... in paradigm, whereas a scientist who resists will effectively disappear. Thus, the Morte Darthur set the terms for modern literature in English by holding fast to those of the Middle Ages. This essay argues that Malory was “modern” in that the Morte Darthur would not have been written except for the events...

...Richard Shiff; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Pippin Robert B. , After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernity ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 ), 184 pp. ...

...Ian Hacking Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004), 267 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan...

...Henry Kamen Yovel Yirmiyahu , The Other Within: The Marranos, Split Identity, and Emerging Modernity ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2009 ), 488 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Charles Sullivan Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Goldberg Chad Alan , Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 ), 256 pp. ...

... the topic that the do with literature what can And or theology? philosophy to belongto more naturally seems which question, upthis take playwrights and poets many so whydid materials: of literary use his is convincing less is What thesoul. field modern of early ofthe account...

... Palmer adroitly examines reflections of these atrocities in renditions of epic in renditions these atrocities of reflections examines adroitly Palmer One would have thought that such abhorrent early modern horrors would...

... Ghosts:Ireland, Modernism,andMemory or within emergefrom always “For Freud, anxieties Deleuze or Gilles Mitry, Jean “Citing...

...Guido Giglioni Martin Craig , Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 ), 262 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Duke University Press 2004 THE PRESENCE OF OBJECTS Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany Caroline Walker Bynum On the southwest corner of a large brick Gothic church in the little town of Sternberg in north Germany is a curious stone. Mortared...

...Galin Tihanov Duke University Press 2004 WHY DID MODERN LITERARY THEORY ORIGINATE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE? (And Why Is It Now Dead?) Galin Tihanov At the outset of the twenty-first century, we seem at last positioned to recognize and admit the demise of literary theory...

... it. In this new book, we have something of a ramble through the historical underpinnings for Toulmin’s contentions. The “modern” epoch began after Montaigne. It ended with Wittgenstein. If only Wittgenstein himself had understood this history! So Toulmin muses. And he suggests...

... Shaping of Thought and COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON Roger Ames and David Hall’s popularizations of Confucianism, to the works of erudite sinologists such as A. C. Graham and Christoph Harbsmeier, who by positioning themselves as preeminent modern interpreters of ancient...

... Shaping of Thought and COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON Roger Ames and David Hall’s popularizations of Confucianism, to the works of erudite sinologists such as A. C. Graham and Christoph Harbsmeier, who by positioning themselves as preeminent modern interpreters of ancient...

... “primitives,” they had taken the wrong road and ended up in a cul-de-sac, in contrast to contemporaries such as Géricault and Delacroix, Constable and Turner, who had taken the road that led, without break, to modernity. To the Nazarenes, however, as to the neoclassical artists of the turn of the eighteenth...

...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...

...Keith Thomas Koslofsky Craig , Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 431 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...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...

...Alick Isaacs Ilan Pappe, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 356 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment...

...John Q. Stilwell Paul Raffield, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558 – 1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE...