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... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . “ Exclusive: Mandela’s Ex-Wife Recalls Days in Solitary Confinement ,” by Chau James , cctv.com , December 7 , 2013 , english.cntv.cn/program/newshour/20131207/102371.shtml . Foucault Michel . 1961 . Madness and Civilization: A History...

...James K. Folsom The Madness of Art. A Study of Henry James . By Wright Walter F. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1962 . Pp. x , 269 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 446 The South Atlantic Quarterly and the last two collections of stories...

...Louis J. Budd Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE BACONIANS: MADNESS THROUGH METHOD Louis J. Budd ALTHOUGH a corollary movement arose in Great Britain, wide agreement assigns to Americans the dubious honor of publicizing the belief that Francis Bacon really wrote the Shake­...

...Lodwick Hartley Nightmares and Hobbyhorses: Swift, Sterne, and Augustan Ideas of Madness . By DePorte Michael V. . San Marino : The Huntington Library , 1974 . Pp. xi , 164 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly (p. 88...

...—the military coups and mad utopias that took root, and later perished, in Taksim and Tahrir. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Altınay Ayse Gül . 2004 . The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Aydinli...

...Caroline Rody Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Caroline Rody The Mad Colonial Daughter s Revolt: J. M. Coetzee s In the Heart of the Country In the annals of English imperial literature, perhaps no white female character plays a more unfortunate or predictable role than...

...Linwood E. Orange Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Hamlet s Mad Soliloquy Linwood E. Orange To the two major groups into which nearly all Hamlet critics inevitably fall, the to be soliloquy is of crucial importance.1 The Romantic critics and the enormous number of late...

...Ralph A. Ranald Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 George Orwell and the Mad World: The Anti-Universe of 1984 Ralph A. Ranald I shall save you, Winston, I shall make you perfect. So O Brien, the Grand Inquisitor of 1984, has said to the antihero Winston Smith, in one...

...Lynn Marie Houston The U.S. meat industry's tarnished reputation after the mad cow disease crisis has driven some ranchers to a breaking point, in which they blame food safety issues on illegal immigrants. This essay investigates the activities of a group called Ranch Rescue, whose members “round...

... work in the context of other texts on the mental asylum from 1961 by Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, and R. D. Laing, she produces a feminist reading of the mental asylum as a site in which one can understand the relationship between madness and violence, and as at once refuge and carceral space. ©...

..., whose iconography has been adapted to different, and sometimes conflicting, political agendas over five decades, from a talisman of “joy-mad” race consolidation against Jim Crow in the mid-1930s to a totem for color-blind racial transcendence in the post–civil rights moment of the mid-1980s. Asking how...

... addition to the literature and should take its place as a scholarly source in the history of the state alongside such works as those of Professors Tindall and Williamson. CLARK COLLEGE EDWARD F. SWEAT Nightmares and Hobbyhorses: Swift, Sterne, and Augustan Ideas of Madness. By Michael V. DePorte. San...

.... It keeps his mind off that something in his soul O er which his melancholy sits on brood, and which comes uppermost whenever he is left alone. These perceptive comments are still shadowed, however, by the ancient cloud of Hamlet s assumed madness, by the more recently thickened psychic fog of his...

... of in­ difference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask. Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge. The outcome of this mad adventure has been obvious from its dark beginnings. Ishmael speaks...

... Cervantes. The final chapter of Mr. Empson s book concerns another puzzling and provoking work, abounding in madness and wisdom, dealing with another Golden Age: Lewis Carroll s Alice in Wonierland and Through the Looking-Glass. But the kinship between Alice and the Don lies deeper than a shared convention...

...Ralph A. Wooster The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 . By Barney William L. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1974 . Pp. xv , 371 . $14.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 137 dined to see madness as the triumph...

... of reason in a more active way. The Induction displays the earthiness and energy of Christopher Sly, which will be elaborated in Petruchio, Shake­ speare s first mad hero. Sly is perhaps the ideal audience for a drama no more convincing than his own in structure, yet with as deep a sense of comic realism...

... as “the prototypical psychopathology of Victorian England,” Bennett understands “hoarding [as] the madness appropriate to a political economy devoted to over-consumption, planned obsolescence, relentless extraction of natural resources [ . . . ] and vast mountains of disavowed waste” (248). If we follow...

... of pathology.7 Neither Butler nor Walker, for example, explores the implications of Poe s use of medically cognate terms such as melan­ choly and madness in further describing Roderick Usher. And neither examines the malady that torments Madeline Usher while baffling her physicians. Yet Poe enumerates...

... Virginia Woolf. By Roger Poole. Cambridge: Cam­ bridge University Press, 1978. Pp. 285. $12.95. Roger Poole says at the outset that he read Quentin Bell s biogra­ phy puzzled by the failure to offer any evidence for the alleged madness of his subject, and . . . offended by the looseness and cru­ dity...