James Giles
Biographic Data
| ID | 638181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Giles |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Giles |
| SIGNATURE | GILES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3155-6418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding Jeram: The Story of James Smart, Rubber Planter by Linda Covill (review)
Reviewed by: Finding Jeram: The Story of James Smart, Rubber Planter by Linda Covill James Giles Finding Jeram: The Story of James Smart, Rubber Planter. By Linda Covill. London: Blurb Books, 2021. When Linda Covill's father passed away, she came into possession of a large cache of letters written by her late grandfather, James Smart (1889-1970). Through detailed and painstaking research—involving not only the letters, but also news articles, obi…
Hakuin, Scepticism, and Seeing into One’s Own Nature
One of the most significant figures in the history of Japanese philosophy is the Zen master Hakuin. Yet, in the West, little attempt has been made to present and evaluate his thought in a way that would make it accessible to Western philosophers. This article attempts to redress this neglect. Here, it is shown how Hakuin uses kōan meditation to create ‘the great doubt’ or scepticism concerning the self. Hakuin’s method shares elements in common w…
Policing sexuality: Sex, society, and the state
Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition; Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters
Book Review| September 01 2009 Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition; Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters James R. Giles James R. Giles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 630–632. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James R. …
Sex Hormones and Sexual Desire
Some scholars attempt to explain sexual desire biologically by claiming that sex hormones play a necessary causal role in sexual desire. This can be claimed even if sexual desire is seen to be an experience. Yet the evidence for such biological essentialism is inadequate. With males the loss of sexual desire following hormonal changes can easily be explained in terms of social stigmas that are attached to the physiological situation. Concerning f…
Social Constructionism and Sexual Desire
Various scholars argue that sexual desire is socially constructed. There is, however, little agreement surrounding the nature of social constructionism. Vance contrasts social constructionism here with a cultural influence model and distinguishes between degrees of social constructionism. There are, however, problems with this classification. These problems can similarly be found with Foucault whose arguments fail to support his claim that sexual…
No Such Thing as Excessive Levels of Sexual Behavior
Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Fear of Deviance
After reaching the verge of obsolescence, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is once again on the increase. There remains, however, no sound theoretical basis for its use. By 1948 at least 50 different theories had been proposed to account for the workings of ECT. Today there are numerous more. Further, there is no good evidence for its therapeutic effectiveness. Although some studies show what are claimed to be positive results, others show signifi…
Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall
Book Review| December 01 2000 Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall By Heather Hathaway. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 200 pp.$29.95. James R. Giles James R. Giles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 880–881. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James R.…
Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography-discourses he treats as form-producing arts in own right-shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that …
The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man
Giles (English, Northern Illinois U.) surveys the early examples of inner-city naturalism, then examines in detail six 20th- century novels. He finds that the earlier novels by Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and Jack London mined American ghettos for exotic and sensational characters; but that the lat
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
A Theory of Love and Sexual Desire
The experience of being in love involves a longing for union with the other, where an important part of this longing is sexual desire. But what is the relation between being in love and sexual desire? To answer this it must first be seen that the expression ‘in love’ normally refers to a personal relationship. This is because to be ‘in love’ is to want to be loved back. This much would be predicted by equity and social exchange theories of interp…
The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
PERSONAL IDENTITYThe problem of personal identity is often said to be one of accounting for what it is that gives persons their identity over time.However, once the problem has been construed in these terms, it is plain that too much has already been assumed.For what has been assumed is just that persons do have an identity.To the philosophers who approach the problem with this supposition already accepted, the possibility that there may be no su…
Religious Alienation and "Homosexual Consciousness" in City of Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James R. Giles, Religious Alienation and "Homosexual Consciousness" in City of Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain, College English, Vol. 36, No. 3, The Homosexual Imagination (Nov., 1974), pp. 369-380
Richard Wright's Successful Failure: A New Look at Uncle Tom's Children
IN THE RECENT controversy over the literary achievement of Richard Wright, the novelist's first book, Uncle Tom's Children (1938), has been generally ignored. James Baldwin, of course, centered his now famous Wright criticisms around Native Son; Baldwin does mention Uncle Tom's Children in his Alas, Poor Richard, but the reference is a passing one and implies that this book, like Native Son, lacks the stature of Black Boy.1 In their discussion of…
Social Constructionism and Sexual Desire
Various scholars argue that sexual desire is socially constructed. There is, however, little agreement surrounding the nature of social constructionism. Vance contrasts social constructionism here with a cultural influence model and distinguishes between degrees of social constructionism. There are, however, problems with this classification. These problems can similarly be found with Foucault whose arguments fail to support his claim that sexual…
No Such Thing as Excessive Levels of Sexual Behavior
Sex Hormones and Sexual Desire
Some scholars attempt to explain sexual desire biologically by claiming that sex hormones play a necessary causal role in sexual desire. This can be claimed even if sexual desire is seen to be an experience. Yet the evidence for such biological essentialism is inadequate. With males the loss of sexual desire following hormonal changes can easily be explained in terms of social stigmas that are attached to the physiological situation. Concerning f…
A Theory of Love and Sexual Desire
The experience of being in love involves a longing for union with the other, where an important part of this longing is sexual desire. But what is the relation between being in love and sexual desire? To answer this it must first be seen that the expression ‘in love’ normally refers to a personal relationship. This is because to be ‘in love’ is to want to be loved back. This much would be predicted by equity and social exchange theories of interp…
The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
PERSONAL IDENTITYThe problem of personal identity is often said to be one of accounting for what it is that gives persons their identity over time.However, once the problem has been construed in these terms, it is plain that too much has already been assumed.For what has been assumed is just that persons do have an identity.To the philosophers who approach the problem with this supposition already accepted, the possibility that there may be no su…
Richard Wright's Successful Failure: A New Look at Uncle Tom's Children
IN THE RECENT controversy over the literary achievement of Richard Wright, the novelist's first book, Uncle Tom's Children (1938), has been generally ignored. James Baldwin, of course, centered his now famous Wright criticisms around Native Son; Baldwin does mention Uncle Tom's Children in his Alas, Poor Richard, but the reference is a passing one and implies that this book, like Native Son, lacks the stature of Black Boy.1 In their discussion of…
Religious Alienation and "Homosexual Consciousness" in City of Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James R. Giles, Religious Alienation and "Homosexual Consciousness" in City of Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain, College English, Vol. 36, No. 3, The Homosexual Imagination (Nov., 1974), pp. 369-380
The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
PERSONAL IDENTITYThe problem of personal identity is often said to be one of accounting for what it is that gives persons their identity over time.However, once the problem has been construed in these terms, it is plain that too much has already been assumed.For what has been assumed is just that persons do have an identity.To the philosophers who approach the problem with this supposition already accepted, the possibility that there may be no su…
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
A Theory of Love and Sexual Desire
The experience of being in love involves a longing for union with the other, where an important part of this longing is sexual desire. But what is the relation between being in love and sexual desire? To answer this it must first be seen that the expression ‘in love’ normally refers to a personal relationship. This is because to be ‘in love’ is to want to be loved back. This much would be predicted by equity and social exchange theories of interp…
The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man
Giles (English, Northern Illinois U.) surveys the early examples of inner-city naturalism, then examines in detail six 20th- century novels. He finds that the earlier novels by Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and Jack London mined American ghettos for exotic and sensational characters; but that the lat
Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography-discourses he treats as form-producing arts in own right-shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that …
Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall
Book Review| December 01 2000 Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall By Heather Hathaway. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 200 pp.$29.95. James R. Giles James R. Giles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 880–881. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James R.…
Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Fear of Deviance
After reaching the verge of obsolescence, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is once again on the increase. There remains, however, no sound theoretical basis for its use. By 1948 at least 50 different theories had been proposed to account for the workings of ECT. Today there are numerous more. Further, there is no good evidence for its therapeutic effectiveness. Although some studies show what are claimed to be positive results, others show signifi…
Social Constructionism and Sexual Desire
Various scholars argue that sexual desire is socially constructed. There is, however, little agreement surrounding the nature of social constructionism. Vance contrasts social constructionism here with a cultural influence model and distinguishes between degrees of social constructionism. There are, however, problems with this classification. These problems can similarly be found with Foucault whose arguments fail to support his claim that sexual…
No Such Thing as Excessive Levels of Sexual Behavior
Sex Hormones and Sexual Desire
Some scholars attempt to explain sexual desire biologically by claiming that sex hormones play a necessary causal role in sexual desire. This can be claimed even if sexual desire is seen to be an experience. Yet the evidence for such biological essentialism is inadequate. With males the loss of sexual desire following hormonal changes can easily be explained in terms of social stigmas that are attached to the physiological situation. Concerning f…
Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition; Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters
Book Review| September 01 2009 Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition; Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters James R. Giles James R. Giles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 630–632. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James R. …
Policing sexuality: Sex, society, and the state
Hakuin, Scepticism, and Seeing into One’s Own Nature
One of the most significant figures in the history of Japanese philosophy is the Zen master Hakuin. Yet, in the West, little attempt has been made to present and evaluate his thought in a way that would make it accessible to Western philosophers. This article attempts to redress this neglect. Here, it is shown how Hakuin uses kōan meditation to create ‘the great doubt’ or scepticism concerning the self. Hakuin’s method shares elements in common w…
Finding Jeram: The Story of James Smart, Rubber Planter by Linda Covill (review)
Reviewed by: Finding Jeram: The Story of James Smart, Rubber Planter by Linda Covill James Giles Finding Jeram: The Story of James Smart, Rubber Planter. By Linda Covill. London: Blurb Books, 2021. When Linda Covill's father passed away, she came into possession of a large cache of letters written by her late grandfather, James Smart (1889-1970). Through detailed and painstaking research—involving not only the letters, but also news articles, obi…
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