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...R. Morton Smith Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Unnecessary Oedipus Doubts on the Value of Rebellion R. Morton Smith Today Oedipus might be allegorized as the grandson of Jeremiah, who can deplore but neither sympathize with nor correct the way­ wardness of his descendants...

...James H. Broderick Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 DR. JOHNSON S IMPOSSIBLE DOUBTS James H. Broderick WHEREVER we start and however we progress, any considera­ tion of Dr. Johnson as a writer and as a man inevitably con­ cludes with a recognition of his essential sanity...

... home, cultivating an active skepticism, effectively functioning as “furniture-to-think-with,” to quote Barbara Stafford. In this context, domestic space becomes integrated into an experimental process that tests the limits of the visual and introduces an element of doubt into the psychic structure...

... to be. It was in actuality precisely along the indeterminate boundaries between those categories of rule—at the crossroads of politics and culture—that everyday challenges to colonial hegemony were vitally posed, casting doubt on its founding myths and forms of power. My intention in this essay is to explore this cultural...

... about the initial relationship between race and nation. The writings of nationalists in the 1930s and the mass following of a political movement (Peronism) placed serious doubts on the fiction of Argentina as a “white nation.” © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Ricardo D. Salvatore The Unsettling...

... on the contractual assembly of a collateralized debt obligation contract as representative of a particular class of instruments whose financial and social value is being questioned. I suggest that the trial can be understood as a prolonged practice of deliberation and doubt that entails a profound clash...

..., was poised to play the role of the guarantor of democratic legitimacy and assimilation of newly politicized social groups at the same time: the necessary ingredients for stability in postrevolution Egypt. Some questioned the sustainability of this alliance; but interestingly most of those doubts about its...

.... However, the response it not at all the same either in number or in intensity. What happened? Debates catch fire. There are accusations: the feminism organized around March 8 and that was expressed in the protests against the wolf pack is racist. The answer is more complex, but there is no doubt...

... which had its genesis in doubts concerning the truth of the Christian religion. Early in life Boswell developed a violent distaste for his family s traditional religion, the Calvinistic theology of Presbyterianism. Frequently in his journals he deplores the depressing effect of the drab Scottish form...

... the cross of birth for death bearable. After Jacob had wrestled all night with an angel of the Lord, he asked Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. Unamuno s desperate cry to God, however, is not Who art Thou? but Why art Thou not? His starting point is not methodical Cartesian doubt but Pascal s agonized...

... alone can be the foundation of our faith in this as in other doctrines. Our fifth Article of Religion says: In the name of the Holy The Bible and Modern Scholarship. 249 Scriptures we do understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testaments of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church...

... with it, and I used to teach to love it. For the average Victorian the poem was the great affirmation, a record of the triumphant journey of the soul from despair to faith, a treatise that gathered up all the doubts of Christianity, of provi­ dence, of immortality, which the advance of science had implanted 76...

... of humanists had been unable to doubt. But the new science, or more specifically the new method, which gave to the late seventeenth century a feeling of certainty and a new confidence, had not yet done its work. Meanwhile, English thought, like that of all Western Europe, was characterized by a good deal...

... no more, And heard an ever breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason s colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered, 1 have felt! No, like a child in doubt and fear: But that blind clamor made me wise; Then was I...

... as initiation myth is Henry himself, and Crane casts doubt through his ironic narrative voice on the truth and value of Henry s estimation of his adventures and himself. And so a vital ambiguity ensues. The initiation structure of The Red Badge is evident both in the external action of the novel and in a good...

..., and concomitant circumstances all conspired to restrict and confuse the canon of her work. Her readers have been tantalized by having her poems dribbled out by two teams of editors who worked with separate materials and were not on friendly terms and who left doubt as to the textual accuracy of many of the poems...

... and socially more di­ versified; its society was less class-structured and less closely knit; it had far more new European immigrants; it contained sizable areas where the people were mainly of Southern origin; its population was pervasively affected by what today is called racism, which produced grave doubts...

... arrangements. The existential thinker is interested in psychological problems. Kierkegaard was preoccupied with subjective life; with passion, hope, dread, despair, faith, and doubt. He devotes a great deal of atten- 102 The South Atlantic Quarterly tion to the critique of the aesthetic way of life...

... In 1895 the Reverend James A. Weston of Charlotte published Historic Doubts as to the Execution of Marshal Ney,3 presenting evidence gathered during two decades. Weston believed the legend with a sincerity that inflamed his exposition, and many other writers have built upon his documentation. It was his...

... is to direct attention to some of these forces and to indicate something of their educational implications. Population Growth and Distribution Changes in growth and distribution of population have had, and no doubt will continue to have, a very vital effect upon educational policy. A declining birth-rate...