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...Ashbel G. Brice America Is West: An Anthology of Middlewestern Life and Literature . Edited by Flanagan John T. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1945 . Pp. xiv , 677 . $3.75 . The Treasure Chest: An Anthology of Contemplative Prose . Edited by Adams J. Donald...

...Naoki Sakai 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Naoki Sakai ‘‘You Asians On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary Partly because of the consequences...

... to require the me­ diation of an expert s advice and commentary. There is no doubt, of course, that the cultural distance between Japan and the West remains great for now. Either for this reason, or for other reasons hav­ ing something to do with general Western ethnocentricity, a sort of proprietorship...

...Michael Kreyling Book Reviews 351 Reynolds Price: A Bibliography, 1949-1984. By Stuart Wright and James L. W. West, III. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1986. Pp. xiv, 122. $20.00. Reynolds Price is one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, and this descriptive...

...Jane Tompkins Jane Tompkins West of Everything ^Hiis essay is part of a longer work on West­ erns which is just beginning to take shape. It offers an explanation of why Westerns (nov­ els and movies) arose when they did, taking other explanations to task in the process. My account departs from...

...Sandra E. Greene 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Sandra E. Greene Notsie Narratives: History, Memory, and Meaning in West Africa The town of Notsie (located in south cen- tral Togo) evokes today quite specific memories...

...Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Cod Gardened in the East, Avram Wandered West It s cool this morning, not unusually so, but it feels unusual given how hot it s been re­ cently. Passing over the expected, luxurious, and infinitely...

...Donald Weber Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 West, Pynchon, Mailer, and the Jeremiad Tradition Donald Weber If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world...

... a brilliant realization of the form in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (2017). Exit West exemplifies Fredric Jameson's generic discontinuity, moving as it does from a realist mode through a science fictional dystopia and the fantastic, arriving finally at the critical utopia. The last transition occurs through...

...Edward Stone Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James . By Canby Henry Seidel . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1951 . Pp. 318 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 468 The South Atlantic Quarterly Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study...

...Louis J. Budd The Short Story in America, 1900-1950 . By West Ray B. Jr. Chicago : Henry Regnery Company , 1952 . Pp. ix , 147 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 157 There were some rewarding moments in these hard years. Within the Gates...

...Felix J. Koch Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Romance and Pathos of George Keats Fortune in the Mid-west Felix J. Koch Cincinnati, Ohio The aftermath of the World War upon literature will always be an interesting study. It is quite some little while since the great...

...Major Thomas Rowland; Kate Mason Rowland Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Volume XV JANUARY, 1916 Number 1 The South Atlantic Quarterly Letters of a Virginia Cadet at West Point, 18^9-1861 Major Thomas Rowland, C. S. A. Introduction By Kate Mason Rowland [This is the third...

...Major Thomas Rowland; Kate Mason Rowland Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Letters of a Virginia Cadet at West Point, 18^9-1861 Major Thomas Rowland, C. S. A. Introduction by Kate Mason Rowland [This is the fourth installment of the series of West Point letters which began...

...Major Thomas Rowland; Kate Mason Rowland Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Volume XV JULY, 1916 Number 3 The South Atlantic Quarterly Letters of a Virginia Cadet at West Point, 18V9-1861 Major Thomas Rowland, C. S. A. Introduction by Kate Mason Rowland [This is the fifth and last...

...B. W. Barnard Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Private Coinage of Gold Tokens in the South and West B. W. Barnard Fellow in Economics and Social Institutions in Princeton University During the first half of the nineteenth century, before the discovery of gold in California...

...John Shelton Curtiss Russia and the West in Iran, 1918-1948: A Study in Big-Power Rivalry . By Lenczowski George . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1949 . Pp. xv , 383 . $4.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 407 on this war written from...

...Charles R. Young Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 THE CRUSADES: A TRAGIC EPISODE IN EAST-WEST RELATIONS* Charles R. Young THE PUBLICATION of a comprehensive history of the Cru­ sades by Steven Runciman makes available the first scholarly general history of this subject...

...Clarence Poe Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXIII APRIL, 1934 Number 2 EXPLODING AGRICULTURAL MYTHS: COMPARING FARM PROSPERITY SOUTH AND WEST CLARENCE POE BORN within eight miles of Raleigh and for some time editor of the Raleigh Chronicle...

...Franklin L. Burdette Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 A WEST VIRGINIA FILIBUSTER FRANKLIN L. BURDETTE IN THE WEST VIRGINIA legislature of 19 n occurred a bold political maneuver unparalleled in the strenuous history of the state. Even the United States Senate, celebrated...