Archives for March 2016

From the American Poetry Review to the Journal of African American History to Studies in Travel Writing, the Bucknell University Press publishes a wide variety of books that have been reviewed in a slew of journals, newspapers, and other review outlets. To appreciate those who’ve reviewed our publications and to look back on the past decade the Press would like to feature a selection of journals that have appraised our works:

 

American Poetry Review

The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

Book News, Inc.

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Byron Journal of Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Bulletin of Spanish Studies

CatholiCity

CHOICE

The Citadel, Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies

Comparative Literature

A Contracorriente

Criticism & Reference

The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Eighteenth-Century Life

European History Quarterly

European Romantic Review

French Forum

German Studies Review

Hispanic American Historical Review

Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences: An International Refereed Journal

Irish Examiner

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

The Journal of African American History

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey

The Journal of Austrian Studies

The Journal of British Studies

The Journal of Germanic Studies

The Journal of the History of Sexuality

The Journal of Lusophone Studies

The Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry

Letras Femeninas

Modern Language Review

Modern Philology

Monatshefte

New Perspectives On The Eighteenth Century

Nineteenth Century Studies

Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Noir Fiction

 

Novel: A Forum On Fiction

Pacific Coast Philology: Journal of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Project Muse

Renaissance Quarterly

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700

The Review of English Studies

Revista de ALCES XXI

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos

Revista Hispanica Moderna

Science Fiction Studies

Scottish Literary Review

Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies

Studies In English Literature, 1500-1900

Studies in Travel Writing

Symposium

Textos Híbridos

Times Literary Supplement

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature

Victorian Studies

World Literature Today

The Year’s Work In English Studies
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

 

With Pi Day comes pie…or math, whichever you prefer.

Begun by physicist Larry Shaw in 1988, Pi Day even became recognized by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009 in a non-binding resolution. A day to talk about pi, eat pie, or throw pie, it’s celebrated worldwide, even here at the Press this year. Like the mathematical constant of pi, literature and the ideas expressed inside are never-ending.

Granville C. Henry’s Logos: Mathematics and Christian Theology discusses the influences of math and Christianity on each other while Henry’s Forms of Concrescence: Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy and Computer Programming Structures expands on the procedural understanding of mathematics in computing.

 

 

Logos: Mathematics and Christian Theology

Granville C. Henry

By the time Christianity came into being, Euclidean mathematics was a well-developed discipline in the Hellenized world. It had already affected the structures of Greek philosophical thought, and as Hebrew Yahwistic religion and its religious variant, Christianity, came in contact with Greek culture, the mathematical presuppositions associated with Greek mathematics began to influence developing theological doctrines. Concepts of word and wisdom in the traditions of biblical Christianity were modified and rationalized, resulting in untenable contradictions concerning the wisdom of Jesus, who was understood to be “the Word made flesh.” An understanding of the objectivity of mathematical structures and the indivisible nature of unity conditioned doctrines of the objectivity, unity, and immutability of God. The influence of Euclidean mathematics found its way to the heart of the critical problem of the relationship of faith and reason.

 

 

Forms of Concrescence: Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy and Computer Programming Structures

Granville C. Henry

From Greek beginnings to contemporary expression, there have been two competing viewpoints of mathematical existence: a procedural one that understands mathematical objects to be created and a Platonic one that accepts eternal, unchanging, and primordial objects that are discovered. Typically, those who espouse a procedural understanding must also explain how mathematical structures are objective. And those who, like Alfred North Whitehead, maintain a Platonic view also must explain how these ideal objects are apprehended by the activities of reason. Whitehead’s progressive affirmation of the processive nature of mathematical and other eternal objects, introduced an aspect of incoherence into his philosophy. In this study, author Granville C. Henry reinterprets Whitehead’s philosophy by a procedural understanding of mathematics that is best expressed in the algorithmic languages of computer programs. The computing language chosen here is an expression of predicate logic called Prolog.

