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The Diachrony Debate: Perspectives from Pattern Recognition and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Forbes A. Dean
Published: December 2012

This essay considers the debate on the diachrony of Biblical Hebrew from the perspective of pattern recognition , guided by the precepts of meta-analysis ( systematic review ). The necessity of taking possibly confounding variables into account is stressed, as is the central importance of three types of noise in the data: transmission noise (changes introduced as the texts were passed along), feature noise (imprecision due to textual ambiguity), and class noise (contamination of one corpus by another). On the one hand, the nature of the corpus-discriminating features proposed in the literature suggests that the enterprise has been severely compromised by overfitting , wherein too many locally-applicable features have been used to characterize limited texts and then have been inappropriately generalized across Early Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew. On the other hand, when Young, Rezetko, and Ehrensväld rely on 500-word samples in assessing the literature, they err as these samples are too small. Further, their definition of accumulation is deficient as it weights features equally and takes little account of noise. Pattern recognition theory provides superior ways both of identifying and combining evidence.
Character, Characterization, and Intertextuality in Naḥmanides's Commentary on Biblical Narrative
Authors: Levine Michelle J.
Published: December 2012

This study aims to illustrate how the commentary of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) illuminates the complexities of the relationships between biblical characters through his intertextual approach to the interpretation of biblical narrative. A close reader of the Bible, Nahmanides interprets texts in relation to other texts, discerning connections that elicit novel insights about the biblical characters and their interactions with one another. Nahmanides employs overt intertextual readings that are marked by literary qualifiers such as כענין and כמו; he also makes intertextual comparisons by oblique means. In his overt intertextual analyses, he refers to a parallel character or cites a related biblical verse from a corresponding narrative scene. In his oblique intertextual analysis, Nahmanides incorporates indirect "quotes" from other texts in the course of formulating his interpretation of the focus narrative. Nahmanides's intertextual analogies, both overt and oblique, motivate the reader of his commentary to derive additional connections among the interrelated texts, broadening the audience's understanding of the relational dynamics among biblical characters and their stories.
Eucalyptus Trees, Ars-Poetica, and Feminine Manhood in the Early Poetry of Esther Raab
Authors: Olmert Dana
Published: December 2012

This article concerns the symbolic meanings ascribed to the eucalyptus trees in the early poetry of Esther Raab. I aim to discuss the various significations that the eucalyptus receives in Raab's writings by positioning them against the backdrop of the tree's status as a central symbol in the Zionist discourse of the period. Esther Raab was among the first women who wrote modern poetry in Hebrew. This article stresses that she was well aware of her unique position in the sphere of Hebrew culture and of the specific historical conditions and power relations that enabled her entry into what was until then an exclusively male territory. During her early years as a poet, Esther Raab did not write poems dealing openly with the acts of writing and creating. None of Raab's first poems place the dilemmas of poetic creation at their center, nor do any of them raise questions about the language of poetry. Yet my main argument in the article is that many of her poems address important meta-poetic questions in an implicit manner, through a gendered charging and an engagement with aesthetic values that are ascribed to nature and to the working of the land. The eucalyptus tree is a salient example of this psycho-poetic strategy. It serves Raab, among other things, in creating a kind of "cover story," allowing her to address the subject of creativity. The creative passion is charged, through its linking to the huge trees, with the desire to transgress the established feminine gender identity, replacing it with a masculine one.
Two Ibn Ezras in One: Literary Theory Versus Literary Practice
Authors: Dana Joseph
Published: December 2012

Moshe ibn Ezra, the well-known medieval philosopher, scholar, exegete, and Hebrew author, was also a prosodist and critic; as such, he wrote a major treatise on the principles of poetry. However, his own poetic compositions often flout these principles. The present article explores the dichotomy between literary theory and literary practice in ibn Ezra's writings.
Rabbi Akiva and Zev Bacher in the Trenches: Language, Identity, and War in Avigdor Hameiri's The Great Madness
Authors: Drukker Tamar S.
Published: December 2012

Much of the prose literature of the Great War was written by men who took part in it; it often takes the form of docu-novels. Only one example of this genre exists in Hebrew—Avigdor Hameiri's war novels. His books are unique in offering the Hebrew-reading public in the 1930s an eyewitness report of life at the front. The author's biography and his decision to compose his war narrative in Hebrew highlight the predicament of the Jewish soldiers caught up in the events. Hameiri's novel The Great Madness was the first bestseller published in pre-state Israel and below I explore the reasons for this success.
Greater than the Sum of the Parts: Organization and Structure in 4QpPs a ( Psalm Pesher 1 /4Q171)
Authors: Keener H. Jim
Published: December 2012

