...Shirley Lau Wong Abstract Literary settings are often celebrated for richly representing the many details of a particular place. The close association between detail and setting stems from the realist presumption that detail constitutes what Roland Barthes calls an “index of . . . atmosphere...

...Jane K. Brown In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent .By Claudia Brodsky. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xvi + 171 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...

...Gary Handwerk Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global .By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 250 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...

... France (2011). Conley also has translated works by Marc Augé, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, and others. The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France . By Mackenzie Louisa . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2011 . 324 pp . © 2013...

..., and Ford (1987), and Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (1990). He is also editor of the Norton critical edition of E. M. Forster's novel Howards End (1998). He is at work on a book about the politics of reading and the modern novel. Being “Out of Place”: Edward W. Said...

... at appropriate places deal, however, only with the development of Goethe’s ideas, not with his development as a poet. Thus plot summary and analysis of ideas receive far more attention than specifically literary categories and their implica- tions, such as genre, style, or connection to particular...

... more important than speculative reason or imagination, who appealed to the Victorians. Perkins, in restoring him to us in this form, changes our picture of him and of his place in intellectual his- tory. His definition of imagination, influential as it has been, is seen to be but a small part...

... ALFREDHARBAGE The Peace of thc Augzcstans: ’4 Surzvy of Eighteenth Century Liter- ature as a Place of Rest and Refreslznaent. By GEORGESAINTSBURY. With an Introduction by SIRHERBERT GRIERSON. World’s Classics Series. London, New York, Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1946...

...J. L. Simmons Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE PLACE OF THE POET IN CHAUCER’S HOUSE OF FAME By J. L. SIMMONS It has long been out of fashion to urge an autobiographical signifi- cance...

...Edwin B. Place E. C. Armstrong and Alfred Foulet Vol. IV, "Le Roman du Fuerre de Gadres" d'Eustache: Essai d'etablissement de ce poème du XII siècle tel qu'il a existé avant d'etre incorpore dans le Roman d' Alexandre, avec les deux récits Latins qui lui sont apparentés; vol. V. Version...

... and Postcolonial Theory (2009). Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture . By Dobie Madeleine . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xv + 336 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 References Aravamudan Srinivas . 2012...

... 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...

...Doris Sommer © 1996 University of Washington 1996 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America Doris Sommer Latin American literatures...

... as three leading theorists of the fabled “death of the author,” Barthes, de Man, and Foucault. Boym’s new book turns to some related myths, this time more cultural than literary. Specifically, Common Places deals with the “everyday mythologies and rituals of ordinary life” found in contemporary...

...Samuel Hynes Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 1 DENYS KAY-ROBINSON. Hardy's Wessex Reappraised. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. 275 pp. $7.95. HARDY IN HIS TIMES AND PLACES’ By SAMUELHYNES The problem of Hardy’s...

... in comparative religion posed a challenge to the dominant linear and evolutionary historiography of the human, at the same time placing the global primitive at the center of the idea of culture. Advocating a utilitarian theory of art (challenging the Kantian autotelic definition), the period's numerous studies...

... the local and the nonlocal and to examine how knowledge is made in and transacted between specific places. Taking I City , a 1975 nationalist allegory of Hong Kong, as an example, the essay shows that the principle of modernist collage enables Xi Xi to construct a narrative of the local that retains myriad...

... to the “historical poetics” of Virginia Jackson’s Dickinson’s Misery , with its reconsideration of the lyric poem and its place in the canon and reading practices of modern criticism. Neither direct interpretation of a text that lacks focus on its modes of circulation and transmission nor indeed any sort...

... the Mediterranean in a campaign we would call today genocide. Rough estimates of the death toll place the number at 2–3 million. Under conditions that stagger the imagination, the survivors were taken to Rome as slaves, and some carried scarred bodies and scarred memories into the ludic sphere of the Roman theater...

...Joseph Roach Performance and memory share a practice of disguise best described by the word surrogation . Surrogation occurs when more or less plausible substitutes appear in place of the dead, the fugitive, or the banished. Properly disguised, persons can even stand in as surrogates for themselves...