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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 373–389.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Jishnu Guha-Majumdar A review of Bénédicte Boisseron , Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 ); Lindgren Johnson , Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840–1930 ( New York : Routledge...
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 253–254.
Published: 01 June 2013
...: University of Texas Press, 2013. 254 qui parle fall/winter 2013 vol. 22, no. 1 Johnson, Sara E. The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collabora- tion in the Revolutionary Americas. Berkeley: University of Cali- fornia Press, 2012. Johnson, Walter. River...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 June 2009
... a child,” is famously explored by Barbara Johnson in her 1986 essay on feminist poetics, “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion”—the lone feminist scholarship on abortion cited by Edelman.9 There, Johnson considers a handful of poems by women writers that ex- periment with tropes of personifi cation...
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2015
...- nic reconciliation. Although Barsh and Henderson say it was con- jured out of thin air, Chief Justice Lamer adapts the reconciliation doctrine from the US Supreme Court’s 1823 decision in Johnson v. M’Intosh, which weighs the “pre- existing occupation” of the land by First Nations...
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 June 2004
... According to Eliot, Santayana's philosophical poets suffered from the same confusions plaguing virtually all of the Augustan poets and critics. As Leavis put it, speaking of Samuel Johnson, "The thoughts that the Augustan poet, like any other Augustan writer, sets himself to express are amply...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 161–170.
Published: 01 December 2016
... within a both literally and fi guratively rhizom- atic queer ecology.7 From the planted woman’s perspective, however, becoming- tree might have more to do, as Barbara Johnson points out, with avoiding rape.8 Women in this poetic tradition—and, possibly, in the realm of the aesthetic more generally...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . 136. “Statement of Howard Williams.” 135. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” 134. Bell, “Racism Is Permanent Thesis” ; Wilderson, Afropessimism , 102 ; Johnson, Soul by Soul , 15 ; Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe,” 78 ; Johnson, “Inconsistency,” 430 ; Smallwood...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 167–179.
Published: 01 June 2019
... is impoverishing because—to use Barbara Johnson’s cogent words—critique ought to leave “room for a surprise . . . for someone or something to surprise you and say ‘Stand aside, I want to speak.’” 3 For texts to surprise us, we need to stop reducing them to a political function or moral imperative...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2015
....’ And this is best done by indirection” (bb, 324). As in “Benito Cereno,” Billy Budd’s giving up of what Barbara Johnson in the context of this last passage calls “referential validity” attests to Melville’s sus- tained fascination with ontologies of being like.29 We fi nd in the latter...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Johnson kicking the stone in refuta- tion of Berkeley’s idealism: “I refute it THUS.”8 Referencing the sound of a boot hitting a mineral compound is not an argument. Perhaps the sound alone is a kind of argument. We are getting used to how oil spills and strange weather really...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 327–331.
Published: 01 December 2011
...). He found- ed and edits the journal ecopoetics (www.ecopoetics.org), which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. Skinner also writes ecocriticism on contemporary poetry and poetics: his essays on the poets Ronald Johnson and Lorine...
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Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 5–21.
Published: 01 December 2011
...), 162. In “Nothing Fails Like Success,” Barbara Johnson seeks to recuperate deconstruction from its institutionalization in literary criticism’s overly literal conception of what constitutes a text and its boundaries, asserting, “To say, as Derrida has said...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 421–438.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... Benjamin, Origin of German Tragic Drama , 175–77 . 8. Zeeman thus implements Strohm’s suggestion that critical theory should be put into conversion with rather than applied to medieval literature ( Theory and the Premodern Text ). Recently, Johnson has evaluated and endorsed this critical...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 63–90.
Published: 01 December 2003
...- THE LOVE OF NEITHER-EITHER 69 siderations of representabi I ity (to borrow Freud's phrase) of the black man in a cinema driven by a desire for race integration. On the cusp between dream and nightmare, that desire finds expression through a figure who, in Albert Johnson's words...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 279–299.
Published: 01 June 2011
....” The “breakfast brigade” carries out the fi rst without police con- frontation. Rafe Cohen-Johnson walks into the library ten minutes after it opens at 7 a.m. Jillie Jane Rogers comes in not long after, fi ve others have straggled in. Each seems to be studying when at 7:45 Rafe pulls...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 57–68.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... Graff’s movie, James Johnson Sweeney, director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, asked Duchamp if the liberation from any human in- tervention in painting and drawing had anything to do with the ready- made. Duchamp’s answer was that he came to the ready-made as the last step...
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981), 9. 3. For Derrida’s reading, see “Plato’s Pharmacy” in Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981). 4. Giorgio Agamben et al., Democracy in What State?, trans. William McCuaig (New York: Columbia...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... This is, incidentally, the epigraph to another of Poe’s short stories, “The Purloined Letter.” Poe attributes the saying to Seneca, although it was more likely Petrarch’s. Barbara Johnson thinks about the implications of this misattribution in “Frame of Reference.” 44. Cavell, “Wittgensteinian Event,” 14...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 5–18.
Published: 01 June 2017
... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1993 . Derrida Jacques . Dissemination , translated by Johnson Barbara . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1981 . Heidegger Martin . Contributions to Philosophy , translated by Emad Parvis and Maly Kenneth...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 December 2014
...- rectly determined by them.” Duncan, “Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and the Institutions of English,” in The Scottish Invention of English Literature, ed. Robert Crawford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 40. 8. Ian Duncan, Scott’s Shadow: The Novel...