...Margaret Drabble Duke University Press 2007 Writing for Peace: Peace and Difference; Gender, Race, and the Universal Narrative Margaret Drabble When writers are asked to address the subject of “writing for peace,” they assume...

..., and historiographical salience of the West. This review isolates seven features of Western history from The West 's narrative and analysis: a style of learning pioneered in ancient Greece; the importance of cities; an alternating series of political forms, including monarchy, democracy, republic, and empire; a tendency...

...Xudong Zhang Duke University Press 2005 Political Philosophy and Comparison: Bourgeois Identity and the Narrative of the Universal Xudong Zhang 1. The Legitimacy of Comparison: Historical, Political, and Philosophical...

... in fashioning Premsagar ’s Hindi as a language articulated in its spatiotemporal imaginary. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Unless otherwise noted, all translations are mine. Premsagar (1810) and Orientalist Narratives of the “Invention” of Modern Hindi...

... and political contestation. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are mine. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The Critic’s Byzantine Ploy: Voltairean Confusion in Postsecularist Narratives Dimitris Krallis Let us begin...

.... Through a close reading of select song sequences from both popular and art cinema, I demonstrate how they may be read as allegories of temporal sensibilities at odds with the temporality presented in the main narrative of the film. Songs condense a heterogeneous variety of pasts and possible futures...

... Europe and Asia. Reading Russian narratives about the Caucasus alongside narratives by Muslim writers of the Caucasus, I challenge the ideologically constructed binaries of Self and Other, Europe and the Orient, as well as history and personal memory. More specifically, this article discusses the figure...

... is the focus of this essay: how the way he represents himself—his border-crossing, empathetic narrative persona—is invested in the symbol and myth of American character, and especially the American character abroad. I argue that Vollmann both critiques and reinvents this archetypal character in a book based...

... the dichotomous framework with which the relationship between the Chinese state and its intellectuals is often understood. More importantly, it allows insights into Fu's vision of the artistic bildung and its implication for a New China. Through Fu's narrative preoccupation with Jean-Christophe, and in contrast...

... narrative trajectories produces a more disquieting condition. The seam of the book in BlipSoak01 , the lacunae between flashing terms onscreen in “Dub Version V.01,” the page enjoined to have turned before one's arrival in the volume Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary compel readers to link...

... and indict the narratives of progress of which the American Dream is emblematic. Each shuns normal syntactic connections, using “ungrammaticality” as a formal technique in their constellated constructions of risk, luck, hazard, and misfortune. Nevertheless, in working through their inherently neoliberal...

...Yi Zheng With a narrative scheme of manifold plots and characters, cumulating in the eruption of a communal crowd, Li Jieren’s trilogy on the Chinese Revolution of 1911 scales history from individual to mass experience with an ethnohistorical perspective. In this spatially and scenically structured...

... history identifies recurring patterns, salient concerns, and discursive frameworks. It highlights the persistence of ideas about Irish exceptionalism, the dominance of a modernization narrative, and a continuing problem with conceptualizing the dynamics of transforming sexual subjectivities. This survey...

...Max Ward Abstract This essay focuses on the police protagonists in David Peace's Tokyo Trilogy and the historical mediations they perform in the worlds of the novels. It argues that these mediations are generated by the way Peace subverts the conventional narrative structure of historical detective...

... critical understanding of imperial reason and his particular adaptation of Martin Heidegger’s destructive hermeneutics to the historical narrative informing humanism, the modern university, and the profession, are among his main contributions to contemporary criticism. Each of his interventions has been...

...Jeremy Matthew Glick Abstract This essay is an impressionistic account of Hortense J. Spillers's materialist synthesis of narrative theory, political theology, and expository logic that foregrounds people-centered histories and surprise in a proliferation of critical and theoretical paradigms...

...Karen Melvin John O’Malley’s Trent: What Happened at the Council offers English-speaking audiences the first concise and scholarly history of the council that did much to shape the modern Catholic Church. O’Malley’s narrative of the Council of Trent (1545–47, 1551–1552, 1562–1563) masterfully...

..., a languaged Stevens: theoretical, serial, and nonnarrative, metapoetically radical, sometimes satirical (and anti narrative), always obsessive about the state of poetics and insisting on consciousness of the compositional mode as itself a pressure inducing the poem to be composed—a poet whose middle and late...

.... The book nonetheless nicely accomplishes what it is trying to do. Scalia is one of the authors, to be sure, but he is also the protagonist of a narrative. The author’s preeminent concern is seeing to it that you perceive the protagonist as the author intends: as the champion of judicial restraint, against...

... and CGI blockbusters remediate premodern cultural narratives but also provides an analytical measure for approaching the growing phenomenon of motion capture and composited performances. The “virtual realism” of CGI frees Chinese filmmakers to reject the ontological realism of photography and instead...