...Jon Panish Neate Patrick . Twelve Bar Blues . New York : Grove Press , 2001 . 401 pp. COPYRIGHT © 2005 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2005 Alfred Appel, Jr. Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 282 pp...

... GENRE Patrick Neate. Twelve Bar Blues. New York: Grove Press, 2001. 401 pp. In an interview with the BBC upon winning the 2001 Whitbread Novel Award for Twelve Bar Blues, Patrick Neate stated that though the book "is based around jazz," jazz "is not really my passion." He claimed rather...

... GENRE Patrick Neate. Twelve Bar Blues. New York: Grove Press, 2001. 401 pp. In an interview with the BBC upon winning the 2001 Whitbread Novel Award for Twelve Bar Blues, Patrick Neate stated that though the book "is based around jazz," jazz "is not really my passion." He claimed rather...

... GENRE Patrick Neate. Twelve Bar Blues. New York: Grove Press, 2001. 401 pp. In an interview with the BBC upon winning the 2001 Whitbread Novel Award for Twelve Bar Blues, Patrick Neate stated that though the book "is based around jazz," jazz "is not really my passion." He claimed rather...

... stories-in bookstore windows). Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe's Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (pub- lished, in a neat bit of cosmic justice, by Ohio State, the university which expelled Ellison in 1955) is the first book-length study of the author, a daunting task given the literally...

... from stress or worry; this neat appearance is to express a contemporary lifestyle or the particular expe- rience of customer-friendliness in a very general sense. These examples demonstrate that there can be a demand for specialized providers of portraits, although in theory millions...

... joint chaws tabacca. 322 GENRE The floorboards creak. His feet thud like walking sticks. The bar leans out against him. I pour his whiskey neat and say...

..., and emotions that Guido considers too unwieldy and complex to contain in a neat, finite work of art. Toward the end of the film, after the symbolic suicide that is apparently the result of his creative frustration, he declares a truce between the limitless complexities of his life and the limited...

... critique of traditional Western logocentrism in his Of Grammatology, is not the Logos of this late work. The latter is something else. Phantasm flows in the place of pure reason, logic, and neat binary opposi- tions, three stocks in trade of philosophy and logocentrism. The springs...

..., historically in the Babylonian captivity of the Israelites, and culturally in the Rastafarian sense of global capitalism and the African diaspora) it resists conscription into “grand binary schemes” and is the “annoying compli- cation” that confounds any neat division of past and present, us and them...

..., are also reproduced in the musical form. The final word of the narrative, as we saw, is not one of closure but of rest- lessness, not peace of mind but vibration. This absence of schematic closure in the narrative, in the music (jazz pieces are not the neat three-minute packets that we hear...

.... In the late 1920s, Max Horkheimer wrote a frag- ment titled "Concerning Resentment": A neat trick: the criticism of the system is to be the prerogative of those that have an interest in it. The others, who have the opportunity of getting to know its underside, are disarmed...

.... That challenge is the massive scale of the real. We could try to know vast quantities of material at once, as many digital humanists are doing, but that might backfire on us, offering neat packagings, deceptively man- ageable compressions into numbers. The novelists suggest that what we really need...

...). Curtis's work might be read to challenge the neatness of this distinction to the extent that its serial dislocations and relocations seem to exemplify an "open space paradigm" that emphasizes movement, and yet they also clearly demon- strate a dependence on geopolitical territoriality...

... American culture under social pressure: 118 Since I left South China, I have changed my clothes to the Western style. I seek praise for being neat and fashionable Though I have yet to speak with an American tongue. Smart...

... beyond the surface, the illusion of far-­flung intimacy. What lies on the other side of the investment banker, the microfinance capitalist? Lahiri hints at a more substantive story that Dev presumes we do not need to know. Will we find a neat inversion, that Miranda’s immobility...

... of establishing the authenticity of the foreignizing representation. Second, the neat distinction between source and target countries implies that the author's background is singular and unambiguous. While this is certainly the typical situation, there are important exceptions—for example, authors connected...

... achievement, of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge; with a turn for neat- ness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity" (Aston 4, emphasis added). In The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, Noguchi had alluded to this criticism by having...

... of “breaking off ” those aspects that do not fit the neatness of dominant cultural narratives. “Reintroducing” these sheared-off elements allows the text to keep sentimentality at one remove. So too does the long poem, which provides the scope for an investigation that moves beyond the immediate...

... adaptations (i.e., clean and neat). More important, it refers to the women’s (and the film’s) role in construct- ing the “natural” life of a family at its customary pursuits. Behaving naturally, it turns out, means to be at one’s most performative. The logic of this scene suggests that if presenting...