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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 151–167.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Michael Dutton Duke University Press 2005 From Culture Industry to Mao Industry: A Greek Tragedy
Michael Dutton
Essentially, there are two ideal types of politics in this world, one
that intensifies political conviction...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 4. Greek Necropolis, Ralli Family Mortuary Chapel of Saint Stephen, designed by James Thomas Knowles Sr. Photo by Peter Jeffreys.
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Figure 5. Greek Necropolis, Eustratios Ralli Mausoleum, designed by E. M. Barry. Photo by Peter Jeffreys.
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Cavafy's knowledge of Arabic, the essay demonstrates his affinities and solidarities with Egyptians under colonial duress as witnessed in the choice of subject matter and in the intertextual Greek-Egyptian folkloric resonances in his poem “27 June 1906, 2 P.M.” Analyzing how the poem's tropes...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Stathis Gourgouris Derek Walcott’s staged encounter with George Seferis, by explicit invocation, in his poem “From This Far” (1980) is a nearly unprecedented instance of postcolonial confrontation with Greek antiquity, not through the conventional avenues of colonial classicism but through...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 41–57.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Takis Kayalis C. P. Cavafy's position as a British-cultured Greek who lived and wrote in colonial Alexandria has perplexed critics, who often address the poet's commitments either as Anglophile or as anti-imperialist and pro-Arab. Seeking a subtler approach to Cavafy's complex colonial...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 39–62.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the cause of freedom in other countries, as did Byron in aiding the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. Translated and annotated by Jon Eugene von Kowallis © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Translator's notes: I would like to express my gratitude to the Chiang...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (4): 155–167.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Michael P. Steinberg Written at the height of the Greek/German economic standoff of July 2015, this review article finds in Stathis Gourgouris's Lessons in Secular Criticism a powerful critique of some of the legacies of Europe's attachment to Greece as well as a reactivation of some of its...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 153–160.
Published: 01 May 2015
... East: When, where, and by whom was the Bible translated partially or fully into Arabic? Were such translations made from the original Hebrew and Greek, or from the Septuagint or the Syriac versions? Why did Christians, Jews, and Muslims make translations? For what purposes did they use them? How did...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 129–157.
Published: 01 August 2017
... language? Why is Greek indebted to Cavafy? What does Cavafy owe to James Merrill? © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 C. P. Cavafy James Merrill translation poetics References Agamben Giorgio . (1995) 2000 . Means without End . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 73–124.
Published: 01 May 2016
... late in the day, the sublime proves to be an essential way of comprehending Greek and Roman thought and experience at their most exuberant and searching moments, from their earliest beginnings to their final appearances. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Longinus sublime Nicolas Boileau...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 89–121.
Published: 01 May 2021
... new evidence from a little-known diary by the nineteen-year-old Cavafy. It then examines the overlooked context of Alexandria's late Ottoman cosmopolitanism and shows its decisive contribution to the city's modern culture, including Cavafy's own diasporic ethnic group, the Egyptian Greeks. Finally...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 161–176.
Published: 01 May 2021
...—all of which reflect Cavafy's engagement with British colonialism in Egypt. The novelist and critic Stratis Tsirkas, also a Greek who grew up in Egypt, has argued that Cavafy's rising aversion to the British occupation regime developed alongside the shifting ideological lines of the Hellenic diaspora...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 7–27.
Published: 01 August 2012
...E. Khayyat Conducted at Gutenberg University in Mainz on May 13, 2011, this interview documents Friedrich A. Kittler’s last public appearance before he passed away. Kittler speaks about his life’s work, addressing issues ranging from the history of the Greek alphabet to Soviet language politics...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 65–76.
Published: 01 August 2022
...T. C. Marshall Abstract In his late unpublished essay “Dionysus in 1992,” Norman O. Brown arrived at the ancient Greek term “spoudaiogeloion” to express his idea of a “serious laughter” that could respond to dialectical tensions without unbalancing them. Brown had, in 1959, converted Freud's Witz...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 175–176.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns that Brown gave for his “To Greet the Return of the Gods” class of 1970 and 1971. The workbook introduced undergraduates to the Greek alphabet, gave references for lecture material written on the blackboard, and provided a bibliography. Intended as a pedagogical tool, each...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Robert D. Richardson Abstract This review essay offers an enthusiastically positive review of Branka Arsić's Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (2016). Arsić gives us a Thoreau who is a pondside Pythagoras, learned and disciplined, with roots deep in Greek and Ionian and Persian and Hindu...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 5–13.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to the evolution of a Greek myth; Life against Death (1959), his acclaimed psychoanalytic reinterpretation of history; Love's Body (1966), an aphoristic questioning of the rationalist foundations of Western civilization; and Closing Time (1973), in which Brown interjects himself into an imagined conversation...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Figure 4. Greek Necropolis, Ralli Family Mortuary Chapel of Saint Stephen, designed by James Thomas Knowles Sr. Photo by Peter Jeffreys. ...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 127–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
...William V. Spanos © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eis tin Polis: Istanbul, December 1969
William V. Spanos
A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks
recognized, the boundary is that from which...
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