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Jews as a Changing People of the Talmud: An American Exploration [PDF]
[Excerpt] My project has two parts. The first part demonstrates that Jews were in fact a changing people of the Talmud. Even though I make some references to it, discussion of that large subject awaits further investigation.
Korman, Gerd
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To vegetable: Seasons that require us
Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
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Travel changes thought and men – A fresh perspective on the travels of a literary icon
Ralph Waldo Emerson in Europe : class, race and revolution in the making of an American thinker / Daniel Koch. London : I. B. Tauris & Co, 2012.
Lars Ekström
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Messy natures: The political aesthetics of nature recovery
Abstract Current aspirations for nature recovery to address biodiversity loss and climate change will involve changing what landscapes look like, which can create challenging aesthetic experiences for members of the public. In this study, we interrogate the role of aesthetics in shaping visions of nature recovery, focussing on the construction and ...
Flurina M. Wartmann, Jamie Lorimer
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A Phosphorous History: William Carlos Williams’ In the American Grain
Through a reading of William Carlos Williams’ In the American Grain (1925), this paper seeks to look at the questions raised by the writing of history in the modernist context and to explore Williams’ particular definition of history.Williams’ historical
Antonia Rigaud
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Transcendentalist Women in Conversation: Margaret Fuller, Sophia Ripley, and “Woman”
This essay focuses on Sophia Ripley’s 1841 article “Woman,” which was published in the Dial two years before Margaret Fuller’s “The Great Lawsuit. Man Versus Men. Woman Versus Women” appeared in the same publication.
Alice de Galzain
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Qualitative Research by a Non-Hierarchical Team [PDF]
In this and subsequent issues, The Qualitative Report will publish eight articles about a journal written by Edward B. Emerson (1805-1834), a younger brother of American philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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“Above all Greek, above all Roman Fame”: Classical Rhetoric in America during the Colonial and Early National Periods [PDF]
The broad and profound influence of classical rhetoric in early America can be observed in both the academic study of that ancient discipline, and in the practical approaches to persuasion adopted by orators and writers in the colonial period, and during
Farrell, James M.
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Editors’ Introduction for NANO Special Issue 10: Originality in a Digital Culture
Issue 10 of NANO: New American Notes Online explores originality in a digital culture through the lenses of Pinterest, Instagram, theatre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Virality, poetic borrowing, the rip-and-burn industry, copying, repurposing, and reusing.
Tara Fee, Samuel B. Fee
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Emerson’s Vision of America in John Ford’s "Stagecoach"
When Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed the Phi Betta Kappa Society in 1837 at Harvard College, his directives included the establishment of an American literary tradition derived from the unique experience of his fellow citizens in a new context that ...
Michael Forest
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