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differences (2021) 32 (1): 150–168.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Maria Kalinova This essay focuses on the problem of translation, which Galin Tihanov regards as the afterlife of literary theory in his book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (2019). According to Tihanov, it is exactly through translation...
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differences (2005) 16 (1): 63–102.
Published: 01 May 2005
... . Booth, Wayne C. A Rhetoric of Irony . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1975 . Butler, Judith, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas, eds. What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory . New York: Routledge, 2000 . Connolly, William E. “ Refashioning the Secular .” Butler, Guillory...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Bogdana Paskaleva At the core of this essay is an exploration of the notion of regime of relevance introduced by Galin Tihanov in his monograph The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019). On the one hand, the author traces the ramifications of Tihanov’s coinage and demonstrates possible arenas...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Nell Wasserstrom Through a close reading of Freud’s last major work, Moses and Monotheism (1939), this article considers the socio-political and literary stakes of a central element of Freud’s oeuvre, which reaches its fullest elaboration in the Moses text: belatedness. Belatedness, or deferred...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 54–73.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Enyo Stoyanov This article highlights how the premises of the radical historicism of Galin Tihanov’s book The Birth and Death of Literary Theory (2019) are conditioned by developments within literary theory itself. For Tihanov, changes in literature’s perceived usefulness undermine the dominance...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Timothy Bewes Taking issue with recent interventions on critical reading that appear caught between demolishing and reestablishing topographical modes of literary analysis, this article reexamines the approach of “symptomatic reading” as developed in Louis Althusser's reading of Karl Marx...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 97–111.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Samuel Solomon This article traces some of the crossings of the literary, political, moral, and epistemological valences of “narcissism” in the work of literary critic Barbara Johnson, exploring how Johnson implicitly works within and against the view, as expounded by the Practical Criticism...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 156–176.
Published: 01 May 2014
...David Golumbia In 2003, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak published Death of a Discipline , an exhortation to create “an inclusive comparative literature,” one that “takes the languages of the Southern Hemisphere as active cultural media rather than as objects of cultural study.” To many literary scholars...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Darin Tenev The essay questions the leading role of literary theory throughout the twentieth century and the reason why Theory with a capital T was born out of the field of literary theory rather than out of any other discipline, such as sociology, history, psychoanalysis, and so on. The author...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 137–148.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in feminist conversations but also its rise to a prominence that qualified its productivity both in the classroom and in doctoral dissertations. By reintegrating literature and literary history in discussions of theoretical insights, students can stretch, undermine, qualify, or extend them. Literary...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 135–143.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of hands in Melanie Klein’s “Early Analysis,” as Bersani reads Proust with Klein, it ultimately offers its most powerful gesture in an antiredemptive comparative literary method in which association, rather than a historical or otherwise redemptive justification, undergirds literary-critical argument...
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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 (2017) 28 (1): 94–123.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Ramsey McGlazer This essay locates a poetics of fatigue in Lavorare stanca , the first collection of verse published by Cesare Pavese. This poetics entails several related shifts: from emotion to affect, from effusiveness to reserve, and from expansiveness to a limitation that is at once literary...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 97–125.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Miglena Nikolchina This essay examines the entanglement of Galin Tihanov’s three regimes of relevance of literature—literature as art, literature as high-minded social engagement, and literature as popular entertainment—in the encounter between a literary theoretician (Tzvetan Todorov...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 126–149.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Galin Tihanov This essay reflects the author’s interest in understanding the reasons for the growing resistance to theory witnessed over the last couple of decades. The first part attempts to demonstrate that literature and literary theory have been involved in complex dialectical moves between...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 91–116.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Milken. While the question of junk bonds may appear to have little purchase on the much bigger story of the economy as a whole, the author argues that junk bonds were integral to the transformation of the finance economy in the direction of an entirely debt-driven one and that a literary work...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Mikko Tuhkanen “Homomonadology” outlines the emergence and elaboration of Leo Bersani’s onto-ethics/aesthetics over the past half a century, focusing particularly on his interest in the shared references to Leibnizian metaphysics in twentieth-century philosophical and literary texts. The essay...
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 132–155.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... This essay suggests that we reconsider some of the most important debates in u.s. -based literary and cultural studies during the last two decades and imagine them as genealogically sprung from this bifurcation in responses to linguistic diversity during the formation of the idea of Europe. Over the last...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 39–68.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Rijuta Mehta In the aftermath of crushed political revolution, forms of protest become curiously circular and conflicted. Drawing on literary and visual representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, this essay analyzes new circuits of demands that break with the project of successful revolutionary...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay is a speculative reflection on literary fiction’s—and notably the contemporary French novel’s—ability to register the effects of climate change. The first half engages with Amitav Ghosh’s thinking on this question in his 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate...
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