Joel Chandler Harris: Folklorist

Autobiography of David Chandler.

I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

Joel Barlow and Seasickness

In honoring her alumni who have achieved success in the belles lettres, in diplomacy, in the writing of political philosophy, Yale University has always been most active, extraordinarily eager to recognize their attainment; but, strangely enough, she has forgotten a member of the class of 1778 who was considered a great poet, statesman and philosopher by many of his contemporaries. Of this emin...

Semiotics by Daniel Chandler Adapted

Commentary on Joel Norman

The two visual systems, impressively presented by Norman, could also be interpreted differently. One could be viewed to have advantage for early warning and response, novelty, symmetric construct relationships, and right hemisphere focus. The other could be more advantageous for full visual processing, familiarity, asymmetric construct relationships, and left hemisphere focus. The dualistic cro...

Lectures by Joel Kamnitzer

One can define an action of sl2 on a category to be a sequence of categories with functors between them satisfying certain relations. Such actions were studied by Chuang-Rouquier in the context of representations of the symmetric group in positive characteristic. They used this action to build an equivalence of categories which settled a case of Broue’s conjecture. Later, Cautis, Licata, and th...