Fifteen articles cover the major areas of semiotics and the human sciences, including linguistics, psychology, and architecture. Topics include folklore, folklife, and other bootstrapping traditions;
There is an enduring faith among a wide range of social actors that formal education will effect profound social change in the Third World, even in places where declining economic opportunity makes th
Wilson (German, U. of Chicago) has honed the grammar from 30 years of teaching students how to read German. It consists primarily of grammar explanations with sample exercises and an accompanying voca
Discusses the ways in which John Gardner's work was influenced by his cancer, the death of his brother, and the ideas of Susanne Langer and Alfred North Whitehead, particularly the latter's concept of
In this history of the notion of divine infinity, Sweeney (philosophy, Loyola U.) offers an interpretation of Gregory of Nyssa that illumines other thinkers who, like Gregory, predicate the infinity o
Explores how the composition of Italian Early Medieval and Byzantine paintings and relief sculptures serves as a framing syntax to cue the specific meanings of the symbols that traditional scholarship
Contains 17 essays (seven in French) addressing various aspects of cultural identities in Canadian literature from a postcolonial perspective. Topics range from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Maxwell (French, U. of Michigan) points out many similarities and parallels in the work of French philosopher Bergson (1859-1941) and French novelist Proust (1871-1922). He compares and contrasts the
Rosen (Ohio State U.) argues that normative ethical theory is properly the focus of moral philosophy. He supports his contention with the meta-philosophical position that the theories function as do o
