Robert Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canisius College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3091-9416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Developing community disaster resilience through collaborative professional development: Integrating teachers, informal educators, and emergency management personnel
Because geologic hazards affect large regions, overwhelming the capacity of dedicated emergency response resources, community resilience depends on individual and collective preparedness that is in place prior to an event. Two projects providing professional development on earthquake and tsunami science and preparedness, and utilizing an innovative “pedagogical exchange” model, demonstrated improvement in community resilience in the Pacific North…
A multimodal reflection on the authority of the badminton umpire
This practitioner reflection describes the multimodal evolution of the role of the umpire as she/he increases in level and rank. The umpire begins by counting the points, making simple decisions — in, out, let, fault — and learns to master the most common announcements. Umpiring skills are integrated progressively, including the management of the court, the players, the coaches, and the level of pressure. The pressure increases as the levels of p…
How gesture shapes political identity: A multimodal analysis of adverbs of negation and modals in the discourse of Nigel Farage and Reform UK
By stating their ideology and policies, new parties are able to affirm their authority as legitimate participants in the democratic process. Defining the political party’s identity through affirmation means also acknowledging the boundaries of this identity. This can be identified through markers of negation. Socially, a community’s identity can be defined not only by what it is, but also by what it is not. Linguistically, the use of negative str…
Research comics for science communication: Interview with Dr. Ulrike Hahn
Dr Ulrike Hahn is interviewed about her research in the field of climate-related visual art. In particular, her work currently involves turning the insights and studies of other researchers into research comics. In addition to Dr Hahn’s current research, the interview draws on how research comics can help to make academic claims credible on the one hand, and accessible to the wider public on the other hand through the portrayal of characters to w…
Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimisation Strategies in Crisis and Conflict
Political Discourse Analysis examines how political actors can regain power and credibility in a world of constant challenges to their authority. The multiple approaches in this book show how political actors strive to maintain control in the face of democratic deficit and crisis in developed societies and existential threats to stability in regimes worldwide. While many actors seek legitimisation through the institutional structure, the media or…
The impact of long-term land leases on farm investment: Evidence from the Irish dairy sector
The European Union milk quota abolition in 2015 resulted in rapid dairy farm expansion across many Member States. Continued production growth requires both capital and herd investment with secure access to land resources being important for new and expanding farmers. As land sales and rental remain low in Ireland, tax incentives to encourage long-term land rental were increased in 2015. This paper assesses the influence of the length of land leas…
John Edgar Wideman and Modernity: A Critical Dialogue by Michel Feith
Reviewed by: John Edgar Wideman and Modernity: A Critical Dialogue by Michel Feith Robert Butler Michel Feith. John Edgar Wideman and Modernity: A Critical Dialogue. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2019. 269 pp. $45.00. Since the appearance of A Glance Away in 1967, John Edgar Wideman has published over twenty important books of both fiction and nonfiction. Scholarly interest in his work has remained strong, particularly in recent years, as is evide…
The factors influencing the profitability of leased land on dairy farms in Ireland
A History of the African American Novel by Valerie Babb
Reviewed by: A History of the African American Novel by Valerie Babb Robert Butler Valerie Babb. A History of the African American Novel. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017. 486 pp. $44.99. This is a much-needed comprehensive survey of the history and practice of the African American novel from the 1853 publication of William Wells Brown's Clotel to work done by contemporary writers such as Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead, and Olympia Vernon. A spec…
Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire by Derek C. Maus
Reviewed by: Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire by Derek C. Maus Robert Butler Derek C. Maus. Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2019. 185 pp. $39.99. The problem with writing a book-length study of Percival Everett’s work is that the work resists classification of any kind. As many scholars have observed, Everett’s thirty-five books range over so many different genre…
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel, and: Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France by Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Reviewed by: James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel, and: Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France by Magdalena J. Zaborowska Robert Butler Joseph Vogel. James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2018. 182 pp. $22.95 Magdalena J. Zaborowska. Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France. Durham: Duke UP, 2018. 393 pp. $25.95 For many years the work that …
Gathering around stories: Interdisciplinary experiments in support of energy system transitions
This paper explores the creative uses of stories and storytelling to engage groups and individuals with consideration of changes in energy systems across time and place. It summarises three story-based experiments that responded to the theme of ‘energy utopias’. These are drawn from the three core strands of a much wider body of work undertaken within the Stories of Change project. This took stories as a central motif and organising device to ref…
Wright's Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative Study
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field (review)
Reviewed by: All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field Robert Butler Douglas Field. All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. 220 pp. $35.00. Douglas Field’s fresh study of Baldwin’s life and art avoids the limitations that mar so many previous studies. By stressing he has no “fixed notion of reading James Baldwin” but instead focusing on “the shifting and developing James B…
Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908–1960 by Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani (review)
Reviewed by: Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908–1960 by Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani Robert J. Butler Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani. Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908–1960. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. 456 pp. $75.00. This is an extremely ambitious and invaluable study that is comparable in scope to Jay Leyda’s massive two-volume documentary study of Herman Melville’s life in The Melville Log. Like Leyda, Hakutani an…
America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (review)
Reviewed by: America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology Robert Butler Cynthia H. Tolentino. America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009. 125 pp. $22.50. This carefully researched, compact study examines how three writers, Richard Wright, Carlos Bulosan, and Jade Snow Wong, were strongly influenced by modern sociological research and theory but needed, finally, to challenge and transcend th…
