Conference Presentations by Howard Lidsky
This paper demonstrates that Genesis 14 conforms to V. Propp's definition of a wondertale in his ... more This paper demonstrates that Genesis 14 conforms to V. Propp's definition of a wondertale in his seminal work, Morphology of the Folktale. The paper further explores parallels in traditional Jewish exegesis, Russian Formalism, and M.M. Bakhtin. This paper is on the Sacred Literature panel at the AAR Midwest Regional Conference at Ball State March 3, 2018.
Papers by Howard Lidsky
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Dean John Wade, who replaced the great torts scholar William Prosser on the Restatement (Second) ... more Dean John Wade, who replaced the great torts scholar William Prosser on the Restatement (Second) of Torts, put the finishing touches on the defamation sections in 1977. 1 Apple Computer had been founded a year before, and Microsoft two, but relatively few people owned computers yet. The twenty-four-hour news cycle was not yet a thing, and most Americans still trusted the press. 2 A lot has changed since 1977. Billions of people now publish their most profound, trivial, or scurrilous thoughtsunexpurgatedto mass audiences. Trying to compete with "cheap speech" has economically devastated large swaths of the news industry, stripping talent and expertise from newsrooms. Meanwhile, and perhaps unsurprisingly, public trust in news media has eroded dramatically. 3 These developments pose the biggest challenge for defamation law since the invention of the printing press. Yet they have not inspired dramatic reform to the common law of defamation. 4 Or at least not yet. As the American Law Institute begins a new Restatement of Defamation Law, it is important to consider what a successful program of reform might look like. * I would like to thank Kyle Langvardt, Lili Levi, Jake Linford, and Robert Post for their comments on an earlier draft of this work.
This paper interprets Pauline soteriology and St. Paul's epistles as a response to the challenges... more This paper interprets Pauline soteriology and St. Paul's epistles as a response to the challenges he confronted from competition posed by Peter and the Jerusalem Church.
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With Judges 5.4 as my target text, I explore issues in the meaning of language by taking sides be... more With Judges 5.4 as my target text, I explore issues in the meaning of language by taking sides between Bakhtin and Russian Formalism. I demonstrate how the presupposition of monotheism and the renown of the God of Israel have been buried in the syntax of American English.
This paper is an intellectual history of Nietzsche and Frege's analysis of Plato's theory of forms.
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