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...Clarence Gohdes The Literary Apprenticeship of Mark Twain . By Branch Edgar Marquess . Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 325 . $4.00 . Mark Twain as a Literary Artist . By Bellamy Gladys Carmen . Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma...

...” and complicates the conventional notion of a rigid disjunction between local vernacular and standard metropolitan languages as they are deployed in major Caribbean literary texts. The focus of the analysis is on Césaire's ambitious program of language renewal seen through the lens of a twofold comparison...

...Jernej Habjan This article looks at cultural studies as an alternative to literary studies. To cofound cultural studies, Stuart Hall had to abandon literary studies. Later development, however, enabled cultural studies itself to engulf literary studies. Today, with radical approaches such as Franco...

...Philip Stewart Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Philip Stewart Indecency and Literary Illustration Both verbal and pictorial expression are, at least most of the time and in more or less rec­ ognized ways, beholden to norms of decency. In eighteenth-century France the context...

...Paul Sharrad 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Paul Sharrad Out of Africa: Literary Globalization in the Winds of Change At some point in my s high school years...

...Imre Szeman 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Imre Szeman Who’s Afraid of National Allegory? Jameson, Literary Criticism, Globalization Fredric Jameson’s proposal...

...Nicholas Brown 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Nicholas Brown The Eidaesthetic Itinerary: Notes on the Geopolitical Movement of the Literary Absolute Whoever...

...Georg Stanitzek 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Peter Krapp Georg Stanitzek Fama/Chain of Muses: Two Classical Problems of Literary Studies with ‘‘the Media’’ It might seem self-evident that literary studies...

...Wai Chee Dimock 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Wai Chee Dimock Nonbiological Clock: Literary History against Newtonian Mechanics Itake as my starting point...

...Ian Hunter Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Ian Hunter Literary Theory in Civil Life For those already interested in heading away from the discussions of aesthetics and politics or literature and ideology that have preoccu­ pied thinking about the social uses of literature...

...Lee Edelman Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Lee Edelman The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS In an article titled The Metaphor of AIDS, published for a popular audience in the Sun­ day magazine of the Boston Globe, Lee Grove, an instructor of creative...

...Gerald Thompson Musical and Literary Influences on Owen Wister s The Virginian Gerald Thompson Most scholars agree that Owen Wister s The Virginian played a key role in fixing the image of the Cowboy Hero in the American mind. Wister s hero embodied many aspects of the familiar stereotype: he...

...Louis J. Budd Fast Talk & Flush Times: The Confidence Man as a Literary Convention . By Lenz William E. . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1985 . Pp. 237 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 207 the importance of its nominal...

...Debra Morris Smith Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Idea of Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory Debra Morris Smith Invocation of a muse, whether one of the nine, the holy spirit, or someone of private importance to the writer, is so common in poetry...

... ability with sexual connotations and abstractions, Hagstrum has an admirably sharp eye for artistic detail. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN JACK STILLINGER Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman. By William McCar­ thy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Pp. xiii...

...Louis A. Renza Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered . By Pritchard William H. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1984 . Pp. xix , 286 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 303 complain of the unkindness of harsh judgements shouldn t engage...

... of belief. This cultivated speculative mentality is both replicated and reinforced by Victorian literary narrative's structural and thematic illumination of the constructed nature of the real, down to its most banal everyday manifestations. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Helen Groth Domestic...

...Charles Scruggs Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 George Orwell and Jonathan Swift: A Literary Relationship Charles Scruggs Ever since Animal Farm: A Fairy Story was published in 1945, critics repeatedly have seen the hand of Jonathan Swift in Orwell s satire of totalitarianism...

...G. S. Rousseau The Literary Freud: Mechanisms of Defense and the Poetic Will. Psychiatry and the Humanities Volume 4 . Edited by Smith Joseph H. M.D. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1980 . Pp. xx , 390 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 362...

...John Halperin Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars . By Fussell Paul . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. 246 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 366 The South Atlantic Quarterly Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between...