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The Little Review “Ulysses,”
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 314–315.
Published: 01 May 2016
...William M. Chace Joyce James , The Little Review “Ulysses,” . ed. Gaipa Mark , Latham Sean , and Scholes Robert . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2015 ), 455 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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Five Little Negroes and Other Songs: A Lesson in Political Correctness from the Former Yugoslavia
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 105–118.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Erica Johnson Debeljak Duke University Press 2004 FIVE LITTLE NEGROES
AND OTHER SONGS
A Lesson in Political Correctness from the Former Yugoslavia
Erica Johnson Debeljak
In pet zamorcˇkov sˇlo je
na ta ljubljanski grad,
se eden je spotaknil
je padel v prepad.
In sˇtiri...
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Little Did I Know: Excerpts From Memory
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 542.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Stephen Mulhall Cavell Stanley , Little Did I Know: Excerpts From Memory ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 ), 584 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS
Amir Alexander, Duel...
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Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 154–155.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Marjorie Perloff Seita's book is at its best when it reconsiders and examines small-press journals now little known but genuinely innovative, like Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's 0 – 9 and the offset-printed some/thing edited by David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg. Indeed, if we focus...
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How Little Girl Found Summer
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 454–460.
Published: 01 August 2018
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The Little Hunchback
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Roberto Arlt; Nick Caistor Common Knowledge 26:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-7899611 © 2020 by Duke University Press 136 P O E T R Y A N D F I C T IO N THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK Roberto Arlt Translated by Nick Caistor It s the case that my behavior, with respect to Rigoletto, the little hunchback, at Señora X...
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Love and Money
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 341–345.
Published: 01 April 2019
... only appears . . . when there is enough money to produce a little leisure, a little time in which to love. . . . The cash value of the Christian ideal of universal brotherhood has, for the last two centuries, been the conviction that once science and technology have produced enough wealth...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 August 2010
... doctrines), only effectiveness; and he does not need truth or justice, only subtlety. The detachment of a quietist has little, if anything, to do with transcending perspectives. Detachment is good as a means to flexibility, and instead of transcending perspectives, a sage is skilled in the quiet art...
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WHERE IN THE TEXT?
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 59–66.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Mary Harvey Doyno As part of a series of case studies titled “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay asks how one can teach college students with little or no exposure to close reading, critical analysis, or the premodern world to read a text written c. 202 CE. An instructor at Sacramento State...
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Fuzzy Pluralism: The Case of Buddhism and Islam
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 506–517.
Published: 01 August 2013
... have little to say about Buddhism, while they exaggerate the role of the Muslim religion. This problem is acute when treating historical circumstances in which Buddhism and Islam are involved in tandem. Although people of the two traditions interacted throughout Asia for more than a millennium, which...
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HUAORANI PEACE: Cultural Continuity and Negotiated Alterity in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 270–304.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Laura Rival Twenty “uncontacted” Taromenani were slaughtered and two female children kidnapped in retaliation for the spearing of a couple of “civilized” Huaorani in March 2013. After months of indecision, the government of Ecuador decided to abduct the two little captives and send six warriors...
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The Xenophilia of a Japanese Ethnomusicologist
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the violent demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya by militant Hindus, but even at that time she found no trace of such belligerence in the Hindustani musical world. Years later, while conducting research on the Shinto music rituals of her own culture, she discovered a little-known imperial...
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Blindfolded
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 66–142.
Published: 01 January 2022
... that received little coverage in the press. During 2015, the fiftieth anniversary of the Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate , Francis paid a surprise visit to a new statue in the United States, “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” by Joshua Koffman, as a sign of his endorsement of its radical reconsideration...
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Introduction: Telling the Untold Story of Random Political Recruitment
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 173–186.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., it is now (except for the randomly selected jury) a largely discontinued practice. While a good deal is known about when and where this procedure was used, there is little surviving documentation of exactly why it was used and of what it was thought to contribute to the political systems in which...
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Description of the Human
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 226–278.
Published: 01 May 2024
... for translation are intended to give readers a sense of the book, little known in the Anglophone world, which in its original German runs to some nine hundred pages. At this point, the questions of anthropology touch directly on those of political philosophy. Even for Hobbes, the absolute power of the state...
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TIEPOLO: An Artist without Gravity
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 164–170.
Published: 01 January 2013
... identifying it as a biography (of the sort practiced by Irving Stone, Somerset Maugham, and Dimitri Merejkovski), since Calasso, like most other writers on Tiepolo, stresses how little we know about his personality, which was elusive, and about his private life, which was undramatic. What chiefly interests...
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Conversation in a Limousine, from Montbrison to Saint-Étienne: Remembering Henry J.-M. Levet, March 22, 1911
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 483.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Léon-Paul Fargue; Valery Larbaud After the early death of the little-known but extraordinarily promising French poet Henry J.-M. Levet, Valery Larbaud and Léon-Paul Fargue visited with Levet’s parents in the city of Montbrison. In a recorded conversation, they describe their visit...
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Conversations with Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, and Stanley Cavell
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 January 2020
... is a collage of diverse original sources—Randall’s poetry and memories, Cavell’s memoir Little Did I Know , and relevant passages in Wittgenstein and Augustine—that involve the interplay of events in Cavell’s personal life with the dissertation that in time became his first book, Must We Mean What We Say...
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THE LONGEST WAY AROUND IS THE SHORTEST WAY HOME: A Latecomer to the Warburg
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Paul Crossley This article traces the roundabout journey of an architectural historian from Cambridge to the Warburg Institute Library, via Cracow, Princeton, and Manchester. The author's early research, into German and Central European architecture, had little to do with Warburgian interests...
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The Trojan Women: A Comic
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2023
... be thrown from the battlements: “Come along, little mushroom, / little rootlet, little sip, little milk fly, little asterisk, little welkin, / little silhouette, little sugar bubble—/ let go of your mother. / She's broken.” Then lower down on the same page: “It's time for your infinite leap / as decreed...
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