...Jeff Scheible In the context of the proliferation of textuality in the new media age, and the changing demands of adequately analyzing it, Scheible’s essay explores the possibilities of a reading strategy that asks how we might take parentheses as starting points for critical thinking, looking...

... and the formal lies in his fre- quent, not to say obsessive, deployment of parenthetical expressions (there are three, for instance, in the fourteen-line first poem alone).32 From one perspective, parentheses work principally...

... in parenthetical remarks that crowd the text. Throughout, Hersey places in parentheses knowledge that lies outside the experience of his characters. For exam- ple, describing Mr. Tanimoto’s response to the blast, Hersey writes, “Both he and Mr. Matsuo reacted in terror—and both had time to react...

... the deferred or the missing. Starting from an analysis of Derrida’s use of parentheses in “Signa- ture Event Context” (1988), in which Derrida argues that any mark can break with its context and engender new contexts; then moving on to the parenthetical structure of the television laugh track...

... 3 The title page of the 1896 edition of TheYokeoftheThorah, first published ten years earlier, includes the name Henry Harland in parentheses under the name Sidney Luska. 4 Louise Mayo...

...: “This was found in my (Lucille’s) shoe” (Emory Special Collections). This description curiously bears parentheses around both “(Lucille),” which is meant to describe the shoe as hers, and a final addition, “(I think)” (written in small script), to show her uncertainty about the message’s origin. Clifton reveals...

... the experience from its ostensible subject. “(My) body spoke of many things and it spoke of what was true,” it says (447). At once seizing and vacating the authorial voice, the body’s ecstatic resonance derails the grammar of dis/possessive subjectivation inserted (in parentheses) by Paul Radin, the ethnologist...

... sented by the pseudonym, Ticknor and Fields agreed to publish Poems under the name Elizabeth Akers, but included “Florence Percy” in parentheses on both the title page and the binding of the volume. The “Rock Me to Sleep” controversy occurred at least in part because of the prevalence...

... performance, his words as well as the audience’s reactions to them, so as to make it more play script than prose, espe- cially where parentheses designate a final moment of laughter: “Still further back in the distance was the picture of the achievements of our gallant army in Mexico, shooting...

... Tijerina Papers. Whenever I cite a Spanish-language source, I place the original between quotation marks and my English translation in parentheses. For engaging with earlier drafts of this article, I would like to thank Jason Bell, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Wai Chee Dimock, Harris Feinsod, Alanna...

... after dark and indicated his motive for seeing her. Even witnesses for 78  American Literature the State mentioned Newsom’s sexual relationship with Celia before cross-examination by the defense; however, as parentheses indi- cate, portions of the summary that potentially indicate Celia’s...

... loss of the ego’s inten- tionality or discern in it what Husserl calls the “phenomenological reduction,” the suspension of one’s “natural attitudes” to objects. In this epoché, we bracket the familiar world: “we, so to speak, ‘put it out of action,’ we ‘exclude it,’ we ‘parenthesize...

... the plagiarism episode publicly erupted in the pages of the Forum . 7 Henry Louis Gates has influentially analyzed African American “signifyin(g)” as a central component of black literary production. He places the final g in parentheses to reflect the word as spoken in African American vernacular usage...