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...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...

...D. Vance Smith D. Vance Smith Plague, Panic Space, and the Tragic Medieval Household Death is just a place that we have looked too deeply at, not into. Iain Crichton Smith, Argument What is death? A tragic mask. Epictetus Tragedy, Michel de Certeau says, describes the passage from a spatial...

...Charles R. Young A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles . By Shrewsbury J. F. D. . New York and Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . Pp. xi , 661 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 435 members. The problem of trying...

...Joel Blair Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Defoe s Art in A Journal of the Plague Year Joel Blair Artlessness almost becomes a method in Defoe s narratives as middle-class men and women tell the true stories of their strange yet representative lives. A Journal of the Plague...

... concludes by discussing the centrality of direct action for sustaining and multiplying the protests, which spread like a plague in the city, revealing the truth of power (war) and triggering new processes of the production of subjectivity. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Altamira...

... to proceed. The looming threat of “theft” ironically reveals its own enchantment with democracy in that it suggests the U.S. system of electoral politics works perfectly well unless momentarily interrupted by rogue politicians, instead of framing duplicity as a problem that plagues this particular form...

... politics, and incompatible with white-centered notions of justice, liberty, and democratic freedom. Critically, in this moment, as Black Americans are disproportionately harmed by the effects of COVID-19, hypersurveilled in neighborhoods plagued by neoliberal disinvestment, and over-policed en masse, mass...

... nationalism that plagued the country and silenced the voices of those who attempted to reckon with structural inequality. In addition to their obvious contributions to Sudanese leftist historiography, Garang's views are as relevant today as they were decades ago. Garang scrupulously examines multicultural...

... that it is theatrical. This emphasis on the inherence ofthe alien as specific to theatrical staging brings us to our second text. In The Theater and the Plague, Artaud de­ scribes the advent and effects ofthe plague that struck Marseilles in 1720. In Family Scenes 359 these effects Artaud saw, above all, the power...

...Paul Welsh The Art of Appreciation . By Osborne Harold . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Pp. 296 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 436 The South Atlantic Quarterly or house rat as host, and the flea that became a carrier of plague among rats...

... in the way it is an interesting book, well worth the reading. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL WILLIAM S. NEWMAN A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles. By J. F. D. Shrewsbury. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xi, 661. $25.00. Medical history is usually...

... novels, The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, which are his best-known works in the U. S. Miss Bree calls them and L Exil et le royaume, his volume of short stories, cautionary tales and mid-century parables. She treats them as a family of works. And, indeed, the three novels form practically...

... of the artist. Perhaps the most interesting part of this book for most American readers will be the full discussion of Camus three novels, The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, which are his best-known works in the U. S. Miss Bree calls them and L Exil et le royaume, his volume of short stories, cautionary...

... puts it of how to become what I wish I could when I can t. It is not simply the problem of Agee the writer but of the creative man in our time. Plagued by anxiety, by family tumult and economic insecurity, by a puritanical compulsion to work that more often than not thwarted itself, by a paradoxical...

... in. The Stranger had at least one severe limitation; it did not face up to the question of the individual s responsibility in society; it presented only a private ethic. In Camus second novel, The Plague, 24 The South Atlantic Quarterly the town of Oran is struck by the bubonic plague, allegorically the Nazi...

... many centuries ago in the case of leprosy and of the worst plagues, such as smallpox and the black death; but lately it has been extended to many other diseases. What does that mean ? It means that the innocent victim of any such disease, together sometimes with the other members of his family...

... of human beings into walled cities was an invitation to various bacteria and other microscopic parasites: organisms which previously had been a minor nuisance could now spread with explosive rapidity to generate violent plagues and become major enemies of man. The new situations created by this war have...

... attempt to completely shed itself, plagued by the exhaustive alchemy of fifty years that instructs and mortifies it. It does not so much slip through the large and small orifices of its body plagued with holes and slits as attempt to evacuate all of itself throughout itself—flap of orifices included...

... struggles and successive outbreaks of plague, the Scholastics sought refuge in the reassuring archaism of an Aris- totelian demarcation between a putatively natural order and a dangerously conjectural one. In doing so, they elaborated a cosmology that was neither reducible to the Christian doctrines...

... of space and time. This reinforcement depends upon the son s physical return to the house of the mother, which then brings the plague to destroy (phthinousa) the fer­ tility of the crops, the cattle, and the women of Thebes (25-27; cf. 172-73). These three commodities constitute the wealth ofthe polis...