..., State of Grace: Music and Dogs in Coetzee's Disgrace DEREK ATTRIDGE "The age of iron. After which comes the age of bronze. How long, how long be- fore the softer ages return in their cycle, the age of clay, the age of earth?" (Age of Iron 50). Mrs. Curren, writing...

...Grace A. Musila Abstract While the Black Lives Matter movement is widely recognized and supported in Africa, its framing prioritizes experiences of anti‐Blackness in the United States and the Black diaspora. This is partly owing to the movement's genesis as a direct response to domestic forms...

...Grace A. Musila Rastogi focuses on South Asia and Southern Africa because the two regions have a shared British colonial legacy, anglophone literary tradition, and similar trajectory of independence after lengthy anticolonial struggles, followed by widespread dysfunction (23). Unsurprisingly...

... in the presence of the incomprehensible. Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders In this passage from The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy’s rustic novel of thwarted love and living decay, the “Arcadian innocents” are the rural protagonists Grace Melbury and Giles Winterborne...

... and sometimes stage fantasmatic scenarios about inclusion and exclusion. Near the beginning of The Woodlanders, for instance, Grace Melbury visits the physician Edred Fitzpiers, newly arrived in town, whom she has not yet met. Unaware that he is at home, she is admitted by a servant to wait for him...

... was MARILYN BUTLER I THE POLITICAL EDGEWORTH indeed Colonel Hugh Maguire, who was the nephew on his mother's side of the celebrated Grace Nugent-the subject of an Irish song by the poet and harpist Carolan and the name of the heroine of The Absentee (1812), after Rackrenf the best-known...

... order of law as it is publicly established through the court of the Areopagus. Hardy integrates this model of transformative change, from one symbolic order to another, to accommodate another ancient shift in symbolic order: the move from law to grace. The ritual worship practices of the Old Testament...

..., each of which is addressed in its own chapter: society, politics, indigeneity, and creativity. This structure allows her to include most of the major novelists of contemporary New Zealand literature, including Maurice Gee, Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Eleanor Catton, Alan Duff, and Nigel Cox. Lawn...

... of Higher Education , Fish calls for substituting religion for “the triumvirate of race, gender, and class as center of intellectual energy” (8). Similarly, Miller calls for an end to “the infatuation with the three mythological graces of contemporary humanistic study: Race, Class, and Gender” in favor...

... and where it must not touch in order to carry out its touch (its art, its tact, its grace)” (Nancy, Noli 13...

... older Grace Brissenden seems to have become much younger at the expense of her husband, Guy. In a slight variation on the conven- tions of the vampire story, James does not make sexuality a tool of the vampire, but makes vampirism a product of sexuality. The older Grace, in love with her...

..., that was to provide the most explicit synthesis of experiential disgust and fictional revenge. The vitriol attack on Clara Hewett stands at the center of the revenge poetics of The Nether World. Just before the attack itself, Clara finds herself in conversa- tion with Grace Danver, the rival actress who only...

...Regenia Gagnier Work Cited Moore Grace . Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race, and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens . Aldershot : Ashgate , 2004 . Yet Hensley's book throws up just these major questions and issues: To what extent do formal patterns...

... of representational ingenuity” (15). The reader duped into mistaking stylistic for worldly grace, deceived by a well-written novel into placing greater faith in a social order than it deserves, may well be, James provocatively suggests, a critical fantasy. Moreover, because the forms of consolation literature offers...

... as odious as he is admirable. Like Topsy, another paradoxical figure, Sam wears a carefully contrived mask, disguising compulsive cunning with affected solemnity.' But whereas Christian grace and Ophelia's discipline eventually subdue Topsy's conflicted nature, Sam only grows in contradictions...

... scenes of this vile place, where every thing that is low, indelicate, and abominable presides; (no Loves and Graces to hold the nuptial torch, or lead the hymeneal dance; an inn the temple, and an innkeeper the priest;) and sujfers her name to be inrolled (I had almost said) in the records...

... of grace, but which are also invari- ably moments of race” (91). Who better but a dark Jesus to forgive sinners and so “lighten” their spiritual load? Barth has a markedly different take on whiteness. In Duvall’s fourth chapter, the white- face sexualist (Faulkner) and spiritualist (O’Connor...

... to imagine the kind of novel Mr. Kreuznauer wished Daniel Defoe would have invented, it would be the bourgeois novel of manners. Gracing his son with a modest education and destining him for the law, Crusoe’s elderly father hoped Robinson would settle down in his native country “and raise his Fortune...

..., mesmerism, and hypnotism of A.S. Byatt's The REVIEW I ANXIOUS AUTHORSHIP Conjugial Angel, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace- London's focus on the practices of non-legitimate authorship may well signal our own anx- ieties about...

... identifying McGahern as the most powerful heir to this modethough I would have given NOVEL ( SUMMER 2000 more stress to his early work where the effect is even more evident, as in his brilliant novel The Dark. Karen Lawrence's essay, written with her usual grace and flair, looks...