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differences (2019) 30 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Robyn Wiegman The introduction sketches the political contexts and theoretical legacies that underwrite the conversations in this special issue. If read in the order in which they appear, the essays move across three general thematics. The first thematic concerns feminist responses to the sexual...
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 6, 7, and 8 Baron Munchausen’s Dream by Georges Méliès (1911) ; Arthème Swallows His Clarinet by Ernest Servaès (1912) ; and Princess Nicotine by J. Stuart Blackton (1909) , three films that thematize various forms of bodily disarticulation, such as limb dismemberment
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 6, 7, and 8 Baron Munchausen’s Dream by Georges Méliès (1911) ; Arthème Swallows His Clarinet by Ernest Servaès (1912) ; and Princess Nicotine by J. Stuart Blackton (1909) , three films that thematize various forms of bodily disarticulation, such as limb dismemberment
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 6, 7, and 8 Baron Munchausen’s Dream by Georges Méliès (1911) ; Arthème Swallows His Clarinet by Ernest Servaès (1912) ; and Princess Nicotine by J. Stuart Blackton (1909) , three films that thematize various forms of bodily disarticulation, such as limb dismemberment
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The More Things Change
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 249–273.
Published: 01 July 1994
... Nicolas and Torok Maria . The Shell and the Kernel . Ed. and trans. Rand Nicholas T. . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1994 . Armstrong Nancy . “ A Brief Genealogy of Theme .” The Return of Thematic Criticism . Sollors, Return 38 – 45 . Barthes Roland . Incidents...
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Video/Television/Rodney King: Twelve Steps beyond The Pleasure Principal
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 1992
... of Feminist Cultural Studies 4.2 (1992) 2 VideolTelevision/Rodney King idiom of Heideggerian insight, TV cannot think the essence of TV which, however, it is constantly marking and remarking. Television's principal compulsion and major attraction comes to us as the relation to law. As that which is thematized...
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Mourning the Other, Cultural Cannibalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray)
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differences (1998) 10 (3): 159–184.
Published: 01 November 1998
... succeeds. The other remains other in relation to me, "an inside heterogeneous to the inside of the Self" ("Fors" xvi). But in the midst of explaining Abraham and Torok's account of incorporation as the ego's identification with the lost object, Derrida again glosses their account in terms of the thematic...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): iii–iv.
Published: 01 May 2017
... entailed language, the signifier, may well be illegible to many of today’s readers. So successful was the thematized reception of the “linguistic turn” that critical studies have happily made several new turns since its demise. Language is once more a medium, more or less transparent depending on one’s...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 267–275.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Lautréamont’s Chants de Maldoror , a work that is not like Brontë’s novel in any conventional model of comparison: thematic, generic, stylistic, biographical. Heathcliff’s or Catherine’s modes of desiring do not resemble that of Maldoror/Lautréamont. Nor does Bersani do anything to manufacture likenesses...
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The Den of Theoretical Monsters
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 7–29.
Published: 01 May 2021
... is conceived and thematized as a “particular time-limited episteme” in a history that is multiple and dispersed ( Tihanov, Birth 7 ; “Romanticism’s” 4 ). In other words, not just the specific terms but the methodological premises of the history of ideas that Tihanov practices, the general approach...
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Death and Fairy Tale: Queer Autothanatography in Claude Vivier
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 30–57.
Published: 01 September 2020
... this mysterious and sudden ending. The point here, however, will be to show how these questions of death will have been present in Vivier from the beginning . By contrast with his sexuality, which is never explicitly represented or thematized in his musical and dramatic works, one of the most...
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The Politics of Translation in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 3–19.
Published: 01 December 2006
... thematize the necessity of having to choose between
them, of having to adopt a particular language, with all its preexisting
(yet mutable!) ideological saturations and norms. This condition is what
Bakhtin refers to as “the critical...
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Preface
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differences (1990) 2 (3): v–vi.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Naomi Schor; Elizabeth Weed Ulike earlier thematic issues of differences, this one does not easily speak for itself. Although it is very spoken - all of the essays were, with one exception, written for conferences or colloquia and "Conference Call" was structured as a "polylogue" - the topics...
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Mobility
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., the critic Malcolm Bowie rightly worried about this possible vacuity [149–54].) Still, from the 1970s to the early nineties, when the themes I’ve noted were most insistent in Bersani’s work, the stakes were high in academic departments of French literature. On the one hand, the “thematic criticism...
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The Imaginary Materiality of Writing in Poe's “Ligeia”
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 53–75.
Published: 01 September 1999
... can note a tendency for imagining the materiality of the signifier, of
thematizing the medium, its technologies, and its powers to make sense
of the senses, to serve as a means of transport into imaginary worlds, and
to alter...
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Mother's Milk and Sister's Blood: Trauma and the Neoslave Narrative
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 101–126.
Published: 01 July 1996
..., to refuse its linearity, to refuse to move on, what do they thereby accomplish? II Corregidora thematizes a concern with the transmission of culture and with the recording and judging of a history of violence: "The important thing is making generations. They can burn the papers but they can't burn conscious...
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Scandalous Subjects: Robert Glück's Embodied Narratives
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 112–134.
Published: 01 July 1991
..., in that the enunciative position of the investigator (as a gay male) will be thematically acknowledged and operative in the reading, as an ethical and critical strategy much indebted to feminist reflections on the questions of authority and the subjectivity/objectivity dichotomy. By the affirmation of a specifically...
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The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Mapplethorpe, and Discursive Excess
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differences (1990) 2 (2): 105–125.
Published: 01 July 1990
... proliferated beyond recognition. In a sense, despite its apparent referentiality, fantasy is always and only its own object of desire. And this is not to say that fantasy supplies its own thematic, but that the boundaries of the real against which it is determined are precisely what become problematized...
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The Work of Womanhood in American Naturalism
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differences (1996) 8 (1): 57–93.
Published: 01 April 1996
... find such critics as Michaels, Mark Seltzer, and Howard Horwitz drawing thematically from many ofthe same nonliterary realms as have critics of naturalism since V. L. Parrington in the 1930s. And those realms rarely include those associated with women; thus far, they almost never have.7 What would...
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“This Body of My Dreams”: Descartes on the Body of Language
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 53–78.
Published: 01 November 1996
... position. What follows is an attempt to thematize the ways in which, for Descartes, the correlation between expression and content is always governed by some technique. The significance of the Cartesian correlation between expression and thing becomes apparent in structuralist as well as certain...
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