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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 1 Shadow puppet screen in Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015).
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 161–180.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the Circassian hero in Mikhail Lermontov’s poem “Beglets” (“The Deserter”) and the Adygea writer Sultan Kazy-Girei’s short story “Dolina Azhitugai” (The Azhitugai Valley). I illustrate how Kazy-Girei’s story places itself in dialogue with the Russian Orientalist trope of the Circassian hero embodied...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 227–239.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Andrew Koppelman Antonin Scalia’s coauthored treatise on legal interpretation is also a melodrama, with sharply drawn good guys and bad guys. The hero is the Faithful and Impartial Judge, the servant of Democracy. The argument is weak and inconsistent with Scalia’s actual practice as a judge...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 203–218.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., considering Gass’s previous novel, The Tunnel , a masterpiece of misanthropy, the protagonist recounts his past and its effects on his present, providing along the way considerable, albeit satiric, laughter for the reader and for our hero himself. This relationship of apparent revocation of all of Gass’s past...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 179–200.
Published: 01 February 2010
... as functional elements of their craft. With this change a new scholarly myth begins to emerge, giving us a new scholar-hero: a sophist with close ties to the world of poetry and poetics. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 This essay was meant to be included in “American Poetry After 1975,” a special...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (2): 121–137.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Dai Jinhua; Lennet Daigle The logic behind the fluctuating fortunes of Chinese intellectuals in the early PRC—from hero to scapegoat, prisoner to honored guest—is clarified by examining both the representations of intellectuals in literary and cinematic fictions of the period, and the writing...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Jesse Rosenthal Action is traditionally the point at which formal and ethical readings of fiction intersect. To act is to be “heroic,” at once in the formal sense of being a main character and in the ethical sense of being a hero. This essay argues, though, that this formal-ethical emphasis...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 40–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... The era of national
liberation movements has given us heroes; but after liberation, without
experience and practice of freedom, the postcolonial polity sank back
into situations which provoked Assia Djebar to cry out in Algerian Whites,
“O Frantz, the wretched of the earth again now in the context...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 221–249.
Published: 01 August 2016
... propaganda, the posters promote the figure of the Mus-
lim communist as an avant-garde hero, uniting all countries through a uni-
versally understandable community of words, images, and ethical principles.
The subject of heroism, which played a major role in nineteenth-
57. For a discussion...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 117–127.
Published: 01 May 2006
... values in China today, let us
examine the popular movie Ying xiong (Hero, 2003), directed by the well-
known Chinese director Zhang Yimou. The story takes place in the last
years of the Warring States Period (475–221 BC) in Chinese history. The
movie is not a kind of nostalgia about the past...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Figure 1 Shadow puppet screen in Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015). ...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 137–163.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., favored by the May Fourth writers as a more modern form of fiction, lack the temporal and spatial capacity for delineating the step-by-step growth of their young heroes. According to Franco Moretti ( 1987 ), the narrative schema of the classical European bildungsroman is intimately linked...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 223–238.
Published: 01 August 2008
... placed in the same league with
Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, two foremost directors from China whose
recent films of the martial arts genre can be regarded as direct responses
to the success of Crouching Tiger. While Zhang’s Hero received special-
feature notice in Time and other American...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 159–176.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., stand the demonstrators.
The next scene takes place at home and shows the young hero, Ram, his
friends, Sheela and Vinod, and Ram’s mother. On the wall, in the back-
ground, hangs a framed photograph of Ram’s father, whom the spectator
recognizes as one of the officials overseeing the shooting...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 53–55.
Published: 01 May 2001
... it in.
Another cool acquaintance.
The first part of the poem, ‘‘To the Coffee Shop rehearses the poet’s
reflections on the statue of Cuchulain with the Irish harpy on his shoulder
in the figure of the crow or raven. The ancient hero is in defeat, ‘‘sagging
half covered off his upright, / looking down...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 177–184.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in objects falling under the saturnine gaze of the hero, objects that no longer serve their intended purpose. They can also be found in the author s pre- occupation with material surfaces, revealing the flip side of things (the title of Tripp s first catalog), or their metaphysical underside. The objects...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 135–151.
Published: 01 May 2015
... point of reference for a range
of debates about the state; freedom; gender; citizenship, public and pri-
vate; burial; desire; kinship; pluralism; and much else. The effect in recent
years has been something of a din around Sophocles’s singular hero. The
decision to write a book about Antigone...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 165–168.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in a world where so many authorities have collapsed? Sebald reestablished a trust in prose. In a world without heroes, it is difficult for us to accept the figure of the author- hero who creates worlds in his own mind. Sebald won our trust by begin- ning with the nonfictional, with himself and his biography...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 203–234.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive
Introduction
What would it mean to read Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
in literal observance of Thomas de Quincey’s declaration, ‘‘Not the opium-
eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale; and the legitimate center...
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