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...). Proust's Recherche demonstrates a keen interest in this kind of language use. Thinking of literary artifacts themselves as examples of language-in-use involves a shift of attention from “the work itself” to the web of social-indexical relations in which any given literary artifact comes to participate...

... understood as things that came apart, literally and figuratively, as well as things that came together. Nineteenth‐century readers were keen to cut up, recontextualize, and reboot Scott's printed works inside their own homemade manuscript volumes. Guided by their practices, we are able to see how Scott's own...

...Linda M. Shires Keen Suzanne , Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination Columbus : Ohio State UP , 2014 , pp. 236, Cloth, $64.95 ; CD $14.95 Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Many Victorian scientists, including those writing from...

... : Cornell UP , 2000 . Keen Suzanne . Empathy and the Novel . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2007 . Keen Suzanne . “ Narrative Empathy .” The Living Handbook of Narratology . Ed. Hühn Peter Hamburg : Hamburg UP , 2013 < http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php...

... but that in fact is determined by human actions aimed at controlling chance. The appearance of chance in Hardy may well respond, as Beer argues, to culture's new relation to determinism after Darwin. Hardy, who was a keen reader of Darwin, certainly adopts a similar vacillation or shiftiness with respect...

... Americans were often sentimental about. That keen attention makes the book succeed, espe- cially when Merish attends to the political and gendered valences of people's attachment to everyday objects. More often than not, Merish deftly advances a complex, multilayered ar- gument about the creation...

... regarded as a symptom of its cultural moment, Dracula is presented here as a sophisti- cated anatomy of the ideologies that it has often been taken to embody; it is a novel not so much awash with gore as with self-reflexive cultural critique. Valente is also keen to ex- plore the colonial Irish...

..., and others, Cole identifies three other paradigms, all of which exemplify varying degrees of disenchanted violence: representations of keening , or displays of ritual mourning that may express national courage but also may denote resignation, among other things; images of reprisal , which threaten cyclical...

... of truth. Though the word "game" aptly figures the complex transaction that occurs between the two, it sits uncomfortably with that ethical dimension which autobiographi- cal texts are keen to proclaim, both by invoking key moral issues and by seeming to have some purchase on "real" lives. What...

... are presumed to have developed from multi- ple sources (hence, "polygenesis The emergence of these two systems not only enables a keen appreciation of historical change over the course of two centuries, but also fosters a chiasmus that is central to Tawil's project: namely, that where slavery was once...

... of the foundations of traditional Latin American anti-liberalism- including, precisely, cultural studies-stem from that initial rejection of the liberal virtues proclaimed and practiced in many parts of the continent during more than fifty years of successful modernization. Sharman demonstrates a keen...

... populations. In the case of Stevenson, his “keen sense of sympathy over the common ground of illness and suffering” (84) is compromised by the colonial networks and power imbalances that have enabled his observations and experience of personal renewal; while for London, by contrast, “his narrated body becomes...

... in the past by Terence Martin and Michael Davitt Bell), but Davis provides a keen analy- sis of the consequences of associationism for literary practice and reception. She means her recovery of a Scottish-influenced literary experience to stand in contrast to what she regards as misguided critical...

.... Elmer reads instead “first with an eye for trope and image, for the ways in which conceptual contradiction and affective ambivalence crystallize in literary logics or the work of figuration” (6). Because his eye is exceedingly keen and discerning, Elmer is able to guide us beyond the seeming...

...). When he talks about the "heavy psychic cost" of repressing "the instinct for mother/infant bonding" (23), he not only sounds rather Freudian for someone who claims that Freud is "obsolete," but also seems to endorse the popular fallacy that he is otherwise so keen to debunk-the idea...

..., the book is keenly interested in the cultural conversations that literary and visual texts instigate, while it is equally keen to show that these texts offer more to a nuanced scholarly reading than they do to polemical reviewers in a public sphere. Using the comparative methods of postcolonial studies...

...). This is a surprisingly difficult lesson to learn. Not for characters in It, nor for its view- ers, but certainly for cultural critics used to telling the story of modernity as a declension narrative. Daly is serious about such fun, and he has a keen eye for the pleasures, both popular and esoteric...

... [the] secret [of sex], of exacting the truest of confessions from a shadow" (History ofSexuaIity 159). It is important to note, however that what Dore is most keen for us to attend to are not the incidents of sexual censorship themselves, but rather the conservative gender ideology that undergirds...

..., they can be considered "proto-ethnographical," but even that modification would erase the specific and rigorous contours of ethnography as a method whose goal is to map a "culture." That said, Carens, with a keen eye for textual nuance, traces echoes of "ethnographic" redeployments...

... Nussbaum , Suzanne Keen , and Blakey Vermeule all variously assert? Or do they instantiate restrictive (narrative) paradigms that reproduce or remind us of the possible violence done to subjects by prevailing norms of recognition, as Judith Butler , Michael Wood , and Lynne Huffer each differently...