...John David Smith Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Keep em in a fire-proof vault Pioneer Southern Historians Discover Plantation Records John David Smith Writing in 1910, and again a year later, William Thomas Laprade ad­ dressed himself to the problems which faced students...

...Christopher Collier Who Discovered America?: A Review of Recent Historiography Christopher Collier The extraordinary ballyhoo surrounding the publication in Octo­ ber, 1965, of The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation1 shows what can happen to university presses when they succumb to tricks...

.... GIORDANO, JR. Discovering Shakespeare; A New Guide to the Plays. By John Russell Brown. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. v, 168. $22.50. Apparently one must Free Shakespeare, as John Russell Brown did in 1974, before one can discover him. In his earlier book Brown proposed liberat­ ing...

...’ Oedipus Rex , which was taken up again several times in the 1970s and 1980s. Truth is always analysed here as an essential function to govern the self and others by telling the truth, and this function is accomplished, according to Foucault, through the ‘game of halves’ that he discovers in Sophocles...

... of theoretical practice. Foucault's line of argumentation begins with a reading of Immanuel Kant's essay, “What Is Enlightenment?” and then steps back in time to work through the notion of parrhesia in ancient Greek thought. Finally, in the work of the ancient Cynics, he discovers a biopolitical militancy...

...Marco Palma In 2006 the citizens of Vicenza, Italy, discovered that for three years US authorities, the Italian government, and city officials had been negotiating secretly to approve the construction of a new military base on the only large undeveloped area in the northern part of the city...

...Eve Dunbar In July 2018, the New York Times reported on the remains of some ninety-five people discovered at a construction site in the Houston, Texas, suburb of Sugar Land. The archaeologists called in to identify the remains determined that they likely belonged to African American laborers who...

... of prejudice. Fascism depends on affective attachments, magnified by prejudice (a magnification that takes place through identification with a leader). This is a clear theme in Adorno’s critical theory. In his previous work in The Authoritarian Personality , Adorno set out the task to discover differential...

..., William Prescott, William Robertson, Alexander Humboldt, Ayres de Cazal, Santarem, and Duarte Leite, among a host of others, supported the tradi­ tional view. Vespucci was a fatuous personage, a lying novelist, a cosmographer who repeated the ideas of others, a false discoverer who appropriated...

... the hard banausic shell of Alexandria and discovered himself prefigures his own final development in Clea the artist coming of age. 1 Kenneth Young, A Dialogue with Durrell, XIII (December, 1959), 62. 2 The Tradition of the New (New York, 1959), p. 31. The Search for the Artist in Some Recent British...

... accent. So I got hired. What a strange department it was. I discovered that we were grant­ ing a Ph.D. in liturgy. Moreover, those involved in teaching such courses were damn smart. It just did not sound like an academic sub­ ject to me, but then 1 thought, What do I know? After all, in the general run...

...George V. Taylor 384 The South Atlantic Quarterly discovered was by no means the villain of tradition. On the contrary, he was a cultivated man trained in the best school of humanism, impelled by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by a reputation, which he never betrayed, of being a person...

..., Los Angeles; his essay isfrom a book in progress on Jean Stafford. The South Atlantic Quarterly 85:2, Spring 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press. CCC 0038-2876/86/81.50. 1. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Thomas Mann were among Stafford s favorite writers. Commentators have discovered...

... in the manner in which we prefer to be disconcerted to discover that the function of the modern Ayjf, The South Atlantic Quarterly critic seems often to be to dissect, to analyze, to probe into the intricacies of an author s design. The more intricate the design, the more excitingly difficult the game...

... global of its many unsettling habits. Its starting point is the assumption that there is a difference be­ tween the text and itself, but then without warning we discover that it has itself become a text or more unsettling still moved from the margins into the center to become an in­ distinguishable part...

... of these two facts. Which is more important: that which dis­ tinguishes me from all other human beings, or that which makes me recognizably human? For some years I have tried to discover on which side of the war my acquaintances align themselves. With no warning, I accost 90 The South Atlantic Quarterly them...

... discoverable by right reason and that the obligation to obey it derives from the justness of its content. Law was conceived by the early liberal as at once the product of will and the embodiment of justice. But how could the liberal be certain that individuals would will that which was objectively demanded...

... out promptly. Now Madariaga issues a new edition. A few minor errors, some sug­ gested by his critics, some discovered by his own research, are corrected, but on his major thesis he stands his ground. In a Note on the Second Edition he replies in kind to the eminent reviewers. Professor Morison in his...

... to define the character of his development. A recorder of moments and passing impressions, Hardy is too elusive and flexible and prolific to be caught in the rather rigid nets of scholarly theses in thin volumes. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON FRANK R. GIORDANO, JR. Discovering Shakespeare; A New Guide to the Plays...

... quiesced in these events. A few actual Communists, even a few bona fide Russian spies, were discovered. A larger number of individuals were revealed to have had Communist connections in their past or to have spoken and written favorably about Com­ munism over the years. They could be plausibly designated...