...George Ritzer Duke University Press 2006 George Ritzer Rooting for the ‘‘Devil Baseball, the Yankees, Shane Spencer (Who and Social Theory Born in New York City, specifically Manhat- tan, I was destined to be a fan of New York...

...Thornton S. Graves The Devil in the Playhouse Thornton S. Graves Trinity College. The playhouse, declared Tertullian, is the Devil s Tem­ ple ; Satan, according to Saint Chrysostom, was the first builder of theatres. The Chappel of Satan, The Schoolhouse of Satan, Sathanes Synagogue...

...Robert H. Woody The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials . By Starkey Marion L. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1949 . Pp. xviii , 310 , vii . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews W The Devil in Massachusetts...

...Shirley Strum Kenny Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Elopements, Divorce, and the Devil Knows What : Love and Marriage in English Comedy, 1690 1720 Shirley Strum Kenny In Farquhar s The Recruiting Officer, which opened in 1706, the hero, Plume, says that he would never consent...

...Mattie U. Russell Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Devil in the Smokies: The White Man s Nature and the Indian s Fate Mattie V. Russell In the conflict between the native Indians and white settlers in the South, a unique drama was acted out in western North Carolina. Whites who...

...Louis J. Budd The Devil’s Pretty Daughter and Other Ozark Folk Tales . By Randolph Vance . New York : Columbia University Press , 1955 . Pp. xvi , 239 . $3.75 . Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties . By Lueders Edward . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1955...

... in state penitentiaries, the intensified decoration of gang members’ bodies with tattoos of devils, clowns, and satanic symbols thrust the grammar of protest in Honduran politics to a limit where the architecture of confinement became a laboratory for criminal affects and political horizons projecting...

..., 1959). The Heresy of Witchcraft 533 Christian Devil would be victorious. The witch hunted by the inquisitors, ecclesiastical and civil, was no hag; the witch was a member of an international movement, a powerful subversive force working secretly night and day to overthrow the true religion...

..., in the general plasticity of Satan s new world of possibility, the distinction between literal and fig­ urative transformation often blurs and occasionally breaks down alto­ gether. In a well-known description borrowed from Homer (Iliad II, 88-95) and Virgil (Aeneid I, 611-19), the devils throng the palace...

... that the animality in question has differing modalities. In a painting by Piero della Francesca of the archangel Michael having just slain the devil (Saint Michael, circa 1469), the saint is presented as having...

... in their religious views, but to the untheological twentieth century they seem pretty close together, especially on so simple a matter as the Christian view of Satan. Mr. Lewis, in esti­ mating the Devil, has something of the advantages of a contemporary of Milton j all teachers of Paradise Lost have observed how...

... of Updike, which finds the roots of evil in the small failures of daily life. The women, who cannot sus­ tain any love or affection, are ready to destroy other marriages and homes. They seek forbidden power or pleasure, and, like Faustus, are willing to sell themselves to the devil. There is a satanic...

... son exposing the racist American cancer, casting the guilt of white America before it and arousing its deepest fears for the security of its civilization and privileged well-being. For twelve years he taught the Negro not to love the white man but to see in him the devil incarnate. He derided pie...

... in him the devil incarnate. He derided pie-inthe-sky religion for the black man, while white Christians enjoyed their heaven on earth. Look at your surroundings, he urged his listeners, and then look at the white man s, and you ll see what Christianity really means. He counseled racial separation...

... a right Roundhead, a wise hearted Palatine, a thankfull man to the English; to forgive all his sins, and at length to save his soul, notwithstanding all his God-damne mee s: yet I may doe him wrong; I am not certaine hee useth that oath; I wish no man else would. I dare say the Devills dare...

... a far from flattering review of The Democratic Record. On the other hand, in answer to the question Wilson or Hughes? Mr. Norman Hapgood says Wilson with considerable emphasis. The Unpopular Review does these things differently. Its October number opens with an article The Devil and the Deep Sea...

... are grandchildren of the Devil; and general, off-hand observations of one s neigh­ bors does, on the whole, bear out this unflattering opinion. Yet, on the other hand, as all authorities agree, ministers sons achieve eminence several times more frequently than the num­ ber of cleric fathers in any community...

.... And I had the sharp impression that I had left the novel and was now reading something out of medieval drama. That sudden exit by Morden forcibly reminded me of various dramatic characters like the devil and death who perform their function on the stage and then drop out of the scene as if through...

.... In this he vastly differs from Franz Kafka and Andre Gide, for instance, whose comic spirit is a true, capering devil, a genie of laughter with terror and pity in its train. No present-age writers of fiction in English approach the Europeans, Kafka and Gide, in such vein, not even Wyndham Lewis and Djuna...

..., and Christian terms. Moral judgment is couched in the language of Freud as well as of the Bible, and the fusion is effected through imagery. The serpent, referred to in crucial scenes of each of the novels, is equally at home in the worlds of theology and depth psychology, and posses­ sion by the devil may...