...Thomas G. Wiener Craftsmen of the Word: Three Poets of Modern Russia . By Strakhovsky Leonid I. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1949 . Pp. iii , 114 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 2^6 The South Atlantic Quarterly than one landsman s picture...

... of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean , edited by Richardson Michael and translated by Fijałkowski Krzysztof Richardson Michael , 105 – 11 . London : Verso . John E. Drabinski Césaire’s Apocalyptic Word The postcolonial moment is largely animated...

...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...

...Thomas L. Dumm 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Thomas L. Dumm George W. Bush and the F-Word When is it appropriate to use the f-word? That is, if we encounter a regime that achieves power illegitimately...

...Owen W. Gilman, Jr. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Ward Just s Vietnam: Where Word and Deed Did Not Meet Owen W. Gilman, Jr. War is good copy. Wars make news, and wars make history. Something there is about a war that has to be written down. Our present century has seen...

...William F. Harris; David L. Paletz Getting the Word Out: The News On Four-Letter Threats to Authority William F. Harris and David L. Paletz Most academics aspire to celebrity, labor in obscurity. Sometimes, fearing fame will never find them, they seek her out. So indeed we did. Our motives were...

...M. E. Bradford The Flesh and the Word: Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner . By Watkins Floyd C. . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 1971 . Pp. x , 282 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 277 rative poems are mere vehicles for abstract ideas...

...Florence Leaver Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 FAULKNER: THE WORD AS PRINCIPLE AND POWER Florence Leaver SINCE THE publication of George O Donnell s article, Faulk­ ner s Mythology, in The Kenyon Review (1939) and Malcolm Cowley s Introduction to The Portable Faulkner...

...Francis E. Bowman Words and Their Use . By Ullmann Stephen . New York : Philosophical Library , 1951 . Pp. vi , 7 - 110 . $2.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 6oo The South Atlantic Quarterly Johnsonian Studies 1887-1950: A Survey and, Bibliography. ByJames...

...Francis E. Bowman The Rise of Words and Their Meanings . By Reiss Samuel . New York : Philosophical Library , 1950 . Pp. 301 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 598 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Rise of Words and Their Meanings. By Samuel Reiss. New...

...Pauli F. Baum The Elements of Style . By Strunk William Jr. With Revisions, an Introduction, and a New Chapter on Writing by White E. B. . New York : The Macmillan Company , [ 1959 ], Pp. xiv , 71 . $2.50 . Say It with Words . By Ferguson Charles W. . New York...

...Thomas Cordle The Words . By Sartre Jean-Paul . Trans. Frechtman Bernard . New York : George Braziller , 1964 . Pp. 255 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 424 The South Atlantic Quarterly thin. There is no sense of the whole work: no effort to find...

...Robert F. Durden God’s Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words . By Barzun Jacques . Boston : Little Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. 344 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 147 God s Country and Mine...

... addresses Augustine's preoccupation in the Confessions with the relationship between language and thought, between the technical “death,” or “dying,” of language. In Augustine's Confessions considerable heft is assigned to the word and, in key moments, to the syllable, and this essay traces, shall we say...

...V. Y. Mudimbe Looking at texts in everyday life might seem an effort in both detachment and critical indifference. But, is it really? Texts deliver their visibility in the contrasts spelled out by a grammar in which qualities and functions depend on word orders and the intervention of prepositions...

...Penny Koutrolikou Crisis has been one of the most popular words in Europe since the turn of the millennium, exemplified by the “Eurozone crisis,” the so-called “refugee crisis,” and the latest Covid-19 crisis—among others. Drawing on critical analyses of crises and on imagined geographies...

...Jennifer L. Culbert; Austin Sarat The essays in this issue, “Killing States: Lethal Decisions/Final Judgments,” reflect on the exercise of state violence and the decisions taken to employ its lethal force. In so doing, these essays raise questions about our “state” in the broadest sense of the word...

..., for example, while at the same time, the New Sanctuary Movement has revived the 1980s' faith-based activist network that provides shelter to refugees in danger of deportation. Both compassion and rage rely on proximity to one's home, in all senses of the word: familial, local, and national. When does the face...

... argues, given that academic freedom is not a constitutional right, but on the contrary depends on the public's goodwill, a goodwill that is perpetually at stake in struggles over common sense such as the struggle staged in Smart People . In other words, academics who want to defend their academic freedom...

... of perceptions we can better understand action in several senses of the word. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Rei Terada The Frailty of the Ontic There’s no such thing as ontology on the whole—or even “leftist ontology,” as Carsten...