...John Beverley © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The Real Thing (Our Rigoberta) John Beverley This essay is about Rigoberta Menchii and what she means, or does, for us.1 The title alludes to the advertising slogan “Coke is the real thing” and to the Lacanian notion...

... Elizabeth, John Fletcher, John Skelton, Richard Lovelace, John Suckling, and Thomas Carew. The older popular songs and those of Elizabethan and later poets that Percy collected have one thing in common: they fall into certain repeated types according to the occasions on which they were known or could...

... and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569 – 1791 (1992) and White Men Aren't (2002), as well as of numerous essays on early modern fiction and culture. Voltaire’s Parrot; or, How to Do Things with Birds Thomas DiPiero Is it because I speak that you judge me capable...

... the ladder of Creation. The vision of “things invisible to mortal sight” that the poet asks for in the opening invocation is analogized, in the divine council that the book goes on to depict, to the Son's faith in his triumph over death. False analogy leads the fools of the Limbo of Vanity to understand God...

... (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...

... is author of The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 “Faerie Queene” (1988) and Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness (2003). The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations . By Goldberg Jonathan . New York...

...Christopher Flint The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. By Cynthia Sundberg Wall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 316 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Christopher Flint is associate professor of English at Case...

... : University of Virginia Press . Bennett Jane . 2010 . Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2009 . “ The Climate of History: Four Theses .” Critical Inquiry 35 , no. 2 : 197 – 222 . Daston Lorraine...

...Gordon Braden Grossman Marshall. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1998. xxiii + 347 pp. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reviews The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry. By Marshall Grossman...

... [ 2014 ] sees a definitive break with theism made possible only by postmodernism’s dissolution of the self.) Early on, Unquiet Things inclines toward Blumenberg’s way of tracing change, despite Jager’s gloomier view of secularism “as a form of state-sponsored violence” (169). He seeks to show something...

... and Joseph Andrews, it may as well be the mode of Humphry Clinker too. THOMASLOCKWOOD University of Washington Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things: “Bleak House” and the Novel Tradition. By ROBERTNEWSOM. New York...

...Allen R. Benham Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 “THINGS UNATTEMPTED YET IN PROSE OR RIME” By ALLENR. BENHAM The first twenty-six lines of the first book of Paradise Lost intro- duce the whole poem. In them Milton states his subject...

... on a desire to regain access to things in themselves—or, in a more recent idiom, to what Quentin Meillassoux calls “the great outdoors ” and Jane Bennett calls “the out-side .” This story does not stand up to scrutiny. A reexamination of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry and philosophy reveals that he...

...Paulo de Medeiros World literature can be seen as one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “good things,” a great idealization of the capacities of the human spirit and at the same time a fierce contest for power and dominance. In this contest the question of minor literature invariably surfaces in relation...

...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...

... of description transforms Asian American persons into things. References Barthes Roland . 1982 . “ The Reality Effect .” In French Literary Theory Today: A Reader , edited by Todorov Tzvetan , translated by Carter R. , 11 – 17 . New York : Cambridge University Press . Berlant...

...) is dominated by a sense of inevitability, whereas judgment concerns the things that can be otherwise. A close reading of Joseph Andrews shows that Fielding does not deploy uncritically the methods and assumptions of a nascent social theory. Rather, he teaches us that those methods and assumptions hold only...

... ring ; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name ; ‘ Each mortal thing does one thing and the same : Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves-goes itself; myself it speaks and spells...

....” Simultaneous with this diminution of time, however, is a diminish- ing spatial movement. Whereas the first quatrain deals with rather concrete and substantive images (the “pen,” the “brain,” the “books,” the “grain the second quatrain deals only with the “cloudy sym- bols” of things, the “shadows...

..., that words have never been said by anyone to refer to meanings; rather, they are said to mean by referring to things, which even Wittgenstein allows them to do, since this is how words are routinely employed, not by virtue of linguistic rule but as a matter of social practice. What is wrong here...