This paper analyses the skin, a key core of signification in the poetic work of Sylvia Plath, in the light of the proposals of Didier Anzieu and Hélene Cixous: the "skin ego', "thinking the skin', ...the reflection on the scar and the notion of "women's writing', completed by other contemporary reflections on skin, surface, wound and vulnerability. The objective is to formulate the existence of a “poetics of skin” in the work of the American writer with the mediation of the literary, psychoanalytical and philosophical conceptual map of the aforementioned authors
In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom-politically, religiously, and creatively-is Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. His "non serviam," though, is not ...just the profound rebellion of one frustrated young man, but, as Brivic demonstrates in this sweeping account of twentieth-century Irish fiction, the emblematic and necessary standpoint for anyartist wishing to envision something truly new. Revolutionary fervor is what allowed a country with a population lower than that of Connecticut to produce so many of the greatest writers of the twentiety century.
Because Irish culture was largely dictated by the Catholic Church and its conservatism, the most ambitious Irish writers, like Joyce, Beckett, and the ten others Brivic presents here, saw the advantages of damnation and seized them, rejecting powerful norms of church, state, and culture, as well as of literary form, voice, and character, to produce some of the most radical work of the twentieth century. Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann O'Brien, Patrick McCabe, and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain Badiou. His mathematical procedure for distinguishing what is truly innovative informs the progressive political and philosophical thrust that these writers at their best carry on from Joyce and Beckett to unfold a fierce tradition that extends into the twenty-first century.
In this critical study of the thought of Augusto Cesar Sandino and his followers, Donald C. Hodges has discovered a coherent ideological thread and political program, which he succeeds in tracing to ...Mexican and Spanish sources. Sandino's strong religious inclination in combination with his anarchosyndicalist political ideology established him as a religious seer and moral reformer as well as a political thinker and is the prototype of the curious blend of Marxism and Christianity of the late twentieth-century Nicaraguan government, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
The Wind Blew Inside His Head Sorestad, Glen
Queen's quarterly,
12/2013, Letnik:
120, Številka:
4
Journal Article, Magazine Article
Recenzirano
except the wind. The wind went with him. GLEN SORESTAD is author of over twenty poetry books, including the bilingual English-Spanish edition A Thief of Impeccable Taste. His poems have appeared in ...over sixty anthologies and have been translated into seven languages. He lives in Saskatoon.
Second Star to the Right Friedman, Lester D; Kavey, Allison B
2008, 20081128, 2009, c2009., 2008-11-28
eBook
The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation ...in the cultural imagination.
Questions regarding the validity of alternative conceptual schemes have long pervaded the philosophy of language. Donald Davidson, in "On the Very idea of a Conceptual Scheme," levels one of the most ...concerted attacks against the validity of alternative conceptual schemes. His philosophical assault is formulated as a self-refutation argument, sharing many structural similarities with that of Berkeley's Master Argument. Here, Engle endeavors to undermine the very notion of a conceptual scheme by arguing that to hold the view is to hold a self-contradictory position. He questions whether this particular argument stands up to in-depth scrutiny and criticism. He outlines Davidson's case that the idea of alternative conceptual schemes is nonsensical and self-refuting. Details Thomas Nagel's response and defense of differing conceptual schemes. Addresses the defenses against Nagel put forward by Davidson and Crumley. Offers a new fusion of philosophical and scientific principles to elucidate a case for effective conceptual biological determinism, a case that is largely supportive of Nagel. And seeks to demonstrate that Davidson's argument against conceptual schemes fails to hold up against Nagel's refutation.
Meetings with Anna Akhmatova Venclova, Tomas; Hinsey, Ellen
New England review (1990),
01/2014, Letnik:
34, Številka:
3/4
Journal Article
An excerpt of a conversation between Tomas Venclova and Ellen Hinsey from the book Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is presented. Venclova answers Hinsey's questions regarding his ...meetings with Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
Yakuglas' legacy Hawker, Ronald William; James, Charlie
Yakuglas' legacy,
2016, 20161207, 2016, 2016-12-07, 2017-01-06
eBook
"Charlie James (1867-1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia. Also known by his ceremonial name Yakuglas, he was hawker a prolific artist and ...activist during a period of severe oppression for First Nations people in Canada."--
"Yakuglas' Legacy examines the life of Charlie James. During the early part of his career, James created works primarily for ritual use within Kwakwaka'wakw society. However, in the 1920s, his art found a broader audience as he produced more miniatures and paintings. Through a balanced reading of the historical period and James' artistic production, Ronald W. Hawker argues that James' shift to contemporary art forms allowed the artist to make a critical statement about the vitality of Kwakwaka'wakw culture. Yakuglas' Legacy, aided by the inclusion of 123 illustrations, is at once a beautiful and poignant book about the impact of the Canadian project on Aboriginal people and their artistic response."--
In this work, Mora Ordóñez conducts a reading of Sangre en el desierto. Las muertas de Juárez, a novel by Mexican-American writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, published in 2008, which narrates the daily ...experiences of women from Ciudad Juárez and El Paso (Texas), within a context of male domination, labor exploitation, violence and death. A literary analysis of the representations of the body of the female subjects is proposed, with the objective of identifying meanings that determine the configuration of their identities and imaginaries. A first reading reveals a relationship between the fragmented geographical, urban and social space, penetrated by violence, and the traits that characterize the female characters. Thus, the identities of women in the desert, of the border city and, particularly, in the periphery and in the factories, are constructed from two conditions: an identity defined by male and societal judgments and stereotypes; and an identity defined individually by the women themselves.
In this preface, I will highlight other readings and poems that further illustrate this basket weaving technique in which I imagine the river reeds, or the materials that encompass the works of the ...poems herein, to include: 1) em dashes, 2) forms of narrative point of view, in conversation with narrative self, and in dialogue with others, 3) fill-in-the-blank styles, 4) enjambments that can break the line, and the sentence, towards sexuality, 5) mixing of mediums, and 6) poetic images of the female body in separation, and in unifying collision, with other bodies. It is my hope that these materials, once fitted together, become a harmonious artifact that harkens to Beck’s exploration of racial, social, and familial boundaries.
