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… in the history of criticism” (p. xi), which he hopes to accomplish through his model of “a new historical science of … terms and categories that repeat obvious and well-worn points. “A critic breaks in,” Webster solemnly intones, “by … schools of literary critics and the Trobriand Islanders studied by Malinowski (p. 15); other occasions when banality …

… social world affords the self its meaningful occasions for coming into consciousness and contour. Or so these … slang for “wish to buy.” Lack is the fuel of commerce and also its undoing. Lack for the buyer means appetite; for the … my breath. If I remained “flat on my back I believe I would die.” Yet others mimic the subdued adversarial pull of a …

… whole liberal wing of the party on the spot—testing their commitment to change. I was one of about twenty or so people … volunteers who had been missing for months, whose bodies had only recently been discovered. They had last been … over the head or back or shoulders with a wooden club. It’s also terrifying. Then an order came and the clubbing …

… time — they appear futile. Why should anyone whose aim is communication impose upon himself conditions which the … lies in wait for everyone who undertakes, whether in morals or art, to follow the cult of perfection: sterility. The … the quays, even in the common ditch of the dead who have died poor. He looked for poetry there, and before the mirror …

… accepted its social and economic philosophy from its sister commonwealths in Dixie. Two facts combine to make Alabama the best place to view the march of … of long-leaf pine which may be utilized for lumber and also for making naval stores; the central portion, with …