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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 213–221.
Published: 01 August 2008
... in which texts can evoke a material impression (the “lightest” possible material impression, however) through effects of prosody. “Reading for the ` Stimmung '” can connect us with unusual immediacy to the Stimmung of a past historical period and a different cultural environment. “Reading...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 93–132.
Published: 01 May 2023
...—biographical fiction—seemingly plausible at times. Furthermore, numerous scholarly shortcomings and egregious misreadings and misrepresentations of W. E. B. Du Bois add to the book's failings. After reading twenty‐eight of Stewart's forty‐four chapters and “Epilogue,” this writer refused to suffer Stewart's...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 31–60.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Valerio Amoretti Abstract This essay argues that reading involves a form of unconscious psychic work that has the potential to deeply affect and transform the reader. Recent discussions about the practice of reading shunned psychoanalysis because of its alleged reliance on a suspicious epistemology...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 69–95.
Published: 01 May 2024
... . Hardin Garrett . (1974) 2012 . “ Lifeboat Ethics .” In Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application , 6th ed., edited by Pojman Louis P. and Pojman Paul , 296 – 305 . Boston : Wadsworth . Hartmann Betsy . 2010 . “ Rethinking Climate Refugees and Climate...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 31–63.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and impermanence and refuses essentialisms. The essay begins by drawing from Baraka's essays on theater the claim that the work, or action, of revolutionary art is to set into motion a doubling, to produce oppositions that remain unsettled. Next is an extended reading of Baraka's play A Black Mass , first staged...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 255–278.
Published: 01 November 2021
... was in—he's a literature professor, but nowadays you can never be sure; for all I knew, he could be moonlighting. And that's just the rub: you can never be sure when you read Bernstein. And if surety is what you're looking for, I suggest you give your insurance agent a call. Surety bond, I heard, was quite...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 123–149.
Published: 01 August 2010
... that wherever it is practiced and read the hegemonic dynamics of bourgeoisie formation are necessarily prevalent. Pamuk's answer to this is famously “no,” so that when he characterizes his work as westernizing but not Western he is suggesting that the historical planet-wide distribution of liberal...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 167–177.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Gina M. MacKenzie; Daniel T. O'Hara We read comparatively two acts of self-revision, James's transformation of his 1896 novel The Other House (based on an 1893 dramatic scenario) into a 1909 play and Hitchcock's two film versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956). Based on Lacanian...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s “The Future of Reading? Memories and Thoughts Toward a Genealogical Approach” asks a fundamental question: How does the younger generation of students and readers approach a text, and in which ways does their constant reading via one online device...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2017
... seen the reemergence of authoritarian politics in the United States. The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump Peter E. Gordon Just a few months ago, in mid-­January, 2016, the online maga- zine...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 101–138.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Hannah . 1972 . Crises of the Republic . New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . Burton Antoinette . 2011 . Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Calloway Colin . 1995 . American Revolution in Indian...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 February 2003
...T. J. Clark T. J. Clark 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 35 of 224 6808 boundar Should Benjamin Have Read Marx? T. J. Clark First, apologies for my title...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 169–189.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Richard Purcell “The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting ?” is a review essay that looks at the context in which we as readers have come to receive Ellison’s posthumously published novel. It is also a provocation that suggests a way...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Ben Lerner It is a commonplace that John Ashbery's poetry is, in some important sense, “about time,” but we lack an account of the specific experience of temporality it enables. Part of the bizarre power of Ashbery's best poetry is that it seems to narrate what it is like to read Ashbery's best...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... In this review essay of Badiou's recent collection, The Age of the Poets , I will scrutinize Badiou's readings of literature, and in particular his readings of Wallace Stevens, in order to pose a series of more general, interlinked questions. First, what are the strengths and limitations of recent Continental...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 127–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
... text and offers various methods of reading and citation. Through specific readings of some of the influential authors of nineteenth-century criminology, including Cesare Lombroso, Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, Havelock Ellis, and others, I argue that somapolitics developed in two phases: first...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2020
... and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty , reading off from it middleclass anxieties about the rise of the working-class movement. What does it mean about the novel or about the working-class movement itself that so many working-class characters are killed off by their aspiration to culture or are presented as murderers...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 25–61.
Published: 01 November 2020
... explicitly for Chinese nationals and yet goes on to engage the sensibility of readers from a Western historical and ideological context. This essay critically identifies certain acts of reading Wolf Totem and looks at the way these selected readings, all allegorical in their approach, step across...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 97–103.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jonathan Skinner For William Carlos Williams, poetry was a war machine, a “small (or large) machine made of words.” If the war is a human war on other species, do poetry machines become poetry animals? Can we read Christopher Dewdney's “Permugenesis,” Marianne Moore's “An Octopus,” or Francis...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
... they turned the world upside down, making possible, even imperative to some, the overthrow of monarchs; the circumnavigation of a globe, the roundness of which had not been until then fully grasped; closer inspection of the heavens; and the reading of the text of the Bible and other key documents...