...Barrett Watten THE LOST AMERICA OF LOVE: A GENEALOGY BARRETT WATTEN, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY Into the company of love it all returns. —Robert Creeley1 I This is apocryphal. A party in Hollywood, at which...

... .'' In Globalization and Culture . Eds. Miyoshi Masao Jameson Fredric . Durham : Duke University Press , 1998 . Keith Michael . Race, Riots and Policing: Love and Disorder in a Multi-racist Society . London : UCL Press , 1993 . Koolhaas Rem . `` The Regime of ¥E$ .'' In Anything...

.... Philippine Commission . Reports of the Philippine Commission, the Civil Governors, and the Heads of the Executive Departments of the Civil Government of the Philippine Islands, 1900-1903 . Washington Printing Office , 1904 . Rafael Vicente . “ White Love: Census and Melodrama in the U.S...

... and poverty, failing to appreciate his flexibility and dexterity, as well as his vigorous love for life. He can't understand the strength of his father's deceptive weakness. He also overlooks the oral history likely contained in his father's songs and the wisdom of his words. Okonkwo's life is put...

..., hope, and love. In the broadest terms the imperiled object of this romance is the continued writing of poetry itself, a practice beset with dangers, according to these essays, from both within and without. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 This content is made freely available by the publisher...

... by the county inspector after a nasty problem emerges concerning human waste management. Alaska thus becomes a refuge for the characters, who occupy themselves by making love and getting high while trying to live off the land with the little knowledge they have. In chronicling the contradictions of the modern...

.... Their correspondence, while full of expressions of love and admiration, also shows them affectionately tussling over the relative merits of nature and transcendence, the sublime and the everyday, with Bloom repeatedly urging Ammons to leave mundane particulars behind and mount higher into the visionary stratosphere...

...Nell Sullivan The trauma of 9/11 ushered in a new age of male-centered sentimentality. With its focus on a father's sacrificial love for his young son in a postapocalyptic setting, Cormac McCarthy's The Road reflects this shift to male-centered sentimentality. In The Road , McCarthy appropriates...

... and style: from narcissism, emotional exile, and thwarted confession to compassionate love and consolatory elegy, from what Edward W. Said called “late style” to its antithesis, “timeliness.” Closely reading each text's presentation of perspective and closure and elements of the film's style, including mise...

... makes this empathy possible. By recourse to Lewis Hyde's seminal work on the gift and Elaine Scarry's work on the ethics of perceiving beauty, I argue that, in kissing Clarissa, Sally Seton “transmits” her empathy and love of life to Clarissa, who in turn throughout her life passes it on to others who...

...Len Gutkin This article proposes that the tragic intensity of Henry James’s major phase—an intensity marked by highly recursive nuances of represented psychology, by a frankness about the power of erotic love both to redeem and to destroy, and by elaborate metaphoric conceits...

... technology. The protagonist is presented as an outsider by means of literary science fiction devices, only to be made more “normal” and recognizable as part of the school story, love story, and thriller. This refamiliarization gives WarGames a conservative potential, less evident but still present...

..., priva- tize, and exploit its results. Finally, the nation enables its subjects to imagine a community, but one predicated on the exclusion of difference and the policing of borders (160–64). In response to these threats against the common, Hardt and Negri advocate a politics of love...

...] 1974 : 173) provocation in her essay “Pictures” that a professor write a book called “The Loves of the Arts,” which “would be concerned with the flirtations between music, letters, sculpture, and architecture, and the effects that the arts have had upon each other throughout the ages.” Literature...

..., talk of love, bits of dialogue, and traces of repetitive pastoral song" (156). The poem is also representative of pastoral, however, because it is so concerned with limits—imposed from within the frame as much as from without it. In the poem a couple out walking near nightfall are "halted...

... recent books, Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008), includes a series of expan- sive lyrics and a long poem that addresses love, family, the war in Iraq, and the realities of life along the US- Mexico border, among other things. The roving Genre, Vol. 45, No. 1 Spring 2012 DOI 10.1215/00166928...

... Reproduction.” Illuminations . Ed. Arendt Hannah . Trans. Zohn Harry . New York : Shocken , 1969 . 217 - 51 . Eco Umberto . “ ‘I Love You Madly,’ He Said Self-Consciously.” The Truth About the Truth: De-Confusing and Re-Constructing the Postmodern World . Ed. Anderson Walter...

... Do you really think that at any period in our friendship you were worthy of the love I showed you, or that for a single moment I thought you were? I knew you were not. But Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect...

... of her beauty, the poet is ardent for her love. Her beauty, however, will fade with time. Confronted by the woman’s refusal to return the poet’s love (in other words, to sleep with him) the poet reminds the woman of the transience of her beauty, and urges her to enjoy her youth...

.... G. 2007 . “Secrets, Crimes, and Diseases, 1800–1914.” In A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex between Men since the Middle Ages , edited by Cook Matt , 107 – 44 . Oxford : Greenwood World . Ellis Havelock . (1910) 1936 . Studies in the Psychology of Sex . New York...