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Attitudes toward Hepatitis B Virus among Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean Americans in the Houston Area, Texas
(Springer, 2012-10)We explored attitudes about prevention, screening and treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese communities. We use qualitative methods in 12 focus groups (n = 113) of adults who ... -
Meta-Capital: Culture and Financial Derivatives
(University of British Columbia Library, 2010-01)The present worldwide financial crisis has underscored what has long been suspected or known, but what has not always been visible: that the interconnectivity and risk in a global economy have been driven by derivatives, ... -
Problems in Transition and Quality of Care: Perspectives of Breast Cancer Survivors
(Springer-Verlag, 2011-12)Purpose: We conducted a qualitative study to explore breast cancer survivors’ perceptions and attitudes about their current healthcare utilization, screening, and information needs.
Methods: We ...
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The Nightmare of the Unknowable, or, Poe's Inscrutability
(Cardiff University Press, 2010)Poe begins and ends his enigmatic study of the man of the crowd with the phrase, es lässt sich nicht lessen, “it does not permit itself to be read” (179, 188). The tale, or sketch, emphasizes this point as the narrator ... -
Beyond the Flaming Walls of the World: Fantasy, Alterity, and the Postnational Condition
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"Some Men Ride on Such Space": Olson's Call Me Ishmael, the Melville Revival, and the American Baroque
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Mundus Totus Exilium Est: Reflections on the Critic in Exile
(Flinders Humanities Research Centre, 2011-05)In his reflections on the project of literary criticism, Erich Auerbach cites the wisdom of a twelfth-century monk, who understood that while the ‘tender beginner’ cleaves to nationality, in the well-developed human being, ... -
Bleeping Mark Twain? Censorship, Huckleberry Finn, and the Functions of Literature
(Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP), 2013)The most recent controversy over the use of that word in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn highlights the interactions among writing, editing, teaching, and reading, and this serves as a point of entry into a discussion ... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman Creatures
(Mythopoeic Society, 2010)In J.R.R. Tolkien’s sprawling legendarium, Orcs provide a seemingly endless supply of enemies to challenge the mettle of the noble Elves, Men, Dwarves, and Hobbits. As every reader of the books (and every viewer of the ... -
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Successes and Failures Teaching Visual Ethics: A Class Study
(Center for Teaching Excellence, 2010)This article discusses and evaluates the inclusion of ethics learning modules in a graduate- level visual design theory course. Modules were designed as a part of an NEH grant. Students grappled with case studies that ... -
Formed by Place: Spatiality, Irony, and Empire in Conrad's 'An Outpost of Progress'
(Flinders Humanities Research Centre, 2016-11)In its ironic narrative and distinctive geography, Joseph Conrad’s 1897 short story ‘An Outpost of Progress’ is well suited for geocritical analysis, insofar as Conrad demonstrates the degree to which space and place affect ... -
Three Rings for the Elven Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film
(Mythopoeic Society, 2017)Discusses the division of works meant to be whole into trilogies; primarily Tolkien’s lengthy novel, split into two volumes due to printing considerations, and Peter Jackson’s film trilogies of The Lord of the Rings and ... -
Monstrous Accumulation: Topographies of Fear in an Era of Globalization
(Purdue University Press, 2019-12)The predominance of the horror genre, broadly conceived, in recent years attests to the profound sense of anxiety and dread permeating late capitalist societies. As the processes and effects of globalization become more ... -
Accuracy of Cited “Facts” in Medical Research Articles: A Review of Study Methodology and Recalculation of Quotation Error Rate
(Public Library of Science, 2017-09)Previous reviews estimated that approximately 20 to 25% of assertions cited from original research articles, or "facts," are inaccurately quoted in the medical literature. These reviews noted that the original studies were ... -
Crossing the Border: The Depiction of India in Ian McDonald's River of Gods and Cyberabad Days
(SF-TH Inc., DePauw University, 2016-11)In this article I argue that Northern Irish author Ian McDonald's works, River of Gods (2004) and Cyberabad Days (2008), set in India deviate from the prevalent Orientalism of mainstream Western science fiction. Drawing ... -
Detestable as Joint-Stock Companies or Nations: Melville and the International
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2009-01)Tally reviews Loren Goldner’s Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period ... -
Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature
(John Hopkins University Press, 2009-10)Literature abounds with the description and exploration of spaces. The writer maps the world, combining a representation of real places with the imaginary space of fiction. In some cases, what I have elsewhere called ... -
'We Are What We Pretend to Be': Existential Angst in Vonnegut’s Mother Night
(Central Piedmont Community College, 2009-04)The moral of Vonnegut’s third novel, stated in its opening pages, is “We are what we pretend to be.” Vonnegut’s most directly existentialist novel, _Mother Night_ introduces the related themes of alienation, identity, and ...
