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.... Goodlad, Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 189. Aravamudan  /  The Character of the University  29 characterization of the working classes...

...Michael Davidson Duke University Press 2001 X Marks the Spot: Laura Moriarty’s Nude Memoir and Jena Osman’s The Character Michael Davidson In the 1980s, a strong critique of language-writing was that its use of disjunction...

..., character, and happiness. On the other hand, it involves a revaluation of his early understanding of education in terms of the solitude of the learner and the silence of the school to one that emphasizes the function of the teacher as the intergenerational mediator who makes teachings transmissible. Noting...

... the symbolic McNamara, the persona developed in Vollmann’s Picture Show is, in one way or another, a national character—an American abroad—that belongs to a strain of literary characterization and public dis- course that goes back to Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad and Henry James’s international novels...

.... And that subject was characterized by being pillaged, marginalized from history, rendered folkloric. The young Martí, as anyone conscious of his or her self-worth in a colonial country, felt hatred and rancor, and expressed these emotions through a character in his fiction (which, for him, was also life...

... as network and association is what underwrites the characterization and orchestrates the action the develop- ment and denouement of the agitations. The multiplicity of characters in Li s sequence confounded its readers when it was revised in the 1950s.10 Sensitized in an increasingly dominant socialist...

..., character, the novel versus the short story, and contemporary politics, but it was centered on the social and political capacity of the modern novel, the form's ability to reflect on or respond to its times, the novel's relationship to society, and the nature of politics in the current period, a period...

... novel begins to malfunction when it expands its scope beyond the nation—when, that is, characters start exchanging letters across very long distances. Third, the essay concludes not with an answer but with a recommendation: that we should go back and read widely in the early history of the novel...

... critics of American literary parochialism a text that is difficult to assimilate neatly into current interpretive practices. “The Suffering Channel” depicts a cast of characters who work for Style magazine in the months immediately preceding the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Focused on these characters...

...Jay Cantor Abstract In this version of a talk at the Norman O. Brown conference, Jay Cantor traces the path from Life Against Death into and through Love's Body to outline the liberatory impulse that animated Brown's entire opus. The anti-identitarian character of this liberation found Brown...

...—the links between morality and reason; the commonplace that associates lifestyle with queer acts and persons; and the conflation of character with identity—discloses both the problems of this discourse and the truths it exposes. Starting with a discussion of an important episode become trope in Kant's...

... from (full) access to citizenship need to be rooted in human nature, which is supposed to consist therefore of hierarchized “characters.” As a consequence, differences become also principles of exclusion: this is more violent symbolically (or even practically) but much less stable and “legitimate” than...

...Howard Eiland This article analyzes Benjamin's enigmatic essay of 1921, “Critique of Violence,” together with related fragmentary writings from the postwar period (including the “Theological-Political Fragment”) and, from 1931, “The Destructive Character.” Benjamin's deconstruction of violence...

...Mary McGlynn TransAtlantic and On Canaan’s Side revisit the American Dream that people like their characters helped to create. Colum McCann and Sebastian Barry advance sophisticated reassessments of economic agency and the potential for social mobility in the wake of the Irish economic crash...

...Brendan Moran In his writings on Franz Kafka, Benjamin develops a conception of study. The conception of study pertains to an exercise that Benjamin observes in some characters from Kafka’s novels and stories. Benjamin also suggests that this exercise of study is enacted by Kafka’s works themselves...

... and unethical appropriations of “queer” and queer by Stewart in order to attribute such efforts to Locke, a man who, by Stewart's characterization, feared exposure as a homosexual, and who, apparently, never did make public his homosexuality. Stewart makes of his “Alain Locke” character what the once-living...

... and neoliberalism, registering the collateral damage essential to Western European whiteness and a neoliberal problematic. These framings of migrant incarceration continue to effectively serve a critical function. However, this essay argues that the historical character of immigration incarceration...

.... The unexpected intertext of “Fortunata” is a then‐recent bestseller about Nero's persecution of the Christian, Quo Vadis? (1896), by the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, in which Peter and Petronius feature as major characters and as each other's doubles. Reading Mimesis through this lens helps one see...

...Howard Eiland Abstract In The Benjamin Files (2020), Fredric Jameson showcases Benjamin the writer. Adapting Roland Barthes's term “writerly” ( scriptible ), he emphasizes the panoramic variety of Benjamin's production together with its experimental character, its deployment of montage techniques...

..., as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer already argued, but pharmacologically (in Plato's sense). The pharmacological character of Contempt can be demonstrated through its manifold recapitulations of cinematic and literary history, including Alberto Moravia's novel, Homer's Odyssey , and quotations from...