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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 61–83.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Stuart Burrows This essay proposes that W. G. Sebald’s distinctive contribution to the global novel is his reordering of the space of representation. This reordering is both literal and metaphorical. It is literal, in the sense that Sebald sets his work within actual spaces: the pages upon which...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
...) and a somehow naïve optimism regarding the capacity of literary texts to refer to an outside world as it is implicitly carried and sometimes professed by “cultural studies.” In this situation, the concept of Stimmung (most frequently illustrated by metaphors of being wrapped into, say, weather, or the sound...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 69–77.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of interpretation. In contrast, the Qur'an itself and the other various apparatuses of Islamic interpretation ( hadith , et cetera) explicitly acknowledge their own use of metaphor and figurative speech. This essay will argue that the meanings attributable to Qur'anic passages are a product of interpretation...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 113–144.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Patrick Jagoda Throughout the developed world, in which digital media have achieved a ubiquitous status for many people, games have become an exemplary cultural form that serves as a prominent metaphor of everyday competition and success. This essay explores gamification —a term that derives from...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (1): 135–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
... at the “liberal consensus,” held to be dominating the ideological frameworks of these countries in the 1990s. Offering the metaphor of Kulturkampf as a heuristic model to interpret the interplay between political claims and the battle for hegemony in the public sphere, it revisits some of the central...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (1): 133–156.
Published: 01 February 2019
... touches on so many different parts of the digital world, from the metaphors and rhetoric that structure our thinking about computers to the specific functions of various technologies. In addition, Mirowski’s deep analysis of political economy is directly relevant to the study of the digital. This essay...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Kenneth Gross The essay describes Angus Fletcher’s ambitious, often uncanny ways of mapping the nature of literary form and literary knowing. The essay describes how Fletcher himself describes our crucial metaphors of order and disorder, our “cosmic” (sometimes cosmetic) images, how he explores...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 161–176.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Yiannis Papatheodorou Cavafy's barbarians constitute a peculiar metaphor for the (self-)censoring process of revealing and hiding the voices of Others in the colonial order of the archive. The theme recurs in three of his works—an “unwritten” poem, a “hidden” poem, and a poem included in the canon...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 29–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was and remained an absolute for him, without this, however, having led to a retro-assimilation within a, or any, religious or theological stance. Using certain core images of Celan's poetry—his doors—and thinking their metaphoricity and polysemanticism through with the help of the painter Irving Petlin's series...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 99–116.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Such metaphoric twists and troping turns of metamorphosis aim to remake the world into fluid, multiple forms of becoming befitting what a flourishing Romantic imagination longs for (via transubstantiation) and what Brown defines (and Dylan performs as) feats of transfigurative metamorphosis : “Metamorphosis...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and walk and sit without filters, without metaphors, and without other preconceived containers for pure experience, we can come to see, with Thoreau, that at the most important level, there is no death. Branka Arsić , Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau ( Cambridge. MA : Harvard University...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 77–97.
Published: 01 August 2022
... organized via metaphorical extensions of brotherhood—as a central, underemphasized, and socially ambiguous aspect of his understanding of politics. The second part discusses Brown's use of figures drawn from ecological or environmental spaces, in particular trees and forests, to outline a notion...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2016
... practice and an important concept-metaphor in Marx's and Lenin's writings. If their writings may all too conveniently be construed as prophecies that lost their historical force in mistranslation (among other misfortunes), we might say that our obligation today is to translate Marx and Lenin more...
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The Poetry of Origins and the Origins of Poetry: Norman O. Brown's Giambattista Vico and James Joyce
boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 119–137.
Published: 01 August 2005
..., or rather anticipated, in Vico’s New
Science. The focal point of this relationship is the precedence of metaphor,
not just as a way of describing the world, and certainly not as a secondary
affectation, but as a primary and directly sensual response to the given. It is
important to quote the whole...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 147–154.
Published: 01 August 2022
... that at its best is simple and material, though also a parabolic coincidence of opposites. As we shall see, thinking by way of poetry will modify the thinker, the way thought moves, and its goal. For NOB that thinking-in-metaphor yielded Love's Body , a modernist masterpiece that uses metaphor to think...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 133–155.
Published: 01 August 2001
... in my first installment, lines, not incidentally, that conflate
the metaphorics of memorialization and narrative:
As for the rest—now I know this, that in commonest memorials, the
twilight fact of death first discloses in some secret way, all the ambi-
1. Martin Heidegger, ‘‘What...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 287–312.
Published: 01 August 2016
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tics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai (New York: Routledge, 2010), 105–20.
Serin / The Language of Marxism and Language as Such 289
key metaphysical hierarchies, the distinction between body “proper” and
technical supplement. His concept-metaphor “inorganic body...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 221–232.
Published: 01 February 2001
... of
evolution by natural selection to explain issues outside of the realm of the
strictly biological. What is new, however, is the ease with which metaphors
and technical applications of the language of genetics has come to be ac-
cepted. This is more than a resurrection of the traditional ‘‘nature versus...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 85–108.
Published: 01 February 2008
...,”
and “zombie raves” in the news. The ubiquity of the metaphor suggests
the zombie’s continued cultural currency, and we will investigate why this
specter has captured the American imagination for over a century. We want
to take a deeper look at the zombie in order to suggest its usefulness as an
ontic...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 137–164.
Published: 01 February 2023
... in Christchurch, El Paso, and Buffalo alike at least as much as their shared dreams of a white-supremacist retro-utopia continues to be treated as a supplemental metaphor at best to the overwhelming histrionics of demographic panic. Worth noting, then, is the fact that equally extensive portions...
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