The Poetics of Otherness

The Poetics of Otherness PDF Author: J. Hart
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137477458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.

The Poetics of Otherness

The Poetics of Otherness PDF Author: J. Hart
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137477458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.

The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's 'proverbios Y Cantares'

The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's 'proverbios Y Cantares' PDF Author: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783164352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured to explain how the Other became a concern for the self. In The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s “Proverbios y cantares,” Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines how Machado’s “Proverbios y cantares,” a collection of short, proverbial poems spanning from 1909 to 1937, reveal some of the poet’s deepest concerns regarding the self-Other relationship. To appreciate Machado’s organizing concept of otherness in the “Proverbios y cantares,” Fernández-Medina argues how it must be contextualized in relation to the underlying Romantic concerns that Machado struggled with throughout most of his oeuvre, such as autonomy, solipsism and skepticism of absolutes. In The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s “Proverbios y cantares,” Fernández-Medina demonstrates how Machado continues a practice of “fragment thinking” to meld the poetic and the philosophical, the part and whole, and the finite and infinite to bring light to the complexities of the self-Other relationship and its relevance in discussions of social and ethical improvement in early twentieth-century Spain.

Global Transformations

Global Transformations PDF Author: M. Trouillot
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137041447
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the Twenty-first-century, by examining its past, its origins, and its conditions of possibility alongside the history of the North Atlantic world and the production of the West. In this significant book, Trouillot challenges contemporary anthropologists to question dominant narratives of globalization and to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, the emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and the relationship between anthropologists and the people whom they study.

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction PDF Author: José M. Yebra
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527546438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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This is the first book on Naomi Alderman’s literary production, and highlights the writer’s transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The four novels analysed here prove to be relevant, not only from a literary viewpoint, but also from the fields of ethics, spirituality and politics. The analysis thus focuses on issues such as alterity and respect towards the other in a globalized context. As such, the book will be of interest to literary critics, researchers, and students in the fields of literature, ethics, and social and cultural studies. The reader will find in the text a comprehensive approach to a young writer who undoubtedly deserves attention given her interrogation of varied and socially relevant topics, including gender and sexual orientation in the early twenty-first century, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and the discourse of feminist posthuman dystopias.

The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction PDF Author: Susana Onega
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000750264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler’s work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.

The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry

The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry PDF Author: Xiaojing Zhou
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587296799
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Poetry by Asian American writers has had a significant impact on the landscape of contemporary American poetry, and a book-length critical treatment of Asian American poetry is long overdue. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaojing Zhou demonstrates how many Asian American poets transform the conventional “I” of lyric poetry—based on the traditional Western concept of the self and the Cartesian “I”—to enact a more ethical relationship between the “I” and its others. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s idea of the ethics of alterity—which argues that an ethical relation to the other is one that acknowledges the irreducibility of otherness—Zhou offers a reconceptualization of both self and other. Taking difference as a source of creativity and turning it into a form of resistance and a critical intervention, Asian American poets engage with broader issues than the merely poetic. They confront social injustice against the other and call critical attention to a concept of otherness which differs fundamentally from that underlying racism, sexism, and colonialism. By locating the ethical and political questions of otherness in language, discourse, aesthetics, and everyday encounters, Asian American poets help advance critical studies in race, gender, and popular culture as well as in poetry. The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity is not limited, however, to literary studies: it is an invaluable response to the questions raised by increasingly globalized encounters across many kinds of boundaries. The Poets Marilyn Chin, Kimiko Hahn, Myung Mi Kim, Li Young Lee, Timothy Liu, David Mura, and John Yau

Essays on Otherness

Essays on Otherness PDF Author: Jean Laplanche
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134790333
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche's key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. It offers an introduction to many of the key themes that characterise his work: seduction, persecution, revelation, masochism, transference and mourning. Such themes have been increasingly both in psychoanalytic thought and in continental philosophy, social and cultural theory, and literature making Essays On Otherness indispensable reading for all those concerned with the implications of psychoanalytic theory today.

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge PDF Author: Don Byrd
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791416860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The Poetics of the Common Knowledge focuses on Descartes, Hegel, Freud, and the information theorists, on the one hand, and the poets of the American avant-garde, on the other. This book is a call literally for a new poetry, a new making that manifests the possibility for sense-making in a postmodern condition without universals or absolutes. In such a poetry, fragmentation bespeaks not brokenness but the richness of the world apprehended without the habits of recognition.

Moral Creativity

Moral Creativity PDF Author: John Wall
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195182561
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Wall argues that moral life is inherently creative. In arguing his case, he places the work of Paul Ricoeur in the larger context of historical & contemporary conversations about moral transformation, drawing connections between sin & tragedy, ethics & poetics, & between the moral life & religious mythology.

Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas

Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas PDF Author: Lauren Rule Maxwell
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557536414
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Returning to British Romantic poetry allows the novels to extend the Romantic poetics of landscape that traditionally considered the British subject's relation to place. By recasting Romantic poetics in the Americas, these novels show how negotiations of identity and power are defined by the legacies of British imperialism, illustrating that these nations, their peoples, and their works of art are truly postcolonial. While many postcolonial scholars and critics have dismissed the idea that Romantic poetry can be used to critique colonialism, Maxwell suggests that, on the contrary, it has provided contemporary writers across the Americas with a means of charting the literary and cultural legacies of British imperialism in the New World. The poems of the British Romantics offer postcolonial writers particularly rich material, Maxwell argues, because they characterize British influence at the height of the British empire.