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Not Just Condensation: How Comic Books Interpret Shakespeare
Authors: Perret Marion
Published: May 2005

Inescapably, comic book versions of Shakespeare's plays not only inform, but also interpret, verbally and visually, blatantly or subtly. While the medium and audience make adaptation necessary, intelligent cutting can clarify as well as condense, and imaginative artwork can convey some of the play's complexity and depth by suggesting more than is said. Because the reader must actively cooperate in giving a comic book imaginary life, when the artist successfully catalyzes interaction between word and picture, careful looking challenges thought. A panel or page from a comic book version of Shakespeare can become an enjoyable means of helping students grasp that a single text may be interpreted several ways, that the text itself is an interpretation, and that the culture of the time or place influences shaping and understanding of the text. Used imaginatively, comic books can help the college student begin to recognize critical problems and theoretical concerns.
"Hamlet, Part Eight, The Revenge" or, Sampling Shakespeare in a Postmodern World
Authors: Smith Kay H
Published: May 2005

Hamlet is a prime source for allusions and references, or to use postmodern terms, paratexts, or samplings in recent films. Perhaps no other of Shakespeare's plays has been ransacked for lines, scenes, plot devices, or oblique but telling references as often or as completely in films of the last two decades as Hamlet. In these films, of which Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Gildernstern Are Dead is perhaps the fullest example, the text of Hamlet becomes a kind of "raw material" that both has meaning in itself and also derives meaning from its rearticulation within a new form. This essay examines the effect of such borrowings from Hamlet and argues that Hamlet can become a problematic literary icon, which disrupts through the contrasts it establishes.
Life's Sequel
Authors: Barabtarlo Gennady
Published: May 2005

Nabokov's first, and atypical, American story, "The Assistant Producer," ends almost as soon as the author runs out of the "real life" material. This article supplies a continuation based on documents recently discovered by a Russian researcher, mostly letters of General Miller (the General Fedchenko of the story) from his cell in the N.K.V.D. prison, where he spent twenty months after his abduction and before his execution.
"Knowing" Lolita: Sexual Deviance and Normality in Nabokov's Lolita
Authors: Goldman Eric
Published: May 2005

Lolita exposes the volatility and relativity of the binary of "deviant" and "normal" sexuality prevalent in 1950s America. Like Alfred Kinsey's "reports," Lolita challenges assumptions about what constitutes "normal" sexuality. Although it parodies the new science of sexology made famous by the Kinsey reports, it opposes a scientific perspective of a potentially "normal" Lolita to Humbert's mythological framework for herâa framework that turns her into a specially depraved "nymphet" who "seduces" Humbert. The scientific perspective of Lolita the novel subtly makes available exposes the misogyny of Humbert's mythic perspective.
Nabokov and Chesterton
Authors: Rampton David
Published: May 2005

Although Nabokov discouraged source- and influence-hunting, examining the links between him and a range of writers has proved helpful. We know that G.K. Chesterton's work was once important to him, and the list of similarities between Chesterton and Nabokov is long and intriguing. Their views on aesthetic and ethical questions converge in interesting ways; their literary criticism performs similar functions; their extraordinary inventiveness makes them kindred spirits. Reconsidering Chesterton in light of these conjunctions might enhance his fading reputation; rereading Nabokov in light of them might help us see his work anew
The Tongue, That Punchinello: A Commentary on Nabokov's Pnin
Authors: Senderovich Savelii , Shvarts Yelena
Published: May 2005

Tragically lonely, farcically talking, poor and pure Timofei Pnin is a protagonist of more than one tragicomedy. Upon the main stage where he lives and acts, there is a second little stage where a more refined tragicomedy occurs, presenting the hidden, sublime, and ridiculous essence of the play on the main stage. The little stage is inventively placed upon Pnin himself—quite in the manner of the Russian popular street show Petrushka, whose puppetmaster carried a little stage right on his head: "The organs concerned in the production of English speech sounds are the larynx, the velum, the lips, the tongue (that punchinello in the troupe)...." The Petrushka character used to present himself as a phony foreigner. Pnin's linguistic situation is not a simple mirror but a distorting mirror, a veritable parody of Nabokov's own plight. The difference between the elementary and sophisticated levels of the problem reveals Pnin, the novel, as an estranged Nabokov's identification with the predicament of a culture in emigration, a grotesque representation of the author's own concern, an ironic empathy and a lyrical farce.
The Writings of J.-K. Huysmans and Gustave Moreau's Painting: Affinity or Divergence?
Authors: Grigorian Natasha
Published: May 2005

The article considers anew the role played by Moreau's painting in Huysmans's novels � rebours (1884) and En rade (1887), as well as art criticism. While the evident affinities between the two artists have mislead most critics, this article uncovers key divergences between them. An analysis of Huysmans's decadent slant on Moreau's work illuminates the way inter-art relationships contribute to a paradoxical interplay of classical and modernist tendencies in fin de si�cle French and European culture. The divergence between Huysmans and Moreau exemplifies the pivotal conflict between l'amour du difforme and l'amour du beau in this context. However, deeper spiritual and moral affinities that ultimately emerge between the two artists dialectically link the two conflicting attitudes. (NG-S)
Unpacking a Provencal Library
Authors: Lloyd Rosemary
Published: May 2005

