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Translation and response between Maurice Blanchot and Lydia Davis
Get PDFWhen an author translates a text by another writer, this translation is one form of a response to that text. Other responses may appear in their own writings that are more inflected with their authorial persona. Lydia Davis translated six books by Maurice Blanchot, including fiction and theoretical writings. Blanchot’s concept of the récit privileges non-conventional forms of narrative and it can be considered to have influenced Davis, a view shared in critical writing about Davis. However, responses to his fiction can also be found in Davis’s work. This article reads Lydia Davis’s story “Story” as a response to Maurice Blanchot’s récit, La Folie du jour, translated by Davis as “The Madness of the Day”. Both texts develop a narrative that questions the possibility of arriving at a single story: Blanchot’s narrator cannot tell the story of how he came to have glass ground into his eyes, while Davis’s narrator must try to understand a contradictory story told to her by her lover. However, Davis responds to Blanchot by reversing the perspective in the story: where Blanchot’s narrator must and cannot create a story that explains his situation in a judicial/medical context, Davis’s narrator is struggling to understand her lover’s story which does not explain the situation that they find themselves in. Davis’s narrator is therefore motivated by an emotional need to find an acceptable story that is absent from Blanchot’s narrator. This difference in motivation is central to the difference between Davis’s and Blanchot’s approach, and complicates any reading of his influence on her because she responds to his text in her own
The crisis, or The British muse to the British minister and nation. /
No full textVerso of half title (p. [2] at front) blank.Written by Thomas Maurice, and addressed to William Pitt. Cf. NUC pre-1956.In verse.ESTCMode of access: Internet
From flesh to fiction : the visible and the invisible in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen.
No full textPhDOur ways of thinking modernism and its legacy are imprinted with the pattern of an
opposition, a struggle between two sets of extremes: objective and subjective; form
and feeling; mechanistic and organic; mind and body; knowing and being; self and
world; aesthetic and historical. The three writers whose work I explore in this thesis
challenge prevailing notions of this oppositional discourse. Entering the scene of
modernism late in its history, Elizabeth Bowen, Eudora Welty and Maurice Merleau-
Ponty develop a new kind of vision that makes us rethink the relationships between
perceiver and perceived, between mind, body and world. All three writers undertake a
fundamental reorganisation of the relationships between internal consciousness and
external things through the narration of a perception that is outside the limits of
discrete sensations or causal relationships. Physical things are neither pure objecthood
nor merely external triggers for the ramblings of a solipsistic consciousness, rather
they infringe on a consciousness whose own edges are indistinct. This writing
establishes an interdependent and interlocutory relationship between subject and
world, which become not opposite ends of a perceptual scale, but aspects of a common
flesh. The intimate connection to the world is both comforting and threatening, both
reinforcing subjectivity and de-centring it.
The re-ordering of the connections between self and world leads to a reassessment of
collective identity and historical agency, as well as impacting upon approaches to
modes of representation. In trying to express the pre-linguistic experience of embodied
consciousness, this writing looks to models of mute expression found in visual images.
