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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 165–215.
Published: 01 August 2011
... scientific explorations of “knowing” as well as of consciousness and its cosmic metascape. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Biography as Erasure: Louis Armstrong’s Radical Light Jim Merod Armstrong . . . inexhaustible and unchanging...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 29–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
....” Let's look at the last poem in the book that Petlin deals with, the poem called “Einmal,” “Once.” ONCE I did hear him, he did wash the world, unseen, nightlong, real. One and unending, annihilated, I'ed. Light was. Salvation. (Celan 2014 : 107) [email protected]...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 139–168.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Michael Cobb Duke University Press 2005 Cursing Time: Race and Religious Rhetoric in Light in August Michael Cobb Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the uniformity of literature as a conceptual form and the ubiquity of national models of cultural production. Narayan’s fictional world very deftly brings to light a plethora of verbal and textual practices—whether they be the calligraphy of the signboard painter ( The Painter of Signs ) or the discourse...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Yuri Andrukhovych In this excerpt from the novel Twelve Circles , photographer Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen takes leave of his earthly body and experiences an unexpected lightness of being. It is just before dawn on Easter Sunday, but he does not turn toward the resurrection of the rising sun; he sets...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Richard Purcell In “Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star?” Richard Purcell looks back on Adam Bradley's Ralph Ellison in Progress: From “Invisible Man” to “Three Days before the Shooting” in light of Edward Snowden's revelations that the White House and the National Security Agency have been...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 179–194.
Published: 01 February 2015
... the implications of such a politics for a renewed concept of the polis, understood in light of what Spanos terms a “coming global polity.” © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 a-filiation agonism friendship Hannah Arendt Edward Said Toward a Politics of A-­filiation...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Sarah Bagley This essay reviews Jacqueline Rose’s Proust among the Nations and Christopher Prendergast’s Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic in light of the political implications of their readings of In Search of Lost Time . Rose skillfully investigates explicit references to anti-Semitism...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 171–184.
Published: 01 August 2015
.... As such, the critical reception of women's photography sheds light on the predicament of feminist art in a context in which it is primarily women who are called on to reconnect the social relationships that came undone as growing economic volatility pushed social reproduction into a relentless crisis. © 2015 by Duke...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 165–195.
Published: 01 August 2017
... sufficient to assess the state of American poetry, but historical research reveals an unsuspected and uncharted world. It would behoove those who take historicism seriously to reinvestigate the lost terrain of book-length poems, regional authors, so-called light verse, as well as mainstream figures whose...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 91–126.
Published: 01 February 2010
...). A “global-regional” curatorial framework, as opposed to the “international-regional” framework of 1979–1980, stood for that attempt to think of the potentialities of a critical modernity in the light of a more economically integrated regionalism. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 This essay...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Jonathan Arac Abstract In light of Oxford University Press issuing two volumes in The Critical Works of William Empson ( Some Versions of Pastoral [1935] and The Structure of Complex Words [1951]), this essay thinks over Empson's career and major works to consider what his value may be nearly...
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boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 February 2025
... views of the latter in East Asia from the context of literary postcolonial theory, while Carlos Rojas and Lisa Rofel's volume surveyed the interdisciplinary landscape of China's globalist political economy, perhaps in light of recent history. Despite the mutual thematic overlap, each work interprets...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 239–265.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of “light,” which are the hypomnemata , or inscriptions, themselves. The progressivist and utopist styles, and weak messianism, which defined twentieth-century critical projects, themselves fueled the ecocidal trajectory. Any future war over inscriptions, the last perimeters of which bots now probe...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (1): 157–177.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Bruce Robbins Jussi Adler-Olsen’s novel The Keeper of Lost Causes is organized around accidents, which inflect both the motive for the crime and its eventual punishment. This essay speculates that accident, which refuses the pertinence of responsibility, throws new light on the much-discussed...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 February 2020
... as cinematic documentaries about the Nazi murder of European Jews by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Jean-Luc Godard. By focusing on contemporary Terezín, Blaufuks also brings to light aspects of memorialization within post-totalitarian societies investigated by filmmakers Petra Epperlein and Chantal...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 185–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... with Freudian psychoanalysis and Roland Barthes’s theory on photography, the author demonstrates how the process of retrieving memories and recovering from trauma can be achieved through “bricolage.” In doing so, this essay sheds light on the unique narratology conveyed through Sebald’s quasi-realistic lens...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Susan H. Gillespie Translation, by highlighting the incommensurability of human language, sheds light on essential philosophical insights into the limited, historically and socially embedded nature of meaning while simultaneously offering theoretical and practical tools for overcoming differences...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Aamir R. Mufti C. P. Cavafy was a writer of the British Empire whose situation resembles that of other colonial writers and should be examined in that context, as well as in the light of the contradictory logic of Orientalism-Anglicism. In the modern West's interest in the late Hellenistic era...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 215–230.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Ian Probstein Abstract The essay explores the work of Charles Bernstein in light of constant renewal. John Ashbery, as one of the brightest representatives of the New York School, and Charles Bernstein, as a representative of the language (L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E), have similar attitudes...