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... (2009) and tunnel RE vision (2010). The Electric Information Age Book (An Inventory of Inventories) is forthcoming. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 The Chatter of People and Things Jeffrey T. Schnapp nventories of aphorisms; the names of gods, philosophers, and schol- Iars...

... and New Zealand film, culture, and literature. The Same People Living in Different Places: Allen Curnow s Anthology and New Zealand Literary History Hugh Roberts N ew Zealand has produced few literary histories, and only one of those, E. H. McCormick s 1940 Letters and Art in New Zealand, is suf...

... 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...

...Janet Sorensen In dominant accounts, the eighteenth-century “ballad revival” brought a dead form back to life by digging up old songs and restoring their force and meaning. It also brought “the people,” as producers or consumers of ballads, to a kind of national public life but relegated them...

...Petrus Liu Reconstructing modernist fiction from 1970s Taiwan as a critical realism, this essay proposes that the historical creation of two Chinas (the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China) provided a formative stage for vibrant literary ruminations on the dissonance...

...Katherine Ibbett This essay examines the figure of the reste —the things or people left behind—in the tragedies of Pierre Corneille, in particular though not only in the late plays, which are themselves a body of work left behind by the canon. These remainders provide a new perspective...

... is unavoidable: people differ, and so do aesthetic and moral preferences. So if subjectivity is inescapable, we should accept chaotic diversity in a spirit of courteous toleration. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 axiology literary value methods of reading revaluation aesthetic...

... of how “exotic” details in Asian American fiction turn Asian American characters and people into objects of entertainment and edification for predominantly white readerships. Yet works of Asian American metafiction such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior , Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats , and Nam...

...Samuel L. Wolff Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ∗ Deceased August 16, 1941. MILTON’S “ADVOCATUM NESCIO QUEM” : MILTON, SALMASIUS, AND JOHN COOK By SAMUELL. WOLFF* Milton’s (First) Defence of the English People...

... strength and courage of the French people, and a refutation of the conviction so often expressed after 1940 that France is effete and doomed to inevitable decline. As one to whom French culture and the French people have always been dear, the author was deeply distressed by his fellow...

..., movements, or epochs; they have to account for what certain kinds of writing did to the people who used it and the things and people thereby represented. The imperative to historicize the very category of literature places editors and contributors in something of a dilemma. The poststructuralist...

... as their sole purpose the aim of advising people who wished to make America their new home and were anxious to gain an accurate pic- ture of conditions there. We shall begin with the latter approach. Large numbers of Germans came to the United States about the middle of the past century...

...; Part Two, The Middle Ages of Immigration, 1790-1865; Part Three, The Last Generations, 1865-1940. The most noticeable impulse behind all German immi- gration seems to have been the search for freedom. A desperate longing for political, religious, and economic freedom drove people to risk...

... is without any cast the first stone. Some tensions dramatized in the poem are aesthetically fruitful exactly because of such universality. Are they warm people or cold people? Are they confused people or sure people? Are they com- mitted people or hesitant and diffident people? Are they people...

... by relating the literary works to cultural contexts. Since Achebe uses so many customary proverbs along with those of his own invention or adaptation (a minimum of 29 in Things Fall Afiart, 42 in No Longer at Ease, 129 in Arrow of God, 27 in Man of the People, and 11 in his short stories), I have...

... audience on the structure of A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland. It will be necessary, incidentally, to examine a question frequently ignored : Who were “the Whole People of Ireland” ? Largely discounting the Drupier’s Letters as outside Swift’s general literary and rhetorical practice...

... the depths, never disturbs the inner truths by means of which nice people maintain their self-respect. He conforms with prevailing moral convictions. His scheme of Moral Justice is popularly satisfying. So, besides a pleasurable moral re- sponse, the wise, the comfortable, and the frugal...

... and last item of which was “The right of the People over Tyrants, printed lately in qu [ arto] .” This title, although ignored by sub- sequent biographers (including Milton’s nephew, Edward Phillips), was noticed by the indefatigable William Oldys, who added it in manuscript to Phillips...

... of this magnitude, it is natural for humans to ask: what does the plague mean? Literature has reflected the tendency to make plague a vehicle for allegory, and the interpretive bent is usually religious: plague is the punishment of a sinful people by an angry god. Such is the meaning of plague in Book...

... salutary. Studying literature, art, and philosophy, this well-worn story goes, will make us better people. We will have more empathy for others and a more robust sense of civic duty. 5 While claims about the virtue of the humanities may help humanists secure grant funding and fill out annual activity...