Columns

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE: First and Lasting Impressions
Common Knowledge 14(1): 1-9 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-028 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark Bauerlein

THE BEST COLLEAGUE
Common Knowledge 14(1): 10-15 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-029 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

RELIGION, MEANING, AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN'S WRITING
Common Knowledge 14(1): 16-28 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-030 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Symposium

   Devalued Currency: Elegiac Symposium on Paradigm Shifts Part 1

Terry Eagleton

INTRODUCTION: THE VIEW FROM JUDGMENT DAY
Common Knowledge 14(1): 29-33 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-031 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Colin Richmond

MALORY AND MODERNITY: A Qualm about Paradigm Shifts
Common Knowledge 14(1): 34-44 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-032 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lionel Gossman

BEYOND MODERN: The Art of the Nazarenes
Common Knowledge 14(1): 45-104 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-033 [Abstract] [PDF]  

William Weber

CANONICITY AND COLLEGIALITY: "Other" Composers, 1790 – 1850
Common Knowledge 14(1): 105-123 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-034 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Glenn Holland

THE PIG IS DEAD: Parrhesia and the Common Good
Common Knowledge 14(1): 124-135 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-035 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter N. Miller

WHEN HUMANITY WAS IN THE HUMANITIES: Peiresc in the 1630s
Common Knowledge 14(1): 136-142 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-036 [PDF]  

Poetry and Fiction

Belle Randall

DIPTYCH
Common Knowledge 14(1): 143-145 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-037 [PDF]  

Manny Karkowsky

HUMAN STORIES, I
Common Knowledge 14(1): 146-150 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-038 [PDF]  

Little Reviews

Natalie Zemon Davis

An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play
Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 271 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 151-153 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-039 [PDF]  

David Nirenberg

A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain
Chris Lowney, A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 352 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 153 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-040 [PDF]  

Maya Jasanoff

Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
Leela Gandhi, Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 254 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 154 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-041 [PDF]  

Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187 – 1291
Jaroslav Folda, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 785 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 154-155 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-042 [PDF]  

Joseph Frank

The Jewish Century
Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 438 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 156-157 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-043 [PDF]  

G. Thomas Tanselle

John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman, John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century, 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 1536 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 157-158 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-044 [PDF]  

Barry Allen

Truth and Predication
Donald Davidson, Truth and Predication (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 180 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 158-159 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-045 [PDF]  

Marci Shore

Interrogating the Real
Slavoj iek, Interrogating the Real, ed. Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (London: Continuum, 2005), 384 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 159-160 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-046 [PDF]  

Helen Cooper

Medieval Arts Doctrines on Ambiguity and Their Place in Langland's Poetics
John Chamberlin, Medieval Arts Doctrines on Ambiguity and Their Place in Langland's Poetics (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000), 185 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 160-161 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-047 [PDF]  

Wayne Andersen

Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence
F. W. Kent, Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 230 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 161-163 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-048 [PDF]  

Richard Jenkyns

The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece
Julien-David Le Roy, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece, trans. David Britt (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2004), 558 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 163-164 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-049 [PDF]  

Lawrence Jones

The Future of Nostalgia
Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 404 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 164 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-050 [PDF]  

Henry Kamen

The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 400 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 165 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-051 [PDF]  

Jerome Braun

Holy Terror
Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 148 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 165-166 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-052 [PDF]  

John Q. Stilwell

Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558 – 1600
Paul Raffield, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558 – 1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 304 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 166-167 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-053 [PDF]  

Robyn Marsack

A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England
Jed Esty, A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 302 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 167 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-054 [PDF]  

Robert B. Pippin

American Memory in Henry James: Void and Value
William Righter, American Memory in Henry James: Void and Value, ed. Rosemary Righter (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004), 220 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 168 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-055 [PDF]  

Erica Johnson Debeljak

Zoli
Colum McCann, Zoli (New York: Random House, 2006), 333 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 168-169 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-056 [PDF]  

Alick Isaacs

Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment
Ranjit Chatterjee, Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment (New York: Lang, 2004), 207 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 169-170 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-057 [PDF]  

William Kolbrener

Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology
George Prochnik, Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology (New York: Other Press, 2006), 480 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 170 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-058 [PDF]  

Shira Wolosky

Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (New York: Free Press, 2007), 368 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 171 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-059 [PDF]  

Beverly Haviland

Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature
E. Ann Kaplan, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 192 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 171-172 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-060 [PDF]  

Simone Roberts

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues
Catherine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 417 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 172-173 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-061 [PDF]  

Douglas Mao

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
Charles Altieri, The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 301 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 173 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-062 [PDF]  

Alex Zwerdling

Bad Modernisms
Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds., Bad Modernisms (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 365 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 174 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-063 [PDF]  

James Olney

The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor
Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed., The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), 361 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 174-175 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-064 [PDF]  

Jeffrey M. Perl

The Aeneid
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles, intro. Bernard Knox (New York: Viking, 2006), 486 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(1): 175-177 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-065 [PDF]  

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 14(1): 178-181 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-14-1-178 [PDF]  

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