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... mechanisms behind the narrative recasting of this docile creature into a calculating predator that savagely attacked whale ships. Owen Chase's Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex set off a flurry of similar tales when it appeared in 1821. Chase attempted...

... headquarters], but by 'plants' in targeted neighborhoods."2 The Serie Noire was first of all an adapta- tion of Sanctuary for the general public (witness Chase's No Orchids for Miss Blandish3) and a generalization of Malraux's preface. 'This essay was originally published in the magazine...

... : McFarland . Cantril Hadley . 1941 . The Psychology of Social Movements . New York : Wiley . Cantril Hadley Allport Gordon W. . 1935 . The Psychology of Radio . New York : Harper . Chase Stuart . 1929 . Men and Machines . New York : Macmillan . Cowley...

...” of the woods (Hardy [1891] 2008, 43). The Slopes sits just outside the Chase, “a truly venerable tract of forest land; one of the few remaining wood- lands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew-­trees, not planted...

... Press . Chase Karen Levenson Michael . 2000 . The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Cholmondeley Mary . (1899) 2008 . Red Pottage . Charleston, SC : Wildside . Citations refer to the 2008 edition...

... changing gender roles by surrounding Rowe with both disturbingly domesticated men and dauntingly heroic women. After his initial encounter with Poole, Rowe's chase moves quickly from Orthotex, a detective agency, to the office of the Free Moth- ers, a charity that organized the fete as one...

... provoke the state. Now picture a black teenager running in the street, not being hailed but being chased down by a cop at gunpoint: 172 GENRE There just wasn’t any possibility of a policeman beating me in a footrace. A target that’s...

... Blandish” George Orwell ([1944] 2008, 232) penned a fierce critique of the “glamourized crime” and political realist ethos of James Hadley Chase’s brutal novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939). Orwell ([1944] 2008, 244) suggested that the public’s appetite for this fiction...

... Press . Chase Richard . 1961 . Introduction to Selected Tales and Poems , by Melville Herman , edited by Chase Richard , v – xix . New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston . Cooper James Fenimore . (1839) 1853 . History of the Navy of the United States of America...

... . 2004 . “ ‘No More Yielding Than a Dream’: The Construction of Shakespeare in The Sandman.” College Literature 31 . 4 : 94 – 110 . Chase Richard . 1957 . The American Novel and Its Tradition . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Elam Diane . 1992 . Romancing...

... in the remarkable torrents of his romans fleuve I want to focus on a set of figures that appear as such within the works: those used to des- ignate his characters ages. Scholars have considered this dimension of Trollope s novels. Karen Chase (2009: 106) has written about his age- conscious prose, noting...

...' is not a genius, but a literary hack. It could be assembled by a machine, and machines are perhaps now assembling its successors—which is a development that Johnson seems to foresee. 'Jonathon Green, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996...

... [in horror] has a kind of shock value For instance, in watching the climactic scene in Pan’s Labyrinth where Vidal chases Ofelia into the Faun’s Labyrinth, American audiences might very well recall the climactic scene at the end of Stan- ley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). The murderous Jack...

... attempt on Sanders's life, as well. Undaunted by his initial failure, Browne tries again after Roger tracks Sanders throughout the city and its environs. In a lengthy speech Roger describes his frenetic movements as he chases Sanders "too and fro" (1. 1138). After lying in wait at the Sanderses...

..., “Chase Henry” (97). Neverthe- less, the fact of secularization does not mean that the cemeteries were necessarily marginalized as the “other city,” as Foucault (1986, 25) terms them. To the contrary, the domestic cemetery, planted with trees and flowers, was always intended to be part...

... of an injured party, Stillman finally realizes he has taken the wrong man as his object. Without missing a beat, an exhausted Stillman moves to redeem his criminal error, now chasing the man to offer restitution. But every injustice Stillman has inflicted reveals itself upon that blameless body. He is now...

... deteriorates into Hollywood boilerplate, complete with car chases, gun battles, and steamy sex - was deemed a failure by many critics.1 Few commentators on the film read the ending as anything other than a disap- pointing sell-out to the hackneyed conventions of classical Hollywood cinema. Fewer still...

... . New York : Limelight , 1985 . Rank Otto . The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings . New York : Vintage , 1959 . Reid Calvin . `` Chasing the Blue Train .'' Art in America . Sept. 1989 : 196 - 97 . Rosenthal David H. Hard Bop: Jazz and Black...

...). Not only does the Christian merchant pass through familiar locales within Europe, such as Braban and Brytayn, as he chases profit, the truly globe-­trotting trader travels well outside of Christian Europe, striking bargains in “Jerusalem and in Jherico among the Jewes jentle” and making...

... mid-ground between Ahab's inauguration of "the fiery hunt" with the gold doubloon, and the culminating chase. Fictional devices of delay are common, in short, but Nostromo's narrative supplants delay with termi- nation; and the effect is almost as startling as if Melville had omitted the three...