This paper asks whether political participation confers psychological benefits. Four hypotheses were tested: that involvement in volunteer activities reduces subsequent psychological distress, that resisting perceived discrimination does, that the benefits of political involvement are more pronounced for respondents prone to psychological distress, and that any observed benefits of political in...

“Considering the Revolution: The Identities Created by American Revolutionary War” was closing public plenary at May 2022 virtual conference of National Council on Public History (NCPH). session, sponsored Park Service (NPS) and NCPH, second in a series five annual scholarly roundtables considering origins legacies Revolution, dialogues which will contribute to larger discussions during NPS’s c...

Since the Against the Day Wiki launched in October 2006, the Pynchon Wiki collection has received over twenty thousand edits, making it one of the largest, dedicated literary reference Wikis. One can now view and add annotations to all seven of Pynchon's novels – only Slow Leaner and his nonfiction remain sans Wiki -, and a loose community of over four hundred contributors have done so. This pa...

Before they met in 1917, Virginia Woolf envisioned a peculiar setting for her first encounter with Katherine Mansfield, the promising young writer who had ‘dogged [her] steps three years’. Intriguingly, imagined she might glimpse not drawing-room of mutual friend or at literary soirée, but ‘on rock sea’ – there, ‘I shall accost her’.1 pictures Mansfield an attitude reminiscent Frederic Leighton...

After briefly addressing the origin of the word ontology, I will ask what formal ontology might be. I will first argue that formal ontology is not the same as formalized or general ontology. In order to understand the meaning of the epithet “formal,” I will then look for a suitable way of distinguishing form from matter. Formal ontology will be shown to be formal insofar as it does not refer to...

COLLECTING FULL-TEXT CD-ROMs FOR a humanities library requires an examination of literary research and the way literature is taught. Radical changes in both theory and technology expanded the sorts of texts literary scholars study. They also revived and reinvented textual scholarship and editorial reconstructions. This means a CD-ROM is worth purchasing if it provides material about the histori...

Dogon languages lexicalize action verbs with obligatory reference to manner and/or process. This contrasts with English and “Standard Average European,” which (in neutral contexts) profile result and/or function. Many common English verbs like carry and eat correspond to sets of Dogon verbs with senses like ‘carry on back’ and ‘munch’. The pattern cuts across many semantic domains and constitut...

In her article "How Toni Morrison's Facebook Page Re(con)figures Race and Gender" Beatriz Revelles-Benavente explores Morrison's Facebook page and comments on it. In 2010, Morrison opened a Facebook page where she received a large amount of comments and created debates and RevellesBenavente analyses how these comments navigate questions of race and gender. Based on theoretical considerations ab...

This study develops a novel analytical approach to studying cross-national variation in popular conceptions of the nation-state that accounts for both withinand between-country heterogeneity and avoids reductive a priori assumptions about the national boundedness of culture. I use latent class analysis to identify common attitudinal patterns among a pooled sample of 27,790 respondents from thir...

Though the anthropologist Clifford Geertz has been tremendously influential across the humanities and social sciences, his impact on media and communication scholarship remains unclear. Geertzian theory, this article argues, can rejuvenate global communication studies by providing a foundation to build a theory of translocalism. The article first highlights the theoretical affinities between Ge...