...Bryce Berkowitz Bryce Berkowitz The View from Here I should begin with a few things I am: a boy from a water-stained river town, a photographer of tonight s evening light, a sweet corn shoot at the end of July. Good God: the shape of things to come seems like a mass of grief growing inside...

...Susan B. A. Somers-Willett © 2013 Susan B. A. Somers-Willett 2013 Susan B. A. Somers-Willett Three Views of a Souvenir: A Bop In a Waco market, tourists riffle through a box of you, light fanning over black bodies cocked as gamebirds. They do not ask how to look but how much? Your shape...

... of comparative literature at Bennington College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University, and her accomplishments as a scholar and theorist. The interview draws out Smith’s views on a wide range of issues relating to contemporary critical thought and changes in university life over the past fifty...

... a partial understanding of Greek tragedy, since tragedy relied on cause and responsibility. Nietzsche's anti-Aristotelianism can also be regarded in terms of his philosophical project of inventing cultural antidotes for what he viewed as a falsely optimistic age: joy in suffering rather than release...

... or lineage but on residency. In explaining her views, Stevens also discusses narrative, Michel Foucault’s political activism, and her work with the Deportation Research Clinic that she directs at Northwestern. She is currently working on a book about how conquistador narratives and chivalry romance novels...

... capitalism), and on the other, an approach that uses the tools of literary analysis, including attention to form, genre, and group formation. I argue for the superiority of the latter and advance the view that we in literary studies should use, confidently and aggressively, the tools of our own discipline...

... that objects interact with one another in their own hidden ways, that objects are mysteriously indifferent to the human world, and that human subjectivity itself is just another object. Such a view is described as “posthuman” and is often called “flat ontology” (after Manuel DeLanda). The problem, however...

... Yan’s works there is an obvious prioritization of morality over ideology. In challenging morality, Mo Yan appeals to sexual and sensual morality in unique ways, which in part serves as a mask—the political masquerading as paranoia—so as to cover his political point of view. This essay aims to unmask his...

... lyric and the prospect poem, Prynne, Awoonor, and Trethewey use the hill as a location for staging the ethical dilemmas of the putative “global citizen.” From poetic hills in England, Ghana, and New Orleans, the view stretches to accommodate global suffering, inequality, and the lives of others, who...

...), and varieties of Eurenglish (various European contexts). This second view opens avenues of agency and ownership unavailable when global standardized English is imposed as an ideal. The existing linguistics hierarchy of native English speakers over nonnative speakers breaks down. This article explores the native...

... advocacy through several communication modes, all of which involved writing and careful research. Fiction, poetry, letters, essays, and talks all played a part in his lifelong support of the animal world. When scrutinized, Galsworthy’s views not only are consonant with much modern thought but also...

... .” Dissent 56 ( 4 ): 122 – 27 . Johnston Adrian . 2007 . “ Slavoj Žižek’s Hegelian Reformation: Giving a Hearing to The Parallax View .” Diacritics 37 ( 1 ): 3 – 20 . ———. 2008 . Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity . Evanston, IL : Northwestern...

... to transform language, consciousness, and everyday practice in pursuit of social transformation. Gramsci’s view of politics as a “war of position” over the content of common sense, or ordinary truth (and thus of the everyday consciousness of most people), seemed to many intellectuals to be more readily...

..., the fact that I write it pretty much pollutes everything else I might do. They're not even going to bother to diss me. Because, since 1975, my work has more and more dealt with gay material, another factor enters the equation. The conservative view of matters gay is still rife with the idea...

... viewed with skepticism; there was something quite dictatorial about a group of women telling you what you could wear and what you couldn’t wear. And the claim that women would be more cooperative and less competitive, I viewed that with skepticism because I just didn’t see it. I saw...

..., the vogue for performance metaphors, especially in gender studies and queer theory, has spawned an etiolated view of the self unable to do justice to the thickness of interiority and intersubjectivity, whether in literature or in life. Anti-essentialism is routed into a form...

... called the campus a “womb with a view”) ever asked me to do so. As a result of that benign neglect, I took the opportunity to liberate myself, professionally, from the teaching of literature, and self-apprenticed in the kinds of social and cultural analysis that American Studies had established...

... literary criticism is politically effectual, people who think nothing is politically effectual, and a few novels that instantiate, in his view, the above—all are subjected to criticism. With so many targets we might expect aim and accuracy to suffer, but what makes this book compelling...

... view, which is to say a fading out of politics. Then he wrote a book about a leading fig- ure of neoliberal thought, Friedrich A. Hayek, published in 2004 (Introduzione a Hayek, Laterza) along with a series of critical essays on him. It might seem odd, but there is a link between the criticism...

... Magazine , April 1 . Pollan Michael . 2002 a. The Botany of Desire: A Plants’-Eye View of the World . New York : Random House . Pollan Michael . 2002 b. “ When a Crop Becomes King .” New York Times , July 19 . Pollan Michael . 2007 . The Omnivore’s Dilemma...