Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from August 1 2001

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from August 1 2001

At the edge of contemplation: interpretation of Anand's and Chaggal's paintings.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... For thousands of years, women, in many cultures have been treated as inferior. The question is: Why"? The artists Anand and Chagall give us the answer to this question in their paintings. Anand's painting represents the body of a naked...

Deceptive and deadly numbers and letters in Christie's double versions of Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... Detective or mystery stories involve the solution of crimes through the meticulous sifting or details involving the time the crime was committed and the circumstances surrounding it. Numbers lie at the heart of the process of careful detection....

Lost in the Present. (Four Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Lost in the Present Marooned we have no past beyond remembering what we each day create The mind without fingers molds smoke of lives now gone to where we cannot reach ...

The Seed Sown. (Four Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... The Seed Sown Instinct is to give unasked but too much given can poison It is a scourge to feel love returned thought a deal a debt canceled told expecting love is greedy...

Staying power. (Four Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Staying power Life is now only in the doing not in having done the instant a note singing in the air now no past no future the only one

Affairs of the heart. (Four Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Affairs of the heart Not knowing there were no choices when she was committed to conventional bliss-- the provider grunting he loves her in his way and offspring sapping her life to feed their...

The monster.(Short Story)
August 1, 2001... The late afternoon sun was beating down mercilessly on the small window. In the hot, stuffy room, Phillipe tried to calculate the possible consequences of his rash criminal act of three weeks ago. He was a thief. If found out, he would be...

Stereotypical, but revengeful and defiant: Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.(William Faulkner)(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... In almost every culture in the world, women have been considered inferior to men. They have been abused physically or emotionally, and they have been denied the right to forge their own destinies which, to a large extent, have been determined...

Sex addicts: do they exist?
August 1, 2001... Introduction Humans have evolved mate seeking strategies that lead to their genes being transmitted to future generations. But, why do some engage in deviant sexual behavior, such as rapists and other sex offenders? Actually, rapists, via...

Sigil Magic. (Six Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Sigil Magic A smile creases my body As I plunge into cupped hands, My world in the sigil -- I, one with the gods. Poems may craft the world A maze of sigils; The gods make of sigils The maze of the...

Butterflies and Buttercups. (Six Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Butterflies and Buttercups Weeping woodwinds and musical glasses, Orange trees on purple sky, Butterscotch mixed with the tang of molasses, Lips with the lingering flavour of pie. Lilting recorders and echoing...

Under the Stars. (Six Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Under the Stars Dance into the dizzying glade, You faeries and imps; Come, o children of night, And darken my weary eyes With a coverlet woven of stars. The twinkling cries in the air, The shadow of Pan in...

Night Must Fall. (Six Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Night Must Fall Lonely winds caress the treetops, Seeking rest but never still; Fading sunbeams clutch the landscape, Overcome with biting chill; Through the streets the echoes call: Daybreak came and night must...

The Pipes of Pan. (Six Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... The Pipes of Pan Lo, the cry of the sorrowing flute, A wavelet of stars on the beaches of self. Seafish and moonshells and glittering stones, The onyx blossoms of night. Buttering folds in the curtained horizon, ...

Spice of Life. (Six Poems).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Spice of Life Marble and silk in a cinnamon sky, Marzipan, nutmeg and blueberry pie, Lemony daydreams and tangerine twists, Saffron in milk on the opaline mists. Chocolate and ice cream in staggering swirls, ...

Icing. (Poem).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Icing Naked leaves dance angrily, Scattered about they shout Leave me bel They are alone, as am I, And their skeletal bodies whisper Ghost And host the unknown. I dance for no one. Wind...

Torn between three continents: the search for identity in Maryse Conde's Une Saison a Rihata and Miriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... Torn between two continents, searching for her roots, such is the plight of Marie-Helene and Juletane, the protagonists of two novellas from Guadeloupe: Maryse Conde's Une Saison a Rihata and Miriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane. Conde's Une Saison...

