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...Edwin F. Shewmake Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 Standards and Tendencies in American Speech Edwin F. Shewmake Davidson College Students of English are fond of pointing to American speech as a very democratic instrument of expression, a fit medium of communication for a free...

...Aubrey C. Land Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History . By Levy Leonard W. . Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 1960 . Pp. xiv , 353 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Book Reviews 319 a man...

... concerning the topic of Palestine-Israel that relate directly to debates over the meaning and purpose of academic norms and freedom. I argue that the exchanges demonstrate what we might call a discursive pattern in which certain faculty members seek to constrain the meaning of free speech so...

...J. Hillis Miller Duke University Press 2007 J. Hillis Miller Performativity as Performance / ​ Performativity as Speech Act: ​ Derrida’s Special Theory of Performativity ​My hypotheses: (1) Performativity in the sense of the way a dance...

...Susan Levine Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches . Edited by DuBois Ellen Carol . New York : Schocken Books , 1981 . Pp. xv , 272 . $6.95 (paper). Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 226 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...DeLancey Ferguson Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 MARK TWAIN S LOST CURTAIN SPEECHES DeLANCEY FERGUSON THREE CURTAIN speeches of Mark Twain s are buried in the files of New York newspapers of the 1870 s. Wholly unknown to biographers and bibliographers, they are records of his...

...Robert F. Durden A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Woodrow Wilson . Edited by Davidson John Wells . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1956 . Pp. xvii , 570 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 404 The South Atlantic Quarterly has...

...Bertram Wyatt-Brown Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies . Edited with an Introduction by Blassingame John W. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1977 . Pp. lxv , 777 . Illustrated. Index. $37.50 cloth; $9.95 , paper...

...R. H. Woody Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings . Edited by Basler Roy P. . Preface by Carl Sandburg. Cleveland and New York : The World Publishing Company , 1946 . Pp. xxx , 843 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 429 Abraham Lincoln...

...Helen Petrovsky Petrovsky’s article examines the famous events of May ’68 in France from a specific angle offered by Michel de Certeau, namely, the “taking of speech” ( la prise de parole ). For de Certeau the taking of speech is no less important than the taking of the Bastille—it asserts...

... that this reliance on marginalization as a way of understanding sociopolitical exclusion limits political thought, this article calls for a renewed attention to actual material configurations of social exclusion. Considering ethnographic research with adults with mobility and speech disabilities in Petrozavodsk...

... of vulnerability that is proper neither to animality or humanity. Irreducible to voice or speech, the cry is a quivering movement that threatens the coherency of vocal capacity. Attention to it creates the possibility of becoming undone, of reorienting maps of suffering, and of entering into new relationships...

...—as the subjects of an insurgent universality (Tomba 2019 ). The article explores the international brigades fighting the fascists during the Spanish Civil War, the peasants gathered to affirm the Second Havana Declaration, and the audience that comprised Thomas Sankara's speech in Harlem. The artifacts...

...Selahattin Demirtaş Selahattin Demirtaş, head of the left‐wing pro‐Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey, was arrested in 2016; his detention stemmed from fabricated charges, allegedly originating from his speeches, political statements, and purported involvement in the Kurdish riots...

.... Protection needs to take account of commercially induced self-censorship, which is less visible than the overt efforts on the part of government authorities to quash politically inconvenient speech. Offshore branches of universities may prove to be the most cost-effective way of servicing the needs...

... traitors. However, I examine the court records, letters, and speeches of these legal activists, as well as Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez , to see how these civil rights activists challenge the very meaning of “whiteness” when they claim it in the face of racial exclusion and violence. ©...

... transformation of the public sphere in mass-mediated societies, and resulting shifts in norms of public speech, shifts that pose significant challenges to the norms of academic discourse. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Israel-Palestine public speech academic discourse References...

...Yoshihiko Ichida Between Foucault and Deleuze-Guattari, there is a striking contrast on the notion of truth. While the latter elides it as a problem in their project of a “generalized pragmatics,” Foucault finds in it the key to link Anglo- American theories of the “speech act” to his analyses...

... strategies, which he has then used for postcolonial purposes? In Foe the convergence of the postmodern and the postcolonial is most clearly evident in the way Coetzee deconstructs the traditional dichotomy between speech and writing. We might begin to explore that dichotomy and its deconstruction...

... consider this an achievement, but Socrates replies that it is within the reach of all orators, who have ready-made speeches and can improvise on any topic. Besides, this is a win/win situation since it is a matter of praising Athenians to an Athenian audience. Only the day before, Socrates continues...