... ECONOMY MARK BERNSTEIN & DIANE GRECO, EASTGATE SYSTEMS, INC. Though the literary world is perpetually in decline and the business of pub- lishing is, notoriously, always in crisis, recent portents seem unusually alarming. Newspapers, burdened by debt and pressured by competition from...

... of these films’ tropes in new Hollywood melodramas where the American family was upheld as a key component of national strength and integrity in combating the threat of Communist infiltration. Following this ideology, women were urged to embrace normative gender roles as wives and mothers in a system...

... valid but limited articulations of justice. The essay argues that McEwan’s contemporary tragedy enacts such a collision by intensifying the polarization between two competing systems of values: modern reason and religious faith. The novel depicts a complex entanglement between the two paradigms while...

... of language and the sociopolitical system that has cast them out. It is a risk that challenges both the identity of the speaker and the social norms and responsibilities of the listener. Building on Dina Al-Kassim’s scholarship on the rant, this article uses examples from Greek journalism and prose...

... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...

...Susanah Shaw Romney During the seventeenth century the Dutch built a global economic system that depended on contact and trade with many different peoples and cultures. To create those connections, Dutch writers particularized and described those cultures to elaborate the role local peoples might...

... experiences with the health care and insurance systems). Narrative, in the form of a quest, is usually reserved to support medical research. The quest narrative has, for example, been a staple of both “personalized” and regenerative medicine. The quest narrative, paired with stories of dying patients, has had...

..., interpreted as if it were complete within the frames of Las Meninas , is still indeterminate and “in the making” during the age immediately preceding: the age narrated in Q . If Foucault's The Order of Things takes as a point of departure the closure of the episteme from the point of view of the new system...

... (1902), Melville Davisson Post's The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896), and Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's The Wrong Box (1889) instruct the reader to regard detective fiction as a genre about the production of the corpse and the transnational economic systems that generated...

..., either by the computer programmer who determines the initial conditions of a self-organizing computer model, or by, for example, the manager who sets the conditions of an open, self- organizing work structure. A major focus of Terranova's book is the question of how self-organizing systems...

..., and Valera, Thompson and Rosch in their concept of enaction.3 Hutchins contributes to these discussions through an approach that depends crucially on re-drawing the boundaries of what counts as a cognitive system. Drawing on a rich variety of nautical examples, Hutchins shows over...

... these meaning systems. This access of course can never be unmediated, which is why Hutcheon wonders if “we have ever known the ‘real’ except through representations” (33). The combination of questioning these systems of representation while participating in them form the backbone of Hutcheon’s...

... in Nineteenth-Century America.” Political Theory 27 . 1 ( 1999 ): 85 - 120 . De Beaumont Gustave Tocqueville Alexis de . On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application in France . Trans. Lieber Francis . 1833 . Carbondale : Southern Illinois UP , 1964...

... . “ The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems .” The New Media Reader . Ed. Wardip-Fruin Noah Montfort Nick . Cambridge : MIT Press , 2003 . 627 - 41 . Stephenson Neal . Snow Crash . New York : Bantam Books , 1992 . Wills David . “ An Interview with David Wills...

... of the essay is an analysis that demonstrates how two specific aspects of Luiselli's big, ambitious archival novel cultivate an account of the refugee crisis that has a complex, discordant, recombinant structure that resists synthesis or simplification. Encyclopedic, maximalist, mega, and systems novels...

... to the effect that no strict, general mathematical solution exists to the behavior of a system of three (or more) bodies moving under the influence of gravity alone (i.e., according to mechanical, Newtonian forces). This problem thus pertains, for example, to a system comprising...

... Gary . “The Convict Tattoo.” Social Alternatives 17 . 4 ( 1998 ): 14 - 17 . Davis Angela Y. “Race, Gender, and Prison History: From the Convict Lease System to the Supermax Prison.” Sabo, Kupers , and London 35 - 45 . Díaz-Cotto Juanita . Gender, Ethnicity...

... sits out two lifetime sentences in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Kansas. His story is one of international magnitude, invoked by many as repre- sentative of the American government's violation of human rights and use of the criminal justice system to neutralize dissent. Given the political...

... of diverse talents. The sorcerers work together to defy a divine code, a literal inscription of destiny manifested in the forms of nature. Setting elements of the Gothic revival within a cultural system of Islamic fatalism, Thalaba juxtaposes Eastern and Western frames of reference to develop its...

... characteristics of archaic speech and writing, but also confronting the cognitive and moral systems of bygone worlds. Such an approach would make "Oxen of the Sun" a highly unusual species of fiction that experiments with its own fictionality. The diarist who reports "So Thursday sixteenth June Patk...