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... Haven : Yale Univ. Press . 2013 . xi , 484 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; paper , $25.00 . Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language . By Knickerbocker Scott . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2012 . x , 203 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $26.95 . © 2015...

... activity. Bach’s reading of the sonnet sequence makes the case forcefully that Spenser’s language there is much stronger and more violent than conventional tropes such as the-beloved-as-warrior would 404 American Literature demand. Collating the work with colonialist texts, including Spenser’s own...

..., continuously, and on the move. Through readings of the manuscripts of John Washington, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman, this article demonstrates how the pencil facilitated such exploration by configuring language, instrument, and corporeal gesture in ways that suited the modernizing nation. The essay draws...

...Mark Rifkin Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England . By Jean M. O'Brien. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xxvi, 269 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.95. Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History . By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge...

...Jake Mattox While Rafael’s concept of “translation” can sometimes seem a bit capaciously applied, thus losing some critical edge, both texts do an excellent job of exploring the ways that everyday practices, uses of language, and scenes of translation are where we might locate and further...

...Adam Sonstegard Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 . By Christoph Lindner . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; paper, $30.95 ; e-book available. The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern...

...Jeanne Heuving Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences . By Barrett Watten . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2016 . xi, 294 pp. Paper, $55.00 ; e-book, $55.00 . Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries . By Mark Scroggins . Tuscaloosa...

...Susan Rosenbaum Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature . By Rebecca Sanchez . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . viii, 198 pp. Cloth, $ 89.00 ; paper, $ 26.00 ; e-book available. Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made...

...Christopher Gair Ironically, given Kerouac’s status as the quintessential Beat, Hassan Melehy’s Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory is the most radical of the four books reviewed here. Indeed, Melehy rightly commences with the claim that this positioning of Kerouac “limits understanding...

... with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes . By Buss James Joseph . Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2011 . 328 pp. $34.95 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. By Michal Jan Rozbicki...

.... Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xxiii, 277 pp. $39.95. Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934 . By Ulla E. Dydo with William Rice. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2003. xvi, 686 pp. $49.95. Book Reviews Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation...

...). This example illustrates a general limitation of word search in handling texts that refer to their subjects indirectly, as a result of which researchers using automated search methods might inadvertently overlook texts that exist on the margins of the politically charged category of standardized language. Word...

... States became more multicultural in actuality. Wertheimer’s study pertinently brings the languages of postcolonial and border theory, as well as Lacanian and Andersonian conceptions of national...

... these key terms are deployed and understood. For Cotton, conversion can occur only through language, but since language operates through signification, not by delivering unmediated essences, language itself must...

... , 213 pp. $55.00 . A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania . By Erben Patrick M. . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2012 . xvi , 335 pp. $45.00 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews The Rise...

... and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America . By Dowling David . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press . 2012 . 240 pp. $39.95 . Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 . By Banta Martha . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2011 . 233 pp. $95.00...

...Stephen P. Rice Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America . By Knighton Andrew Lyndon . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 241 pp. Cloth , $79.00 ; paper , $27.00 ; e-book available . Talking Shop: The Language of Craft...

... . 2012 . “ Responses to Tim Morton: ‘Waking Up inside an Object: The Subject of Ecology.’ ” English Language Notes 50 , no. 1 : 241 – 46 . Zola Émile . 1964 . The Experimental Novel, and Other Essays. New York : Haskell House . Kevin The Language of the Stones...

.... By Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Max- well. London: British Film Institute. 2001. vi, 279 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.95. The Language of New Media. By Lev Manovich. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2001. xxxix...

..., $25.95. Class, Language, and American Film Comedy. By Christopher Beach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.00. These two studies take essentially literary...