...J. A. Bryant, Jr. Signifying Nothing: Truth’s True Contents in Shakespeare’s Text . By Evans Malcolm . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1986 . Pp. x , 291 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 197 lelisms, passive constructions...

...Leo Ching 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Leo Ching ‘‘Give Me Japan and Nothing Else Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces of Colonialism...

... and bitter hatred that endured years after the Order itself had passed away. Wherever Know-Nothingism gained a foothold, inevitably it directed its propaganda jointly at Roman Catholic and foreign-born citizens. Indeed, to the ardent Know-Nothing the words Catholic and for­ eigner were synonymous...

...Walter B. Posey The Know-Nothing Party in the South . By Overdyke W. Darrell . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1950 . Pp. 322 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 427 The Know-Nothing Party in the South. By W. Darrell Over­...

... familiar categorization, as inhabitants attempt to situate themselves in the midst of increasingly unsettled terrain. Extensions and extending, then, are at the heart of an interplay between attempts to resettle and unsettle, to extract as much as possible but also to operate where nothing apparent...

... is not simply a matter of abolishing the death penalty or—to take another notable example of the killing state—demanding that the state engage only in just wars (publicly declared and justified). Altering the state's use of violence does nothing to change the essential relationship of the killing state...

... antisystemic movements, and the prospects for an alternative to what Zibechi surmises is not just an economic or political crisis but nothing less than the crisis of an entire civilization. As Zibechi concludes, the next few years will be crucial for the antisystemic movements as they attempt to reorganize...

... created massive structural suffering and devalued vital social activities from which capital extracts value for which it pays nothing. As this crisis of social reproduction has developed internationally and taken on increasingly racialized forms, new and different forms of struggle over social...

...William G. Bean Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 An Aspect of Know Nothingism The Immigrant and Slavery William G. Bean Washington and Lee University Professor McMaster enumerates, in his History of the People of the United States, the general causes of the Know Nothing movement...

... this: Would nothing ever be with nothing again? (Wilderson 2008: 265) When one reads the severity and intensity of Wilderson’s words—his assertion of his own nothingness and the implications of that nothingness for his reader—one is all but overwhelmed by the need for a kind of affir- mative...

.... It is not that there is no differentiation—on the contrary, there is infinite dif- ferentiation when it is a question of bodies and pleasures—but that those differentiations are utterly contingent and opportunistic, artifices beyond which there is precisely nothing. Moreover, it is not that there is no exer- cise of power in bodies...

...) with an un­ consciously ironic reflection on nothingness, the nature of which he utterly mistakes. This profoundly moral concept is the subject first of his wit and then of the Fool s. In the first case, Cordelia says that she has Nothing as an answer to his arrogant question, and he replies in clever...

... between being and nothingness, in which Strether stands as the capacity of being to withstand the inevitability of loss. To stand here is, technically, a passive response. But it is a proper response. For when confronted with loss, there is nothing to do or appreciate. Loss is itself nothing...

... his personal destiny. The game of life was waged heroically on that basic, redemptive principle. Robert Brown­ ing, that strenuous optimist, never doubted that there was a meaning and a glory in it all. With an intuitive assurance that nothing could shake, he proclaimed his faith that all...

... charming and ordered, the prevailing note was of the present a glittering, meretricious present about to crumble before an even more glittering, meretricious future. The people seemed to care for nothing but making money. They de- Louis Auchincloss has written numerous volumes of fiction, criticism...

.... The events and emotions of earth obviously count for nothing in the abstracted consciousness of the farflying sage. His concern is with some passionless, ideal, upper ether. Men of letters as well as painters have picked up the popular opinion of philosophy and have made it more popular still with the help...

...Robert H. Woody Forgotten Patriot, Robert Morris . By Young Eleanor . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. xii , 280 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 427 The Know-Nothing Party in the South. By W. Darrell Over­ dyke. Baton Rouge...

... the question of belatedness not only as a question of cultural differ- ence/identity but also as a world destiny in which the essence of modernity is at stake. In other words, the urgent task is to think belatedness from out of the closure of modernity in which the ground revealed itself as nothing...

... between a certain liberal mantra—Why is nothing happening? Why don’t people do something?— and their utter horror and shock when something does happen, such as the 2011 civil unrest in London and elsewhere. The complaint that other people aren’t doing what it is you want them to do quickly turns...

... spirit has grown with the growth of the nation. In gambling the winner gets the property of his neighbor without giving anything for it except a chance to some one else to get his property without paying any­ thing for it. Gambling grows out of a desire to get something for nothing, and this is always...