The Humanities Review

Antigone's Noir

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

antigone's noir

domietta torlasco is a critical theorist and filmmaker currently
working as an assistant professor of italian and screen cultures
at northwestern university in chicago. she holds a ph.d. in rhetoric (uc
berkeley) and an mfa in film, video and new media (school of the art
institute of chicago).

Just Rocks

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

just rocks

derek owens

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I'm sitting between a German stewardess named Ritva and a Michigan masseuse named
Shanti in cow barn somewhere in rural New Jersey watching Tom Brown show us how to
track mice over bare rock. There are over a hundred of us in this barn and we have been sitting on rough wooden benches for a week now, sleeping in tents in a neighboring field and attending daily lectures and demonstrations on wilderness tracking and survival skills.

Reading Avatars and Writing Walkthroughs

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

reading avatars and writing walkthroughs brian desousa Video games are traditionally seen as the enemy of the serious student, a waste of time and a cause of youth violence. This paper examines how reading avatar creation andwriting walkthroughs can link gaming to writing classrooms.

The Saint of Unbelief

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The Saint of Unbelief: Shrike, Epistemology, and Postmodernism

michael dibardino

"I am a great saint," Shrike declares to open his seduction speech, to which he
closes with a most debased and equally empowering form of a new omnipotence: "I spit on them all" (Miss Lonelyhearts 7).

The student as Student

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

the student as Student

jennifer rich

I would like to begin this analysis considering the way in which the student is imagined in both rhetoric and composition literature of both the early and late twentieth-century. I'm interested, in particular, in understanding the assumptions and expectations of the 'student' that underwrite discussions of student preparedness in academic discourse.