...Alfred Hornung Duke University Press 2006 South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture . Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xxiii, 394 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $36.95. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent...

...Jules Chametzky Duke University Press 2006 Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature . By Hana Wirth-Nesher. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2006. xv, 224 pp. $39.50. Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness . By Eliza R. L. McGraw...

...Jay Clayton Duke University Press 2002 Jay Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek’s Clayton Guide to Contemporary Literature In Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho (2000), Jon Katz introduces what some might consider a rare...

... and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920. By Gregory M. Pfitzer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2008. xiv, 469 pp. Cloth, $98.00; paper, $29.95. Much recent criticism has drawn our attention to the place of the nation in the making of literary texts. The two works under consideration modify...

...Paul Giles Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry . By Quinn Justin . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 218 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; e-book available. After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East . By Edwards Brian T. . New...

... . “Learning to Execute.” By Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever . arXiv preprint. 2014 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4615 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Fabian Offert Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers Intriguing...

... and a generative platform for cross-cultural understanding. Twitchell posits that this turn can be productively situated in relation to two seemingly unconnected “problem” genres of U.S. literature: representations of Africa and memoirs of suffering. By positioning What Is the What —the fictionalized autobiography...

...David Grant Nathaniel Parker Willis's novel Paul Fane (1856), which tells the story of a painter who journeys to Europe to learn the significance of a slight he has received in America from an Englishwoman, is the meeting place of two traditions that were already converging in the discourse...

...Wendy W. Walters This essay juxtaposes two readings of J. M. W. Turner's 1840 painting, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On : one by British art historian John Ruskin and the other by contemporary Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. To examine the racial and national...

... between two much-disputed incest romances, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Herman Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852). Dill's interpretations show how both books refuse to fit into any genre category. The romantic yearnings of the sibling lovers in both books, Dill suggests...

.... 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...

...Joycelyn Moody This essay examines the second of two virtually unknown texts coauthored by Frances Whipple (Green McDougal) and Elleanor Eldridge, both of Providence, Rhode Island: Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838) and Elleanor's Second Book (1839). Whereas the Memoirs exclusively chronicles...

...Benjamin Mangrum This essay charts the development of two entwined intellectual threads during the 1950s: the translation of European existentialism into an American idiom and what Nathan Hale describes as the “golden age of popularization” for psychoanalysis in the United States. I argue...

..., arguing that the two images are linked intertextually. The two images anchor a particular history of torture that suggests how representations of violence are key elements of colonial fantasies that made (and make) real atrocities possible. 6 Of course the use of torture was widespread in Europe...

... to engage with the previously understudied genre of Thai American and Thai poetry. Foregrounding aesthetics and unique, translingual poetic practices, the readings in this article explore rich connections between Dictée and two experimental collections of Thai and Thai American poetry: Padcha Tuntha-obas’s...

...Cynthia Wu This essay uses both ethnic studies and disability studies to read two late-nineteenth-century American texts that refer to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twin entertainers from the country then known as Siam who were popularly called the Siamese Twins. Mark Twain's sketch “Personal...