Studies in the Humanities articles from June 2002

Studies in the Humanities archives from June 2002

Introduction.
June 1, 2002... This special issue is published by Studies in the Humanities in collaboration with the Institute of Humanities Research, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea. This Institute held its second International Conference on the Humanities,...

Traveling literature, traveling theory: literature and cultural contact between East and West.
June 1, 2002... The Great Khan owns an atlas whose drawings depict the terrestrial globe all at once and continent by continent, the borders of the most distant realms, the ships' routes, the coastlines, the maps of the most illustrious metropolises and the...

The rewards of literature, or, my Henry James.
June 1, 2002... The prefaces that Henry James wrote for his New York edition have been canonical ever since Percy Lubbock's 1921 The Craft of Fiction which popularized and systematized them. They are reputed to have played a key role in establishing modern...

The future of humanity as projected in Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests.(Wole Soyinka)
June 1, 2002... Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests represents the future of humanity. This paper examines Soyinka's portrayal of a cyclic historical progression, the struggle between the Human Community and the Forest Dwellers (who represent cosmic powers...

Beyond essentialism (1).
June 1, 2002... I am not inclined to grant self-knowledge any kind of immunity from criticism by others, including criticisms which depend on offering rival explanations.--Hilary Putnam, Reason, Truth and History EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF ESSENTIALISM...

Rethinking modernity and religion (1).
June 1, 2002... The complex tensions and intersections between rationality as a means to worldly ends and religious belief have been matter for intellectual debate in the West for some time. As Max Weber argued in the early years of the twentieth century, the...

The Four Elements and the recovery of referentiality: ecocriticism as a pivotal localist theory.
June 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION The Four Elements can be understood as both an ancient and a very contemporary way of thinking about the material world. Ecocriticism should be understood as a critical method that both evokes the responsibility of the critic...