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... of the Natural Sign. By Murray Krieger. Emblems by Joan Krieger. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xvii + 292 pp. $38.00. Krieger’s book’s declared intention is to offer a straightforward critical his tory of ekphrasis, or at least the sketch of such a history, from antiquity...

... not have been better said. Breaking and Remaking stumbles at the beginning but finishes with a flourish. It is an aggravating and provocative book. LANCEBERTELSEN Uniuersity of Texas at Austin Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life...

...Scott Saul Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 284 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Scott Saul is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Freedom...

.... The Purple Turban and the Flowering Aloe Tree: Signs of Distinction in the Early-Nineteenth-CenturyNovel Marilyn Butler Bourdieu’s work, practical, strong, and radically methodological, can have powerful resonance for all the humanities, not least the study of literature...

...Marshall Brown CULLER JONATHAN. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. xiv + 242 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 208 REVIEWS The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. By JONATHAN CLUER...

...Richard Kenneth Emmerson Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xiv + 248 pp. $23.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 3 14 REVIEWS Romanesque Signs: Early Medieual Narratiue...

... readings of texts show signs of this scientific longing for material meanings in the world, a longing that art itself, especially theater, has refused to sanction. We are living, it seems, in a postmaterial world, whose very impossibility suggests infinite possibilities of meaning. © 2009 by University...

... and mentor Edmund Clarence Stedman dubbed the turn of the century an “interval of twilight” for American poetry. Subsequent critics have perhaps read this narrative of decline too literally and regarded the supposed interregnum as a sign of progress toward modernism. This essay takes a different approach...

...: “secularism.” Melville helps us think secularism not as the extirpation of religion in modernity but as an ensemble of broadly disciplinary interventions, whose aim was both to exalt Protestant Christianity as the authorizing sign for planetary white dominion and to demote theology itself into a practice...

... will be referred to as the sign of the transferred verb. The sign is usually in the same clause. Frequently, as in the above example, it is the subject of the transferred verb; but it may have some other construction.* Dresse and undresse thy soul :3 (object) Feed no man...

... the gesture in terms of its surrounding circumstances; or he can at- tempt to enter into the state of mind that lies behind or within the ges- ture. Each of these forms of interpretation reflects different ways in which gestures can function as social signs. As Steele’s comment sug- gests, gesture...

... Asian, 35 percent Southern European, and 7.5 percent Hispanic. Although racially mixed, her perfection resides in the effacement of any telltale sign of a particular race or ethnicity. She does not exist, the editor reminds us, “except metaphysically.” Despite the claim that the image...

...-mimetic elements of the image-sign.” Marin’s analyses brought to light the power of the mechanisms that draw the viewer’s attention to the materiality, the arrangement, the frame, the surface, or the texture of images. This major methodological shift resulted in a historiographical revolution. Against...

... of a visible sign of grace in the person of a holy confessor between the penitents and their destiny, if not obvi- ously appropriate to us moderns, was strikingly significant to the pil- grims: For, as it seemed, it was for to doone, To enden in som vertuous sentence...

... of the powerful myth has engendered not only her plots, but her heroine’s character traits, her philosophy of time, and a set of related “signs”: the signs of youth, the signs of progress and decline, the signs of the middle years. The passing of time has not altered the structure of the jubilant fable...

... necessary as a guide for those fourteenth- century people who would be saved, but is also necessary for modern readers’ understanding of Piers Plowman. The belief that God created a meaningful world is central to one’s ability to read the signs that reveal divine reality; similarly, the poet...

...” in the health food store, certifies all other signs and values. Thus she argues that because Elizabethans loved words not in themselves but for the “facts, ideas, and truths that come from them” (p. 127) criticism must follow suit. She is JAMES L. CALDERWOOD...

... concernant de nouueaux signes pour la musique, presented to the Acadkmie des Sciences in 1742, and of the Dissertation sur la musique moderne (1743), the reader may already catch a fleeting glimpse of Rousseau’s attitude toward Time and artistic progress. Before the theoretician can come to grips...

... being rouzed by some external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing. . . . (p. 143) This vacuity requires the services of those distinctive nurses the Flap- pers. Thus Gulliver is brought into the royal presence and flapped into answering the king : but I made Signs as well as I...

..., is to help organize the sounds to create a sign independent of the particular verbal sense. In the frame of the medieval notion of music as “the science of number related to sound,” this may be called a musical function.5 While the mimetic and affective support lent by Chaucer’s rhyme sounds...