The recent acquisition of the library of the Aubanel family, whose best-known member was the poet, Th�odore Aubanel, allows a study of the F�librige movement, its friends, and its critics, through an analysis of the manuscript inscriptions. Of the library's 1,300 books and ten boxes of pamphlets, peri-odicals, newspapers, and academic bulletins, there are some six hundred inscriptions and manuscript insertions written in French, Proven�al, Catalan, Italian, English, and Esperanto. Ranging form brief definitions to sonnets, from praise to provocation, they shed an unaccustomed light on the writers, presses, and preoccupations of nineteenth-century Provence. (RL)
"Poussiere de religions": le culte domestique dans "Un Coeur simple"
Authors: Matthey Cecile
Published: May 2005

L'int�r�t que Flaubert a invariablement montr� pour les r�cits religieux (l�gendaires, mythologiques et bibliques), et plus particuli�rement pour le motif de la mort des dieux, se manifeste une fois encore dans "Un C�ur simple." Le conte inscrit le souvenir d'une religion domestique romaine morte depuis longtemps, mais n�anmoins int�rioris�s par le personnage de la servante, dont la simplicit� permet d'appr�hender ce culte primitif. En effet, cette �uvre pr�sente un monde post�rieur � la disparition des religions domestiques mise en sc�ne dans La Tentation de saint Antoine: elle collecte quelques d�bris de croyances romaines pour couvrir la Normandie moderne de "poussi�re mythique." (In French) (CM)
Vae Victis! Adolphe Rette
Authors: Pierssens Michel
Published: May 2005

The recounting of literary history has always been staged from the winners' camp. Despite the work done by historians who seek to restore a counter-history to the literary canon, it is instead necessary to consider the same History from the point of view of literature's peripheral figures. During the nineteenth century a vast majority of poets and novelists, including poet Adolphe Rett�, fell into this category: the young genius aspiring to literary glory in the capital who is left with only his lost illusions. This phenomenon can be explained in part by the increased circulation of the press, the proliferation of reviews, and the con-sensus of an informed public. It is significant however that the circle of one of literature's most elusive poets, Mallarm�, decided the literary fate of Rett�. In Rett�'s vigorous critique of Mallarm�'s poetry, he sealed his own artistic demise. However, it was Rett�'s self-imposed exclusion from the literary domain, his voluntary move to the losers' camp, that places into the question the fragile edifice upon which the literary canon stands. If literary history has been polarized between the winners' camp and the losers' camp, of which the former represents the authoritative voice of official literary history, what then of those exiled figures who place themselves in the latter camp so as to ensure their effacement from the literary canon? (in French)
La Fanfarlo : la prostituee rend au poete la monnaie de sa piece
Authors: Rogers Nathalie Buchet
Published: May 2005

La Fanfarlo purports to reveal a novelistic truth that exposes the romantic lies of the failed poet Samuel Cramer. However, in his only attempt at novelistic fiction, Baudelaire is confronted with his own romantic lies and is caught up in the threads of the realist plot meant to ensnare his character. Narrator, author and reader are caught up in the ironic play of desire and seduction. Bodies, gold and texts are exchanged in a dangerous web that exposes an unbearable truth: the prostitute has the final word, and the twin metaphors of poetic creation as prostitution and as counterfeit money that subtend Baudelaire's entire poetic enterprise threaten to unravel. (In French) (NBR)
The Black Galatea: Claire de Duras's Ourika
Authors: Rouillard Linda Marie
Published: May 2005

This article considers the ways in which Claire de Duras (1777-1828) rewrites the Pygmalion story in her novella Ourika, privileging now the feminine, African voice of she who is created. In this fictional account of an historical person, de Duras uses an ovidian grid to explore internalized racism as demonstrated by the person of Ourika, a Senegalese child saved from slavery and raised in a French aristocratic family. Ourika's love for her benefactress's grandson, her "passion criminelle," leads to the accusation of "incest," which serves as a mask for miscegenation. The latter is considered against the backdrop of the Code Noir and race relations in colonial France. This intertextual analysis traces Ourika's de-animation: contrary to Pygmalion's statue who evolves from stone to flesh, Ourika seeks refuge among stone ruins. (LMR)
Unpacking His Library: Robert de Montesquiou and the Esthetics of the Book in Fin-de-siecle France
Authors: Silverman Willa Z.
Published: May 2005

The sale of the personal library of Robert de Montesquiou is a valuable document for a study of the esthetics of the book and the history of reading in fin-de-si�cle France. The catalog and related documents reveal that the value Montesquiou attached to books varied according to their author, provenance, and usefulness to him for his own writings. Above all, in line with the esthetics of Symbolism, Montesquiou valued books as decorative objects, capable of stimulating the imagination, especially when encased in highly suggestive bindings, as the example of the publication of his 1892 work, Les Chauves-Souris, makes clear. (WZS)
Policing Prostitutes: Adaptations and Reactions to Edmond de Goncourt's La Fille Elisa
Authors: Ashley Katherine
Published: May 2005

