Sociology & Anthropology foster a critical consciousness of how different cultures and social groups organize and make sense of their world. Majors explore the ways in which social interaction, social ...

David Alvarez, associate professor of English at DePauw University, is co-editor of Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600… Greencastle, Ind. – November 14, 2024 — DePauw ...

A storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is ...

Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation have as its motto the words of a Frenchman, Pierre Bertaux: At one time it was hoped that ...

We accept the lure of annihilation, only to discover that it is a temporary condition, a gateway to renewal and rebirth. This is perhaps the most pervasive theme in all the world’s religious myth and ...

When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

In this article I shall discuss Philip K. Dick's Valis, relating this controversial novel to his mature works, both in terms of themes (the question of Dick's abandonment of politics for theology) and ...

1. A. E. Van Vogt (Somewhere Leslie Fiedler said that for criticism of SF to be valid, it must be able to deal with Van Vogt. For once he was right. Very influential—if flawed—writer.) 2. Alfred ...

Miri Nakamura. Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyûsaku’s Dogura magura (Text removed at request of author)* Thomas Schnellbächer. Has the Empire Sunk Yet?—The ...

When Ken Liu became the second Chinese-American after Ted Chiang to win major sf awards in the United States, his fans in China were excited. 1 Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) won the Nebula Award ...

English 111. Freshman English. In one segment of the semester, we examined Fredric Brown's "Arena" and compared it to the 1960's Star Trek version of the story. Not only were visual similarities and ...

A native Italian and the first woman in her family to earn a college degree, Seaman graduated with Honors in the Humanities from Stanford University. After a year at the Ecole Normale in Paris, she ...