Questioning the resistance to change of the West in constant crisis, and framed by early writings of Max Horkheimer and others, John E. O'Brien's historical-materialist method explores the contested ...perspectives of Voltaire, Schiller, Baudrillard, Foucault, Eagleton and Hayden White.
La presente investigación tiene por objetivo interpretar a las novelas La Genara de Rosina Conde y La giganta de Patricia Laurent Kullick como relatos explicativos donde tienen lugar una praxis de ...intelectualidad orgánica, de quehacer anti-hegemónico; feminista, de quehacer anti-opresor; y ch’ixi, de quehacer anti-colonizador. Busco una lectura crítica para identificar claves del posicionamiento de ambas novelas respecto a discursos hegemónicos que producen relaciones sociales de opresión.
This study aims to discover the formation of postcolonial identity by analyzing the poems of Baek Seok, Jung Ji-Yong, Yoon Dong-Ju through the means of the positive sublime, and thus investigate ...postcolonial resistance embedded in the spirit of 1930s Korean poems.Therefore, this paper diachronically reads each poet's works to examine the poetic process, which re-establishes identity with past (memory) and future (ideal) to escape present oppression of the colonial reign. The identity of the poetic subject, newly formed through the positive sublime, possesses postcolonial resistance that transcends the present dualistic colonial ideology.Under the perspective described above, this report explores the process of positive sublime shown in the poems of Baek Seok, Jung Ji-Yong, Yoon Dong-Ju in three stages. The first part of each chapter investigates the alienation which the present poetic subject experiences by exposing the vacant identity of colonized subject, shattered by dualistic symbolic order, which is the colonial authority itself. This alienation postulates the collapse of the signification and forms the background of the positive sublime, that tries to flee from the symbolic order and aspire a new individuality.Moving on, the second part of each chapter reveals aspects of the poetic subject that realize the past as the secondary narcissism through the posteriorly formed past, i.e., the myth of memory. The past space is presented as an imaginary space that is in coidentity with the world to the poetic subject, but it connotes anxiety and schism as it is posteriorly established by the symbolized subject while premising the present. This factor prevents the poetic subject from withdrawing to the past and operates the mechanism of the myth of desire towards ideal, i.e., the future.The chapters' third part examines the myth of desire that forms from the unification of ideal and ego. The poetic subject, who founded a low-level sublimation by indirectly alienating the present in part two, now in part three, achieves the transcendence that subverts the negativity, which is the ground of the "other," through imagination. This accomplishment of the new signification establishes a new balance between the subject and the outer world.Through imagination, that neutralizes symbols in the context of its preexistence to the signified, the colonized subject escapes the present colonialism. The poetic subject's figure that acquires enhanced identity by re-signifying the present via unification with the imaginary big Other is the overcome of the deficiency of the identity of the present, which is caused by the symbolic big Other, and also the accomplishment of the positive sublime.As the equivalent enumeration of images achieves the positive sublime, it can be read as a metonymical sublime. The positive sublime that dismantles specificity and obliterates the previous order of signifier forms through the syntagmatic axis. In connection with the frame of postcolonial discourse that escapes hierarchy, it works as the mechanism for the formation of a postcolonial identity.Under such discussion, the second chapter of this paper discloses that the poetic subject of the poem of Baek Seok, who is a colonized subject that suffers from anxiety of signifying the present, forms a postcolonial identity through the positive sublime, that flees from colonial capitalism authority by the myth of memory which is the axis of past, and the myth of desire which is the axis of future.His works repeatedly present the hybrid colonized subject. The failure to signify that the hybrid subject encounters serves as the first step of sublime. Later, the hybrid subject's desire to escape from the oppressing present actualizes as the spiritual transcendence.Baek's childhood poetry as the myth of memory is suggested as a ritual ground that reveals imagination and holistic mind which eliminate the symbolic signifier structure of the present. This movement is also portrayed by returning the excluded objects that the modern symbolic order has designated as abjection.Additionally, the ground of the past is also presented as a ground of utter horror; horror is generated by rupture of signification triggered by intrusion of the present. Horror exposes present signifier order as death and meanwhile prevents withdrawal to the past and insists on the chain reaction towards the myth of desire, the axis of the future. This is the second stage of the sublime.Regarding Baek Seok's myth of desire, poetic subject's resistance against negative symbolic order, and the formation of a new identity realizes following the relationship between the world–the representation of colonial reign–and the poor poetic subject. The poetic subject, suffering from colonial capitalism, overcomes its identity as an imitator and transforms into a being that brings a rupture to the negative signifier branded to poverty. (Abstract Shortened by ProQuest).
This book develops a Marxist theory of literary style via a critical investigation of the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson.
Fanfiction is a parallel textual production that has remained largely unexplored within the Portuguese Academia. The goal of this essay is to present the fanfiction and its connections to the ...Academic field of Literature through their communalities such as the Reader, the Writer and the Author, legitimizing its production, presence and reading habits.
This paper scrutinizes Cyprian Ekwensi's delineation of ethnic consciousness and the quest for national unity in Iska. The paper explores how destructive ethnic conscious politicians use politics and ...even their political thugs to instill more destructive ethnic consciousness in people. It deploys sociological theory of literature, especially Priscilla Clark's theory of place or function of society in literature, and Terry Eagleton's theory of the writer and commitment to analyze the text. Apart from demonstrating that destructive consciousness creates hatred and divisions in the society, the paper also demonstrates that socio-political change is possible. The paper, however, recommends among others, that education should be made a (top) priority for people in Nigeria. In all, the paper concludes that politics and politicians are responsible for destructive ethnic consciousness in Nigeria.
Realism in Victorian novels is often understood in relation to the increasingly professionalized disciplines of science—especially biology—which achieved a near monopoly on defining reality by the ...end of the period. In this narrative, novels that depart from the models of naturalistic science may be allegorical, speculative, or Romantic, among other options, but are not realistic. Narrative Energy offers a revision of this account, arguing that the diversity of theories, practices, and philosophies within nineteenth-century science necessitate a broader understanding of the relationship between science and the real in Victorian literature. In particular, I examine the influence of physics, which offered a vision of reality that integrated theological and secular approaches to knowledge-making. This dissertation therefore asks, how were changing definitions of the scientific real received in and developed by novels? It suggests that two central concepts in nineteenth-century physics, energy and ether, provided a discourse through which to unite exceptionality and realism, inspiring new modes of investigation, allowing for the formation of uncanny connections between disparate characters, and modelling novel ways of reading the natural world. Each chapter examines a novel or set of novels—The Woman in White, Daniel Deronda, King Solomon’s Mines, and She—that are not neatly categorized as realistic, tracing their engagement with energy and ether to explore their construction of a real that has since become unfamiliar to modern readers.
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