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...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University Press 2003 PLANETARY TIME AND GLOBAL TRANSLATION “Context” in Literary Studies Wai Chee Dimock What is the appropriate scale for the study of culture and, in particular, the study...

... quite different intellectual contexts: anthropology and literary studies. The proliferation of Latour figurations is shown to be a consequence of interactions between, on the one hand, existing disciplinary constellations of ideas, concerns, and practices, and, on the other hand, his own often ambiguous...

... concentrating on a single humanities field, literary studies, this response to Epstein makes the case that fear and awe of the sciences have resulted in the exclusion of subjectivity from literary criticism, even though regarding the critic as anything but a subjective human being responding to the creative...

...Charles M. Tung For much of the twentieth century, the discipline of literary studies has grappled with the question of how its generally sotto voce activity responds to a history that calls loudly for action. This essay treats the question of literature's quietism in relation to the problem...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Advocates of literary Darwinism, cognitive cultural studies, neuroaesthetics, digital humanities, and other such hybrid fields now seek explicitly to make the aims and methods of one or another humanities discipline approximate more closely the aims and methods of science...

... sharply defined norms. Thus, such critics evince the same kind of concern about the legitimacy of literary or historical studies as intellectualist philosophers do about the reality of apparent soccer kicks or meaningful speech. Whatever the merit of these concerns, there is no comfort to be had...

... in this study, Davis writes, is seen not as a biological entity, nor a convergent phenomenon, but as discourse that is, in Foucault s usage, the ensemble of written texts that con- stitute the novel (and in doing so define, limit and describe it.) This ensemble by no means includes only novels and literary...

... of French literary culture. Part 3 treats the way in which certain American critics of the 1980s and 1990s, primarily the scholars of Russian literature Caryl Emerson and Gary Saul Morson, deployed their translations and studies of Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory to undercut the work of French...

... published a series of essays that, when summed up, represents a valediction for English and American literary studies as practiced during the last half century. Some of the Chronicle authors, enjoying the privilege of tenure, speak for the profession as it was in healthier times. Others, representing...

..., the book has more to offer. Its main source of interest is that it mounts a convincing assault against literary studies as practiced during the last thirty years, while illustrat- ing and vindicating a number of nearly forgotten practices, notably attention and description. One chapter (written with Anahid...

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... she calls “moral rumination,” a concept further developed in her recent contribution to Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies . Anderson shows, moreover, that narrative fictions like The Winter's Tale , Middlemarch , and The Beast in the Jungle understand “belatedness” not as evidence...

... jobs, and is opposed only by hypocritical antielite elites that prefer the masses dumb and reserve elite education for their own. Barry Allen doi 10.1215/0961754X-8196813 Marina MacKay, Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic (London: Oxford University Press, 2018), 228 pp. Few literary studies...

... by hypocritical antielite elites that prefer the masses dumb and reserve elite education for their own. Barry Allen doi 10.1215/0961754X-8196813 Marina MacKay, Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic (London: Oxford University Press, 2018), 228 pp. Few literary studies have had as durable and valuable a life...

...: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation. Detelina Tocheva is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités of the École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL Research...

... for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, is a recipient of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, the Explicator Literary Foundation Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Her many books include Contingencies of Value ; Belief...

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... of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation. Stephen Thomas s poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Northwest, the Temple, the Seattle Times, the Seattle Weekly, West Branch, and many other publications. His Cabaret Hegel...

... of Interpretable Objects ; Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies ; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation . G. Thomas Tanselle , former vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical...

..., in Constant Reference to the Alice Books ; Friends of Interpretable Objects ; Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies ; and The Matter of the Facts: On Invention and Interpretation . His most recent book (with Brett Bourbon) is Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork (2024...