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Nowhere In The Middle Ages. Karma Lochrie. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 Pp. $65., Christopher Kendrick
Nowhere In The Middle Ages. Karma Lochrie. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 270 Pp. $65., Christopher Kendrick
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A review of Karma Lochrie's book, Nowhere in the Middle Ages.
Beyond Pacifism: Teaching World War I Literature From Left To Right, Joyce Wexler
Beyond Pacifism: Teaching World War I Literature From Left To Right, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The military historian Yuval Noah Harari accounts for the enduring allure of war by calling attention to a change in soldiers' memoirs that occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. Soldiers began to describe how they felt rather than what they did. Harari introduces the term flesh-witnessing to distinguish inner experience from eyewitness testimony. Flesh-witnesses speak of combat as a transformative and indescribable experience comparable to the sublime. This view is often attributed to militarists, but Harari shows that it also motivates pacifists. Even antiwar arguments like those of Erich Maria Remarque are based on the authority of the flesh-witness. To test …
From The Golden Infection, Laura Goldstein
From The Golden Infection, Laura Goldstein
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Versions And Versioning: A Critical Archive Of D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert
Versions And Versioning: A Critical Archive Of D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The essay gives an account of the dealings of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Works of D. H. Lawrence series with the archive of Lawrence manuscript and other materials distributed in special collections of libraries around the world, collected mainly from the 1950s as his star began to rise. The essay considers the recent arguments of Suzanne Bost, making use of Jacques Derrida’s argument in his essay ‘Archive Fever’, about the inevitably preconditioned interpretation of archival materials (Derrida) and the need to give them air before settling into a program of editorial or other analysis (Bost). The essay …
Under Western Eyes And Terrorism Today, Joyce Wexler
Under Western Eyes And Terrorism Today, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Although historians and literary critics discount the practical information about terrorism in Under Western Eyes, social science research corroborates Conrad's account of terrorism and counter-terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia. According to this research, terrorists are indistinguishable from the general population until they decide to join a terrorist group, and the best way to prevent terrorism is to study the specific mindset of terrorist groups. The novel animates these findings in its depiction of fundamental similarities between the bomber and the informer. Haldin and Razumov pursue community as well as autonomy, although their paths are quite different. The novel not only …
The “Vagabond Black” Renaissance, Pamela L. Caughie
The “Vagabond Black” Renaissance, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A paper presented as part of the "The Harlem Renaissance after the Transnational Turn" panel at the Modern Language Association Convention, January 2017.
Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius
Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct and effective use of language in antiquity. In the Middle Ages, these disciplines served to maintain Latin as a language of culture, religion, and administration over much of Europe. Grammatical studies flourished in medieval England following the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Subsequent developments in grammatical and rhetorical studies in Britain in the Middle Ages track deep changes in the social conditioning of literacy and social demands upon literacy. Among the medieval English innovations in these disciplines were the teaching of Latin as a foreign language, the cultural accommodation …