... (1955) is one of the best known in the play. As the w ord n o th in g o r rien regularly punctuates the work, the line m ight be seen as cueing a them e. However, I would like to suggest that Beckett m ight have had som ething m ore specific in mind, namely, a rejection of the position advanced...

..." was a m atter o f much contest, and also o f great im port, fo r the vague category o f "w h ite n e ss" determ ined an im m igrant's eli­ g ib ility fo r U.S. citizenship acco rd in g to th e N atu ra liza tio n Law o f 1790. As a Dane, Riis w ould have been perceived by som e as a "desirable" N ordic im...

... of "devastation, destruction (even if such destruction may som etim es herald cre a tio n 3 The Jeffersonian land-grid, w ritte n o rig in a lly on his desk, is a form of abstract violence, which precedes and rationalizes the cultural and bodily violence inflicted through the rem oval o f indigenous peoples...

...Martha Ronk Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 P o e m s w it h P h o t o g r a p h s Martha Ronk "T h e dead speak in pictures, som e 19th century fig u re keeps s a yin g " In the directions w hat's a pond, w h a t a sm all b ody o f water, w h a t happens w h e n...

..., astoundingly, to accrue som e m odicum o f success in the fo rm o f an ever-bur­ geoning, in-the-know legion of underground initiates.They're calledThe Shaggs, and they suck. So w h a t if th e ir m usic has garnered praise from Lester Bangs and Frank Zappa. So w h a t if Susan Orlean penned a feature on them...

... M ic h a e l S n e d ik e r dixerat: 'ecquis adest?' et 'adest' responderat Echo. Ovid, M etam orphoses U pon firs t reading BrianTeare's essay, I feel the oblique, slig h tly abashed narcissism of encountering a piece o f w ritin g I m ay have w ritte n .1 Som ew here alongside adm ira­ tio n fo r...

... it at nothing, it w ill still depict som ething."1 W ithout a camera, not nothing. N othing else. W hat is the som ething? W h a t Is th e th in g ? W h a t Is being de-plcted? Here. "M echanical reproduction em ancipates the w o rk o f art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an even g re a te r...

... placed before us events so catastrophic as to instigate som e reflection on w h o w e are, or believe ourselves to be.The tsunam is, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and attacks th a t have splashed across the pages o f newspapers and m agazines, and exploded into the mundane safety of television, m...

... Descartes, it should be rem em bered, this subject has no m ate ria l density. In fact, its a p parent c o n ta in m e n t in th e m a te ria lity o f a body is an acci­ dent, som ething that (for Descartes and those w ho fo llo w him , and especially those w ho do so w ith o u t e x p lic itly kn o w in g...

.... For A rth u r s part: T h at look o f H etty s oppressed A rthur with a dread w hich yet h ad som ething o f a terrible unconfessed delight in it, th a t she loved him too well. . . .[H ]e felt he would have given up three years of his youth for the happiness of June 2000 63 ab andoning him self w ithout...

...? NELL. O h plenty! Som etim es I m Modesty. Som etim es I m Poetry. Som etim es I m Chastity. Som etim es, generally before breakfast, I m merely Nell.1 Clarissa Dalloway experiences the same identity loss b u t with­ out the hum or; she finds herself being Mrs. Dalloway; n o t even Clarissa any m...

... g u a g e No t es 50.1 S pring / S u m m e r 2 0 1 2 Bhanu says o f Bhanu: This is som eone being born in E ngland though they are not, n o r ever w ill be, E nglish, th o u g h British. B ritish Black, as w e used to say. I am w ritin g a b o u t m yself. Bhanu says to her reader [to me]: H ow do...

... places us as readers in p o sitions o f p o w e r id e n tifyin g, fo r exam ple, w ith the h e ro/villain rather than a llo w in g us to share in the no d oubt pitiable p light of the victim /heroine. But here I w ant to reflect on o nly one w riter, and a w rite r w h o m ig h t indeed be seen as som...

... Roth-Schwartz 88. 7We do n o t argue th a t th e lines m ust be scanned this way, only th at they plausibly may be. 8 We learn from o th e r poem s th a t D onne was fond of . . . am biguous syntactical practice. T h ere is som ething to be said for historically defensible p u n ctu atio n...

... that, sentimentally quoting Rossetti to one another, do. The tran­ sition from the simple idea of social distinction to the complex fusion of social, personal, and sexual meanings accumulates a rich irony with each recu rren ce; som e do n o t becom es a leitmotif. The richness o f association goes beyond...

... as a pairing: First Impressions became Pride and Prejudice; M arianne became Sense and Sensibility, each one obsessed w ith conjuring m ultiples of two. The re-combinations don't end there: som ething tells me that M ansfield Park is often subtracted altogether from the set; and any reader m ight select his...

... this, at the start o f the term, and having read m y course evaluations from the previous term, it's som ething on my mind. Alan has the audacity to suggest not only engendering a sem inar in which both instructors and students w ould be charged explicitly w ith taking responsibility fo r the invention o f...

... of Proust, Joyce, and Musil.To do so, this m om ent cannot be sim ­ ply an interruption, or if it is, it m ust also im p ly som ething else (otherwise it remains nihilis­ tic). Bohrer refers to this som ething else as follows: "w hen the utopia o f the m om ent is not only an aesthetic utopia but also...

... and the contem porary m obilization o f the forces o f w ar and revenge. W hatever the sim ilarities that made Hom er's w ork seem som e­ h o w releva n t to w h a t w as h a p pe n in g in th o se days, am o n g the m a n y differences w a s that English Language Notes 50.1 Spring / S um m er 2012 E n g l is h...

... was livin g in NewYork, one o f these friends, Nile Southern (an old film school colleague from m y UCLA days and son o f th e w rite rT e rry S outhern), said m y w o rk rem in d e d him o f som e p o stm o d e rn w ritin g he had studied in a c o n te m p o ra ry A m e rican fic tio n course he to o k...