I want to inform everyone about the publication of the revised/expanded version of my paper ""Mesmeric Revelation": Art as Hypnosis." The triple-blind review process was rather labor-intensive. But that is the very first item of the general submission criteria for authors of the EAPR (The Edgar Allan Poe Review). ""Mesmeric Revelation"" was originally published by Humanities, the international journal for scholarly papers of exceptionally high quality across all humanities disciplines, published quarterly online by MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute). EAPR published it only after I significantly reconsidered and altered the MDPI version in the light of additional evidence emphasizing certain aspects of the original. ""Mesmeric Revelation"" (as published in Humanities) is about 14 pages, while the EAPR version is approximately 19 pages. The paper's main thrust is the same, and can be summed up in Degas' famous quote: "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." It now, however, brings to bear the criticism of T.S. Eliot, and "spends more ink" on Cousin, Brownson, Hegel, and Leibniz. It postulates the equivalency of science and literature. By logical extension, this accounts for Poe's conflation of genres. ""Mesmeric Revelation"" does away with Cartesian substance dualism altogether. Thus, as you can see, it points to an infinite resolution or, as Hegel would have it, a "reconciliation which art should never lack." Without a subscription to the EAPR, one can find the paper either here or here.
EAPR Publishes Extensive Revision of ""Mesmeric Revelation"..."
ZANE GILLESPIE
After six years as Minister of Music at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church (UMC) in Holly Springs, MS, I was recently called to continue to work to address public engagement in music participation as Director of Music Ministries at First UMC in Water Valley, MS. I am a Composer, Theorist, and member of both The College Music Society as well as The Poe Studies Association (PSA). I am also an active pianist and vocalist, specializing primarily in church music. My paper entitled ““Mesmeric Revelation”: Art as Hypnosis” has been published by the international, peer-reviewed journal Humanities. In addition, another paper of mine entitled “A Model of Triadic Post-Tonality for a Neoconservative Postmodern String Quartet by Sky Macklay” has been submitted to the peer-reviewed Music Theory journal Perspectives of New Music. At the end of February 2015, I served as Chair for the session entitled “Aesthetics and Philosophy” at The Fourth International PSA Conference in New York City. On June 21, 2014, my Quartet for Alto Saxophone and Strings, a commission from concert saxophonist Walter Hoehn, was performed as part of Concert V of the Eighth Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival held at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Memphis, TN. Characteristically neo-romantic (in the original sense of the word), my music earned me the Nancy Van de Vate Award for Composition three times from the University of Mississippi Department of Music. A native of Pontotoc, MS, I hold degrees from the University of Mississippi (BM; MM), and the University of Memphis (DMA) where I was the 2011 recipient of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music's Smit Composition Award. I live in Memphis, TN.