...Leonid Heller Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Leonid Heller A World of Prettiness: Socialist Realism and Its Aesthetic Categories Many works on socialist realism endow this artistic method (to use the Soviet ter­ minology) with the status of an aesthetics ; indeed, the term...

... of the tadpoles also was the year Pretty Black got her hole. Like Bubba Joe and Deakie Boy, for most of her nearly sixteen years she had come to the Head with her parents to do the chopping, thinning, and harvesting of cotton. Like them and all other kids, she had ducked in and out of the consolidated...

... percolator, and drinks at home most nights now with the TV on and all the house lights left up bright. Here, Richard is not just the critic, but also the antithesis of romantic dreams and love. Look at the moons in your eyes, he says to her. What she wants (according to him) is love s pretty lies...

... runs. So could I. He had a big smile. So did I. He was happy. I wasn’t. I wanted my life to be like Mickey’s. I was pretty deep into sport idols. Dad and I had a falling out and he wasn’t my idol much...

... or other, just by using my imagination—that all the things that seemed so easy to do in the ani- mated version they did on stage. That was pretty much it. I...

... LATC? levitow: Well, it was working, for a time, probably because the Lab was relatively self-sufficient. Bush [Bill Bushnell] gave over so much independence to Jose Luis.* They pretty much did what they wanted to do, and Bush didn t define what kind of Hispanic theater could come in. Whereas...

..., to a dean s office for hurting students feelings by asking them to come to class in something other than their sleeping pajamas and to refrain from knitting while 1 was demonstrating sub­ junctives on the blackboard. By and large, though, f was so intimi­ dated by these pretty, breezy hoydens that after...

..., obviously; you throw it up on the wall and you say, Whoops, that s not it at all, it feels flat or it suggests something completely different. So the sooner I start shooting and recording, the better; I tend to get off the paper pretty fast. mark dery: Shifting gears again: Your work has always managed...

...- shops at Steppenwolf. They have this pretty great thing where they bring in the playwright for a series of workshops. And I prefer that it was in a city where I knew nobody and where it was okay to fail. One...

... Not Neat or Pretty or Quick .” In Moraga Anzaldúa , 238 – 42 . Thompson Mayo . 1979 . “ Born in Flames .” In Born in Flames sound track . ...

... of an unobtainable masculine ideal? Can they, in short, ever be male enough? Hartman also accords the recruits both a nascent heterosexuality that is already past (“Your days of finger-banging old Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over and abiding homosexual inter- ests. “Do you...

... on classification and capital punishment in the United States. The piece here is an excerpt from her novel in progress, Pretty Black’s Hole. ...

... writer Thomas M. Disch s 1968 SF novel, Camp Concentration. Disch s char­ acter is a borderline sociopathic prisoner in an army brig, who, with a number of other prisoners, is subjected to military experiments in which he is injected with a substance that turns him into a super­ genius. At pretty much...

... Universalism and Particularism: The Border in Israeli Discourse 1055 Hell, Julia, Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival 747 Heller, Leonid, A World of Prettiness: Socialist Realism and Its Aesthetic Categories 687 Iampolski, Mikhail, Censorship as the Triumph of Life...

... possessed of uncommonly comprehensive powers of thought and art, brilliantly applied in the interests of preserving order; and he has been suspected of being an unprincipled opportunist. In the twentieth century the latter view has been pretty well stamped out by critics and scholars like T. S. Eliot, Mark...

...- mand, untrammeled by external fear or favor, to communicate this truth to the student, to interpret to him its bearing on the questions he will have to face in life—this is precisely the aim and object of the university.”7 And it’s also a pretty good description of the work of the Platonic...

... down by glittering jugs and bottles, they dredge up ladies beads, lots of unmated shoes (plodding of old plots), and mostly the same old fish everyone enjoys fried up. The guys forget whether what s-her-name ever threw herself into the river or not and have a great time on such a pretty day. 23...

... in February 1613? Again, the 1611 court performance of The Tempest in November of that year takes a back seat to its court performance in February 1613 as part of the wedding festivities of Princess Elizabeth. That s playing it pretty fast and loose. Moreover, how can Bergeron twice chastise James for going...

..., and enlisted men. A brief final chapter draws some conclusions. The story is neither pretty nor edifying. The main function of the army throughout this period was fighting Indians, though there was little actual ...

... as 1962. Ryken s final point about the Bible, that critics look upon it as a work of imagination, is pretty much tautological if the critics concerned are literary critics. But still, we know what Mr. Ryken means: it is large effects and major interrelationships between Milton s poetry and the Bible...