...Jonas Rosenbrück Abstract This article analyzes the notions of clarity and obscurity in the work of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Maurice Blanchot, arguing that the latter’s thought of the “other night” proposes a radical reversal, indeed, a corruption, of Baumgarten’s founding of aesthetics...

...Lucas H. Harriman A transcultural adaptation of a literary work often reveals aspects of the original that had previously been obscured in its native context. In a similar vein, a creative reading that truly attempts to do justice to its object might be said to betray it, both in the traditional...

...Blair Hoxby We owe our idea of tragedy and our tragic repertoire to a generation of romantic critics who, writing in the shadow of Kant, demanded that tragedies display organic form, express the spirit of a nation, and stage a collision between freedom and necessity. Their formula obscures aspects...

... vernacular that it may have obscured the ongoing pouvoir/savoir of French. The cultural competition between England and France in the seventeenth century is too often read backwards, in the hindsight provided by the later imperial successes of Britain, or through the culturally triumphalist lens...

... field, one must first and foremost read him reading. This essay attempts to demonstrate three essentially interrelated points that might begin to salvage Auerbach's criticism from its obscured place in the literary critical canon. The first of these points is that throughout his entire corpus Auerbach...

.... These conventional answers to the question of which languages are relevant in the study of American and Arabic literatures have echoed geopolitical hierarchies and obscured important networks that do not always center on Europe and the United States, such as the South-South dimension of world literature, of which...

... at Syphilis not only underscores Fracastoro's crucial role in the history of immunitas , a juridical term that acquired, from the Renaissance on, an increasingly medical connotation and meaning. It also offers a new etymology for the word syphilis, which has hitherto remained obscure. © 2016 by University...

...Michael Subialka By examining key sources Walter Benjamin uses in his essay “Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit” (“The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,”1935–39), I recover essential depictions of early cinema that Benjamin obscures...

... Studies’ knowledge projects advance claims encode a will towards commensuration on the purportedly shared grounds of the Human, the national subject, the worker, the citizen, and so on, that does as much to obscure as it does to enlighten. Comparative Literature draws in part from investigations...

... this, but in this (obscurely titled) book we have it exhumed. BOOK REVIEWS / 461 But I have to ask how it is that a work about someone so devoted to clarity can itself be so obscure? Departments of English embarked on the long voyage to Planet...

... is equally adept at accentuating moments of dazzling wordplay—such as the counter-pointing of “all” and “fall” that creates such a powerful dialectic in Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.” Indeed, Schad’s responsiveness to these linguistic intricacies, ones that bear traces of meaning that can remain obscure...

... is equally adept at accentuating moments of dazzling wordplay—such as the counter-pointing of “all” and “fall” that creates such a powerful dialectic in Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.” Indeed, Schad’s responsiveness to these linguistic intricacies, ones that bear traces of meaning that can remain obscure...

... is equally adept at accentuating moments of dazzling wordplay—such as the counter-pointing of “all” and “fall” that creates such a powerful dialectic in Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.” Indeed, Schad’s responsiveness to these linguistic intricacies, ones that bear traces of meaning that can remain obscure...

... is equally adept at accentuating moments of dazzling wordplay—such as the counter-pointing of “all” and “fall” that creates such a powerful dialectic in Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.” Indeed, Schad’s responsiveness to these linguistic intricacies, ones that bear traces of meaning that can remain obscure...

... is equally adept at accentuating moments of dazzling wordplay—such as the counter-pointing of “all” and “fall” that creates such a powerful dialectic in Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty.” Indeed, Schad’s responsiveness to these linguistic intricacies, ones that bear traces of meaning that can remain obscure...

... of Nebraska P , 1989 . Print . ———. Thomas the Obscure . Trans. Lamberton Robert . The Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction and Literary Essays . Ed. Quasha George . Barrytown : Station Hill P , 1999 . Print . ———. When the Time Comes . Trans. Davis Lydia . The Station Hill...

... of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 . Chen Yongguo. “Becoming-Obscure: A Constant in the Development of Modern Chinese Poetry.” Modern Language Quarterly 69.1 ( 2008 ): 81 -96. Chow, Rey. The Age of the World Target: Self-referentiality in War...

...: Orientalism, Modernism, and the Meaning of Pound’s China .” Twentieth Century Literature 45 , no. 4 ( 1999 ): 511 – 33 . Herdt Irina de . “ La main qui se montre du doigt .” MA thesis, University of Ghent , 2009 . Holter Julia . Le clair-obscur ‘extrême contemporain’: Pierre...

... the work of Edouard Glissant and Antonio Benítez-Rojo), Radović invokes the spatial material- ist’s warning that we must also acknowledge the literal meaning of these metaphors so as not to obscure “the reality of experiences that cannot (and should not) be transcended” (45). In a candid reading...

... , 1883 . Print . Ackerley C.J. Demented Particulars: The Annotated Murphy . 2nd ed. Tallahassee : Journal of Beckett Studies Books , 2004 . Print . ———. Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated Watt . Tallahassee : Journal of Beckett Studies Books , 2005 . Print...