Studies in the Humanities articles from June 2007

Studies in the Humanities archives from June 2007

The perilous pleasures of the cyberpastoral: Electric Dreams and You've Got Mail.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... The computer revolution continues to alter drastically many aspects of our personal and professional lives, and a similar evolution undoubtedly holds true for narrative genres as well. As society continues to move further into the computer age,...

Navigating liminal spaces: a rediscovery of Meredith's "The Day of the Daughter of Hades".(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... George Meredith's "The Day of the Daughter of Hades" (1883) is both over-looked and under-appreciated by modern scholars. Often classified as one of Meredith's nature poems, "The Day of the Daughter of Hades" was introduced in Poems and Lyrics...

Taking off into the realm of metaphor: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... In the quarter century since he published his first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), Kazuo Ishiguro has been engaged in an increasingly conflicted relationship with his audience. Unlike many other writers who distrust and avoid interviews,...

Homeland (in)security, or the new intelligence on mothers.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... The simple minded And the uninformed Can be easily led astray And those that cannot connect the dots Hey, look the other way. (John Mellencamp, "Walk Tall") We may be choosing to become a culture that prefers...

The eternal return: Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... One of the main themes of Gilles Deleuze has been the relation of time and the image. Deleuze's intriguing exploration of this relation appears in his two-volume work on the philosophy of cinema titled Cinema I: The Movement-Image and Cinema...

Food preparation, food consumption, and the process of identity formation in Peter Balakian's memoir Black Dog of Fate.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... Food for us was a complex cultural emblem, an encoded script that embodied the long history and collective memory of our Near Eastern culture. (47) This passage from Peter Balakian's 1997 memoir Black Dog of Fate suggests the important...

Rev. of Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2007... Rev. of Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Ed., Bernard Schweizer, University of Delaware Press, 2006. ISBN 10: 0-87413-950-3. 334 pp. $61.50 hdbk. TO LOVE AN IDEA "TO LOVE AN IDEA IS TO LOVE IT A LITTLE MORE THAN ONE...