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The Classics Which Is (Not) Ours
We have framed this collection of writing about ancient Greek and Roman literature around the contrary idea of the "Greece which is (not) ours" in an attempt to capture the dynamic and creative tensions that arise when doing classical scholarship in full awareness of the different ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have constructed ancient Greece and Rome in their own image.
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Image by Byron Browne; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
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Image by Byron Browne; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
Intervention
Towards a Just Memory: Remembering Survivors of Sexual Violence through Memorials
By
Lin Li

In September 2017, a memorial dedicated to survivors of the "comfort women" system was unveiled in downtown San Francisco. As the largest modern sexual slavery system, the "comfort women" system was created and overseen by the Imperial Japanese Government between 1931 and 1945.

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21st-Century Marxisms
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Recent efforts in Marxist theory attempt to understand the origins of today’s debt- and finance-based economy, without neglecting its social and cultural aspects.
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Shakespearean Slips
By
William Flesch

Though Shakespeare may not have invented parapraxes, he certainly exploited their psychological depths long before Freud. 

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Elena Ferrante's Run-ons
By
Christopher Warley

Her run-on sentences are the mechanism for producing a distinctive reality effect. They deny, at the micro-level, any logical cohesion or narrative arc or life story, even as they are part of a retrospective narration whose end is never really in doubt.

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