Among the scrolls discovered in the Qumran Caves of the Judean Desert, the continuous pesharim have been especially significant because they have given scholars insight into how Jews living in the late Second Temple Period interpreted their Scriptures. Yet, in light of the atomistic hermeneutics employed at Qumran, scholars have not paid much attention to the structural organization of the pesharim. This study examines the pesher commentary on Psalm 37 (4QpPs a ) to show that it has a heretofore unobserved overarching organizational unity. The article argues that the author of 4QpPs a structures the text in a way that preserves the structure of Psalm 37 itself while clearly articulating an overarching theme in the commentary; namely, the "two fates" theme, which contrasts the judgment of the wicked with the reward of the righteous. The first section of the paper examines the way in which the pesher organizes and presents the Scripture citations, demonstrating that the author of Psalm Pesher 1 has left several formal indicators of structural development. The second section focuses on the commentary portions of 4QpPs a , arguing that distinct themes tie together clusters of glosses which are demarcated by vacats , and that a single unifying theme ties together the various clusters. The study concludes by presenting some implications for other major pesharim and the current consensus regarding the genre of pesharim as a whole; it is suggested that future studies should examine the organization of the lemmata and the glosses in other pesharim as this article has done with 4QpPs a , providing further insight into the distinctive hermeneutical thinking of the Qumran community.
"My Own Special Corner, Sacred, Beloved": The Hebrew Diary of Hava Shapiro (1878-1943)
Authors: Zierler Wendy
Published: December 2012

This article deals with the diary of Hava Shapiro (1878-1943), the first known Hebrew diary by a woman, situating the diary within the broader fields of life writing or autobiographical studies. Using the author's original translations from the diary, the article highlights those unifying or literary elements in the diary that make it a readable, coherent text, including retrospective entries and repeated images of place and displacement, homecoming and homelessness. At the same time, it calls attention to the provisional, work-in-progress aspects of this diary that accord with the observations of feminist scholars of diary writing.
Esther's Strategies of Becoming an עבד משׂכיל
Authors: Estelle Bryan D.
Published: December 2012

The study of politeness has become a major topic of pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Although research into politeness strategies has been done in Classical Biblical Hebrew, very little work has focused exclusively on Late Biblical Hebrew. This paper discusses three such strategies, identifiable in the book of Esther: the use of vocatives and titles, the substitution of third person forms for those of the second and first person (including a brief discussion on the indexing of social relationships through pronominal changes), and the employment of the indefinite or unspecified agent in passive and passive-like constructions. The discussion is then used to formulate some broader conclusions concerning post-exilic Hebrew in general and the language of Esther in particular.
"There is No Time More Pleasurable Than When I Converse in the Sacred Language": A Plan for the Revival of Spoken Hebrew in Nineteenth Century Italy
Authors: Di Giulio Marco
Published: December 2012

Decades before the revival of spoken Hebrew in Palestine, Italian educators created tools that encouraged students to practice the language in conversation as if it were a living tongue. Leone Reggio's שפת לשון הקדש Studio pratico della lingua santa is the best example of these works. Modeled on contemporary foreign language textbooks, Reggio's manual prepared students to speak Hebrew by equipping them with a broad vocabulary and a wide range of useful phrases and supplying a collection of model dialogues to be imitated in conversation. Although Reggio saw the study of Hebrew as an important way to preserve religious values at a moment when the Italian ghettos were being dismantled, his textbook differs from its rivals in its thoroughly secular content. Reggio's own description of the book indicates that he saw himself as preparing the way for the use of Hebrew as a national vernacular.
Representation of Space in Mizrahi Fiction
Authors: Oppenheimer Yochai
Published: December 2012

Mizrahi writers are aware that their location in Israel—the geographical periphery—had hitherto not been portrayed in Israeli literature. This constitutes a cultural position of alienage and exceptionality and at the same time a new and concrete place—poor neighborhoods in southern Tel Aviv and western Jerusalem and development towns established in the 1950s and 1960s at the country's border and in sparsely populated areas as part of a policy of dispersal of the Mizrahi population and distancing it from the country's center. The disconnection from the centers arouses a Mizrahi consciousness of the periphery which divided the Israeli space, imagined to be uniform, into ethnic zones. Mizrahi fiction gazes into the distances of consciousness that distinguish the geographic center from its margins in a dual perspective: it examines the margins with a gaze that creates awareness of the existence of a prestigious and attractive center and examines the center itself as a place that cannot be penetrated by Mizrahim and turned into a home for them. In this sense, the spatial consciousness of Mizrahi authors highlights a lack of belonging—both to the periphery and to the center—and a constant migratory movement between these two split geographical foci. I argue that, instead of the hegemonic unitary and complete space, Mizrahi fiction of the second generation—texts written during the last two decades—offers an ethnic perception that divides space, thus defining a "diasporic" point of view.
Magritte's La clef de verre and Hammett's The Glass Key: An Interarts Dialogue
Authors: Stoltzfus Ben
Published: December 2012

Magritte's painting, La clef de verre , borrows its title from Hammett's novel The Glass Key . The rock in the picture, the key in the title, and the plot of the whodunit generate an interarts dialogue, an ekphrasis, from which Magritte paints thought—a visible poetry that mediates between the stasis of the image and the dynamism of words.
Purloined Letters in Ian McEwan's Atonement
Authors: Pyrhönen Heta
Published: December 2012

This essay probes the intertexts of Atonement , in particular the links it shares with E.A. Poe's "The Purloined Letter." By drawing on the psychoanalytical context of Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,'" the essay shows how the theft of a letter affects the novel's protagonist-narrator's writing, leading to a compulsive attempt to hide her shame.
Récits de voyageuses en Afrique du Sud et conquête du corps victorien
Authors: Pessoa Ludmila Ommundsen
Published: December 2012

Cette étude s'intéressera, sur fond d'impérialisme britannique et de montée du mouvement féministe, à la corporalité des voyageuses victoriennes dans leur récit d'un voyage en Afrique du Sud entre convenance et impudence, profane et sacré, à la recherche d'une Surfemme dans un ailleurs symbolique aux contours carnavalesques.
One's Own Voice
Authors: Lingis Alphonso
Published: December 2012

On 2 October 2012, Alphonso Lingis delivered the following as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer public address held at the University of Manitoba and initiated by Mosaic. We are pleased and honoured to publish the address in this Lingis feature issue.
Irreconcilable Differences: Voice, Trauma, and Melville's Moby-Dick
Authors: Fee Tara Robbins
Published: December 2012

This essay argues that Ishmael's implausible narration in Moby-Dick (with its evident concealments, inventions, and fantasies) results from his status as a traumatized survivor and that through his incoherence, the novel insists that accounts of trauma cannot be subjected to the totalizing schemata of narrative aesthetics or therapeutic teleology.
The Weight of Reality
Authors: Lingis Alphonso
Published: December 2012

The following series of reflections are suggestive of the sense in which phenomenology, for Lingis, is personal and poetic, a mode of illuminating the world, its people and its things, bodies living and dead, that he encounters, and is moved by, in his journeys to numerous places.
Margaret Laurence: The Woman and the Masks
Authors: Stovel Nora Foster
Published: December 2012

Margaret Laurence employs masks, both literal and figurative, in her fiction and nonfiction, both African and Canadian, to convey her characters' personae. The connections between her life and work suggest that her Canadian heroines are facets, or masks, of Laurence's self.
John Dos Passos in the 1920s: The Development of a Modernist Style
Authors: Pizer Donald
Published: December 2012

The essay discusses Dos Passos's development of a modernist fictional style during the 1920s by describing its distinctive components in his major works of the decade and by seeking out Dos Passos's sources for the experimental direction his writing was taking in the visual techniques of analytical and collage cubism and of film montage.
A Fantasy of One's Own: Rooms in Hitchcock's Vertigo and Baudelaire's Prose Texts
Authors: Dima Vlad
Published: December 2012

