...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Weber William , The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1992 ), 274 pp. ...

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...Susan A. Stephens In his introduction, Frankfurter states the ambitious goal of redirecting modern studies of magic from the etic (where what constitutes magic is determined by the modern author) to the emic (where it is the ancient cultures being studied that decide what rituals...

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... University Press 2014 ARTICLES THE ADVENT OF THE TASBURGHS A Documentary Study in the Adair Family Collection Colin Richmond John Tasburgh I: Foreword I refer to John Tasburgh I, “quondam de Norwico et postea de parochia,” St...

... somewhat less compelling than the overall thesis, but Mémoire du mal is a brilliant and deeply moving book that deserves the widest dissemination. —Marjorie Perloff Harold Fisch, The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake: A Comparative Study (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999), 331 pp...

... in studies of ancient religion. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 3 BEYOND CATEGORIZATION “Pagan Monotheism” and the Study of Ancient Religion Peter Van Nuffelen After a long slumber, the debate about...

.... Scott’s book is examined as a prime example of how the study of politics can and should help to effect political change — and its insights on anarchism as a way of life are applied to the Occupy Wall Street movement. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Reviews THE ARTFUL STUDY...

.... 343 Written by a sociologist using “group theory” to explore the workings of circles—circles of writers, artists, social reformers, and others—this study argues that creativity is not a result of isolation and individuation or even...

...Casper Bruun Jensen Early in his career, Bruno Latour’s limited readership consisted mainly of the research community in science and technology studies (STS) that he helped to inaugurate. Today the situation could hardly be more different. Latour is now subject to the “translations”—the processes...

... of science studies” (Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway), Gaskill finds that Rorty's persistent assumption of nature/culture and word/world dichotomies is politically dangerous and prevents his comprehending both distributed agency and the complexity of human entanglements with the nonhuman...

... , 2016 ), 463 pp. Hoogstede Luuk , Sprong Ron , Erdmann Robert G. , Gotink Rik Klein , Ilsink Matthijs , Koldeweij Jos , Nap Hanneke , and Velhuizen Daan , Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Technical Studies . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press...

...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University Press 2003 PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION “Context” in Literary Studies Wai Chee Dimock What is the appropriate scale for the study of culture and, in particular, the study...

...Nabil Matar Alastair Hamilton and Francis Richard, André du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France , Arcadian Library Series (London: Oxford University Press, 2004), 200 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended...

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...Daniel J. Sharfstein Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues that race conflates what is plain to see with something that is invisible. Race roots today's policy decisions in a remote and often imagined...

...Frederick S. Paxton A contribution to a set of case studies, titled “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a course on the deep history of Italy developed for a “semester abroad” program in Perugia during the spring of 2016. It describes, in particular, two class meetings in the middle...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Natalie Zemon Davis; Barry Allen In this introduction to Part 1 of the Common Knowledge symposium, “Fuzzy Studies,” the journal's editor discusses four essays from the 1980s by Richard Rorty, in which Rorty chose to associate himself with various neopragmatists, Continental...