Exploring how the invisible aspects of experience emerge within the visible realm, the
writing takes on an often hallucinatory or uncanny character. Charting the passage
from being to doing, from perception to creation, from the style of the flesh to the style
of fiction, Merleau-Ponty, Welty and Bowen dissolve received boundaries and
distinctions at every level
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record.This chapter brings together some of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s scattered remarks about emotions and integrate them with his more general claims about embodiment, mind, and self to illuminate his view of emotions. It argues that Merleau-Ponty defends an externalist approach anticipating current debates in philosophy of emotions. For Merleau-Ponty, emotions are embodied. This amounts to more than the trivial claim that emotions depend upon our brain and central nervous system. Merleau-Ponty’s view is, therefore, a kind of embodied externalism in that the vehicles of emotions span neural and extra-neural bodily processes. They are realized not just in but also across the body’s “expressive space”. Versions of this environmental externalism are found in recent debates about the scaffolded nature of affectivity and emotions. Merleau-Ponty appears amenable to at least two varieties of a scaffolded approach to emotions
Wrestling with the Angel: Maurice Dantec, God, and Deleuze
No full textMaurice Dantec (1959-2016), Canadian-French novelist, was a cyberpunk author with a strong
interest in Science, Christian theology and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). He
married those sources in his novels and his literary journals. This article analyzes the interplay
of religious, scientific and Deleuzian imagery, guided by the figure of angels. I begin with a
study of Dantec’s stylistic characteristics, his journey toward Catholic orthodoxy and his
apocalyptic understanding of our world. It is in one of his novel, Cosmos Incorporated,
published in 2006, that Dantec’s recipe coalesced in the most brilliant manner. The last part of
this article is centered on a long passage from this novel, describing a struggle between Good
and Evil, where all the intellectual resources and philosophical and theological references of
the author are mobilized.補正完
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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771
No full textMaurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural affirmation. Yet this paper argues that within it there lies a virile and possibly dangerous Orientalism, one at least partially based upon a lurid, opportunistic and self-seeking fabrication of his visit to Taiwan (Formosa) in the year 1771. This paper examines the veracity, provenance and historiography of the Benyowsky account of late-eighteenth century Formosa, both as an exercise in one facet of Taiwanese history and as some exploration of the origin and maintenance of European views of the "other" and of the "orient" as they were transforming during the late-Enlightenment period. Furthermore a principal task is to provide an historiographical analysis that illustrates both the initial reasons for the acceptance of Benyowsky's lurid account as well as the wider contexts of its long life as a seemingly reliable and authentic tale. Questions remain as to the cultural contexts of any general acceptance of otherwise doubtful stories, experiments, claims and "adventures". Here there is little doubt that the original Memoirs were given greater credence by Benyowsky's talent in self-fashioning his character and status as those of a reliable gentleman
Parabotia Dabry
No full textParabotia Dabry Parabotia Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 (type species: Parabotia fasciata Dabry de Thiersant, 1872, by monotypy). Gender feminine. Remarks. Nalbant (2002: 316) lists the author of Parabotia and P. fasciata as "Guichenot, in Dabry de Thiersant, 1872". Dabry de Thiersant (1872) effectively mentions Guichenot as author of the name. But Guichenot did not publish this name. He apparently only labelled the fishes under that name in the collection (other cases are mentioned, e.g., by Bleeker, 1871) and clearly Dabry is responsible of the conditions which make the name available, and therefore is sole author (ICZN art. 50.1 is explicit). Included species: Parabotia banarescui (Nalbant, 1965) Parabotia bimaculata Chen, 1980 ? Parabotia dubia Kottelat, 2001 (synonym: Botia elongata Mai, 1978 (non Bleeker, 1870)) Parabotia fasciata Dabry, 1872 (synonyms: Nemachilus xanthi Günther, 1888, Botia multifasciata Regan, 1905, Leptobotia mantschurica Berg, 1907, L. intermedia Mori, 1929, L. hopeiensis Shaw & Tchang, 1931, L. kudorii Mori, 1933, B. kwangsiensis Fang, 1936, B. wui Chang, 1944) Parabotia lijiangensis Chen, 1980 Parabotia maculosa (Wu, 1939) Parabotia parva Chen, 1980Published as part of Maurice Kottelat, 2004, Botia kubotai, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the Ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on botiine nomenclature and diagnosis of a new genus., pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 401 on pages 15-1
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
Get PDFThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
«An empirical prove wich becomes a reasoned plan». Maurice Agulhon and the history of sociability
Get PDFThe French historian Maurice Agulhon is regarded as the «father» of the apparition of the concept of «sociability», applied to the historical studies, in the Sixties of the XX century. This term obtained almost immediate acceptance because its value in order to renew several sectors of social history then practised. The present work tries to approach to the mentioned concept as it was firstly conceived by Agulhon; and to the following revisions of it which were released lately by the same French author. Fertility of those works can be still observed nowadays</p
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