...Dorothea Heitsch Pinkus Karen , Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Book Reviews bryan hull, portland community college Nyla Ali Khan, Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir...

... . King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel ( New York : Oxford UP , 2001 ). Weinfeld Moshe . Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School ( Oxford, U.K. : Oxford UP , 1972 ). THE AMBIVALENT DEUTERONOMIST: HISTORY, LAW AND TEMPORALITY KEVIN DUNN, TUFTS UNIVERSITY...

... ambivalent rhetoric of avowal and disavowal. Nor have scholars yet charted the essay's unique evolution over a full decade's worth of drafts and revisions. Drawing on original archival research, this article reads “Tell It” as responding to two contexts that for Ellison were both achingly personal...

... moment even to a reader to whom the political outcome is known. Thus Bowen's changes to narrative discourse produce a tension between the focalized present and the project of looking back at history, conveying an ambivalent mixture of lamentation, critique, and tentative responsibility that characterizes...

... be a potentially empowering, if ambivalent, mode of inquiry for postcolonial and global authors in the twenty-first century. Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8210776 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma The Pursuit of Knowledge and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Encyclopedism in Zia Haider Rahman...

..., and a smaller one on which the hope for this transformation is nourished in daily, increasingly erotic labor. What their doubled temporality of promised but deferred pleasure makes possible—when formalized in periodical writing as a comforting, albeit ambivalent, state of suspension—is a kind of utopianism...

...Shamil Jeppie Abstract This article opens with the 2015 Rhodes Must Fall protests at the University of Cape Town, when a student poured feces on a statue of Cecil Rhodes. This moment exemplifies the ambivalent relationship between symbolic politics and demands for institutional transformation...

..., Theodore, and the film he inhabits ambivalently cling to the fantasy that the generic experience of white male alienation can remain unmarked and universal. The film's central relationship rests on Theodore misreading Samantha's genre of being through the codes of his own liberal humanist subjecthood...

..., impassioned, and sensual, that poetry be, as Wordsworth put it, alive with metaphors and figures (2008: 419). That final quotation is from the 1802 preface to Lyrical Ballads, an essay shot to the core with awareness of the poet s ambivalent relationship to norms but again, to norms of a rather different...

... writing if for no other reason than that it is a guide to breathing in this particularly airless time. DOI 10.1215/00166928-1722953­­ 106 GENRE dorothea heitsch, university of north carolina at chapel hill Karen Pinkus, Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence, Stanford, CA...

... that contains themes like moral ambivalence or paranoia. He claims that this book "investigates the philosophical themes and underpinnings [of noir] and also uses the movies as a vehicle for exploring and explicating traditional philosophical ideas" (2). Thus, Conrad believes noir films should...

... sincere liberal leanings, Lowell, as we shall see, is profoundly ambivalent about the prospect of black revolutionary movements in the 1960s, and as such vacillates between progres- sive and conservative views in the racial politics expressed in Benito Cereno just as much as he employs both radical...

... a rec- ognizable ambivalence about bebop, exhibiting a scarcely-contained reservation 'I would like to express my gratitude to Teresa Zackodnik, Garry Watson, Adam Krims, and Herman Beavers, all of whom read drafts of this material or conversed with me about ideas contained therein...

... and interdependence, groove and jam, in terms of ambivalence about those same notions. The story thus embodies the symbiotic relationship between music and narrative, between musical form and social theory, between intramu- sical tensions read and social tensions felt. Early in "Sonny's Blues...

... rejects Pater, which does not follow. What seems clear is that Hemingway grappled more with Paterianism than with Pater, an argument which is interesting enough on its own. In 1949, Chandler wrote a remarkable letter detailing his ambivalence toward homosexuality generally and Wilde specifically...

... with the Dog” with this sentence, Chekhov's narrator marks an ambivalent opening. He suggests that the couple—and, implicitly, the coming century—face difficulties created not just by modernity's new speculative freedoms but also by the process of switching into new patterns of behavior from within older...

... this supreme instance of Naipaul’s fidelity to classical realism — with its formal and ideological commitments to “individualism, progressivism, and the autonomy of character” on full seriocomic display — is internally disrupted by “the uncanny ambivalence of fantasy.” The “driving desire...

... materials of their art and enabling self- reflexive meditation on art in the age of its mechanical reproduction. In their experiments with the cliché we can excavate an ambivalent romance with the banal things of everyday life that continues to reverberate. Cliché, the past participle...

... elegists tend to enact the work not of normative but of 'melancholic' mourning" that is, for the modern elegist, "unresolved, violent, and ambivalent" (4). Less credulous, perhaps, than the traditional elegist or Freud's healthy mourner, and less willing to accept a trope as a substitute...

... into a race-­specific, non-­racist home.” She continues, “Such a world, one free of racial hierarchy, is usually imagined or described as dreamscape — Edenesque, utopian, so remote are the possibilities of its achievement” (ibid., 3). Paradise offers a nuanced, contingent, and ambivalent take on utopian...