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African American Experiences in the Historic Dunbar Neighborhood in San Marcos, Texas: A Case Study of Counter-Life Stories
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-10-03)The purpose of this participatory research project is to examine the lived experiences (counter-life stories) of current and former Dunbar residents and congregants of Dunbar churches to demonstrate how local stories counter ... -
“[A]n Exterior Air of Pilgrimage”: The Resilience of Pilgrimage Ecopoetics and Slow Travel from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-10-08)While the Beats can be seen as critical actors in the environmental humanities, their works should be seen over the longue durée. They are not only an origin, but are also recipients, of an environmentally aware tradition. ... -
Demonizing the Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-03)A seemingly inescapable feature of war is the demonization of the enemy, who becomes somehow less human and more deserving of death in times of military strife, which unsurprisingly helps to justify the violence against ... -
“Sot’s Skull Subsiding, Sweet Nothingness Betide Me”: Suttree and Sartrean Bad Faith
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-06)Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree is a literary representation of existentialism. The eponymous protagonist seeks his meaning and purpose in a universe that offers none. Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism proposes that people must ... -
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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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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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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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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 ... -
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Bleeping Mark Twain? Censorship, Huckleberry Finn, and the Functions of Literature
(Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP), 2013-05)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 ... -
Attitudes toward Hepatitis B Virus among Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean Americans in the Houston Area, Texas
(Springer, 2012-10)Objectives: We explored attitudes about prevention, screening and treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese communities. Methods: We use qualitative methods in 12 focus groups (n ... -
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 completed eight focus ... -
Three Rings for the Elven Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film
(Mythopoeic Society, 2017-11)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
