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...Waldo H. Dunn Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 JAMIE BOSWELL S THORN IN THE FLESH WALDO H. DUNN College of Wooster WHOM DID James Boswell dislike most? Even to ex­ pert Boswellians that question, I fancy, may at first seem unanswerable. We know that the irrepressible little Scot...

...M. E. Bradford The Flesh and the Word: Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner . By Watkins Floyd C. . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 1971 . Pp. x , 282 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 277 rative poems are mere vehicles for abstract ideas...

... When Communism Becomes Flesh “ When Communism Becomes Flesh” might have been the title of Paulo Virno’s book Quando il verbo si fa carne. Linguaggio e natura umana (When...

... (Mysticism in the Flesh) Just Friends ​In the past decade, the most exciting and gen- erative advance in black critical theory, which is to say critical theory, is the announcement...

...Amiri Baraka; Theodore A. Harris 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Text by Amiri Baraka Collages by Theodore A. Harris Our Flesh of Flames The South Atlantic Quarterly 104:3, Summer 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke...

...Raymond Himelick Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 CABELL, SHELLEY, AND THE INCORRIGIBLE FLESH RAYMOND HIMELICK WHEN THOMAS JEFFERSON spoke of the pursuit of hap­ piness he was thinking of a political right; but sensitive men are forced early into the uncomfortable conviction...

... blackness is oceanic, of the Middle Passage, and in the future tense or the not-yet as a trace within the now. I situate and elaborate this claim in relationship to Nahum Chandler’s investigation of modernity as a project of purity, Hortense Spillers’s reflections on the pornotroping of the flesh...

..., to the logic of the city. As documented on YouTube, Jump London , and Casino Royale or seen in the flesh, parkour is the most spectacular of a set of unruly practices in the specular city, from skateboarding to flash mobbing. The traceur can be situated in the history of urban wanderers in the midst of capital...

..., media commentaries, and productions; and formal institutional resistance and legal action. Altogether, Boğaziçi protests highlight, or, better, flesh out, the importance of university autonomy and democracy, reposing the question, What is a university? at this critical moment when public life...

... developed this thesis in the nineteenth century, the practice of the common allows us to flesh out such a theory today. The eradication of property can be accomplished through an articulation of different commons in which a productive common, codirected by workers and users, would work in conjunction...

...Margo Natalie Crawford This essay explores the temporal differences between the lived experience of black flesh and the black body. The author uncovers an aesthetics of the open body that differs greatly from the ongoing naturalizing of the always already marked black body. There is an emerging...

.... But a year after the event his literary executor published that novel which had long been withheld for a posthumous appearance. The Way of All Flesh attracted the curios­ ity of just the sort of common reader that had read Erewhon when it had first come out; Erewhon was momentarily interesting because no one...

... a consideration of diction is outside the scope of his book) is that Jeffers seldom made an honest woman out of the whore. The brilliant exception, apart from individual lines and passages, is Hurt Hawks. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE SIDNEY P. MOSS The Flesh and the Word: Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner...

... book The Open. With the theme of the Voice, Agamben fleshes out the intuition at the basis of his messianic ethics and politics: the idea of the “taking place of language” that is different from, indeed, that is the condition of possibility, if a repressed one, of signifying language. As we...

... of the touch. He writes: For to touch, so one believes, is touching what one touches, to let one- self be touched by the touched, by the touch of the thing, whether objec- tive or not, or by the flesh that one touches and that then becomes touching as well as touched. This is not true...

..., and from much food of any kind. It may be vain to ask why the imagination will not be reconciled to flesh and fat. I am satisfied that it is not. Thus, for the most part, Thoreau sought, for reasons of economy, health, and doctrine, to restrict himself to a natural, vegetarian diet, unembellished...

..., and worship d bee; (p. 75) initial metaphors which go on to develop other Neoplatonic images such as that of the soul as the child of love, which nevertheless must take on the limbs of flesh. One could continue listing Neoplatonic images throughout this section of poems. There are many metaphors of light...

..., raged at her studio audience. She had to grab their attention. They lived in her flesh, but the sight of it bored them. They preferred the veil to the face beneath it. They craved the illusions she cooked up for them, preferring insubstantial fantasies to solid food. And they loved it best when she...

... the last breath of life has gone out, in order that no time may be lost in cooking and devouring the flesh. Austra­ lian men have been known to bait their fishing hooks with the flesh of their own children. The Fuegians of South America will sell their children into slavery for a few trinkets...

... (or Spirit/Life vs. Flesh/Death), one that has nothing to do with the biological distinction between life and death as stages of the generation-corruption cycle, or with the standard Platonic opposition of Soul and Body. For Paul, Life and Death, Spirit and Flesh, designate two subjective stances, two...