... . London : Mansell . Wheelwright Julie . 1987 . “ ‘Amazons and Military Maids’: An Examination of Female Military Heroines in British Literature and the Changing Construction of Gender.” Women's Studies International Forum 10 . 5 : 489 – 502 . “It Is I Who Have the Power”: Settling...

...Finn Collin Schleifer Ronald , Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 Book Review finn collin, university of copenhagen Ronald Schleifer...

..., like absurdity, are mutually exclusive; or that a whole‐world view requires third‐person narrative omniscience. The analysis centers on Anna Burns's Milkman (2018), a novel set in Troubles‐era Northern Ireland that connects a young woman's experience with gendered and sexual power to the behavior...

... Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret , sensation heroes find access to hidden mental reality through the psychologically revealing power of painted portraits. By doing so, they enact a distinctly gothic version of the sublime, offering a glimpse into the dark psyche by means of a subject's awed...

... have had on economic production, political representation, and resistance. However, that focus on language and communications is a recent and poorly understood development in Negri's long career. This article traces Negri's recent interest in the power of language and communications, as well as his...

... on the nature of these narratives as paradigmatic of the ages they strive to represent, particularly in their implied resonance on class and power structures: an age of nameless history, where individuality is characterized by blurred signifiers and collectivity is the founding element of everyday social...

... the sentimental novel as space for unembarrassed male tenderness by nullifying nation as a structuring force of masculinity, excluding the mother from the plot, and rendering sheltered domesticity as unheimlich . McCarthy's good-guy sentimental thereby undoes an implicitly matriarchal domestic power structure...

..., in compelling new ways, the risks and perils of satire’s unstable power in our heterogeneous societies. Copyright © 2017 University of Oklahoma 2017 satire theory Charlie Hebdo murders Salman Rushdie affair freedom of speech Capital Offenses: Public Discourse on Satire after Charlie Hebdo...

...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...

... power that this speaking position offers. Copyright © 2020 University of Oklahoma 2020 rant dispossession precarity abject Judith Butler Dina Al-Kassim Dimitris Dimitriadis Christos Iconomou Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8210763 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma...

..., and not least, its social concerns about economic inequality and corruption among the powerful. At the same time, Kim’s novel subtly reconfigures her hard-boiled sleuth as well as adapts the genre to a contemporary racial context. In this revision, both the institutional and personal practices of racism...

.... This article argues that Ozeki's approach to autofiction is vastly different from that of most of her white, male counterparts in that the author‐character “Ruth” does not lay sole claim to authorial authority, but rather works collaboratively with other characters to share creative power...

...Katarzyna Bartoszyńska This essay argues for the power of free indirect discourse in the third‐person narrative perspective to serve as a collective voice, encompassing a diversity of perspectives, through a reading of two novels by Olga Tokarczuk, Bieguni ( Flights ) and Księgi Jakubowe ( Books...

...Vincent B. Leitch During the closing decades of the twentieth century, French post-structuralism constituted a powerful shaping force on many academic disciplines, especially literary and cultural studies. At the opening of the twenty-first century, most of its major figures, born between the two...

... expresses similarity but not equivalence and thus does not erase difference, can spur healthy ways of imagining illness. Some recent literature has suggested that doctors use metaphor to communicate with patients; this gives doctors the power to determine which metaphors will frame the illness and direct...

.... Considered here, in terms of the field of medicine, is the probing power of being within the dual sense of movement and stagnation that resides within metaphors and narratives of the middle. © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 Works Cited Austin J. L. 1975 . How to Do Things with Words...

... of literature as a commodity of power with her opposing belief in the mystical and metaphysical possibilities of literary moments. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 Works Cited Allen Judith . 2010 . Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press...

... to policy. Metaphor is shown to reflect and generate narratives related to what health is, what affects health, and what can be done to improve health. Mechanical, ecological, and other metaphors are described. The valuable metaphor of journey is highlighted. Metaphor and narrative are powerful constructs...

...Franco “Bifo” Berardi Franco Berardi narrates his initial encounter with Antonio Negri in 1967 and his growing involvement with Potere Operaio (Workers' Power), which led to his expulsion from the Italian Communist Party, of which he had been a dissident member. He discusses the emergence...

... holds a unique capacity to undermine the still-powerful cultural myth of the self-sustaining, solitary traveler. The effort to re-create a journey in turn refocuses our attention on travel writing's status as a border genre between fiction and nonfiction. Tracing the physical and textual pathways...