Conservative in form, revolutionary in content: Rethinking world literary canons in an age of globalization
(2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). Conservative in form, revolutionary in content: Rethinking world literary canons in an age of globalization. Canadian review of comparative literature, 41(3), 270-286. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2014.0031
PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (105)
Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence. World policy journal, 31(3), 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277514552979
The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek. Journal of folklore research, 51(2), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.2979/jfolkrese.51.2.199Abstract This essay interprets the Chechen ballad (illi) of the social bandit Gekha (d. 1898) in the context of Chechnya's encounter with colonial modernity. Gekha's illi elucidates the interface between anticolonial resistance and masculine identity... Read More about The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek.
The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison. Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval through Contemporary, 112(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1086/676464
The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference. Literature Compass, 11(7), 496-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12166This essay examines the political cosmology fostered by the medieval Persian prison poem, specifically in the oeuvre of Khāqānī of Shirwān (d. 1199), in relation to this genre's cosmopolitan geography. I focus in particular on how Khāqānī's Christian... Read More about The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference.
Aleksandre Qazbegi's mountaineer prosaics: The anticolonial vernacular on Georgian-Chechen borderlands (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). Aleksandre Qazbegi's mountaineer prosaics: The anticolonial vernacular on Georgian-Chechen borderlands. Ab imperio, 2014(1), 361-390. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2014.0012
Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method. History and Theory: Studies in the philosophy of history, 53(2), 212-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.10706This essay uses Arnaldo Momigliano's genealogy of antiquarianism and historiography to propose a new method for engaging the past. Momigliano traced antiquarianism from its advent in ancient Greece and later growth in Rome to its early modern efflore... Read More about Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method.
The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization. Social Text, 32(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391315This essay examines the graffiti that covers the portion of the West Bank’s segregation wall that traverses Bethlehem. That the majority of the representations covering the wall are intended for international rather than local consumption complicates... Read More about The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization.
Aaron Swartz's legacy (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). Aaron Swartz's legacy. Academe (Washington, D.C. 1979), 100(1), 19-23. https://doi.org/10.17613/0x52-yd95
Jim Crow in the Soviet Union (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). Jim Crow in the Soviet Union. Callaloo, 36(1), 125-141. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2013.0071
Review of: Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries by Paul Manning (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). Review of: Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries by Paul Manning. Ab imperio, 2013(3), 441-445. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2013.0076
To Boycott or Not? A Moral Conundrum (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). To Boycott or Not? A Moral Conundrum. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 25(4), 584-589. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2013.846666
The Lure of Romance (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). The Lure of Romance. Women's Studies, 42(6), 720-730. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2013.802635
Laws, exceptions, norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the exception (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). Laws, exceptions, norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the exception. Telos (New York, N.Y.), 2013(162), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.3817/0313162077
Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics. The Translator, 19(1), 81-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2013.10799520Building on the multivalent meanings of the Arabo-Persian tarjama (‘to interpret’, ‘to translate’, ‘to narrate in writing’), this essay examines the doctrine of Qur ’ānic inimitability (icjāz) across Arabic and Persian literary cultures as a way of e... Read More about Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics.
The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides. Iran and the Caucasus, 17(3), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20130304This essay investigates the challenges facing Caucasus philology, by which I mean the institutional capacity to conduct deep research into the literary cultures of Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Daghestan, and Chechnya. I argue that the philological a... Read More about The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides.
Topographies of anticolonialism: The ecopoetical sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev (2013)
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Gould, R. R. (2013). Topographies of anticolonialism: The ecopoetical sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev. Comparative Literature Studies, 50(1), 87-107. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.50.1.0087
Philology, education, democracy (2012)
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Gould, R. R. (2012). Philology, education, democracy. The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 46(4), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.5406/jaesteduc.46.4.0057This essay examines recent arguments for a return to philology as the basis of humanistic inquiry and liberal-arts education. It considers how philology’s disciplinary heritage is inflected by economic and racial privileges and explores avenues for t... Read More about Philology, education, democracy.
The sublimity of Charles Bovary (2012)
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Gould, R. R. (2012). The sublimity of Charles Bovary. Literary Imagination, 14(3), 366-372. https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/ims067
Adam Bede's dutch realism and the novelist's point of view (2012)
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Gould, R. R. (2012). Adam Bede's dutch realism and the novelist's point of view. Philosophy and Literature, 36(2), 404-423. https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2012.0031In her first novel, Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot offered the first systematic defense of her literary aesthetic. Eliot turned to early modern Dutch painting to justify her choice to render the quotidian life of the non-elite, and thereby provocativ... Read More about Adam Bede's dutch realism and the novelist's point of view.