...Rebecca E. Karl Duke University Press 2005 On Comparability and Continuity: China, circa 1930s and 1990s Rebecca E. Karl Commenting on François Furet’s book on the French Revolution, Jacques Rancière notes that Furet’s...

...Rosemarie Bodenheimer Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler: A Memoir appears in the twenty-first century as a kind of time capsule, offering a personal and political analysis forged during the 1930s, when the endgame of the Nazi regime was not yet visible. Haffner attempts to account...

... an account of Carlo Levi’s memoir of the 1930s, Christ Stopped at Eboli ; then by describing the post-1968 trajectory of the humanities and their limits; and last by offering a close reading of Amit Chaudhuri’s recent novel, The Immortals . This essay was originally written as a talk for the “Subaltern...

... of history, especially his interrogations of human temporality in the 1930s. Miki's idea of the binary of genzai (the present) and gendai (the modern) that he developed during wartime resembles the duality of everyday experience in the postearthquake nuclear crisis of the current century. Simultaneously...

.... The interview concludes with a conversation about the 1930s and the period's continuing relevance for the twenty-first century, Arac's recent project on the “Age of the Novel,” and the transformations in the field since he first began teaching. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Jonathan Arac New...

...Tani Barlow This article argues that the polymath Marxist philosopher and Communist Party apparatchik Qu Qiubai, who established sociology in the Chinese Marxist tradition by organizing the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in 1930, proposed that “society” was the sine qua non of human...

...Lindsay Waters In the twentieth century, criticism flourished in the academy in the English language from the 1930s to the 1960s, but gradually a hyperprofessionalized discourse purporting to be criticism took its place. The problem was exacerbated because people misunderstand literary theory...

...Figure 1. Pierre Bonnard, La salle à manger sur le jardin (1930–31). Oil on canvas, 159.3 × 113.8 cm (623/4 × 447/8 in). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Dauberville 1473. ...

...Zakir Paul Abstract This article explores the arc of Blanchot's life, in conversation with a recent critical biography, to suggest what the significance of his writing might be today. It first situates Blanchot in the 1930s through the lens of contemporary debates about the period. It then explores...

...Hannah Frank In the 1920s and 1930s, filmmakers in Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States created synthetic sounds by printing photographic or drawn patterns directly onto a filmstrip's optical soundtrack. This essay examines these practices alongside the radical film theories of Dziga...

... of Pittsburgh. She is author of Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1930– 1943 (1986); British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960 (1991); Film, Politics, and Gramsci (1994); Cinematic Uses of the Past (1996); The Folklore of Consensus...

... with electric lamps the unbounded forests and fields, animating them with the roar of furnaces, wheels, and all-­conquering labor. —Aleksei Gastev, Iunost’, idi! (Youth, Go! [1930]) Pechat’ i revoliutsiia (Press and Revolution), a monthly journal of lit- erature and media...

..., of Weeping,” especially its final movement (“O more than Moone, / Draw not up seas to drowne me in thy spheare,” quoted in Empson [1930] 1966 : 143). Then in the early 1970s, I heard Empson at Adams House (its master, Reuben Brower, had studied with I. A. Richards and F. R. Leavis at Cambridge just after...

...” (“February”) . In Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 13 , edited by Tu Kuoch’ing Backus Robert , 137 . Santa Barbara : Forum for the Study of World Literature in Chinese, University of California . Chen Shu-jung . 2004 . 1930 niandai xiangtu wenxue—Taiwan huawen lunzheng...

... books include Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931–1943; British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960; Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama; Film, Politics, and Gramsci; Queen Christina (with Amy Villarejo); Cinematic Uses of the Past; The Folklore...

... to the reorganization of rural social life. The contemporary rural social and cooperative movement is marked by diversity and complexity, as had been its antecedents in the 1930s, to which many of the activists look for inspiration. This essay focuses on the politics and practices of one effort at transforming...

... Carl . 1930 . Deep South . New York : Farrar and Rinehart . Carruth Hayden , ed. 1970 . The Voice That Is Great within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century . New York : Bantam . Chasar Mike . 2012 . Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America...

... : Persea . Nâzım Hikmet Nail V. 1930 . 1 + 1 = Bir . Istanbul : İlhami Matbaası . Şevket Süreyya . (1932) 2011 . “ Polemik: Benerji Kendini Niçin Öldürdü? ” Kadro: Aylık Fikir Mecmuası , no. 4 : 31 – 39 . Facsimile in vol. 1 of Kadro Aylık Fikir Mecmuası (Tıpkı Basım...

... from cinemas, and was sapped of its formal dynamism (Waugh 2016 : 333). In Bert Hogenkamp's words, “The common view was this: after the 1930s nothing happened” (2000: xi). However, the World Union's history also lays bare the complex transformations that documentary underwent during the first postwar...