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Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory. Mena Mitrano
No full textReview of Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory by Mena Mitrano
Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”
Full text linkCarlo MartinezUniversità "Gabriele d\u27Annunzio,"Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory.” (In the present issue of RIAS).Keywords: reflexivity, American studies as Italian Theory, literary theory, cultural theory, American Studies, the New Americanist
Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”
No full textCarlo MartinezUniversità "Gabriele d'Annunzio,"
Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory.” (In the present issue of RIAS).
Keywords: reflexivity, American studies as Italian Theory, literary theory, cultural theory, American Studies, the New Americanist
In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism
No full textThis adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an ‘unwritten theory’ suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities
Notes on Method (Thinking with the nape of the neck).
No full textThis article explores the tension between objective knowledge and the individual path, addressing the evolving nature of literary studies and the role of method in the Humanities. From Hans-Georg Gadamer, who first raised the problem of method in the Humanities, to thinkers of the human condition (represented here by José Ortega y Gasset and Marίa Zambrano), the article shows that the act of reading – presumably the central activity in literary studies– is fatally entangled with the pursuit of what I call an unsheltered human condition. Following up on the work of Toril Moi, my reflection proposes that the act of reading, central to literary studies, is inherently linked to the search for an impersonal primary scene that bequeaths a human figure turned towards its opaque condition. The consequences of this entanglement play out, among other things, in the strange figure of the critic. The reflection focuses on the shift from methodological concerns to the emancipation of the critic and considers the extended concepts of text and writing
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Happiness in Voice Land: Walter Benjamin's Radio Broadcasts
No full textThis is a review essay of the book Radio Benjamin (2014), edited by Lecia Rosenthal whose makes available, for
the first time to English-speaking readers a significant selection of the Benjamin broadcasts for the German radio between 1927 and 1933. The review focuses on Benjamin's style of addressing children through the new medium of the radio and judges positively Rosenthal's work in shedding light on the link between childhood and a different mode of critical thought in Benjamin’s oeuvre
Monnier, Adrienne (1892–1955)
No full textAdrienne Monnier was a gifted writer, editor, bookseller, publisher, patron, and salon keeper based in Paris. For the rst half of the twentieth century, Monnier was at the centre of an international intellectual network, a sought-after hostess who welcomed to her home and table many American friends of her companion, Sylvia Beach. Her bookstore, La Maison des Amis de Livres, was located at 7 rue de l’Odeon. It was made possible by the indemnity money that Monnier’s father got from a train accident. Initially, it served as a lending library and specialized in modern authors, with a section on the ‘entire world’ and another on Tibet and Tibetan yoga. Her love of books turned the place from an anonymous bookstore to, as France Soir put it in 1953, ‘un espáce de célebrité’. Monnier organized readings called ‘Les Séance des Amis des Livre’ and held Wednesday gatherings devoted to lectures and presentations. In her bookstore Valery Larbaud lectured on James Joyce for the rst time on December 7, 1921. An untiring cultural entrepreneur, she also edited and published her own review, Le Navire d’Argent
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