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Can We Save What We Have Destroyed?: Transmitting Literature

Hélène Merlin-Kajman
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 179–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0179
Published: 01 June 2011
...Hélène Merlin-Kajman Can We Save What We Have Destroyed? Transmitting Literature hélène merlin-kajman Translated by Marta Figlerowicz “To save” (sauver): in recent years, this verb has become pervasive. We need to save our planet, animal species on their way to extinc- tion...
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For the Love of Democracy: On the Politics of Jacques Rancière's History of Literature

Emily O'Rourke
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 223–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.22.1.0223
Published: 01 June 2013
... of Literature emily o’rourke A review of Jacques Rancière, Mute Speech, translated by James Swenson (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). Cited in the text as MS. The American academy has received French theorist Jacques Ran- cière’s corpus piecemeal as his books and essays from...
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The Public Spaces of Contemporary Literature

Lionel Ruffel
Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 101–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0101
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lionel Ruffel Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 The Public Spaces of Contemporary Literature lionel ruffel Translated by Matthew H. Evans Very few concepts are transparently transhistorical, or globally global in a transhistorical sense. None of those that I commonly use...
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Literature and Totality: Kritik durch Darstellung and the Crisis of Literary Production in the Twenty-First-Century Gig Work Novel

Alya Ansari
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-10427970
Published: 01 June 2023
... World War II .” In After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century , edited by Lye Colleen and Nealon Chris , 116 – 30 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . Coulthard Glen . Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics...
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Religious Distinctions: Rethinking Said on Religion, Criticism, and the Secular

Philip Balboni
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-10052287
Published: 01 December 2022
... it nominates as religious. By reexamining Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, as well as his early studies of modern literature, this essay contends that a secular criticism aware of its commitment to both concepts of the religious allows for a more nuanced and powerful account...
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The Politics of Fiction

Jacques Rancière
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-7200166
Published: 01 December 2018
...Jacques Rancière Abstract This essay uses constructions of avowed fiction from modern Western literature and criticism (Erich Auerbach, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner) to question the sense of reality constructed by dominant social discourses that claim to be the mere expression of reality...
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Blanchot and Lautréamont

William S. Allen
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 95–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-8241923
Published: 01 June 2020
... Blanchot transforms the Hegelian thinking of experience by way of its passage through literature. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 Maurice Blanchot Comte de Lautréamont G. W. F. Hegel metaphor experience Maurice Blanchot’s critical writings often focus on a few key authors...
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Can a Dog Really Be a Man’s Best Friend?: An Exchange between Humans

Thomas Laqueur, Alexander Nehamas
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 433–455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-7200265
Published: 01 December 2018
... of archaeological evidence, philosophy, art, and literature. Laqueur builds on Aristotle’s conception of friendship as he explores what types of friendships we humans have with dogs and how such relationships may benefit both species. Nehamas responds to Laqueur’s text and Aristotle on philia as he traces...
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From Exile to “Retro-Utopia”: A Yugoslav Writer’s Return

Djordje Popović
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 367–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-9395312
Published: 01 December 2021
... in an unfulfilled past and a home to which a community based on shared positions, not identity, can return. The argument is based on an exegetical approach to an ur-document in transnational post-Yugoslav literature, Ugrešić’s 1997 novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender , as well as on a key distinction...
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The Pot Still Boils: Introducing Totality and Culture

Nicholas Anderman, Zachary Hicks
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 1–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-10427926
Published: 01 June 2023
... of art—by the American visual artists Allan Sekula and Ellen Gallagher, respectively—which we take to be exemplary of the affordances of art, literature, and other forms of cultural expression for accessing totality anew. The third part briefly surveys recent theoretical work that aims to put...
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Divisions of Labor: Between Cheah's Worlds

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 243–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.25.1-2.0243
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan A review of Cheah Pheng , What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 ). Cited in the text as ww . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 Divisions of Labor Between Cheah’s Worlds ragini...
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The Decay of a Discipline: Reflections on the English Department Today

Marjorie Perloff
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 153–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0153
Published: 01 June 2011
...—especially language and literature—was still a few years off: in 2001, most English and comparative literature departments were still engaged in annual hiring. Who would have predicted back then how unabashedly administrators, especially at the big public universities like Cali- fornia, would begin...
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The Colors of Ideas

Claudio Magris
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 127–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.21.2.0127
Published: 01 December 2013
... of things that pre- vents a person from coming to terms with real conditions. In this sense, ideology is also the opposite of literature, of its imaginative freedom, of its sensory concreteness. But it is also true that, as Gao Xingjian observes, it was paradoxically a pedantic...
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Notes on Contributors

Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 213–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.14.2.213
Published: 01 December 2004
... Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS DAVID COPENHAFER received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in the Spring of 2004. He is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Music Department at the University...
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Contributors

Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 279–281.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.2.0279
Published: 01 December 2012
... menor (2006). jordan greenwald is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. donna jones is a professor at the Berkeley English Department, where she teaches and studies the literature of the Americas, the literature...
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Ecocriticism: Some Emerging Trends

Lawrence Buell
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 87–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.2.0087
Published: 01 December 2011
... of the relationship between literature and the physical environment.”5 Nonetheless, it is possible to devise a usable narrative of that initiative’s evolution and present agendas, including reasonable guesses about likely future directions. From Inception until the Near-Now: The Two Waves...
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Do Books Have a Place in a Shanghai World?

Lionel Ruffel
Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 79–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.20.1.0079
Published: 01 June 2011
... preliminary remark: this ranking gives a lot of weight to the so-called hard sci- ences (since, as it’s worth remembering, Nobel Prizes for literature and the Nobel Peace Prize are not added into these calculations) and to the Anglo-Saxon domain. We’ll have to return to this point...
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Notes on Contributors

Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 203–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.12.1.203
Published: 01 June 2000
... published in the fields of German and comparative litera- ture, in literature and the history of knowledge, in rhetorical theory and in history. He is the author of Affekt und Ausdruck (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1990) and is co-editor of the book Geschichten der Physiognomik (Freiburg...
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Books Received

Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 291–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.1.0291
Published: 01 June 2014
... Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Books Received Althusser, Louis. On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. New York: Verso, 2014. Armstrong, Paul B. How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuro- science of Reading and Art. Baltimore...
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Contributors

Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 327–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.2.0327
Published: 01 December 2011
... on phys- ics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She is the co-director of the Science and Justice Gradu- ate Training Program at UCSC. lawrence buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and author...
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