Born in St. Louis, MO, 28 August 1957. Married to Lalita Pandit on 30 December 1983. Studied with Walter Ong, Northrop Frye, Paul Ricoeur, Donald Davidson, and Norman Holland. Phone: 860-486-2141 Address: English Department 215 Glenbrook Road University of Connecticut, Unit 4025 Storrs, CT 06269-4025
Page 1. The lolitics of deology, Professionalism, and Patrick Colm Hogan Page 2. The Politics of ... more Page 1. The lolitics of deology, Professionalism, and Patrick Colm Hogan Page 2. The Politics of Interpretation Page 3. Page 4. The Politics of Interpretation Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature PATRICK COLM ...
Introduction: A Passion for Plot: Story as Feeling One. Before Stories: Emotional Time and Anna K... more Introduction: A Passion for Plot: Story as Feeling One. Before Stories: Emotional Time and Anna Karenina Two. Stories and Works: From Ancient Egypt to Post-Modernism Three. Universal Narrative Prototypes: Sacrifice, Heroism, and Romantic Love Four. Cross-Cultural Minor Genres: Attachment, Lust, Revenge, and Criminal Justice Afterword: On the Future of Feeling: Stories and the Training of Sensibility
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol 31, No 4 (2000). ... Understand "Th... more ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol 31, No 4 (2000). ... Understand "The Palm-Wine Drinkard". Patrick Colm Hogan. Full Text: PDF. Refbacks. There are currently no refbacks. ISSN: 1920-1222.
Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, eds. Modernism and Empire. Manches-ter: Manchester UP, 2000. Pp.... more Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, eds. Modernism and Empire. Manches-ter: Manchester UP, 2000. Pp. xiii, 338. $69.95, $a 9-95 PD-Modernism and Empire is a collection of essays that address the relations between colonialism and modernist literature. The topic is ...
Kolbert aims to bring scientific findings to a mass audience and yet, by observing the convention... more Kolbert aims to bring scientific findings to a mass audience and yet, by observing the conventions of hard science—when as a popularizer she does not need to and, at times, should not—and by emphasizing projects that seem very likely to fail, Kolbert conveys despair. She mentions only in passing hopeful attempts to avoid the worst, such as marine and nature reserves and legislation to protect wildlife. She says nothing about the work of organizations like the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club or radical environmentalism. These omissions, but above all her failure to address despair, lend it unnecessary strength. We cannot afford unexamined despair any more than we can afford false hopes. Toward the end of The Sixth Extinction Kolbert raises a philosophical question: Who are we as a species? She considers the possibility that we may harbor a madness gene, DNA that causes suicidal destructiveness. This concept, as treated in the book, strikes me as melodramatic and something of a diversion even though it comes from Sante Paabo, a paleogeneticist. Another diversion (although it did not have to be) is Kolbert’s attempt to identify when the sixth extinction began. The disappearance of megafauna from Australia, the Americas and certain islands at about the time that Homo sapiens first entered them strongly suggests that species loss due to human activities began about 40,000 years ago. However, Kolbert does not adequately distinguish between the elimination of paleolithic megafauna, a phenomenon that involved perhaps a few score of species over the course of 30,000 years, and what is happening today, when the same number of species may be disappearing every few weeks. Thirty thousand years is not very long in evolutionary time but should not be conflated with a few weeks. We have no evidence that ancient hunter-gatherers understood that they were driving species to extinction. Today we know very well what we are doing. In many cases we know exactly which of our activities are responsible for what losses. By inadequately distinguishing species loss caused by hunter-gatherers from wholesale devastation unleashed by industrial society, Kolbert deepens the sense that our species is by nature ruinously destructive. Science is sublimely neutral with respect to outcomes. As a consequence, it allows for many possibilities, ranging from the destruction of all life, to sea changes in culture, to ecologically beneficial but humanly catastrophic events, such as timely pandemics or economic collapse. Science accommodates such possibilities and so do certain other strands within our culture, but not the greater part of society. What depth and breadth of change would be necessary to halt mass extinction? The Sixth Extinction may be most valuable for questions it raises, yet avoids.
Journal article by Patrick Colm Hogan; Mosaic ( …, 1994
... in Dream on Monkey Mountain, Derek Walcott sets out to illustrate Fanon's ideas thro... more ... in Dream on Monkey Mountain, Derek Walcott sets out to illustrate Fanon's ideas through the madness of Makak, a black man who longs to ... In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys developsAntoinette's madness in relation to the English denial of her Creole culture and in relation to ...