A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia
Analyses of the KNM-WT 15000 Homo erectus juvenile male partial skeleton from Kenya concluded that this species had a tall thin body shape due to specialized locomotor and climatic adaptations. Moreover, it was concluded that H. erectus pelves were obstetrically restricted to birthing a small-brained altricial neonate. Here we describe a nearly complete early Pleistocene adult female H. erectus pelvis from the Busidima Formation of Gona, Afar, Et…
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932
This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). Between 1885 and 1905, this pioneer in the African-American literary tradition published three novels, two books of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and many short stories and essays in prestigious periodicals-at the same time managing a stenography and court reporting firm in Cleveland, Ohio. His wo…
Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
Rails under My Back
Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction
Contemporary African American Fiction: The Open Journey
The City in African-American Literature
The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America
The Critical Response to Richard Wright
Gathering around stories: Interdisciplinary experiments in support of energy system transitions
This paper explores the creative uses of stories and storytelling to engage groups and individuals with consideration of changes in energy systems across time and place. It summarises three story-based experiments that responded to the theme of ‘energy utopias’. These are drawn from the three core strands of a much wider body of work undertaken within the Stories of Change project. This took stories as a central motif and organising device to ref…
The factors influencing the profitability of leased land on dairy farms in Ireland
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
The impact of long-term land leases on farm investment: Evidence from the Irish dairy sector
The European Union milk quota abolition in 2015 resulted in rapid dairy farm expansion across many Member States. Continued production growth requires both capital and herd investment with secure access to land resources being important for new and expanding farmers. As land sales and rental remain low in Ireland, tax incentives to encourage long-term land rental were increased in 2015. This paper assesses the influence of the length of land leas…
Perseverative Interference in Monkeys Following Bilateral Removal of the Prefrontal Areas
Contemporary Venezuela
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Contemporary Venezuela and Its Role in International Affairs
Christian and Pragmatic Visions of Time in the Lonigan Trilogy
The Quest for Pure Motion in Richard Wright's Black Boy
Journal Article The Quest for Pure Motion in Richard Wright’s Black Boy Get access Robert J. Butler Robert J. Butler Canisius College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 10, Issue 3, September 1983, Pages 5–17, https://doi.org/10.2307/467438 Published: 01 September 1983
Answering the Call
Farrell's Ethnic Neighborhood and Wright's Urban Ghetto: Two Visions of Chicago's South Side
Journal Article FarreH’s Ethnic Neighborhood and Wright’s Urban Ghetto: Two Visions of Chicago’s South Side Get access Robert Butler Robert Butler Canisius Colleg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 1993, Pages 103–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/468107 Published: 01 March 1993
Alice Walker's Vision of the South in The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Mapping Ralph Ellison's Territory
Conversations with Richard Wright
For more than two decades Richard Wright was interviewed by the American and foreign press, first as the author of Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son (1940), and Black Boy (1945), next as a famous expatriate recently arrived and lionized in postwar Paris, and finally as the seasoned writer of a dozen books. At the end of his life the young man from Mississippi had become a well-traveled intellectual deeply interested in the social and politi…
Rite of Passage
The Critical Response to Richard Wright
The City in African-American Literature
The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America
Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction
Contemporary African American Fiction: The Open Journey
Rails under My Back
An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932
This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). Between 1885 and 1905, this pioneer in the African-American literary tradition published three novels, two books of short stories, a biography of Frederick Douglass, and many short stories and essays in prestigious periodicals-at the same time managing a stenography and court reporting firm in Cleveland, Ohio. His wo…
Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia
Analyses of the KNM-WT 15000 Homo erectus juvenile male partial skeleton from Kenya concluded that this species had a tall thin body shape due to specialized locomotor and climatic adaptations. Moreover, it was concluded that H. erectus pelves were obstetrically restricted to birthing a small-brained altricial neonate. Here we describe a nearly complete early Pleistocene adult female H. erectus pelvis from the Busidima Formation of Gona, Afar, Et…
America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (review)
Reviewed by: America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology Robert Butler Cynthia H. Tolentino. America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009. 125 pp. $22.50. This carefully researched, compact study examines how three writers, Richard Wright, Carlos Bulosan, and Jade Snow Wong, were strongly influenced by modern sociological research and theory but needed, finally, to challenge and transcend th…
Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908–1960 by Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani (review)
Reviewed by: Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908–1960 by Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani Robert J. Butler Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani. Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908–1960. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. 456 pp. $75.00. This is an extremely ambitious and invaluable study that is comparable in scope to Jay Leyda’s massive two-volume documentary study of Herman Melville’s life in The Melville Log. Like Leyda, Hakutani an…
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field (review)
Reviewed by: All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field Robert Butler Douglas Field. All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. 220 pp. $35.00. Douglas Field’s fresh study of Baldwin’s life and art avoids the limitations that mar so many previous studies. By stressing he has no “fixed notion of reading James Baldwin” but instead focusing on “the shifting and developing James B…
Gathering around stories: Interdisciplinary experiments in support of energy system transitions
This paper explores the creative uses of stories and storytelling to engage groups and individuals with consideration of changes in energy systems across time and place. It summarises three story-based experiments that responded to the theme of ‘energy utopias’. These are drawn from the three core strands of a much wider body of work undertaken within the Stories of Change project. This took stories as a central motif and organising device to ref…
Wright's Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative Study
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