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... play: namely, the importance that the producers of sixiang place on imparting a tone of conviction and purpose to the presentation of their arguments. To draw attention to the difference between Chinese certitude and European self-reflexivity as styles of rhetorical persuasion, I include a contrastive...

... of the Play- Element in Culture . Boston : Beacon Press . Khan Azeen . Forthcoming . “ The Subaltern Clinic .” boundary 2 . Kiang Jessica . 2015 . “ Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer Talks ‘The Act of Killing,’ How Werner Herzog Works and the Scene That Gave Him Nightmares .” IndieWire...

... well-heeled and well-educated (indeed, Ivy League) elite.4 Yet it was also modernism that was behind the “creative adaptation,” or whatever it is called, and that exposed the “play” in the translator’s machine. What is more, as a subgenre of twentieth-century art, playful translation...

.... Jagoda / Gamification and Other Forms of Play 143 Play without Gamification In his society of the spectacle, Debord already witnessed “the never- ending succession of paltry contests—from competitive sports to elec- tions—that are utterly incapable of arousing any truly playful...

..., Benjamin wrote a review essay entitled “Toys and Play,” in which he considers the repetitive aspect of children’s playful engagements. The essay claims that children’s play is a crucial topic that has effectively fallen by the wayside. It also insists that children’s play instances a mode...

... to which he plays a central role. His ideas and even his temperament seem to guide her profound praise for “the men who made the American Revolution” alongside her shock centered around Robespierre but mingled with her discussion of Rousseau and the French Revolution. This connection between Burke...

... the virtue of this inversion of racist signs. Some, like Melani McAlister ( 2005 : 108), interpret the play as a straightforward transmission of the Nation of Islam's theology, evidence of its influence on the Black Arts Movement as a whole, with a “decidedly un playful” “mix of references . . . designed...

...Ben Parker Abstract In her new book on the function of cynicism, Helen Small defines a positive role that cynicism can play in the liberal articulation of the very ideals and norms that cynicism affronts. She provides this “strategic cynicism” with a nineteenth‐century lineage including Friedrich...

... both of New Criticism at its start and of the theory movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and noting the crucial role played by Allen Tate and the Sewanee Review . Unfashionable independence, fidelity to personal fascination, and unremitting effort all play a role in scholarly accomplishment. Copyright ©...

... of (slow) reading bound to the spirit of experiment and linguistic play. Versed in the conventions and operations of literature in order to do it justice, philology nevertheless speaks in another voice, one more ascetic and conjectural. Having broken with the positivism of the Alexandrian tradition...

... subjects and objects in time. The essay shows how the things in Suzan-Lori Parks’s play The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and Kara Walker’s cutout Middle Passages reorient subjects in time. Demonstrating a relationship between history, as a temporal category, and notions...

...Dawn Lundy Martin This dossier on race and innovation collects a diverse group of poets who engage the following questions in their work: Is there perhaps something about innovation or experimentation that gives race a new name, a new dimension? Is there room for black-hand sides, coon play, other...

... that challenges to the literate apparatus from new media are also challenges to the scholarly apparatus and its inbuilt antipathy for rhetoric and poetics. In what amounts to a reversal of the inaugural gesture of the very first academy, scholars are rediscovering the value of rhetorical and poetic play...

... poems' complicated play with temporality interacts with his rapid canonization. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Book Reviewed: John Ashbery, Collected Poems, 1956–1987 , ed. Mark Ford (Library of America, No. 187) (New York: Library of America, 2008). Hereafter, this work is cited...

... or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize egalitarian militancy, or what Badiou would call fidelity to a truth-procedure? The article combines an account of this little...

... counterculture. Consequently, he professed a Dionysian outlook on the body politic as a single and singular corporeality, and pledged allegiance to the rhetorical principle of paronomasia—a play on words that sound alike but have different meanings. In his final works Brown came to repeatedly affirm...

..., or transubstantiation.” “Transubstantiate my form, says Daphne [as muse to Apollo, archetypal Greco-Roman poet].” In this essay, Brown will play Daphne provoking and inspiring in figures like Apollo what he terms as the “be leafing” (believing) patterns in a world-transforming visionary poet like Bob Dylan...

... tension. Under the explicit guidance of John Borthwick Gilchrist, the Hindi vernacular was shaped through linguistic pogroms. At the same time, Lallu Jee Lal’s training in Braj Bhāsa, as well as his intimate knowledge of the long history of Braj-Sanskrit and Braj-Urdu interactions, came into play...

... work, especially the best of it, is sounded. We are thus left with the question: Is this new novel the biggest fake of all? In this way, reading such a novel puts its would-be critic in the position of either spoiling the joke or playing along with it. Is this revolting development not fundamentally...