This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
The debate concerning the approach of the early Christians to the military can be advanced by paying attention to a genre of literature that scholars have largely ignored: the church orders. These documents-the Apostolic Tradition, Canons of Hippolytus, T
The paper deals with combined metaphorical/vocative uses of animal names in Serbian in addressing people, both abusively and affectionately, thereby expressing the speakers' attitude towards their addressee. The discussion is based on the results obtaine
Although not so richly documented as some other French principalities, enough evidence survives to describe various rituals connected with ducal civic entries in late medieval Brittany, which have been largely ignored in recent general literature. This ar
This paper examines the effect on contemporary American literature of a popular discourse on depression, looking at Rick Moody's memoir The Black Veil, and two novels, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It argu
In the context of increasing British discomfort with the cult of sensibility in the 1790s, medical writers redefined the profile of the melancholic as a highly rational, rather than emotional, literary man. Charlotte Smith's representation of melancholia
Nitrogen isotope analysis is now commonly used to investigate the diets, and to a lesser extent, the environments of ancient populations. These studies assume that mammals are predictably enriched in N-15 over their food, and concomitantly, that N-15 beco
Desire and seduction, hallmarks of epistolary literature, are foregrounded in the novels of Barcelona-born Olga Guirao. Mi querido Sebastian, which consists of a single letter, focuses on homosexuality and incest. The alternating monologues of Adversarios
Criticism has repeatedly suggested the need to demythologize the role of the prostitute as a supposedly altruistic and necessary character in nineteenth-century society and literature, replacing this image with that of an unnatural laborer/character manip
Although there is a fair sized literature documenting the relationship of religousness and spirituality with health and well-being, far fewer studies have examined this phenomenon for people with serious mental illness. In this research, religiousness is
In this study of Kipling's Puck books, I attempt to clarify the enduring characteristics of the time-slip story as he and E. Nesbit invented it and also to determine his own distinctive contribution to the genre. Although his formal procedures were not i
Jean Fritz's Homesick and Laurence Yep's Child of the Owl share a lot in common. The two authors are both puzzled by their childhood experiences with acculturative stress and their personal identity. They search for answers to the meaning of the experie
This article offers a reflection on the recent success of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It considers what has contributed to the popularity of the series and questions whether its 13-volume length is a reflection of the need to tell th
While there has been a notable increase in multicultural publishing over the past several years, this study indicates that the increase has not extended into genre fiction for middle-grade readers. The study entailed a content analysis of book reviews of
Feminist theology and feminist social work share similar values, social concerns, and institutional challenges, although interdisciplinary dialogue is rarely described in the professional literature. This article discusses the relevance of feminist theolo
This study investigates the linguistic realization of information structure (IS) in Turkish. Following Vallduvi and Engdahl [Linguistics 34 (1996) 459], Hoffman (Hoffman, B., 1995. The Computational Analysis of the Syntax and Interpretation of Free Word O