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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 99–116.
Published: 01 August 2022
....” 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...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 145–156.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Dennis Tenen The Infinite Monkey Theorem (IMT) is a familiar trope (involving monkeys and typewriters), meant to explore the limits of randomly generated composition. In this essay, I draw a brief genealogy of the trope in philosophy and in fiction, discuss its relevance to several major...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 161–180.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the Circassian hero in Mikhail Lermontov’s poem “Beglets” (“The Deserter”) and the Adygea writer Sultan Kazy-Girei’s short story “Dolina Azhitugai” (The Azhitugai Valley). I illustrate how Kazy-Girei’s story places itself in dialogue with the Russian Orientalist trope of the Circassian hero embodied...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 189–206.
Published: 01 May 2011
...—the links between morality and reason; the commonplace that associates lifestyle with queer acts and persons; and the conflation of character with identity—discloses both the problems of this discourse and the truths it exposes. Starting with a discussion of an important episode become trope in Kant's...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 February 2010
... as a trope for stability, sincerity, and competence while in full flight from the supposed poststructuralist evils of undecidability, authenticity, and performance. However, this aspiration for a guaranteed and individuated meaning comes at a price, which is that of refusing to comprehend deconstructive...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 145–169.
Published: 01 August 2023
... biblical “sources” for the Qurʾan because the field originated in a methodology that was fundamentally polemical rather than exegetical. This essay proposes models from within the Christian and Muslim traditions that can pave the way toward a break from Biblicist tropes toward an interfaith understanding...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the humanizing rhetoric and lyrical modes of conventional African American poetry, these poets use the trope of the objectified Black body to deconstruct linguistic processes of racial reification from within. [email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 race objectification...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 45–59.
Published: 01 August 2018
... climaxes around affective affinities across the Strait, first in tropes of embracing an imaginary homeland, of longing to be united; then, in the figure of “Mainland sisters” ( dalumei ) or “little Mistress No. 3” ( xiaosan ) as erotic (albeit illicit and manipulative) objects for nonreproductive...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
... 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...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 125–149.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Bradley J. Fest This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite...
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The Enigma of Arrival; Or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting ?
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 169–189.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of approaching Ellison’s posthumously published novel that takes seriously Ellison’s move away from the tropes and figures of race that concerned him in his previous work. I argue that Ellison’s novel speaks directly to our contemporary moment and what he already saw in 1982: the “potent and dangerous force...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (1): 67–87.
Published: 01 February 2003
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course. If a language could be developed in which ambiguity were banished
from the beginning, however, this ‘‘logic of words like the corresponding
rhetoric of tropes, would prove redundant. And nothing is more important...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 129–157.
Published: 01 May 2006
...-representation. Interestingly,
diaspora is composed of dia through ‘‘throughout and spora spores
‘‘sperm a notion with a strong connection with this conceit.12 Contrary to
its connotation of ungroundedness, however, the winged seed as a trope
turns out to be deeply grounded in Asian history. He has taken...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 205–214.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... And theophany, appearance of a god, is epiphany, manifestation. These are Greek words, ἐπιϕάνɛια. Theophany is epiphany, a trope. An epiphany is just a trope. You know, there's that word trope , a poetic turn of phrase, a metaphor, a trope. The dictionary, I went to it this morning, this is the dictionary...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 79–89.
Published: 01 August 2010
... system of tropes and figures.2 The authors devised
objective paradigms that left little room for social, psychological, or cultural
elaboration. In other words, philological and/or theoretical practices of a
text must remain somewhat open-ended in order to profit the academic
community...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 137–164.
Published: 01 February 2023
... no longer be analyzed in metaphorical terms of media ecosystems alone. The January 6 storming of the US Capitol—a hitherto commonplace political metaphor now symbolically freighted with the QAnon anticipation of an apocalyptic “storm”—vividly demonstrated the dizzying speed at which catastrophist tropes...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 2004
... Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, the mythic origins of this trope
are explored in the story of Conloch, who is murdered by his father, Cú
Chullainn; and James Clarence Mangan’s translation The Twenty-Fourth of
February brings out the gothic possibilities in the story of a prodigal son
who returns...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 105–131.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in the geographical trope informing that frontier
discourse: that is, as a polyvalent imperial practice enabled and justified by
the ‘‘theorization’’ of American space, which is to say, the ‘‘overseeing’’ civi-
lizing project—fully developed in and by the Enlightenment’s invention of the
panoptic classificatory...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 133–155.
Published: 01 August 2001
... the ephemeral state of
mortality but also, by way of its panoptic allotrope, to facilitate a dominant culture’s domi-
nation of the ‘‘other Not too far behind the atoll/pyramid trope, as I am suggesting by way
of invoking the metaphor of the microcosm, is the trope of the map.
6. As I have pointed out...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 125–153.
Published: 01 May 2011
... observations
in Euro-American inquiry about the heteronomy of language.
This is why one of Lu Xun’s best-known tropes, the “iron house,”
evokes Chinese selfhood as a product of the Chinese language itself.5
The trope conjures up a vivid image of wenyan as a language walled...
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