... literal, more poetic than prosaic in nature. Hans Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and Jacques Derrida positively affirm that poeisis is the foundation of meaning tout court. The full reach of this linguistic metaphoricity is examined next, from everyday grammar to the two-in-one discourse of I. A. Richards...

... literary form and symptomatic expressions of society. It is in this manner that a novel like Ulysses, set in 1904, but written in the shadow of the Easter Rising and World War I, picks up on unofficial knowledge and the cultural unconscious of a periphery strategically placed to challenge the power...

... Zulfaqar Khan ambassador Capello Girolamo ambassador competition Eğri Erlau campaign elegance Ibrahim Pasha Grand Vizier Şehnāme i Sultan Mehmed i Sālis Talikizade Venier Marco ambassador Ottoman Safavid peace Tabriz Talikizade ʾAbbas the Great Shah Mashhad Riza Imam sovereignty Tahmasp Shah...

...” in Mexico, as he helped pioneer a form of patriotism that persists today, committed to militaristic and capitalist values and individual self-interest, and veiled by a façade of democratic liberalism. Alexander I emperor of Russia chauvinism Chile despotism Great Britain imperialism Mexico militarism...

... and the Fury and As I Lay Dying show plot to be a paranoid form of sense-making. But it is one that Faulkner’s characters nevertheless reach for in the form of imperfect but reassuring formal structures—e.g., blame assignment and narratives of victimization—that mitigate their dread as they navigate a modern...

... synthetic templates for the natural sciences. They built on and shared in the work of other travelers into the scientific “borderlands,” including in different measure Einstein, Eddington, Lemaître, Philipp Frank, Julian Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, and A. I. Oparin. Such synthetic efforts constructed social...

...In 1914, one of the world's most famous war plans, the Schlieffen Plan, impelled Germany to turn a developing east European squabble into the greatest, most encompassing, and costliest war civilization had ever known: World War I. Almost a century later, the Schlieffen Plan still generates...

... incarnation Jesus Mary mother of Jesus perfectionism Proclus Milton John Boleyn Anne Elizabeth I Queen of England Henry VIII King of England Protestantism celibacy and chastity as targets of Astraea Descensus Astraeae pageant Mary Tudor Queen of England Peele George Descensus Astraeae Essex...

...As in chapter one, chapter seven shows how war provided a catalyst for innovation. In the case of World War I, however, the academic social contract required full-scale patriotism and the repression of opposition—constraints that spurred demands for a new category of rights called academic freedom...

...This chapter examines the efforts of I. A. Richards to promote Basic English in China in the early twentieth century. Like his trademark New Criticism, Richards’ initiative of globalizing English shares some of the underlying principles of modernist poetry: a global ambition built on translocal...

... enormously the amount of its expenditures, taxation, and regulations as well as its direct participation in productive activities, creating what contemporaries described during World War I as “war socialism.” Each of these great experiences left a multitude of legacies—fiscal, institutional, and ideological...

... off, perhaps with the independent spirit of Paretsky's feminist detective V. I. Warshawski. The important thrust of Paretsky's argument can be appreciated by comparing it to Mark Noll's, the best-known historian of American Calvinism in the early twenty-first centuries. Andover Seminary Bible...

...Chapter 2 launches our study of the body at war—the injured soldier’s body during and after World War I, and specifically the body that, once injured, appeared to be at war with itself. The chapter focuses on the fierce debates around “wound shock” that took place in the period 1916–1919...

... Humphry Eliot Simon Irving Washington Lyell Charles Murray John publishing house Murray John I Murray John II Scott Sir Walter Admiralty the Africa Barrow John Board of Longitude Borm Jan McClintock Leopold The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas Quarterly Review Royal Geographical...

...During the years leading up to World War I, America experienced a crisis of civic identity. How could a country founded on liberal principles and composed of increasingly diverse cultures unite to safeguard individuals and promote social justice? This book tells the story of a group of American...

...Artillery in World War I was guided by the new cartographic technology of “map firing,” which required a rectangular mesh of evenly-spaced lines to be drawn on the maps used in the trenches. These systems, known generically as grids, were a powerful alternative to latitude...

... A G understanding Leibniz G W Mendelssohn M Athenian character in Plato’s Laws Plato Prometheus power of judgment reflection a priori synthesis limits philosophy principles Tonelli G Heine H Robespierre M F M I de metaphysics method Bacon F Hegel G W F Lambert J H Lysias Newton I...

...This chapter begins where the poetry often begins, not with straightforward incitements to laughter but with oddly charged depictions of it. It considers two poems in detail--"I wandered lonely as a cloud" and "To Joanna"--and relates them to contemporary discussions of laughter and to Wordsworth's...

... to serve in the chemical industry during World War I, addressing how this decision would have fit with both the pacifist teachings of the Church of the Brethren and his budding persona as an American chemist. Cullen Martha Urey Long Cora Rebecca Reinoehl Urey Long Martin Alva Urey Clarence Urey...

... sententiae Leibniz G W Wolff Christian witticisms Clausewitz Carl von etymology Machiavelli Niccolò advertising Castro Fidel Lenin V I Luxemburg Rosa Mao Zedong Marx Karl Marxism polemics Communist Manifesto Marx Class Struggles in France The Marx Büchner Georg Danton’s Death Büchner...