Aretxaga (2000, 44): "for Benjamin, the autonomous violence of the lawcreates the state as a spectral space, a no-man land where disavowed social violence flourishes" violence is archetypal, mythical, its manifestation of the gods.Its awesome, he…
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A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach'sMimesisstill stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to…
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Average Customer Rating: 4.0 Rating: 4 Homi K. Bhabha How unfortunate that the previous reviewer had to resort to questioning a fellow reader's intellect and ability to read what is undoubtedly a complicately structured text. This type of comment…
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Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense of alternative possibilities'. In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a…
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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.
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"Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four…
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Notes that from 12th c. on, fables move from general morals to specific social criticism, to making more elaborate, point-by-point allegories, more vivid, colloquial dialogue. The article also points out that the meanings applied to beasts (in…
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Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the…
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This essay considers the role of layout in intermedial photo-texts, arguing that the scrapbooking of visual material and printed text constitutes an integral aspect to these texts' rhetoric and semantics. Through a close reading of novels by W. G.…
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The use of water-soluble fullerene-based compounds as sensitizers for reactive oxygen species (ROS) was investigated for the photodegradation of organic contaminants. A variety of conditions were evaluated to determine the production of ROS species…
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A review of Robert Youngs Postcolonialism: an Historical Introduction (2001)
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Anderson's essay shows how the European processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the Third World through colonialism and were adapted by subject races in Latin America and Asia.
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