... . Vol. 1 . York: Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1790 . LISA O’CONNELL Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753...

...REY CHOW 1999 rey chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she teaches in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media, and Comparative Literature. She is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Ethics after Idealism:Theory...

... of transgender representations in early modern China. Li Yu’s works demonstrate that the representation and performance of ambiguous or trans genders was linked to elite male consumption: that is, transgressive gender presentations were a prime form of entertainment, in fiction as in theater. However, his...

...Griselda Pollock Copyright © 1992 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1992 Works Cited Baudelaire Charles . “ The Painter of Modern Life .” The Painter of Modern Life, and Other Essays . Trans. and ed. Mayne Jonathan . London...

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... of Literature. Vol. 15 . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1986 . TINA CHANTER Tragic Dislocations: Antigone's Modern Theatrics Dedicated to the memory oj Sarah Kojman The Modern Tragedy ofAncient Greece JI1i:ere to begin?! In which time, or what place? With modernity or antiquity? And would...

...Donna V. Jones This brief review essay focuses on the central question posed in Ewa Plonowska Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism : if feminism is considered in social and biographical terms while aesthetics focuses on questions of form and abstraction, does a feminist...

...Mary Ann Doane Technology's Body: Cinematic Vision in Modernity MARY ANN DOANE Lo historical anecdotes seem to me to circumscribe the limits of the woman's position in the discursive construction of cinema as a technology of modernity. The first is an outgrowth of the somewhat nostalgic...

...Robin James Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through...

... of nonrepresentational art solves in advance some key problems that Freud had in accounting for the modernism of his day. Though Worringer and Freud did not appear to ever engage with each other, their two central concepts share a high degree of compatibility, and it is possible to think of Worringer’s urge...

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... Culture . Cambridge, Mass : MIT P , 1991 . Žižek Slavoj . The Sublime Object of Ideology . London : Verso , 1989 . TREVOR HOPE Melancholic Modernity: The Hom(m)osexual Symptom and the Homosocial Corpse For Michael J. Current he work ofLuce Irigaray has provided an enormously powerful...

... . “ American Modernism and the Poetics of Identity .” Modernism/ Modernity 1 . 1 ( 1993 ): 38 – 56 . More Paul Elmer . The Demon of the Absolute . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1928 . Peiss Kathy . Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York...

... ): 99 – 140 . Clark T. J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1984 . Clayson Hollis . Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era . New Haven : Yale UP , 1991 . Corbin Alain...

...Ewa Plonowska Ziarek This essay develops further the main implications of a feminist theory of aesthetics and modernism first articulated in Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism . By engaging critically with Theodor Adorno and Giorgio Agamben in the context of feminist theories...

.... Arguing that Tanpınar's story, and the modernization parody it constructs, offers significant insights that help bring to light otherwise invisible dimensions of neoliberal state reforms, the author discusses how neoliberalism and its technologies are translated into a language of modernization...

... extricate. Reading Badiou’s philosophy creatively, the essay makes the case that women or woman is an emergent, historical, modern, and universal truth; direct critique of Badiou also drives home the point that philosophy (or “theory”) is vulnerable to history and that historically, factually, actually...

... the queer aesthetic of Isaac Julien. Understanding Julien's use of citation and technology allows for an aesthetic elaboration of difference that highlights the persistence of modernism in postcolonial installations. It reinvests the idea of hope in modernism through a postcolonial lens that both laments...

...Leti Volpp This article shows how depictions of immigrant culture can limit the lives of immigrants to a problematic battle between “tradition and modernity.” As illustrated in the portrayal of a case in which immigrant parents murdered their teenaged daughter, Tina Isa, the discourse of tradition...

...Alexander Des Forges This article argues that the concept of cultural capital as it is generally used in the study of the modern West constitutes a catachresis with three fundamentally problematic aspects: it shortchanges the productive capacity of capital; it assumes a commensurability between...