Robert Dale Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Dale Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dionysus and polis religion
According to many myths, Dionysus, the ‘mad’ god, was initially seen as representing a threat to the order of the polis. But the myths also tell of how Dionysus always overcame resistance, often violently. Historically, Dionysus had an accepted and often prominent place in the cult system of every Greek polis that we can observe in any detail. But a few cases of unofficial Dionysiac cults being suppressed are known, though nothing on the scale of…
How to Make a Queer
Across the fiction and poetry of the Great Depression, when the focus turns to men on the down and out, unable to find work and not knowing where they will find their next meal or place to sleep, a series of representative scenes reappears from one now often-forgotten story, novel, and poem to another. Collectively such scenes, recurring across the literature of the 1930s, offer something like a cousinly alternative, on a far smaller scale, to th…
American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century
Scholarship and teaching about nineteenth-century American poetry usually shows no awareness of American Indian poetry. Often, when the concept of American Indian poetry is even mentioned, it comes up only to note the supposed absence of poetry by American Indians, even though white American poets wrote so much about Indians. Rarely, scholars take note of two or three Indian poets, typically Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, John Rollin Ridge/ Yellow Bi…
On the daimonion of Socrates
Plutarch's dialogue »On the daimonion of Socrates« is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion: A narrator from Boeotian Thebes tells his Athenian friend how Thebes was liberated from Spartan domination in a fateful night of midwinter 379/8 BC and connects this with the retelling of a fascinating philosophical discussion about the famous daimonion of Socrates in the afternoon and eveni…
Another Indian Looking Back
Another Indian Looking BackA Review Essay on Recent American Indian Poetry Robert Dale Parker (bio) In a poem late in Sara Littlecrow-Russell’s The Secret Powers of Naming, the speaker (implicitly the poet), dressed up for work, takes a lunch break. She sees a homeless man and gives him her Diet Coke money, but she doesn’t “want to look at him.” And “He doesn’t want to look at me either.” Or at least, so she supposes. Then she explains, in the po…
The Invention of Native American Literature
In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature b…
Out of the Dark Age
In the fifth century, Athenian religion offers itself vividly to the imagination, through literature and art; and, in the fourth, evidence of various kinds is abundant enough to encourage the hope that here, uniquely, the workings of religion in a classical Greek city can be observed in detail. As one moves back in time from 472, date of the first surviving play of Aeschylus, the sources of information are pro gressively stripped away; and beyond…
Elizabeth Bishop
Poetry and Pedagogy
Elizabeth Bishop
The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum
The Unbeliever
William Faulkner's Short Stories
Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination
Miasma
Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to 'drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a cons…
Sex, Women, and Ambiguous Animals
ing a more general from a more specific description, as when Levi-Strauss makes bone 'the reverse of food' or a thorn-bush 'nature hostile to man' (cf. D. Sperber in J. Sturrock, ed., Structuralism and Since, 1979, p. 22); 'inedibility' is not the only notion that 'bone' can evoke. In the present case the problem is intensified by the vagueness of the concepts of 'anomaly' and 'boundary-breaking'. For Greece the only explicit preAristotelian evid…
The Invention of Native American Literature
In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature b…
Sex, Women, and Ambiguous Animals
ing a more general from a more specific description, as when Levi-Strauss makes bone 'the reverse of food' or a thorn-bush 'nature hostile to man' (cf. D. Sperber in J. Sturrock, ed., Structuralism and Since, 1979, p. 22); 'inedibility' is not the only notion that 'bone' can evoke. In the present case the problem is intensified by the vagueness of the concepts of 'anomaly' and 'boundary-breaking'. For Greece the only explicit preAristotelian evid…
Miasma
Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to 'drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a cons…
William Faulkner's Short Stories
Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination
Elizabeth Bishop
The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum
The Unbeliever
Elizabeth Bishop
Poetry and Pedagogy
Out of the Dark Age
In the fifth century, Athenian religion offers itself vividly to the imagination, through literature and art; and, in the fourth, evidence of various kinds is abundant enough to encourage the hope that here, uniquely, the workings of religion in a classical Greek city can be observed in detail. As one moves back in time from 472, date of the first surviving play of Aeschylus, the sources of information are pro gressively stripped away; and beyond…
The Invention of Native American Literature
In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature b…
On the daimonion of Socrates
Plutarch's dialogue »On the daimonion of Socrates« is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion: A narrator from Boeotian Thebes tells his Athenian friend how Thebes was liberated from Spartan domination in a fateful night of midwinter 379/8 BC and connects this with the retelling of a fascinating philosophical discussion about the famous daimonion of Socrates in the afternoon and eveni…
Another Indian Looking Back
Another Indian Looking BackA Review Essay on Recent American Indian Poetry Robert Dale Parker (bio) In a poem late in Sara Littlecrow-Russell’s The Secret Powers of Naming, the speaker (implicitly the poet), dressed up for work, takes a lunch break. She sees a homeless man and gives him her Diet Coke money, but she doesn’t “want to look at him.” And “He doesn’t want to look at me either.” Or at least, so she supposes. Then she explains, in the po…
American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century
Scholarship and teaching about nineteenth-century American poetry usually shows no awareness of American Indian poetry. Often, when the concept of American Indian poetry is even mentioned, it comes up only to note the supposed absence of poetry by American Indians, even though white American poets wrote so much about Indians. Rarely, scholars take note of two or three Indian poets, typically Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, John Rollin Ridge/ Yellow Bi…
How to Make a Queer
Across the fiction and poetry of the Great Depression, when the focus turns to men on the down and out, unable to find work and not knowing where they will find their next meal or place to sleep, a series of representative scenes reappears from one now often-forgotten story, novel, and poem to another. Collectively such scenes, recurring across the literature of the 1930s, offer something like a cousinly alternative, on a far smaller scale, to th…
Dionysus and polis religion
According to many myths, Dionysus, the ‘mad’ god, was initially seen as representing a threat to the order of the polis. But the myths also tell of how Dionysus always overcame resistance, often violently. Historically, Dionysus had an accepted and often prominent place in the cult system of every Greek polis that we can observe in any detail. But a few cases of unofficial Dionysiac cults being suppressed are known, though nothing on the scale of…
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