No legal action was taken against Edmond de Goncourt's prostitute-prisoner novel, La Fille Elisa (1877); however, three adaptations of it � "La Fille Elisabeth" (1877), La Fille Elisa: sc�ne d'atelier (c. 1880), and La Fille Elisa: pi�ce (1890) � were repressed. The two former ignored the issue of prisons, but attacked the portrayal of prostitutes. The latter was praised for its description of prisons, but repressed because of its depiction of prostitutes. In each case, La Fille Elisa was used as a scapegoat for more general complaints about Naturalist themes, even when public tastes, along with Naturalism itself, were evolving. (KA)
Paris as Bazaar: Tristan Corbiere's Poetry of the City
Authors: Lunn-Rockliffe Katherine
Published: May 2005

This article shows how Corbi�re's Paris poetry in Les Amours jaunes (1873) evokes the destabilizing quality of city life. Combining close textual analysis with examination of the socio-economic context, it surveys his parodic versions of stereotypical prostitute and fl�neur figures, and shows how his condensed urban landscapes reflect his fragmented subjects, particularly his poet personae. It then focuses on his representation of the difficulties facing poets in the marketplace, and argues that his ironic clash of discourses represents both conflict between value-systems and contradictions within the bohemian milieu. It concludes that Corbi�re conveys the underlying workings of urban society by dramatizing the sensation of doubt about values. (JL-R)
The "Poet-Philosopher" and the "Physician-Philosopher": A Reading of Baudelaire's Prose Poem "Assommons les pauvres!"
Authors: Vatan Florence
Published: May 2005

In the second half of the nineteenth century, French alienists, imbued with the ambitions of the emerging psychiatric discipline, often regarded themselves as public figures. They did not hesitate to speak to philosophical, social, political, and even aesthetic matters. Louis Fran�ois L�lut is a case in point: in Du d�mon de Socrate (1836) he used his medical expertise to diagnose Socrates as a lunatic. In the wake of the Revolution of 1848, he launched a fierce critique against proponents of equality such as Proudhon (Egalit�, 1849). Through an analysis of Baudelaire's prose poem "Assommons les pauvres!" this essay explores Baudelaire's subversive critique of L�lut's intellectual claims. Baude-laire depicts a narrator who displays similarities with the allegedly "lunatic" Socrates and yet defies any simplistic equation between philosophical "genius" _EnD_and pathology. Baudelaire's parody is directed at L�lut's medical and political views: the narrator's stand on equality overtly challenges L�lut's inegalitarian beliefs. (FV)
Austronesian Nasal Substitution: A Survey
Authors: Blust R. A
Published: May 2005

Nasal substitution, which replaces a base-initial obstruent with the homorganic nasal under prefixation, is arguably the most prominent morphonological process seen in Austronesian languages, as it is an active part of the verbal morphology of most languages of the Philippines and western Indonesia, as well as Malagasy, Chamorro, and Palauan. Although a comparative overview of this process was provided by Otto Dempwolff in the 1930s, and has been elaborated in several later studies, the full range of cross-linguistic variation in the form of nasal substitution has not previously been fully appreciated. This paper seeks to document the rich variability of the process of nasal substitution across languages, and show that recent attempts to discover a motivation for nasal substitution within the framework of Optimality Theory are inadequate, and are likely to remain so in any currently conceivable version of the theory.
Typology and Linguistic Areas
Authors: Donohue Mark
Published: May 2005

A closer look shows that rather than constituting a linguistic area on its own, the region between Lombok and Papua is simply part of a typological continuum that runs from the northern Austronesian languages in Taiwan and the Philippines through Malaysia and western Indonesia east toward Melanesia, without any linguistically definable borders on either side.
Reconstructing the Geocentric System of Proto-Oceanic
Authors: Francois Alexandre
Published: May 2005

A comparison of the absolute coordinates used in space reference by sixteen Austronesian languages makes it possible to propose a hypothesis regarding the geocentric system of Proto-Oceanic: on land, one up-down axis defined by the declivity of the ground; at sea, a second up-down axis motivated by the prevailing trade winds. After reconstructing the system of Proto-Oceanic, we model the principal paths of evolution that derived from it historically and led to the diverse systems attested in modern Oceanic languages.
Reciprocals in Malagasy
Authors: Keenan Edward L. (Edward Louis) , Razafimamonjy Jean-Paulin
Published: May 2005

We analyze the highly productive reciprocal morphology in Malagasy (Madagascar) as a phrasal affix that combines with two place predicates (P2s), possibly complex, reducing valency by one. We argue for our analysis over one in which reciprocal morphology originates as an argument of the verb and incorporates into it.
Bilabial Reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *q in Southern Vanuatu Languages
Authors: Lynch John
Published: May 2005

