...Thomas Cordle Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr . By Sartre Jean-Paul . Trans. Frechtman Bernard . New York : George Braziller , 1963 . Pp. 625 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 442 The South Atlantic Quarterly F gives a vivid and veridical picture...

... . 1985 . “A Speech-Maker's Songs.” Times Literary Supplement , July 19 , 792 . Christopher L. Miller Editing and Editorializing: The New Genetic Cahier of Aimé Césaire ​In the wake of Aimé Césaire’s death, an out­ pouring of tributes...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. On the Literary Genetics of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1592-1594 . By Baldwin T. W. . Urbana : The University of Illinois Press , 1959 . Pp. xii , 562 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 589 from our isolation, we shall for a long...

...Paul J. Kramer The Application of Genetics to Cotton Improvement . By Hutchinson Joseph Sir . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1959 . Pp. v , 87 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 112 The South Atlantic Quarterly but accurate and scathing tongue...

...Stathis Gourgouris Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Stathis Gourgouris A Lucid Drunkenness (Genet s Poetics of Revolution) 11 has already become customary to infuse the end of the twentieth century with a forwardlooking gaze to some abyssal, unknown, but nonetheless impending...

... comparisons with different linguistic tables and memorial substantives. From the linguistic background—genetically identical with English and some twenty centuries distant—an old Greek or Latin framework transforms reading into a perpetual exercise in comparative interpretations. The main functions...

... recombination. Molecules do not care about the conventions of social gender, marriage, or heterosexuality, yet all human procreation is politically assisted, requiring a collectivization of a body's genetic material through a more or less regulated social practice. As such, is it time to invent techniques...

... strata but also in the biological and genetic strata of human bodies; exploitation, subordination, and inequalities are inscribed into the human body and experienced, visible and knowable by subalterns without the mediation of—many times actually in opposition to—mainstream scientific knowledge...

... offer us Melville s last (and unfinished) work in both a reading text (unencumbered by footnotes), and a genetic text, edited from the manuscript with introduction and foot­ notes. They have thus settled, once and for all, a literary problem which has nagged scholars for almost forty years since...

... his followers were, the actual genetic mechanism and the way in which the genetic practice worked was still quite unclear. Some advances were made towards the end of the nineteenth century but a more definite understanding of the two most important aspects of evolutionary biology started only...

... human infants contain, genetically programed into their brains, a linguisticfaculty that compels them to learn human language is scarcely new. Indeed, viewed outside the metaphor of the computer, the notion is something of a tautology, for it is obvious even to the strictest empiricistbehaviorist...

... when he mentioned a fair neutrality became a poisonous one for Franco-American relations when he had to deny to the French minister Edmond Charles Genet the right to equip and arm privateers in American ports or dispose of French prizes in America. The secretary of state did not flinch from telling...

... genetic idio- syncrasies to hundreds of thousands—or, if possible, millions—of other individual genetic profiles. In its commitment to the end of extending health, the case of personalized medicine emphasizes an affective constella- tion that runs through all these examples: namely, the hope...

... in contemporary drama. If a playgoer is puzzled, to put it mildly, by a play such as Genet s The Balcony, he can find in The Contemporary Theatre a lucid accounting for Genet s place in modem drama. The title of the book is, of course, all-embracing. To fulfil it literally would require volumes. To provide focus...

... of the day. So much so, in fact, that some recently retooled versions of sociobiology avoid explicitly invoking race at all, even and especially when arguing for genetic explanations of group differences...

... the notion that all languages [are] equally easy for children to learn (p. 319); his belief, following Charles Hockett, that human language very likely achieved its full form a mere 10,000 years ago (in the sense of acquiring, probably by genetic evolution, such features as tense marking and relative...

... this reviewer found new insights well worth the close reading of the entire book) but to the person who wishes to understand and to know more about background and trends in contemporary drama. If a playgoer is puzzled, to put it mildly, by a play such as Genet s The Balcony, he can find in The Contemporary...

... may have transported the bacteria, but was it the point of origin? In the end, 0157:H7 was found on one particular ranch in samples of cow dung, stream water, and the wild boar’s gut (I guess they killed the pig). Genetic research establishes 0157: H7’s unique history. It arose in the rumen...

... to explain the ratification of the Constitution in South Carolina, while a second Burke letter to Citizen Genet consumes a full page in an analysis of American attitudes toward Genet. Still another letter, almost a page in length, from William Read to Jacob Read, describes the possible insanity of Smith s...

... in both a reading text (unencumbered by footnotes), and a genetic text, edited from the manuscript with introduction and foot­ notes. They have thus settled, once and for all, a literary problem which has nagged scholars for almost forty years since 1924, when Raymond Weaver first edited the work...