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...John M. Bradbury Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Absurd Insurrection The Barth-Percy Affair John M. Bradbury The American South is no stranger to cultural, any more than to social, upheavals. In the literary field, that broad insurrection known as the Southern Renaissance...

... . By Hurlburd David . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1951 . Pp. x , 166 . $2.50 . The Loyalty of Free Men . By Barth Alan . New York : The Viking Press , 1951 . Pp. xxxi , 253 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 166 The South Atlantic Quarterly based...

...Taylor Cole Barth’s Travels in Nigeria . Edited, with an Introduction, by Kirk-Greene A. H. M. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1962 . Pp. xii , 300 . $6.10 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 126 The South Atlantic Quarterly by crises, was colonial Yale s...

...Marcia M. Mathews Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Richmond Barthe, Sculptor Marcia M. Mathews Richmond Barthe, who ranks among the best of American contem­ porary sculptors, was in the vanguard of those black artists in the 1920 s who found inspiration in Negro life. While he...

...Michael Naas Jacques Derrida died more than five years ago now, but his work keeps on coming out and, in the case of his work on photography, keeps on developing . While three important works on photography were published in English during Derrida's lifetime (“The Deaths of Roland Barthes” [1981...

... in 1949, inaugurated a long period of careful attention to filmic adaptations of well-known novels. Under the structuralist influence of the late 1960s, however, and especially after the publi­ cation of Roland Barthes s S/Z in 1970, a new approach to novel/film relationships prevailed. Abandoning...

... of the campaigns do provide an adequate picture of what took place. The German scholar, Barth, who made several journeys through the empire in mid-century, dismisses Bello s historical work as propaganda (H. Barth, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa [5 vols.; London: Longmans, 1857], II, 70...

... and maturation though a phase whose intrinsic shortcomings have now be­ come obvious. Fred R. Dallmayr, Twilight of Subjectivity I am not lovingly gazing toward an Oriental es­ sence to me the Orient is a matter of indiffer­ ence. Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs 5A/here will Japan take the postmodern...

... the deliberate negation of all perspec­ tive. Today, a century later, this perception does not seem to have changed. For example, the elements ofJapanese life evoked in Roland Barthes s Empire of Signs are almost all products of this nineteenth century. What Barthes praises is the absence of man, of the think­...

... of gratuitous suicide, or suicide as pure form, pre­ figures Roland Barthes s view ofJapan a mere twelve years later as an empire of empty signs. Barthes s ability to view Japan as a series of empty signifiers was possible, as he himself acknowledged, because as an outsider he was unable or unwilling...

... Twentieth-century Calvinist theologian Karl Barth insisted that the relation between humans and God does not originate in human thinking and actions but in the Holy Spirit alone. Thus, he rejected theologies that gave room to human action in shaping the relation with God; in his view...

... and literary life. The modern tourist, Roland Barthes remarked, suffers from the virus of essences, which narrows the scenic scope of his ethnologi­ cal inquiry to a cluster of easily assimilable cliches. In seeking to know a foreign land and its people, Barthes s typically middle-class travelers follow...

... kind. Prose satire remains a discrete genre that persists in English right up to the present time, to John Barth s Giles Goatboy. The fact that Barth s work, like Huxley s Brave New World, is labeled a novel argues merely the blurring of generic distinctions, a loose purveying of anything fic­ tional...

.... The same latent emotions are ready to be exploited wherever the more enlightened leaders are not alert to the danger. Mr. Barth s much more fundamental book, with its foreword by Professor Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., of the Harvard Law School, goes more nearly to the root of the matter and faces the more...

... by Barthes, Foucault, and many others, have long been evident in Japan, where intellectuals have chronically complained in fact about the absence of selfhood. The postmodern erasure of historicity as Jean-Frangois Lyotard reflects is the stuff of Japanese nativist religion (shintoism) in which ritual bathing...

... seeking to secure its aesthetic autonomy from its everydayness. The ubiquity of the family photograph prevents us from thinking about photography in general, as well as about the relationship of this medium of mechanical reproducibility to the past, that is, to our past. For Roland Barthes...

... read pop s basic material object the record. A French professor of mine once informed me that Barthes s S/Z was grossly overrated. He said, If you want to read good criticism on Balzac, don t read Roland Barthes. He was, of course, correct, but he had missed the whole point of contemporary...

... and reductive.) Matters of ideology, central to so much discussion of narrative systems from Roland Barthes s Mytholo­ gies to Fredric Jameson s The Political Unconscious, also confound any notion of an objective narrative structure readily detached from its historical, social context. But perhaps most...

... Barthes argued in a crude but suggestive way that the Modernist preoccupation with language and de Man s Romanticism is really a Modernism has to be understood as historical in both the widest and the narrowest sense. It predominates at a particular moment in history, and within that moment...

... be followed by stagnation and decline. For a full understanding of the pattern of American collegiate development the constituencies of historic institu­ tions must be analyzed as carefully as the lives of their presidents. UNIVERSITY OF DENVER THEODORE R. CRANE Barth s Travels in Nigeria. Edited...