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... in encouraging me to share this work more broadly. Finally, the suggestions made by the anonymous reviewers for boundary 2 have been crucial to my rethinking certain key moments in the essay. A Matter of Light and Shade: Fiction and Criticism in R. K. Narayan’s Malgudi...

... Mifflin . boundary 2 48:1 (2021) DOI 10.1215/01903659-8821413 © 2021 by Duke University Press Language Matters Howard Eiland Words often understand themselves better than do those who use them. Friedrich Schlegel, On Incomprehensibility Our topic is the manifestly commonplace yet highly equivocal...

...Colin Dayan Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters Mandela’s funeral was on December 15, the same day that final votes were cast for the American Studies Association resolution answering “the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott.” That resolution also “sup...

.... It further seeks to assess how the conception, implicit in their book, of the relation of writing and life relates to Benjamin's own understanding of the nature of the craft of biography. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Walter Benjamin biography material content truth content Matters...

...Robert Meister Duke University Press 2005 Anticipatory Regret: Can Free Speech Be Protected When It Matters? Robert Meister 1 When the nation is in peril—or believes itself to be—so are civil lib- erties...

.... Drawing on Karl Marx's and Sigmund Freud's theories of fetishism, but also taking into account Jacques Derrida's generalization of the very concept of fetish, Szendy then suggests that the condition of possibility for musicality in general (or cinematicity, for that matter) is a certain type of striated...

... of the Chinese people. The argument I present is that, no matter how diverse their political goals, state representatives and dissidents share a common intellectual ancestry in the Confucian language of moral exemplarity. A large part of the discussion revolves around the Confucian notion of “cleaving...

... response to Augustine. Like Augustine, Knausgaard explores the care that binds us to others and how the experience of time cuts through every moment. But while Augustine seeks to turn us toward eternity, Knausgaard turns us back toward our finite lives as the heart of everything that matters. The animating...

... why questioning the historical uses and transformations of the word tragedy and the notion of the “tragic” may be important today. Such an effort matters not just for theater critics or historians but also for anyone who wishes to discover the active links between these normative generic concepts...

..., philhellenism and Orientalism become one. Cavafy responds to imperial philhellenism by rejecting its triumphalism and exploring matters of colonial displacement. The emphasis on Hellenistic states in fragmentation displaces the canonical veneration of classical antiquity. Cavafy looks at empire topographically...

... toward language. They have much in common in terms of poetics: in the rejection of loud phrases, prophetic statements, emotions, confessionalism, and certain self-centeredness. Poetry is a private matter for both. Both have poetics built on the “oddness that stays odd,” as Bernstein himself put...

... to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge in our present does postblackness offer us, especially in a postrace era? The answer: both blindness and insight. Through a meditation...

... and Spanish. While he notes that today’s younger readers possess breathtaking agility in identifying the key subject matters and problems of a text, he found their way of interacting with a text “endlessly puzzling.” Against a backdrop of the various methods and theories of reading from the past decades (e.g...

....” Transfiguration for Brown was not merely a figural, intertextual, or rhetorical shift of tropes, as will be elaborated; it also implies more strongly a biomorphic metamorphosis of self and world, soul and matter, bios and logos, via the morphological and linguistic transformation of terms and forms...

... 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...

.... in matters of correspondence, the body is tragically absent. “in matters of correspondence, the body is tragically absent.” “in matters of correspondence, the body is tragically absent...

... of the soul involve a concomitant decorporealization of the concept of the human? In accordance with the subject matter of the discipline in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hegel treats the theory of the soul as integral to anthropology, but he aims to overcome the dualism of approaching human...

.... But what matters now are not the dreams of that stevedore of the sad tropics; what matters is not the headless wandering phantom who tries to take refuge in the doorway of the union...

... again, weightless, light as a feather no matter,  something one saw or one somewhat sensed one saw,                      a  matte light maybe, a diffuseness or a glow, a ghost or  a guise before the fact, ahead of itself. Something seen in a face looked as if dreaming to outlive life...

... don’t think there is any way to absolve oneself—if one wants to claim having any- thing to say on this matter—from complicity with/in the secular. Gourgouris / Why I Am Not a Postsecularist 43 Against this newly achieved comfort, I have been proposing that one...