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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 (2024) 51 (3): 133–172.
Published: 01 August 2024
... liquors.” They are “tired and temporary in action.” But suddenly the narrator, perhaps thinking of their own plight, their childhood memories stolen from them, focuses on sparrows, radically speeding up the meter of this poem through an urgent-seeming repetition of the words describing the little...
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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
... syllable and breath, continuously resisting the temptation of a free-flowing fluent English lyrical approach for a more artifice-oriented, or we might even say artificial, English. Joris builds this English word by word, breath by breath, in word-world vessels large and small, to carry and ferry Celan's...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., not allegorically, to circumnavigate his world just as Renaissance scientists, poets, and explorers had. Renaissance humanism gave him tools, spiritual exercises, for learning to train his attention to the words on the page and to stop seeing them through a distorting haze. This essay is based on a talk I...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2013
... within. Accented criticism is a principle of reading globally that shifts focus toward dialogism and toward the “double-accented” word, to help examine existing ways of ordering the world and to ask what effective decentering might look like. Reading fragments from Derek Walcott’s Omeros , Joseph...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 1–4.
Published: 01 November 2015
...? In other words, what use are innovative forms and approaches in telling raced or unraced stories by raced subjects? Conversely, what's at stake for the white writer who takes up racial subjects without hedging, pleasing, or apology? And, lastly, is there something about the contemporary moment...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 99–111.
Published: 01 May 2014
... or another, as a ubiquitous electronic background activity, change their experience of interacting with the printed word? Gumbrecht bases his observations on two seminars that he taught in Santiago de Chile in 2013, in which Stanford undergraduates were reading fiction and nonfiction texts in both English...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 197–212.
Published: 01 May 2014
... unorthodox conception of what Heidegger meant by the term Dasein . On the standard reading, although the word is not synonymous with “person” or “human being,” it nevertheless refers to what those terms refer to, namely individual people like you and me. Haugeland maintains, instead, that it designates...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (1): 7–52.
Published: 01 February 2011
... (due to class but also urban-rural and regional inequalities, among others) have assumed even greater sharpness. Despite important advances, in other words, serious problems remain—especially given continued claims to socialism. Uncertainty about the future remains as development has added new problems...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 75–93.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Alexander Gelley Martin Heidegger's denunciation of Gerede (idle talk) in §35 of Sein und Zeit is scathing: “Idle talk is constituted in this gossiping and passing the word along, a process by which its initial lack of grounds to stand on increases to complete groundlessness.” But how might...