... the pow er of the televisual im age. Barrett W atten's book-length poem Bad H istory directly critiques the artificial "g ive nn e ss" o f the televisual Image, just as the language w riters had targeted the distortions o f the w ritten and spoken m essages In th e p o litica l language o f th e 1950s...

... challenges and expands existing research that suggests that McKay’s writings register the impulse for a nomadic wandering away from oppressive forms of identity control set up in the wake of World War I. The article contends that Claude McKay’s renegade cast of “bad nationalist” characters registers...

... therefore, and necessarily, differed from perform ed texts. These arguments, in turn, lead Erne into the swamps of speculation about the Bad quartos where, without absolutely committing himself, he tends to encourage belief that these shorter texts record theatrical per­ formance. It is a pity that having...

...; and second, published texts therefore, and necessarily, differed from perform ed texts. These arguments, in turn, lead Erne into the swamps of speculation about the Bad quartos where, without absolutely committing himself, he tends to encourage belief that these shorter texts record theatrical performance...

... Taymiyyah, it has also played out violently, beginning with the execution of al-Hallaj in the ninth century and continuing today with the destruction of Sufi shrines and other ritual spaces in Pakistan and elsewhere. 8 Cf. Safi, “Good Sufi, Bad Muslims,” wherein Safi discusses the problematic...

... there is a sense in which the history of the poem allegorizes the occlusion of one jurisdictional domain by another: on the one hand, the terrain of Baude­ laire's inner life, of a solipsistic inferiority carved out by feelings of failure, despair, and bad conscience and limned by a misprised Catholic im aginary...

... to M atthew M arino, puns can be categorized as good, bad, or beautiful. A bad pun results from [a]ny coinci­ dence of phonology, morphology, syntax, or semantics and can at best be adm ired for its m echanical cleverness. T he good pun is created when the evoked scripts speak cogently to a situa­...

... he links Barrett Watten's Bad H istory w ith M ichal Rovner's cover photograph fo r that vo lu m e raise questions about photographic "exposure," the stories it can tell, and how reader-view ers c o n tin u a lly re p o sitio n th e m se lve s in relatio n to it. W h o o r w h a t is exp o sin g w h...

... cartoonist C. Tyler's "Ju st a Bad Seed." By allow ing incursions o f marginal material into the center and vice versa, both Tyler and the Luttrell Psalter artist suggest "in-betw een" solutions to ostensible "either-or" problems. Beyond demonstrating the sophistication of cartoonists' and medieval book...

... British cultural and political preeminence against the radical politics and "bad circulation" of empire. This puta­ tive subordination of Indian im itators to British originals operates according to w h at Daniel W hite has called the "little-colon ial logic of com parison": [The little-colonial logic...

... wicked. However, the plain style o f the vernacular can be either good or bad, for the vices (e.g., in Wisdom, a play which Dillon does not exam ine) often speak in a no-nonsense way. It is clear that plainness is n o t always to be equated with truth. Dillon does not adequately, it seems to me, catch...

... of fair representation sim ply requires the Guild to avoid arbitrary, discrim i­ natory, or bad faith conduct.18 A t the urging of the WGA's lawyers, courts have resisted every effort to increase judicial oversight of the union's adm inistration of the credit system because the prevalence o f rules...

... approaches modernism's transnational legacy by turning to Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) and J. M. Coetzee's Diary o f a Bad Year (2007), m ulti-generic works that combine fiction, political philosophy, and documentary to imagine comparative fram e­ works for political agency, social embeddedness...

... Familie they were b u t twain, He left them in the Mothers keeping; So by experience we see every day, T hat bad things do increase, and good things do decay; And vertue with m uch care from vertue breeds, Vice freely springs from vice, like stinking weeds. Sardanapulus King of Babylon, Was to his...

... in the twentieth century. The trio of essays following Brown’s compose a loosely joined suite exploring the sea, one prime location of the surveillance that troubles Lafala, McKay’s cruelly disabled, eventually wealthy, but never-idealized protagonist. Rich Cole’s contribution, “Claude McKay’s Bad Nationalists...

... it. The purpose of habit was to make the pursuit of good easier. “How hard soever it be to our flesh to follow after a virtuous, honest, and sober life, yet custom will make it easy to overpass” ( TFA , 2.42). However, a bad habit could form in much the same way as a good one, and once in place it became...

... is highest and noblest”—suggest more, at least if taken at face value. People with benign intentions can unwittingly do bad things, but if Mr. Stevens considers it something along the lines of a given that whatever Lord Darlington does must be good, as if his deeds might be good by definition , then his...

... wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before, and because of the weak laws they come in fast. . . . It’s crazy.” 1 His description bestialized immigrants as teeming...

...) Burney’s efforts (in March 1814) to confine the French Revolution to a distant past experientially separate from her reader could be read as bad faith. Her construction of the French Revolution as an event that “excites” powerful affective responses, without naming the particular antecedents readers...