Following on an earlier description of sporadic reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *q in Malakula, another set of sporadic reflexes of the same protophoneme is discussed. In Southern Vanuatu languages, *q sporadically merges with the reflexes of *p that occur adjacent to *u. Because the Proto-Southern Vanuatu reflex of *p in that environment may have been phonetically a labialized velar stop, this adds support to the view that *q was uvular; it may have also had a labialized reflex in the same environment, which would help to explain this partial merger. Some comparison is also made between different loss and retention patterns as they relate to the two Proto-Oceanic uvular phonemes, *q and *R.
Old Bikol - um - vs. mag - and the Loss of a Morphological Paradigm
Authors: Lobel Jason William
Published: May 2005

A semantic contrast between verbs taking the -um- paradigm and those taking the mag- paradigm is known to exist in Tagalog and Waray-Waray but is virtually absent in all varieties of Bikol and most Bisayan languages. Evidence is presented from Fr. Marcos de Lisboa's seventeenth-century Vocabulario de la Lengua Bicol that many Old Bikol verbs had contrasting -um- and mag- conjugations. The -um- and mag- conjugations of Old Bikol are compared with those of Waray-Waray, Southern Tagalog, and Rinconada Bikol. After a discussion of the categories of semantic contrast between -um- and mag- verbs in Old Bikol, and how these contrasts were restructured in Modern Bikol, a progression of stages is proposed to explain how the -um- vs. mag- contrast has been lost in Bikol and other Central Philippine languages.
From Implicature to Construction: Emergence of a Benefactive Construction in Oceanic
Authors: Margetts Anna
Published: May 2005

It has long been observed that in many languages around the world possessive relations and benefactive relations are expressed by the same morphemes. There are examples of functional extension in both directions, with possessive constructions developing from benefactive ones, and vice versa. But there are also claims in the literature about the unidirectionality of this process, predicting that the development from possessive to benefactive constructions should not occur. This paper presents a detailed case study of the development of specialized benefactive expressions in Oceanic languages, where they commonly derive from expressions of attributive possession. The development starts with a possessive construction carrying a pragmatically implicated benefactive reading that gradually becomes grammaticalized and manifested in the morphosyntax of the language. This process may finally result in a benefactive construction that is syntactically and/or morphologically distinct from the expression of possession from which it originates. Syntactically, the process sets off from an object NP consisting of a noun and its modifier. In the process of grammatical change, this modifier is reanalyzed as a separate constituent, syntactically and semantically independent of the object noun. Based on data from Oceanic languages, three stages in the extension from possession to benefaction are identified. Also discussed are the contextual prerequisites for the benefactive implicature to arise in the first place.
Geographic Patterns in U.S. Urban Inflation: 1990-2000
Authors: Molin Andreas , Mulligan Gordon F
Published: May 2005

Inflation is the rate at which the price of a basket of goods and services increases over time. This study investigates urban inflation in the U.S. during the time period 1990-2000. Data collected by local chamber of commerce offices are analyzed for 56 goods and services across 171 cities in the 48 lower states. These ACCRA data are noted for their geographic coverage, although questions arise about their acquisition and aggregation. Six different categories of goods and services are highlighted: groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health, and miscellaneous. During the 1990s, overall prices increased by 35.8 percent (across all 171 cities), ranging between 32.2 percent (7 cities) in the Mid-Atlantic states and 41.0 percent (21 cities) in the West North Central states. Even more extreme geographic variation occurred in several of the six categories of goods and services (e.g., utilities). Multivariate techniques are used to identify the latent patterns of inflation and to cluster cities together according to their similarity in these latent patterns. Ten clusters of cities are identified for purposes of discussion. Regional patterns in urban inflation are very apparent; for example, in one cluster of 20 cities, half of the cities are found in the Pacific states.
The Logic of Soku in the Kyoto School
Authors: Jones Nicholaos John
Published: May 2005

Can contradictions be meaningful? How can one assert 'P soku not-P' or 'P and yet not-P' without sacrificing intelligibility? Expanding on previous attempts, mainly by Dilworth and Heisig, to demystify the soku connective, a formal system is presented here for the logic of soku. Through a formal distinction between internal and external negation, grammatical features of the soku connective are shown to be logically irrelevant, and the principle of non-contradiction is preserved. Disparities with traditional logic are noted, with a focus on negation rather than 'soku'. The formal examination of the logic of soku is intended to present the logic in a way acceptable to more analytically minded philosophers and thereby enhance East-West and Japanese-Anglo-American interaction and criticism.
The Consummation of Sorrow: An Analysis of Confucius' Grief for Yan Hui
Authors: Olberding Amy
Published: May 2005

Throughout the Analects, Confucius describes the capacity for grief as an ethically valuable trait. Here his own display of grief at the premature death of his beloved student Yan Hui is investigated as a model of the meaning and significance of grief in a flourishing life. This display, it is argued, provides a valuable portrait, in situ, of the specific species of grief that Confucius sanctions and encourages. It likewise makes clear the role played by vulnerability to injury in the articulation of well-being and value.
Specifying the Nature of Substance in Aristotle and in Indian Philosophy
Authors: Nicholson Hugh R
Published: May 2005

