.../111 2004 Volume 56, Number 2 WILLIAM N. WEST Reading Rooms: Architecture and Agency in the Houses of Michel de Montaigne and Nicholas Bacon Die Aufgaben, welche...

... implicit on the topic in Sebald's fiction and points toward some difficult questions regarding the role of aesthetics and agency in Sebald's work. © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Negative Dialectics . Trans. Ashton E.B. . London : Routledge...

...Gaurav Desai Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters. By Olakunle George. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 227 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/262 BOOK REVIEWS FICTION...

...John T. Hamilton Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge . By Pfau Thomas . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2013 . 673 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Minima Moralia...

..., and its grammatical structures. In particular, the use of the passive voice, the grammatical expression of the state of being-acted-upon, at key moments in the cycle presents a subject deprived of agency, maintaining priority in the sentence but ceding action to its object. This passive position grants...

...: From its inception as counter-mythology, presupposing the existence of myth that it can either affirm or critique, the lyric does not present an alternative between enchantment and disenchantment but rather—in negotiating between the two—shows us the agency we have in fashioning our enchantments...

... to place the anthology within what Aníbal Quijano has called the “coloniality of power,” a term deployed to move thinking beyond Western and Eurocentric conceptualizations. This approach provides a new way of framing the issues of cultural production and agency in order to transcend identities originally...

... to the fore. Thus, Jean de Meun’s Ovidianism not only helps elucidate Ovid’s representation of Pygmalion, it also clarifies both authors’ deft management and remanagement of creative agency, particularly as they relate to Pygmalion’s animation of his statue, and to the authorial strategies and intertextual...

... resistance. The essay begins with a brief overview of recent theories of poetic difficulty, finding in the personifications and anthropomorphic metaphors of interiority that appear in those theories evidence of the ways in which we project agency, will, and moral choice onto poems that resist our attempts...

... national typing based on immutable factors such as climate and physiology was reformulated in a way that foregrounded history and human agency. The old discourse of civic humanism, with its emphasis on virtues and good government, is invoked here both as explanation and remedy for Italy's decline. Staël's...

... Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 intervention agency literariness national imaginary loose-yet-effective link To clearly convey my perspective and stance, I want to start from my own practice and experience. Perhaps this will help clarify my topic. I am not a literature...

... . Dworkin Craig . Reading the Illegible . Evanston : Northwestern UP , 2003 . Emerson Lori . Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2014 . Gardner A. “ Agency .” Handbook of Archaeological Theories . Ed. Bentley R...

... York: Monthly Review Press, 1971 . 127 -86. Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996 . Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999...

... and her documentaries on the subject come with significant costs, one of which is the evacuation of the African woman’s agency.8 I want to suggest, however, that Possessing the Secret of Joy tells us more about subjectivity and female agency than Walker appears to intend. Walker’s novel raises...

... powerlessness and exclusion, in order to en- courage discussion of variant conceptions of common good and the shared prac- tice of human rights? This special issue of Comparative Literature is a collective academic enterprise, a discursive exercise of intellectual and educational agency in order more fully...

... assimilated by readers across the world” and instead probe the agency and limitations of both text and reader in shaping intercultural encounters ( Mattana and Rossi 340 ). For these scholars, a return to reader-response theory entails, first and foremost, a return to reading , in the sense...

... novel genre by showing that unlike in socialist realism, characters no longer have agency over history. This is the case of Padura’s El hombre que amaba a los perros (2009; The Man Who Loved Dogs ), a reconstruction of Trotsky’s saga of exile, his assassination by Catalan’s anarchist and NKVD agent...

... authority after the first century of the conquest, which focuses on the agency and stakes of Mexican Creoles in the future of Spanish rule. Replace Borges’s character Ts’ui Pên with the historically neglected seventeenth-century Mexican polymath Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora and the novel/labyrinth...

.... All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity . New York: Penguin, 1988 . Berry, Chris. “If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or, Do Movies Make China? Rethinking National Cinema and National Agency.” Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory . Ed...

... continues and justice does not arrive for the dead. The agency you must assert in speaking or writ- ing is itself conditioned by the violence before you position yourself for or against it, and any statement against injustice necessarily risks inviting or inciting the violence that proclaims itself...