... to a political-philosophical perspective might be effected and to demonstrate both the theoretical-explanatory and prescriptive-practical benefits of such a change in viewpoint. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Adam Thurschwell Ethical Exception: Capital Punishment in the Figure of Sovereignty...

...Verónica Gago The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while...

...Olga W. Vickery Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 William Faulkner and the Figure in the Carpet Olga W. Vickery With The Reivers, Yoknapatawpha County, consisting of some 2,400 square miles and inhabited, according to William Faulkner s private census, by a population of 15,611...

...Brenda Murphy Woman, Will, and Survival: The Figure in Margaret Drabble s Carpet Brenda Murphy I find it slightly worrying. 1 mean, what is one so determined to survive for, at everyone else s expense. 1 don t know. Margaret Drabble, 1974, in an interview with Iris Rozencwajg, Women's Studies, 6...

...Olga W. Vickery Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 William Faulkner and the Figure in the Carpet Olga W. Vickery With The Reivers, Yoknapatawpha County, consisting of some 2,400 square miles and inhabited, according to William Faulkner s private census, by a population of 15,611...

...David Simpson David Simpson Figuring Class, Sex, and Gender: What Is the Subject of Wordsworth s Gipsies ? Rrhaps nothing in the field of feminist criti­ cism arouses more debate than the relative claims of class, sex, and gender for inter­ pretive priority. One position, identified...

...Victor Bravo Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Victor Bravo Figurations and Transfigurations of the Image Mlodernity is an imaginary that man in­ habits between folds, between duplicities. Clamor of foundations and ruptures, its first manifestation is that of a negativity which...

...W. T. Laprade Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 RESTORATION FIGURES W. T. LAPRADE ANTHONY Ashley Cooper and Samuel Pepys accomxx. panied Charles II on the ship renamed in his honor when he landed at Dover in May, 1660. John Churchill, son of a royalist father and a puritan mother...

...E. P. Bollier Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley . By Eliot T. S. . New York : Farrar, Straus and Company , 1964 . Pp. 216 . $4.50 . Notes on Some Figures Behind T. S. Eliot . By Howarth Herbert . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1964 . Pp...

...Tristram P. Coffin Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Harden E. Taliaferro and the Use of Folklore by American Literary Figures Tristram P. Coffin As best we know, Harden E. Taliaferro started life in 1818 in Surry County, North Carolina. But we aren t certain of the date...

...Martin Morris Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Martin Morris Figures of a Discontinuous Germany Tie concept of break graphically exemplified by the title ofthis special issue of SAQ is particu­ larly well suited to Germany. Indeed, the modern (especially the twentieth-century...

..., midway through the play, is actually an angel of death. Part Wilsonian mystical realism and part Suzan-Lori Parks history play, Hall domesticates a larger-than-life figure to recalibrate the movement he personifies. I argue here that the play calls forth the conventions of a history play in order...

...Andrew Pendakis This article explores the historical construction of the entrepreneur as a figure of antinomian or “deviant” risk. Though risk-bearing behavior has been the characteristic most often invoked to specify the economic function of the entrepreneur, this ostensibly descriptive category...

...Penelope Deutscher Since it has not to date arisen as a question, is it possible to open a debate with Giorgio Agamben concerning the role of women's bodies in the politicization of life? The woman about whom a ruling is passed forbidding an abortion is sometimes figured as a potentially murderous...

...Priyamvada Gopal In June 2011, A. C. Grayling, a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London and a familiar figure in British left-liberal circles, unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he announced the formation of Britain's first fully private and for-profit liberal arts institution...

...Annie McClanahan; Jon-David Settell This article considers the figure of the sex worker across Marxist political economy. Taking up what Melissa Gira Grant terms the “prostitute imaginary,” the authors suggest that from classical political economy to contemporary Marxist-feminist thought, the sex...

... posits the Janjawid, an especially recriminatory and bloody militia mobilized by the riverine Khartoum government against the “black Darfurians,” as the postcolonial instance through which to think about the figure of the unsettler. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Grant Farred The Unsettler...

...Katrina Schlunke Does “possession” produce “home”? This essay figures the claim by Captain Cook to possess Australia as an attempt to institute a single order of time and nature. But that order was and is always undercut by the reality of an enduring indigenous sovereignty. Through ideas of memory...

... . Prestige is the social expression of the labor value given up by subjects to institutions and their agents in return for the perceived security of (occupational) privilege; it is the collective form of charisma. In this light, iconic figures become remunerated, less for their individual work and its...

... ; the memoirs of John Addington Symonds; and historical figures such as Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, Michael Field, and Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Sharon Marcus At Home with the Other Victorians The History of Homosexuality...