This view is most
persuasively illustrated by analysis of the problematic Elegy VII.
Chapters 4 through 8 comprise the substantive core of the book: In them, Lenoir
persuasively demonstrates that the development of specific aspects of nineteenth and early twentieth century German physiology, medicine, optics, and organic chemistry can be comprehended only by understanding the political, cultural, economic, ideological, and even artistic contexts of their creation.
Huyssen situates (in a manner I am tempted to call properly dialectical) Kiefer's massive broodings in the "unbearable tension between the terror of German history and the intense longing to get beyond it with the help of myth," and defends the artist,
persuasively, against accusations that he denies real history and produces work that is too beautiful.
First, he
persuasively links the excesses of modern government to the mentality of lawyers.
Elizabeth Heale draws on recent scholarship of manuscript and print cultures to argue
persuasively that authored miscellanies of the mid-sixteenth century "constructed a new kind of autobiog raphical voice, telling a new and significantly different narrative of social aspiration and threatening failure" (66).
While primarily examining white legal culture and the roots of postbellum white mob law, the author also explores black southerners' political aspirations and factionalism and examines (though less
persuasively) their use of the law as a way to unveil their world-view.
Coplans and Irwin of course viewed this as quite mad and gently if
persuasively dissuaded Leider: no advertising, no magazine
The author
persuasively dismisses solutions popular with public officials and economic-development specialists.
Woolgar
persuasively argues that to understand that complexity one must master the details of its daily functions.
In an introduction devoted to delineating the demography of the seaports, which she
persuasively asserts exercised an influence beyond their numbers in shaping colonial developments, Crane recounts the effects of war, disease, and other forces on the creation of female majorities.
While we may feel reassured by the artist's interest in critical self-reflection, we may not be convinced this psycho-social narrative is
persuasively articulated in the work.
At th >;e national level, the Democrats haven't yet found the voice that will allow them
persuasively to champion environmental values, and the Monthly hasn't been much help.
