...Michael P. Steinberg Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas. By Lionel Gossman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii, 608 p. University of Oregon 2002 BOOK REVIEWS/357...

...SIMON GAUNT During the course of the last decade here has been sustained reflection on intersections between medieval studies and postcolonial theory, the books reviewed here being just a sample of the scholarship now available. But postcolonial approaches to the Middle Ages have proved...

... Prufrock” modernism T. S. Eliot Yankev Glatshteyn Yiddish poetry age studies Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 [email protected] Works Cited Altieri Charles . “ Eliot’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Poetry .” In The Cambridge Companion to T. S...

...Ilya Kliger This essay attempts a reading of Ivan Turgenev’s First Love as a case study within a broader inquiry into the social imaginary of Russian realist fiction. One way to formulate the central question of the essay is to ask what happens when, on some deep structural level, an ostensibly...

...Christopher Davis Abstract This article examines three multilingual lyrics from the Middle Ages in which linguistic difference is employed as a strategy for defining the relationship between language and poetic form. Two poems by twelfth-century troubadours, “Eras quan vey,” a descort in five...

... practices they will entertain. In an age when the promises of the multicultural curriculum have been revealed to also contain threats, how we read is as important to the decolonial project as whom we read. Dylan Robinson, writing from the intersection of Indigenous studies and sound studies, makes...

... to Christian hegemony. Anchoring his work firmly on the intellectual history (as opposed to literary) side of Golden Age studies, Kimmel offers us a study of “the intellectual rather than political or human consequences of coercion” (12). Parables of Coercion consists of six substantive chapters, each...

.... “Homo et Natura, Homo in Natura: Ecological Perspectives on the European Middle Ages.” Hanawalt Kiser 11 – 38 . Print . Horden Peregrine Purcell Nicholas . The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History . Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, Ltd. , 2000 . Print...

... , literature in English is hegemonic (45.83 percent) in the age of postcolonial studies; literature in English (27.27 percent) and French (27.27 percent) is hegemonic in the age of East/West studies, with Chinese amounting to only 3.03 percent. Again, literature in English (51.61 percent) and French (32.26...

... W. McGee. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986 . 10 -59. Bernheimer, Charles, ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 . Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture . London: Routledge, 1994 . Birus, Hendrik. “Am...

...- A parative Literature in an Age of Globalization” in which the ACLA draft report on the state of the discipline was being discussed. During the Q&A session, I asked Jonathan Culler, who was one of the panelists, why the turn toward the global in literary studies and the enthusiasm over “World...

... exploration of new materialities of the literary in the digital age, and in 2014 Lori Emerson’s Reading Writing Interfaces bridged the gap between media archaeology and literary studies and Jessica Pressman’s Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media uncovered and accounted for the return...

... in the failure of ideas to overcome the indifference of the age (the trope of intellectual suicide is a captivating one), but it is not the same drama as the drama of ideas as such. This is a critique one could level, in differing degrees, at the work of many of the writers in this study. Jackson’s study...

... more self-awareness of our biases: “What is critical here, as with all the novels we have read for this study, is that we exercise our capacity and moral willingness to see others not ‘as they are,’ reduced to some standard data-point calibration of weight, age, wealth, or power so as to move...

... . Kaufmann Michael . “The Religious, the Secular, and Literary Studies.” New Literary History 37 . 4 ( 2007 ): 607 – 28 . Print . Lacoue-Labarthe Phillipe Nancy Jean-Luc . The Literary Absolute . Albany : State U of New York P , 1988 . Print . Largier Niklaus...

... insights into the way geopolitics infuses the amorous themes. It is a model of historically grounded comparative study: it traces a theme across multiple national traditions, making a place for often overlooked minorities and reinstating them in the broader European tradi- tion. Curiously, however...

.... Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings . New York: Schocken, 1986 . 314 -32. Bernheimer, Charles, ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993 . Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. “1440: The Smooth and the Striated...

... . Diss. Wayne State University , 1976 . Bertolet Craig E. “The Anxiety of Exclusion: Speech, Power, and Chaucer's Manciple.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 . 1 ( 2011 ): 183 – 218 . Print . ———. “From Revenge to Reform: The Changing Face of ‘Lucrece’ and Its Meaning in Gower's...

... 13 . 2 ( 1985 ): 315 -19. Large, Duncan. “Our Greatest Teacher: Nietzsche, Burckhardt, and the Concept of Culture.” International Studies in Philosophy 32 . 3 ( 2000 ): 3 -25. Luhmann, Niklas. Das Erziehungssystem der Gesellschaft . Frankfurt a. Main: Suhrkamp, 2002...

...Jordan Alexander Stein Borrowing a turn of phrase from Talal Asad, this essay asks: What might an aesthetic study of secularism look like? Examining four case studies between roughly 1880 and 1930 (with attention to the critical writings of Walt Whitman, T.W. Higginson, Matthew Arnold, Barrett...