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...Kevin King 55 Kevin King Obit: Mohammed Mossadeq (The History You Don't Know, Declassified) In '52 Mossadeq got word of his impending assassination by the CIA. Paranoid, he...

...Robin J. Sowards Robin J. Sowards Against Almost Everything (on Walter Benn Michaels' The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004]) In 1982, Walter Benn Michaels declared himself "Against Theory"; now in The Shape...

... ). Steven G. Kellman The Return of the Thirties (on Morris Dickstein’s Dancing in the Dark [New York: Norton, 2009]; Peter Conn’s The American 1930s: A Literary History [Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009]; and David Welky’s Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture...

... . The Brownings' Correspondence . Ed. Kelley Philip Lewis Scott . 12 vols . Winfield, KS : Wedgestone P , 1984 . Ezell Margaret J. M. Writing Women's Literary History . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1992 . Gilbert Sandra M. Rev. of Writing Women's Literary History...

...Keith Leonard © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Keith Leonard A Brief History of Fiction If I get the story right my mother’s empty bottles will melt back into sand —​ just enough for a shoreline the size of our driveway. We could hold our shoes...

... is happening before our very eyes. The problem of the Anthropocene is not simply one of scale (whether geologic or temporal) but of a change in the very way we order our world. If history is text, then history is over—numbers have replaced text. James J. Pulizzi Predicting the End of History...

...Rob Cook © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Rob Cook The History of the Lost Voices He paces the kitchen waiting for the river to empty its boatload of shadows. There’s only water playing at the theaters, people silent and holding hands because of the rain which is how...

...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...

... Works Cited Anonymous . 1723 . The History of the Blacks of Waltham in Hampshire; and Those under the Like Denomination in Berkshire . London : A. Moore . Anonymous . 1735 . The Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals … from the Year 1720 to the Present Time . 3 vols. London : John...

...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

... of logocentrism and ontotheology, those ancient traditions in which things speak their being and call out yearningly to the observer. This essay contends that scholars working in these areas would recognize these problems if they adopted a more inclusive conception of the history of thought—a history more...

...Courtney Moffett-Bateau Abstract This article offers a history of Black thought as it has been represented or underrepresented in the university by tracing the phenomenon of the US American cultural wars to the Civil War. The article discusses the displacement of Black knowledges from predominantly...

...Florian Zappe Abstract This introduction provides a short survey of the history of academic culture wars as a recurring phenomenon in the history of the modern university. It then outlines the concept of this special section as a nonpartisan and metaperspectival critical discussion of various...

... of these. In the words of Karen Barad, this turn inquired as to why meaning, history, and truth are assigned to language only, whereas the movements of materiality are given less prominence: “How did language come to be more trustworthy than matter? Why are language and culture granted their own agency and historicity...

...Marc Kosciejew The document is one of the oldest material objects of all recorded civilizations, one upon which we are, in many ways, still dependent today. Documentation — that is, documents and their associated practices, institutions, and histories — plays an important role in helping...

...Janell Watson Kaja Silverman's body of work spans the disciplines of English, film studies, semiotics, psychoanalytic criticism, feminist theory, masculinity studies, and art history. In this interview, Silverman discusses her career as an interdisciplinarian, beginning with the days when...

...Charlotte A. Kunkel; Sheila Radford-Hill Scholars often debate the history of academic freedom, including efforts across the political spectrum to redefine its policies and practices. One fact that is sometimes overlooked in these debates is that students' educational experiences a re regularly...

... on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “aura” of a work of art or cultural artifact, it offers an atmospheric conception of history attending to the ways in which humans, nonhumans, artifacts, and nature interpenetrate one another. Furthermore, it points to the ways in which the language of archives, curators...

... like “society,” “history,” and “divinity.” Adorno and Aquinas are concerned with abstractions, with describing how categories like “sensation” or “beauty” function within historical or theological structures of understanding. Chaucer, conversely, is immersed in the particular; not only does he create...