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...E. Malcolm Carroll The Soviets in World Affairs: A History of the Relations between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World, 1917-1929 . By Fischer Louis . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2d edition, 1951 . 2 vols. Pp. xviii , 892 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1952...

...Susan Willis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Susan Willis Disney World: Public Use/Private State I recall a discussion with four or five women friends on the subject of shopping malls. None of us was pro-mall, so our talk tended to highlight those aspects of malls that most...

...Jane Kuenz Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Jane Kuenz It s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification In my family, the story goes that my sister s engagement was orchestrated by Disney. One autumn night, she and her partner placed themselves in Bistro...

...Susan Willis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Susan Willis Critical Vantage Points on Disney s World I ve never understood why there is so little serious criticism of Walt Disney. I suppose the general inferiorization of mass culture as a field for the application of theory ac­...

...Kenneth Surin Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Kenneth Surin Transform the World, Change Life: Michael Taussig s Poetics of Destruction and Revelation Transform the world, said Marx; change life, said Rimbaud: for us these two watchwords are one. Andre Breton . . . [T]he...

...Geeta Kapur Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Geeta Kapur When Was Modernism in Indian/Third World Art? . . . [T]he innovations of what is called Modern­ ism have become the new but fixed forms of our present moment. If we have to break out of the non-historical fixity of post...

...Leonid Heller Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Leonid Heller A World of Prettiness: Socialist Realism and Its Aesthetic Categories Many works on socialist realism endow this artistic method (to use the Soviet ter­ minology) with the status of an aesthetics ; indeed, the term...

...Immanuel Wallerstein Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Immanuel Wallerstein The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System 26 August 1789, the French National Assembly adopted the Declaration...

...Valery Podoroga Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Valery Podoroga The Eunuch of the Soul: Positions of Reading and the World of Platonov Platonov s literature, the striking style of his prose, is born out of a special art of seeing one may say, out of a special culture of the eye...

...Louis A. Landa Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Pope s Belinda, The General Emporie of the World, and the Wondrous Worm Louis A. Landa Pope s heroine in The Rape of the Lock has deservedly been the object of extensive attention from the critics. From John Dennis in 1714...

...Paul J. Hurley Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Law and the Dramatic Rhetoric of The Way of the World Paul J. Hurley The repeated charge that those who write about comedy produce lugubriously dull prose attests to the fact that the easiest way to ruin a joke is to explain...

...Robert F. Durden Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Genovese Eugene D. . New York : Pantheon Books , 1974 . Pp. xxii , 823 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 BO-OKS Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Eugene D. Genovese...

...J. Bowyer Bell Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Transnational Terror and World Order J. Bowyer Bell Transnational order has always rested on a delicate web easily shaken for profit, out of perversity, in the name of need, or for national interest. There have always been danger...

...Robert Kellogg The Three Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World . By Howard Donald R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1966 . Pp. xii , 316 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 117 supplements, the apostolic and patristic...

...Louis J. Budd Thoreau as World Traveler . By Christie John Aldrich . New York : Columbia University Press with the co-operation of the American Geographical Society , 1965 . Pp. xiii , 358 . $8.75 . The Days of Henry Thoreau . By Harding Walter . New York : Alfred...

...Ralph A. Ranald Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 George Orwell and the Mad World: The Anti-Universe of 1984 Ralph A. Ranald I shall save you, Winston, I shall make you perfect. So O Brien, the Grand Inquisitor of 1984, has said to the antihero Winston Smith, in one...

...Claude M. Simpson, Jr. A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature by Poirier Richard . New York : Oxford University Press , 1966 . Pp. xi , 257 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 621 A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style...

...Dorothy Marshall The World of Hogarth: Lichtenberg’s Commentaries on Hogarth’s Engravings . Translated from the German and with an Introduction by Innes and Herdan Gustav . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1966 . Pp. 297 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press...

...S. K. Heninger, Jr. The Renaissance Image of Man and the World . Edited by O’Kelly Bernard . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1966 . Pp. x , 186 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 279 ironies and paradoxes, the small acts of human...

...Peter G. Phialas Shakespeare and Our World . By Thaler Alwin . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1966 . Pp. 235 . $3.95 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 481 After receiving such a contribution, one is ready to acknowl­ edge the author s...