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On the Lapidary Style

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Denise Riley
differences (2017) 28 (1): 17–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3821676
Published: 01 May 2017
...Denise Riley “The lapidary style” suggests a manner of writing that runs close to working a material—carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets. Poised between the properties of the stone and of the jewel, this term holds the tensions of stone’s solidity and light’s refraction...
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“When your cords were tense”: Giving up on, the Giving Ground

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Michael D. Snediker
differences (2024) 35 (3): 96–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11525309
Published: 01 December 2024
... be. If supplying these miniaturized accounts is too easy to be wholly absorbing, it provides just enough tepid entertainment to affirm the game’s collateral production of the nonchalantly ruthless attention that is Olivia and Paula’s style of detachment. Contra the sour blasé that exercises Olivia and Paula’s...
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“Errances” and Memories in Marguerite Duras's Colonial Cities

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Panivong Norindr
differences (1993) 5 (3): 52–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-5-3-52
Published: 01 November 1993
... (Kristeva 142)? These questions will be examined against the discourse of French colonial urban planning, and within the intertext of other discourses, particularly, feminist theory and psychoanalysis. Duras declared in a lapidary fashion that "Sea Wall is the true novel on memory and I was barely thirty...
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In a Word. Interview

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ellen Rooney
differences (1989) 1 (2): 124–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1-2-124
Published: 01 July 1989
... for having thought to send me to such a school rather than to a more fashionable western style school or a less fashionable native type school. In a situation like that, one begins to realize without realizing the extraordinary plurality of the source of enlightenment; in the very long haul, the sources...
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“Are You There Yet?”: Libertinage and the Semantics of the Orgasm

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JAMES A. STEINTRAGER
differences (1999) 11 (2): 22–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-11-2-22
Published: 01 September 1999
... impersonality of technology with the flames of ecstasy. I recall an American woman from thirty years ago, with her stern, committed style, a kind of apparatchik of eroticism, who gave me a lecture (chillingly...
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