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Joshua Delpech-Ramey, Paul A. Harris
Issue 121
Religious discourse now permeates the theoretical humanities. At least since Jacques Derrida’s insistence upon complex connections between deconstruction and negative theology, there has been an onslaught of writing connecting the...
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Kristien Justaert
Issue 121
The contemporary relation between theology and philosophy is a complicated one, but there is at least one strand in theology that has always explicitly used philosophical mediations to clarify and...
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Zahi Zalloua
Issue 120
...this kind of designation, while useful in pointing to a perceived shift in the concerns of interpretive communities, risks homogenizing the unruly voices responsible for such a turn. A genealogy...
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Peter Poiana
Issue 119
...narratives, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho gave rise to a similar controversy. When John Calder first published the three prose texts in Britain under the single title...
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Alison James
Issue 119
...of the authors mentioned in the course of the discussion. The book maps out a complex and varied intertextual field in which the diverse rewritings harness different potentialities of their...
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Malina Stefanovska
Issue 118
Although coming from different perspectives and periods, the two quotations above speak of the ambivalence that modern historiography has systematically displayed toward the anecdote since Voltaire. An anecdote—defined here as...
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Helen Deutsch
Issue 118
...the universe is merely ideal.” Johnson is provoked by his companion’s assertion that “though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it.” “I shall...
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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 118
...Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew Language and Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. His Marc Chagall and His Times (Stanford, 2004) won the American Koret Award for fiction and biography....
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Paul Sheehan
Issue 117
...community of dwarves in an institution on the island, and the insurrection they launch against their keepers. The revolt is by turns, farcical, incompetent and destructive – setting fire to...
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Simon Lumsden
Issue 117
...count as a reason it must be able to be recognized as a reason by our interlocutors and be something that we can individually and collectively commit ourselves to—that is,...
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Catherine Bates
Issue 116
...I tried to take it all in and to be as comprehensive as possible, close reading letters and poring over drafts. When running out of time, I developed a more...
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Peter Boxall
Issue 116
...distribution of resources—commodities as well as capital and mineral reserve—has traditionally been understood as an unequal sharing, as balancing the wealth of the few against the poverty of the many,...
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Issue 116
...Western directors. The twofold concentration on Wong’s Hong Kong origins on the one hand, and his compatibility with Western cinema on the other, can be explained through Wong’s almost unique...
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Michel Serres, Judith Adler
Issue 116
...the invading brambles. Just as the faces and hands of old men become wrinkled, so the rooftop and walls of the house come to bear the marks of bad weather...
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Karlis Racevskis
Issue 116
...it comes to the Enlightenment, as Elena Russo’s book shows, few concepts are as revealing as the notion of taste. While Russo is obviously not the first scholar to survey...
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John Cayley
Issue 160
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