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... simultaneously knows to be not quite true or not quite one's own. In addition, it argues that in promoting this experience, Wilde is explicitly critiquing a model of belief popularized by Cardinal Newman in his 1870 An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent . There, Newman claims that one knows when one's beliefs...

... food parcels to distribute to people living with HIV in the area. Our visits were difficult. Many of the patients had full-blown AIDS. I remember one woman had a five-year-old son—a stylish little gent who cheerfully chatted with us and asked us to photograph him in different poses. His mother had...

... acknowledging that residue of religiosity that many of us brought to the project of poststructuralism. With the aid of poststructuralism, my reading was not simply close. It was an attempt to inhabit the text at hand, an attempt to gather the text so close to hand that the text became a loophole of retreat...

..., Farah's Gifts addresses the dehumanization of humanitarian aid, which “unworlds the world of an aid-receiving people,” creating “long-term structural dependency” rather than the self-determination that should have resulted from independence (279, 294). Instead, Farah locates self-determination...

... of their inconspicuous narrative background and emerge, literally, into the spotlight. Various aids are provided for their comprehension—explanatory captions, an audio guide that includes excerpts from the novel read by Pamuk himself, and copious annotation provided by the catalog—but their juxtaposition is nevertheless...

...: Television and Humanitarian Aid.” Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention . Ed. Jonathan Moore. Lanham: Rowman, 1998 . 287 –302. Ignatieff , Michael . The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience . New York: Metropolitan, 1997 . Ishiguro , Kazuo...

... equity includes prominent veterans of the HIV/AIDS movement, and the lifesaving activism around HIV/AIDS that was undertaken by groups like ACT UP had a crucial and perhaps obligatory identarian framework: the US AIDS epidemic was fundamentally exacerbated by homophobia, and the battle for AIDS...

... a contradictory history in which a stratum of the black bourgeoisie, in the guise of benevolent aid, has often usurped the political autonomy of their less wealthy brethren. Histori- cally, African American novels have played a conspicuous yet under­appreciated role in anatomizing these very conflicts...

... , Roger . “Think Beyond the Top Layer.” 6 Sept . 2007 . < http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/ANSWERMAN/709060306/-1/RSS >. Estin , Miriam . “Ghostwriting the Globe: David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and the Construction of a Cosmopolitan Narrative...

... . London: Penguin, 2005 . Hamblyn , Richard . Introduction. The Storm . By Daniel Defoe. Ed. Hamblyn. London: Penguin, 2005 . x -xl. Haver , William . The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996 . Janković , Vladimir...

... of our contemporary AIDS pan- demic and the orientalized plague that ravages the world in The Lasf Man-an implication readily available in a novel that so foregrounds the logic of prophecy and historical reckoning-but more significantly, the chapter's fusing of male love, history and the end(s...

...” (153), but his own work is itself something of a “manic compendium”: the chapter on What Maisie Knew includes discussions of race, money, ghosts, empire, education, and exhibition, as well as an illuminating account of the popular late-eighteenth-century visual aid, the Claude Glass (a convex...

..., of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment, I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein. —Michel Foucault ( 1967 ) 1984 Aided by the critical wisdom of Novel...

... in the name of charity or state aid. This required maintaining a careful insistence on the impersonality of giving and receiving, as well as finding a narrative that would provide a justification for philanthropic intervention in the social and economic world and skirt any insinuation that the social...

... with a literary father figure of sorts and who, enlisting Zukofsky’s aid, classified them as a group. Indeed, Rosenquist uses this chapter to remind us that modernist reputations spring from collaborations among the writers of the 1920s and 1930s as well as the critical appraisal of their work during...

..., scientists, and aid workers are on the move, not only to Africa but to every corner of the globe, as Henderson tells his African translator, Romilayu: “Millions of Americans have gone forth since the war to redeem the present and discover the future . . . ​there are guys exactly like me in India...

..., as is the comparison of Edelman's and Dan Savage's, on the face of it, mutually hostile projects. And the book develops two distinct, if overlapping, theoretical resources that will certainly aid new scholarship in these areas. The first is the depth of its engagement with various time philosophies—not only...

... on the Dionysian to the startling report of a woman in besieged Sarajevo during the Bosnian War asking an aid worker for lipstick, “because I want that sniper, before he shoots me, to know he is killing a beautiful woman” (x). An outline of the three sections that follow this introduction also indicates the book's...

... read into the nineteenth-century discourse that has grown up around AIDS. Chapter Three finds similar themes in the work of the Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramon y REVIEW I THE IDEA OF A GERM Cajal, who first distinguished independent neurons in the brain...

...) in the 1830s. Bad form, Puckett contends, with the aid of references to Balzac, Gaskell, and Thackeray, “helps give 508 novel | fall 2010 character its depth, narrative its desire, and narration its authority” (15); he elucidates this argument through an extended treatment...