The man who ran from the fair.(Short Story)
August 1, 2001... He walked calmly from the woods into the clearing and was vaguely disturbed by some change in the usual scene: where the wide-open field once lay was now invaded by a Country Fair replete with food stands, amusements, rides and worst of all,...

Unrequited desires, oedipal & otherwise, in Puig's Blood of Requited Love: a psychoanalytic reading.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... Manuel Puig, the late Argentine novelist (1932-1990), has been cited by many critics, like his literary mentors Kafka and Faulkner, as a master of narrative complexity, his fictions refusing easy assimilation or "readerly" interpretation. From...

The orgy of self-renunciation an analysis of the motif of war in modern literature.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... The abundance of modern literature dealing with the topic of war makes it incumbent upon the writer of this article to limit the scope of his undertaking. The innumerable angles of discussion include the religious, political, sociological,...

La petite mort: sex equated to death Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... Even in death, Stanley Kubrick could stir up controversy. With the much anticipated release of the director's thirteenth and final film, Eyes Wide Shut, audiences during the Summer of 1999 were subjected to a debate on sexual content in film....

Phantoms in the brain: subjectivity and objectivity in Conrad's "The Lagoon" and "Karain" (1).(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... Except for Marcel Proust, perhaps, no other major author was so preoccupied with the function of recollection as Joseph Conrad, for memory dictates the behavior of many of his notable characters. One need only think of Jim's moving from port to...

Edward Taylor and Michael Wigglesworth: reconciling the divine and the mundane in the Preparatory Meditations and The Day of Doom.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2001... In literary studies, there have been various questions that have remained unanswered for years or, at least, which have not been answered satisfactorily. Often, these questions involve the historical context of the writer and his work. Some...

Creativity, risk taking, sex differences, and birth order.
August 1, 2001... Introduction A major aspect of creativity is risk taking (Agarwal & Kumari, 1982; Douglas, 1994; Eisenman, 1987; Jeffrey, 1988; Kogan & Wallach, 1983; National Academy of Engineering Staff, 1995; Sulloway, 1996; Yates, 1994). By taking...

A Small Song for Christmas. (Variations on a Theme: Christmas).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... A Small Song for Christmas The bells all rang last night, They'll ring again tomorrow, In the night of the day after, Angels bring diamond-snow. I want to praise the Lord Like a grownup, sparkling, But I'm...

Kato's Midnight Mass. (Variations on a Theme: Christmas).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... Kato's Midnight Mass In the splendid, white night of Christmas Eve She threw him out into the sparkling snow, She threw him out into the snowy void, Her tiny babe, the priest's handmaid, Kato. And then Kato, the...

The Kings of Bethlehem. (Variations on a Theme: Christmas).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... The Kings of Bethlehem Little Jesus, how are you? How are you? Three kings are we, don't you know. We followed the flaming star, We hurried, we walked so far. Little lambkin told us, "Sure, Jesus Christ lives...

On my birthday.(Poem)
August 1, 2001... On my birthday Attila Jozsef: Today I have turned thirty-two, my present is this verse I'll do: pretty ditty. A gift with which I'll now surprise, in this cafe apostrophise my self myself. ...

The Dream of Dsuang Dsi.(Poem)
August 1, 2001... The Dream of Dsuang Dsi Two thousand years ago Dsuang Dsi, The Master, pointed to a butterfly. "I am now somewhat embarrassed," said he; "In my dream, I was that butterfly. A butterfly," said he, "yes, that's what I...

On Reading an Obituary. (Poem).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... On Reading an Obituary Too late for the deceased to bask in the glory of mundane accomplishments and flattering adjectives No invectives (included??) While reading my obituary which I wrote the other night...

In Hindsight. (Poem).(Poem)
August 1, 2001... In Hindsight To wit: Didn't breast feed--- Didn't attend Little League Games-- Didn't discriminate against inappropriate childrens' friends Didn't monitor rock concert attendance Didn't help choose their...