...D. N. Rodowick This article argues in favor of misreading as a creative act. There is something involuntary in every creative act, and this involuntariness is itself a force of creation that arrives at the threshold of every act of repetition in and through time. Creativity is always shaped...

... after I walked as my own lord. d. It's one-way traffic, the spruce and pine of Jalalabad buried by strafe and strife, the old water-carrier with one-eyed wife one of the walking dead, human land-mine planted by our own traitors. Minds explode at misreadings of ayats...

... because it entails hierarchical distinction. But Michaels has to misread Fitzgerald because he is committed to the position that culture is merely race in disguise: “The problem with culture is that it is utterly dependent on race” (43). A closer look at Michaels’ reasoning will show...

... Baudelaire next to Plath—not the first couple you'd think of—by starting from how critics have read and misread their relationships with their mothers, with language, with money, with the possibilities of human intimacy. (Can there possibly be anything new to see about Sylvia Plath? Yes...

... Republic reviewer Martha Gruening complained that the novel amounted to little but a “chamber of horrors,” while (in a particularly hostile misreading) the New York Times essentially accused Endore of cheerleading for race riot. Newly married and a young father...

... to “decenter the human” by equating consciousness with the vitalities 114 the minnesota review and intensities. For even Bergson in his most mystical moments refuses this equation and formulates his philosophy accordingly: (1) pace Deleuze’s misreading in Bergsonism (1988), Bergson himself...

... current book project shows how this simple secularizing model of Kantoro­ wicz is embedded in a complex Christian institutional imaginary that he misreads (see also Biddick 2012a, 2012b). More recently, Esposito (2010) has used Lubac’s narrative as a tool to periodize his own reading of flesh...

..., so the current stress on double consciousness is a misreading. In a way, that's how you criticize race politics now, that it's too absorbed in double consciousness. Reed The long and short of it is that the double consciousness chapter in the book began in 1986 as a ten-page coda...

...? —​the prevailing answer was Karl Popper’s “conjec- tures and refutations,” or the so-called hypothetico-deductive method (Popper 1962).4 Feyerabend’s answer was, [A]nything goes! Contrary to outraged misreading of his argument, he was saying not that scientists are capricious but that they are inventive...

... consciousness because the two notions of belonging are at odds with each other. So anybody who simply says the instruction is to appropriate the land is radically misreading the biblical injunc- tion. In the Independent Jewish Voices book, A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel...

... of mutually reinforcing, presumed appreciative, fellow “likers.” Conversely, the not-happy person often registers her status by not “getting” social media’s governing etiquette rules. Mavis Gary misreads a mass–e-mail birth announcement as a cry of unhap- piness specifically directed to her because she...

... Plimpton to Spicer (with Michaels mediating along the way), meaning has become ever more tightly bound to who you are and where you stand, along with a new or renewed regard for discourse as material: the meaning of matter implicated in the matter of meaning. Churchill s misreading of Roos- evelt s...

... of fore- grounding this other ending or resolution of tragedy that modern thought chooses either to critique or to overlook in Aristotle. According to Morrissey, that tragedy must have a terrible end is indeed a prevalent modern bias, resulting from a misreading of Poet- ics 13, where...