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...Agnes Heller Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Agnes Heller The Beauty of Friendship The representative stories about eras told by Plato in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, to­ gether with a few other themes developed in other dialogues, became the narrative ground of beauty. Our...

...Frank Lentricchia The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America . By Keller Karl . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1979 . Pp. xi , 340 . $18.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 BOOKS The Only Kangaroo among...

...Daphne Athas Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The Beauty in The Sheltered Life A Moral Concept Daphne Athas The idea of "The Beauty requires a fixed notion of culture, and Ellen Glasgow, working in a fictional tradition more European than Ameri­ can, centers her attention...

...Julia Spicher Kasdorf © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Julia Spicher Kasdorf On Beauty There is more in it than in painting pictures. —Louis Comfort Tiffany The precision with which she drew on lipstick...

...Dolores Janiewski American Beauty . By Banner Lois W. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1983 . Pp. viii , 369 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 309 ceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. Although Crawford traces...

...Newman I. White Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 The Beautiful Angel and His Biographers* Newman I. White Trinity College Literary biography is a problem whose difficulties are still far from solution. Before the seventeenth century it was mainly a problem of insufficient data...

...Burl Noggle The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920’s . By Fass Paula S. . New York : Oxford University Press . 1977 . Pp. xii , 497 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 254 The South Atlantic Quarterly civilian supremacy? That was true...

...Gerald Weales Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 OH WHAT AN ENDLESSLY BEAUTIFUL MORNING! Gerald Weales AHE TWO most remarkable things about the musical plays I of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are their seriousness and their success. About their success there can...

...Jeannette Marks Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 The Beautiful for the People By Jeannette Marks Associate Professor of English Literature in Mount Holyoke College The time has passed when we are content to be content with a stock-jobbers heaven; we are democratic and liberal...

...Kevin Ohi For Robinson Devor's 2000 film Zoo , zoophilia is “digital desire” in ways that go far beyond its thematic fascination with the Internet and with forms of the virtual. Its lavishly excessive visual beauty and its reticence about depicting bestiality make zoophilia a mode of cinematic...

... aesthetics,” as the logic of population becomes the enabling frame for judgments concerning what is beautiful and ugly, as well as for our intuitive sense of the relationships between individuals and collectives. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 aesthetics biopolitics media theory population...

...Saidiya Hartman This speculative history of the wayward is an effort to narrate the open rebellion and beautiful experiment produced by young black women in the emergent ghetto, a form of racial enclosure that succeeded the plantation. The narrative utilizes the reports and case files...

... at war with an equally profound pessimistic tendency, which makes him regard life mainly as a struggle against brutal, insentient forces bound to conquer. This struggle is for him the essence of tragedy. One of the most outstanding traits of Mr. Masefield s poetry is its consistent worship of beauty...

... with Donne s Lover s Infiniteness. The relationship between beauty and art Emerson discusses many times, but perhaps nowhere so poignantly as in Nature, Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. . . . What is common to them all, that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. . . . Noth­ ing...

...Arthur Stanley Riggs Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 PAINTED WOMEN ARTHUR STANLEY RIGGS WHAT IN A WOMAN makes a painter wish to execute her portrait? Probably a majority of both men and women would answer promptly with a single word, Beauty! Yet artists as well as laymen know...

...David J. Garrow 3io The South Atlantic Quarterly The richest part of Banner s text traces the evolution of dominant images of female beauty from the steel-engraving lady of the antebellum years to the voluptuous beauties of the Lillian Russell era through the Gibson girl to the gamine...

... in the academic and art worlds announcing a return of aesthetics in art theory and practice. While many of those involved spoke of making beauty resonate again, there was a sense that aesthetics generally had been...

... should receive our attention: first, his own ideals of what his work should be; and secondly, the merits and excellence of these ideals in themselves. To use his own words, Taylor settles the first of these questions for us by saying that his ideal was To worship beauty as a thing divine. Here we...

...Robert Berkelman Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 KEATS AND THE URN Robert Berkelman KEATS IN 1819 closed his Ode on a Grecian Urn thus: When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend of man, to whom thou sayst, Beauty...

... As their friendship begins, the post­ man is drawn to the poet because he believes the latter to have the recipe for love: the poet s words will help him win the heart and the hand of a beautiful girl (Beatrice Russo). When the poet provides those words in re­ turn for the postman s making the long bike ride up...