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... . Womack Craig . 1999 . Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Supremely Monstrous Thought: H. P. Lovecraft and the Weirding of World Literature timothy s. murphy Until quite recently, the discipline of literary studies has...

... doctor and patient. © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 “Why Is Any of This Important to Me Anyway Some Thoughts from a Doctor-Poet GLENN COLQUHOUN, FAMILY DOCTOR, KAPITI COAST, NEW ZEALAND I started writing poems about medicine because I kept getting stuck as a medical student...

...Tobias Menely [email protected] Greg Ellerman , Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 Greg Ellerman begins Thought's Wilderness by exploring...

...Lheisa Dustin This article argues that the creative autobiography The Sword Went Out to Sea and other later work of the modernist American writer H.D. evidence foreclosure: a mode of psychic “denegation,” as Jacques Lacan describes it, in which words, thoughts, and people are not differentiated...

... , Francis Turner Palgrave defines lyrical as being “held essentially to imply that each Poem shall turn on some single thought, feeling, or situation.” Although Palgrave himself generally selected complete poems—not excerpts—the essay contends that his idea that a poem should boast a “single thought...

... the return of religion in its more public forms in recent decades, any more than one could have foreseen the great reopening of the question of secularization within social theory since 1990. If, as I argue, the complete eradication of religious thought, which is to say a “finished” project of secularization...

...). The article addresses the use of Jackson's letters as an example of Deleuze and Guattari's “diagrammatic” method of mapping connections between disparate political and intellectual traditions. Analyzing how, in Jackson's letters, running becomes both a figure of thought and a political concept, this article...

... of his labor posted free on the Internet is ironically compared with the collective indignation expressed by anticapitalist struggles in Europe, Africa, and the Arab world. The essay also assesses the contemporary value of Negri's thought, particularly the notions of the multitude and the common...

... , and Prometheus ), in relation to classical Greek tragedy and recent political theater (Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller). In a transcription of their free-form working sessions on Negri's first play, the three discuss a number of intersecting themes and methods: dreams as a source of critical or creative thought...

...Laura T. Murphy Home Box Office's The Wire is a cop show that boldly seeks to explore the tensions in the grand narratives that we brought with us into the twenty-first century—mythologies regarding the safety our state can provide us, the postracial society many thought we had built in the United...

... these philosophical and aesthetic distinctions. In doing so it demonstrates how interwar Marxist debates about the representation of object-ness in avant-garde literature might help assess the theoretical viability of the new materialist thought for literary studies today. Marla Zubel is a PhD candidate...

.... In Wiredu's argument, decolonization ought to be a genealogical project, disentangling African thought from colonial impositions. The goal is not simple opposition but the chance to enable located concepts’ and traditions’ mutual interrogation, so that a “decolonized” thinker is one who can make an informed...

...Spencer Morrison Abstract This article presents Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) as a novel whose aesthetic engagements with totalitarianism disclose broader ideological ambivalences within 1950s‐era Black antiracist thought and art. Marshall, like other midcentury Black authors...

... that “if the sensorimotor break takes place, it is because it had already taken place long ago, with the discovery of the cinematographic image itself.” That is, “the sensorimotor break is not only—and not primarily—a historical event but a figure of thought: the thought of cinema itself” (201–2). It is via the bridge...

... Spinoza’s thought is not one theoretical object along- side others, capable of being considered at a distance, the truth of which would only appear on the condition that one adopt a neutral and indifferent point of view with regard to it, which would amount as it were to deactivating it, rendering...

... to appropriate him. "The Italy that accomplished the national rehabilitation [restauration] of science and thought, that lovingly studies its great philosopher Giordano Bruno, will not forget to raise a noble monument in its Pantheon to one of its most wor- thy children."4 In the same era, Leopardi's...

... and attempted to follow the mercurial frolicking of Benjamin Franklin. By the time we make it to Emerson, my students are drawn to his enticingly modern admonition that they should “believe [their] own thought[s]” (Emerson 2003 : 117) and his subsequent call to “trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron...

.... Hildebrand interprets this omnipresent but easily overlooked development in literary history as the result of fiction's formal engagement with environmental thought, which focused new attention onto the agencies and animacies filling ambient space. According to Hildebrand, Lamarck's account of a continuous...

...). GENRE XXXIII - FALL-WINTER 2000 - 331-330. COPYRIGHT © 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA. ALL RIGHTS OF REPRODUCTION IN ANY FORM RESERVED. 332 GENRE this proof, Turing proposed a thought experiment involving an imaginary machine consisting of a head that could...

... these discursive fields, but he also affords us both motivation and means to better articulate their distinctions. It is in those distinctions as much as in their intertwining that poetry and philosophy can teach us how early moderns grappled with the challenge—and the thrill—of thinking about thought. And in his...