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...Jonathan Sachs What sort of temporality does a prediction about the future suggest? What does it mean specifically to predict decline and to imagine the absence of a future? How does the meaning of the present change in the face of anxieties about decline and an uncertain or absent future...

... the microscope the readings that university faculty assign—and students do or don't complete. Our underlying interest is in the current state of long-form reading. Recent research indicates a stark decline in leisure reading of books, especially fiction, by younger students (e.g., OECD 2019 ; Twenge, Martin...

.... John Pier, Tours Mireille Rosello, Declining the Stereotype: Ethnicity and Representation in French Cul- tures. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998. 272 pp. The encounter between different races, religions...

... as a particularly rich test case in which stereotypes and clichés abound: a grumpy and “dirty” old man sees in aging nothing but decline, tragedy, and an accumulation of illnesses—associations that age scholars have challenged for decades. These stereotypes, however, also have less predictable affordances...

...Itamar Even-Zohar; Elias J. Torres Feijó; Antonio Monegal This article proposes to acknowledge the decline, roughly since the 1950s, in the role of literature as a major mechanism of life models, whether conservative or innovatory, and consequently to reevaluate the rationale of continuing literary...

...Carolin Duttlinger This article explores Walter Benjamin's famous concept of the aura in relation to his writings on photography. Although Benjamin's “Artwork” essay charges photography with the decline of the aura of the traditional artwork, his essay on photography complicates this historical...

... that peaks at a certain point, after which use steadily declines. Because the novel as a whole is composed of multiple forms in constant flux, it becomes impossible to isolate periods of homogeneous practice that could be said to operate according to some deeper sociocultural logic. Copyright © 2018 Porter...

...Douglas Morrey Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of “declinism” in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics...

... cultural role played by literature even when its social function seems to be declining. References Angrosino Michael V. 1998 Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation . Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira . Anzaldúa Gloria 1987 Borderlands/La frontera: The New...

... Gallop's succinct yet forceful book, Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus , is a notable exception. Gallop persuasively contradicts dominant narratives that old age and disability are solely experiences of decline and loss and instead argues that the bodily changes...

... of huge swathes of the population. When Gullette critiques social forms such as triage and the care home, she draws on her pathbreaking work that interrogates the cultural narratives that shape the experience of aging. Gullette ( 2017 ) identifies a “master narrative of life-course decline...

...-Brown Anne M. and Rossen Janice , 19 – 48 . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia . Gullette Margaret . 1997 . Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of Midlife . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia . Heisler Aaron Yale . 2012...

... and an Oxford professor who specializes in Victorian history. Arising from declining fertility rates and the specter of depopulation in advanced industrial nations, the sterility dystopia expresses the demographic dread arising from the relative shift in younger and older populations—not of a world lacking...

... in anxiety and decline. 1. To conform to much English-language scholarship on Japanese literature, I have preserved the original style of naming throughout, with family name first, followed by a given name. Exceptions are made for writers of works written originally in English rather than translated...

... special issue of Poetics Today. Peter Cosgrove teaches eighteenth-century literature at Dartmouth College. He has written a book on Edward Gibbon, Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in the Decline and Fall (1999). His other published works include articles on Edmund Burke...

... of the Montreal-based research group Interacting with Print: Cultural Practices of Intermediality, 1700 – 1900. He is completing Decline and the Depths of Time: Historicity and the Forms of Ruin in British Romanticism. Adam Stock is lecturer in English literature at York St. John University. His research...

... (Paris: Gallimard). Eisenzweig, Uri 2001 Fictions de l'anarchisme (Paris: Christian Bourgois). Godard, Henri 1985 Poétique de Céline (Paris: Gallimard). Hobsbawm, Eric 1998 Behind the Times: The Decline and Fall of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Gardes (London: Thames and Hudson...

...) 2005 . “Ni-ni roku jiken to watashi” (“The February 26 Incident and Me”) , in Eirei no koe , 243 – 61 . Tōkyō : Kawade shobō . Yukio Mishima . (1967) 1981 . Suzaku-ke no metsubō (The Decline and Fall of the Suzaku), in F104 , 95 – 195 . Tōkyō : Kawade shobō . Yukio Mishima...

..., fueled by forays into cognitive, media, and gender studies, now came from American, German, or Scandinavian scholars, a broad international research community benefiting from the use of English as the lingua franca. Nuancing this history (and geography) of rise and decline, the volume aims...

.... Tseng 2000.5.22 09:29 454 Poetics Today 21:2 interstices of a fragmentary and declining vision. It is not, however, a mat- ter of reversing the sensory hierarchy, by which hearing would take prece...