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Mark Steven
Issue 147
...cinema has evolved. These two theses are explored concurrently as they advance through the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century, evolving a visual language of what Badiou calls “minimal communism.”...
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Taylor Schey
Issue 130
But just what sort of Oedipus complex does Freud depict in Totem and Taboo? His entire account of the murder and the history it unfolds concerns the actions of a...
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Henriette Heidbrink
Issue 130
...rely on well-known narrative schemata, and on the other hand they comprise something that is actually impossible: alternative futures. One central thesis raised by spokespersons of the forking-path-debate claims that,...
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Judd D. Hubert
Issue 130
This issue of Mélusine pursues the research initiated in 1982 on the surrealist book, without giving the last word on such a complex subject. Demonstrating erudition worthy of La Revue...
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Claire Colebrook
Issue 127
...in any ethical theory, then this virtual universalism would always struggle alongside moral valorizations of specified communities. How do we, from the particular world we inhabit, begin to think of...
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Ursula K. Heise
Issue 127
...them public. The slogan “Think globally, act locally,” coined by René Dubos in 1970, similarly summed up environmentalists’ commitment to a vision of planetary connectedness, as did Kenneth Boulding and...
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Vanessa Doriott Anderson
Issue 127
...Magazine littéraire dossier devoted to Modiano, Maryline Heck, the dossier’s editor, announced the author’s “entry into the pantheon of French academia” while adding that “it seems the time has come...
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Louis Betty
Issue 127
La carte et le territoire, winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt and Michel Houellebecq’s first novel since La possibilité d’une île in 2005, may be the author’s most compelling work...
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Rita Charon
Issue 159
Life-writing combines, collates, or colludes many lives into one text. No work of fiction, biography, poetry, drama, memoir, journaling, blogging, or autobiography—all of them life-writing—does not do this, either blatantly...
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Ellen Spolsky
Issue 159
...her life by writing it. She turns a traditional genre of a young person’s coming of age into a neurologically realistic portrait of the growth of an artist by multiplying...
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Lisa Zunshine
Issue 159
...1976), available at the Berlin Academy of Arts. The author shows that later versions of Patterns of Childhood have more complex embedments in the chapter describing the adolescent protagonist’s relationship...
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Casey Schoenberger
Issue 159
...this paper uses the notion of “biological handicap,” proposed by Amotz Zahavi. As a peacock’s cumbersome tail feathers reduce its individual chances of survival but communicate valuable information to potential...
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Chris Crews
Issue 159
...Most readers are likely familiar with some version of the Anthropocene by now, and its usage in these books (with a few exceptions) follows a common refrain in the humanities...
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Glenn W. Fetzer
Issue 101
...art that succeeds in “unsettling” the boundaries between them that we have come to expect. Invoking poststructuralist critics as theoretical touchstones, [End Page 121] the author inscribes her study in...
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Warren Motte
Issue 111
...and static, mutating into something quite different even as we struggle to come to terms with it, yet continually demanding that we account for it once and for all. In...
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Suzanne Guerlac
Issue 112
...a first, deceptively simple gesture, Bell turns to the realist novel as a reflection of the real, asking it to provide “real insight into the way speed and communication were...
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Thomas Gould
Issue 156
In light of a contemporary reinvigoration of the discourse of drawing, this article reconsiders the frontier between writing and drawing as expressive comportments, specifically through the theoretical discourse of child...
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Brigitte Rath
Issue 154
The pervasive default assumption that “normal” texts are monolingual erases a complexity that, when acknowledged, spills over the boundaries of disciplines. sonne from ort, an erasure project by Berlin-Brooklyn-based poets...
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Kélina Gotman
Issue 154
...thought, that come with parenting in an economy in crisis. Obliquely rearticulating the ‘work/life balance’ dyad to better think performative productivity in terms of oikological investments, the article performs another...
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Christine Hoffmann
Issue 154
This essay argues that amidst the superfluous clutter of spam is a credible ethos combining the poetic consolation of the early modern sonneteer with the indulgent excesses of a capitalist...
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Atėnė Mendelytė
Issue 154
...reveal the complexity of Meatyard’s art and explicate their so-called Symbolist suggestiveness as well as to show how the medium-specific boundary between painting and photography is fundamentally put into question....
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Ghenwa Hayek
Issue 154
...act of recalling the memory of Christ, and performing a memory ritual that is central to communal identity-formation and self-understanding. In modern times, anamnesis has been absorbed into the medical...
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Wen Yongchao
Issue 154
4E cognition (embodied, embedded, extended and enactive cognition) is the defining feature of second-generation cognitive science, which replaces a computer-like cognitive processing model with one that highlights the interactive dynamism...
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Inge-Birgitte Siegumfeldt
Issue 106
...These secrets revolve around circumcision, but “circumcision” with the peculiarly Derridean spin that combines “cutting” with “cutting to,” with special reference to language as contingent on scission. And Derrida has...
