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..., time and again but always singularly. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Marxism Althusser linguistic revolution Hikmet Kıvılcımlı Kemalism The Use-­Value of Idioms: The Language of Marxism and Language...

...Leah Feldman Two types of translation dominated the social sphere of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war at the beginning of the twentieth century: the translation of diverse languages in the multilingual empire and a Marxist-Leninist linguistic turn that emphasized the role of dialectical...

...Nergis Ertürk This essay traces the legacy of the 1926 Baku Turcological Congress for postcolonial studies and comparative literary criticism. An assembly of 131 delegates, including such prominent figures as the Crimean Tatar Turcologist Bekir Sıdkı Çobanzade, the Kazak revolutionary, linguist...

.... It consigns to prehistory the philological revolutions of the Indo- Islamic millennium. Premsagar is at the heart of the disciplining of the other linguistic cartography in the eighteenth century in which Indo-Persian, Perso- Arabic, and Turkic linguistic traces of peoples’ histories underwent...

... the early novelists experienced the “communi- cations revolution” of the period as an uncanny linguistic liberation.24 “Lib- eration,” here, might best be understood not in terms of the historical dis- semination of the French Enlightenment political concepts of freedom and equality, but rather...

... words available to name it) was the appari- tional linguistic presence that impeded translation of modern truth.33 Con- sequently, twice in his short life Qu Qiubai felt compelled to agitate for a literary translation revolution. In the early 1920s, he had participated in the literary language...

... of resistance or nationalist anti‐eurocentrism. Though their work is little known except to scholars in Slavic Studies, in the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 Soviet Orientologists laid the foundations for the critique of Western Orientalism that would be introduced to the West many years later...

... modernity. Eurasianism has always been global in scope—from its animation of émigré circles during the revolution, to an anticolonial internationalist spin at mid-century, to its drawing of connections across Hungarian and US New Right movements in the first two decades of the twenty-first century despite...

... I propose to approach the theme of the literature of the Cuban dias- pora from the perspective of a literary critic committed to the cultural project of the Revolution. I will do so by means of a glossary that, starting...

... revolution and the emergence of world literature, and situates a number of studies in the dossier as concerned with this link. Finally, it presents Erich Auerbach and Edward Said as contributors to a potential radicalization of the philology of world literature, replacing its organicist-nationalist...

... into an advocate for radi- cal linguistic and literary revolution? This essay has already provided sev- eral clues. First, both archaic prose and the vernacular saw classical Chi- nese and the system in which it was embedded as the opposition. Second, both those who advocated archaic prose and those...

... and unemployable to the bottom of the social and economic pyramid, and perpetual warfare on national and global fronts. Antonio Gramsci's analysis of “passive revolution” seems cogent for this moment, particularly for the ways media and other cultural forms play a significant role in mobilizing or disorganizing...

... paradigm, the significance of which had yet to be fully compre- hended and recognized at the time of its publication. Despite its linguistic archaism, this essay bears some of the features of modern critical writing as we know it. Although we are not concerned here with his readings of the novel, some...

... ­wolfgangfritzhaug.inkrit.de. Ruth Y. Y. Hung is assistant professor of comparative literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. Hung has published on the Chinese critical intellectual Hu Feng and on the genre of Chinese memoir writing in Eng­lish since the Cultural Revolution. Cur- rently, she is completing two books...

... of ordering knowledge or understanding, the new paradigm represented by the linguistic turn sug- gests most prominently a disordering, or even the impossibility, of historical knowledge. This is the way White’s ‘‘revolution’’ in historiography appears to Iggers, another distinguished historiographer. What...

... is not a separate line but an organic part of the narrative. Throughout, Grafton and Bell's writing is as clear as a textbook requires, without sacrificing the subjective voice that evades the bland illusion of omniscience. Grafton and Bell manage to be cosmopolitan, crossing any number of linguistic and other...

... credentialization—on the basis of greater or lesser conformity with proceduralist hegemony legislated as universal good manners—is destined to fail, as it draws boundaries around character attributes that function as substitutes for language itself, spawn- ing the multiple problems of theoretical, linguistic...

... in Miglena Nikolchina, Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions: Heterotopias of the Seminar (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), in the chapter “Аn Unfinished Project: Man as Comedy,” 88–108, which also deals with Mamardash- vili’s views on the human. See also my “The Concave Mirror: Notes...

... linguistics before Chomsky, even during Leonard Bloomfield s generation. Chomsky did not set out to dismantle it, yet a diminishment of the importance of field work is very much one of the effects the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics had, especially in its first decades (Harris 1995). However, in part...

... other Western European economies were dramatically transformed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the first and second industrial revolutions, most of Ireland remained non- industrialized, and its economy continued to be, until very recently, unusu- ally dependent for a Western...