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AbstractThis is a study of rhyme and alliteration in French and English. We review their possible historical origins in Latin, and consider the mnemonic resources contained in rhymed forms of proverbs, other sayings and alliterations. We then analyze a few meteorological sayings in both languages, idioms with rhymed and alliterative forms, and finally exclamations, apostrophes, and swearwords.
Keywords: rime, proverbes, dictons, assonance, allitération
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What does the philosophy of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) have to do with the archival community’s recent turn to critical theory? This article proposes that Derrida’s philosophy worked at critical theory’s edges. His much-commented Archive Fever exemplifies Derrida’s longstanding personal and political (post-colonial) critique of the concepts of shelter, home, and belonging and with the presumptions of social, linguistic, and territorial sovereignty. These preoccupations underlie Derrida’s diagnosis of a fever – of an unhappiness or malaise – at the scene of writing/archiving.
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In “Secondary Orality and the Vatican’s 2024 Declaration on Human Dignity,” I highlight, on the one hand, the mature work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), and, on the other hand, the Vatican’s new 2024 Declaration on human dignity – with some discussion of certain related works by David Brooks and other authors.My favorite scholar is my former teacher at Saint Louis University, the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). In my adult life (I recently turned 80), I have devoted an enormous amount of time and effort to writing about Ong’s mature work from the early 1950s onward.
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Being a feminist in the contemporary Canadian context, post-Ghomeshi, can lead to existential crises. In this paper I investigate this relationship of feminist activism and reality, men’s rights activism (MRA) and surrealism, and the Absurd via the work of surrealist novelist Franz Kafka. While Kafka’s The Trial is popularly understood as an allegory for the alienation and pains of bureaucracy and modernity, I posit a new interpretation of the story as a men’s rights perspective of sexual assault allegations. I use Shoshana Felman’s theory of integrated literary and legal visions to read Kafka’s The Trial against men’s rights discourses regarding sexual assault allegations. I find this theory of evidence and repetitions across the disciplines of art (Kafka) and law (the Ghomeshi trial) useful as analytical sites for critically engaging with men’s rights discourses about sexual assault allegations. I demonstrate how The Trial can be interpreted as a representation of the phenomenon of sexual assault allegations according to men’s rights discourses, and demonstrate how these discourses are just as surreal as Kafka’s story. Through the Ghomeshi verdict I will demonstrate how these surrealist fantasies impact real-world sexual assault accusations, trials, and court decisions.
Keywords: feminism, interdisciplinary law, Kafka, literature, sexual assault
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Contrary to widespread opinion, Jewish voting patterns are not governed solely or sometimes even mainly by the commonly perceived ethno-religious interests of Jews, such as support for Israel and opposition to antisemitism. They are also governed by the same social forces that affect all Canadians. Focusing exclusively on the presumed Jewish interest underlying the Jewish vote prevents us from fully understanding why Jews vote the way they do. This paper seeks to demonstrate as much by examining trends in Jewish voting patterns over time and analyzing the factors that led some Jews to vote Liberal and others to vote Conservative in the 2025 federal general election. Along the way, it also examines the degree to which the Jewish vote helped to elect Jewish candidates. The paper is based mainly on the 2025 Canadian Jewish Voter Study, a web panel survey of five hundred Canadian Jewish adults that was in the field April 15–25, 2025, days before the April 28, 2025, federal general election.
Keywords: Canadian politics, Federal elections, Jewish vote, Canadian elections