...Keith L. Bryant, Jr. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Railway Station as a Symbol of Urbanization in the South, 1890-1920 Keith L. Bryant, Jr. By the end of the nineteenth century, physical monuments sym­ bolized urban maturity in the United States. Cities were judged...

...Louis Foley Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THE SPLIT INFINITIVE: SYMBOL AND SYMPTOM Louis Foley THERE IS AN anecdote about a professor of English who was stopped by a motorcycle cop for ignoring a traffic light. Upon learning the culprit s identity, the cop was immediately...

...Harry R. Stevens Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age . By Ward John William . New York : Oxford University Press , 1955 . Pp. xii , 274 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 557 a dedicated and selfless individual much given to works of charity...

... senses the cyclic rhythm and wishes the pattern were as neat as it is drawn. The future? With America s second literary renaissance past its meridian, the writers of today appear to be confused, to be waiting for a leadership that can point the direction. richard walser The Literary Symbol. By William...

...Clifton K. Yearley, Jr. Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 SAMUEL GOMPERS: SYMBOL OF LABOR Clifton K. Yearley, Jr. THE BURDEN of this essay is that in substantial measure labor s sustained progress in a conservative period results from the much criticized but inherently sound...

...Sandrine Garcia; Eleanor Kaufman; Toril Moi Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Sandrine Garcia Project for a Symbolic Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Women s Movement in France In the following essay, Sandrine Garcia de­ fines herself as a woman working within the held...

...Kevin Pierce Thornton Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Symbolism at Ole Miss and the Crisis of Southern Identity Kevin Pierce Thornton In the fall of 1982, twenty years after the rioting that made the school famous, the University of Mississippi once again was the subject...

...Eric W. Carlson Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE RANGE OF SYMBOLISM IN POETRY ERIC W. CARLSON IN THE interpretation of poetry, literary criticism suffers from a serious deficiency, arising from a confusion as to the nature and function of symbolism in poetry, especially...

...Louise Dauner POETIC SYMBOLISM IN MADAME BOVARY* Louise Dauner APRIL 15, 1857, Madame Bovary was published in book form after a mutilated version, begun in October, 1856, in the Revue de Paris, had culminated in prosecution of the managing editor of the review, of Flaubert, and of the printer...

...Richard M. Haywood Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 THE SYMBOLISM OF SPARTA Richard M. Haywood THE CHIEF practical use of history is to furnish instruction which will help in the solution of current problems. The human mind being what it is, historical knowledge tends to become...

...Arlin Turner Mark Twain’s Which Was the Dream? and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years . Edited by Tuckey John S. . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1967 . Pp. xi , 588 . $10.00 . Mark Twain’s Satires & Burlesques . Edited by Rogers...

... of these decisions. The court has been criticized as adopting a militantly secular approach to the presence of Islamic religious symbols in the public sphere, one seemingly inconsistent with its decision in the Lautsi case permitting the display of crucifixes in Italian classrooms. Bhuta’s essay argues...

...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...

...Ilan Pappé This essay compares the Zionist movement with other settler colonialist movements in Palestine and West Africa. The historical context, the formative years, the ideological infrastructure, the symbolic world, and activities on the ground are examined in three cases: the Zionist movement...

... and symbol of Victorian virtue, but also as an integral component of a discursive ensemble integrating reader, furnishings, and architecture. In novels like Dombey and Son , Dickens considers the vexing problem of domestic disquiet—the noisy and volatile insecurity of the middle classes at home—while...

... commonly held notions of Aboriginal demise on a distant frontier. But if the Australia House protests remain impressive for their ingenuity and haunting symbolism, newspaper reports of his testimony in court in 1929 finally provided the publicity he sought for the Aboriginal cause. © 2011 Duke University...

... that, aside from the challenges of collective organization and the desire to maintain visibility, one recurring concern within the Occupy London movement is how its embodied practices of struggle can emanate from centralized and often symbolic moments into the everyday realms of production and reproduction...

... in order to counter perceived “gains”—both material and symbolic—by people of color. It is thus necessary to theorize the kinds of political practices and imaginations wrought by the absence of political loss. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 white grievance political loss democracy Obama era...

...Kathy E. Ferguson This essay looks at the Russian Revolution as both a historical event and a productive symbol in the work of anarchists in the United States and Russia in the early twentieth century. The February and October Revolutions were formative in many ways: many immigrants returned...

..., but also a massive wave of counterrevolution with bloody coups, assassinations, and interventions. Symbolically, the long 1960s started with Patrice Lumumba's assassination and ended in 1980 with Walter Rodney's assassination, and the defeat of the NIEO (New International Economic Order). While numerous...