Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 38

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 38The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is 'produced' rather than 'discovered,' and that translation is a core mechanism for the production and circulation of all forms of knowledge. This topic has received relatively limited attention in translation studies to date, and even less in related disciplines such as cultural studies and the history of ideas. This issue aims to encourage sustained engagement with the role

An anthology of previously unpublished and hard-to-find poetic material from early modern women who wrote in manuscript form

brings us poems from a singular poetic voice of the 20th century

Details human skeletal remains from Ban Chiang

and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology

But where do they come from

and draws wider conclusions about Thatcherism and Britain in the 1970s

Contributors examine the debates and practices that transformed relations between elite culture and everyday life

Delving deeply into the history and reasons of why these two groups work in close proximity

Free sample: Introduction – Why Aleppo is Important: Framework and War Scenario

In the sequence presented these are: the rituals of possession

In the aftermath of the First World War

and present case studies of its real world application