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...Damjana Mraović-O’Hare Review Politics is a Game of Chance No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives by Steven Belletto Oxford University Press, 2012. 206 pages Damjana Mraović-O’Hare At a recent Cold War studies conference, it was postulated...

... or anthropological, heritage—when she represents characters’ undeserved, uncompensated pains. Woolf’s thinking aligns her with Charles Darwin in the natural sciences. Like Darwin, Woolf makes tragic chance inseparable from the theater of life. This essay reads Woolf’s oft-cited rejection of teleological form and her...

... to crosscurrents in enduring and evolving systems. Heather McHugh’s poems invite us to read not for the solace of masterable meaning but for the chance and risk of aleatory encounter and its unpredictable elaboration. Even in elegy, traditionally poetry’s moment of discursive mastery, her poems give full play...

... complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many...

... Rapier while visiting the Counterforce underworld, the authors discuss the theo- scientific philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I cannot do justice to this section here, but it deals with the implications of, and “chances for freedom” within, the relationships between a “critical mass...

... to write to the living Islas about her waiting room experience, as the narrative trails off we are left uncertain about whether Louie will have the chance to describe his experience to la Mollie. That trailing off helps constitute the narrative’s meaning but also reflects its materiality: asynchronously...

..., their familiar gestures, capturing the speech on their very lips. Then, death will no longer be absolute” (Cook 13). In a moving scene in Wise Chil­ dren, the 75-year-old Chance sisters watch the film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which they had acted in their youth: “Gawd!” says Nora. “We...

... that the afterlife of her published work was open to the play of chance. As I’ve indicated, other critics have described a Bishop open, at least thematically, to the play of chance (usually with reference to later work), but without providing an account of when and where this interest arose or locating...

... of whiteness. He finds meaning in giving to legal defense funds, in helping to inspire the local black children, and most of all in a kind of spectatorial commiseration about the indignities suffered by African Americans. He sees in his blackness, in other words, the chance to become a self...

... that is absent from the work of his modernist predecessors. That is, he turns a poetics of chance and contingency into “an environmental ethics of nonproprietary stewardship” (116). Schuster shifts medium from poetry to song in chapter 3, a shift that continues to inform his final chapters. Here he argues...

... system of applied knowledge, technology here offers the novel a chance to be and do otherwise, for it enables authors to break with established or dominant representational modes and develop innovative formal procedures that could alter the relationship of the literary text to the act of reading...

... threat), Marianne DeKoven (on the popularization of political radicalism), and Steven Belletto (on international relations and the game-theoretical refiguration of chance). The eight-year span of Fictions of Fact and Value’s four central works pinpoints a precise moment of cultural intersection...

... mood from print to sound waves and discovering in the course of performance a covert means of radicalizing the most unassuming of lyrics. The chance similarity between Moore’s annotative method and Roosevelt’s will become clear in due course, but the story of the poet’s foray into media relations...

... ditions on one’s life chances leads to the moralization of poverty, which in turn reinforces official indifference toward poverty on the grounds that it is deserved.10 Because Henry does not connect material causes and effects in contemplating the social order, he cannot understand behavior...

... her the chance to go Buenos Aires, seems a missed opportunity for drawing connections between these two modernists. The final chapter of British Modernism and Censorship brings to our attention the struggle ofJean Rhys’s novels with the figurative and literal morals police (police des...

...: JAMAIS must extend beyond the throw of the dice “a” just now, yet no throw of the dice may chance IT. (Ground Work 147) If for Mallarmé a throw of the dice will never abolish chance, then for Duncan, no throw of the dice can abolish “IT,” his term, as we have seen...

... has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. (259) This captures the essence of the Morgan mentality: the perpetual “state of emergency” is one of their chief tactics for retaining power, as it justi­ fies—in their minds, at least—practically...

... cut off from a metaphoric or hypotactic necessity, cut off from the ability to metaphorize—and thereby aestheticize and judge—our world in terms of the far-away star’s perfection. The disaster, in other words, names the “necessity” of chance, parataxis, metonymy. However...

... strengthened the book; it would also have made it a valuable resource for readers wanting a more comprehen­ sive sense of the critical discussion about this poet. Yet somehow all this seems like prelude anyway. The real chance for evaluation will come with the Collected Poems, that still imaginary...

.... Critics have been quick to follow DeLillo’s lead by considering the work in relation to conspiracy and coincidence, design and chance.2 Such criticism treats the assassination as the determining factor of the plot and structure of the novel, asking: Does the novel perpetuate or confound...