ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (25 Mar 2024)

“From the center to the circle, from the circle to the center,” Dante wrote, regarding Thomas Aquinas ceding the floor to Beatrice

In Dante Studies, Alison Cornish explores how this simple passage reveals the cosmological model of Dante's universe

Read free thru 5 April
 

Did you know that the Coptic “Act of Peter” might be a late ancient Christian reformulation of an early Jewish temple tradition?

Read more on the context & implications of this intertextual relationship discussed in Journal of Early Christian Studies

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Focusing on the "moral of the elephant,” Niki Kasumi Clements re-evaluates Foucault's “tournant antique” to better understand his shift from early modern Christianity through to Ancient Greek philosophers in the later years of the History of Sexuality

Read free in Arethusa thru 5 April
 

The 2019 Copy Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act may seem like a mouthful, and its processes even more complex.

Tomas A. Lipinski examines the pros and cons of the new law in Library Trends, free thru 5 April
 

From the hand of an enslaved copyist to the hand of a martyr, textual gestures performed in one’s own hand take on a new meaning in Sabrina Inowlocki’s article in the newest volume of the Journal of Late Antiquity.

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The perils of the adultifying gaze in Jacqueline Woodson’s 2016 autobiographical novel Another Brooklyn parallels the dangers of the white gaze in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Read Adam Dawson's analysis, free in Studies in American Fiction thru 29 March

Follow the fascinating day-to-day experience of a college student living during China’s Thought Reform campaign through in-depth analysis of personal diaries and official archives

Free in the new Twentieth-Century China thru 29 March

How do the aesthetic and religious dimensions of three phenomenologists (Henry, Marion, & Kearney) overlap, parallel, and play into their respective analyses of art?

Already one of 2024's most-read articles, in Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.

How do the novels of Faulkner and Guðbergur Bergsson reveal complex regional histories of the US South and Iceland and their respective colonial dynamics?

Explore the authors' portrayals of racial fanaticism, free in The Faulkner Journal thru 29 March

In Hispania, Meredith Lyn Jeffers analyzes how public humanities is centered on cultural studies and how students in public humanities projects can serve as agents of cultural change

Read more how they can accomplish these goals, free thru 29 March