Aristotle struggles with two basic tensions in his understanding of reality or substance that have parallels in Indian metaphysical speculation. The first of these tensions, between the understanding of reality as the underlying substrate (to hupokeimenon) and as the individual "this" (tode ti), finds a parallel in the concept of dravya in Patañjali's Mahābhāsa. The second tension, between the understanding of reality as the individual this and as the intelligible essence of the individual this (to ti ēn einai), corresponds to an ambiguity in the concept of vastu in Kumārila's Ślokavārttika.
Manyness of Selves, Samkhya, and K. C. Bhattacharyya
Authors: Sharma Ramesh Kumar
Published: May 2005

Classical Sāmkhya, as represented by Īśvarakrsna's Sāmkhya-kārikā, is well known for its attempt to prove not only the reality but the plurality of selves (purusa-bahutva). The Sāmkhya argument, since it proceeds from the reality of the manyness of the bodies as its basic premise, approximates, even if not in every detail, the 'argument from analogy' in its traditional form (which the essay tries to explicate). One distinguished modern interpreter, K. C. Bhattacharyya, however, not satisfied with this account, attempts to interpret and expound Sāmkhya pluralism in terms of a radically different strategy consisting of showing that the self is known in buddhi in its pure asmita function as an infinite I and so as necessarily involving all Is or selves. This solution, which in the process offers reflections on such issues as infinity, universals, the role of 'I', the individuality (of self), et cetera, is examined and criticized at length with respect to some of its basic assumptions, with a brief focus on the idea of 'self-consciousness', which according to some (Western) philosophers presupposes 'other'-consciousness and which in certain respects seems to inform Bhattacharyya's thoughts on the main issue.
Global Disorder: An Important Agenda for 21st Century Population Studies
Authors: Egero Bertil
Published: May 2005

Poor underprivileged countries face a long period of high population increase, while poverty and natural resource limits provide growing constraints to the management of population increase. Demography appears increasingly to turn to the study of populations well underway in the fertility transition. The "development optimism" implied in this shift needs to be set against the evidence of rapidly growing inequalities, between and within countries. The question needs to be raised whether fertility reductions will reach replacement levels everywhere.

Das Gupta's recent contribution on the role of institutional and socio-political change for the demographic transition appears to offer a very viable framework for further research on historical Europe as well as current non-European states. However, it needs to be extended in the direction given by Castells' theories on the process of social exclusion in the information age in order to incorporate situations where fertility stabilises well over replacement level. The social implications of such a scenario are a challenge to both science and politics.
The Impact of Rapid Urbanization on South Korean Family Composition and the Elderly Population in South Korea
Authors: Bell Patricia Ann
Published: May 2005

This research uses data from the South Korean Census of Population to examine
changes in population distribution across urban and rural areas of the country, and
to examine changes in family composition. Findings are consistent with findings
from similar published research in illustrating the impact of recent population and
economic factors on traditional Korean Society. More specifically, the research
examines movement of younger cohorts to urban areas, and an increasing
proportion of individuals living in nuclear family households as opposed to the
traditional stem family. The pattern of change in family composition has particular
consequences for the elderly in Korean Society.
Mammoth Cave and the Making of Place
Authors: Algeo Katie
Published: May 2005

Occupation, use, and symbolic construction of place in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky has resulted in five distinct eras of place-making during the past two hundred years. The connectedness of Mammoth Cave to the larger national stage is revealed through struggles over control and development that wrought successive transformations upon the cultural landscape. The symbolic import of the world's largest cave altered as, in turn, resource extraction, tourism, and environmentalism became the dominant ideology influencing development in the Mammoth Cave region. This paper positions the process of placemaking at Mammoth Cave within the changing scene of American society and culture.
The Southeastern Geographer : Looking Back, Looking Forward
Authors: Lecce Scott A , Alderman Derek H
Published: May 2005

This paper summarizes trends in the research and authorship of articles published in the Southeastern Geographer from 1961-2003. The number of articles and pages published have doubled since the early 1990s. The publication of articles on physical geography topics, however, has not kept pace with the increase in human geography topics. Although the journal has consistently provided an outlet for student authors, the proportion of women authors has remained low until a substantial increase in the last five years. Our editorial agenda will focus on increasing the presence of physical and environmental geography in the journal, attracting a broader subscriber base and readership through marketing, and encouraging submissions from outside the South and on non-South topics, while maintaining the journals' intellectual rigor and traditional focus on southern studies.
Why Not in My Backyard?: Field-Based Physical Geography in the Southeast
Authors: Pease Patrick P , Gentry Glenn W
Published: May 2005

