...- plete, unswerving devotion to the perfect blending of form and substance” that the artist can make “the old, old words, worn thin, defaced by ages of careless usage” resound once again (ibid With his extensive use of different rhetorical devices in Ulysses, at times, such as in Molly’s monologue...

... after the evaporation of SDS” (McMillian 2003: 5–6). Genre, Vol. 44, No. 1  Spring 2011  DOI 10.1215/00166928-1001130  © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 30 GENRE and homogenous collective will that will render pointless the moment of politics” (ibid.: 2). In short...

... an oppositional movement. McCann and Szalay (ibid., 447) insist that each of DeLillo’s and Morrison’s nov- els “derides progress, enlightenment, and reason; each reveres the unknowable force of mystery; and each suggests that the most appropriate attitude toward mundane political conflict or social tension...

... as a “summing up, from a perspective or point of view, as partial as it must be.” As such, it secures the “fragile control or sur- vival of an even more fragile subject within a world otherwise utterly independent and subject to no one’s whims or desires” (ibid.: 333). Totalization therefore...

.... The terms of my existence are founded on that” (ibid.: 250). Jackson’s letters move from his personal experience of capture at the age of eighteen, when he was sentenced by the state of California to “one year to life” for allegedly stealing $70 from a gas...

... of course Hardt and Negri 2000, 2004, and 2009 as well as the extensive critical litera- ture that has arisen around those texts. 3. See the subtitle to Nietzsche’s (ibid.) Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. Genre, Vol. 44, No. 1  Spring 2011  DOI 10.1215/00166928-1001148  © 2011...

..., such as “the Marble Arch Marks and Spencer” (Fielding [1996] 2001, 55), Panorama (ibid., 247) and Noel’s House Party (ibid., 99), “Jaeger and Country Casuals” (ibid., 72), Silk Cut cigarettes, and Brian Rix and Noel Edmonds (ibid., 47). They may not be able to read what is implied in Bridget’s meeting her...

... and artistically depicts that which is universally human in [the] life-­course. . . . Life’s dissonances and conflicts appear as necessary transitions to be withstood by the individual on his way towards maturity and harmony” (Dilthey [1906] 1985): 335 – 36). Dilthey (ibid.: 335) outlines that German...

... autonomy, self-­destructive obsession and auto­ immunitary paradoxes that render Robinson Crusoe his own destroyer and Defoe perhaps his own enemy, his own foe, the parrot and the wheel, etc What to make of this odd and expansive cluster of topics? Derrida’s (ibid.: 137) reply: “I cannot justify...

... of the difficulties of adapting Jane Austen’s novels, according to Deborah Cartmell (2010, 4), is their emphasis on the subtleties of language rather than on action. While this assertion begs the question of what constitutes “action,” the idea that “nothing much happens in Austen’s stories” (ibid.) is a common...

... a site of remem- brance and mourning that is deeply personal and specific, as Horowitz observes (ibid The writers’ urge to re-­create in language “the annihilated world” (Wievi- orka 2006, 25) of the shtetl drives the collective creation of the yizker bukh...

... trimeter, which “has the rhythm of speech”; arouse “pity and fear” in the audience; contain six essential components, namely “plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and lyric poetry” (ibid., 49); and subor- dinate character to plot. “If someone lays out a string of speeches that express...

....1 Potts (ibid., xiii), no doubt, speaks for many others when he laments this 1. And then there are those who follow in the footsteps of those already following in Polo’s foot- steps. Stuart Stevens’s Night Train to Turkistan (1988), for instance, retraces Peter Fleming’s travels...

... also tacitly assumes that a divide exists between the experience of “woman” (epitomized in Austen) and “the labours of legislation,” the halls of “empires,” men, and the “guns” of the “real world” (ibid Richard, through the creation of a literary caricature and the manipulative denigration of his...

... and pressing now than ever before. "The state of exception," he writes, "has now reached its maximal planetary expansion" (ibid., 111). "When the state of exceptionbecomes the rule," he continues, "then the juridi- co-political system becomes a machine which may at any moment turn lethal" (ibid., 110...

.... Giving up a fantasy is harder than giving up a reality” (ibid The environmental conflicts that emerge in Drop City suggest we might extend Morton’s observations by also giving up the bad objects of the Golden State and the last frontier, those mythologized American lands and phantasmago- rical...

... is one that Negri cites often in his writ- ings on Spinoza: “A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death” (ibid., E IV P67, 235). Like his precursors Lucretius, Spinoza, Giacomo Leopardi, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, Negri...

... over hundreds of thou- sands of years of hunter- gatherer life, so that its detailed structure is adapted to this stage of existence, comprising over 99 percent of our species’ history. So runs the sense of this passage: “Our modern skulls house a stone age mind,” as the authors put it (ibid...

..., his rationality and his sense of wonder. At first glance this town seems more Norman Rockwell than Dürer, with its unthreatening “fife- and- drum” storm, in which “it is a privilege to see so / much confusion” within 62 GENRE an overall order and harmony (ibid...

...- grants from China and Japan "Autobiography as such was virtually unknown, since for a scholar to write a book about himself would have been deemed ego- tistical in the extreme. Fiction was considered frivolous" (ibid While Wong did occasionally adopt the autoethnographic mode...