This work is presented under the guiding assumption that no previous knowledge of computing is required to understand the material.

 

Each year, the Bucknell University Press takes on an undergraduate and a graduate intern, teaching them the ways of an academic press and offering a thorough examination of what it means to work in the publishing community. In his time at the Press, past Bucknell University Press graduate intern Patrick Henry (2008-2010) discovered “the community that one university press could build—on campus, with other presses, and with academics the globe over,” a lesson he learned under the leadership of the Bucknell Press’s director Greg Clingham. After his time with the Press, Henry moved on to Rutgers, interning with The Story Prize, and then on to George Washington where he “co-taught a service-learning course with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.”

“On a personal note, [he] found that the Press’s community goes far beyond the offices in Taylor Hall. Recently, [he] had an article accepted for publication at European Romantic Review. The essay wouldn’t have been possible without [his] faculty advisors at George Washington, including Tara Ghoshal Wallace—who published Imperial Characters with the Press in 2010.”

As Henry says, his years at the Press were “life-changing” as he worked alongside Clingham and Publishing Manager Nina Forsberg, especially during such an exciting time at the Press as they celebrated their 40^th anniversary and began their partnership with co-publisher Rowman and Littlefield. Remembering his time at the Press, he describes “There was what Nina and [he] called ‘Christmas’: opening boxes of books, fresh from the printer” and “the three of [them], closing each semester over tea and a fruit tart in the Press offices.” With Henry’s time at the Press coinciding with the anniversary, one can find “a few pictures of [him] clad in [his] kilt—at Greg’s request—for the 40^th’s festivities.”

Since Henry’s six years at the Press, he’s been publishing fiction pieces, often relying on

“[his] upbringing in Pennsylvania to write stories that seem familiar, yet strange. [He’s] drawn to historical fiction for the same reason. ‘The Brothers’ (Northville Review) is a flash fiction in which a soldier returns to Pennsylvania after the war in Kosovo—an event that has cast a harrowing light on a childhood memory. In ‘Space Cases’ (Revolution House), a father abandons his son over Space Race hype, so the boy takes comfort in the seemingly alien neighbor boy who builds a cardboard spaceship. In ‘Takeoff’ (Lowestoft Chronicle), a young couple with a rocky marriage sets off for Paris, pinning their hopes on the jet age’s promise of escape.”

Also publishing book reviews on contemporary fiction and poetry, Henry has reviewed Amanda Leduc’s novel The Miracles of Ordinary Men (ECW, 2013), Lisa Dordal’s poetry collection Commemoration (Finishing Line, 2012), and Modern Language Studies has run his longer review essays on Ian McEwan’s novels and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.

Henry has also “stayed in touch with the editing and publishing process by working with Modern Language Studies as the journal’s copy editor, and (soon!) [he’ll] be taking over as the journal’s fiction and poetry editor.” With his passion for book publishing, Thomas holds the dream of “running a small press that publishes novellas, novella-length books of criticism, and other odd (yet beautiful) mid-length texts that have a difficult time finding homes in today’s publishing environment.”

Now as Henry works on a few large-scale projects, a manuscript for a short story collection, a novel that “shamelessly raids the genres of historical and detective fiction,” and his dissertation, we at the Press wish Henry the best of luck in his future endeavors.

 

 

Brief Bio: Patrick Thomas Henry is a PhD candidate in the English Department at George Washington University; his dissertation research investigates the aesthetic and political interventions of criticism by Modernist writers. He has earned graduate degrees in English and Creative Writing from Bucknell University and Rutgers University-Newark. His short fiction, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in Revolution House, The Northville Review, Sugar House Review, Necessary Fiction, and Modern Language Studies, amongst others. Beginning in spring 2016, he will serve as the Associate Editor for Fiction and Poetry at Modern Language Studies. He currently lives in Alexandria, VA, with his wife and their two cats.

Website: patrickthomashenry.com

Twitter: @Patrick_T_Henry