René E. Fortin, Gaining upon Certainty: Selected Literary Criticism. Ed. Brian Barbour and Rodney Delasanta. Providence: Providence College Press, 1995. 328 pages

Providence, Freedom, and Human Destiny

Thailand Loburi Providence-thamkrabok Monastery

The primary objectives of my funded research were two fold in construct and dealt with systems of management on both an industrial and individual level. The first was to examine the environmental and socio-economic burdens of resource management in relation to copper ore extraction in Chile, the world’s largest copper producer. Secondly, I visited a unique detoxification program at the Thamkrab...

Beauty, Providence and the Biophilia Hypothesis

In recent years, there has been a renewal of interest in the spiritual significance of the natural world. This development is evident for instance in certain strands of the environmental movement, and in the growing interest in the religions of indigenous peoples. In this article, I consider one important attempt to give the natural world such significance in terms of the framework of tradition...

Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism: Alan Rauch (essay date 1995)

New perspectives on Frankenstein are hard to come by. Recent scholarship has provided a wide variety of insights into the novel, making it a central text in feminist studies, the history of the novel, psychoanalytical criticism, and, of course, the impact of science on the novel.2 For reasons that aren't entirely clear, however, the issue of the nature of knowledge—as a cultural artifact—has no...

E-Literature, New Media Art, and E-Literary Criticism

In his article "E-Literature, New Media Art, and E-Literary Criticism" Janez Strehovec explores the commonalities between electronic literature and new media art. Rather than deploying the traditional conceptual apparatus of e-literary criticism directed first and foremost to the new media elements of e-literature, Strehovec takes into account approaches from current theories in the social scie...