In his article "The Indirect Path to the Literary Canon Exemplified by Shelley's Frankenstein" David Fishelov examines the indirect path of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to the literary canon. Fishelov offers a multi-dimensional model for describing the dynamic process of acquiring, maintaining, and changing canonical status. The model emphasizes the important role played by artistic dialogues an...

The canon is a composition pattern with a long history and many forms. The concept of the canon has also been applied to experimental film making and on Japanese television. We describe our work-in-progress on an Interactive Visual Canon Platform (IVCP) that enables creators of visual canons to design their movements through rapid cycles of performance and evaluation. The IVCP system provides r...

This article analyzes the reemergence of the eighteenth century gothic tradition in the graphic novels of the twentieth century and asserts that the Gothic appears at times of great social changes. Hence, early or later examples of this fiction can be seen as metaphors reflecting the emergence of capitalism and the paradigmatic evolution in man’s epistemological consciousness. The target of cri...

"Perhaps the most quoted statement in the history of comparative psychology is Lloyd Morgan's canon" (Dewsbury, 1984, p. 187). To this it can be added that perhaps the most misrepresented statement in the history of comparative psychology is Lloyd Morgan's canon. Apparently a version of Morgan's canon was first published in 1892 (Dixon, 1892; Morgan, 1892). However, the most cited version of th...

Several novels have appeared after the September 11 attacks whichdeal directly or indirectly with the effect of the event on individuals, both insideand outside of the United States. Though, the novels often claim to deal withthe post- traumatic aftermath of the incident, the writers regularly use Orientaliststereotyping and it seems that after 9/11 this attitude toward Muslims has hardenedand ...

Conrad’s acclaimed works from his middle period have been thoroughly studied from several perspectives including postcolonialism whereas the novels from his early period were overlooked due to their so-called“uneven” quality. The most notable works among Conrad’s early novels are hisLingard Trilogy- three of his early novels which are based on the recurring presence of the Captain Tom Lingard, ...

Morgan’s Canon is a specific restating of Occam’s Razor that dictates that any description of animal behavior should never call upon higher order psychological processes if the behavior could, fairly, be explained in terms of lower processes. Herein, the Canon is discussed both historically and in light of current research into animal behavior. A reconsideration of the principle of parsimony, t...

archaeological researches indicate that the use of silver was common in various practices; there were numerous mints for silver coinage across sassanid persia (circa 620 ad) indicating that persians were familiar with silver mining and its refining process. medical practice also benefited from that expertise, and in the course of the following centuries new forms of utilizing silver began to em...

Cannon fodder are expendable soldiers deployed as “food” for enemy cannon fire when there is no hope of ultimately prevailing: generals dispose of “worthless” soldiers by sacrificing them to the cannon. Here, I adopt the term Canon fodder to describe contrarian scientific concepts dismissed because they do not conform to conventional wisdom: reviewers dispose of “unworthy” science by sacrificin...

it was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a dutch Gothic tradition. it then examines six Gothic novels from the 1980s in more depth to determine what kind of “cultural work” the Gothic does i...