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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 191–205.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Anthony Grafton Duke University Press 2001 Error Messages: Night Thoughts Inspired by James O’Donnell’s Avatars of the Word Anthony Grafton American intellectuals have always come, like American athletes and musicians...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 19–73.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Fernando Gomez Duke University Press 2001 Translated by Fernando Gomez Ethics Is the Original Philosophy; or, The Barbarian Words Coming from the Third World: An Interview with Enrique Dussel Fernando Gomez...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
...%2C_enduring_war_in_the_middle_east/ . Vivis Anthony Wilson Christine Tobler Stefan . 2011 . “ Among Translators: W. G. Sebald and Translation .” Other Words: The Journal for Literary Translators 38 : 111 – 20 . Wolff Lynn . 2007 . “ ‘Das metaphysische Unterfutter der Realität’: Recent Publications...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 185–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
...He Ning; Claire Xue Li This essay discusses the role of photographs in Sebald’s Austerlitz . The author argues that photographs constitute a crucial paratext to the entire narrative, making possible the representation of traumatic memories through “the bricolage of words and images.” Engaging...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 109–137.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Tanıl Bora; Nicholas Glastonbury These essays grapple with the widely “expended” words that characterize the era of the nationalist-conservative-populist Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP) in Turkey, which has been in power since 2002. Some of these words rest...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 75–96.
Published: 01 November 2023
... out and meet the vulnerable presence in his eyes in a chain of witness in anticipation of Celan's ( 2020a : 45) words: “Black milk of morning we drink you evenings / we drink you at noon and mornings we drink you at night / we drink and we drink.” I dedicate this essay, then, to the survivors...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 19–27.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Michael Hays This essay addresses the rather complex questions of the history and function of the word tragedy : Is there a historically and logically consistent use of the word that can serve as a constant in discussions of both drama and dramatic theory? I will try to address some of the reasons...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 287–312.
Published: 01 August 2016
... transformation in language. Moving from Kıvılcımlı's language, suffused with idioms, slang, West Thracian dialectal phonations, colloquialisms, gallicisms, Turkish neologisms, and Arabic and Persian loanwords in the preface to the equivalential chains of Western, Ottoman, and new Turkish words in the translation...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 123–149.
Published: 01 August 2010
....” This was in elaboration of Pamuk's assessment of the art of the novel to be about “drawing a picture [of the world of others],” of “getting the world right through words as painters use colors.” Clearly, Pamuk's assessment belongs, albeit in a peculiar way, to the history of mimeticism that Stephen Halliwell traces from...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2020
... their conditions of possibility. The focus is on three words, three figures of thought in Fletcher’s work: daemon , central to his picture of allegorical agency, its compulsive, almost supernatural character; gnome , or the gnomic , a name for what’s most secret, most difficult, and yet most fundamental...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 35–47.
Published: 01 February 2021
... articulation of things. The ontological theory of language at issue here, with its concern for the problems of meaning and translation in particular and its methodological distance-in-nearness, entails a simultaneously concentrated and expansive allegorical experience of the world. Allegory brings out the word...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 91–94.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the addressee does: he puns & plays with words—which is a well-known no-no when it comes to translating. This translation tries to keep this playfulness alive, at the risk of befuddling the audience (but what are audiences for, anyway? Illumination goes through befuddling). Thus the title in French was “Les...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 167–178.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Jason Michael Adams This interview was conducted on the assumption that for all their seeming pessimism, Virilio's technocultural writings are more productively understood as a “Dionysian yes” than as a simple assertion of the no as such. In other words, they presuppose that the specificity of his...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of the investigation as a whole , or in other words, the dialectical image is what constitutes the presentation of what Kant calls an idea with the material of experience. The image so revealed is not a representation of reality, but rather Benjamin thinks of it, after Goethe, as an archetype, a standard for judging...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 11–24.
Published: 01 August 2009
... mandate of self-conscious self-assertion in order to explore the readymade potential of the “uncreative.” They resort to a diverse variety of antiexpressive, antidiscursive strategies (including the use of forced rules, random words, copied texts, boring ideas, and even cyborg tools), doing so in order...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 49–61.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Tracie Morris “Rakim's Performativity” considers the influence and relevance of pioneering Rapper Rakim's influential track “Follow the Leader” through the lens of J. L. Austin's theory of performativity presented in his philosophical work How to Do Things with Words . The author reflects...
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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 (2013) 40 (1): 155–189.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Sadia Abbas This essay argues that notions of the subject, individualism, freedom, agency, change, and history (in other words, the ideas that are used to mark the boundaries of the West, and that generate the most sensitized aporias of modernity) have come to cluster around the figure...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 75–110.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Bhāsa, or Perso-Arabic words, in Premsagar . Contrarily, Urdu-centric scholars stress Lal’s use of the phrase “ibtada-e dāstān” (the beginning of the Dastan ) to open Baital Pachisi . The claim is that preoccupation with Lallu Jee Lal’s place in the Hindi and Urdu literary canon occludes the all...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 February 2015
... as disciplinary society or imperial state” ( EE , 205); in other words, they must think ontologically as well as sociopolitically. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 pedagogy ontology exceptionalism In the Neighborhood of Zero: Ontology and Pedagogy...