21 research outputs found
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. Michael Paul Rogin Exiled Waters: "Moby-Dick" and the Crisis of Allegory. Bainard Cowan Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad. David Simpson Pursuing Melville, 1940-1980: Chapters and Essays by Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Merton M. Sealts, Jr.
More Day to Dawn: Inaugural Address of Richard H. Brodhead
Inaugural Address of Richard H. Brodhead
Ninth President of Duke Universit
The Middle Way: Puritanism and Ideology in American Romantic Fiction. Michael T. Gilmore "Moby-Dick" and Calvinism: A World Dismantled. T. Walter Herbert, Jr. Melville's Use of Classical Mythology. Gerard M. Sweeney La Contre-Bible de Melville: "Moby-Dick" déchiffré. Viola Sachs
Reflections by President Richard Broadhead
Duke President Richard Brodhead\u27s comments relating to the Duke Lacrosse case during The Court of Public Opinion conference.
Questions/themes/discussion topics What catapults a case into the media spotlight? Who is responsible for focusing media and public attention on a particular case? Once a case gains high-profile status, what are the professional and ethical roles and responsibilities of members of the media, the bar, and the institutions involved? How do media balance their First Amendment right to watch over the operation of government with the rights of the accused
Time and mobility in the writing of Charles W. Chesnutt
This article considers the elusiveness and ambivalence that characterize Chesnutt's writing in terms of the author's imaginative efforts to probe beyond the historical circumstances that condition and frame his authorship. Noting the focus on figures of absence and illegibility in recent criticism of Chesnutt, I examine the notion of a self in the process of uprooting itself that appears to preoccupy much of his fiction. In a close reading of Chesnutt's journals and his essay on 'Superstitions and Folklore of the South', I elaborate Chesnutt's conception of a literary voice as emerging from a context of commodification and contestation and oriented on a moment of posterior reception. I then discuss how this concept of a detachable voice informs Chesnutt's exploration of a transplantable self and an understanding of freedom in terms of a re-imagined social bond. This discussion focuses on the ways Chesnutt, in some of his short stories and in The House Behind the Cedars, evokes a passage from a condition of bondage to a capacity for multiple and variable attachments.postprin
La virtĂą e la libertĂ . Ideali e civiltĂ italiana nella formazione degli Stati Uniti
Il volume si propone di ripensare il contributo che la cultura politica e civile italiana ha offerto alla nascita degli Stati Uniti e alla formazione delle sue élite attraverso le influenze del repubblicanesimo classico e dell’umanesimo civico.- Indice #9- Introduzione, Marcello Pacini #11- Prima parte L'eredità romana #29- L’eredità di Roma nella rivoluzione americana, Gordon S. Wood #31- La scoperta di Roma: il modo di vedere e di rappresentare nella repubblica americana, Robert A. Ferguson #57- L’interpretazione dell’età di Roma, Meyer Reinhold #89- Benjamin West e gli usi dell’antichità , Jules D. Prown #97- Seconda parte L’umanesimo civico e il pensiero politico americano #117- «Conservatorismo rivoluzionario in un’epoca di transizione»: la tradizione dell’umanesimo civico, la rivoluzione americana e lo sviluppo repubblicano, Edward Countryman #119- Il legame di Machiavelli con l’America: considerazioni critiche sul ritratto dell’umanesimo civico dei suoi successori inglesi, Vickie B. Sullivan #145- Machiavelli e il neo-machiavellismo in America, John Patrick Diggins #171- Terza parte L'immaginazione letteraria #193- Guarda che cosa hai fatto, Cristoforo!, William L. Vance #195- Il duplice sogno dell’Italia nell’età dorata americana, Richard H. Brodhead #209- Quarta parte Architettura e arti: il potere delle immagini #233- Thomas Jefferson e l’Italia, James S. Ackerman #235- Riflessioni sull’architettura americana e l’Italia, 1840-1992, Paul R. Baker #271- L’Italia d’America: il potere delle immagini e le immagini del potere, Peter Bondanella #31