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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Redgauntlet is one of the most important works of Sir Walter Scott's later career. In it, he returns to a subject raised in Waverley, his first novel: the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Unlike the 1745 rebellion...
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From: CommentaryGrace Paley believes that art has a practical function—to make “justice in the world.” And for that reason, she adds, “it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.” Like certain other writers who started out...
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From: CLIOGiven his intention in Wonderful Life to explain “the nature of history itself,” we might expect Stephen Jay Gould to describe the rise and fall of nations and states, the triumphs and tragedies of great leaders, or even...
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From: Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction[(essay date 1966) In the following essay, Buchen examines elements of Singer's narrative structure that "meaningfully violate and reconstitute the reader's identity, morality and chronology" to evoke a timeless quality...
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From: World Literature TodayConstructed on the basis of an apparently chaotic duality of time and space, Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Time of the Hero could be assigned, as José Promis Ojeda correctly has done, to the “long literary tradition...
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From: Science Fiction Studies[(essay date March 1988) Hassler is an educator, poet, and author of Comic Tones in Science Fiction (1982) and Isaac Asimov (1989). In the following essay which focuses on I, Robot and the Foundation trilogy, he explores...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Though he is the most prolific, and one of the most active, figures in black American theater, Ed Bullins resists close identification with the prominent contemporary styles. With Black House and Black Arts/West in San...
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From: Science & SocietyI first made my acquaintance with the works of Stephen Jay Gould in the early 1970s when, mostly for the scientific edification of my children, I took out a subscription to Natural History (the admirable monthly journal...
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From: English Language Notes[(essay date September 1991) In the following essay, Herman explains how Ellison both follows and deviates from the conventions of literary naturalism in "King of the Bingo Game."] Prima facie, Ralph Ellison's "King of...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 77. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Ambrose BierceTales of Soldiers and Civilians (short stories) 1892Willa CatherThe Troll Garden (short stories) 1905Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 (short stories) 1965Stephen...
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From:Journal of Communication Inquiry (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCyberculture is emerging as a field of discussion within communication studies, cultural studies, and science studies. Many social analysts have asserted that Western countries are becoming cyber. Cyberculture is a form...
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From:Mind (Vol. 107, Issue 427) Peer-ReviewedThe best argument supporting the incompatibility of free will and indeterminism is flawed, as it proceeds from an invalid inference principle. Using an alteration of the Consequence argument, a strong case can be made...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe silence at times is such that the earth seems to be uninhabited. That is what comes of the taste for generalization. You have only to hear nothing for a few days, in your hole, nothing but the sound of things, and...
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From:Existential Analysis (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMurray responds to champions of a new brain reading technology who claim that it will combat future crimes before they happen. Murray argues that the concept of crime prevents us from identifying one proactively, and...
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From:Variaciones BorgesPeer-ReviewedIn "Death and the Compass" Borges presciently anticipates developments in contemporary physics and scientific thought, constructing a literary environment that systemically gives the lie to the dream of rational...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe assumption that knowledge and idea are social constructs is fallacious and examination of this assumption reveals it to be the ideological conviction that it is. Constructivism declares the self to be determined by...
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From:Shofar (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper contains an example of three folktales of the Greek Sefardim. They are moralistic and didactic and serve a double purpose: to teach and to entertain. The first story shows the complex relationship between...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 4)THE SOURCE: "Neurotrash" by Raymond Tallis, in Prospect, June 2011. IF YOU SUBSCRIBE to THE WILSON Quarterly, you are probably fond of reading. Where do you think that predilection comes from? A neural circuitry over...
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From:Mark Twain Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 1)Mark Twain's "gospel," the philosophical dialogue What is Man?, which rejects, with airy joie de vivre, humanity's free will, was first presented as "What is Happiness?" to the Monday Evening Club in Hartford on 19...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe essays included here grew out of an international conference on East-West comparative philosophy held at Seoul National University on 15-16 October, 2010. The topic of the conference was "Determinism, Moral...