Review: Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives by James Robert Payne

Sir Robert James Johnstone, B.A., M.B., F.R.C.S.ENG

IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death of Sir Robert John-stone, at Newcastle, Co. Down, after a relatively short and trying illness. It is impossible in one short article to recapitulate the scope and extent of his many activities, and a brief summary must suffice. Seldom has it been granted to one man to achieve so many distinctions, and to adorn so many high offices. A C...

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)

William James as American Plato ?

Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to Charles Hartshorne in 1936 in which he referred to William James as the American Plato. Especially given Whitehead’s admiration of Plato, this was a high compliment to James. What was the basis for this compliment and analogy? In responding to that question beyond the partial and scattered references provided by Whitehead, this article briefly explores t...

American Humor in Promoting the Talk over the Wall with a Focus on Robert Frost’s Poems

The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, i...

Unhomely Lives: Double Consciousness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

This essay argues that Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother depicts how the indigenous colonized in Dominica are living ‘unhomely lives’ and that their experience is one of the double consciousness. i.e. when a person see the world through different "lenses." The person does not only have a dual personality but also feels the notion of having different roles in society, such as havi...