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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 139–176.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Joe Cleary Though canons and faculty have greatly diversified in recent decades, English departments around the world fundamentally prioritize English and American literatures. To this extent, they resemble the Anglo-American imperial commonwealths that some toward the end of the nineteenth century...
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 45–72.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Richard Rambuss Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 53 of 227
Spenser and Milton at Mardi Gras: English Literature, American
Cultural Capital, and the Reformation of New Orleans Carnival...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 159–182.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Juliana Spahr At a certain moment, a moment that extends from the late '80s to the turn of the twenty-first century, something interesting happens within literature in English: some of the more provocative literatures in English from various literary schools and various national traditions...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 73–97.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Christian Thorne Eighteenth-century English poetry, epic in technique and idiom even when not epic in scale, has some unusual ways of telling stories on a multicontinental scale—stories, that is, that are not confined to localities nor even to nations. This is a feat that novels struggle...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
... systematically fails to translate non-English works into English, I argue that critiques of the whole literary field, based on the close reading of individual texts, overlook the systemic and institutional grounds of American unworldliness. David Foster Wallace’s 2004 novella, “The Suffering Channel,” offers...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2014
... or another, as a ubiquitous electronic background activity, change their experience of interacting with the printed word? Gumbrecht bases his observations on two seminars that he taught in Santiago de Chile in 2013, in which Stanford undergraduates were reading fiction and nonfiction texts in both English...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 57–81.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to the “medieval” works to keep its readers in conflicted contact with the Eurocentrism, global flows of capital, dominance of English, and politics of time that cannot be escaped merely through critique or shifts in representation. [email protected] Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 79–82.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Charles Bernstein Abstract In 2018, Mexican poet Alí Calderón interviewed Charles Bernstein for his influential web magazine Círculo de poesía . The interview is published here in English for the first time. Bernstein addresses the poetics of “hybridity” and the possibilities for poetic disruption...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a century after his first book, with special attention to problems that Empson's Englishness may pose to readers in the United States. [email protected] Copyright ©2024 by Duke University Press 2024 T. S. Eliot William Empson I. A. Richards Raymond Williams When Oxford University...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 75–96.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of Joris's translation project lies in its rare ability to hold and behold in English the mutilated music of Celan's umfarshtandlekh (incomprehensible) poetics, itself a form of German reimagined through a post‐Holocaust expanded Yiddish. References Arendt Hannah . 1994 . “ The Image of Hell...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 91–94.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Pierre Joris Abstract This text was written in French as a preface to Charles Bernstein's Pour ainsi dire ( So to Speak ), a selection of his work translated by Habib Tengour (Algiers, Algeria: Apic Éditions, 2019). Translating it (back?) into English is problematic, as the author does as he claims...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 117–129.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Austin Carder Abstract Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose (2020) represents the culmination of Pierre Joris's fifty‐year effort of translating the work of Paul Celan into English. The book contains a small library: aphorisms, fiction, dialogues and notes for dramatic works...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 February 2012
... transcribed and will first be published in Arabic, to be followed by French and English translations, with the aim of recording in detail the Revolution of Dignity and Democracy as it was occurring. Pending the publication of this book, which documents the impulses, aspirations, and hopes of the youth...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 83–84.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Charles Bernstein Abstract Li Zhimin, poet and professor at Guangzhou University, asked Charles Bernstein to write the introduction to his anthology of American poetry, which spanned from Dickinson to Stevens, with Bernstein the youngest poet in the collection. Published here in English...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of narrative: the ethical example, and particularly the so-called trolleyology of Philippa Foot, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Bernard Williams. Reading the examples from these thinkers against the tradition of English intuitionism, I ultimately argue that a certain sort of individual in action—a letting things...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jonathan Arac With reference to the author’s experience with English and other languages, this essay reflects on the problem of American monolingualism and explores modes of learned critical attention to the work language does in society, examining writing by Kenneth Burke, Raymond Williams, Erich...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 251–263.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Lindsay Waters In the twentieth century, criticism flourished in the academy in the English language from the 1930s to the 1960s, but gradually a hyperprofessionalized discourse purporting to be criticism took its place. The problem was exacerbated because people misunderstand literary theory...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of California Book of North African Literature , volume 4 of Poems for the Millennium ), and the importance of French poet Edmond Jabès. He goes on to address his choice to write in his fourth language, English, and the formative readings of American poetry and his connection to some of the New American Poets...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 1–25.
Published: 01 August 2014
... establishment in modeling a national response to 9/11, and that might have worked against the reification of a unitary terror as the exclusive property of the enemy-other. English novels of the 1790s (Gothic novels) and the 1890s (Marsh, The Beetle ) offer a comparatively flexible language for registering...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 97–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Christine Frank Abstract Pierre Joris is one of the most distinguished translators of the poetry of Paul Celan into English. He is the only person to have translated Celan's complete poetic works and prose over the course of more than fifty years, creating a life's work. His translations, begun...
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