... an outstanding model for shedding new light on familiar texts by placing them in dialogue with commercial writing, legal documents, and manuscript sources. Drawing on a rich archive and employing generative interpretive methods, Writing at the Origins of Capitalism will prove an invaluable resource for anyone...

...Fiona McWilliam This essay seeks to rectify an ongoing problem in scholarship on Katherine Anne Porter. Porter's short story “He,” a key and often-anthologized text, is being read in a revised version without attention to those revisions or the story's original context, the October 1927 issue...

..., and mechanical reproduction; and its vital role in mediating feeling. Rather than bemoan or attack the cliché, each artist put it at the center of their experiments, punning on and playing with clichés to generate a new language of feeling. For this trio of artists, the mechanical origin and mixed nature...

...Scott L. Montgomery Evolution by natural selection has provided one of the grand narratives of the modern era and a way to build stories about the origin and features of organic life. Biologizing aspects of human behavior and society has been a recurrent theme and, although recognized as having led...

... to preempt any accusations regarding his own faulty seamanship—he had originally refused to land on the nearby Tahitian islands for fear of cannibals—by creating in its place an enduring myth of a manhunting creature of the sea. The casting of the whale into a murderous villain became a staple...

...Gretchen Braun Abstract The interim between Darwin's first publication of the theory of natural selection ( The Origin of Species , 1859) and his extended application of it to human development ( The Descent of Man , 1871) corresponds with the reign of sensation fiction, a genre built upon older...

... have taught us about reading poems or to a poet or group of poets who involve us in their own reading. Given a common focus on poetry, these essays revisit the idea of lyric and its various attributes: individuality, originality, subjectivity, and feeling (especially in relation to tradition...

...Pierre Macherey This essay celebrates the originality and influence of Antonio Negri's revolutionary interpretation of Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza in his books The Savage Anomaly (1981) and Subversive Spinoza (1992). Negri produces a genuinely immanent and affirmative reading...

...Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski This essay investigates the reemergence of Cārvāka materialist philosophy in late sixteenth-century Mughal India and its possible relation to and impact on the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. India's ancient tradition of materialist philosophy (originally called...

...Sarah Allison This essay places Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë in the context of responses it provoked from contemporaries, including their retrospective rereadings of Jane Eyre . By 1857, the novel form had come a long way from its eighteenth-century origins in the roman à clef...

... reading and viewing experience in its audience, calling attention to the intimate relation between word and image. Though rarely examined in its original interdisciplinary form—in part because many of the twenty-five hundred first edition copies now reside in special or private collections where access...

..., discusses the type’s peculiar characteristics, and speculates on the reactions it drew from its original audiences. Genre, Vol. 52, No. 3 December 2019 DOI 10.1215/00166928-7965792 © 2019 by University of Oklahoma Fog- Shaped Men : The Remnant Figure in Postbellum American Regionalism nir evron Chapters 5...

... 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...

... regarding the nature of these reworkings. Some see them as a continuation of the original European models established by Goethe, Dickens, and other European writers. Others find such associations Eurocentric and call for more local standards of evaluation. This article examines this debate by looking...

... of ours, in our readings and our classes, in our research and our reflection. Other names belong to the realm of discovery. The originality and the strength of this volume is that it exposes us, though we do not know the languages they write in, to hearing...

... framework. “The link,” Yu writes, “between these three locations—the site of a US atomic bombing, the location of the then-current US war, and a camp where the US government imprisoned Japanese Americans—cannot be made through ancestry or through any common point of origin.” Instead, these sites propose...

... 1962 . New York : ESP , 1963 . — and Kühn Joachim . Colors: Live from Leipzig . New York : Harmolodic , 1997 . Derrida Jacques . Monolingualism of the Other; Or, the Prosthesis of Origin . 1996 . Trans. Mensah Patrick . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1998...

... and consuming tributist music are acts of consumption in which the original text is wrenched away from its creator and given new ownership. Although tributism perhaps adds little to musical history, other than by its very existence as a phenomenon, it adds a great deal to how that history is variously...

... even more tenuous: The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity. Chemical analyses of the patina of a bronze can help establish this, as does the proof that a given manuscript of the Middle Ages stems from an archive of the fifteenth century...

...- rative of the text, exposing the history itself as an act of reading, a moment of continuing, fluctuating origin. This emplotment of the history's origin at the moment of its ending pro- duces an uncanny effect. As the chronicle pursues its providential narrative and approaches the moment...