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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 217–218.
Published: 01 April 2009
...G. Thomas Tanselle Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 259 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Cambridge, MA...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Leela Gandhi Sen's memoir tempts us to imagine the earliest Buddhist disciples in his own likeness: fearless, free, highly sociable, brimful of curiosity and clarity, a touch impatient, compassionate, tolerant, restless, immeasurably sane. The German philosopher, Karl Jaspers—a winner...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Gary Saul Morson von Bremzen Anya , Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing . ( New York : Broadway Books , 2014 ), 368 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 154.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Charles Foster Hines Richard , No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, my Kestrel, Changed my Life ( New York : Bloomsbury , 2017 ), 273 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 5 4 Charles Darwin as he conducted research on bees...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 438–439.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Kirstein Lincoln , Mosaic: Memoirs ( New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1994 ), 270 pp., 16 pp. photographs. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 97–153.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Alick Isaacs This memoir is a detailed and reflective (though highly subjective) account of the author's experiences in the summer of 2006. Starting with the outbreak of the Second Lebanese War, it moves on to describe his call-up and conscription, border service at the IDF outpost in Metulla...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 76–123.
Published: 01 January 2024
... especially art history. Furthermore, her body of scholarship registers a consistent engagement with art historians. Weaving together personal memoir and historiography, this article sketches the manifold ways in which Bynum's publications have responded to and shaped the contours of medieval art history...
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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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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 22–31.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of the books” and the Library's “frame of mind.” The essay — which is a somewhat revised excerpt from the author's memoir Episodes: A Memorybook (2010) — goes on to detail various habits of classification in the Warburg Library's arrangement and to show how these have entailed assumptions about how the human...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 164–180.
Published: 01 April 2009
.... the staunch to sermons by Charles Frey de Neuville indicate that the Jesuits of France attempted mémoire (demémoire et de la Cadière: Mémoires d’un scandalescandale, de la P. du Girard l’affaire sur discours aux retentissement “Du...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 175–176.
Published: 01 January 2022
... ; The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Pound Tradition ; Wittgenstein's Ladder ; Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire ; and The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir . Colin Richmond , professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Keele, is the author of John Hopton...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 327–328.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... The second story is an oral memoir, eased out of an eighty-­six-­year-­old man with flexibility and tact, and full of marvelous things. Amid praise for Tolstoy and Pushkin, Shklovsky recalls his friendship with Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Paster- nak, Meyerhold...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 374–379.
Published: 01 August 2008
... essay by the translator. Duke University Press 2008 With a memoir by Ludmila Gornshteyn columns THE CASE OF “THE YELLOW NOTEBOOK” Wittgenstein in Leningrad Eugene Ostashevsky With a memoir by Ludmila Gornshteyn...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 154–155.
Published: 01 January 2009
... 2008 Notes on Contributors Sissela Bok, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, is the author of Secrets, Mayhem, Common Values, A Strategy for Peace, Alva Myrdal: A Daughter’s Memoir, and Lying...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 January 2020
... on bees and orchids. Darwin s is a case that, had Lapoujade considered it, could have led him to think about perspectives not formulated in terms of vision. After all, orchids do not see. Thibault De Meyer doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899772 Richard Hines, No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, my...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 April 2015
...! This timely memoir, which passed from Russian conversation through Ital through conversation Russian from memoir, passed which timely This Out of three Chinese boxes the author unfolds a centuries- unfolds author the boxes...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 382–386.
Published: 01 April 2012
... ; Tiger’s Eye: A Memoir Tiger’s Eye...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 363–393.
Published: 01 August 2003
... “G” was to be found. And Goethe’s genius was, of course, emblematic of the great Germanic tradition—a tradition that would be called into question, in the post-Nazi era, in such devastating fictions as Thomas Bernhard’s Wittgenstein’s Nephew.2 In this memoir/novel...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 April 2011
... , George Eliot, , Washington Irving, , Irving, Washington A Christmas Carol A Christmas and The Private Memoirs and Confessions...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 256–276.
Published: 01 May 2016
....  Dudo, 3. Dudo, 1832015), –204. Books, York: Basic (New Europe of Remaking the and II 2.  1986). Duckworth, (London: de Normandie 23 (Caen, 1865). On the fictional aspects aspects 23fictional 1865). (Caen, the On Normandie de Antiquaires des Société la de Mémoires Lair...