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... of celebrated white mythologies of slavery and coloniality. While the toppling of Colston s statute generated media-worthy optics that captured the attention of global audiences, it is important to underscore how battles over the reconfiguration of public space in the form of the removal of statutes had been...

... the formerly incarcerated upon reentry. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 incarceration public mythology prison research reentry racial capitalism A G A I N S T the D A Y...

..., essentially and always different from the species fan. In the minds of fans, especially those many who would like to be playing themselves, the players, like ancient gods, fill certain elemental mythological roles hero, villain, scapegoat, showboat. In doing so, they assume vivid public personas, often...

... was to reconcile the public and the private interest, the intellect and the sensibility. A strong claim is made for Blake: We are begin­ 582 The South Atlantic Quarterly ning to see that Blake alone had an intuitive grasp of the essential con­ flict; and that he alone established a dialectical formula by means...

...Evgeny Dobrenko Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Evgeny Dobrenko The Literature of the Zhdanov Era: Mentality, Mythology, Lexicon How you were both in a dimension Outside the laws of space and time Anna Akhmatova, Poem without a Hero * Foundations were bent there In the window...

... Academy in 1936. Taken together, these writings of the period 1936-1939 (their completion and publication were strung out through the forties and into the fifties) develop a philosophy of aesthetics and a prose fiction which successfully resists the art-for-art s-sake of aestheticism on the one hand...

..., and impersonal medical treatment. When the author begins to generalize on the basis of one or two annoying experiences, one is tempted to think that personal peeves or private grudges are receiv­ ing a highly overblown treatment. The publisher s publicity department suggests that Barzun s book invites comparison...

... of the historical publications of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College has re­ cently been issued under the editorship of Professor W. C. Jackson of the Department of History. This number con­ sists of lectures on Revolutionary Leaders of North Caro­ lina, by R. D. W. Connor, Secretary...

..., and two nearby churches were required to accommodate the crowd. The general public was seated on a first-come, first-served basis at the First Presbyterian Church, while the spillover of family, university officials, coaches, and media representatives went to the First Baptist Church. Despite...

... was persistently sucked into the ethical quagmire of the public realm, from which so few other idealists have ever successfully emerged. But even if the reader makes allowances for Sayen s utterly uncritical sympathy, this book effectively conveys admiration for Ein­ stein s political poise and sense of honor...

...- ress, Palestine became the object of a moribund religious mythology. Today we speak of postcolonialism, but Palestine is still deep in the throes of old-fashioned colonialism. The fact that the state of Israel marks as 6896 THE SOUTH...

... in the remaining chapters. The chapter Metaphysics and Mythologies, for example, is devoted to Norman MacCaig, Thom Gunn, Roy Fuller, and Ted Hughes, because all are judged metaphysi­ cal in the philosophical sense, and all but MacCaig have drawn on a traditional mythology or invented one. Elsewhere...

... to The Great Gatsby, which he d begun drafting as early as 1926, and by his growing conflict with his wife Zelda, especially after her severe breakdown in 1930. They had been married a few days after the publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. Like Byron in 1812, he awoke and found...

... subconsciously, by means of symbols drawn from his ritualistic traditions and national mythology. By its very nature such scholarship lacks precision. Based on long out­ dated concepts of nationalism, it is haunted about equally by the implications of James Frazer s The Golden Bough and by the literary theories...

..., whose model was Demosthenes; and the great writers of English prose from Milton to Burke, and from Burke to Newman, have been familiar with either or both. And the two chief wells whence English poets have drawn their no­ tions of poetic style, as well as their mythological allusions, have been Virgil...

... or singularly illuminating, I am concerned here with producing an account of necropedagogy that, in foregrounding structures of affect, makes a case for the necropedagogical project not being reducible to ideology, not functioning as merely another instance of the instrumentalization of the mythologized past. I...

... has published numerous articles, short stories, and poems. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. 2 The South Atlantic Quarterly Dr. No, and a host of other public enemies. Nor does it seem ir­ relevant to point out a kinship between Beowulf, who discards...

...* It is probably significant that these historians came to maturity after the New Deal had impressed upon Southerners the value of embracing the American consensus, and began serious publication during the 1950 s, when events in the South suggested the inadvisability of not doing so. Dewey Grantham is perhaps...

... a twofold movement of interpretation in a combined action of reduction and revela­ tion the hermeneutics of suspicion and of revelation in an act of mythic subversion inspired by the mythology of imperialism itself. Naturalism and realism as in the aesthetic form of much political and social science writing...

... who has given us several novels, a first-class study {Earls of Crea­ tion) of the great Whig lords on whom Pope relied to build his reputation; the fullest biography of William Beckford; and now this eloquent memoir set pen to paper, a labyrinthine mythology about Nicholson had developed on both sides...