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Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Issue 110
In this complex analysis of the genre of the fragment, Camelia Elias shows us that while there is no such thing as a fragment in the singular, there are always...
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Marco Caracciolo, Shannon Lambert
Issue 150
In this essay, we identify and discuss three motifs that enable literary narrative to perform a shift from a phenomenological, common-sense understanding of the body to the far more challenging...
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Chris Hall
Issue 150
...to-come. The article therefore moves from the biopolitical, to what I term the allopolitical, an unknown politics of alterity that allows for the welcoming of political alternatives capable of bringing...
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Christopher Norris
Issue 150
...saw myself placed. There is not enough time to write all the letters I would have liked to write. —purportedly Walter Benjamin’s last communication, a postcard dated September 25, 1940)...
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Daveeda Goldberg
Issue 150
...such things by a self-reflective and self-parodic Jewish comedy writer. So, it’s a question that antisemites may imagine Jews to ask, and one that Jews may imagine antisemites imagine Jews...
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Matthew B. Smith
Issue 150
...of war poetry and troubling the way literary authority is ascribed. As such, this work is an invaluable contribution to scholars and students of comparative literature, poetry and cultural studies....
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Robert Briggs
Issue 149
...are often taken as foregrounding a compassionate ethics in the face of the vulnerable (animal) other. This paper traces a genealogy of Derrida’s occasional remarks on power and passivity to...
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Keith Moser
Issue 149
...philosophical, and ideological roots. Specifically, they problematize two of the most pervasive and lethal social constructs, the Genesis myth and the bêtemachine theory, which continue to breed complacency and ignorance....
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Christopher Norris
Issue 149
...Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice–politics. Only a thoughtless observer could deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern...
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Peter Poiana
Issue 149
...defines when, where, and to whom he writes as well as which form it adopts. This raises the question of how it compares with earlier forms of the Oulipian constraint,...
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Alex Moskowitz
Issue 149
...in monologues where Foucault mobilizes categories of race and gender while Marx focuses on class analysis. While any comparative study runs the risk of descending into banality, Bidet’s refreshing attentiveness...
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Emily Wieder
Issue 168
...The volume’s greatest contribution lies in its “sustained analyses” (10) of literary works, which range from close readings to comprehensive bio-bibliographic reviews. Each of the eleven chapters avoids reifying gender...
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Alberto Castelli
Issue 168
Paolo Giordano’s novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2009), seemingly a coming-of-age romance, mixes narrative with the language of mathematics. The two protagonists, Alice and Mattia, are equaled to two...
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Michael Naas
Issue 106
...letting this language resonate within me, this French language that I will never feel absolutely at home in but that I nevertheless have come to love—and perhaps because of its...
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Mitchell Kerley
Issue 145
Two recent texts join the field of research on the Oulipo writing group. The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement is a slim volume, mostly comprising two...
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Eran Dorfman
Issue 144
...said, ‘you shall examine’” (320d). So Epimetheus distributed to each animal qualities according to a principle of equilibrium and compensation, each becoming either swift or strong, skilled or large, and...
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Jason Rhys Parry
Issue 144
...from the blaze, moved closer to it and began to throw more wood on it. Using sign language, those feeding the flames communicated to the others the virtues of the...
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Laurence M. Porter
Issue 144
I undertook this review to celebrate Daniel Albright’s contributions to the theory of interrelations among the arts, and had nearly completed it before learning that he had died early in...
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Jeffrey Mehlman
Issue 106
...of feeling” comes to mind). And for years, I had found myself subliminally noting deconstructive touches on the op. ed. page of one prominent newspaper or another, trying to imagine...
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Marie-Pascale Huglo, Johanne Villeneuve
Issue 106
...in the area of writing, for example. The media are less a technique of communication than a singular way of appearing, a device (un appareil, in the words of Jean-Louis...
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
Issue 110
...are taken to indicate a tendency toward a sense of failure or loss in the self. Thereafter, the Doppelgänger has been commonly viewed as an aberration, the stencil of a...
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David H. Fleming
Issue 141
...and the motivation behind his participation in the attacks. The mosaic film thus builds up a complicated three-dimensional story that offers viewers an atypical glimpse into and behind this phenomenon....
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Damian Cox
Issue 141
...a kind of achievement: the Wittgensteinian achievement of elucidating the inner connections between aspects of a thing, but also a representation that captures some of its richness, complexity and ambiguity....
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Lisa Trahair
Issue 141
...the boy Francis out to the sawmill (the trip being compared to Abraham and Isaac’s journey to Moriah) in order to seek personal retribution for the murder of his son....
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Mathew Abbott
Issue 141
...Look at Animals?”2 There, Berger inquires into what it is for “man” to encounter “the animal” – which, as he puts it, “scrutinizes him across a narrow abyss of non-comprehension.”...
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David F. Bell
Issue 140
...encounter with Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster in the entrance foyer ensued, during which salient details of the Muppet’s appearance were described down to the smell of his constant companion, a...