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To Airbrush or Not?: Theoretical and Practical Applications of Athletes, Tattoos, and the Media
Authors: Emmons Betsy , Billings Andrew C.
Published: October 2015

Mediated visual representations of athletes offer interpreted renderings of social norms, which can dictate social scripts of appearance and social status that encourage compliance or risk social shunning. Concurrently, tattooing has broadened in social acceptance, yet not among all social groups, while readily available photo altering software has led to a social outcry for “authenticity” in human visual portrayals. Such converging dichotomies are the crux of this case study of six athletes’ tattoo portrayals, or lack thereof, in visual media. Social comparison theory offers a foundation to demonstrate ways visual social norms continue to exert pressure on mediated representation; this study suggests a movement toward authenticity of self in an increasingly manicured, visually mediated human appearance.
The Semiotics of a Native American Sports Logo: The Signification of the “Screaming Savage”
Authors: Turner Jacob S.
Published: October 2015

Semiotics is called on to examine the communicative qualities of the Atlanta Braves’ controversial “screaming savage” logo. The Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball attempted to bring back the “savage” logo for their batting practice baseball caps before outcries from journalists, fans, bloggers, and cultural critics all but forced the Braves to swiftly pull the logo before their players donned the cap in the spring of 2013. The current analysis draws on Peirce’s triadic relationship of signs and Debord’s concept of the lower-case spectacle to find answers to what the Braves’ “screaming savage” logo (the signifier) might mean for our postcolonial understanding of Native Americans (the signified) within the broader cultural arena of the sports-media complex in the United States.
No Girls Allowed! Female Reporters as Threats to the Male Domain of Sports
Authors: Mozisek Korryn D.
Published: October 2015

Let Them Wear Towels serves as a public piece of critical rhetoric in exposing the harassment, discrimination, and domination that female sportswriters faced when attempting to enter professional sports locker rooms in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a critique of locker-room bans and the ultimate mistreatment of female reporters, the film encourages the audience to view the boys-will-be-boys culture more negatively as it served to undermine and delegitimize the women. But in providing a rosy outlook for current female sportswriters, the film misses an opportunity to encourage more structural and cultural changes within the sports-media industry.
The 99ers : Celebrating the Mythological
Authors: Meân Lindsey J.
Published: October 2015

In this paper, The 99ers from the espn Nine for IX series is analyzed as a sport documentary. The 99ers focuses on the highly mythologized US women’s team victory at the 1999 fifa Women’s World Cup. Celebrating the “cultural touchstone” that “irrevocably changed the face of women’s athletics,” the documentary also claims to question the “legacy” of the team and to examine “how women’s soccer, and women’s sport as a whole, has changed” (“Nine for IX,” 2013). The celebratory motif is explicit in the documentary, (re)producing the mythology of this event as a great American achievement that changed the face of women’s sport. Yet the film (re)presents the players within familiar narratives and framings of heteronormative femininity, (re)producing their success within an overarching narrative of feminized team heroic accounted for through exceptionality. Ultimately The 99ers fails to examine the mythology or the ways in which women’s sport has progressed, but it also fails to change the way women in sport media are examined.
Nine for IX— Branded : From Affect to Action
Authors: Aro Ann Pegor
Published: October 2015

Documentary films have the ability to significantly impact individual attitudes toward social and cultural issues; but to date, little research has sought to empirically measure these impacts. The film Branded , the last film in the Nine for IX series, explored gender equity in sports post–Title IX. The key question for films focusing on social issues is whether they ever reach beyond the already converted audience to move viewers from affect (emotion) to action (doing). This paper utilized the evaluation framework proposed by Yates, Alameddine, Gheissari, Ta, and Karlin (2012) to analyze whether Branded contained the elements needed to move viewers to action related to the issues around gender equity in sports. Results of this analysis indicate that while the film did contain many of the required elements, it fell short by failing to delineate a specific task for the audience or desired behavioral response from viewers of Branded .
Earlier Wittgenstein, Later Beckett
Authors: Furlani Andre
Published: October 2015

While the few accounts of Beckett’s engagement with Wittgenstein’s philosophy have been necessarily speculative, recently archived correspondence, a companion’s memoir, and the catalogue of his personal library confirm a high degree of exposure: six books by, and six about, Wittgenstein (some of these annotated). Few other authors are better represented in the library. With particular attention to the materials in that library, this essay focuses on several related aspects of the Tractatus in order to establish the special pertinence to Beckett’s postwar and later fiction of Wittgenstein’s treatment of ontology, reference, ineffability, solipsism, nominalism, and ethics.
Lyric, Time, Beauty
Authors: Sinclair Sue
Published: October 2015

In Lyric Philosophy , Jan Zwicky presents a way of thinking that challenges the model that currently prevails in academic philosophy. In this essay I deal primarily with one aspect of lyric thought: its relation to time. I examine whether beauty’s relationship to time is like that of lyric thought, for Zwicky tells us that the “experience of beauty is the experience of some form (or other) of relief from time.” She also describes lyric thought as being more spatial than temporal in structure. I question whether the style of timelessness of beauty is like the style of timelessness of lyric thought.
Wittgenstein’s Augustinian Cosmogony in Zettel 608
Authors: McDonough Richard
Published: October 2015

Most commentators see Wittgenstein’s Zettel 608 as suggesting that language and thought might arise out of chaos at the neural center—but this contradicts Wittgenstein’s signature view that philosophers must not advance theories. Following Wittgenstein’s remark to Drury that he cannot help looking at problems from a religious point of view, the paper argues that Zettel 608 employs religious creation language of the sort found in Augustine to suggest a new paradigm in the philosophies of language and mind—that language and thought arise, not out of neural processes, but out of the “chaos” of actions at the center of human forms of life.
“What Is Not Self”: Jan Zwicky, Simone Weil, and the Resonance of Decreation
Authors: MacDonald Tanis
Published: October 2015

Jan Zwicky suggests that Lyric Philosophy may be read as a “letter to a revered parent—with whom I have quarrelled, but by whom I still wish to be understood.” Though the “parent” thinker to whom she refers is Freud, Zwicky’s conversation with Simone Weil in Wisdom & Metaphor addresses Weil as a “foremother” in the act of making “herself clear to herself.” This paper examines Weil’s role in Wisdom & Metaphor and considers Weil as an influence in Zwicky’s poetry, reading “relinquishing” in Zwicky’s poetry and “decreation” in Weil’s philosophy as metaphors that resonate and debate with each other.
Wittgenstein’s Language Plays
Authors: Puchner Martin
Published: October 2015

Wittgenstein included “playing theater” among the meanings of Sprachspiel , an association obscured by the translation of that word as “language game.” Suggesting that we translate Sprachspiel as “language play,” I argue that Wittgenstein developed a dramatic vocabulary by describing language as acts performed by actors in particular scenes and settings. In his own writing, he invented dramatic scenarios that are populated by characters and centered on sequences of action. These scenarios—Wittgenstein’s “language plays”—with their flat characters and minimal stages, resonate with the theater of the absurd and influenced later dramatists such as Tom Stoppard.
Love’s Negative Dialectic in Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
Authors: Gibson Suzie
Published: October 2015

In literary romance love operates as a narrative point of access, suspension, and ending: every element works toward its ultimate consummation. However, in the novels of Henry James, including The Golden Bowl , love is not fulfilled because it is intrinsically flawed. Here, I examine the broken nature of Jamesian love through two key philosophers, Jean-Luc Nancy and Martha Nussbaum, who assist in providing a rich theoretical dimension to the question of love’s representation. Ultimately, I address how love’s negative dialectic is elemental to narrative, thinking, and subjectivity.
The Tale Parfit Tells: Analytic Metaphysics of Personal Identity vs. Wittgensteinian Film and Literature
Authors: Read Rupert
Published: October 2015

At the center of Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons is nestled a famous short story about a person who uses a teletransporter. Parfit argues that his “thought experiment” shows that “personal identity”—as (analytic) philosophy understands it—doesn’t matter. As long as I know that my “self” on Mars is unharmed by the teletransporter, it shouldn’t matter to me that I remain on Earth, soon to die. I use Christopher Priest’s novel The Prestige and the Nolan brothers’ film of it to challenge the method and alleged moral of this “branch-line” teletransportation thought experiment, treating it as a work of literature in miniature.
The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy in the Early Dialogues of St. Augustine
Authors: Foley Michael P.
Published: October 2015

On whose side is St. Augustine of Hippo in the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry? In his four Cassiciacum dialogues, Augustine obviously favors the former, but his rhapsodic use of poetry in the dialogues—and indeed his own poetics in crafting these works—point to a more complicated attitude than is initially apparent. This essay offers an overview of the conflict between philosophy and poetry in Plato’s Republic , establishes the reemergence of that conflict in Augustine’s four earliest dialogues, and explores Augustine’s somewhat surprising solution.
Possibilities of Grieving
Authors: Burley Mikel
Published: October 2015

Literature can inform our philosophical contemplations on grief in multiple ways. Here, I explore grief through reflecting on particular literary examples from C. S. Lewis and Christopher Reid respectively. Resisting temptations to offer a general definition, I suggest that much of what many of us do in relation to the dead does not stand in need of instrumental explanation. Grief is typically embodied in behavior, not hidden behind it. Such behavior may include kissing photographs and speaking to the deceased, and may be understood by some to indicate a desire for renewed intimacy. It patterns the life of the griever, with many different variations.
Is Ethics Nonsense?: The Imagination, and the Spirit against the Limit
Authors: Chen Melvin
Published: October 2015

This article examines three exegetical approaches to Wittgenstein: the positivist approach, the ineffability approach, and the resolute approach. After revealing the defects and inconsistencies of the first two exegetical approaches, it adopts the resolute approach and rejects the possibility that a limit may be drawn between garden-variety nonsense and important nonsense. It then proceeds to outline a Wittgensteinian approach to ethics that pertains to the imagination and the spirit. It concludes with an excursus into literary ethics—which is this writer’s main area of interest—and how it might plausibly square with the demands of a Wittgensteinian ethic.
Atonement in Theology and Literature
Authors: Stevenson Leslie
Published: October 2015

Some theology of atonement and “at-one-ment” has talked in terms of love rather than justice or punishment, and the Oxford philosopher J. R. Lucas said that we need to be led out of our egocentric predicament by love. A study of George Eliot’s Silas Marner , Jane Austen’s Emma , Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment , and Ian McEwen’s Atonement reveals only partial truth in that adage, for human complexity resists being encapsulated in a neat theological formula. C. S. Lewis’s distinction of four kinds of love proves helpful in dealing with our ambiguities.
How to Appreciate an Exploding Cigar: A Look2 Essay on Peter De Vries
Authors: Aycock Anthony
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Fresh Water from the Sea
Authors: Ausubel Ramona
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
“Alda” Means “A Wave”—An Exercise in Hope
Authors: Sjón Sjn
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Dad’s Just a Number
Authors: Maazel Fiona
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
The Miracle Years of Little Fork
Authors: Makkai Rebecca
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
An Arc Welder, a Molotov Cocktail, a Bowie Knife
Authors: Wilson Kevin
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Some of Us Are Gone
Authors: Monson Ander
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
6 Micro Stories
Authors: Epstein Alex
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Arco, Idaho
Authors: Winn Christian
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
“Sorry” Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea
Authors: Oyeyemi Helen
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Palau
Authors: González Kevin A.
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
About Lauren Groff: A Profile
Authors: Holt Elliott
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Introduction
Authors: Groff Lauren
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Extremities
Authors: Hechter Eliana
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
First Loves: A Plan B Essay
Authors: Pruiksma Thomas
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Eleven Stories
Authors: Alomar Osama
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
In the Flesh, We Shone
Authors: Shakar Alex
Published: October 2015

The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares , guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares , a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff ( The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds ) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her introduction, “I am searching for work that is written with blood or bile or choler, not necessarily sweat alone.” Featuring narratives that range from a woman falling in love with a dead man (“In the Flesh, We Shone” by Alex Shakar) to the effect a traveling circus has on an entire town (“The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai), these stories explore humanity through the bizarre and unexpected. This issue includes new work from Lydia Davis, Daniel Peña, Helen Oyeyemi, Fiona Maazel, and more. The Summer 2015 issue also features Thomas Pruiksma’s Plan B essay about his first love of magic, a look at the prolific author Peter De Vries, and an interview with Nick Arvin, the Alice Hoffman Prize Winner.
Privilege, solidarity and social justice struggles in South Africa: A view from Grahamstown
Authors: Matthews Sally
Published: October 2015

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number and prominence of social movements in South Africa. Many of these movements are supported by relatively privileged individuals who are not themselves victims of the injustices the movements oppose. In this paper, I draw out some of the possibilities and limitations of the role of privileged individuals in supporting social movements struggling for social justice, looking particularly at the role of students in supporting such movements. The paper is based on research on the relationship between one such movement, the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM), and a student organisation, the Students for Social Justice (SSJ), both of which are based in Grahamstown, South Africa. While acknowledging that privileged supporters of such movements can play a constructive role in social justice struggles, I use the experiences of the UPM and SSJ to explore some of the tensions that are likely to emerge and that need to be addressed when the relatively privileged participate in popular struggles. In particular, I discuss the likely difficulties privileged supporters will experience in bridging social divides and in contributing meaningfully to the theorisation of popular struggles.
Accountability and surveillance: New mechanisms of control in higher education
Authors: Maistry Suriamurthee
Published: October 2015

In the past decade, higher education institutions in South Africa have witnessed a firm and decisive move towards corporatisation. It may well be argued that this is an inevitable trend, driven largely by globalisation and the need to remain or become competitive in a highly market-oriented local and international higher education sector. This need to attain a competitive edge demands that the status quo cannot remain. Higher education institutions have to respond to indicators of quality contained in the international rankings machinery. In an era of fiscal austerity, this necessitates a greater extraction of output from existing higher education production factors. Labour in particular requires a more sophisticated disciplinary regime: one that defines the work of academics in explicit quantifiable terms, and sets and measures performance standards for the different facets of an academic’s work. In this commentary, I present a Foucauldian analysis of the effect of accountability and performance regimes on academics at a South African university. I argue that particular constructions of performance expectations produce particular effects. This paper draws attention to the subjugating effect of stringent control technologies on the lived experience of the higher education pedagogue with a view to exploring possibilities and spaces of resistance.
Dimension: Fractal Forms and Periodical Texture
Authors: Philpotts Matthew
Published: October 2015

This essay argues that the patterns of sameness and difference inherent in periodical form can be understood by analogy with the infinitely complex but self-similar forms of fractal geometry. More specifically, the notion of fractal (or fractional) dimension supplies not only a new conceptual vocabulary to describe the increased dimensionality of periodicals but also a quantitative measure of the complexity of form. Using digital tools and visualisations, dimension, together with the complementary notion of texture, can be set to work as the theoretical basis for new comparative analyses. At the same time, this approach raises important questions about the transferability of theoretical concepts from the sciences to the humanities.
Looking Back
Authors: Brake Laurel
Published: October 2015

This essay considers the fortunes of “theory” in Victorian Periodicals Review since the first theory issue published in 1989. It looks at the prevailing types of articles in the journal—archival approaches, author-based studies, and close readings—in the 1980s when theory was prominent in academic discourse and periodical scholars were still dealing with the riches that the Wellesley and Waterloo indexes offered. It also considers our attempts in the special issue to prompt change by offering examples of theoretical ways to approach the periodical press. Since 1989, theory has been embedded in many of the critical approaches found in the journal. The scholarly fissure, insofar as there is one, is often between print and digitally derived methodologies, that is, between discursive criticism and the explication of the results of distant readings through graphic tables and visualisations.
Time: Periodicals and the Time of the Now
Authors: Beetham Margaret
Published: October 2015

Responding to the question “What is the use of theory?” this article discusses the meaning of periodical time. Situating the rise of the periodical in the time-regulated structures of nineteenth-century capitalism, I use three case studies to consider some theoretical resources available to discuss the “now” or “new” as characteristic of periodical time. I examine three case studies: the Queen , which was dedicated to the “now” of conspicuous consumption; the British Mothers’ Magazine , which deployed multiple time schemes; and the Lancashire Teddy Ashton’s Journal , which invoked a utopian space-time of community. I draw on theoretical work by David Harvey, Julia Kristeva, and Walter Benjamin, among others, to show how theory and historically informed close reading can work together in periodicals research.
Repetition: Or, “In Our Last”
Authors: Mussell James
Published: October 2015

This essay considers the relationship between sameness and difference that characterizes periodical publication. The newness of the current issue is predicated on its difference from its predecessor, yet that difference is understood in the context of the past issue’s continuing presence. I use the phrase “in our last” to analyse three distinct aspects of magazine form: continuity, where past issues are made present in the current issue; succession, where the present issue displaces those from the past; and “the last,” when publication ceases.
Network: Andrew Lang and the Distributed Agencies of Literary Production
Authors: Hensley Nathan K.
Published: October 2015

This essay uses the case of Andrew Lang to evaluate the critical trope of the “network” and to assess its value for the analysis of Victorian periodical culture. It surveys the network sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour and reviews recent advances in periodical studies organized around this now-ubiquitous buzzword. Lang’s own networking practice, realized in his casual take on intellectual property and materialized in the multiple authorship of his Fairy Book projects, shows how attending to assemblages rather than individuals might expand conventional models of creative agency in literary studies and enable new configurations of literary-historical time.
On Suffocation: Audible space, visualized sound
Authors: Koskinen Maaret
Published: October 2015

This article will explore how the realistic sound in On Suffocation, devoid of dialogue and entirely restricted to the setting where the action takes place, still manages to connote meanings ranging from the psychological to the political, and thus supplements the visible image by breaking into visible space.
On Suffocation in the silence of things
Authors: Mendelyté Aténé
Published: October 2015

The article discusses how On Suffocation explores a different mode of storytelling, which befits the short film format. As an existentially silent film it moves away from character construction as a linguistic being to the mute factuality of the body. The film shows that physicality tells its own story, signifies in its own way.
Unspoken desires: Negotiating homosexuality in On Suffocation
Authors: Lim Xie Quin
Published: October 2015

On Suffocation examines queer realities by destabilizing the western construction of homosexuality and illuminating the harsh conditions that non-western gay men face. I examine how homosexual identity and desire are moulded and restricted by local culture in this film, through ‘unspoken ambiguity’, alongside a stern but vague legal system.
On paratexts: An unsettling but important film about …
Authors: Marklund Anders
Published: October 2015

In this article I argue that On Suffocation relies on paratexts in order to articulate what I take to be its most important message. I foreground a few of these paratexts, especially Facebook postings and a festival Q&A session, in order to illustrate the ways in which they contribute to the film’s meaning.
Possum’s cinematic space: Landscape, alienation and New Zealand Gothic
Authors: Leotta Alfio
Published: October 2015

Possum has often been read as a commentary on the sense of place and belonging in postcolonial New Zealand. This article proposes a semiotic analysis of the construction of space in Possum. In particular, it will examine the stylistic choices deployed by the director in relation to the notions of alienation and New Zealand Gothic.
Porous rural spaces in Possum
Authors: Ceuterick Maud
Published: October 2015

In Possum, the New Zealand rural house and forest become porous spaces into which animality seeps not as abject, but rather as part of human development. Hence, the evocative images and atmospheric sounds of Possum mingle animality with humanity in ways that contaminate our understanding of ecological hierarchies.
Possum: The fractured family and turning animal
Authors: Dolgopolov Greg
Published: October 2015

Possum explores a series of dramatic contradictions between animal and human, the tame and the wild, family structure and unconstrained desires and between freedom and entrapment. An engagement with animality shapes the empathy of all involved. Interpreting the paradox of the trapped trapper sharpens the audience’s experience of the film’s depth.
Possum: A postcolonial feral allegory
Authors: Pearson Sarina
Published: October 2015

Brad McGann’s Possum has been described as a film about the primal relationship between individuals and their environment. This article draws upon Clark’s work on feral ecologies in the colonial peripheries to suggest that it can also be understood as a historically specific allegory about nineteenth-century imperialism and settlement in New Zealand.
The settlement trap
Authors: Kavka Misha
Published: October 2015

McGann has characterized Possum as being about the relationship between the outsider and society that is central to his work. This article places that relationship in the national context of New Zealand as a project of settlement, and in the filmic context of the 1990s New Zealand Gothic.
Chora and the resurgence of the sensuous
Authors: Andreescu Florentina C.
Published: October 2015

This article reads Kid as Little Man’s connection to chora, the primordial maternal space where language is experienced as a phenomenon akin to birdsongs and animals’ howls, through which Little Man is inscribed into the world’s wild rhythms of movement and sound, and explores how this connection distorts the cinematic space.
Regarding human violence: The hard impact of cinematic soft power
Authors: Jönsson Mats
Published: October 2015

With the example of On Suffocation, this article problematizes how violence on film is represented and received. Ethical questions linked to the role and function of the viewer, medium and originator are at the centre of the analysis, and the writings of Susan Sontag function as conceptual backdrop.
Editorial
Authors: Arroyo Arq. Julio
Published: October 2015

Nota Editorial N° 7
Entre o sonho e a realidade
Authors: Camargos Melchiors Lúcia , Soares de Almeida Maria
Published: October 2015

Atualmente a temática da habitação tem sido amplamente discutida pela relevância que assume para a sociedade e, especialmente, para os países da America Latina, com significativos problemas sociais. O presente trabalho faz uma reflexão sobre a questão habitacional brasileira atual a partir de uma perspectiva histórica, examinando pontos convergentes e divergentes entre distintos períodos históricos. Apresenta–se um estudo do Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida – PMCMV em contraponto à política de habitação realizada pós 1964 e observa–se que a habitação social tem sido historicamente preterida frente aos interesses do capital imobiliário. O caso estudado aponta uma tendência à expansão urbana e periferização dos empreendimentos do PMCMV destinados às menores faixas de renda. Percebe–se que o modelo adotado pelo Programa repete antigas soluções nas quais a justificativa de redução do déficit habitacional a partir do estímulo ao setor da construção civil acaba por contribui para a manutenção dos padrões de cidade excludente. As avaliações aqui procedidas se dedicam a esta questão examinando a inserção dos empreendimentos na Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre. Destaca–se o município de Gravataí que integra esta região e cuja experiência recente na aplicação dos ditames emanados da política federal, em exame, revela e apóia as afirmativas acima enunciadas.

Palabras clave

política habitacional; programa Minha Casa; Minha Vida; habitação social
A New Approach to the Complicated Liver Hydatid Cyst – Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Cystojejunostomy
Authors: Yilmaz Huseyin , Sahin Mustafa , Ece Ilhan , Yormaz Serdar , Alptekin Husnu
Published: October 2015

Surgery is still the gold standard in the treatment of hepatic hydatid disease. One of the major problems associated with hydatid cyst surgery is biliary fistula. In this report, we aimed to describe a laparoscopic internal drainage method for the treatment of complicated hepatic hydatid cyst in order to prevent long-term biliary fistulas. A 44-year-old female was referred to our clinic with the complaints of flank pain. On computerized tomography of the abdomen, an 8-cm hydatid cyst was detected on the right lob of the liver. Laparoscopic exploration demonstrated a cysto-biliary communication, and laparoscopic cystojejunostomy was performed to prevent long-term bile leakage. The patient was discharged on postoperative day 5 without any problems. In 45th days, nearly complete obliteration of the cavity was observed. Laparoscopic cystojejunostomy can be an effective and safe surgical approach for the treatment of complicated hepatic hydatid cysts.
Fusion Kalman filtration with k-step delay sharing pattern
Authors: Duda Zdzisław
Published: October 2015

A fusion hierarchical state filtration with k−step delay sharing pattern for a multisensor system is considered. A global state estimate depends on local state estimates determined by local nodes using local information. Local available information consists of local measurements and k−step delay global information - global estimate sent from a central node. Local estimates are transmitted to the central node to be fused. The synthesis of local and global filters is presented. It is shown that a fusion filtration with k−step delay sharing pattern is equivalent to the optimal centralized classical Kalman filtration when local measurements are transmitted to the center node and used to determine a global state estimate. It is proved that the k−step delay sharing pattern can reduce covariances of local state errors.