...Joseph Leo Koerner [email protected] Hans Blumenberg , History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader , ed., trans., and with an introduction by Hannes Bajohr , Florian Fuchs , and Joe Paul Kroll ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020...

... of enthusiasms. Some readers will tire of Toul- min’s self-indulgence. Others will shrug and say, Why not? —Ian Hacking Derrida, documentary directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman, produced by Zeitgeist Films and Jane Doe Films (2002...

...Belle Randall Duke University Press 2004 not for sale FICTION AND POETRY POSTSCRIPT Belle Randall Dear Reader Riffling backwards through these pages seeking an arresting image, a memorable line, I feel you...

...Shira Wolosky Duke University Press 2010 Seth Lerer, Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 396 pp. Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War...

...Jeffrey F. Hamburger Rouse Richard H. and Rouse Mary A. , Bound Fast with Letters: Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts , foreword by Somerville Robert . ( Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2013 ), 720 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

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... or withdrawal is in no way based in defeatism, indolence, or aimlessness. Moreover, King argues, White aims to produce stillness as a formal quality of his text and, through it, to produce a like stillness and attentiveness in the reader. Quietist narrative is meant to help the reader still his or her...

... actions of the multitude of people. What underlies this critique of history in each case is a quietist outlook on life, a perspective from which one must abandon the assertion of the will and accept life as it is given. Tolstoy's quietism, however, is a happy quietism ; he wants his reader to joyfully...

... explores Zwicky's acknowledged debt to the paradoxes and aphorisms of Heraclitus, in whose thought the “backward-turning connection” of the lyre plays a central role. Hobbs suggests that, although both Heraclitus and Zwicky use language to stimulate profound changes in the reader's perception...

.... But, as Tynianov, a consummate theorist of literary evolution, assures his readers: “There are no dead ends in history. There are only interludes.” Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Yuri Tynianov Russian Formalism Russian poetry modernism literary theory ...

... or scandalized his colleagues and readers. In the first place, was he a sociologist, an anthropologist, a philosopher? Though he did not make lasting commitments of that kind, he did make deeper ones that did not change—above all, never to explain anything in terms of something more general and, thus, never...

..., at the same time, disapproving of authorial domination of a dialogue that includes both the reader and, in fiction and drama, the characters whom the author develops. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Mikhail Bakhtin Caryl Emerson Gary Saul Morson Jacques Derrida xenophilia Symposium...

... comments on Rainer Maria Rilke's sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” Contrary to her own principles, she offers a prose summary of the poem that does not take account of its lyric form and thereby misses some of its most enigmatic features. Whereas Zwicky would have it that the reader of such a poem can...

... to the essay in which the term was coined: “Art, as Device” (1917). This Common Knowledge guest column attempts to remedy the situation by introducing anglophone readers to some lesser-known, somewhat later writings of Shklovsky in which he returns to the concept of ostranenie and its cognitive and social...

... with the reader more as prose than as music does. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Donald Davie “Movement” poets Boris Pasternak French Symbolism Augustan poetry Symposium: Xenophilia, Part 2 ENGLISH EMERGENCIES AND RUSSIAN RESCUES, c. 1875 – 2000...

... repressed or fake” by many readers of both her work and the biographies written about her. Marguerite Porete was condemned at trial for being not only a heretic but also a pseudo-mulier —a “fake woman”—while “Sappho’s ancient biographers tried to discredit her seriousness by assuring us she lived a life...

.... The cosmopolitan possibilities of empire, as opposed to narrower definitions of national belonging, would shape the life of Etienne Roboly,” whose complicated existence in Egypt—as a citizen of both or neither the French state and/nor the Ottoman—is the focus of this study. The author asks her readers to glean...

... writes a complex narrative that leaves its interpretation and application to his readers. He neither fashions himself as a national redeemer-poet nor do his protagonists content themselves with a reclusive life forgetful of their surroundings. Symposium: Apology for Quietism, Part 4 All...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Noa Halevy; Edith Bruder; Jamie Gilham In his introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, the journal's editor tours the reader through two private apartments (T. S. Eliot's in London and the anthropologist Jeannette Mirsky's in Princeton) and through...

... writing marginalia for his own later use while reading. Thus, the historian does all the archival work necessary for readers to arrive at their own hypotheses about how rurality related to urbanity in fifteenth-century Suffolk and, perhaps, also about the meaning of the word urbane . ARTICLES...