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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 January 2023
... proportions. In fact, the Solovki prison camp is more in the spirit of Solzhenitsyn's “one good day” in the life of Ivan Denisovich. What is awful is the larger context. In his introduction, Gullotta laments the lack of scholarly attention to the literary achievement of Russian prisoners and the dearth...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 241–242.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Jeffrey M. Perl [email protected] G. Thomas Tanselle , Books in My Life ( Charlottesville : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia , 2021 ), 367 pp., and American Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection ( New Haven, CT : Beinecke Rare Book...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 323–343.
Published: 01 April 2006
...César Aira © 2000 by César Aira 2006 not for sale P O e T R Y A N D f I C T I O N FROM AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF A landscape PAINTER César Aira Translated by Chris Andrews Western art can boast few documentary...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 286.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Ian Hacking Ruth Padel, Darwin: A Life in Poems (London: Chatto and Windus, 2009), 160 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett before Beckett, trans. Ros Schwartz (London: Souvenir...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 295–296.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Ramie Targoff Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 416 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett before...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 548–549.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Clifford Geertz Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-10 Reviews 7/14/02 3:13 PM Page 548 LITTLE REVIEWS Tzvetan Todorov, Life in Common, trans. Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 174 pp...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 550–551.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Shira Wolosky CK 8.3-10 Reviews 7/14/02 3:13 PM Page 548 LITTLE REVIEWS Tzvetan Todorov, Life in Common, trans. Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 174 pp. A Bulgarian-born...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 170–180.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Pierre Michon Editions Gallimard, Paris, and Archipelago Books, New York 2004 not for sale Translated by Ann Jefferson MICROSCOPIC LIVES The Life of André Dufourneau Pierre Michon Translated by Ann Jefferson...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Randy Malamud Braverman Irus , Wild Life: The Institution of Nature . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2015 ), 328 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 419.
Published: 01 April 2002
...-structuralist literary theory, Todorov has emerged, over the past decade, as an impassioned, highly personal philosophical thinker, whose writings on the Holocaust and the political life of postwar France are especially apropos in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. A Bulgarian exile, living...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 351.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Myrna Goldenberg Duke University Press 2005 LITTLE REVIEWS Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 320 pp. This is a classic coming-of-age, my-life...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 491.
Published: 01 August 2005
...- alittle is history textual ofthe summary this (Even Latin. other the German, High translations—one two butin German Low Middle original the —Colin Richmond inappropriate. thoroughly so is at intrusion where bay its itself into thrust everyother having America, ofwalk life,might...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 494–495.
Published: 01 August 2005
...- alittle is history textual ofthe summary this (Even Latin. other the German, High translations—one two butin German Low Middle original the —Colin Richmond inappropriate. thoroughly so is at intrusion where bay its itself into thrust everyother having America, ofwalk life,might...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 527–540.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Lori Baker Duke University Press 2003 not for sale STILL LIFE Lori Baker In my family we are all photographers. In the same way that some families grav- itate to the courtroom or the operating theater, we are drawn to the enlarger, the stop bath, and the proof print. Our thumbs...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 563–565.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Jeffrey M. Perl Donald Keene, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 196 pp. Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe, 1871–1873 , compiled (1876) by Kume Kunitake, ed. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 January 2011
...William M. Chace Declan Kiberd, Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), 416 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 348–354.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Caryl Emerson © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Reviews WAR AND PEACE, LIFE AND FATE Caryl Emerson Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, trans. Robert Chandler (1960; New York: New York Review of Books, 2006), 871 pp...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 363.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Anne Innis Dagg Thomas Elizabeth Marshall , The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World ( New York : HarperCollins , 2009 ), 239 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS Nanno...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 January 2015
... gregariousness COLUMNS INSEPARABLE FROM YOUR OWN LIFE Ana Almeida When Wittgenstein wrote that “the human body is the best picture of the human soul,” what sense of “picture” did he have in mind?1 Apart from...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 390–398.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... The essay concludes by speculating on what it means that people intent on entering the business world now perceive so sharp a distinction between the principles for success in business and the principles for leading a good life. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Benjamin Franklin virtue...