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...Thornton S. Graves Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Literal Acceptance of Stage Illusion Thornton S. Graves University of North Carolina It is an interesting comment on playhouse realism that, whereas theatrical people are repeatedly urging the desirability of complete stage...

...James A. Huston Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING: SECURITY OR ILLUSION? JAMES A. HUSTON A LLEGATIONS that the military situation of the United States is far more critical than it would have been had a pro­ gram of universal military training been...

...Robert A. Friedlander Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 American Foreign Policy: Illusion and Reality Robert A. Friedlander It has become something of an intellectual fad during the past decade for historians, political scientists, and journalists of varying political colorations...

...Robert N. Kearney Southeast Asia: Illusion and Reality in Politics and Economics . By Mills Lennox A. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1964 . Pp. 365 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 145 Southeast Asia: Illusion and Reality...

... . Wolfe Patrick . 2016 . Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race . London : Verso . Yablo Stephen . 2014 . Aboutness . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Elizabeth A. Povinelli The Ends of Humans: Anthropocene, Autonomism, Antagonism, and the Illusions...

... behind the illusions by virtue of a structural necessity, thus producing a redoubled or reflected illusion. Such was the focus of the classical ideology critique, but recent developments produced a new turn whereby the ideological construction does its own unmasking, preempting the critique. The obscene...

...Helen Groth In the first section of her Autobiography , Harriet Martineau recollects the first eight years of her life as a series of traumatic events in which illusion and reality merge. One event is prompted by an encounter with a domestic magic lantern. In its dismantled state, the lantern holds...

... to choose a vehicle (one of God’s good but alluring creatures) instead of elect- ing the distant end to which the vehicle should be no more than a means. So mistaken, the vehicle becomes an illusion, a progenitor of damnation...

... of this logic, with the primacy of the literal over the depicted that it effects, produced an inherent problem. With depicted shape being determined by literal shape, the qualities of illusion that could be given to the depicted shapes, and thus also to the painting itself, are eliminated. The painting...

... of imagination is not quite, however, what Strether requires. It is 'the illusion of freedom, he tells Little Bilham, that it is important to have. You don t strike me as in danger of missing the train; besides which people can be in general pretty well trusted, of course with the clock of their freedom...

... is to sacrifice illusion for the juvenile pleasure" of distinct­ ness. 7 Stage representation reduces dream to reality, idea to embodiment, and Everyman to some particular man. For a time, Bettymania thrived Forever Young 579 on some juvenile pleasures that were not fully accounted for in Charles Lamb s...

... father, about reading and writing for truth. I might have said, Well, a person reads or writes to see through life s illusions, to see the truth of life, no matter how hard. Even my mother, less intelligent than my father but more educated because of her family, would have responded: the truth of life...

... and despite the illusions which render them grotesque, are all too human to allow us to conclude that Faulkner is simply asserting the overriding im­ 542 The South Atlantic Quarterly portance of community obligation. He is insisting that there are within man and within the community itself forces...

... they want to do, says the planner of Walden II, but we see to it that they will want to do precisely the things which are best for themselves and for the community. The only way to achieve free­ dom in Walden II is by an illusion of freedom. According to this view, freedom does not belong in the good...

...Mary O. Cowper The Magnificent Illusion . By Barrett E. Boyd . New York : Ives Washburn , 1930 . 321 pp. Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly AN ENTHUSIASTIC BIOGRAPHER Froude & Carlyle. By Waldo H. Dunn. London, New York, and Toronto...

... of temporal, postlapsarian experience. Men stumble, only half-seeing, through the illusion of time, towards the end of that illusion, towards the City of God. Chro­ nology reflects a fall, from perfection into imperfection which, as it com­ pounds itself, piling illusion on illusion, moves towards...

..., to be convinced that the chosen position is tenable. Shaw sees that progress is possible only through the persistent discovery of mistaken conceptions of life and of society. Therefore he fights against those individual and social illusions treacherous, ensnaring, de­ structive such, for instance...

... to pass for profundity. This volume is much better. It contains some excellent reporting along with the endemic illusions of ex-Communist writers. One of these illusions, of course, is that Koestler s experiences form a typical case history of a central-European member of the educated middle classes...

... Illusion. By E. Boyd Barrett New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. 321 pp. This autobiography of a former Jesuit priest, now a practicing psy­ choanalyst and lecturer on psychology, is interesting as a study of a man s explanation of his deeds but not as an exposition of the losing of faith. Dr. Barrett tells why...

... and reaching a wider audience, but they were also beginning more closely to represent life as everybody knew it. The distance which separated literature and life was shrinking. The life that made its way between the covers of a book created more readily and more perfectly the illusion of the life that held...