Observations that submissions of physical geography research to the Southeastern Geographer have been low prompted us to question if the Southeast is understudied by physical geographers relative to other regions. We reviewed over 7,000 articles in eleven journals to estimate the frequency and types of field-based research being done. We also reviewed the online publication lists of physical geographers living in the Southeast to determine where they conduct their research. Based on the journal articles reviewed, 72% of the field sites were in international locations. Of the 28% that used U.S. field sites, only 8.4% (2.3% of the total) were in the Southeast. Given that the Southeast makes up over 12% of the land area and is home to 37% of the geography programs in the U.S., the concentration of research in the area is low. Aside from being understudied, field-based research in the Southeast is also unevenly distributed. North Carolina and Georgia were the most studied states. North Carolina was the most frequently used location for geomorphology studies and Tennessee was cited most often for biogeography. Kentucky and South Carolina were the least studied states. Few researchers from states outside the SEDAAG region come into the Southeast to conduct research. At the same time, a significant portion of the research efforts of geographers living in the Southeast have been put toward field sites in other states and countries. The resulting lack of focus on the unique environments of the Southeast is limiting our knowledge of the region.
Comparison of the New Digital Flood Insurance Map (DFIRM) with the Existing FIRM, Wilson, North Carolina
Authors: Aycock William C , Wang Yong
Published: May 2005

The 100-yr floodplain on new Digital Flood Insurance
Rate Maps (DFIRMs) for the city of Wilson,
North Carolina, were compared with the floodplain
defined by the existing Flood Insurance Rate
Maps (FIRMs) and validated against two recent
flood events. Of the 16,776 ha in the study area,
16% and 79% were delineated as areas within
and outside of the 100-yr floodplain on both flood
maps, respectively. In the remaining 5% of the
study area, areas located within the 100-yr
floodplain (based on the DFIRMs) increased by
2.8%. The 100-yr floodplain on both flood maps
was also compared to the September 1999 and
August 2002 flood events. For the 1999 flood,
only 67% and 62% of the flooded parcels were
within the 100-yr floodplain on the DFIRMs and
FIRMs, respectively. Of the 29 street intersections
flooded during the 2002 flood, 52% were identi-
fied by the DFIRMs, and 38% by the FIRMs. Although
the 100-yr floodplain on the DFIRMs performed
a better overall job of delineating the
flooded parcels and intersections, it did miss a
portion of the flooded areas.
ENSO-based Spatial Variability of Florida Wildfire Activity
Authors: Harrison Michael
Published: May 2005

Wildfires in Florida represent a significant natural
hazard to the region, both in terms of environmental
impacts and damage to the cultural and
economic infrastructure of the region. Previous
studies that examined the state as a whole indicate
that climate variability (specifically, the
El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO) plays a
role in wildfire location and intensity. Statewide,
there is a marked change in wildfire activity associated
with ENSO, and these changes are even
more significant when examining the number
and intensity of wildfires in years following these
ENSO-designated years. However, little work has
been done in determining the spatial variability of
wildfire occurrence during these periods.

This study uses a GIS to examine wildfire locations
as they relate to the status of ENSO. Fires
tend to concentrate in a handful of areas and each
of these areas show different responses to the
ENSO status. In particular, fires in the southwestern
Florida area (Ft Myers/Port Charlotte)
increase following La Niña years, while they decrease
in years following El Niño. The northeastern
part of the state (Jacksonville to Daytona
Beach), in contrast, displays increases in fire frequency
following both El Niño and La Niña years,
and decreases following neutral years. This implies
that the association between fire frequency
and ENSO is more complex than at first believed,
and needs to be examined in greater detail.
A Production Utopia? RTP and the North Carolina Research Triangle
Authors: Havlick David G , Kirsch Scott
Published: May 2005

The effort to cast the central Piedmont region of
North Carolina as the Research Triangle has been
promoted since the mid-1950s. It has relied, in
particular, on the development of a 7,000-ac science
and high-tech research complex—the Research
Triangle Park (RTP)—as the region's geographic,
economic, and symbolic core. This paper
explores cultural and material constructions of
place and region that have evolved with, and in
some ways driven, this project. Depictions of the
RTP site's historical emptiness, in this sense, beckoned
for replacement with a more modern economic
and cultural geography of science and technology.
The purpose of the paper is thus to raise
questions about the outcomes of this local and
regional transformation by examining the interplay
of the idea and reality of RTP as a "production
utopia" built around notions of a prosperous
modernity with a basis in the work of knowledge
production.
What Does Dominus Iesus Say about Judaism? Actually, Nothing
Authors: Fisher Eugene J
Published: May 2005

Many scholars commenting on Dominus Iesus have assumed that Judaism, from the perspective of the Catholic Church, is seen simply as one among the many "non-Christian religions," which Dominus Iesus deems to be "gravely deficient." But Judaism, as a response to divine revelation, is theologically for the Church in a category all of its own. For Judaism represents the faith of Abraham in the One God of Israel, and the Jewish People, no less than Christians, have been and are called by God to be the "People of God." This very serious, biblically based viewpoint has emerged since the Second Vatican Council in numerous documents of the magisterium, for example in the recent report of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (PBC), which appeared long after Dominus Iesus. The fact that Dominus Iesus does not comment on Judaism, one way or the other, cannot be taken to mean that its framers meant to slight it. The work on the development of a theology of Judaism is not affected one way or the other by Dominus Iesus.
Dominus Iesus : Why This? Why Now?
Authors: Jacobs Steven L.
Published: May 2005

