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differences (1990) 2 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 1990
... and the Punishment of Adultery in Athenian Law .” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (Romanistische Abteilung) 102 ( 1985 ): 385 - 87 . Cole Susan Guettel . “ Greek Sanctions against Sexual Assault .” Classical Philology 79 ( 1984 ): 97 - 113 . Cole Susan Guettel...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and feminists from the free trade zone regions of Sri Lanka--with Tillie Olsen's classic field-defining literature from the proletarian moment in the U.S. Can we speak of a collective subject of feminism within economic globalization? Whose interest does staking a claim for such a heterogeneous class subject...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 30–54.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Jane Anna Gordon Revisiting Carole Pateman's classic discussion of women and consent, this essay advances a qualified defense of consent through defending a second, less hegemonic model of it as articulated most forcefully by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Although difficult to realize, the author argues...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay considers through a string of three fables—a classic wolf trap in La Fontaine, Poe’s story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and contemporary French novelist Eric Chevillard’s Sans l’orang-outan— the animal as the paradoxical, derealized figure of a passing. Drawing...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 22–50.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Li Xiaojiang The change in women’s historical circumstances and social status has no direct connection with the development of social formations in classical Marxism. It is, however, intimately linked to human progress. Up to the present, social development has undergone five stages, yet the change...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 72–89.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ankhi Mukherjee This essay examines singular traumas suffered by Tibetan refugees and expedient and culture-specific cures for the same. Drawing on Honey Oberoi Vahali’s Lives in Exile and other ethnographic studies of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, India, it shows how classic trauma theory...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Candace Moore In conversation with Silvan Tomkins, William James, Sianne Ngai, and others, “Piqued: Compounded Interest and the Intersubjective Scene” further theorizes one of the most taken-for-granted of the classic affects: interest. This essay argues that the piquing of interest is essential...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 58–85.
Published: 01 December 2018
... on an eleventh-century epistolary exchange between the poet and clergyman Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance, a young nun at Le Ronceray Abbey in Angers. This amatory correspondence develops through a dialogue with a multiplicity of voices that are part of the classical erotic tradition. Examining...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., transnationalism, and translation. In his latest book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019), Galin Tihanov recalls the legacy of classical literary theory and propounds the contemporary discourse of world literature as an unreflected continuation of this legacy as it was articulated in Viktor Shklovsky’s...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 36–53.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and deadly aspect. The ancient Greeks used the figure of the swarm to connote an anonymous and undifferentiated mass of human beings. Achilles' army of Myrmidons in the Iliad are at least antlike, perhaps even metamorphosed ants, ants become warriors. In the classical period, the comic poet Aristophanes uses...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Change and the Unthinkable. The second examines Marguerite Duras’s Un barrage contre le Pacifique (1950) as a novel about rising sea levels and discusses what it might mean to read this classic in these terms. The essay then considers which works today might be Duras’s successors and what...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 58–85.
Published: 01 September 2020
... aim was to provide a “revaluation of values” (10) in the field of aesthetics and to overcome “the one-sidedness and European-Classical prejudice of our customary historical conception and valuation of art” (xxii). That Worringer was fairly successful in this regard is evident, given that his insights...
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differences (1990) 2 (1): iii–v.
Published: 01 April 1990
...David Konstan; Martha Nussbaum Copyright © 1989 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1989 Preface to Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society re appropriation of classical Greece and Rome as origins and models of a so-called "Western" tradition has helped...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 153–173.
Published: 01 July 1996
... Classical Library. Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1989 . Augustine . Confessiones . Ed. Watts W. . Loeb Classical Library. London : Heinemann and Putnam , 1912 . Augustine . De Civitate Dei [On the City of God] . Ed. Green W. M. . Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge : Harvard UP...
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 35–56.
Published: 01 September 2002
...DAVID KONSTAN 2002 david konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among his recent books are Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (Princeton University Press, 1994), Greek...
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 186–205.
Published: 01 April 1990
... Ephesiacorum Libri V . Leipzig : Teubner , 1973 . Petronian Society Newsletter . Ed. Schmeling Gareth . Gainesville : U of Florida (Department of Classics) . Price A. W. Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle . Oxford : Clarendon , 1989 . Reardon B. P. , ed. Collected...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 May 2021
... zoological species. For the Classical age (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) these are: general grammar, natural history, and the analyses of wealth ( Foucault, Order 86–232 ). These scientific disciplines regarded language, living beings, and economic exchange but were not yet philology, biology...
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 29–51.
Published: 01 November 1990
... viewed as a kind of general literacy which comes before such things as periodization and specialization. According to this view, if one has spent enough time with the d fferences 33 classics spanning a few major dynasties, one will also be qualified to deal with anything that comes afterwards...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 139–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... and divisions of the classical logics which govern our understanding
of culture and ourselves, we hope to dismantle familiar distinctions—
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differences (2007) 18 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Down.” Unpublished ms. Carroll, Noel. Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory . Princeton, nj: Princeton up, 1988 . Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film . Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 1979 . Chardère, Bernard. Le roman des lumières. Paris...
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