... on these frameworks to generate and prolong an affective engagement with the work. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 John Cage “Empty Words” affect theory stuplimity pre-semantic musication Works Cited Benjamin Walter . The Arcades Project . Trans. Eiland Howard McLaughlin Kevin...

... named “the entire field of cybernetics” is here explicitly grounded only in this reference to “Wiener, for example” a reference that does not even name Wiener’s text (likely The Human Use of Human Beings). In Derrida’s reading Wiener’s use of the word “organ” pre- sumably imbricates Wiener...

...-syntactic —​that is, semantic — ​units. These tentative semantic categories may only be found in the realm of rhetorical figures. Poetic metaphors are a supreme example of Jakobson’s projection princi- ple working in reverse. We do not derive metaphors from a pre-existing system of COMPARATIVE...

... isn’t merely a language) are also capable of finding these ambiguities rewarding, pro- vided the conditions are right. In the next section I will examine an attempted translation of nonsense from English into Chinese in order to understand as pre- cisely as possible how the three crucial factors...

... separate helps avoid cognitive biases and personal prejudices. The fictional William follows the procedure established by his historical pre- cursor, although his theory is better than his practice. It takes a careless remark by UMBERTO ECO’S THE NAME OF THE ROSE / 431...

... and spiritual pride.5 In addition to its humor, one of the keenest pleasures Map’s satire offers the modern reader is its beguiling illusion of immediacy. With a deftness of touch reminiscent of Chaucer, Map achieves a high degree of realism through the pre- tense of reporting direct speech. Like...

...; how much richer my life—and others’— would be if it could be accompanied, along with Charlie’s intense and charming pres- ence, by all the books his death has left unwritten. STANLEY CORNGOLD Princeton University...

.... What a sad thought that Charles Bernheimer should have died so unexpectedly, so young, in the bloom of his intellectual power; how much richer my life—and others’— would be if it could be accompanied, along with Charlie’s intense and charming pres- ence, by all the books his death has left...

... be if it could be accompanied, along with Charlie’s intense and charming pres- ence, by all the books his death has left unwritten. STANLEY CORNGOLD Princeton University THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO THE LITERATURES OF EASTERN EUROPE SINCE...

...; how much richer my life—and others’— would be if it could be accompanied, along with Charlie’s intense and charming pres- ence, by all the books his death has left unwritten. STANLEY CORNGOLD Princeton University...

...; how much richer my life—and others’— would be if it could be accompanied, along with Charlie’s intense and charming pres- ence, by all the books his death has left unwritten. STANLEY CORNGOLD Princeton University...

... acoustic flow is evoked. Thus, the modernist texts conjoin two conceptions of rhythm pointed out by Émile Benveniste: the pre-Platonic notion of ϱ῾υθμός as continual flow and the later idea of rhythm as segmentation that was also embraced by the rhetoricians. This conjunction accounts for Woolf’s...

... moment which is emphatically anti- or even pre-discursive” ( Gilroy 64 ). 26 Reading them as instances of the “slave sublime,” Gilroy suggests that these practices “invoke the remembrance of a terror which has moved beyond the grasp of ideal, grammatical speech,” and ultimately point “out...

...” (“a diferença de moriose do mesmo”) (48). The outstanding example, the pre- mier “transculturator,” is obviously Gregorio de Matos, who translated two sonnets by Góngora in a very personal way, adding an ironic touch to the combination of metropolitan and tropical materials (see “Rule” 48). De Campos also...

... as the primary medium of communication accompanied the transition from a pre- dominantly aristocratic (stratified) to an increasingly functionally differentiated society. Building on this argument, Koschorke (also drawing on the works of Norbert Elias) elaborates the historical changes that define the modern...

... frühgriechischen Literatur” (1931), despite the teleological pre- sumption that it shares with Bruno Snell’s better-known The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature, remains a classic of philologically informed Beg- riffsgeschichte. Even though the logic of the semantic and imagistic...

... suggests that the trend in Calvino's thought is germane to the distinction Roubaud makes — that Calvino's earlier position is characteristic of the “pre-Perecquian Oulipo,” while his later views are closer to those of his peers among the group's second wave. DENNIS DUNCAN Calvino, Llull...

... of translation itself, although she does reflect at 3 Trawick might translate pasamalar as “Love Flower” or “Flower of Attachment,” but a more pre- cise translation would be “The Flower of Blood Attachment.” See note 4. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 58 length in a comparative way on notions of love...

... or key, as Nabo- kov and Melville do, seems therefore to constitute a capitulation to allegory, to the inartistic assumption that a text’s system of figures can be mapped onto a system of signs. Yet the very resistance that these famously enigmatic novels pres- ent to the reader suggests...

..., and modify the transliteration to accom- modate a better semantic match. Grammar and syntax, too, had to be unraveled —​ or, as Rawlinson wrote, reconstructed “ab origine,” and perhaps less from the origin than anew, since it is impossible to know whether the system put forward corre- sponded to a pre...