This research analyzes the ways in which the ageing process is articulated in Marian Keyes's novels. Keyes is one of numerous authors within the genre of "chick lit," or "post-feminist fiction." This type of literature, begun in the mid-1990s, mainly deals with the process of the coming into adulthood of the female protagonists. They not only…

In his insightful and stimulating article, Casasanto (this issue) argues that "people who talk differently about time also think about it differently, in ways that correspond to the preferred metaphors in their native languages. Language not only reflects the structure of our temporal representations, but it can also shape those representations.…

In his article, Chris Burt focuses on the relationship between time and autobiographical memory. The question Burt puts forward is whether temporal markers in reports on autobiographic memories reflect specific temporal information or result from rather complex cognitive processing of time-relevant knowledge. The aspect of time is inherent to the…

This classroom note describes the lessons I learned from the use of formal debates during the two semesters I taught "Paul and Early Christianity" to undergraduates at a liberal arts college in Ohio. The purpose of the course was primarily to give students the exegetical skills to understand Paul in his own context. The secondary purpose…

Detailed, structural look at the creation of temporal and spatial perceptions in Maupassant's 1885 novel, Bel-Ami". (RS)

Paper presented as first public lecture in comparative literature, University of Toronto. Second part of a longer essay, "The Quest for Imagination: Essays in Aesthetic Criticism," to be published by Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. First part appeared in "Modern Language Notes," v78 n5 p471-488 Dec 1963. (DS)

A space-and-time orientation for interpreting Andre Gide's early twentieth-century novel is outlined and described, and exercises for further appreciation of literary elements are suggested. (MSE)

One article, "Non-Western Literature: Cultural Diversity and the Reader's Response" explores some of the difficulties encountered in studying non-Western literature: the different conceptions of time in Eastern thought, the ways in which these differences affect Indian and Japanese literature, and the necessity of altering the manner of…