Dance Of The Sparrows : Characteristic

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‘Some (not so) new kind’ : No Country for Old Men and Cormac McCarthy’s fiction in post-9/11 American culture

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men has generated significant discussion that moves beyond earlier works in his oeuvre. As McCarthy’s first novel after September 11, 2001, its concerns relating to American exceptionalism drew attention from critics such as Vincent Allan King and Francisco Collado-Rodriguez. These discussions, however, look beyond how McCarthy’s portrayed Sheriff Ed Tom Bell through the context of his roots as an ancestral Georgian and a culturally evangelical Protestant, with roots dating back to the early 1800s. Those roots, I argue, form the basis of Bell’s pursuit and later abandonment of Anton Chiguhr. Rather than, in King’s view, relinquishing his moral authority as Sheriff and as a representative of post-war American stability, McCarthy portrays Sheriff Bell as understanding that even if he were to capture Chiguhr, he would become what he sought and, by doing so, put his “soul” in a position of irredeemable moral hazard. Rather than losing moral authority, however, Bell embodies the evangelical Christian notion that to lose is, in fact, to win. Through that paradox, Bell represents the notion that morality, particularly in the post 9-11 era, remains attainable even as it is elusive.peer-reviewe

Language-By-Radio in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four Case Studies

In the summer of 1981, the author was engaged in pedagogicalresearch in language program development for the governments of Senegaland The Gambia. During that period, he further participated in an eight countrylanguage teaching survey throughout West, Central, and EastAfrica, under the sponsorship of the United States International CommunicationsAgency. Included in that survey was an analysis of the useof radio broadcasts as a means to teach foreign languages. This articlewill describe the language-by-radio programs in four countries, i.e.,Senegal, Burundi, Rwanda, and Kenya. Of special interest is the use ofradio to teach English

Mission (Not) Accomplished: Stanley Kubrick\u27s Paths of Light and Darkness

I argue that in his 1957 film Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick utilized the theological categories of Reinhold Niebuhr\u27s 1944 book with the primary title of The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. In so doing, Kubrick used his film as a way to both glance backward at the first half of his century and anticipate its final decades. Kubrick\u27s primary characters embody the full range of Niebuhr\u27s categories, accentuated even more starkly through elements of Kubrick\u27s directorial style. I shall be glad to answer questions that any readers may have