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... and the Contradictions of Cultural Differences Paul B. Armstrong s an outspoken public intellectual who has not shied away from A controversy, Edward W. Said has been at times a polarizing figure. His critics are often so ready to discredit him that they pay no attention to the complications...

... (2002) ; and German Literature,Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium , edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner (2002). Trostgründe: Cultural Nationalism and Historical Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century German Literary Histories Hinrich C. Seeba I n Germany, where chauvinist nationalism...

... are British literary history and American drama. Functionalizing Cultural Memory: Foundational British Literary History and the Construction of National Identity Margit Sichert When God wants a hard thing done, He tells it, not to His Britons, but to His Englishmen. Stanley Baldwin, On England...

...Brian Reed Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic . By Simon During. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. x + 336 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Brian Reed is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington. His publications...

...Sun Yifeng Translation has played a critical role in forming the modern Chinese literary canon and continues to stimulate its change and expansion. It is instrumental to the exchange and synthesis of foreign narrative modes and aesthetic paradigms. There are obvious political, cultural...

..., rather different study. A. S. G. EDWARDS University of Victmk B@we Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Faction. By J. PAULHUNTER. New York: Norton, 1990. xxv + 421 pp. $25.00. Desire and Tmth: Functions of Plot...

...Peter Stallybrass Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Peter Stallybrass or the past two years, I have been trying to understand the work of Fbibliographers and editors. I undertook this “retraining...

...Michael Holquist Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Last European: Erich Auerbach as Precursor in the History of Cultural Criticism Michael Holquist In 1948 Renk Wellek and Austin Warren devoted many pages of their Theory of Literature to problems of literary...

...Bill Readings Guillory John. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp. $36.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. By John Guillory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp...

... of Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England.” Reading Shakespeare’s Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate Jonathan Brody Kramnick ew cultural products are as important for the discipline of English Fas the novel and Shakespeare, yet...

...Jon Klancher Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Jon Klancher teaches literature and cultural history at Boston University. He is the author of The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790–1832 (1987), essays on the history of criticism, and a work in progress on public...

...Walter D. Mignolo © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism Walter D. Mignolo The aim of my argument is to challenge the authority of the past by looking at languages...

.... 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...

... poetry, Hegel, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Freud. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between , coedited with Wolfgang Iser, appeared in 1996. Descartes’s Cogito, Kant’s Sublime, and Rembrandt’s Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom Sanford Budick...

.... JAMESGINDIN University of Michigan Elepac Romance: Cultural Change and Loss of the Hero in Modern Fiction. By KENNETHA. BRUFFEE.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. 230 pp. $19.95. In a brief but intensive demonstration, Elegzac Romance develops a striking...

...Eva Geulen Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770 – 1850 . By Richard T. Gray. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 476 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Eva Geulen is professor of German literature at the University of Bonn. Her most...

... theater, television drama, and early modern medicine, and she is writing a book on Shakespeare performances in Taiwan as well as constructing a Taiwan Shakespeare database. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange . By Huang Alexander C. Y. . New York : Columbia University...

... (“Rethinking Sex,” 2011). She is working on a book, tentatively titled The “Stigma” Archive , about the source materials of Erving Goffman’s 1963 sociological classic, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity . Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions...

... MLQ I December iggg Then a sea change occurred as literary criticism responded to the work of political and cultural historians like Perry Miller, Edmund Morgan, R. H. Tawney, and then Christopher Hill, Michael Walzer, and Keith Thomas, not to mention Weber himself.] But other influences...

...Eric Rothstein © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-03Rothstein.ak 5/26/00 3:51 PM Page 359 Broaching a Cultural Logic of Modernity Eric Rothstein rand narratives” are now out and “local knowledge,” in. All to the Ggood...