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Melody Makers: Gonzalo Tena on Gertrude Stein
No full textA guide to the exhibition "Stanzas" comprising works by Spanish artist Gonzalo Tena and inspired by the writings of American author Gertrude Stein. The exhibition was held in Barcelona, at Galeria Maeght
Language and Public Culture
No full textLanguage and Public Culture is a resource for the study of English. The result of two courses taught by the author at Sapienza University of Rome, the book draws on a variety of texts to enhance students' critical reading skills. The volume is divided into two parts and approaches linguistic analysis from the vantage point of recent debates on key cultural issues, such as power and gender. Part I, "Political Language and Phantasy," discusses twentieth-century controversial figures of British Prime Ministers. Part II, "Masculinity, Femininity, and the Language of the Press," takes on gender representations in verbal and visual media texts and includes discussions of key twentieth-century American writers like Susan Sontag and Joan Didion.The book has a two-part structure. In Part I, “Political Language and Phantasy,” I draw on the resources of psychoanalysis to discuss the language and persona of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, I propose that political discourse is a public version of the individual drama of an ego that, by saying ego, comes into public being. Following up on this analysis, Part II of the book invites students who, in the majority of cases, had not been exposed to discussions of gender, to analyse verbal and visual texts to see how they enforce certain dominant views of identities of masculinity and femininity
Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory Edinburgh Scholarship Online
No full textThis study reintroduces critique. It begins by defining the difference between criticism and critique, and goes on to propose an ampler, dynamic view of critique as a movement of geographical and intellectual displacements. Against the background of a wide-
ranging archive, discussion illuminates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory, in particular, acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This ‘living thought’ cuts across the translation of European thought into Anglo-American theory and carries with it lingering modernist motifs linked to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. While connecting to the ‘post-critique’
debate, the study focuses on recovering the ethical underpinnings of critique. It demonstrates that before being a specific method or disciplinary practice, critique is a stance including indocility receptiveness, openness to transformation awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality, and wonder. The book is structured around fundamental keywords in the lexicon of literary studies: critic, theory, language, tradition, text, method, and poststructuralism. It argues that literary critical practice is allied with the movement of thought outside cruel dynamics of humanization (the struggle for recognition, the gaze of the other), and reflects on the role of reading in the important task of imagining others
Review of Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature, by Elizabeth Outka
No full textWritten at the height of the current Pandemic, this review presents a timely scholarly study by Elizabeth Outka on the Influenza Pandemic of 1919 (also called Spanish Flu) and its effect on the interwar period and its literary representation. The review focuses particularly on Outka's interesting chapter on T. S. Eliot, which highlights the shaping, if underexamined, effects of the Pandemic on Eliot's masterpiece, The Waste Land, as well as on his celebrated essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent.
Antigone e il legame di fratellanza
No full textNello spazio immateriale della polis del V secolo a.C., spazio necessario al realizzarsi di una vita veramente umana, si consuma il dramma di una donna, Antigone, che, violando il decreto del re di Tebe, Creonte, di lasciare insepolto
il cadavere di suo fratello Polinice, realizza la sua apparizione nella sfera pubblica e il superamento di quella marginalità storicamente determinata cui era condannata. Nella partecipazione attiva che prende corpo attraverso le
sue azioni e le sue parole si afferma una nozione di vita in continua tensione con la storia e la politica. L’autrice ricostruisce il mondo imploso in cui agisce Antigone, la sorella Ismene e il potere politico incarnato nella figura di Creonte e ne propone una lettura in cui il lutto familiare fa da antefatto al più
grande problema della giustizia e della legge e a come deve essere edificata una società umana. Il che significa che è in gioco anche la liberazione del pensiero che può pensare un nuovo ordine del mondo in cui ogni esclusione è
bandita in nome di una rinnovata fratellanza. È così che Antigone diventa emblema dei rifiutati, dei diseredati, degli emarginati e di tutti coloro che non hanno “uno statuto ontologico” ben definito nella nostra società e, dunque,
una pensatrice del politico inteso come spazio in cerca di una forma che vada oltre il legame sociale e oltre un’uguaglianza semplicemente giuridica
Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory
No full textThis book reintroduces critique. It begins with the difference between criticism and critique and goes on to propose an ampler view of critique as a movement of geographical and intellectual displacements. Against the background of a wide ranging archive, lingering modernist, feminist and psychoanalytic motifs illuminate uneven theoretical temporalities and occluded, eccentric lines of reflection. Structured around keywords, such as critic, theory, language, tradition, text, method, poststructuralism, this inquiry offers a narrative of literary critical practice in its alliance with the movement of thought outside cruel dynamics of humanization (the struggle for recognition, the gaze of the other), and reflects on the role of reading in the important task of imagining others
Critique and the Idea of Translation
Full text linkThis issue of de genere invites us to reflect on the following question: How can
translation contribute to the pursuit of a more inclusive culture that is invested in
undoing hierarchies and favoring plurality? My article considers the metaphorical
potential of translation for critique. It discusses the notion of translation as a
movement of ideas across disciplinary borders, using as a case study the border
between philosophy and theory as it is interrogated in the work and career of Fredric
Jameson
On Diaspora, Coerced Mimeticism, and Surfaces An Interview with Rey Chow
No full textThe interview is an introduction to the work of Rey Chow. Chow contends that cultural studies should not be seen as a poor relation of theory. She talks about the dilemmas of "packaging" ethnic or non-canonical authors, China in the Western imagination, and Chinese cinema, particularly Zhang Yimou
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, by Deborah Nelson
No full textA review of Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, by Deborah Nelson (U of Chicago P, 2018). The review illustrates Nelson's aim, which is to bring six remarkable women into conversation with the present through the shared motif of suffering. The review argues emphasizes Nelson's ambition to re-imagine the critical tradition through the contribution of women intellectual who respond to “systems that fundamentally presuppose a face-to-face encounter with the Other” with another ethical mode that requires sharing the world with others. Discussion evaluates positively Nelson’s interest in thinkers who know, fear, or imagine well what it means to be “terrorize[d] into abandoning thought” (64)
Between Suspicion and Love. Reality, Postcritique, and Euro-American Modernization (An Introduction to the Debate)
Full text linkThe essay introduces major tenets in the current debate on postcritique, focusing especially on the widespread rejection of symptomatic reading in literary studies and on the rejection of rupture as both a modernist and theoretical model for the conception of the new. Further, it presents theory as a phase of Euro-American modernization. Finally, it outlines a wider, more dynamic concept of critique, understood as a movement of intellectual—and geographical—displacements
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