Browsing Program in Cultures, Civilization and Ideas by Issue Date
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Developing a humanities core curriculum program in Turkey
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Comparative spaces and seeing seduction and horror in bataille
(Purdue University Press, 2000)In his article, "Comparative Spaces and Seeing Seduction and Horror in Bataille," Benton Jay Komins explores Bataille's preoccupation with "seeing": The eye holds a preeminently ambiguous position in Georges Bataille's ... -
Eccentric New Orleans: a synergy of culture and geography
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Sightseeing in Paris with Baudelaire and Breton
(Purdue University Press, 2000)n his article "Sightseeing in Paris with Baudelaire and Breton," Benton Jay Komins discusses the tensions between Charles Baudelaire's acts of modern appropriation and André Breton's imaginative seizing of the démodé. While ... -
The convoluted logic of creolization the New Orleans way
(University of North Carolina Press, 2000)1. In an earlier essay ("Succulent Tomatoes"), I discuss the derisive cultural, racial, and historical definitions of New Orleans' "original" settlers, from the political contests of the late nineteenth century to the ... -
Godaffiliation: Lucy Snowe's Thwarted development in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
(Routledge, 2000)Charlotte Brontë's character Lucy Snowe, the protagonist of Villette (1853), ostensibly belongs to the canon of Bildungsroman heroes. She narrates her own saga of apprenticeship which includes the tests of poverty, alienation ... -
Claroscuros: el Mestizaje Cromático, Telúrico, y Racial en " Chambacú: Corral de Negros "
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What Glaucon said: the significance of Apollon at republic
(Global Scholarly Publications, 2002) -
Sanctifying the robe: punitive violence and the English press, 1650-1700
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Spinoza and the politics of the Matrix, on Matrix, machine philosophique
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Antigone in (post-modern) Palestine
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Proust and cinema, or Luchino Visconti's search
(Post Script, Inc., 2004)Discusses the film adaptation of Marcel Proust's novel "À la recherche du temps perdu". Brief history and overview of the novel; Luchino Visconti's Proust project; Cast for the film; Modes of adaptation; Role of aristocracy ... -
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Sanctifying the robe: Punitive violence and the English press, 1650–1700
(Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2004)It has become almost commonplace to treat punishment as a self-contained sociological phenomenon to be interpreted in terms of sentences or patterns of prosecution. Unfortunately, this widespread approach tends to overlook ... -
Thomas Tryon and the seventeeth-century dimensions of antislavery
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The Jester and the Sage: Twain and Nietzsche
(University of California Press, 2005)Though Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche were aware of each other, they never met and there is no evidence of influence in either direction. Yet the similarities in their thought are strikingly numerous and close. They ... -
Aristocracy and modernism: signs of aristocracy in Marcel Proust's-À la Recherche du temps perdu
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Cameades
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Corinth
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Dissimulation and deception in Madeleine de Scudéry's promenade de versailles
(Routledge, 2006)
