... in Jane Rule’s Fiction.By Marilyn R. Schuster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 269 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Marilyn Schuster’s Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...

...Matthew Scully Abstract By attending to art and writing that interrogates US citizenship and state violence, this essay foregrounds the structural antagonism between democracy as an instituted form of rule, which depends on inegalitarian hierarchies, and democracy’s egalitarian drive. It argues...

.... copyright and privacy laws and to show how these complexly interrelated areas of legal discourse manifest themselves in Salinger's fiction. The two opposed rulings in the case (district and appellate courts) reveal the twin purposes of copyright law: to provide the public with great art through the granting...

... Vocabulary archive displays telling instances of cross-cultural mistranslation as indigenous words spill beyond Jefferson's rules of orthography and beyond the word list itself in formal defiance of Jefferson's goal of recording the ancient and pure sounds of “primitive” America. This essay argues...

...Emily Banta Abstract This essay considers how rowdy theater audiences contributed to a broader cultural understanding of democratic politics in the early United States, showing how raucous and occasionally riotous theater patrons enacted a form of popular rule that was predicated on the paying...

..., are marked by the installment of a series of rule-based interactions that modulate affect within the sociotechnical mechanics of state-sanctioned racism to enable the proper flow of both play and mobility. However, through failure, the game also reveals gamification to be an incomplete diagram of control...

... the key legal and political contexts that gave its narrative shape (and to which Williams addressed his text), including California Governor John Bigler’s anti-coolieism campaign (1852), the California Supreme Court ruling in People v. Hall (1854), and the widely publicized Modoc War (1872–73). It builds...

... and the underlying rules whereby racial markers are seen as significant or insignificant. Jerng then turns to the work of Samuel R. Delany, in particular his best-selling novel Dhalgren , to suggest how its narrative strategies lie in rewriting the readability of racial difference. By focusing on reading practices...

... in Jane Rule’s Fiction.By Marilyn R. Schuster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 269 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Marilyn Schuster’s Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...

... of the heteronormative status quo and the dictates of subcultural lesbian and ‘‘queer’’ critical communities. Schuster depicts Rule’s audience as a network of committed readers who form ‘‘invisible but passionate communities linked...

... . Galloway Alexander R. 2006 . Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Gapper Michael . 2008 . “ Braid: Breaking the Rules of Game Design .” Xbox World 360 Magazine , August 6 . www.computerandvideogames.com/194727/features/braid/ . Hansen...

... imagination and uneasiness about its social effects. Pope defined criticism as judging art according to the universal rules of nature; however, not only did he allow for the ‘‘lucky license’’ of poetic genius that, without consult- ing nature’s rules, might ‘‘snatch a grace beyond the reach of art but he...

... procedures. Addi- tive arithmetic on a linear game board (Traveller’s does not allow back- ward moves) comprises the algorithm, or the discrete input-output 6 American Literature structure, of the game. The spinning teetotum produces inputs and the rules of arithmetic produce consistent...

...), in which the Supreme Court finally held secession unconstitutional, Grier claimed in a dis- sent that the war itself, not the Court, had ruled against the consti- tutionality of secession. The state of Texas’s decision...

...). In Self-Determined Stories , Native literature is not predictable, either formally or politically. Hamilton enters the same conversation but conveys his interest in autonomy (individual “self-rule”) rather than sovereignty (communal self-government) within a critical framework established on the Greek...

... and definition.6 As Martha Umphrey explains, trials mediate the tensions between these different ideas of law, between ‘‘formal legal rules’’ and ‘‘the unofficial world of norms, customs, common sense, and social codes Moreover, for Umphrey, spectacular trials exemplify this dia- logic process because...

... was that William and Lewis could not become citizens and their status would be tied to Doll’s condition as an enslaved person, and, despite the petitions of Shoe Boots’s sisters requesting that the council change their previous ruling, William and Lewis were not granted citizenship. After the Civil War, when...

... was designed to overturn the racial logic of Dred Scott, which had racialized US citizenship by denying it to free blacks. In 1883, though, Justice Bradley turned to these very distinctions to support his ruling that the citizenship rights of the Fourteenth Amendment could remain intact while the determination...

..., Zunshine identifies three rules for effective embodied transparency in prose fiction. First, contrasts: to amplify our experience of transparency, the readable character is jux- taposed to an opaque character. Second, transience: to be believable, the moment of transparency is kept brief. And third...

... frequently por- tray localized sites in which politically conscious socialities both remain largely unregulated by the nation and its virtual forms of gover- nance and engage in more immediate experiments with local demo- cratic rule. This essay thus explores the tension between different scales...