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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
No full textHistory/biography of the lives and intersecting careers of six women war correspondents reporting from the front, including Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, and Clare Hollingsworth. Mackrell focuses on Gellhorn\u27s reporting from 1936 through 1945, including her coverage of the Spanish Civil War, D-Day landings, and Nuremberg trials. Concludes with a brief account of Gellhorn\u27s postwar years. Draws on biographies, histories, letters, interviews, and published and unpublished works. Includes index. References to Hemingway throughou
Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos
No full textDetails the history of foreign big-game hunting from the middle of the nineteenth century through the colonial period, closing with the safari\u27s popularity in Hollywood films. Cleveland discusses evolving conservation policies privileging tourist-hunters while rendering indigenous populations, so vital to the colonial safari industry, exploitable and invisible. Explores how the writings of hunter-authors like Cornwallis Harris (The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, 1838) and Hemingway\u27s (Green Hills of Africa, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro ) not only solidified their reputations and celebrity status but spurred touristic interest in Africa
Epiphanic and Everyday Modernisms
No full textAfter illustrating how time unfolds in Flaubert\u27s L\u27Education Sentimentale (1869), Gingrich depicts Hemingway as inheritor of the French author\u27s interepisodic narrative mode, an idea not precisely defined by discreet episodes or scenes. Describes the interplay and diffuse nature of scenic and summary moments in The Sun Also Rises. Explores other aspects of literary modernism, including the epiphany and narrative pace, as they appear in works by Joyce (the stories of Dubliners, 1914, especially The Dead ), Mann, and Woolf, and in contrast with the realism of European novels of the 19th and 20th centuries
The Veteran: Parades, Bitter Homecomings, and Fictions of the Doughboy\u27s Return
No full textExamines the cultural meaning of post-war military parades and homecomings and their representation in literary novels and movies after World War I. Considers and contrasts the traumatic homecomings of Fitzgerald\u27s Gatsby, Harold Krebs in Soldier\u27s Home, as well as early works by Faulkner and Claude McKay
Parental Emotional Support and Social Buffering in Previously Institutionalized and Typically Developing Children and Adolescents
No full textThe current study tested the hypothesis that variation in parental emotional support explains differences in cortisol reactivity among 159 youth, including both previously institutionalized (PI; N = 78) and non‐adopted (NA; N = 81) children (ages 9–10) and adolescents (ages 15–16). Youth participated in a Modified Trier Social Stress Test after a period of preparation with either their parent or a supportive stranger. Saliva samples were collected to derive a measure of cortisol reactivity. Our findings revealed that parents buffered the cortisol stress response for PI children and adolescents only if they were high on emotional support. Our results also suggest that simply preparing with a parent might buffer the stress response for NA children; for NA adolescents, however, only emotionally supportive parents significantly buffered their adolescents’ stress
Justifying Warfare: Saint Augustine and Sri Aurobindo
No full textSaint Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was one of the most influential Western Christian theologians. Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950) was a political revolutionary and later a spiritual master with a worldwide reputation. Augustine and Aurobindo were very different religiously and politically, but on the issue of justifying warfare, there are remarkable parallels between them. To begin, pragmatic considerations formed the core of most of their arguments. Furthermore, they buttressed their core points with considerations from the religious domain. These included discussing the inward disposition of the warrior, countering ethical reservations about fighting, and mentioning possible, spiritual benefits from warfare. Yet, in spite of the parallels, the two men would have found little to agree on, as their approaches to both governance and religion were very different. Augustine’s approach was statist whereas Aurobindo’s was revolutionary
Orientalist Research in Bengal and Tamil Nadu: Some Contributions to Hindu-Christian Dialogue
No full textRediscovering the Imaginative Drawings of Richard Holzschuh: Storytelling though Art and Nostalgia
No full textRichard Holzschuh (1889-1968) is a forgotten and unstudied artist from the first half ofthe twentieth century who lived and worked in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His pen and ink drawings focused on fantasy themes that derived from well-known fairy and folk tales. I was introduced to his work in a 2016 exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and was intrigued to learn that there was no existing academic work on Holzschuh or his drawings. This paper begins to fill that gap and aims to rediscover both the artist and his work. Holzschuh created incredibly detailed pen and ink drawings of gnarly trees, elves and goblins, and whimsical characters who inhabited an imaginative, Edenic world. While these works were not tied to specific literary texts, I will argue that they capture the spirit of illustrations, and place Holzschuh next to other illustrators in the canon of American illustration. This paper will use primary research to document Holzschuh’s life and art. It will look at the workmanship and composition of the drawings themselves, focusing on a selection of works from the Richard Holzschuh Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and at British artists from the Golden Age of Illustration who influenced him. It will focus specifically on Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Harry Clarke, and Aubrey Beardsley. A second objective of this paper will be to explore the theme of nostalgia in Holzschuh’s fantasy drawings. The nostalgic look and feel of his drawings went against the artistic trends in post-World War II America and is one reason his work fell out of popular favor. Holzschuh knowingly inlaid his drawings with a nostalgia for a style of illustration that had passed decades earlier, and he happily pursued his art in this manner as an amateur for over forty years
Interreligious Studies and Personal Changemaking Pedagogy for Leadership and the Common Good: The My Story Assignment
No full textThis article sketches the scaffolded three‐phase “My Story” assignment, which unfolds over the course of a semester, is embedded in the context of local lived interreligious encounter, and aims at developing interfaith leadership and interreligious wherewithal. The context (large urban Catholic university), purpose (student learning outcomes centered on personal changemaking, self‐knowledge, and leadership), description (concrete nuts and bolts of the assignment\u27s procedure), and efficacy (results of piloting the assignment) of the assignment are discussed