...Walter Everett A TRUE STORY: THE EXPRESSION OF TROUBLING SOCIETAL VALUES IN THE MUSIC OF POSTMODERN ROCK WALTER EVERETT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN It is very difficult to trace any precise boundaries, but in attempting to character- ize what distinguishes the music of rock from...

... States, the stability of the United States as a superpower, our unshakable economy, the undeniability of social mobility, our unlimited individual potential, our pursuit of the true and the good. Focusing specific attention on the representation of modern slavery in season 2, Laura Murphy locates...

... and in revealing via film noir techniques how much our desire for generic platitudes is at once misdirected and unavailing. While the Western refuses to remain dead, as the Coens' own version of True Grit (2010) reminds us, their earlier version of No Country confirms McCarthy's brilliant exposure of the skeletal...

... , 1980 . Barton David Hamilton Mary Ivaniĉ Roz , eds. Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context . London : Routledge , 2000 . Berlant Lauren . “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics.” Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century . Ed...

... of an author's intention, all reading and judgment become a purely subjective experience. The stakes of authorial intention are so high for Benn Michaels because without a clear path to the author's true meaning disagreement becomes mean- ingless. Though Kant is not mentioned in The Shape...

... is a latecomer of the ages is, in any case, paralyzing and depressing; but it must appear dreadful and devastating when such a belief one day by a bold inversion raises this latecomer to godhood as the true meaning and goal of all previous events, when his miserable condition...

... to the revelation — "all that he com- mands we will do, we will obey" — and then, despite the intention of fidelity, despite these promises, he backslides, betraying the true event with a false one (idolatry), falling victim to a failure of courage: "because there were no graves in Egypt, did you take us...

... cinema, as follows: narration ceases to be truthful, that is, to claim to be true, and becomes funda- mentally falsifying It is a power of the false which replaces and supercedes the form of the true, because it poses the simultaneity of incompossible presents, or the co...

... productive in the perspective not of the ideal anticipation of a possible future but of an innovation perpetually realized in the present, in an absolute and therefore true manner. We must be grateful to Negri for having drawn this vivacious, strong, extreme, and radical figure out of Spinoza, a figure...

... in a completely philosophical manner, that is to say, as the product of the effort and operations of the mind [esprit]. The detective's enquiry took as its model the philosophical search, and in return gave that search an unusual object: a crime to be solved. But there were two schools of the true...

... it hap- pened (Rahman 2014: 290) but that they highlight their own inadequacy and the truths that exist beyond them. In the final section of this article, I argue that the POSTCOLON I A L ENCYCLOPEDISM 83 same is true of Rahman s novel as a whole. The extended metaphor (271) that is In the Light...

... of loss and coupled it with the hope that the lamps would light again soon. This was particularly true in Chicago, where Louis Armstrong would escape the shadow of his onetime employer Joseph "King" Oliver and breathe new life into jazz with his improvisation in performances such as his famed...

...- determination and an autonomy that may be claimed by no other genre. Where the novel lies under the burden of mimetic representation, the essay is as free to ramble as its creator: "The essay becomes true in its progress, which drives it beyond itself, and not in a hoarding obsession with fundamentals...

... is that the protagonist changes as a result of learning, growing up, and, most importantly, taking moral decisions. This is particularly true for the genre's early literature, where self-improvement through study (American school stories) or athleticism (English school stories) is the lesson to be learned (Avery 1994...

... demanded by novel and biography mutually inform one another in the factual and counterfactual narratives women writers tell about each other. I. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë as a True History of Jane Eyre: An Autobiography The clearest part of the narrative about the rise of the novel...

... on city walls. Connecting them is not some hidden political affinity, but the fact that both allow for an outpouring of emotion. The true purpose of graffiti for Abse, then, is not to articulate strongly held beliefs but to rid oneself of frustration toward a whole system, even if the immediate target...

...David Stymeist COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 BIBLIOGRAPHY Anonymous . A true and just Recorde of the Information, Examination, and Confession of all the witches, taken at St Oses . London : 1582 . Blagden Cyprian . The Stationers’ Company...

... now evaporated. Barthes is still eminently quotable, but if you opened an essay by citing Barthes, you would feel the need to explain why the statement of his was interesting or relevant (typical of a way of thought, for instance), or revealing because true or false. Today, as I suggested...

..., most people thought that I just picked up my saxophone and played whatever was going through my head, without following any rule, but that wasn't true. ID: You constantly protest against that accusation. OC: Yes. People on the outside think that it's a form of extraordinary freedom, but I...

... the computational ability of modern computers and the vast databases of knowledge they contain, we can run simulations, demonstrating not only what happened, and why it hap- pened, but also showing what might have happened. Bogost's position is not that 108 GENRE simulations are in fact "true," providing...