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..., Violence and Civility in the New World Order and Enchantment and Deracination: The Lure of Foreignness in Contemporary Cinema . The Unsettling Legacy of Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence Asha Varadharajan arold Bloom’s reputation, indeed his notoriety, rests on the tetral- Hogy...

...Ruth Ginsburg Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 THE ANXIETY OF FATHERHOOD By RUTH GINSBURG Of the many preoccupations of modern feminist thought, “differ- ence” has been one of the most frustrating. Haunted by “essentialism...

...-editor of Transformations: The Languages of Culture and Personhood after Theory (forthcoming spring 1994). The Anxiety of Change: Reconfigwring Family Relations in Beaumarchais’s Trilogy Christie McDonald Si j’etais professeur d’histoire de France, (dit l’histoire), et...

.... Steven Dillon, Bates College Constituting A meri‘cans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. By Priscilla Wald. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. xiv + 390 pp. $56.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Deciding who is included in “We the People” has always been a vexing problem...

...LYDIA BLANCHARD Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE OF D. H. LAWRENCE AND KATHERINE MANSFIELD A STUDY IN LITERARY INFLUENCE, ANXIETY, AND SUBVERSION...

... to a confident appropriation of the authority of print than to an anxiety about its workings. In an important sense, travels did not so much happily occasion as inevitably demand the crit- ical performance, for they stood in a certain reciprocity to the reviews as a parodic, even pathologized form...

... of Whiteness (2001). Her next book is tentatively titled The Fort Marion Sketchbooks: Plains Pictography and the Emergence of the Carceral State . In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery . By Kolodny Annette...

...Robert Champigny Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 SPATIAL ANXIETY IN THE POEMS OF BARNABOOTH By ROBERTCHAMPICNY Anxiety may be viewed imaginatively as a cleavage. Social anxiety concerns the experience of being cut off from an interhuman...

... University Heinrich uon Kleist: A Study in Tragedy and Anxiety. By JOHN GFAREY. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1968. xviii + 202 pp. $6.95. The central argument of this perceptive book is that Kleist‘s work ema- nates from...

... present, they inspire creative adaptation and forgetful recombination. This revision of influence also challenges viral theories of cultural transmission by positing a more active role for the artist. More important than Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence is an anxiety of significance emerging from...

...Kevin Pask Abstract The most striking development in literary scholarship since the millennium is the increasing exploration of scientific models for literary research. This reflects an anxiety about the authority of humanistic research that has historical roots, some of them well described...

...Liu Kang Abstract This essay takes Fredric Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism as a case in point to illustrate the Chinese anxiety of influence with Western theory and the battle between (Western) universalism and Chinese exceptionalism. Chinese Jamesonism shows how an eclectic American neo-Marxist...

...Paul H. Fry Harold Bloom in his “anxiety of influence” phase is often thought to insist on an intertextual dynamic that is ahistorical. This view might seem to be confirmed by comparison with the text of Bloom's “strong precursor,” T. S. Eliot's “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” The reason...

...Ankhi Mukherjee This essay, which examines the anxiety of influence of the postcolonial English-language novel, focuses on texts constituted by metropolitan (Western, European) forms of the realist novel, albeit in a reactive mode. I claim that postcolonial revisions of canonical novels reinvent...

.... Drawn along a part of the globe that the West regarded as distant, exotic, and racially and culturally inferior, the date line is conveniently ignored in the works of these authors, who transplant what might otherwise be universal anxieties of modernity onto an exotic locale outside the regular view...

..., are read as symptomatic of a broad cultural and historical shift. While realism registers the knowability and transformability of the present, modernism captures anxiety and the disintegration of agency. As decolonizing and emancipatory hopes shrink in the Middle East, Palestinian modernism emerges...

... figure literary modernism as part of the “vital center” of Cold War politics but, improbably, position postwar nationalist anxiety as a version of modernist ennui. This unlikely picture of an American Eliot exposes a momentary reinterpretation of modernism as inherently nationalist in postwar periodical...

... , and, by extension, with poetry’s ability to move those who listened to or read it. Therefore it could at one moment provoke moral anxiety and at another signal the height of poetic accomplishment. In quarrels over the relative merits of the European vernaculars, apologists for the Portuguese language invested...

... to the point of morbidity against that of finding too much pleasure in the cruel and absurd. More broadly, Smith’s allusiveness presents a significant alternative to Harold Bloom’s anxiety of influence. Her attitude toward her predecessors is not agonistic but playful, elusive, and polyvalent. She writes...

... the political dimensions of Austen’s fictions were fading to obscurity, Gaskell drew on Austen’s portrayal of domestic relationships to underscore their relevance to “public” problems. On this view, the Austenian courtship plot does not contain political anxieties so much as animate them, with the logic...