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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Karen Feldman Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 THE BINDING WORD: CONSCIENCE AND THE RHETORIC OF AGENCY IN HEGEL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT Karen Feldman Who is responsible for all that gets said and done in a speech act? Is the speech act an act of speech, an act performed...
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Qui Parle (2010) 18 (2): 55–120.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Cho Haejoang; Ueno Chizuko Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 Speaking at the Border/Will These Words Reach . . . cho haejoang and ueno chizuko Translated by Teresa K-Sue Park and Miki Kaneda Translators’ Note The following letters are selections from an exchange between Cho...
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 1. Image of the possessed and badly scarred Regan, with the words help me beginning to form across her sunken stomach. More
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 2. A close-up of Regan’s stomach, where the words help me appear more clearly now in the form of keloid scars. More
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 271–280.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Marianne Constable The use of the saying “Actions speak louder than words” renders problematic both political and legal judgments. With its often excruciating attention to language, law in particular insists on maintaining relations between speech and reality or between words and the truths...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... , that is, prosopon pros prosopon . Prosopon , the Greek word for mask, gave rise to the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia ( prosopon poiein : to confer a mask or a face). A striking occurrence of prosopopoeia is found in the eighteenth-century British genre called “it-narrative,” in which inanimate things speak...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and unexpected elements at the root of all knowledge. It is this elimination that suggests to Chris Anderson the idea of the end of theory; in other words, it is what prevents “bifurcations,” that is, the prospect that new knowledge will open futures that would be not just negentropic but “neganthropological...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 June 2019
... comes perilously close to demonstrating that all verse unfolds under the aegis of the word dust . The essay closes by suggesting that Jorie Graham’s poetry offers a new perspective on what it would mean to read the surface of a text, particularly when that text is dusty. 1. Holy Bible , Genesis...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Ryan Crawford Abstract This essay takes the last pages of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at its word: at the moment the narrator achieves a definitive conception of the work he intends to write, he sees society composed, not of people of flesh and blood, but of monsters fit for a museum...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 291–320.
Published: 01 December 2018
... with Benjamin’s reluctance to observe and respect the strict separation of life from death, of the living from the dead. But it is Benjamin who introduces, along with the word partner , a strange, almost dialectical complicity between life and death: between those who won and live on and those who lost...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 57–104.
Published: 01 December 2004
... from cerebral anatomy. It might be said to wear it awry. —Sigmund Freud2 The word is available as the sign for, so to speak, inner employment; it can function as a sign in a state short of outward...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 December 2017
... will, an individual active in the role of utterance production.” An author is something different, “someone who has selected the sentiments that are being expressed and the words in which they are encoded.” Finally, a principal is the person “whose beliefs have been told . . . who is committed to what the words say...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2015
... on notice, the will- to- possess” as the fi rst con- dition of “the desire for Neutral.”3 In Barthes’s terms, ephexis is a koan about the possibility of recognizing desire in the absence of the terrorisms of its will- to- possess. This essay philologically con- siders the word like as it bears...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 295–382.
Published: 01 December 2017
... be between 1–1000 words (or a visual equivalent) and submitted to us by April 21, 2017. Thank you for your contributions to Qui Parle across these 30 years. We look forward to hearing and seeing what you have to say! Sincerely, The Editors of Qui Parle Here’s how they, you, responded, arranged...
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Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 51–104.
Published: 01 December 2005
... theabsurdity of our situation. Born, thirdly, to the fate of being able to articulate that absurdity to one another in words: "Words are everything else in the world" (OP, 174). Santayana, unbelieving heir to the legacy of St. Paul's mythol- ogy (as was Stevens), became a student, then a critic...
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Man" - or, as Coetzee said, perhaps it is called "His Man and He" — he could not "remember," he said, which word should come first - "He" or "His Man." This is a complicated tease. Now "He" is "Robinson Crusoe"; his Man, Defoe (in a once uncustomary, now...
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2016
... lost in the void of the skies” (137, 139). What does one write in a resistance tract? asks Didi- Huberman. Watchwords, certainly. But also more than watchwords: appeals, ac- counts, testaments, information, poems, songs, parodies. A small piece of paper with a few words written on it, the tract...
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 June 2004
... with the end of George's "official canonization," Adorno maintains that a certain "critical freedom" can now be regained (NL2, 178). George is, in other words, ripe for redemption. This critical free- dom is not to be bought, however, at the cost of a simple recuper- ation for recuperation's sake...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 June 2017
... animal. Mysterious, even magical, they are also mistreated and abhorred. I call them “possums,” but I could have said “opossums,” a word I never heard growing up. If you look the word up in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (as well as the Oxford English Dictionary ), you’ll find that opossum...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2009
... as if its beliefs had been turned into heresies.1 Conversion, in other words, requires that we consider not only the limits of the community, its internal and external dynamics, its cohesion and beliefs, indeed, its political nature and its life; it requires as well that we follow the event...