Dylan Thomas

Response to Dylan Thomas Lott

Reply by Moyer: The foregoing thought-provoking response to my inaugural IJTMB Research Section editorial takes issue with the way I have conceptualized “reductionism,” and with my position on its role and value in massage therapy (MT) research. I thank the author, Dylan Lott, for opening this dialogue, and for giving me the opportunity to clarify my position. Reductionism, notes The Oxford Com...

"Do not go gentle into that good night"--Dylan Thomas.

Dylan Riley

The essays in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences contribute to a historical and comparative sociology of social science by systematically comparing the rises, falls, and absences of ‘‘methodological positivism’’ across the human sciences. Although all of the essays are of extremely high quality, three contributions develop the argument most fully: George Steinmetz’s introduction and W...

Listening to Bob Dylan

What does it mean to say that one is listening to a piece of music, to a performance, or an artist? Initially, it may seem that there is little or no difference between these three questions. Upon closer reflection, though, there may be significant differences and these may be contingent on a variety of variables pertaining to musical content. This paper examines the case of listening to Bob Dy...

Arindam Ghosh Ecological Activism and Some of the Poems of Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Dylan Thomas

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...