Anna Segher's novella The Man and His Name is interpreted in terms of her exile and remigration to postwar Germany and the circumstances that can lead to a more collectively based rule under communism.

The article examines in detail the theme of double exposure in the poems and literary criticism of Ted Hughes. Examples are cited and discussed.

ABSTRACT This paper examines the marginalized writing career of David Manisi, a rural South African praise poet who published and performed in Xhosa between 1947 and 1988. Although Xhosa newspapers [...]

Joseph Brodsky's first five years in emigration from 1972 through 1977, during which time new connections and languages and countries were established in the poet's mind, are examined. The linguistic and therefore, metaphysical challenges and predicaments that Brodsky's exile in America presented and their effect on his poetry are discussed.

Quebec writer Abla Farhoud's representation of exile in her two plays 'Les filles du 5-10-15c' and 'Jeux de patience' is examined. Both the plays celebrate their female characters' powerful will to resist discourses of oppression and deny the implacable logic of their loss.

In his Rambler essays 36 and 37, written in 1750, Samuel Johnson insists on the rural nature of the pastoral, considers the legitimacy of the Golden Age rules of pastoral, [...]

I. EXPLORING THE SELF In his 1905 essay 'The Fine Art,' Joseph Conrad meditates on the human propensity to engage in self-deception: 'Men, professors or coal-heavers, are easily deceived; they [...]

Men who come out here should have no entrails. (Heart of Darkness, 74) At first it might appear that I am bridging two very distant territories indeed, and that an [...]

By alluding to the writing of his 1990 novel Voyage de noces in the course of the narration of 1997 Dora Bruder, author Patrick Modiano invites an examination of the connections between these two works. This paper demonstrates how Voyage de noces and Dora Bruder, when studied together as a sort of diptych, are informed by what commentators have described as Modiano's simultaneous preoccupations with the expression of absence and loss, on the one hand, and with the use of writing to compensate for these, on the other. Specifically, a formal and thematic relationship between these two texts is shaped first by a movement from origins to loss, as developed in Voyage de notes, and then by an inverse movement from loss to recovery as outlined in Dora Bruder. However, just as the fullness of being that typically characterizes the idealized version of origins--here, meaningful parental presence and a sense of personal identity--is always already deflated by the recognition that this fullness is not a given but rather remains to be realized, absolute recovery, too, is impossible, (ALM)

This article deals with three contemporary novelists, Marcelo Birmajer, Anna Kazumi Stahl and Sylvia Molly in the context of a new understanding of ethnicity, sexuality and literature in Argentina. In contrast to previous eras when writing reflected a melting pot philosophy which saw Eros as a means of fusing ethnicities and eliminating particularities, today's fiction often celebrates these differences, uncovering layers of secrecy and demanding a place for various languages, sexualities and geographies. (EA)

L'Art entier s'engage dans l'aventure d'un seul homme. --Jean-Paul Sartre, Situations IX Literature, for Sartre, it could be said, is not so much an object of theory as the focus [...]

An attempt is made to gather whatever information is known about the period of exile and it is used as a way to answer some questions relating to George Oppen's return to poetry in 1958. After his exile, in 1958, George reported a dream to a therapist in which his father urged him to start writing and it is because of this dream that George began writing his first new poem.

From Bureaucratic Alienation to Political Exile: Evolving Views of Uruguayan Identity in the Work of Mario Benedetti by Paul R. Jordan An introduction presents Uruguayan history from the 1910s to [...]

The first novel I ever read with gusto was Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. I was a late reader and a slow reader and The Good Earth seemed, to a [...]

ABSTRACT To many progressive activists in the 1960s, the writings of Frantz Fanon served not only as a source for intellectual development but also as guidebooks for revolutionary praxis. Fanon's [...]

El amor es una droga dura by Cristina Peri Rossi is a novel about images. Through a discussion of gender, desire, and photography, this essay shows how the visual narrative [...]

This essay asks what Dubliners may owe to a realism derived not from literary realism's models, but from a photographic realism newly emergent as photography moved, during Joyce's youth, out [...]

Psychological frameworks for both a national and sensible 'imagined community' are socially transmitted via photographic images and illustrations to the female protagonists of Atwood's Surfacing and Gordimer's July's People. This [...]

Although the politics of visibility have often been celebrated as a means of representing marginalized histories and subjectivities, the role of the visual in articulating this politics, as well as [...]

[For Peter Jewell] RELENTLESSLY CLANGING MUSIC accompanies the appearance of a circle of light--the moon?--against a black ground which gradually turns to an intense blue reflecting what is now the [...]

In The Puppet Masters (1951) when a group of secret agents must disrobe to prove no one is carrying one of the parasitic 'slugs' from Titan, they leave a 'pile [...]

IT is not difficult to label the agent of evil in Flannery O'Connor's signature story, 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.' An escaped convict, self-named the Misfit, dispassionately orders [...]