Search Results for reading

...James T. Robinson Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 READING OTHER PEOPLE READING O t h e r P e o p l e s S c r i p t u r e : T he In f l u e n c e o f r e l ig io u s P o le m ic on J ew ish B ib lic a l Ex e g e s is J a m e s T. R o b in s o n Thisíísvwhat...

..., then upon what grounds do we com pare located and transna­ tional imaginarles of the world? And with what translation tools should we approach world co m p a ris o n ? Each of these questions confronts the stakes o f canonizing cosm opolitan reading. T his essay w ill proceed in kind by placing dissent...

.... Finally, it is possible to read “Hills Like White Elephants” as a kind of opening or an invitation to possibilities. There are the characters at the station, waiting for the express from Barcelona to Madrid. The station is not exactly a crossroads and not a terminus either. Instead the station offers...

...Zhou Hau Liew Abstract This essay reads the Taiwanese Malaysian author Chang Kuei-hsing’s 1998 novel Elephant Herd from an ecological perspective. A novel about the Sarawak communist insurgency (1963–90)—an important but underrepresented conflict during the Cold War in Asia— Elephant Herd...

... of deciding to take such religious investments seriously extend, of course, beyond 1800 and beyond specialists in early Native American and African American w riting. After reading Am erican Lazarus, we may all feel more dismay, teach­ ing the standard American literature survey, at the anthology practice o f...

...Alexis Brooks de Vita Copyright © 2000 Regents of the University of Colorado 2000 March 2000 25 IMMEASURABLE REFLECTIONS ON A MASQUE: READING COERCIVE RAPE AND THE RAVISHMENT OF SILENCE IN MILTON S COMUS AND SHAKESPEARE S MEASURE FOR MEASURE This essay proposes the reading of attem pted...

...Alexis Brooks De Vita Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 English Language Notes Volume XXXIX N um ber 2 D ecem ber 2001 SELFLESS LOVE: READING THE WOMAN IN PLATO S SYMPOSIUM S IDEAL MAN In the final encom ium , o r speech segment, of Plato s Sympo­ sium...

... fustice, 2 vols. (Oxford: Woodstock, 1992) 177. 26 Richardson 64. 27 Godwin, Politicalfustice 31. SEEING THE LIGHT: RE-READING JAMES ALBERT UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW In his 1770 A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, Written by Himself...

...Elaine M. Ayers Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 24 English Language Notes REPEATING A HALF-TOLD AND MANGLED TALE : READING CALEB WILLIAMS THROUGH EMILY MELVTLE In a review o f a new edition of Caleb Williams,1Michael Gamer describes the work as a novel remarkable...

... language in her book and Marguerite’s own refusal to speak should not be seen as an absolute rejection of text, body, and oral expression as vehicles of divine and human encounter. Instead, they reveal a theory of performance in which life and reading cannot be easily separated into different realms...

... and his servant setting out on a quest for “the place where the two seas meet.” The passage reads as follows: (v. 60) And when Moses said unto his servant, “I shall continue on till I reach the junction of the two seas, even if I journey for a long time. (v. 61) Then when they reached the junction...

...) has been included in the popular Heath Anthology of American Literature . 1 Since then two other anthologies of American literature have also included that same translation. 2 Each year scores of undergraduates taking American literature classes in the United States now read the English...

... volumes. Books have no infe­ rio rity beyond their individual pages. Yet these pages possess a depth o f their ow n and to read them is to enter the archival interior o f the textual surface.Thus, I argue that books are not merely artifacts, so much as the archives o f literary history. The implications...

...Susan Chambers Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 R eading Poetry W r o n g : Prosody and performance S usan C hambers T he sound of a poem is such an essential aspect of its artistry and beauty that stu­ dents of poetry are often encouraged to read aloud, to be aware...

...Caroline Levine Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 READING AT THE TIME C a r o l in e L e v in e W hat does it mean to read a work of literature in its own tim e? It could mean making meaning by connecting the text to political, social, and intellectual debates going...

...Rachel Sagner Buurma Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 Ephem eral Fo r m s : E. S. D a l l a s , N o v e l R e a d i n g , and the V ictorian R eview Rachel Sagner B uurm a We have lately got into the habit strange fo r these fast days o f reading our novels very...

.... . . .There was no purpose for the journey."1 A fter critique, reading. This essay participates in the "re tu rn " to reading and responds to recent invitations to explore the "lived experience of reading" and "uncritical reading" practices. Of course literary critics have never ceased to read, but recently there have been...

..., in a society, to [arrive] “appear”? Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 Ruth E llen Kocher 47 F/fabula /anima: Reading Bhanu Kapil's "W riting/not-writing: th[a][e] Diasporic Seif: Notes Towards a Race Riot" Ruth E llen Kocher 1. W h a t Bhanu sh o u ld te ll a reader and n o t...

.... 1–4 (2004–5): 67–96. Ivashkiv Roman . “ Translating Ukrainian War Poetry into English: Why It Is Relevant .” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 9 , no. 1 ( 2022 ): 37 – 65 . Palko Olena . “ Reading in Ukrainian: The Working Class and Mass Literature in Early Soviet...

... relationship to its repudiation of authorial voice given that, as an African American woman, she had historically been denied agency or a voice from which to speak. Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 C hristina B attle 67 Everything you Read and See Just M ight be a Lie AKA Don't...