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....” The Cultures of Globalization . Ed. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Durham: Duke UP, 1998 . 3 –31. Dussel , Enrique . The Inventions of the Americas: Eclipse of “the Other” and the Myth of Modernity . Trans. Michael D. Barber New York: Continuum, 1995 . Duvall , John, N. , ed...

... and a consequent rise in militarization, US decline, as Bellamy understands it, triggers widespread cultural anxiety together with a literary “form of wish fulfillment that, in many cases, stages the imaginary collapse of the United States to narrate its return to the days of promise” (2). In postapocalyptic...

...Nicholas Daly In this short article, Daly considers the history of literary cultural studies from its heyday in the 1990s to its current more modest position. There are a number of reasons one could adduce for its slide into relative marginality, including the predictable dilution...

...Kfir Cohen Abstract This essay examines recent developments in Israeli cultural production. To do so, it argues, we must think of new cultural forms as responses to the neoliberal privatization reforms that accompany globalization. These reforms have altered Israeli social life to the degree...

...Tyler Curtain SCHANTZ NED , Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2008 ), pp. 200 , cloth, $65.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Toward a Cultural Critical Field Book ned...

...Padraig Kirwan Much has been written about how contemporary Native American writers explore the intersection between cultural or social materialities on the one hand and aesthetic or imaginative autonomies on the other. In keeping with that discussion, this essay examines David Treuer's Little...

...” of the referent instead, samples of the very fruits and trees he is describing, thereby precluding the need for signification altogether. Columbus's “discovery” of the Americas in 1492 would have a profound influence on the European culture of his age, initiating what Stephen Greenblatt has called “a century...

....” Novel: A Forum on Fiction , 33.1 ( 1999 ): 73 –92. Bhabha , Homi . The Location of Culture . New York: Routledge, 1994 . Clifford , James and George E. Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley: U of California P, 1986 . Craft...

... and Philosophy and Other Essays . Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review P, 1971 . 85 –126. Bhabha , Homi K. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.” The Location of Culture . New York: Routledge, 1994 . 85 –92. Broege , Valerie . “The Journey Toward...

..., is devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian period. The journal, which is published four times a year, includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law...

...WENDY WALTERS SHARON PATRICIA HOLLAND, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000), pp. 235, cloth, $49.95, paper, $17.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Death and American Culture SHARON PATRICIA...

...R. BRANDON KERSHNER GARRY LEONARD, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 252 + xii, cloth, $ 49.95. JOSEPH VALENTE, ed. Quare Joyce (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 297, cloth, $47.50, paper, $19.95...

...PAUL GILES JOHN CARLOS ROWE, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 377, cloth, $55.00, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Imperial Literary Culture JOHN CARLOS...

.... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Between Culture and State MARTINE WATSON BROWNLEY, Deferrals of Domain: Contemporay Women Novelists and the State (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), pp. 277, cloth, $45.00. PERICLES LEWIS, Modernism, Nationalism, and the Nmel (New...

... Culture . London: Verso, 1997 . 161 –77. Edgeworth , Maria . The Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth . 12 vols . General Ed. Marilyn Butler and Mitzi Myers London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999 . Edgeworth , Maria . The Absentee . Vol. V . Ed. Heidi Van de Veire and Kim...

...Priscilla Wald Reviews Reading Culture through a Literary Lens cynthia tolentino, America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009), pp. 200, cloth, $67.50, paper, $22.50. susan l. mizruchi...

...Rachel Adams American Literature in the Age of Mass Culture nancy bentley, Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870–1920 (Phila- delphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009), pp. 376, cloth, $59.95. For some time, the study of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

... affirms the persistence of religion in both the culture and the art of the supposedly disenchanted twentieth century. The book studies three writers—James Joyce, Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes—as well as an entire movement, “the Niggeratti” in 1920s and 1930s Harlem, and offers a coda on Salman Rushdie...

...Joel Pfister The Fate of the Novel in Contemporary Mass Culture evan brier, A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009), pp. 224, cloth, $49.95. The pun on “novel” in Evan Brier’s title is historically...

...Deborah Lutz Heathcliff is in love with someone who has died. This love is steeped in the evangelical death culture of the time, particularly the treasuring of the physical manifestations of dying and the body: a reverence for relics. Understanding mortality—and, in fact, the love between Catherine...