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Towards the end of his life and career, the poet John Hewitt (1907-1987) had become a celebrated elder statesman of literature and art in Northern Ireland. Alongside that of his contemporary, John Montague, his work was recognised as an important conduit for the later poetic flowering that occurred in Northern Ireland in the wake of the outbreak of the Troubles, as represented by such writers as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley, among others. Perhaps best remembered for his advocacy of Ulster regionalism, Hewitt urged for the embrace and expression of an identity rooted in the province of Ulster (which spans counties in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic) that could bridge the sectarian divide between Catholic and Protestant communities. While certain aspects of his regionalist project gained currency, within his own poetry, a fully realised sense of achievement for his Regionalist goals fails to resonate. This paper intends to analyse one of the most significant reasons as to why that is, the poet's conception and depiction of the Catholic community, or the Celtic other. Through careful examination of some of Hewitt's poems that engage with or portray Irish Catholics, it will be shown that a sense of difference and distance could not be overcome and contributed to an inability to successfully integrate Protestant Planter and Catholic Gael identities in an Ulster regionalist ideal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Proceedings of the C. S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress,' edited by Kenneth L. Ketner, Joseph M. Ransdell, Carolyn Eisle, Max H. Fisch and Charles S. Hardwick.

Reviews the book "Books for College Libraries," vols. 1-6, 3rd edition.

Reviews the book 'Antike Mythen in der Europaischen Tradition,' edited by Heinz Hofmann.

Reviews the book "Heaven's Fractal Net: Retrieving Lost Visions in the Humanities," by William J. Jackson.

Reviews the book "Challenges to the Humanities," edited by Chester Finn, Diane Ravitch and P. Holley Roberts, with epilogue by William J. Bennett.

Reviews several magazines. 'Bulletin of Research in the Humanities'; 'Grants Magazine'; 'Silver Vain.'

Reviews the book "The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis," by Jordan Paper.

Almost 60 years ago, Sidney Siegel wrote a stellar book helping anyone in academe to use nonparametric statistics, but ironically, 60 years after that achievement, American higher education confesses itself to be in the worst Quantitative Teaching Crisis of all time. The key clue to solving that crisis may be in Siegel and Castellan's title, Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, which quietly and perhaps unconsciously excludes the Humanities. Yet it is in humanistic realities that students read, write, and think. This book review considers what could be done if the Humanities were made aware of the enormous power of nonparametric statistics for advancing both their disciplines and their students' ability to think quantitatively. A potentially revolutionary, humanistic, nonparametric finding is considered in detail along with a brief account of tens of humanistic discoveries deriving from Siegel and Castellan's impetus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A description of the course "Curriculum II-Arts & Humanities" being offered at the University of Calgary is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Classical Tradition," edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis.

The article reviews the book "Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy," by David Pears.

Reviews the book "Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)," by Akira Mizuta Lippit.

The article reviews the book "Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage," by Frances Teague.

Reviews two books about humanities. "Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action," by Fiona Terry; "Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions," by Brian D. Lepard.

In this essay, I evaluate the pertinence of representing the tortured body in Sony Labou Tansi's La vie et demie. I demonstrate how the visibility of the tortured, cut-up flesh becomes the stakes of a subjectivity that struggles to maintain and affirm its agency. The representation of violence and pain confers on the tortured body the power to inscribe itself as a subject in becoming. In this text, the confrontation with pain and its graphic representation subverts the threat of total incorporation and assimilation in that pain maintains the presence of a private, intimate space that defies the danger of effacement and annihilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley," by Warren R. Hofstra.

Reviews the book "Cornel West & Philosophy: The Quest for Social Justice," by Clarence Shole Johnson.

Reviews the book "How to Find Information in the Humanities," by Sandi Kirkham.

Reviews two books concerning humanities. 'Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities,' by Peter Lavine; 'Composing the Soul,' by Graham Parkes.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Two Centuries of Philosophy in America,' edited by Peter Caws.

Reviews the book "New Media, 1740-1915," edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree.

Reviews the book "Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options," by James A. Inmam, Cheryl Reed and Peter Sand.

Reviews the book "Nsukka Journal of the Humanities 1."

Reviews the book 'The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources,' by Ron Blazek and Elizabeth Aversa.

Reviews the book 'Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: A Directory,' by Elizabeth Bayerl.

The article reviews the book "Georg Simmel: Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art," edited by Alan Scott and Helmut Staubman.

Reviews the book "Understanding "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings": A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents," by Joanne Megna-Wallace.

Reviews the book `Science, Values, and the American West,' by Stephen Tchudi.

Reviews the book "Dissemination of Innovation: The Humanities Curriculum Project," by Jean Rudduck.

The article presents a review of the book "The Humanities and Public Life" edited by Peter Brooks and Hilary Jewett.

Reviews the book "Marxism and Alienation," edited by Herbert Aptheker.

The article presents information on the book "Philosophy of Recreation and Leisure," by J.B. Nash. This is one of the first philosophical works on the modem concept of leisure. It is written by one of the greatest thinkers in this field, J. B. Nash, chairman emeritus of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation in the School of Education of New York University. Its major emphasis is on the individual and his use of leisure and the place of leisure in one's life. Stress is given to modem trends of technology, the conquest of time and space, the effects of specialization, monotony of work, and the many other "influences of the tempo of time." Nash integrates this opportunity of leisure with the need for constructive activities--those which are helpful, satisfying and creative. He stresses active rather than passive pro- grams. In short, the volume is a presentation of the problems involved in the proper use of leisure and the opportunities to bring a richer life in contemporary civilization. With leisure constantly increasing, the significance of organized recreation grows more important.

Reviews the book "The Philosophy of Edward Bellamy," by Arthur E. Morgan.