... language. Examining scenes from Robert Southey's The Curse of Kehama , Lord Byron's Lara , and Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , the author argues that European power is staged by subjecting a figure of the East to a kind of language that functions as a conduit of pure force...

... multilingualism. It is only more recently that a nominally newer formation based more exclusively in departments of English studies has re-presented us with comparative literature’s methodological counterpart or other, and with its own intellectual and also ethical challenges. That formation is the digital...

.... In contrast to approaches that equate the humanities with the institutional security of particular departments and disciplines (especially English), this article contends that we might better understand the humanities as an array of experimental practices that cross disciplinary and institutional borders...

... ideological roots as Marxist humanism but says that her other root is not “psychodynamics” but Western feminism—though in her own work she has tried to keep some distance from it and refrains from using the word feminism (in Chinese or English) to describe the 1980s women’s movement in China, preferring...

...Marissa Kantor Dennis This piece is an interpretation of an interpretation of an interpretation. The setting is a clinical encounter between a Spanish-speaking patient, an English-speaking doctor, and a Spanish medical interpreter on the inpatient psychiatric floor of a New York–area hospital...

... a water shortage and tried to claim insurance on victims. Gregson v. Gilbert denied plaintiffs the right to profit from murder without indicting anyone for the atrocity. This diasporic Caribbean poet revives mythological figures—notably, the biblical Ruth—to expose Western law and the English language...

... customs is ingeniously accomplished by means of the translations into English that Celaya performs of her family’s conversa- tions and everyday speech. Although Celaya speaks Spanish, she has been raised in the United States...

...NANCY ARMSTRONG 2001 nancy armstrong is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media, and Women's Studies at Brown University. She is author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Oxford University Press, 1987...

... mode of a mocking apology that is not supposed to be persuasive; she is not convinced that.those who work with institutional plain (English) prose are necessarily reasonable and good. Working nonetheless as a literary critic of imperialism in a department of History, she has written only in terms...

...MARC SHELL Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2004 marc shell is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. His books include Art and Money (Chicago University Press, 1995), The End...

... and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello .” Renaissance Drama ns 21 ( 1990 ): 3 – 21 . Brown Laura . Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1993 . Clark Stuart . “ Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft...

..., and republished in an English art review in 1912; The Great Scourge and How To End It, a 1913 collection of editorials by the militant Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst; and BLAST, the manifesto-journal first produced in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis, the self-apPointed spokesman for a newlyformed group of English artists...

... was almost immediately translated into English (in 1706) by an unknown translator and published under the title of Arabian Nights Entertainments . With its anonymous and compilatory character, this first English version, usually referred to as the “Grub Street” edition (Grub Street in London being where...

... political concepts such as the “state,” the “human,” and the “person” with those of the “network,” the “assemblage,” and the process of “translation.” Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2009 henry s. turner is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers...

... it do any work? I didn’t know, of course, and could only follow it to find out. From “Old English snegel , snægel , etc., = Middle Low German sneil (Low German snäl , sniel , etc.), Old High German snegil (Middle High German snegel , German schnägel , now dialect with variants schnäl...

... of their cultural energy on the colonies. Adopting many descriptive procedures of the sort that Edward Said identifies with Orientalism, they developed a dense and pervasive set ofdifferences between themselves as English men and women and people ofnon-European origins. In explaining how the image of a bad and ugly...

.... “Le Mot d’accueil” becomes in the English translation “A Word of Welcome.” The title refers to its occasion—Derrida is delivering the opening address at the 1996 Levinas conference. But while occasional, the title is also fully...

... becoming one of François Cusset’s informants as he wrote an intellectual history of “French Theory.” The title of his book may sound English, but its Frenchness becomes apparent when used in a sentence. While “Theory” is an intellectual construction from the United States, it translates into French as “ la...

... of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle . London : Constable , 1943 . Goldring Douglas , ed. The Tramp: An Open Air Magazine 1 - 2 ( 1910-11 ). Green David . “ Veins of Resemblance: Photography and Eugenics .” Oxford Art Journal 7 . 2 ( 1984 ): 3 - 16...