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.... This discussion will range over the curious nature of this style, its virtues of concision and incisiveness, and what it might say about the “materiality” of language. The “lapidary” shows us the profound implication of a gestural style with meaning. © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal...

... the commonplace description of the serial killer as anonymous or, as one prosecutor of such cases concisely put it, as "abnormally normal." This abnormal normality is the "complete disguise" of looking and being just like everybody else. The crime of anonymity makes for the utterly generic profile of the criminal...

... Writing . New York : Columbia UP , 1988 . Poirot-Delpech B. Rev. of Marguerite Yourcenar: l'invention d'une vie, by Josyane Savigneau. Le Monde, Sélection hébdomadaire 13-19 Sept. 1990 , internatl, ed.: 12 . Reid Joyce M. H. , ed. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of French...

... perpetrator in red paint rather than black: “levee board victim.” And most concisely, painted below a magnetic calendar still stuck to a door, the given name (now coupled with a misogynistic epithet) that appeared to name it all...

... was noted already by Friedrich Schlegel in one of his Atheneum fragments: “A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry was or is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that at which at some time and some place was so named” (126). Transposed...

..., accommodation was characterized by a certain style - the abbreviation, conciseness, and numerical representation epitomized by double-entry bookkeeping. And second, in the absence of any enforcement agency or laws that recognized interest, merchants' willingness to adopt the conventions of accommodation, like...

...). What follows these sentences is a brilliantly written, intense, concise paragraph of pure Bersanian thought and style, but one where he nonetheless misunderstands Bourdieu. The first sentence of the paragraph is beautiful, classic, quintessential Bersani: “To recognize as belonging to us that which...

..., norms have a readily identifiable outside, are univocally on the side of privilege and conventionality, and should be avoided. Berlant states the binding effects of this antinormativity concisely in her joint project with Edelman: “[O]ur commonalities are in our fundamental belief that normativity...

... . Ridener John . From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory . Duluth : Litwin , 2009 . Rowley Jane Wolthers Louise . “ Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive .” Introduction . Danbolt, Rowley, and Wolthers 9 – 23 . Spieker Sven . The Big Archive: Art...

... f f e r e n c e s 107 tion to Enlightenment universalism—it is not only a concise way to demand the return of normative likeness or to denounce...

...- Laferriere has pointed out in his discussion of faked orgasms in Signs of the Flesh, this concise definition of the basic semiotic entity seems perfectly applicable here (97). The unknowability of the female orgasm and male...

... and History 11.3 ( 1969 ): 258 -81. Mazey, Sonia. Gender Mainstreaming in thee.u.: Principles and Practice . London: Kogan Page, 2001 . McCormick, John. Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction . New York: Palgrave, 2002 . Mitchell, Timothy. “Society, Economy, and the State...

...). Lack of determination thus doesn’t signify some flaw—that conciseness or precision is amiss—but rather that the concept, like so many of Bakhtin’s concepts (think about dialogism, heteroglossia, speech genre, to name a few), designates an entire problem field, a new aspect under which to consider...

... with an admirably concise articulation of the problem of instantiation as it pertains to any attempt to think the origins of the state outside what Timothy Mitchell has called the “state effect”: “Every account of the origins of the state...

...). It is to avoid this paradox and to save language from the “not-all,” from the feminine, that Wittgenstein abandons logic, replacing logic with a felt relationship to the world. Robert Fogelin gives a concise description of this mystical solution: Wittgenstein presents a metalanguage specifying the truth...

.... Of his many commentators, Stephen Jay Gould offers the most concise description of the conceptual tightrope Darwin had to walk in coming up with a source of variation: “First and foremost, variation must exist in sufficient amounts, for natural selection can make nothing, and must rely on the bounty thus...

.... They are ghostly non/existences that teeter on the edge of the infinitely fine blade between being and nonbeing. Admittedly, virtuality is difficult to grasp. Indeed, this is its very nature. To put it concisely, virtual particles...

... concision: 178 Like a Whisper “The whole had become clear. All three—mother, daughter, horse—were inextricably connected in pain” (Evans 175). The cell phone is thus...

... Hegel’s idealism by putting it properly on its feet. For Lenin, this reversal, like the snyatie itself, implied a downward movement. “Down with Heaven: materialism” was Lenin’s concise description of what Hegel’s system needed...

... has lately come in for more direct scrutiny. The reasons for the emphasis on males (that is to say, persons who feel that they are women trapped in a man's body) are concisely outlined by Dr. Leslie Martin Lothstein, the co-director of the Case Western Reserve Gender Identity Clinic: 1) most gender...