... not necessarily equate to a familiar and especially an existential acceptance of death, as it is faced and experienced in everyday life and relationships. Indeed, what we may be facing and witnessing is a widening gap and experiential differential between media/technological death culture and “real-life” contexts...

...Faith L. Smith Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Faith L. Smith Coming Home to the Real Thing: Gender and Intellectual Life in the Anglophone Caribbean As a writer, I had been aware for some time of a reader over my right shoulder: white, Oxfordeducated, and male. Over my left...

...Janet Staiger Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Janet Staiger Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real I n the first sentence of his review of The Re­ turn ofMartin Guerre,' Vincent Canby writes: This is, as they say, a true story. 2 Given con­ temporary...

...Wallace Jackson The Originals: An A-Z of Fiction’s Real-life Characters . By Amos William . Little, Brown and Company : Boston-Toronto , 1985 . Pp. xi , 614 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 4M The South Atlantic Quarterly world. This mistaken...

... October 2019 uprising. One of the uprising’s most ambitious aims was the ushering in of a new social contract beyond sectarian divisions. The essay tests the argument that a postwar model of expert-driven peace, which involves compartmentalizing the political society while devolving power into real-estate...

...Eugene Goodheart Eugene Goodheart Some Speculations on Don DeLillo and the Cinematic Real DeLillo s characters contemplate and pronounce upon the deepest questions of life, death, selfhood, sex, violence, and history. They speak with extraordinary power and intelligence, but they seem disembodied...

...D. A. Tompkins Copyright © 1907 by Duke University Press 1907 Volume VI. OCTOBER, 1907. Number 4. The South Atlantic Quarterly. The Real Grievances Against the Railroads By D. A. Tompkins Formerly Member of the United States Industrial Commission What did they fight about? Apparently...

...Bernard Duffey At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams . By Woodward Kathleen . n.p.: Ohio State University Press , 1980 . Pp. xiii , 180 . $14.50 Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Book Reviews 237 Fortunately...

...R. B. Gill Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Real People and Persuasion in Personal Satire R. B. Gill The general meaning of the word satire, writes Dryden, is Invective, and its history begins with the blame that Adam and Eve placed on each other in Paradise. This Original...

...Robert F. Durden The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Complete One-Volume History of His Life and Times . By Luthin Reinhard H. . With introduction by Nevins Allan . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall , 1960 . Pp. xviii , 778 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University...

...: The New Movements for Real Democracy ​People from below are rising up, but rather than going toward the top—“from the bottom up”— they are moving, as the Zapatistas have suggested, “from below and to the left...

... immediately so, and that its metric is cognizable in a critical understanding of the received idea of “real time.” Following an introduction titled “Undercount Nation,” the essay proceeds in six sections: (I) Studies in Prejudice, Primordial Restitution, Interpretation neither Stringent nor Arbitrary; (2...

...Wolfgang Ernst 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Wolfgang Ernst Between Real Time and Memory on Demand: Reflections on/of Television Turbo-charged media studies observe the effects of electronic mass media independently...

...Slavoj Žižek 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Slavoj Žižek Welcome to the Desert of the Real! The ultimate American paranoiac fantasy...

... up” illegal immigrants along the Arizona-Mexico border in order to turn them over to CBP Border Patrol. The group claims that ranching businesses are suffering due to the damage done to cattle and properties by the passage of illegal immigrants on borderlands and that these immigrants are real...

...Ana C. Dinerstein The essay discusses negativity as the force underpinning social antagonism, with particular reference to the fleeting moment of hope experienced in Argentina in December 2001. Developing Ernst Bloch’s notion of “real as process,” the essay problematizes “factual reality...

... for managing life. Such “zoopolitical” arguments are, however, likely to be effectively defused, given that theories of biopolitics and politics alike assume that human beings are the real subjects of politics and nonhumans are excluded from the possibility of justice. This essay argues that such an assumption...

...Susan Willis This essay examines media accounts of the 2006 E. coli contamination of bagged spinach to piece together a forensics that demonstrates both the real and symbolic meanings of contamination. Following the path of production from field to processing plant and then to supermarket shelf...

...Marc Bousquet While David Horowitz's Student Bill of Rights is a false solution, is there a sense in which it grasps a real problem? While all the data shows that student intellectual freedoms aren't foreclosed from the Left, undergraduate curricular choice may be foreclosed in advance...

... of belief. This cultivated speculative mentality is both replicated and reinforced by Victorian literary narrative's structural and thematic illumination of the constructed nature of the real, down to its most banal everyday manifestations. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Helen Groth Domestic...