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The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek (2014)
Journal Article
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.51.2.199

Abstract 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 Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference (2014)
Journal Article
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/lic3.12166

This 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.

Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method (2014)
Journal Article
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.10706

This 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)
Journal Article
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/10.1215/01642472-2391315

This 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.

The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides (2013)
Journal Article
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-20130304

This 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.

Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics (2013)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/13556509.2013.10799520

Building 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.

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.46.4.0057

This 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.

World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference (2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference. Translation and Literature, 21(3), 402-421. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2012.0090

Semyon Lipkin (1911–2003) was one of the Soviet Union's most productive and visionary translators. In addition to introducing Russian readers to Persianate literary traditions and to the oral epics of the indigenous peoples of Central Asia and the Ca... Read More about World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference.