...Bishnupriya Ghosh Duke University Press 2004 On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcolonial Spectrology Bishnupriya Ghosh The literary icon Amitav Ghosh has lately acquired the status of elder statesman among South...

...Jonathan Arac Duke University Press 2007 Babel and Vernacular in an Empire of Immigrants: Howells and the Languages of American Fiction Jonathan Arac Philological criticism is not just the same as close...

...-important question: What were pre-Orientalist conceptions of the vernacular that Lallu Jee Lal brought to his translation of the Bhagvata Purana in Premsagar ? Pre-Orientalist conceptions of the vernacular often did not denote, in the first and primary sense, a specific language. Poets were concerned...

... for most writing as well as the vernacular—by the end of the nineteenth century. While the turn to the vernacular has generally been seen as the sine qua non of the expansion of popular knowledge in modern China, Wang Hui finds Lu Xun arguing that any abandonment of deeply rooted indigenous linguistic form...

... linguistic nationalism is characterized by the extremity of measures taken for the control of communicability, in the establishment of an impossibly self-same or self-identical identity. Contrary to the claims of ideologues of nationalism, phoneticization and vernacularization are never merely acts...

... , the modern Chinese vernacular, offer important insights into the mission-encumbered language of China's present-day intellectual elite. As the critical exemplar of choice in intellectual China, Lu Xun's evocative formulations, together with his aspiration to transform hearts and minds through baihua , have...

...Michael Fishbein Sidney H. Griffith’s recent book, The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the “People of the Book” in the Language of Islam , discusses how the Bible was translated into Arabic, the language of Islam, but increasingly the vernacular of Jewish and Christian communities in the Middle...

...” to elaborate the transformative energies of what California still stands for as worlding edge-space, as a temporal promise of social transformation and popular-cultural redemption not quite over. In bleaker plot strands, we witness an American vernacular revolution of pop-carnivalesque energies being...

... and constraining. The alternation in Brown's texts between didactic assertion, libertine refrains, and borrowed scraps of obscure patois, embodies the violent oscillation of prophetic language, as Brown conceives it, which veers between elevated and vernacular registers of language. [email protected]...

...Paul A. Bové Abstract Charles Bernstein is a major crossing point for poetry and poetics. His art and discussion of poetry exploit and develop the vernaculars of language as they echo across time and international borders and national languages. Reference Bernstein Charles . 2016...

... . A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . In The Portable James Joyce , edited by Levin Harry . Revise d edition. New York : Viking . Lienau Annette Damayanti , ed. 2018 . “ Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone: An ACLA Forum .” Special issue, Comparative Literature 70 , no. 2...

... erudite contemporaries? The style Lu Xun chose here lies in direct antithesis with the burgeoning calls for the vernacular that had begun in earnest after the Chinese defeat by Japan in 1894–1895, after which, and arguably for the first time, a plurality of intellectuals came...

... from sentences taken from two sources and both are oral histories: Working by Studs Terkel and Yessir, I’ve Been Here a Long Time: Faces and Words of Americans by George Mitchell. I lifted and arranged sentences from these vernacular speech transcriptions and placed them amidst sentences I...

... the formation of what Mufti calls the “supposedly distinct” vernaculars and literary traditions of “Hindi” and “Urdu” from a northern Indian vernacular linguistic complex established as a lingua franca under seventeenth-century­ Mughal rule. Mufti’s account dates the emergence of this “linguistic...

.... In the vernacular, these complex develop- ments in the world of thought and culture have long been collectively dubbed ‘‘postmodernism often in the form of an epithet. Said himself of course was deeply influenced by the European thinkers—Adorno, Foucault, Der- rida, and Auerbach, above all—whose work...

... hierarchy. So, sci-­fi novels and films and graphic novels are modern epic forms, as far as I’m concerned. I think that’s part of its vitality: if it were something that we put on a pedestal, it probably would have died out long ago. It’s only when it becomes part of the vernacular that it has...

... context and the ostensibly representative national vernacular from the North, for when in Mr. Sampath, for instance, Srinivas first encounters the printer Mr. Sampath, Narayan’s narrator makes a point of noting that he “understood little of what [Sampath] had been saying because he spoke in Hindi...

... incomprehensible to con- temporary vernacular speakers; and divinatory, philosophic, and religious ritual manuals. The state and its national and regional social elites sus- tained political dynasties of unusual duration because the examination sys- tem reauthorized these changing orthodoxies every three...

..., and Sound; the Program in Religious Studies; the Department of American Studies; and the School of Music. He is the author of Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable (2017) and The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978 (2024). Lynne Huffer is Samuel...