...Mark Dery Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Mark Dery Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson s Crisis of Meaning The world is disappearing. Oliver Wendell Holmes augured this surreal state of affairs in The Stereoscope and the Stereograph, his 1859 essay on what...

...Josef Anderle The Meaning of Czech History . By Masaryk Tomas G. . Edited and with Introduction by Wellek René . Translated by Kussi Peter . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1974 . Pp. xxiii , 169 . $9.95 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University...

...Barrett John Mandel Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography . By Olney James . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1972 . Pp. 342 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 BOOKS Metaphors of Self: The Meaning oj Autobiography. By James Olney...

...Edmund Reiss The Medieval Erotic Alba: Structure as Meaning . By Saville Jonathan . New York : Columbia University Press , 1972 . Pp. xviii , 315 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 412 The South Atlantic Quarterly the polite code, as in the glowing...

... meaningful only when there are minds to comprehend it, but these minds find themselves always in interaction with the course of happenings. The human mind is thus not confronted by a chaos of facts which, as Karl Popper suggested, receive meaning only through our subjective decisions, but by observable...

...Edward Fulton Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 The Meaning and Purpose of Criticism Edward Fulton Professor of English in the University of Illinois Whatever the precise function of criticism may be, it may be as­ sumed now that the critic should at least approach his subject...

...Katharine E. Gilbert Meaning and Truth in the Arts . By Hospers John . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1946 . Pp. 238 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 246 The South Atlantic Quarterly and The Troughs of Zolaism, the content...

...Morris Freedman THE MEANING OF T. S. ELIOT S JEW Morris Freedman ALMOST NO serious critical attention has been paid to the portrait of the Jew in T. S. Eliot s early poetry. This neglect is unfortunate, for the design of this portrait intertwines a numbe of motifs in the total work, which have...

... The Meaning of Yalta: Big Three Diplomacy and the New Balance of Power. By John L. Snell, editor; Forrest C. Pogue; Charles F. Delzell; and George A. Lensen, with a Foreward by Paul H. Clyde. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956. Pp. xvi, 239. $3-75- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill...

... that is intellectually desirable, a principle that is in accord with the dialectics of rational­ ism; at least, not that alone. He craves rather an over-all purpose (meaning and purpose are indisseverably bound together) that will relate him to mankind and the cosmos, a purpose which will in itself be meaningful...

...Sandra E. Greene 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Sandra E. Greene Notsie Narratives: History, Memory, and Meaning in West Africa The town of Notsie (located in south cen- tral Togo) evokes today quite specific memories...

...Anthony DeCurtis Anthony DeCurtis What the Streets Mean: An Interview with Martin Scorsese When I grew up in Greenwich Village in the fifties and early sixties, the neighborhood was not the bohemian theme park that it is today. Of course, there was a strong, long-standing and genuine bohemian...

...Jim Hosney; Jacquelyn Wollman; Jesse Ward Engdahl Jim Hosney, Jacquelyn Wollman, and Jesse Ward Engdahl The Passion of St. Charles: Martin Scorsese s Mean Streets Note. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true...

...J. W. Manning Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 COUNTY CONSOLIDATION AS A MEANS OF TAX REDUCTION J. W. MANNING IT HAS often been said that the people of the United States are overgoverned and overtaxed. Many proponents of tax reduction have idealized their objective without...

...Francis E. Bowman The Rise of Words and Their Meanings . By Reiss Samuel . New York : Philosophical Library , 1950 . Pp. 301 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 598 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Rise of Words and Their Meanings. By Samuel Reiss. New...

... society and based on private ownership. This crisis appears, first, as an inadequacy of the instruments of theoretical economics to take the digital platform model into account, and subsequently as a crisis concerning the ownership of the means of production: ownership seems to be split into intellectual...

...Ariane Fischer Karl Marx's theory of ideology, as outlined in The German Ideology , was primarily a critique of idealist philosophy. When Karl Mannheim picked up the term ideology in the 1930s, he broadened its meaning to the point where it lost its function in the struggle against idealist...

... of thinking about decision-making processes, a notion deriving much of its power from its being interwoven with notions of legitimacy and “right.” This concept functions at a deep level, not only upholding decision-making processes but going into the very structuring of meaning, thereby defining ranges...

... viewing. Unexpectedly, the film's exploration of zoophilia illuminates an embodied experience of reading that poets and novelists likewise figure in relation to animals; displacements of perspective and voice that literary texts explore in terms of literary meaning as it shades into animal movement...