COLUMNS

G. M. Tamás

SUSAN SONTAG: AN OBITUARY
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Common Knowledge 11(3): 361-366 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-361 [PDF]  

Péter Nádas

IN MEMORIAM SUSAN SONTAG
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Common Knowledge 11(3): 367-368 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-367 [PDF]  

Fleur Jaeggy

WINTER ROSES
Translated by Ann Goldstein
Common Knowledge 11(3): 369 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-369 [PDF]  

SYMPOSIUM

   Imperial Trauma: The Powerlessness of the Powerful Part 2

Jeffrey M. Perl

INTRODUCTION: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND MELODRAMA
Common Knowledge 11(3): 370-374 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-370 [PDF]  

David Cannadine

"BIG TENT" HISTORIOGRAPHY: Transatlantic Obstacles and Opportunities in Writing the History of Empire
Common Knowledge 11(3): 375-392 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-375 [PDF]  

Maya Jasanoff

COSMOPOLITAN: A Tale of Identity from Ottoman Alexandria
Common Knowledge 11(3): 393-409 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-393 [PDF]  

Inga Clendinnen

THE POWER TO FRUSTRATE GOOD INTENTIONS: Or, The Revenge of the Aborigines
Common Knowledge 11(3): 410-431 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-410 [PDF]  

Pankaj Mishra

MORE TROUBLE THAN IT IS WORTH
Common Knowledge 11(3): 432-444 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-432 [PDF]  

William Dalrymple

ASSIMILATION AND TRANSCULTURATION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA: A Response to Pankaj Mishra
Common Knowledge 11(3): 445-485 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-445 [PDF]  

LITTLE REVIEWS

Ian Hacking

Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship; Éditions de sciences humaines et sociales: Le Coeur en danger
Lindsay Waters, (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2004), 89 pp.
Sophie Barluet, (Paris: Quadrige, PUF, 2004), 170 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 486-487 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-486 [PDF]  

Caroline Walker Bynum

Mechtild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority
Sara S. Poor, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 333 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 487-488 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-487 [PDF]  

Colin Richmond

Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England
Paul R. Hyams, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 376 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 488 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-488 [PDF]  

Erica Johnson Debeljak

Plum Brandy: Croatian Journals
Josip Novakovich, (Buffalo, NY: White Pine, 2003), 181 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 489 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-489 [PDF]  

Richard Janko

The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology, and Interpretation
Gabor Betegh, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 441 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 489-490 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-489-a [PDF]  

Mark P. Watters

Martini Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
Lowell Edmunds, rev. ed. (1981; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 153 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 490 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-490 [PDF]  

Belle Randall

Dylan's Visions of Sin
Christopher Ricks, (New York: Ecco, 2004), 528 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 490 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-490-a [PDF]  

Colin Richmond

Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life
Katharine Conley, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 270 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 491 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-491 [PDF]  

Caryl Emerson

The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva
Irma Kudrova, trans. Mary Ann Szporluk (Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2004), 232 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 491-492 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-491-a [PDF]  

Jeffrey M. Perl

The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
Tony Juniper, Spix's Macaw: (London: Fourth Estate, 2002), 296 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 492-493 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-492 [PDF]  

Jones Lawrence

Understanding September 11; Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from Around the World
Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer, eds., (New York: New Press, 2002), 454 pp.
Eric Hershberg and Kevin W. Moore, eds., (New York: New Press, 2002), 290 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 493-494 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-493 [PDF]  

Sissela Bok

The Monk and the Philosopher: Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard, (New York: Schocken, 1999), 336 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 494-495 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-494 [PDF]  

Simone Roberts

Revolt, She Said
Julia Kristeva, trans. Brian O'Keeffe, Foreign Agents Series (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext[e], 2002), 139 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 495 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-495 [PDF]  

Richard Jenkyns

After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor
Margaret Alexiou, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), 570 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 496 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-496 [PDF]  

Dale Kent

April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici
Lauro Martines, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 302 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 496 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-496-a [PDF]  

Michael Baxandall

The Reformation of the Image
Joseph Leo Koerner, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 464 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 497 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-497 [PDF]  

G. Thomas Tanselle

Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays
D. F. McKenzie, ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), 286 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 497-498 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-497-a [PDF]  

Stephen Mulhall

Poets Thinking: Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
Helen Vendler, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 137 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 498 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-498 [PDF]  

Rebecca Bushnell

The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Paul F. Grendler, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 592 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 499 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-499 [PDF]  

William Weber

Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value
Julian Johnson, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 140 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 499-500 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-499-a [PDF]  

David Chinitz

Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
Alfred Appel, (New York: Knopf, 2002), 296 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 500 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-500 [PDF]  

Barry Allen

Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
Peter Pesic, (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2002), 184 pp.
Common Knowledge 11(3): 501 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-501 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

   Reading and Writing the Self

Walter L. Reed and Marshall P. Duke

PERSONALITIES AS DRAMATIS PERSONAE: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Self as Author
Common Knowledge 11(3): 502-513 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-502 [PDF]  

György Konrád

TRUTH IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Translated by Jim Tucker
Common Knowledge 11(3): 514-521 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-514 [PDF]  

Miguel Tamen

THE SORT OF PERSON WE ALL ARE
Common Knowledge 11(3): 522-526 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-522 [PDF]  

FICTION AND POETRY

Samuel Menashe

FOURTEEN POEMS
Common Knowledge 11(3): 527-540 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-527 [PDF]  

Jorge Franco

IN WHICH IT IS TOLD HOW I MET DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA IN MEDELLÍN, WHEN THE CITY WAS FILLED WITH IMAGINED GIANTS
Translated by Thomas Christensen
Common Knowledge 11(3): 541-549 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-541 [PDF]  

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 11(3): 550-553 (2005); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-550 [PDF]  

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