... engagement with questions about the moral and social future. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 postwar culture Vittorio De Sica Albert Camus Wolfgang Borchert hope WHEN GERMANY SURRENDERED, in May 1945, much of Europe was devastated. The loss of life was unfathomable. Hunger...

...—and the faith in a better future persisting therein—that I develop and defend Benjamin’s and Crane’s “architectonics of hope.” White Buildings and The Bridge both develop Crane’s highly unique and personal poetic idiom and ambition. Their fragmented, imperfect architectonic structures play out on very...

...Nikhita Obeegadoo Abstract Nestled in the Mozambique Channel, the island of Mayotte is an overseas department of France, wrenched away from the Comoran archipelago in 1975. This act of colonial mutilation gave birth to an ultra-peripheral “French” territory that persists as a beacon of hope...

..., preserving the USSR as a beacon of hope. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Langston Hughes Mezhrabpomfil'm Soviet avant-garde cultural authenticity Cold War culture Works Cited “Apropos Soviet Negro Film.” New Masses Nov. 1932 : 28 . Print . Baldwin Kate . Beyond...

... accumulation, must not go. At the same time, the more fungible the differences between ecological spheres, the more rigid the enforcement of state and private property lines, so that the discourse of trespass whereby one might hope to prosecute environmental crime in fact criminalizes once permitted commoning...

.... Although in Sacred Hunger Unsworth seems to share much of Delblanc's pessimism about human nature, the hope that is vindicated in Friday and squelched in Speranza is allowed to flicker once more. Resistance to the violence onboard the Liverpool Merchant results in mutiny and change, in contrast...

... Comment c'est as, on the one hand, a literalization of Adorno's ideas in Aesthetic Theory (in other words, as a kind of meta-text) and, on the other, as an exemplum of his views on the new, on unity and meaning, and on mimesis and expression. In doing so, I hope to deepen our understanding of the special...

... similar conceptions of the role of subjective aesthetic response in criticism. Finally, the article examines Barthes's Camera Lucida , arguing that this text on photography confirms Adorno's insistence that in individual literary works we can find embodied the hope of “attaining universality through...

...Seth Kimmel This essay argues that the effort to define and police the shifting boundaries of Christianity in early modern Spain produced a counter-intuitive peninsular logic of secularization. Hoping to stem the extension of ecclesiastical power over everyday cultural life, New Christians...

... of literary comparison that alternately analyzes the similarities and differences between texts rather than attempting to maintain a balanced view of both at once, this essay also hopes to contribute to recent discussions within the field of comparative literature on how to treat textual convergences...

... of Philoctetes, has Sopho- cles’ chorus saying: History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up...

... of the countess of Arande. Amadour knows he cannot hope to marry her, be- cause of her age (she is only twelve years old), her elevated station, and the fact that as a younger son he has no claim on his family’s fortune. So he decides that his only option is to be her “serviteur.” The better to achieve...

... the past remained a domain of nostalgic utopias” (1). Boym offers new hope through the evolution of “an eccentric meth- odology of ‘freedom studies’” (24). Eschewing the glorification of liberation that has marked so many totalitarian utopias and refusing to take comfort in artistic escapism, she...

... the past remained a domain of nostalgic utopias” (1). Boym offers new hope through the evolution of “an eccentric meth- odology of ‘freedom studies’” (24). Eschewing the glorification of liberation that has marked so many totalitarian utopias and refusing to take comfort in artistic escapism, she...

... the past remained a domain of nostalgic utopias” (1). Boym offers new hope through the evolution of “an eccentric meth- odology of ‘freedom studies’” (24). Eschewing the glorification of liberation that has marked so many totalitarian utopias and refusing to take comfort in artistic escapism, she...

... explains in her gloss on Kumar, “utopia is about hoping for a transformed future, . . . while fearing the worst” (167). But, as both Fukuyama and Jameson point out, in the wake of the collapse of twentieth-century utopian ideologies, the future no longer seems su ciently di erent from the present...

... not for melancholy or alienation but for a politics of radical openness toward the future. Not “hope in the past,” as Peter Szondi once sug- gested, but “hope in the enigmatic” might be the motto of this book.1 At first glance, Richter’s title might lead one to expect a monograph on Benjamin’s unjustly...

... not for melancholy or alienation but for a politics of radical openness toward the future. Not “hope in the past,” as Peter Szondi once sug- gested, but “hope in the enigmatic” might be the motto of this book.1 At first glance, Richter’s title might lead one to expect a monograph on Benjamin’s unjustly...

... not for melancholy or alienation but for a politics of radical openness toward the future. Not “hope in the past,” as Peter Szondi once sug- gested, but “hope in the enigmatic” might be the motto of this book.1 At first glance, Richter’s title might lead one to expect a monograph on Benjamin’s unjustly...

... is earthly” ( 120 ). This reading depends problematically, however, on sanctifying either the white or the Black world. Moreover, the understanding of Lohengrin as Jones’s inspiration sits uneasily with Gooding-Williams’s conclusion, with which I agree, that for Du Bois hope for the future can only lie...