Even for one not trained in the academic discipline of political science, it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Dominus Iesus is a political document by those within the Roman Catholic Church, specifically its conservatizing element the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Quotations from those both within and outside the Church support this conclusion. Therefore, this significant text must be understood as laying the groundwork for the incumbent pope's successor as evidence of political jockeying already hard at work.
Zion's Mimetic Angel: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
Authors: Ward Bernadette Waterman
Published: May 2005

Although George Eliot wrote Daniel Deronda with a great enthusiasm for Zionism and sympathy for the Jewish people, its hero Daniel rings hollow in the opinion of most critics. He is especially weak insofar as he is a Jew and a Zionist. Magically morally insightful like George Eliot's "angelic" heroines, he strikes most critics as priggish instead of inspiring. He was raised as a privileged Gentile, unaware of his Jewish heritage. Eliot substitutes his bloodlines for the morally sensitizing experiences of oppression that give her heroines mimetic realism. Eliot makes Daniel a Jew in the interests of her nontheistic ethics, which require local or patriotic affections to avoid chilly, deracinated abstract morality. Daniel abandons English culture to take on a Judaism that is hardly cultural, much less religious; Eliot creates a "sympathetic," purely racial Jew, stripped of Jewish culture, and neither religious nor cognizant of the political realities of Zionism.
The Covenant Unraveling: The Pathos of Cultural Loss in Allegra Goodman's Fiction
Authors: Aarons Victoria
Published: May 2005

Allegra Goodman's fiction revolves around the inevitable collisions between American and Jewish identities. For Goodman's characters, the seductions of American life and the language of contemporary cultural icons eclipse an ever-eroding sense of Jewish history and identity. Goodman's characters, not unlike other characters in contemporary American Jewish fiction, are torn between a desire to return to orthodoxy, to Jewish law and ritual, and to break from what they believe to be the marginalizing superstitions of a mythic Jewish past. Goodman, with characteristic satiric and parodic commentary, creates a seemingly irreconcilable conflict for her characters, who fear the loss of Jewish identity and yet fear also its embrace. For Goodman, much of this ambivalence toward Jewish history and identity is generational, and she contrasts the generational responses—immigrant, first-generation American-born, and the children of those post-war, upwardly mobile, urbane American Jews—to the possibilities for a reinvention of Judaism in contemporary American culture.
The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction
Authors: Behlman Lee
Published: May 2005

In three recent books by young Jewish American writers, Nathan Englander's For the Release of Unbearable Urges (1999), Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002), and Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), each author uses fantasy to represent the Holocaust or to thematize the problem of its representation. In these writers' hands, fantasy can point to the difficulty of directly accessing historical experience, it can be a medium for representing Jewish folk culture before the Holocaust, and it can even provide pleasure and escape through its diversions. In Englander's story "The Tumblers," the famous Fools of Chelm are transplanted into a Nazi environment and miraculously survive. In Everything Is Illuminated, Foer uses magical realist devices to give shape to his imaginary shtetl, Trachimbrod. Chabon's Kavalier & Clay is exceptional in presenting fantasy as a means of therapeutic escape from history. Chabon most directly confronts the problem of representation through non-realist techniques, and strikingly, he sets up a defense of popular escapism as a quintessentially American artistic response to the Holocaust.
To See Feelingly: Moral (In)sight in Arthur Miller's Homely Girl, A Life and Broken Glass
Authors: Adler Thomas P
Published: May 2005

In two recent works of Holocaust literature that harken back to his earliest fiction, Arthur Miller explores ways of reading the text of the Jewish bodyâalready always marked and stigmatized as Otherâthat resist further objectification and see beyond difference to empathetic identification. In doing so, he poses the question of whether, in order to live ethically, one must somehow necessarily (re)construct the self as Other. In Homely Girl, A Life, only when Janice is seen "feelingly" by her blind husband Charles can she be liberated and made whole, while in Broken Glass, seeing traumatic photographs of the victims of Kristallnacht causes a "felt" paralysis in Sylvia. By looking at Miller's work through the lens of Maurice Blanchot's and Emmanuel Levinas's ethical notions of "being-for" and "responsibility-to-the-other," Miller's authorial role as witness and his imperative that the reader and audience become witness as well are brought into sharper focus.
The Educational Pedagogy of the Four Sons
Authors: Hendel Russell Jay
Published: May 2005

The Passover Haggadah speaks about the four sons—the wise, simple, etc. Using a method of biblical exegesis suggested by Rabbi Joseph Baer Soloveitchik, it is shown that these four sons implicitly define a two-dimensional learning model in which learners are classified in the dimensions of knowledge [details-simple] and respect [apathy-wickedness]. This biblical multidimensional learning model is compared to traditional contemporary learning models including the models of Kolb, Myers-Briggs, and Canfield. A recent comprehensive study of Gredler then shows that the biblical multi-dimensional learning model focuses more on global issues while contemporary learning models are narrower in focus. The learning models are analyzed and compared with respect to the attributes of consistency, utility, and learning style inventories.
The Religious Meaning of Art Spiegelman's Maus
Authors: Tabachnick Stephen Ely
Published: May 2005