Page 1. The lolitics of deology, Professionalism, and Patrick Colm Hogan Page 2. The Politics of ... more Page 1. The lolitics of deology, Professionalism, and Patrick Colm Hogan Page 2. The Politics of Interpretation Page 3. Page 4. The Politics of Interpretation Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature PATRICK COLM ...
Introduction: A Passion for Plot: Story as Feeling One. Before Stories: Emotional Time and Anna K... more Introduction: A Passion for Plot: Story as Feeling One. Before Stories: Emotional Time and Anna Karenina Two. Stories and Works: From Ancient Egypt to Post-Modernism Three. Universal Narrative Prototypes: Sacrifice, Heroism, and Romantic Love Four. Cross-Cultural Minor Genres: Attachment, Lust, Revenge, and Criminal Justice Afterword: On the Future of Feeling: Stories and the Training of Sensibility
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol 31, No 4 (2000). ... Understand "Th... more ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol 31, No 4 (2000). ... Understand "The Palm-Wine Drinkard". Patrick Colm Hogan. Full Text: PDF. Refbacks. There are currently no refbacks. ISSN: 1920-1222.
Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, eds. Modernism and Empire. Manches-ter: Manchester UP, 2000. Pp.... more Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, eds. Modernism and Empire. Manches-ter: Manchester UP, 2000. Pp. xiii, 338. $69.95, $a 9-95 PD-Modernism and Empire is a collection of essays that address the relations between colonialism and modernist literature. The topic is ...
Kolbert aims to bring scientific findings to a mass audience and yet, by observing the convention... more Kolbert aims to bring scientific findings to a mass audience and yet, by observing the conventions of hard science—when as a popularizer she does not need to and, at times, should not—and by emphasizing projects that seem very likely to fail, Kolbert conveys despair. She mentions only in passing hopeful attempts to avoid the worst, such as marine and nature reserves and legislation to protect wildlife. She says nothing about the work of organizations like the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club or radical environmentalism. These omissions, but above all her failure to address despair, lend it unnecessary strength. We cannot afford unexamined despair any more than we can afford false hopes. Toward the end of The Sixth Extinction Kolbert raises a philosophical question: Who are we as a species? She considers the possibility that we may harbor a madness gene, DNA that causes suicidal destructiveness. This concept, as treated in the book, strikes me as melodramatic and something of a diversion even though it comes from Sante Paabo, a paleogeneticist. Another diversion (although it did not have to be) is Kolbert’s attempt to identify when the sixth extinction began. The disappearance of megafauna from Australia, the Americas and certain islands at about the time that Homo sapiens first entered them strongly suggests that species loss due to human activities began about 40,000 years ago. However, Kolbert does not adequately distinguish between the elimination of paleolithic megafauna, a phenomenon that involved perhaps a few score of species over the course of 30,000 years, and what is happening today, when the same number of species may be disappearing every few weeks. Thirty thousand years is not very long in evolutionary time but should not be conflated with a few weeks. We have no evidence that ancient hunter-gatherers understood that they were driving species to extinction. Today we know very well what we are doing. In many cases we know exactly which of our activities are responsible for what losses. By inadequately distinguishing species loss caused by hunter-gatherers from wholesale devastation unleashed by industrial society, Kolbert deepens the sense that our species is by nature ruinously destructive. Science is sublimely neutral with respect to outcomes. As a consequence, it allows for many possibilities, ranging from the destruction of all life, to sea changes in culture, to ecologically beneficial but humanly catastrophic events, such as timely pandemics or economic collapse. Science accommodates such possibilities and so do certain other strands within our culture, but not the greater part of society. What depth and breadth of change would be necessary to halt mass extinction? The Sixth Extinction may be most valuable for questions it raises, yet avoids.
Journal article by Patrick Colm Hogan; Mosaic ( …, 1994
... in Dream on Monkey Mountain, Derek Walcott sets out to illustrate Fanon's ideas thro... more ... in Dream on Monkey Mountain, Derek Walcott sets out to illustrate Fanon's ideas through the madness of Makak, a black man who longs to ... In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys developsAntoinette's madness in relation to the English denial of her Creole culture and in relation to ...
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