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Rebecca Ruth Gould's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Translation & Activism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoRebecca Gould (University of Birmingham) and Kayvan Tahmasebian are seeking additional contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. See CfP for instructions on submitting.
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Translation and Activism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis group (and the accompanying website) were created partly (though not exclusively) with a view to providing an online presence for the Routledge Handbook on Translation and Activism, co-edited by Kayvan Tahmasebian (also a group member) and myself. We have room for a few more contributions, so please get in touch if this is a subject you work…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Laws, Exceptions, Norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the Exception,” Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts 162 (2013): 77–96. in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe concept of the exception has heavily shaped modern political theory. In modernity, Kierkegaard was one of the first philosophers to propound the exception as a facilitator of metaphysical transcendence. Merging Kierkegaard’s metaphysical exception with early modern political theorist Jean Bodin’s theory of sovereignty, Carl Schmitt int…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Laws, Exceptions, Norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the Exception,” Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts 162 (2013): 77–96. in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe concept of the exception has heavily shaped modern political theory. In modernity, Kierkegaard was one of the first philosophers to propound the exception as a facilitator of metaphysical transcendence. Merging Kierkegaard’s metaphysical exception with early modern political theorist Jean Bodin’s theory of sovereignty, Carl Schmitt int…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Topographies of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev,” Comparative Literature Studies 50.1 (2013): 87-107. in the group
Settler Colonialism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWhile ecocritical poetics have effectively challenged epistemologies of nature and culture, scholars such as Heise, Huggen, Nixon, and Garrard have critiqued this emergent field’s geographic and cultural provincialism. Seeking a rapprochement between Caucasus vernacular literatures and a literary-theoretical movement (ecocriticism) still dominated…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Topographies of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev,” Comparative Literature Studies 50.1 (2013): 87-107. in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWhile ecocritical poetics have effectively challenged epistemologies of nature and culture, scholars such as Heise, Huggen, Nixon, and Garrard have critiqued this emergent field’s geographic and cultural provincialism. Seeking a rapprochement between Caucasus vernacular literatures and a literary-theoretical movement (ecocriticism) still dominated…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd’s failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle’s tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd’s failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle’s tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd’s failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle’s tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]
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