Via his father's testimony, Art Spiegelman in Maus seems to demonstrate that there is divine intervention in human affairs. Vladek's predictive dream about Parshas Truma (Exod. 25-27), as well as the prediction of the Polish priest at Auschwitz and the Gypsy fortune-teller's prognostication to Anja, point to the presence of a divine hand in Vladek's and Anja's survival. Vladek's ostensible stinginess is actually a fulfillment of Parshas Truma's invitation to give God gifts, making Vladek especially worthy of divine favor. But the hidden purpose behind the couple's survival is that it enables the birth of their son Art, who would create Maus. Richieu's death and Anja's later suicide also contribute to the creation of Maus, and are thereby invested with meaning. Parshas Truma, which concerns the construction of the Tabernacle and Ark, and was Art's Bar Mitzvah portion, provides the key to the aesthetic structure as well as to the significance of Maus.
The Holocaust in the Hebrew Poetry of Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews
Authors: Hakak Lev
Published: May 2005

Many studies of the Holocaust focus exclusively on European Jewry. It is essential to mention what happened at the time of the Holocaust to Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews. The fate of Near Eastern Jews would have been similar to the fate of their brothers in Europe had the Germans been successful on the North African front. One of the means by which Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews reacted to the tragedy of their brothers in Europe was through folk poetry and poetry. Near Eastern Jews expressed deep feelings of brotherhood with the Jewish victims of the Holocaust both at the time and after. Poets from Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and other countries wrote poetic responses to it at the time. In Israel, Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews published poetry about the Holocaust. On June 1-2, 1941, there was a pogrom against the Jews in Iraq as a result of Nazi incitement and propaganda and nationalistic-religious instigation. Jews were injured and murdered, Jewish women were raped, Jewish property was looted, and Jewish houses were burnt down. Jewish poets of Iraqi origin wrote poetic responses to this pogrom in Hebrew in Iraq and in Israel. In the poems of Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews about the Holocaust, the poets identify completely with the victims ("Us"—not "them"); the "crime" of the Jews was that they existed. A religious crisis was inevitable for some people, who asked where God was. The yearning and fight for a Jewish state was inevitable.
A Train Trip to Satan's Territory: The Poem "My Son, My Son, My Head, My Head," by Yehuda Amichai
Authors: Mazor Yair
Published: May 2005

Yehuda Amichai was born in Germany in 1924. Once the rise of the Nazi monster could neither be denied or ignored, he and his family escaped from there and arrived in Israel. Accordingly, one might expect that at least a significant cluster of poems by Amichai would address the Holocaust. This assumption, however, is at odds with the aesthetic reality of Yehuda Amichai's "poetic republic." Indeed, one can trace very few "Holocaust poems" among his many thousands, composed during the course of over five decades. Did he deliberately suppress the Holocaust's atrocities in order to challenge the verbal nature of his literary medium, and to translate its verbality into roaring muteness? One will never be able to tell. Nevertheless, these considerations are entirely irrelevant when one addresses aesthetically the poetry of Yehuda Amichai (or any other artist's work). The psychological or autobiographical intentions that are invested in the literary text have no place in the investigative realms of the literary scholar. He or she focuses on the literary text per se and addresses its aesthetic texture only, while dismissing any information that is not invested in the text itself.
Shoah in the World of the Sages
Authors: Overland Paul B
Published: May 2005

In the drama of sapiential persuasion shoah played a brief but powerful role. As sages determined to direct youths toward a life of skill and success, it was the prospect of shoah that threatened as alternative, the fools' final end. This article applies poetic analysis to three occurrences in biblical wisdom literature. When first introduced in Proverbs, shoah raises the sapiential warning to a fierce crescendo (Prov 1:27). In the second occurrence, shoat-resha'im turns from threat to rich reassurance as it measures the safety enjoyed by the wise—they will escape unscathed from the wicked's demise (Prov 3:25). Widening the semantic range, Job used shoah to describe the dilemma of suffering undeserved (Job 30:14). Through this study it becomes evident that shoah occupied a position of superlative yet not simplistic disaster.
The Poetic Codes of Rechovot ha-nahar ("Streets of the River")
Authors: Wolf-Monzon Tamar , Livnat Zohar
Published: May 2005

Rechovot ha-nahar, Uri Zvi Greenberg's great book of lamentation over the destruction and loss of European Jewry, follows an ancient tradition of lamentation over the destruction and persecution of the Jewish people which has developed in Hebrew poetry since the era of the piyyut and medieval poetry. In this book Greenberg uses a new poetic language, including concepts and expressions such as kosef ('yearning'), nigun ('melody') and nofim ('landscapes'), which appear for the first time in this book but will reappear in other contexts in later texts. In this sense, Rehovot ha-nahar is a constitutive text, which introduces a new poetic and linguistic code.

The design of kosef as a central poetic code in the book is based on 140 occurrences and many variations of the term. Mapping of the appearances in the light of their various contexts and tracing their combination with or separation from fixed semantic clusters permits a different reading of the poems, leading to a complex world of meanings and spiritual modes, in a constant state of flux. The semantic shifts of the term kosef reflect the multiple aspects of human existence after the destruction of European Jewry.