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Wai Chee Dimock
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 52
Citations - 1360
Wai Chee Dimock is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Historicism. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 50 publications receiving 1301 citations. Previous affiliations of Wai Chee Dimock include Yale University.
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Gender, the Market, and the Non-trivial in James
TL;DR: In a complex and philosophically resonant passage in Capital, Marx lays out his critique of the commodity form by critiquing its abstract operative principle, something like the epistemology of exchange.
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Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents
TL;DR: In the Komunyakaa/Gracia stage adaptation, it is not Gilgamesh, and not even Enkidu, but Humbaba, their not-quitehuman adversary, who becomes the emotional focus, turning a genre once dedicated to the hubris of kings and princes into one saturated by the pathos of those who are slaves to the gods.