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The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora
No full textRoderick A. Ferguson is professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and the author and editor of six books, including the groundbreaking Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). As the 2020 recipient of the Kessler Award, his influence on the field of LGBTQ studies has been acknowledged by the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
“To Steal Away from Immoralities :” African American Racialization and the Paradox of Modernity
No full text“To Steal Away from Immoralities : African American Racialization and the Paradox of Modernity” argues that racial projects emanating from and constitutive of Western modernity can be seen in the definition of freedom as a mode of moral subjection. African American intellectual formations, specifically, arise out of that definition. As such, those formations illuminate how the broad projects of freedom presume regulations at the level of gender and sexuality.Cet article, «To Steal Away from Immoralities : African-American Racialization and the Paradox of Modernity», entend démontrer que, dans l’Occident de la modernité, les constructions raciales, et particulièrement celles émanant d’intellectuels afro-américains, ressortissent à conception de la liberté fondée sur une sujétion morale régulant plus généralement les comportements sur les plans du genre et de la sexua¬ lité.Ferguson Roderick A. “To Steal Away from Immoralities :” African American Racialization and the Paradox of Modernity. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°40, juin 2006. L'objet identité. Épistémologie et transversalité. pp. 173-190
2007 Colin Roderick Lecture
No full textLet me thank my audience for coming to listen to me today: let me thank the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies for inviting me to give this year’s Colin Roderick Lectures.<br />I like to think that Professor Roderick would have looked kindly on the choice of a lecturer drawn from the bleak, ambiguous demi-monde where journalism and literary endeavours meet - for he was involved, as many of you will know, during his days as an editor at Angus and Robertson, in the celebrated libel case in 1961 over “The Bandar-Log,” a novel, still unpublished, by the distinguished Canberra press gallery journalist, Alan Reid. Roderick’s own writings had a strong influence on me at a particular point in my path as an author: but the one act of his that resonates most strongly in my thoughts is the decision he made, 40 years ago, to establish a centre for the study of Australian writing here in the North.</jats:p
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
The ethical ambivalence of holism: An exploration through the thought of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze
No full textThis chapter examines the disputed ethical status of holism through comparing aspects of the work of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze as two twentieth-century thinkers who reflected deeply on the concept of wholeness. Using Jung’s psychology as a sophisticated and influential example of holistic thought, the chapter first highlights relevant holistic features of this model, especially the concepts of the self and unus mundus (one world), and traces the cultural and social benefits that are claimed to flow from such a version of holism. It then confronts Jung’s model with Deleuze’s more constructivist way of thinking about wholes and totality in terms of difference, multiplicity, and pure immanence, which aims to ensure that his concept of the whole remains open. The Deleuzian perspective arguably exposes a number of questionable philosophical assumptions and less salubrious ethical implications in Jung’s holism. In order to assess whether this Deleuzian critique is answerable, the chapter focuses attention on the understanding of transcendence and immanence within each thinker’s model. Distinguishing between theism, pantheism, and panentheism, the author proposes that the metaphysical logic of panentheism can provide a framework that is capable of reconciling the two thinkers’ concepts of the whole
Species of Selenophoma on North American grasses
No full textby Roderick Sprague and A. G. Johnson.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-43).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Robert Southey’s Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814): structure, analysis and translation
No full textTrabajo que analiza la obra más relevante del escritor inglés Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths, poema escrito en 25 cantos y por el que su autor recibiría los elogios más encendidos de la crítica contemporánea, que lo llegaría a encumbrar por encima de Paradise Lost de Milton. Tras una breve introducción a la figura en que se inspira Southey, el rey Don Rodrigo, así como al menor de los poetas lakistas y sus incursiones en la historia de España, llevamos a cabo un análisis del poema, para traducir posteriormente el canto segundo, “Roderick in Solitude”, formado por 246 versos libres, que traducidos en alejandrinos, lo que nos permite conservar toda la elegancia y atmósfera del poema originalThis paper analyses the most relevant work written by the English poet Robert Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths. With this poem, written in 25 cantos, the author gained a reputation with his contemporary critics that raised him over Milton’s Paradise Lost. After presenting a brief introduction to Don Rodrigo’s figure, that inspired Southey, and also to that of this minor Lake poet and his forays into Spanish history, the present study provides an analysis of the poem and the translation of Canto II, “Roderick in Solitude”, composed of 246 lines in free verse. The translation in alexandrines will allow us to maintain the same elegance and atmosphere of the original poem
