...Averil Cameron Dinshaw Minoo , Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman . ( London : Allen Lane , 2016 ), 784 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 —  fully. understand to hard man private intensely also and yet social highly...

...Timothy Snyder; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Seegel Steven , Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 ), 384 pp. ...

...Bas van Fraassen; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Shapin Steven , A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 ), 483 pp. ...

...Charles Altieri This article elaborates on the dilemma faced by modernist poets in seeking to define values in an intellectual context that was post-Romantic and post-epistemic. Pound and Stevens, for example, reacted strongly against the ways that Romantic writers had tried to tie the rhetorical...

... by Paul Cézanne and Pieter Bruegel, poems by Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden. The essay argues that each self-deluding “reality” we construct is only temporary, destined to fall back into the elusive, undifferentiated zone of overlap and ambiguity from which it has emerged. Therefore, the author urges, we...

... Stevens and T. S. Eliot are dismissed as “merely rational,” while H. D. and Duncan himself are elevated to the uppermost ranks, just beneath Ezra Pound. The essay focuses on the peculiarity of “Wardour Street” diction returning to poetry in the postmodern era (especially in the verse of Gjertrud...

... that of ordinary human concerns. Rejecting their view of art, he turned instead to a pre-Romantic tradition (including Spenser and Milton) that the Symbolists had rejected. Among modern writers, Kermode turned to Wallace Stevens, who became his foil for Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, as well as the most important...

...Isabelle Stengers This piece is an answer to the responses of Helen Verran, Steven D. Brown, and Brit Ross Winthereik to the author's article, “Comparison as a Matter of Concern.” She acknowledges the difficulty of her respondents to accept her claim that the sciences may be destroyed as many...

... that repose might constitute one of life's key desiderata, but notes at the close how both his own view and his interlocutor's are adumbrated in the Wallace Stevens poem that furnishes the dialogue its title. Duke University Press 2009 Symposium: Apology for Quietism, Part 3 The Lack...

...Cornelius Castoriadis; Stanley Cavell; Steven Marcus; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring...

...Steven I. Levine [email protected] Sebastian Veg , Min Jian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 ), 361 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2022 In China, the shock of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen...

...Casper Bruun Jensen; Barbara Herrnstein Smith; G. E. R. Lloyd; Martin Holbraad; Andreas Roepstorff; Isabelle Stengers; Helen Verran; Steven D. Brown; Brit Ross Winthereik; Marilyn Strathern; Bruce Kapferer; Annemarie Mol; Morten Axel Pedersen; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro; Matei Candea; Debbora...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Philip Gossett; Robert Levin; Jeffrey Kallberg; Steven E. Jones; Martin Puchner; Tiffany Stern; Mark Franko; Roger Moseley This essay introduces a Common Knowledge symposium on the relationship between texts (for instance, musical scores or dramatic scripts) and performance...

...Steven D. Brown This commentary on Isabelle Stengers's article, “Comparison as a Matter of Concern” is an assessment of her stance toward experimental psychology. At the various points in her work where she considers that discipline, she tends to accuse it of failing to embrace the “risk” that she...

...Steven E. Jones This article continues from where the author's 2008 book The Meaning of Video Games concluded and concerns what he learned from playing the simulation game Spore by Sims -creator Will Wright, especially the extent to which a social-network model had become during the development...

... 2023 Almost imperceptible differences in the similar (and similarities in difference) are what Perloff in her new book calls the “infrathin.” She gives a paradigmatic example from Wallace Stevens: an unseen “cat running over the snow almost inaudibly.” Or take Duchamp's readymade snow shovel...

...Jill Kraye Green Steven J. and Volk Katharina , eds., Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' “Astronomica” . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 342 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Fiske Alan Page and Rai Tage Shakti , Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships , with a foreword by Pinker Steven . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 ), 357 pp. Biggar Nigel...

... Steven Neal Lisa ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 ), 832 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 3 5 7Warren Boutcher, The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Vol. 1: The Patron...

...G. Thomas Tanselle [email protected] Steven Lomazow , Magazines and the American Experience ( New York : Grolier Club , 2020 ), 349 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The Grolier Club of New York has been mounting exhibitions of books and prints since...