Bernard J Dobski
Biographic Data
| ID | 700993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard J Dobski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobski |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSKI B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assumption College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Stripes of Coriolanus: A Democratic Appropriation of Roman Republicanism
Inspired by the scholarly work of Paul Cantor and David Lowenthal, this paper argues that the 1981 war-comedy, Stripes, constitutes a democratic appropriation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Drawing on what is arguably Shakespeare's most political drama, Cantor and Lowenthal argue, respectively, that both Rome and its martial warrior tragically aspire to a wholeness that will always elude them; Rome's republic depends on a mixing of political classe…
The Gospel of Joan: Statesmanship and Providential Politics in Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
In his preface to Connecticut Yankee, Mark Twain declares that he will settle the issue of the divine right of kings in his next novel. That next novel is Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. In a work that he called his “best,” Twain shows the difficulties besetting any effort to offer a rational justification of providential politics, such as is implied in the practice of the divine right of kings. And yet it prompts the reader to wonder if r…
The Enduring Necessity of Periclean Politics
Thucydides’ interest in Pericles best comes to sight when we examine Pericles’ first speech in context. Situated at the end of Book i of the History, that speech concludes a set-piece that begins with the Corinthians’ final speech and whose bridge is the ‘digression’ on Cylon, Pausanias and Themistocles. Read as part of this narrative structure, Pericles’ speech represents the successful conclusion of a debate over political rule broadly understo…
Classical Regimes at War: Spartan Republicanism vs. Athenian Democracy
Shakespeare, the Body Politic, and Liberal Democracy
We argue for the relevance of a contemporary return to Shakespeare because his work prompts thinking about the “Body Politic,” perhaps the most vivid and enduring image in speech describing political community ever proposed. Shakespeare's meditation on this image invites us to reflect on the conditions under which a body politic can be made whole; that the constitution of any formal commonwealth requires a self-conscious articulation of the body …
The Use and Abuse of Political History
Athenian Democracy Refosunded: Xenophon’ss Political History in the Hellenika
This article aims to shed new light on the character of political history as written by Xenophon, by exploring the first two Books of the Hellenika, which, it is argued, implicity correct Thucydides’ judgment that the regime of the Five Thousand in Athens was the best Athenian regime during his lifetime. Thucydides and Xenophon thus appear to disagree about the best regime, a theme central to classical political philosophy. But when we consider T…
We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe”: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Through his modern “Yankee,” Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his “mortal coil” through…
We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe”: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Through his modern “Yankee,” Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his “mortal coil” through…
We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe”: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Through his modern “Yankee,” Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his “mortal coil” through…
Athenian Democracy Refosunded: Xenophon’ss Political History in the Hellenika
This article aims to shed new light on the character of political history as written by Xenophon, by exploring the first two Books of the Hellenika, which, it is argued, implicity correct Thucydides’ judgment that the regime of the Five Thousand in Athens was the best Athenian regime during his lifetime. Thucydides and Xenophon thus appear to disagree about the best regime, a theme central to classical political philosophy. But when we consider T…
Shakespeare, the Body Politic, and Liberal Democracy
We argue for the relevance of a contemporary return to Shakespeare because his work prompts thinking about the “Body Politic,” perhaps the most vivid and enduring image in speech describing political community ever proposed. Shakespeare's meditation on this image invites us to reflect on the conditions under which a body politic can be made whole; that the constitution of any formal commonwealth requires a self-conscious articulation of the body …
The Use and Abuse of Political History
Classical Regimes at War: Spartan Republicanism vs. Athenian Democracy
The Enduring Necessity of Periclean Politics
Thucydides’ interest in Pericles best comes to sight when we examine Pericles’ first speech in context. Situated at the end of Book i of the History, that speech concludes a set-piece that begins with the Corinthians’ final speech and whose bridge is the ‘digression’ on Cylon, Pausanias and Themistocles. Read as part of this narrative structure, Pericles’ speech represents the successful conclusion of a debate over political rule broadly understo…
The Gospel of Joan: Statesmanship and Providential Politics in Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
In his preface to Connecticut Yankee, Mark Twain declares that he will settle the issue of the divine right of kings in his next novel. That next novel is Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. In a work that he called his “best,” Twain shows the difficulties besetting any effort to offer a rational justification of providential politics, such as is implied in the practice of the divine right of kings. And yet it prompts the reader to wonder if r…
The Stripes of Coriolanus: A Democratic Appropriation of Roman Republicanism
Inspired by the scholarly work of Paul Cantor and David Lowenthal, this paper argues that the 1981 war-comedy, Stripes, constitutes a democratic appropriation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Drawing on what is arguably Shakespeare's most political drama, Cantor and Lowenthal argue, respectively, that both Rome and its martial warrior tragically aspire to a wholeness that will always elude them; Rome's republic depends on a mixing of political classe…
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