David Stromberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1167571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Stromberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Stromberg |
| SIGNATURE | STROMBERG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1812-8518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Your Papers for a Tourist Visa”
This article focuses on two aspects of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s life and work from 1923 to 1935. First, it outlines his early career in Warsaw, focusing on his essays and tracing his efforts to establish a literary career independent from that of his older brother, Israel Joshua. Second, it considers Singer’s emigration from Warsaw, with a focus on his brother’s efforts to get him out, as found in personal correspondence. Along the way, I expose g…
Don’t Be Hopeless, Kid”
Isaac Bashevis Singer arrived in New York on May 1, 1935, on a tourist visa—and spent the next two years finalizing his immigrant status while trying to advance the career he had begun to establish in Warsaw. Scholarly inquiries into Singer’s life, especially during this period, have historically based their claims on his autobiographical writing in Yiddish and English, as well as fictionalized versions that appeared in his books—all of which blu…
Idiocy and Irony in Plato's Dialogues and Dostoevsky's The Idiot
This article focuses on two concepts, irony and idiocy, as they appear in the works of Plato and Dostoevsky. In Plato's case, the article describes how irony is thematized in a rhetorical mode and also deployed as a dialectical method, creating dramatic tension that produces additional layers of significance. In Dostoevsky's case, it addresses his thematization of irony and its deployment as a dialectical method to develop idiocy as a framing con…
A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs”
“A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs”: Narrative Drive and Affective Crisis in Salinger’s “Seymour; An Introduction” David Stromberg (bio) J. D. Salinger’s story “Seymour; An Introduction” (1959) purports to be an “Introduction” to the work of a man named Seymour Glass, written by his fictional brother Buddy. It is part of a series of fictional works published by Salinger over seventeen years, portraying aspects of the life…
Media Bias in China
This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content ( propaganda) relative to commercial content. We first find that a reform that forced newspaper exits (reduced competition) affected media bias by increasing product specialization, with some papers focusing on propaganda and others on…
Good and Bad
Noble Errors
This article deals with genetic connections between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Catherine Breillat—using psychoanalysis and philosophy that integrates Plato and Aristotle with Kleinian psychoanalysis. The article develops the notion of two kinds of love, good and bad, distinguishing Freud's work on instincts referencing Plato's Symposium, from Klein's interest in the function of instincts in human relations. The article discusses issues of intimacy—spe…
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo-the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform-during the 2009-2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we …
The Enigmatic G—v
The chronicler‐narrator of Dostoevsky's Demons , Anton Lavrentievich G—v, seems like an inscrutable and oscillatory storyteller. On the one hand he is profusely talkative and repeatedly justifies his position as narrator; on the other, he reports scenes that he did not witness and could not have direct knowledge about, including what people say and even think. The spectrum of responses from Dostoevsky critics includes some saying that the novel h…
Press Coverage and Political Accountability
We estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that voters living in areas where, for exogenous reasons, the press covers their U.S. House representative less are less likely to recall their representative's name and less able to describe and rate him or her. Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before…
Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid
Natural disasters are one of the major problems facing humankind. Between 1980 and 2004, two million people were reported killed and five billion people cumulatively affected by around 7,000 natural disasters, according to the dataset maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at University of Louvain (Belgium). The economic costs are considerable and rising. The direct economic damage from natural disasters bet…
Mass Media Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy
If better informed voters receive favourable policies, then mass media will affect policy because mass media provide most of the information people use in voting. This paper models the incentives of the media to deliver news to different groups. The increasing-returns-to-scale technology and advertising financing of media firms induce them to provide more news to large groups, such as taxpayers and dispersed consumer interests, and groups that ar…
Public attitudes regarding smokefree airlines
Public attitudes regarding smokefree airlines. S A Glantz, and D StrombergCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.10.1366 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Press Coverage and Political Accountability
We estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that voters living in areas where, for exogenous reasons, the press covers their U.S. House representative less are less likely to recall their representative's name and less able to describe and rate him or her. Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before…
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo-the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform-during the 2009-2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we …
Public attitudes regarding smokefree airlines
Public attitudes regarding smokefree airlines. S A Glantz, and D StrombergCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.10.1366 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Mass Media Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy
If better informed voters receive favourable policies, then mass media will affect policy because mass media provide most of the information people use in voting. This paper models the incentives of the media to deliver news to different groups. The increasing-returns-to-scale technology and advertising financing of media firms induce them to provide more news to large groups, such as taxpayers and dispersed consumer interests, and groups that ar…
Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid
Natural disasters are one of the major problems facing humankind. Between 1980 and 2004, two million people were reported killed and five billion people cumulatively affected by around 7,000 natural disasters, according to the dataset maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at University of Louvain (Belgium). The economic costs are considerable and rising. The direct economic damage from natural disasters bet…
Press Coverage and Political Accountability
We estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that voters living in areas where, for exogenous reasons, the press covers their U.S. House representative less are less likely to recall their representative's name and less able to describe and rate him or her. Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before…
The Enigmatic G—v
The chronicler‐narrator of Dostoevsky's Demons , Anton Lavrentievich G—v, seems like an inscrutable and oscillatory storyteller. On the one hand he is profusely talkative and repeatedly justifies his position as narrator; on the other, he reports scenes that he did not witness and could not have direct knowledge about, including what people say and even think. The spectrum of responses from Dostoevsky critics includes some saying that the novel h…
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo-the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform-during the 2009-2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we …
Media Bias in China
This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content ( propaganda) relative to commercial content. We first find that a reform that forced newspaper exits (reduced competition) affected media bias by increasing product specialization, with some papers focusing on propaganda and others on…
Good and Bad
Noble Errors
This article deals with genetic connections between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Catherine Breillat—using psychoanalysis and philosophy that integrates Plato and Aristotle with Kleinian psychoanalysis. The article develops the notion of two kinds of love, good and bad, distinguishing Freud's work on instincts referencing Plato's Symposium, from Klein's interest in the function of instincts in human relations. The article discusses issues of intimacy—spe…
A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs”
“A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs”: Narrative Drive and Affective Crisis in Salinger’s “Seymour; An Introduction” David Stromberg (bio) J. D. Salinger’s story “Seymour; An Introduction” (1959) purports to be an “Introduction” to the work of a man named Seymour Glass, written by his fictional brother Buddy. It is part of a series of fictional works published by Salinger over seventeen years, portraying aspects of the life…
“Your Papers for a Tourist Visa”
This article focuses on two aspects of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s life and work from 1923 to 1935. First, it outlines his early career in Warsaw, focusing on his essays and tracing his efforts to establish a literary career independent from that of his older brother, Israel Joshua. Second, it considers Singer’s emigration from Warsaw, with a focus on his brother’s efforts to get him out, as found in personal correspondence. Along the way, I expose g…
Don’t Be Hopeless, Kid”
Isaac Bashevis Singer arrived in New York on May 1, 1935, on a tourist visa—and spent the next two years finalizing his immigrant status while trying to advance the career he had begun to establish in Warsaw. Scholarly inquiries into Singer’s life, especially during this period, have historically based their claims on his autobiographical writing in Yiddish and English, as well as fictionalized versions that appeared in his books—all of which blu…
Idiocy and Irony in Plato's Dialogues and Dostoevsky's The Idiot
This article focuses on two concepts, irony and idiocy, as they appear in the works of Plato and Dostoevsky. In Plato's case, the article describes how irony is thematized in a rhetorical mode and also deployed as a dialectical method, creating dramatic tension that produces additional layers of significance. In Dostoevsky's case, it addresses his thematization of irony and its deployment as a dialectical method to develop idiocy as a framing con…
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