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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 711–724.
Published: 01 October 1999
... and Guattari s words while on my way to the Rus­ sian Far East in 1994, traveling by train from Harbin, capital ofthe northeastern Chinese prov­ ince of Heilongjiang, to Suifenhe, a border town booming in the one country, two systems con­ ditions. From there, it takes only a half hour by special train...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 725–759.
Published: 01 October 1999
... (1603) were assimilated and frequently consulted. Yet the gardens we know from our strolls about Vaux and Versailles seem a far cry from the theories and practices in force at the end ofthe Valois regime and the begin­ ning of the age of Henry IV. The broader intention of my research, which exceeds...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 655–668.
Published: 01 October 1999
... the opening ofthe Erie Canal in 1825, but already a site ofworld interest. After visiting J. M. W. Turner in London in 1847, the American photographer J. J. E. Mayall recorded: He told me he should like to see Niagara, as it was the greatest wonder in Nature; he never tired ofmy description ofit. 1...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 839–859.
Published: 01 October 1999
... among mutually perpendicular axes and not by any one particular point or place. In the process, the sense of the antipodean becomes more than simply the underneath, the topsy-turvy, or the perverse. Here, I want to explore and embellish these hints ofthe antipodean, en­ listing several snippets...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 761–779.
Published: 01 October 1999
... oftheirfarms to the national park at the top of the water catchment. Each of them, seeing and describing a different aspect ofthe The South Atlantic Quarterly 98:4, Fall 1999. Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press. 762 Ruth Beilin view, evokes a picture ofhisfarm and management priorities. They are all...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 817–837.
Published: 01 October 1999
... as a poetic fable but as a cru­ cial part ofthe historical record through which a fallen humankind must try to make sense of the political, economic, and ecological crises of its time. In his efforts to justify a contractual basis for government, Locke recast images of the Golden Age to champion a moral...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (3): 415–449.
Published: 01 July 1999
... of the relative chronology of Nostos, Domos, and the Ancient Stage 417 their plots and in terms ofthe meaning ofhomecoming. Returning home is a threat voiced by Achilles, Agamemnon, and Thersites in the Iliad (1.16971, 2.114-15, and 2.236, respectively). However various the reasons for the threat, in each case...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (3): 355–366.
Published: 01 July 1999
... Atlantic Quarterly 98:3, Summer 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press. 356 Samuel Weber between the institution ofthe family and that ofthe theater. And if drama is defined primarily as the representation of conflict through action, then the question that remains is whether domestic drama...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 633–654.
Published: 01 October 1999
..., 1995), figure 571. Reproduced by permission ofthe publisher. ancient origins and medieval fame from which the bridge takes its name.1 The Arachthos River runs below, having completed its protective loop around the town s northwest circumference. To the west stretches a fer­ tile plain of orchards...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 669–687.
Published: 01 October 1999
... resorted to a gasoline fire. This also failed. Gardening newsletters and journals are full of accounts of how to kill or keep animals out ofthe garden. Besides woodchucks, the gardener s hit list includes voles, moles, and gophers. Equally high on the list are household pets such as cats, which love...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (3): 367–414.
Published: 01 July 1999
... ofthe structure ofmemory in classical and medieval mnemonic treatises is the house itself, a familiar domain to which one can return imaginatively for the conceptual property that is abstracted from the real and familiar world.6 These places of memory are not only imaginative, imaginary spaces...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (3): 563–592.
Published: 01 July 1999
... powerful fantasies, a way of artificing the life and death of rank as a principle of group organiza­ tion.5 This emphasis on levelling as well as distinction is one reason for the linking ofcourtlyjouissance and its vicissitudes to the figures ofthe desirable neighbor (bon vezi) and the jealous, spiteful...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 801–816.
Published: 01 October 1999
... and the saltwater limits of the McArthur and Wearyan Rivers, along with the Sir Edward Pellew Islands. My exploration here ofthe Yanyuwa people s perceptions oftheir homeland is based on journeying with them through their place-scapes for many years. The South Atlantic Quarterly 98:4, Fall 1999. Copyright © 2000...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 689–710.
Published: 01 October 1999
... for this place over some seven years now. Hardly a miracle worker myself, I have stood watch nonetheless over some really miraculous transformations. I have been a witness to, perhaps also an agent of, the transmutation ofthe impos­ sible red Georgia clay which bakes all summer no more than four inches below...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (4): 821–852.
Published: 01 October 1997
... and threatening to art and culture, as he saw and practiced them. It is, however, the space ofthe troubling and threat­ ening art of Doktor Faustus s protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkiihn, as Blanchot argues in Ars Nova, his extraordinary commentary on serial music (the primary model for Leverkuhn s music...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 669–698.
Published: 01 July 1998
...Anthony Wall Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Anthony Wall A Broken Thinker Or again, what harm would it have done us to have remained uncreated? Lucretius, On the Nature ofthe Universe Bakhtin is a broken thinker and the pieces of his thought are strewn in virtually every...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (3): 593–622.
Published: 01 July 1999
... priest, tries to ransom his daughter (a captive ofthe Danaians), but their king (Aga­ memnon), rejecting the offer, brutally humiliates the priest. Khryses then prays to Apollo: May the Danaians atone for my tears with your arrows. 1 What goes in as a solitary passion (as a power that penetrates...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (1): 79–95.
Published: 01 January 1996
... may have an Irish provenance, deriving from an old Gaelic word for libertine. 1 When James Joyce placed the prosti­ tute at the center ofhis complex refiguring ofthe metropolis in an Irish context, he may not just have been bringing advanced European moder­ nity to bear on Irish culture, but also...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (3): 629–669.
Published: 01 July 1996
... of national strength and imminent apocalypse. Subsequently, and precisely because it could now Beyond the Suburbs ofthe Mind" 631 be thought and symbolized as a rational-humanist concern for the middleclass community as Nation, such anxiety was once again refocused as a determinate threat posed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (3): 501–537.
Published: 01 July 1999
...Joe Cleary Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 joe Cleary Domestic Troubles: Tragedy and the Northern Ireland Conflict ^Xtmestic tragedy, conventionally associated with the sensibility ofthe emergent metropolitan middle classes, has never been held in very high esteem by Marxian...