The Possessed: Dostoevsky’s Conscientious Monarchy

By ribosome possessed.

“Listen, howwould you like to come on tourwithmynewband?” BennyWilson asked me in the summer of 1965 duringmy final year of graduate school. A few days later, I received a letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the news that I had been awarded a three-year fellowship to do postdoctoral research at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge....

Possessed properties in Ulwa

This paper explores an understudied and poorly understood phenomenon of morphological syncretism in which a morpheme otherwise used to mark the head of a possessive NP appears on words naming property concept (PC) states (states named by adjectives in languages with that lexical category; Dixon, Where have all the adjectives gone? And other essays in Semantics and Syntax, 1982) in predicative a...

Birth of 'A Child Possessed'

The germ of a novel arrives, I believe, in one moment of intense experience: when you catch an exchange of glances between a coloured girl and an old fiddler sitting opposite you in the Underground, when you hear from the dining-room of a back-street boarding house the lowing of a ship's siren. With me, the moment is generally lost even before the work begins. To the question, 'What gave you th...

Salem possessed. The social origins of witchcraft

PAUL BOYER and STEPHEN NISSENBAUM, Salem possessed. The social origins of witchcraft, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxi, 231, illus., $10.00. Reviewed by Edwin Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW] 2BP. Of all the outbreaks of witchcraft in the seventeenth century, that at Salem Village, Massachusetts, in...

Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain