This essay argues that the subject of impotence is much more profoundly intrinsic to The Scarlet Letter than has previously been argued.

Profile of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance by Maggie Coughlin Worth in the Romance Writers of America newsletter, Romance Writers Report

‘If God Meant to Interfere’: Evolution and Theodicy in Blood Meridian

On the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
significant intellectual departure from the standpoint alle…[Read more]

The purpose of this study was to examine hockey’s identity, how the game constructs identity, and how the increasing participation of females in hockey in Canada and Turkey is altering identity. Through qualitative research and personal experience it is revealed that in order for hockey and Turkey to modernize, a new male identity needs to e…[Read more]

Preprint to appear in a special issue of Cultural Analytics on “Identity.” The article explores the paradox that the representation of gender in fiction became more flexible while the sheer balance of attention between fictional men and women was growing more unequal. We measure the rigidity of gendered roles by asking how easy it is to infer…[Read more]

Her Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]

Whereas many women writers were reticent on the issue of property, or vehemently opposed to improving the position of wives, Florence Marryat used her public platform to campaign for change. As such, her work forms an important contribution to our understanding of women and property in the nineteenth century. In this paper I discuss the ways in…[Read more]

The 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium were the first instalment of the Games since before the war. The planned 1916 Games awarded to Berlin had been cancelled.

contents

i. weed weakens / compels me

ii. an Ender’s Game after-party

iii. playroom is a realm of the dead

iv. a precise german History

v. short review: STATUES ALSO DIE

vi. Kenneth Clark, curator for Fascism

vii. a protest poem, in industry lit

viii. Lawrence & the English Romance

O ensino de língua portuguesa tem mudado muito desde o final da década de 1990. Mas ainda há muito o que fazer. Principalmente pela necessidade levar os alunos a compreenderem que o estudo da língua é o estudo do mundo social, cultural, identitário, psicológico, acadêmico – entre tantos outros mundos – no qual estão inseridos. Muitas vezes isso é…[Read more]

This is a gentle introduction to the Kappa Coefficient, a commonly used statistic for measuring reliability between two raters who are applying nominal codes or category labels to qualitative data. This was created for grad students in the Humanities and has been used in both course and workshop settings.

including readings of Joseph McElroy, Tolkien, Norman Rush, Sartre, and others

a poetic condensing of the larger work

on apocalypse, shakespeare, Clarke’s Third Law, the corporate take-over of Star Wars and else

a four-year journal / longpoem, @ Twitter

a longpoem

In this article, I argue that the groundlessness associated with postmodernism is not as entrenched within its discourse as it may appear. Graham Swift’s Waterland (1992) and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), while conforming to many of the aesthetic values of postmodernism, share an ecopostmodernist platform that raises questions and con…[Read more]

Presents an analysis of the emergence of new genres of international–especially expatriate–fiction in 21st-century US letters.