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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (4): 709–710.
Published: 01 October 1968
...William H. Marshall Byron and the Ruins of Paradise . By Gleckner Robert F. . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1967 . Pp. xxvi , 365 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 709 Byron and the Ruins of Paradise. By Robert F. Gleckner. Balti­...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (3): 631–649.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Dan Harvey This article addresses the rise of entrepreneurship as a hegemonic mode of contemporary postsecondary education. It revisits Bill Readings's arguments about the corporate “University of Excellence,” which framed universities as ruined institutions that had abandoned their mission...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2011) 110 (1): 205–222.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of the photographic medium. In the forthcoming “Alētheia,” Copy, Archive, Signature , and perhaps most especially Athens, Still Remains , Derrida develops a powerful reading of the unique temporality of photography and its essential relationship to memory, ruin, and mourning. This essay argues that these recent...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (3): 475–502.
Published: 01 July 2014
... their already precarious architecture and design. I explore the ideological and material ruins of incarceration, wherein irregular bodies of sovereign force (death squads legitimized by emergency) and new expressions of criminal community ( maras ) offer divergent incarnations of political power. The essay’s...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (1): 195–206.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Eben Kirksey Indigenous people from West Papua, a territory under Indonesian rule, are foraging for food in spaces by the side of the road, in the ruins of recently logged forests. Living on the margins of market economies and transportation infrastructures comes with opportunities as well as risks...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 381–400.
Published: 01 April 2017
... or to an irreversible process of collective autonomization. What capitalism has been paving the way to is a future of inhabiting ruins, and the question of autonomy cannot then be separated from that of a becoming able to regenerate destroyed practices that may make the difference between living and just surviving...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (3): 493–509.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Sarah Ann Wells The consignment of industrial wage labor and its central figures to the status of ruins has become something of a cliché in contemporary scholarship and artistic practice. On this view, its demise first became apparent in the 1970s, the precise moment when Brazilian labor movements...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 849–852.
Published: 01 October 2007
... melancholy of the decay and death of such forms as well (and more insis- tently haunted by the fate of Hiroshima). So it is that for Isozaki ruins also express the same stark and simple forms as they emerge...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (1): 129–151.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... In this essay I will approach this remarkable nar- rative from the perspective of sovereign power— from the terrain of a performative language of force and ruin—in order to bring its insights to bear...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1923) 22 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 January 1923
... prone to depict the new types of their respective times.27 The main situation in The Road to Ruin is not very different from that in Every Man in His Humour. The Kno well s are at least third cousins to the Dornton s. It is not too much to say, as Mr. Saintsbury has said, that there is a strain of pure...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 663–682.
Published: 01 October 2007
... did produce one memorable outcome, however, which is the city motto. As the story goes, a local priest, Father Gabriel Richard, was overheard to say to himself as he surveyed the smoldering ruins, “Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus” (We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Only National Forest as Told by Ora E. Anderson . Athens : Ohio Landscape Productions. DVD . Apel Dora . 2015 . Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Benjamin Walter . 1999 . The Arcades Project...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (3): 385–397.
Published: 01 July 1964
... would be unpopular. Steinbeck wrote back: We ve gone through too damn much trying to keep the work honest and in a state of improvement to let it slip now in consideration of a little miserable popularity. It has ruined everyone I know. 1 On another occasion he declared: Everything the people admires...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (3): 420–421.
Published: 01 July 1950
..., and archaeologist of ten years experience among the ruins of the Near East. Stephens, after a will-o -the-wisp chase, located President Morazan at the precise moment when the Confederation disintegrated. He secured the archives of the Legation, forwarded them to New York, closed the mission, and with Frederick...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (1): 187–224.
Published: 01 January 1998
... Germany.7 Even though this group s lived-experience [Erlebnis] was of the classical Mediterranean world of Southern Italy, it was inflation and industrial-gigantic capital ex­ pansion outside the bounds of the city proper that produced their relation to the classical,8 an antiquarian or ruin-oriented...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2004) 103 (1): 21–43.
Published: 01 January 2004
...John Carlos Rowe 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent . Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1921 . DeLillo, Don. “In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September.” Harper's , December 2001 , 33 –40. “Ruins.” ———. Libra...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1902) 1 (4): 361–364.
Published: 01 January 1902
... that channel, had every man and every woman who buys and sells been a strict adherent to the truth. 364 The South Atlantic Quarterly. Sickness and death have caused more pain and wrought more ruin in the world than they would have done had not untruth entered the medical profession and given the wrong...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1902) 1 (4): 361–364.
Published: 01 October 1902
... that channel, had every man and every woman who buys and sells been a strict adherent to the truth. 364 The South Atlantic Quarterly. Sickness and death have caused more pain and wrought more ruin in the world than they would have done had not untruth entered the medical profession and given the wrong...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1936) 35 (1): 86–97.
Published: 01 January 1936
... by its everchanging fortunes. A present-day pilgrimage to these churches begins with the first church at Jamestown, where the old tower is still standing and a modern building has been erected on the foundations of the original ruins. The journey leads next to old Bruton Parish Church at Williamsburg...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1912) 11 (3): 274–278.
Published: 01 July 1912
..., and in the end derive only profit out of the predica­ ment that promised ruin to his trade; he could also fight pirates to a finish, though they were led by a chief who was believed to * Sixty Years: Life and Adventure in the Far East. 2 volumes. By John Dill Boss. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1912, 775 pp...