Roderick the Last of the Goths (1814) de Robert Southey: estructura, análisis y traducción
No full textThis paper analyses the most relevant work written by the English poet Robert Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths. With this poem, written in 25 cantos, the author gained a reputation with his contemporary critics that raised him over Milton’s Paradise Lost. After presenting a brief introduction to Don Rodrigo’s figure, that inspired Southey, and also to that of this minor Lake poet and his forays into Spanish history, the present study provides an analysis of the poem and the translation of Canto II, “Roderick in Solitude”, composed of 246 lines in free verse. The translation in alexandrines will allow us to maintain the same elegance and atmosphere of the original poem.Trabajo que analiza la obra más relevante del escritor inglés Southey: Roderick the Last of the Goths, poema escrito en 25 cantos y por el que su autor recibiría los elogios más encendidos de la crítica contemporánea, que lo llegaría a encumbrar por encima de Paradise Lost de Milton. Tras una breve introducción a la figura en que se inspira Southey, el rey Don Rodrigo, así como al menor de los poetas lakistas y sus incursiones en la historia de España, llevamos a cabo un análisis del poema, para traducir posteriormente el canto segundo, “Roderick in Solitude”, formado por 246 versos libres, que traducidos en alejandrinos, lo que nos permite conservar toda la elegancia y atmósfera del poema original
Modelling desiccation cracking in a homogenous soil clay layer: comparison between different hypotheses on constitutive behaviour
No full textDesiccation cracks are usually thought to start from the surface of an evaporating soil layer, and the available simplified models for crack initiation and propagation are based on this hypothesis. On the contrary, experimental results on a Dutch river clay showed that cracks in an evaporating soil layer may start and propagate below the surface, confirming earlier findings by other researchers. A simple one-dimensional model was set up to analyse the consequences of different hypotheses about the material behaviour on the crack onset in a homogenous soil layer undergoing surface drying. The results of the model show that dependence of the material behaviour on the rate of water content change is a necessary requirement for cracks to initiate below the surface. The conclusion suggests that, to properly understand cracking in an evaporating soil layer, an intrinsic time scale for the mechanical response must be accounted for, among all the other factors which were previously highlighted by other researchers. The key factor to predict crack onset below the surface is the dependence of the drying branch of the water retention curve of the compressible soil on the rate of drying, which would be justified by a rate dependent fabric evolution
The View from Here: Toward a Sissy Critique
No full textThis dissertation situates 20th- and 21st-century American literary studies within a post-civil rights context that recognizes how narratives of U.S. exceptionalism have been employed in service of U.S. empire through the recognition of some groups of difference over others. I argue that always at each moment of inclusion, the nation-state invokes a rubric of militarized masculinity to ensure and expand its normative power, to increase legitimate violence, to gain new administrative capacities, and to advance U.S. economic and militaristic strength. My term militarized masculinity sounds out an ideology of exceptionalism that transcends the literal boundaries of military spaces and bodies to permeate the national public, valuing masculine aggression and disciplined, docile patriotism at once. “The View from Here” analyzes the terms of inclusion of difference at specific moments from the 1970s to the present through the works of writers who understand that state recognition means being folded into the state’s love of masculine violence and write against it. Thus, my dissertation generates a mode of critique from the epistemological position of the sissy figure. I contend that the qualities understood as sissy make up a resistant, antithetical node to state power through its disidentification with it. In its broader concerns, my work produces a mode of critique that is not universal but connected to its time. It foregrounds literature and cultural texts that do not or cannot assent to instances of racial, gendered, or sexual minority inclusion uncritically. Consequently, these works often are overlooked for inclusion in institutionalized multicultural settings including the university precisely because they give the lie to narratives of U.S. exceptionalism. Rather, I assemble an archive consisting of many forms—essay, poetry, novel, drama, film—by writers who are often queer of color and who speak to the limits of inclusion and imagine radical alternatives to it. This dissertation resituates literary value from its normative mode to the perspective of a sissy figure capable of illuminating and critiquing militarized masculinity as the nation-state’s rubric and its horizon and imagines otherwise
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