Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from March 2004

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from March 2004

At the edge of contemplation.
March 1, 2004... The more faithful you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. Dag Hammerskjord (1933-1961) Swedish Diplomat "They share the same bed, but they have different dreams." Chinese Saying. ...

Permissiveness and male vs. female privileges in Hispanic college students: factor analysis of a sex attitudes scale.
March 1, 2004... Several studies have looked at sexual behavior of Hispanics (Dantzker & Eisenman, in press; Erkut, Szalacha, Coll, & Alarcon, 2000; Espin, 2003; Fierros & Brown, 2002; Flores, 1992; Pesa & Mathews, 2000; Selik, Castro & Pappaioanou, 1988). Two...

The Stag of Irisora.(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... The Stag of Irisora Daybreak. Unto the trees ever more gently sank down a deep funnel-cloud's soft smock. In a thick, trap-like juniper-thicket was he found by the keepers of the flock. He was carried down to the...

"Why".
March 1, 2004... FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, THE ETERNAL QUESTION, WHICH HAS AFFECTED OUR PEACE OF MIND Why does the Just man drag himself, bleeding, miserable, while the vicious person rides victoriously high on the horse? The German poet: Heinrich...

Political manipulations and the stability of human existence.
March 1, 2004... Is it possible to speak of stability in human existence? This question has a number of answers that are positive as well as negative. In what sense is life constant, i.e. infinite? Life on our planet goes back millions of years and will...

The age of violence.
March 1, 2004... The contemporary argument concerning the display of violence, sex and other x-rated material on the TV screen represents a one-sided approach to this issue. TV shows and movies can, of course, be moderately controlled. However the question...

The Dreadful Night.(Two Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... THE DREADFUL NIGHT Into the night I plodded and I strode I wandered with a heavy heart. The sombre clouds above my head Looked listlessly upon my road. How long I roamed I do not know. The storm broke Overhead...

I And You.(Two Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... I AND YOU In the pale-grey morning hours ere the sun wakes in the skies, north wind, new life's tender herald, gently bids the land arise. From caressing winds he scatters gracefilled seed across the earth. ...

American History X, Morrison's Song of Solomon, and the psychological intersections of race, class, and place in contemporary America.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... If racism is learned, can it, be unlearned? What environmental factors, such as class status and geographical place, contribute tad the individual's racist tendencies? These are two Kaye's questions relevant to a cooperative analysis of...

"I have my battleground no less than nations": Peake's daydream of Gormenghast.(Mervyn Peake)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Since the inception of psychoanalysis and its theories, critics have been attempting to discern underlying meanings in a text by researching the life history of an author or the characters within particular works. This theory of...

A Prayer Answered.(Poem)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... A PRAYER ANSWERED The Crisis came to an end with humility with profound gratitude: My head I bend. She is given a new life. "He restoreth my soul" "Surely goodness and mercy will follow her all the days of her...

Like father, like sons: Miller's negative use of sports imagery in Death of a Salesman.(Arthur Miller)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Miller's poetic use of demotic English, the level of language which characters speak and which describes their actions and environment, creates the tragic dimension of Death of a Salesman. (1) To achieve the depths of tragedy, Miller expands,...

A Jungian approach to ford madox ford's The Good Soldier; John Dowell meets the shadow.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... In The Good Soldier John Dowell, as narrator, struggles to understand what has transpired in his relationships with his wife, Florence, and their friends, Edward and Lecnora. Ashburnham, over a nine year period. Dowell's quest for this...

The form of ordinary statement logic.
March 1, 2004... I. The Glass Bead Game (1) Once upon a time in Athens, a rather bored woman named Andreia sat thinking of ways to amuse herself. Whereas she had read Sextus Empiricus lost interest in argumentation after the first reading, her friend Bous...

A man named Mabel Bobbie Ann Mason's "Shiloh" and the concept of subjectivity.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Virtually all of Bobbie Ann Manson's major characters suffer from an identity crisis. They spend most of their time and energy trying to avoid the complete breakdown of their identities; or they try to grip tightly to the tenuous hold they have...

A girl's best friend is her mother: the Exorcist as a post-modern oedipal tale.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... While teaching The Exorcist to a group of high-school seniors in 2001, I began our class discussion by asking, "Why does Regan only kill men?" One student blithely replied, "Because she's got an oedipal thing." We had spent the previous...

Keeping secrets in Anna Karenina.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... "I often think men do not understand the meaning of honour, though they are always talking about it." (Tolstoy, 154, emphasis added) At the end of Anna Karenina, Levin has an insight about the nature of discovering the difference between...

Marlow in Jakarta: Conrad's narrative voice in The Year of Living dangerously (1).(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Best known for its 1983 adaptation, starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, and Linda Hunt, Christopher J. Koch's 1978 novel The Year of Living dangerously dramatizes a subject that Joseph Conrad often depicted in his fiction: the clash of...

Wuthering Heights: the "initiatory step".(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... "An awful Sunday!" commenced the paragraph [of Catherine's diary] beneath [her drawn "caricature" of Joseph]. "I wish my father were back again. Hindley is a detestable substitute-his conduct to Heathcliff is atrocious--H. And I are going to...

Narrative suppression: sin, secrecy and subjectivity in "The Minister's Black Veil".(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... One of the most famous theories in Nathaniel Hawthorne scholarship is Edgar Allan Poe's assertion of "a crime of dark dye" in "The Minister's Black Veil" (138). For over a century critics concurred or demurred, expanded or expunged, but most of...

Not at The Edge of Contemplation.
March 1, 2004... As many readers of The Journal of Evolutionary Psychology may know, this author has occasionally contributed philosophical, psychological or literary quotations to The Edge of Contemplation. These have usually been thoughts of interest to the...

Dylan Thomas Has Left the Building.(Death and Beyond-Three Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... Dylan Thomas Has Left the Building Eyes open, rolling do not see ears hear nothing mouth agape gibbers nonsense the body all systems collapsing a house of cards only ...

While I've Got The Chance.(Death and Beyond-Three Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... While I've Got The Chance What has to be will be said now that I can say cannot wait until the moment surprises us and passes we thinking there is a guaranteed last goodbye ...

Natural.(Death and Beyond-Three Poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 1, 2004... Natural When we are young and immortal death is not for us even a consideration until years begin to tell that youth was an illusion and try as we might to resist decades pile up and we...