This essay explores connections between Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Charles Baudelaire's prose texts. The main character of the film and the narrator of the prose texts are both confined emotionally in their own dreams and fantasies, but also physically, in a multitude of restricting, prison-like rooms that mirror the dynamic of the unconscious.
Laundry Day, and: Loitering
Authors: Dennis Carl
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Bath 3 (Iowa City), and: Bath 4 (Kentucky), and: Bath 5 (New Hampshire)
Authors: Silverman Jen
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
August on the Coast
Authors: Nurkse D.
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Two Weeks
Authors: Bandura Valerie
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Visit #1
Authors: Weaver Afaa Michael
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
The Latvians Stir Ghosts
Authors: Hardie Kerry
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
A Hologram State of Mind
Authors: Terrone Maria
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Patience, and: Run Away, Join Circus
Authors: Dobel Hilary Vaughn
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
A Life in a House: A Plan B Essay by Timothy Schaffert
Authors: Schaffert Timothy
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Victoria Falls Hotel
Authors: Kwon Reese Okyong
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Restaurant
Authors: Bass Ellen
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
One Good King
Authors: Weinstein Eric
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
December, with Antlers, and: Introduction to Matter
Authors: Hoagland Tony
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Telemetry
Authors: Null Matthew Neill
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
The Wicked of the Earth
Authors: Gifford Barry
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Taking Feminism to "Fantasticoes": A Look2 Essay on Jaimy Gordon by John Domini
Authors: Domini John
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
My Ship Has Sails
Authors: Okrent Rebecca
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
A Blink a Blink and Dehiscence
Authors: Galante Shauna
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Arriving at the End
Authors: Weiss Stephen Neal
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Grace
Authors: Howes Joshua
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Haloed Flotsam
Authors: Thacker David
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
A Story Can Change Your Life
Authors: Everwine Peter
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
The Blower of Leaves
Authors: O'Neil January Gill
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
The Centaur of Volos
Authors: Berry Ciaran
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Days of Being Mild
Authors: Wang Xuan Juliana
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Precision
Authors: Lemieux Brenna W.
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Volunteer
Authors: Van Winckel Nance
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Retelling
Authors: Gritz Ona
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Unsaid
Authors: Henderson Gretchen E.
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
My Father in the Rustling Trees
Authors: Crews James
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
The Culling
Authors: Sawers Jasmine
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
You Got to the Sea
Authors: Lippman Matthew
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Introduction
Authors: Randolph Ladette
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Rule 1
Authors: Vine Ryan
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Strawberries
Authors: Greenfeld Karl Taro
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
You Are a Prince
Authors: Primack Gretchen
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Heather, 1984
Authors: Flaherty Kate
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
What You Will Do
Authors: Newberry Jacob
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Poem About a Still Life
Authors: Nielsen Dave
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
This Candle
Authors: Althaus Keith
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Come the Revolution
Authors: Törzs Emma
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Ode to the Messiah , Thai Horror Movies, and Everything I Can't Believe, and: Ode to the Triple
Authors: Hamby Barbara
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
Wake
Authors: Schauer Grace
Published: December 2012

Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John
Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several
distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer’s
Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless
twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (“Days of Being Mild,” by
Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium
(“Strawberries,” by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful
high school production of The Miracle Worker (“Heather, 1984,” by Kate
Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa
Michael Weaver, and many more.
The Optimal Timing of Compulsory Licensing: A Story of Thailand's Winter of Discontent
Authors: Shahnawaz Sheikh
Published: December 2012

This paper considers the timing of issuing a compulsory license on pharmaceuticals. Apart from confirming the role of basic public health concerns--such as the virulence and prevalence of the disease to be addressed--in compulsory licensing, the paper identifies key economic variables of direct concern to a revenue-maximizing government with the power to issue the license. The paper finds that a disease that threatens to reduce domestic tax revenues is likely to be met with a move toward generic manufacturing of patented drugs. A compulsory license is less likely to be issued if retaliation by trade partners endangers the domestic export sector or if foreign trade contributes significantly to government finances. Thailand’s 2006 compulsory license issue is discussed as an example supporting the implications derived from the model.
When Do Independent Distributors Undersupply Promotional Services?
Authors: Zenger Hans
Published: December 2012

In antitrust practice, it is often argued that independent distributors of goods have an incentive to supply lower levels of brand-specific promotional services than a vertically integrated supplier. This paper outlines the conditions under which this claim is correct. Independent distributors have lower incentives to engage in promotion (i) if economies of scale exist in the provision of promotional services and (ii) if consumers with lower willingness to pay over-proportionally respond to promotional activity. When these conditions do not hold, independent distributors may actually supply more promotional services than integrated distributors.