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...John Boardman Roelstraete Dieter , ed., The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 ), 328 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Nabila Abbas; Yves Sintomer Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different...

... have. This imaginary world would adopt all currently attractive ecological and friendly principles. In positing such a utopia, Atwood puts aside the admirable acuity she has when investigating the real world of literature and veers away into the world of politics, economics, and social life, where she...

... that Latvians themselves nearly became an ethnic minority in “their own” republic—there has been no ethnic violence between Latvians and Russians in the postsocialist era. Yet the events of summer 2014 have radically shifted the political imaginary of this region, raising the specter of a loss of social...

.... Subsequently, it touches on some contradictions of quietism and politics, which Zadie Smith also considers in her essay, “Speaking in Tongues.” Finally, the essay dwells on David Malouf's novel, An Imaginary Life , as a fully achieved parable of quietism, applicable to all places and ages. Throughout...

...Mikhail Epstein Li tt le R ev ie w s 4 3 3Eleonory Gilburd, To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), 480 pp. Geography can be real or fictional. There exist detailed atlases of imaginary realms. Gilburd s study maps an imaginary...

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... in their social critiques of science the extent to which an imaginary underworld of beings has been constitutive of the modern scientific imagination. Ironically, it was the man who provided a hard-and-fast criterion by which to distinguish scientific and nonscientific pursuits, Karl Popper, who ultimately saw...

..., Geertz found a world in which the was imaginary as real as reality Bali In imaginary.” the as realThe forthemselves. imagined “isheas wrote, elements rathervital as create of beings andexperience whateverhuman reality They enabled him to treat symbolscultural not as screens for a hidden...

... modern writers, including Shakespeare, celebrated the state’s grow- ing penetration of daily life.1 On the other hand, because the social imaginary founded on the nation-state was still emergent in the period, early modern writ- ers, again including Shakespeare, could also conceive of alternatives...

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... in Western poetry is thought to be in decline. Love itself is understood to be a mere ideological overlay or imaginary formation for a more real desire and sex, then this study of love and avant- garde poetics may be reckless as well as courageous. It can, then, be thrilling to watch Heuving summon her...

..., chapters of synthetic cultural criticism that articulate typological analyses of common narrative forms that circulated in the fiction and film of the socialist world—recurring varieties of “solidarity narratives,” as Djagalov calls them. His work reveals how central the state-socialist political imaginary...

... ). The gesture by which Hawthorne, now a fully imaginary version of him imaginary now abyHawthorne, whichfully Thegesture expres an and strategy survival a both be can estrangement...

... a book on the tension between religious and secular imaginaries in literary modernism. literary in imaginaries secular and religious between tension the on a book sity ofWashington. sity and formerly a MacArthur Fellow. aMacArthur formerly and ofYork New Albany...

... before a Barbie doll standing at the foot of a Ken doll on an imaginary cross. I remember vividly the scene because I took a picture of it. We were vacationing in Ticino and visiting the local churches, so I assumed that this play imitated the iconography to which they were being exposed. After reading...

... is ensemble? toute our pourquoi obsession with biography like the rays of the sun, Masaccio’s Giotto’ssolidity, sun, of the rays the like of reference points artist’s library, imaginary of our shelves thousand the ten fill or could...

.... The flourishing of love in Western poetry is thought to be in decline. Love itself is understood to be a mere ideological overlay or imaginary formation for a more real desire and sex, then this study of love and avant- garde poetics may be reckless as well as courageous. It can, then, be thrilling to watch...

..., and posture of superiority give them a status and authority equal to Menand's own. The book begins with Kennan and ends with him. Menand admires him for his judgment about the actual, rather than the imaginary, dangers of the Soviet Union and praises him for his bravery in insisting, early on, that the war...

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