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Kevin Kopelson
Issue 135
Marcel Proust, as a writer, was even more, shall we say (in order to invoke the first near-complete and also tea-based experience of involuntary memory had by the would-be-writer narrator...
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Thomas J. Armbrecht
Issue 134
...of his career and then ceased to do so, without comment, after 1960. Scheie argues that Barthes’ abandonment of the theatre reveals something important about the development of his thoughts...
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Eric Prieto
Issue 126
...valedictory stage. Coming hard on the heels of the 2007 publication of De la violence à la divinité, a single-volume collection of his four most important books (Mensonge romantique et...
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Suzanne Keen
Issue 124
...neocortex. In comics and graphic narratives, illustrations of faces and bodily postures may capitalize on the availability of visual coding for human emotions, eliciting readers’ feelings before they even read...
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Éric Trudel, Roxanne Lapidus
Issue 123
...to one of his recent titles, everything begins. Ça commence à Séoul (2007) is the result of a collaboration between Pierre Alferi and sculptor Jacques Julien. In this poetic and...
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Kate Lermitte Campbell
Issue 123
...by the philosopher Colin McGinn. My aim is to suggest that Alferi’s concentration on the visual is bound to his belief that actual experience cannot be compartmentalized into experience of...
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Christopher Roberts
Issue 123
...silence nor noise nor mere sound, music is sound marked, qualified, stereotyped, somehow distinctive, and thus communicative. Music research presents practical challenges as well. While a scholar discussing a painting...
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David Sigler
Issue 122
...in a 1996 essay entitled “Resistances” (“Resistances” 5). The dream has, to borrow a phrase from another context and J. Hillis Miller, “an inexhaustible power to generate commentary” (Miller 177)....
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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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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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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...