... striking conclusions emerge from this insight. Two paths, according to Zitin, branch outward from the impenetrability of objects: down the first is a celebration of our imagination's freedom from matter, and down the second is practice, feeling our way toward objects we cannot know (38). Addison pursues...

...Nicholas M. Evans Gebhardt Nicholas . Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2001 . 231 pp. COPYRIGHT © 2005 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2005 WORKS CITED DeVeaux Scott . `` Constructing the Jazz Tradition: Jazz...

... . Modern Plastics , 16 . November 1938 : 4 . Frankl Paul T. Form and Re-Form: A Practical Handbook of Modern Interiors . New York : Harper and Brothers , 1930 . Franklin H. Bruce . “America as Science Fiction: 1939 (L'Amérique comme Science-Fiction: 1939).” Science Fiction...

...Glenn Colquhoun The practice of medicine and the practice of writing poetry are often considered to require competing skills. The New Zealand doctor-poet Glenn Colquhoun looks at the similarities between the two activities and argues that narrative and metaphor play important roles in the creative...

... features of the patient's history of present illness, with particular attention to the “end” and “point” of the patient's story and to the patient's own sense of what constitutes health. Discernment of the ends of moral action is the key feature of Aristotle's ethical category of phronesis or “practical...

... the difficultly involved in capturing an authentic understanding of the Cumbrian custom of giant building, the poem also attempts to relay this local practice intelligibly to a metropolitan reading community whose only likely knowledge of the region's traditions in the early 1800s came from eighteenth-century...

... overtly by affectation. This imitative model prefigures the Humean self, in which sympathy is essential to subject formation. By understanding comic practice as fundamentally a practice of depicting the psyche and by insisting on the centrality of affective processes to self making, Congreve shows us what...

...Daniel Darvay This article argues that Virginia Woolf's theory and practice of the novel extends key elements of the gothic sublime shared by nineteenth-century sensation fiction and by contemporaneous psychiatric methods of diagnosis. In novels such as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Mary...

..., 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...

..., modeled his critical practice in this respect on that of the New Critics. What's more, Levy claims, Clark associates close reading with the reading of poetry in particular. Poetry features only rarely in the history of modernism as retold by art historians, but as Clark writes, “Lyric cannot be expunged...

... in Caribbean women's literature. It brings with it assumptions about individual subjectivity, progress, and socialization that underlie modes of justification for colonialist and misogynist practice and yet can be used to expose the shortcomings of models of development and to foreground the priorities...

... women a set of skills for navigating emergent economic and professional opportunities and provides a culturally authoritative means of self-advocacy. Focusing particularly on Gilman's What Diantha Did and Ferber's Fanny Herself , the author shows how the quantitative practices of their heroines function...

... its narrative. The lessons of narrative medicine, which advocate that patients and doctors use narrative collaboratively to generate a more effective understanding and treatment of illness, need to be extended to include the practice of metaphor. © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 Works...

...Janine Talley Public health promotion in the United Kingdom is pervaded by metaphor and narrative. This is largely unacknowledged and unexamined. Metaphor and narrative are important in shaping discourse and practice. Examples of their use are examined in a range of areas from health education...

... reinflect. In this way it helps us to see the stakes of a collagist long poem in our time. The essay concludes by suggesting that Deepstep , while embracing the art of disjunction characteristic of contemporary culture, at the same time surpasses this art through an innovative practice of drawing...

...” as a practical means to grasp the linkage between ontology, ethics, and politics in Spinoza's philosophy. © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Works Cited Hegel G. W. F. 1995 . Lectures on the History of Philosophy . Translated by Haldane E. S. Simson Frances H. . Vol. 3...

... of political struggle. The conversion of ARIN demonstrates that the privatization of common or public resources, a widespread neoliberal practice, can be reversed by the collective action of the multitude. © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Works Cited Giardini Federica Mattei Ugo...

... taxonomies of distorting the inherently indeterminate meanings of texts by imposing arbitrary restrictions, or “laws,” on our reading practices. This essay surveys the major objections to genre criticism lodged by its principal critics (especially Derrida) before introducing and advocating “trope theory...

...Simon Hay This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term between the pressures and practices of bildung (education; development; formation), on the one hand...