...Matthew Tuckner [email protected] © 2022 Matthew Tuckner 2022 Matthew Tuckner Figurative Language I m not sure if I could describe it, the apple on my desk. It would be easier if you could see me seeing my apple, seeing it so hard it s almost a rose, a bee-scented rose...

...Marie-Luise Angerer Throughout a large part of the twentieth century, the body was interpreted as a field of signs, the meaning of which pointed to an unconscious dimension. At the height of the popularity of structuralism, Jacques Lacan deemed the unconscious to be “structured like a language...

... or speaking English as a second (or third or fourth) language. The term global Englishes refers to a multiplicity of distinct but mutually intelligible dialects or strands of English adapted to the specific locale and usage of a given population. Examples include Singlish (Singapore), Turklish (Turkey...

...Margret Grebowicz; Zachary Low Reyna Personhood, language, and voice are heavily culturally overdetermined categories, particularly today, when they appear to many posthumanist critical eyes as saturated with anthropocentrism. But the answer is not to avoid or “overcome” them. The working...

... — a role that will function dynamically in the reconstruction of world literature. This essay therefore calls for another large-scale translation in the current age of globalization: translating contemporary Chinese literature into the major world languages and deconstructing the West-centric framework...

... Anthropocene concept, to filter out a heuristic for the analysis of literary texts. In the second part, this perspective is applied comparatively to two German-language novels that address geologic eras. Through the two examples, by Max Frisch and Ilija Trojanow, I want to argue that although environmental...

... on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “aura” of a work of art or cultural artifact, it offers an atmospheric conception of history attending to the ways in which humans, nonhumans, artifacts, and nature interpenetrate one another. Furthermore, it points to the ways in which the language of archives, curators...

... explores the ways Māori worldviews, knowledges, and te reo Māori (the Māori language) draw to, from, and with tuna and help us as Māori understand and maintain our relationships with, and obligations to all our other-thanhuman relations. In doing so, the essay gestures to the ways in which wider...

... to disturbing Western attitudes toward Muslims. While he recognized the contributions of Orientalist scholars, such as their knowledge of languages and translations of key texts, he and his collaborators in England found their way of thinking unsophisticated, biased, sweepingly broad, and often just plain wrong...

..., “expendable” humans were sold as black-market substitutes for animal protein, but now cannibalism has been legitimized—though it is, in fact, illegal to use the correct terms for what goes on in the Municipal Slaughterhouse. This article looks to Tender Is the Flesh to understand how language and narrative...

... that these texts illuminate the intensified problem of anthropocentrism under ecological crisis, pointing, via the mediating work of poetic language, to the ways in which this anthropogenic agency extends into and reshapes nonhuman forms. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014 Works Cited Chakrabarty Dipesh...

... migration, identity, language, translation, and geography, both rooted in France and routed along treacherous seaways. Shumona Sinha’s novel Assommons les pauvres also focuses on the experiences of the privileged immigrant narrator whose story is a core part of the novel. Sinha has the privilege to narrate...

...Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair The first of its kind, this special focus section examines a relatively understudied concept and brings together new literary works and scholarship across continents and languages. Contemporary...

... 2021 language writing poetry Bruce Andrews politics experientialism Work Cited Andrews Bruce . 1996 . Paradise and Method: Poetics and Praxis . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press . Benson Steve Harryman Carla Hejinian Lyn Perelman Bob Silliman...

...Robin J. Sowards © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Works Cited Adger David . Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2003 . Austin Timothy R. Language Crafted: A Linguistic Theory of Poetic Syntax . Bloomington, IN : Indiana UP , 1984...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Calvet Louis-Jean . 1998 . Language Wars and Linguistic Politics . Translated by Petheram Michael . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Castells Manuel . 2000 . The Rise of the Network Society . Cambridge : Wiley...

... is There is no outside-text, i.e., there is no text that is outside of textuality. The point is that if philosophy always takes place within language, and if philosophy must stand outside its objects in order to have true or systematic cognitions about them, then philosophy will encounter problems whenever...

... . ---. “ Definition of Man .” The Hudson Review 16 ( Winter 1963-64 ): 491 - 514 . ---. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method . Berkeley : U of California P , 1966 . ---. Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose . 3rd ed. Berkeley : U of California P , 1984...

... introduced the concepts of “transformational grammar,” “generative grammar,” and “universal grammar,” postulating that the structure of language is innate and that variations in individual languages are modifications within a restricted universal framework. Since then, Chomsky has...