..., Palmer, Friedrich, Maillol, and Villon also is pleasing. Both the press and Janet Wood, the book’s designer, deserve commendation. ANDREW v. E’ITIN Wake Forest University The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical...

... Le Roy Ladurie’s MontuiZh achieved best-seller status: 188,540 copies sold in 1989 [ 1361 .) Le Roy Ladurie’s text appears to establish the greatest possible contact with the medieval villagers being interviewed. More hesitant, Duby and Corbin take pieces of indirect discourse and create what...

... from the Aeneid to the Spanish Golden Age. Her book El cadáver en la cocina , a study of contemporary Spanish detective fiction, is forthcoming. What Sort of Wedding? The Orders of Discourse in El Burlador de SeVilla Joan Ramon Resina s an age of transition between social...

...Donald Gilbert-Santamaría Diglossia: The Early Modern Reinvention of Mythological Discourse . By Kluge Sofie . Kassel : Reichenberger , 2016 . xii + 349 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 In an extensive analysis of early modern mythological literature...

...Ronald Schleifer; Nancy M. West Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Poetry of What Lies Close at Hand: Photography, Commodities, and Postromantic Discourses in Hardy and Stevens Ronald Schleifer and Nancy M. West We understand while we look...

... and Discourses. By JOHN HENRYCARDINAL NEWMAN. Edited in two volumes with prefaces and introductions by CHARLESFREDERICK HARROLD. New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1949. Vol. I (1825-39), pp. xviii + 348 ; Vol. I1 (1839-57), pp. xvii + 382. $3.50 each. An Essay...

...Aldo Scaglione H. Whitfield J.. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1969. viii + 243 pp. 50s. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 REVIEWS Discourses on Machiuuelli. Hy .J. H. FVtiiwiELD. (hmbritlge: W. Heffer k Sons, 1969. viii i- 243 pp...

...James Kuzner Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England . By Arthur F. Marotti. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xii + 307 pp. University of Washington 2006 James Kuzner is a graduate student at Johns...

...David Randall In Habermasian theory, the bourgeois public sphere was preceded by a literary public sphere whose favored genres revealed the interiority of the self and emphasized an audience-oriented subjectivity. This essay argues that the association of this early modern literary discourse...

... Rorty has proposed? Or if (as it seems) literature is not distinguished as such from nonsecular discourse, then does the study of literature fit Rorty's argument about the need for a nonfoundational, nonauthoritative discourse in a secular democracy? This essay pursues these questions through the work...

... and other sinophone locations? This essay recognizes the significance of the Hong Kong identity discourse constructed around the 1997 “Handover,” but it argues that a historical narration of localness should not be confined by this discourse. Rather, it is important to consider the interactions between...

...Djelal Kadir This essay explores three aspects of the phenomenon of world literature in its resurgence in critical discourse: (1) world literature as allophone, or as heteroglossic alterity emanating from discrete geographic points with particular and would-be exclusive traditions; (2) world...

... literary and theoretical writings. By investigating the assimilation of translations into the Chinese literary canon, this essay focuses on a hybridized political and cultural discourse that marks a radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities in modern Chinese literature. The call for reshaping...

... of the Anthropocene, on the other. It explores a series of entangled definitions of the Anglophone and the Anthropocene, including how each serves as an assessment of the uneven present, as a universalizing discourse, and as a force of temporalization. The essay contests the proposition that the key conceptual...

...Jan-Melissa Schramm Abstract This essay traces the intense interrelatedness of the three discourses that we now consider distinct but that ask similar questions about the existential value of life and the relationship between spiritual and temporal matters. Law, literature, and theology address...

... discourse helped construct what the English took to be proper Europeanness. Carmen Nocentelli is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico. She is author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity (2013) and is at work...

... ancient Roman literary heritage, yet he understood that his divided, chaotic, stagnant country needed renewal and change, a recurring subject in his early patriotic odes. His ideas on Italy in the Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degl’italiani ( Discourse on the Present State of the Customs...

... academic discourse has been invented in China on selected themes of postmodernism and Third World “national allegory.” However, as a “shadowy but central presence” in Jameson and other Western left theories, Maoism is nearly absent from China’s appropriation of Western theories. A vigorous critique...

... cognition. Yet constructing Chinese literary theoretical discourse should discriminate among and examine various contemporary Western literary theories, actively draw on its useful achievements and experiences, and return to Chinese literary practice in an overall way. It is also necessary to adhere...

... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...