Paul's pick for May is "How the Golem Came to Prague" by Edan Dekel and David Gantt Gurley. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue of Jewish Quarterly Review.
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Paul's pick for March is "Why We Argue About the Way We Read" by Lisa A. Freeman at the University of Illinois Chicago. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
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Paul's pick for February is "Infecting, Simulating, Judging: Tolstoy's Search for an Aesthetic Standard" by Tatyana Gershkovich. The article appears in latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Gershkovich writes:
Much of the previous scholarship on What is Art? has examined the criteria Tolstoy uses to judge works of art. In this article, in contrast, I interrogate his argument for the very possibility of aesthetic judgment at all. On what grounds does he claim that one artwork ought to please everyone more than another? I argue that many of the paradoxes and contradictions of Tolstoy’s aesthetic worldview grow out of his attempt to establish a nonarbitrary, universal aesthetic standard.
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Paul's pick for November is "Some Rights Are More Equal than Others: The Third World and the Transformation of Economic and Social Rights" by Roland Burke, author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights. The article appears in Winter 2012 issue of Humanity.
Donofrio writes:
This essay will examine the impact of the Third World on the development and
subsequent reprioritization of economic and social rights. Between the 1940s and the late 1970s, these rights became an established feature of the international human rights order. While the Cold War division on human rights politics was often conceptualized as a struggle over the status of social rights in relation to traditional civil and political freedoms, there was significant support for economic and social rights from the Western democracies.
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Paul's pick for November is "Preservation by Adaption: Is it Sustainable?" by Gregory Donofrio at the University of Minnesota. The article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Change Over Time. Donofrio writes:
Preservation advocates have recently become fond of saying that ‘‘existing buildings
are the greenest ones of all,’’ an expression that begins to reveal the degree to which the natural environment has overshadowed other aspects of sustainability.
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Paul's pick for November is "The Corporatization of Higher Education" by Nicholaus Mills, professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. The article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Dissent. Mills writes:
When our current period of slow economic growth will end is anybody’s guess, but even when it does end, colleges and universities will certainly not be rolling back their prices. These days, it is not just the economic climate in which our colleges and universities find themselves that determines what they charge and how they operate; it is their increasing corporatization.
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Paul's frightful pick for October is "Clowns on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Dickens, Coulrophobia, and the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi" by Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor of English and Director of the Honors College at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Stott considers why clowns appear so frequently in popular culture as frightening and psychopathic figures.
"For the purposes of sensationalism, at least, killer clowns are an incredibly efficient image. Lurid and overly emphatic though they may be, by placing the pleasures of laughter in close proximity to mortal threat, they embody a particularly tense and volatile contradiction. They are also a particularly modern phenomenon. Though reminiscent of the early modern jesters revelling in the dance of death, the killer clowns of the modern age possess an identity beyond their role that makes it clear that they are not universalized types but individuals in costume and makeup."
Stott's article appears in the Fall 2012 of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
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Paul's Pick for September is "Current Trends in the Application of Cognitive Science to Magic" by Edward Bever at SUNY College of Old Westbury.
Bever writes that "evolutionary psychologists have developed increasingly sophisticated, although still controversial,theories explaining in terms of natural selection the reasons that specific cognitive capabilities became hard-wired into our brains." Yet, he observes "Historians of magic have paid relatively little attention to this fundamental change in our understanding of how the mind works."
Bever's article will appear in the Summer issue of the Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft.
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aul's Pick for August is "Women on the Edge: Life at Street Level in the Early Republic" by Gloria L. Main, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
"Historians are taking a fresh look at life and work in early American cities," writes Main. "They have long appreciated the vital economic and cultural roles played by cities through the ages. It is only recently, however, that they have discovered that we cannot understand how those cities actually functioned without taking into account the economic contributions of ordinary women and children, bound and free."
Main's article will appear in the upcoming Fall issue of the Journal of the Early Republic. Here's an excerpt from the abstract:
Women performed critical functions in the economies of early American cities, but female members of all classes found themselves disadvantaged by both the law and the market, where coverture, marginal jobs, and low wages forced their dependency on men. Yet, even when fully employed, men of the “working poor” did not earn enough to support their families. As a result, most poor families relied on the earnings of mothers and children to get by.
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aul's Pick for July is "Pleasure against Ideology in Gabriel Ferrater" by Edgar Illas at Indiana University. The article appears in the upcoming Fall issue of Hispanic Review. Illas examines the works of Catalan poet Gabriel Ferrater (1922–1972) in relation to the economy of dilapidation that traverses his poetry, which is mostly devoted to his experiences of love and sex. Click here to download this free article and learn more about Hispanic Review.
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