... a political transit from barbarism to civilization. This claim is advanced through the convergence of three interpretive strategies: a close reading of the novel that tracks the literal and figurative presence of the hand; direct confrontation with texts of political theory, with special emphasis on Thomas...

...Brady Harrison Abstract The article explores the so-called quantum measurement problem, or the collapse of a wave function in the act of observation, as a reading and interpretive strategy. In particular, the article argues that the Maltese falcon, if it exists at all, does not exist in Dashiell...

... transparency as a strategy for obfuscation, we can develop a new practice of reading that is capable of interpreting performances of transparency, performances that currently work to deflect suspicious modes of interpretation. This article demonstrates how James's development of a childlike reading practice...

...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...

... of the genre's biographical pattern) culminates in a surreal encounter that Coetzee's readers have claimed limns a restorative justice or a utopic futurity. But these interpretations ignore the text's insistence on a silence that overwhelms language, the specter of mass death, and a summative darkness...

... attending to the novel's own reception of those histories. Focusing on the significance of the novel's intertextual and paratextual evidence in an interpretation of the novel's unconventional narrative strategies, the essay examines hybrid modes of reading the novel, as well as reading in the novel as a way...

... in his prose by placing them in a reassuring framework” (12). In the third and final part of the book, Naiman introduces another interpretative strategy, which he calls “preposterous,” one that moves back through the chronology of Nabokov’s works to those written in Russian in Berlin...

... interpretative strategy that impoverishes the Dashwood sisters and their mother. While John Dashwood acknowledges only the social and affective definition of interest in his duties to his stepmother, his choice of action is ultimately driven by a quantitative understanding of interest in which, through...

... one to abstract from the material to the spiritual. Thus the shepherd's interpretive strategies typify the kind of reasoning that the Cheap Repository Tracts were meant to inculcate, particularly in their role as substitutes for politically radical texts such as Thomas Paine's Rights of Man...

... different scales of literary culture and mediates between interpretive strategies that abjure political and geographic distinctions and those that try to preserve them. In the study of world Literature, thinking about unimaginable largeness has its uses. It allows us to consider how the way we...

... consumption. This secret history is, of course, the target of much interpretation. It is worth noting, however, that this strategy risks overlooking the representational work done in advertising, as if the commodity arrives fully mystified and advertising simply mirrors its existing aura. In fact, advertising...

... description of how viewers made sense of exhibitions—is fundamentally a narrative strategy, not a visual one, but the emphasis on the latter works against any mention of the former or any discussion of the ways in which visuality and narrative might work together. Toward the end of the book, the “looking...

...-Brown po- sitions black women artists' recycling of images and stories from African American folk- lore as a feminist strategy that legitimizes the black female experience, and places the trauma of the enslaved Africans in the New World in a cultural, diasporic continuum. In this expansive...

...MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE THADIOUS M. DAVIS, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (Durham: Duke UP, 2003), pp. 339, $79.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Strategies of Containment: Faulkner's Narratives of Race...

... they obscure fundament2 features of the classical idea that are needed to make sense of the eighteenth-century transformation. Let us then interpret Solon's proverb, "Call no one happy until deadT4 in order to excavate a concept of happiness that is the antithesis of our own and unthinkable without...

... are the distinct sources of narrative fragmentation in novels authored by "minority" and mainstream writers. The narrative strategies of such texts as Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man seek to convey an historically specific and materi- ally burdensome reality of social marginalization, which, in Harper's...

... hope of a future benefit? Charlotte's art, although it seems on the surface to plead for closure—for an ending that Amerigo interprets as “the full tune of her renouncing” (106)—highlights her future-oriented stance. But this interpretation can only be verified in the future , an implication Amerigo...

... of this review survives in ironic interpretations and is routinely used in the con- servative blogosphere to deride any kind of liberal or democratic project (freerepublic, ­townhall.com). In this, his first book, George Boulukos brings this fascinating figure to the fore, unearthing its ancestry...

... historical specificities; world literature paradigms, again with hesitations about corresponding notions of center and periphery; and, ultimately, a unifying deconstructive mode that privileges the text's right/ability to foresee and undermine limiting interpretations. The first chapter, “The Passing...

... knowledge was acquired, interpreted, and circulated within the Atlantic world. We have also become increasingly attentive to the fact that a variety of physiological, affective, and political discourses were responsible for the rhetorical construction of public character in the nineteenth century...