... b2 Interview Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller Bradley J. Fest BJF: Much has already been made of your “turn” from phenomenological criticism toward deconstruction in the late 1960s...

...Rosalind C. Morris The rhetorical virtuosity of “The Working Day” chapter in Marx's Das Kapital consists in its staging of two distinct registers of political vocality. On the one hand, the transparent subject of a future scene is given form as that voice which arises to confront capital in its own...

...Henry Veggian © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Thomas Pynchon Against the Day Henry Veggian He [Orwell] was impatient with predictions of the inevitable, he remained confident in the ability of ordinary...

...Hortense J. Spillers Duke University Press 2002 Inauguration Day 2001 Hortense J. Spillers Saturday, 20 January, was a day from hell, and if you are among the fifty million or so American voters, as I am, who think of the past...

... your eye with his cigarillo and you banned from showing his would have to be mule-headed for it not to tattoos. hurt. Yet if the stranger wore a hoodie these days his feeling might be to keep it ASBO3A21yearoldwas...

...Kenneth D. Barkin Duke University Press 2000 ‘‘Berlin Days 1892–1894: W. E. B. Du Bois and German Political Economy Kenneth D. Barkin If I had not gone to Germany, I would have been locked in a com- pletely...

...Richard Purcell “The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting ?” is a review essay that looks at the context in which we as readers have come to receive Ellison’s posthumously published novel. It is also a provocation that suggests a way...

... a modicum of methodological rigor, the account is restricted to the first forty days of the revolution. © 2012 by Mounir Saidani 2012 Revolution and Counterrevolution in Tunisia: The Forty Days That Shook the Country Mounir Saidani...

...Arne De Boever Abstract Brian Evenson's horror detective novel Last Days demonstrates an exhaustion with epistemology—the desire to know, and the cultic schisms between guardians of knowledge that it produces—and a turn toward ontology—specifically, a consideration of worlds in which things might...

...Alexander Day © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 I would like to thank Gail Hershatter, Chris Connery, Arif Dirlik, Ana Candela, Angelina Chin, Matthew Hale, Charles Hayford, Wenqing Kang, and Xiaoping Sun for their comments on drafts of this essay. Errors and infelicities are, of course...

...Colin Dayan © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters Mandela’s funeral was on December 15, the same day that final votes were cast for the American Studies Association resolution answering “the call of Palestinian civil society...

... endow the often arbitrary assumptions of human defects and capacity with far- reaching results. But nowhere are the lines of inclusion and ostracism as sharply drawn as in the remnants of ancient common law in forfeiture, as it now shapes our present- day society. Until the Obama administration shut...

... , the modern Chinese vernacular, offer important insights into the mission-encumbered language of China's present-day intellectual elite. As the critical exemplar of choice in intellectual China, Lu Xun's evocative formulations, together with his aspiration to transform hearts and minds through baihua , have...

... poetry and his love for the art object is rooted in the cultural world of the Anglo-Greeks from which he found himself exiled—one of many exiles he would experience. Retrieving this lost world and memorializing the pleasure-loving days of his young friends heavily informs Cavafy's poetry, which...

... akin to those of filmmakers and poets of his day. Jameson shows how the polyphony and multiperspectivity of Benjaminian forms reflect a monadological theory of history as “periodization without transitions.” Pablo Oyarzun's Doing Justice: Three Essays on Walter Benjamin (translated by Stephen Gingerich...

... standing seemed secure in their day yet have disappeared from view. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 modernism anthologies American poetry historicism References Allen Hervey Heyward DuBose . 1922 . Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country . New York : Macmillan...

.... The discussion ends with Bernstein's then new poem, written for John Ashbery on the day he died. Copyright © Charles Bernstein 2021 Mexican poetry John Ashbery Artifice of Absorption boogeyman Círculo de poesía , Mexico, January 2018 (Spanish Today, when in poetry the discourses...

... the extent to which Ó Faoláin was a precursor not, as has been claimed, of revisionism but of a latter-day nonmilitant pragmatic republicanism that decommissioned its weapons and, in the Belfast Agreement, accepted the principle of consent as the basis for a sovereign all-Ireland state. His writings both...