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... Change and the Unthinkable. The second examines Marguerite Duras’s Un barrage contre le Pacifique (1950) as a novel about rising sea levels and discusses what it might mean to read this classic in these terms. The essay then considers which works today might be Duras’s successors and what...

... manifold, that made it possible for this small nation to commit itself to these vast expenditures and to plan ahead in terms of a statistical time frame of 10,000 years. More recently, in preparation for the sea-level rise...

... the ocean by displaying organisms necessarily removed from their natural habitat, the author holds this train of thought in suspension to contemplate the aspects of sea life that have escaped the epistemological taming that makes the mysterious ocean intelligible to land-dwelling humans. The radical...

... the disgust loaded in the word “even aligning his sexual indignation with a conservative drive to preserve class hierarchies. Thus, when he claims that “as the moral level goes down, she rises” (124), he is declaiming not only against...

... soltanto dormire. Quando l’ultima stella si spegne nel cielo, l’uomo adagio prepara la pipa e l’accende. ( Lavorare 119) [The man alone gets up when the sea is still dark and the stars are unsteady. A warmth of breath rises up from the shore, where the sea’s bed is, and sweetens breathing...

.... of The Sea Wall, by Marguerite Duras . New York Times Book Review 15 March 1953: 5 . Blanchot Maurice . “ La douleur du dialogue .” Le Livre à venir . Paris : Gallimard , 1959: 223 - 34 . Borgomano Madeleine . Duras, une lecture des fantasmes. Paris : Cistre , 1985...

.... With each passage of the slave ship across the Atlantic, its coffers filled with Black flesh, the water of the Atlantic was displaced, the ship’s belly cutting through its aquatic fabric. The volume of the hold displaced the volume of the ocean. Sea levels rose. There, the geometries of the ship’s hold...

... developments in the digital humanities. These challenges and problems are grouped into two sets of terms: hegemony, recapitulation, and symmetry; and ideology, deskilling, and proletarianization. What kind of intellectual work is possible after the rise of digital media? Examining some aspects of contemporary...

... borrowed from Shakespeare and its logic at least partly that of a strange material passing of subjecthood to the songbird from the “I”), this is “a stylized stream of consciousness, in which involuntary events do not quite rise to the level of verbal representation” (14), but also where “the intertextual...

... Eugenia . Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China . Berkeley : U of California P , 2007 . Lee Jen-der . “ Conflicts and Compromise between Legal Authority and Ethical Ideas: From the Perspectives of Revenge in Han Times .” Journal...

... to pressing political concerns in these years, Brennan drafted a paper soon after this experience titled “The Age of Megalomania” that she described as “a preliminary attempt to illustrate the relation between the course of a megalomaniac psychosis, and social history related to and following on from the rise...

...,” or the “unconscious,” or the “world,” or “nature”—while other assemblages that do not endure will never rise to the level of narrative representation in the first place.35 In formal terms, the variety, complexity, and extent of corporate...

... of some strange sea creature opening and closing before us. In Film , this defamiliarizing isolation of the thing is reinforced as the wrinkled surface of the eyelid gives way to a no less strange, wrinkled texture that fills the screen. It is initially hard to say whether it is some other form...

... as Woman: Modernism's Other.” After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture,Postmodernism . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986 . 44 –62. Kaplan, Cora. “`A Heterogeneous Thing': Female Childhood and the Rise of Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain.” Human, All Too Human . Ed. Diana Fuss. New York...

... regarding the spiritual element in the sciences of the spirit and their associates, the humanities and the sciences humaines. Under attack recently are the branches of academic knowledge that, beyond a certain level of general education...

..., or supranational level, in governments and elected assemblies as well as in the upper echelons of the private sector, men are surrounded by men. It d fferences 95 is by groups of men that the future of the world is determined; groups of men pass laws that apply to women and men alike, make urban planning decisions...

... ( 2010 ): 577 – 99 . Helmreich Stefan . Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas . Berkeley : U of California P , 2009 . ———. “ How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839–2010 .” Party Writing for Donna Haraway, a Webfestschrift . Ed. King Katie . 2010 . http...

... of the Magdalen-House .” An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Magadalen Hospital, for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. Together with Dr. Dodd's Sermons . London , 1767 . Early Records of British India . London and Calcutta , 1878 . Edelman Lee . “ Seeing Things...

... that they can see across the border in the People's Republic of China. If land and space are what inspire visions of greatness and give rise to a heroic sense of history, land and space mean very different things in Hong Kong. With a large part of its useable space built from filling the sea, Hong Kong totals...

... career, Sugita had experienced some success as a writer of popular girls’ fiction [shôjo shôsetsu]. The rise of this genre in Japan around the turn of the century had coincided with sudden and widespread social awareness of young girls...