This essay, informed by scholarship on middlebrow culture, places Mary Lavin’s stories in the textual space of The New Yorker, reassessing supposed ‘conservatism’ her short fiction. literary fame has often been marred perceived conservative streaks – terms sensibility and gender politics. style is inclined to realist mode, which appears be old-fashioned comparison with experimentalist work mode...

From the late 1950s and throughout 1960s, impact of American twist rock’n’roll British beat music, Eurovision Song Contest, considerable growth national record industry, number radio stations (still timid) deployment nationwide TV gave rise in Spain to development ye-yé fashion amongst young Spanish population. This was accompanied by a mild feeling rebellion critical spirit against traditional...

A group of people dwelling within a common territorial boundary having ancestors and mores, believing in morals, distinct other similar groups which existed even before the concept nation states is viewed as Tribe. More often tribes tribal are discussed with an attitude holier than thou approach regulating deforestations, rights, ownership lands what not but question always persist; we honest t...

There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...

INTRODUCTION If education is inherently a process that involves human interaction with the deliberate purpose of promoting the social values, norms, and mores, of a given society, then we can state that the knowledge a society chooses to convey says something about the culture of that society. In this way, we can conceive of education as being a process that is fundamentally sociocultural in na...

There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...