...Arlin Turner Villains Galore: The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly . By Noel Mary . New York : Macmillan Company , 1954 . Pp. xi , 320 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 158 The South Atlantic Quarterly Chicane; Michael Kheraskov s patriotic Rossiada...

...Marco Armiero; Massimo De Angelis The absence of a reflection on revolutionary practices and subjects is the main weakness of the radical critique of the Anthropocene. The risk is to envision the Anthropocene as a space for villains and victims but not for revolutionaries. It is crucial...

... convinced that his country lost the Washington and later naval conferences. The villains here were not the Americans and Japanese, but the British politicians aided by a large, well-paid, highly educated, officially encouraged, and ex­ tremely powerful sixth column in Whitehall which is, in complete...

.... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 post-truth melodrama allegory game serials villain References Abu-Lughod Lila . 2005 . Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt . Chicago : Chicago University Press . Akarlı Engin Deniz . 1979 . “ Friction...

... goes on a picnic with six mankillers he knows are planning to murder him before lunchtime. Mythological and supernatural connotations, appropriate to the legends of heroes, appear in both Beowulf and The Man with the Golden Gun. The villains of Beowulf Grendel, Grendel s mother, and the dragon who...

... merchants. She highlights the role of the Caribbean in the conflict and stresses the influence the maritime war had on Franco-American diplomacy. The book has heroes and villains. Al­ though Benjamin Franklin is the outstanding hero, there are others: Caron de Beaumarchais, Silas Deane, and the Irish raider...

... of the fair-haired heroine. They booed the villain who, with his wicked black mustachios, was superbly villainous. They cheered when Right triumphed over Wrong, and the hero came into his own. Old-time showboat actors can tell you just how seriously the audiences took their plays. In 1913 the Greater New York...

... mercantilism. (In the Merchant this emerges 596 Tom McCall as a science grounded in virtue Liquid politics follows through on the consequences of its rhetoric, demonizing characters (and audience mem­ bers) with dry eyes. Villains have dry eyes, as do those virtual villains of the audience (unmoved...

... Horatio Alger possessed a vitality and a realism that set forth the positive sides of life. Socialist realism deals with the same themes by order and not by choice. The villains in almost any Soviet novel of socialist realism are as much foreign agents as were the proverbial spies in the novels of E...

... of the Caribbean in the conflict and stresses the influence the maritime war had on Franco-American diplomacy. The book has heroes and villains. Al­ though Benjamin Franklin is the outstanding hero, there are others: Caron de Beaumarchais, Silas Deane, and the Irish raider and sea captain, Gustavus Conyngham...

... that the author wishes his reader s sympathy. However villainous we may be in real life, we rarely sympathize with the villain in a book; we see ourselves as the heroes of our own lives, and like to imagine ourselves the embodiment of youth, vigor, beauty, gentleness, strength, cleverness, kindness, and recti­...

..., he says, almost as if in earnest, I would like to be able to write a story which would show no egotism whatever in which there should be no reflections, no cynicism, no vulgarity (and so forth) but an incident in every other page, a villain, a battle, and a mystery in every chapter. But he...

... with about as much skill as anyone could, and the book is readable. Oddly enough, despite the implied intention of Miss Wedgwood to re­ dress the old bias against the royalists, the principal characters remain the same. Charles, Laud, and Strafford are the villains. Maybe not heavies they are complicated...

... qualities are well portrayed. 520 The South Atlantic Quarterly Calhoun s rivals are not the only villains, although whatever villainous qualities they possessed are not ignored. Throughout her colorful portrait Miss Coit has maintained a neutrality unequalled by any other biographer of Calhoun. How does...

... he writes, it sometimes looks as if he has studied history in Hollywood. Too frequently the heroes are like matinee idols, the heroines like romantic actresses, the villains like character actors reveling in the hokum which, in the movies, often passes for wick­ edness. The costumes, properties...

...Alice M. Baldwin Jonathan Edwards . By Miller Perry . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1949 . Pp. xv , 348 . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 520 The South Atlantic Quarterly Calhoun s rivals are not the only villains, although whatever villainous...

... the consequence of these crimes by escaping to Germany, such escape without punishment is impossible in the moral pattern of a Simms romance. So Voltmeier is hounded and eventually killed by the black dog Richard Gorham, his vindictive associate who is one of Simms s liveliest frontier villains. Twentieth...

.... If the English Civil Wars appear cold and unreal, the historian is to blame. The older histories of the seventeenth century are long, dull, heavy, improving, tendentious, and bowdlerized. No hero ever commits an atrocity, swears, or has a private life. Villains always come to a sticky end. We are sometimes...

... les autres. Rediker’s more recent Villains of All Nations claims that eighteenth-century pirates fostered a ‘‘radical democratic social order and culture’’ that had to be eliminated to ensure the continuing survival and 11 profitability of the Atlantic slave trade...

... general criteria, abstracted from particulars, by Harold H. Watts, Ezra Pound and The Cantos (London, 1952), p. 119. 8 Ibid., p. 32. 56 The South Atlantic Quarterly which to separate heroes from villains, good societies from bad, usurers from troubadours? Pound does not refuse to make generali­ zations...