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After two-and-a-half years of hibernation, this course has jumped back on the radar and should prove to be no less enlightening—and amusing—as its fall 2003 CUE Guide ratings proclaim. Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa, who taught the tamer English 147n, “Women and the Novel to Jane Austen” in fall 2004, appears prepared to once again educate and entertain with topics ranging from “what men and women want” to the “discipline of desire?...
After two-and-a-half years of hibernation, this course has jumped back on the radar and should prove to be no less enlightening—and amusing—as its fall 2003 CUE Guide ratings proclaim. Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa, who taught the tamer English 147n, “Women and the Novel to Jane Austen” in fall 2004, appears prepared to once again educate and entertain with topics ranging from “what men and women want” to the “discipline of desire?...
...Earthsea). But of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact, with his newest book, A Feast for Crows (Bantam; 784 pages), currently descending on bookstores and ascending best-seller lists, this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien...
There are times, though, when differences between the worlds are jarringly apparent. Boy Scout officials proudly proclaim the group's commitment to pluralism--"We have a duty to God in our oath," says spokesman Robert Bork, "but not a Christian God." Yet that ideal is not always put into practice. Rehman, a jamboree chaplain's aide, recalls how, as he and the other chaplain's aides left a meeting, "everyone was handed a Bible. For a second, I thought it was a one-religion organization." Similarly, although halal meals were requested for Muslim scouts attending the jamboree, no one seems...
Although writing “Thirteen and a Day” seems to have helped Oppenheimer deconstruct the bar mitzvah ritual, I did not find his conclusions profound, perhaps because the idea of the bat mitzvah as a way to proclaim cultural affiliation seems natural to me, based on my own experience. One hopes that Oppenheimer’s tour of unique b’nai mitzvah services and parties will generate an idea for some readers of what the bar and bat mitzvah mean to Jews in different locations and of different sects. For others, Oppenheimer?...