An open group for all members interested in literary theory, literary criticism, the history of literary theory and criticism, literary aesthetics or literary cultural studies, the theory of literary history, comparative literature, and literary and philological studies generally.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Equipos y sujetos (al equipo): El actor social forma parte de una compañía dramática in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 days, 18 hours agoSpanish abstract: Notas y comentarios sobre “Equipos”, el segundo capítulo de “La presentación de la persona en la vida cotidiana”, de Erving Goffman, una obra clave de la sociología dramatística. Un retropost de 2009 sobre un libro de 1959. Se muestra aquí cómo los actores sociales no actúan solos: actúan en grupos organizados o equipos, cuyos m…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sublimación al cuadrado: El ensayo como expresión sublimada en Georg Lukács in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 4 days agoSpanish Abstract: Un retropost sobre interpretación y significado, a cuenta de una ponencia de José Luis Rodríguez en un congreso sobre escritura diarística. Un diario de juventud de Georg Lukács ilumina algunos aspectos de su obra temprana, en concreto la colección de ensayos sobre literatura y estética, “El alma y las formas”. Es una histor…[Read more]
Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day agoMassa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day agoA review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited On Exactitude in Maps in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoPublished 5/4/2016: A deconstruction of distant reading and a close reading of Jorge Luis Borges’ “On Rigor in Science.” The undecidability of the political and conceptual borders of the story challenges the possibility of any absolutist and orientalist cartographic project (such as Moretti’s literary mapmaking). Implications for the digital…[Read more]
Irina Schulzki deposited Жестовость в романе Михаила Шишкина / Gesture in Mikhail Shishkin’s Novel “Taking Izmail” in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThe article focuses on aspects of gesture in Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “Taking Izmail” (“Vziatie Izmaila”, 1999). The concept of gesture is frequently evoked in search of an alternative to speaking and rational meaning, since gesture, as a figure of muteness by itself, signals the nonsensical in the text and its production problematising the very p…[Read more]
Raphael F. Alvarenga deposited Forma, estilo, pastiche: considerações sobre o ‘Ulysses’ de Joyce in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThe article seeks to expose some presuppositions of a critical and materialist reading of James Joyce, especially of this major work of literary modernism which is ‘Ulysses’.
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Raphael F. Alvarenga deposited Hamlets de farda não hesitam: uma leitura materialista do ‘Ulysses’ in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoIn this essay a critique of James Joyce’s great novel is sought through a series of interpretations of crucial points in each chapter of the work. This reading aims to rediscover the beating heart of its heterogeneous form, capable of incorporating the most varied styles without losing anything in its determination by the social content, founded o…[Read more]
Maheswari D deposited Ijtlls, Vol-2 , Issue -1, July 2019 in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 months agoIt is to find the literary effectiveness of scholarly articles in Tamil Literature.
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks agoIn the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock: The Role of Language in Political Judgment in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 7 months agoFew of Arendt’s writings have drawn more criticism from her own supporters than “Reflections on LIttle Rock,” in which she opposes the federally mandated desegregation of schools. I take Arendt’s comments as a way of opening up problems in her conception of the relationship among political storytelling, plurality and judgment. I do this through a…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Social Imaginaries and the Theory of the Normative Utterance in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 7 months agoFrom Charles Taylor to Marcel Gauchet, theorists of the social imaginary have given us new ways
to talk about the shared structures of meanings and practices of the West. Theorists of this group
have argued against the narrow horizons of meaning that are deployed by deliberative political
theories in developing their basic normative concepts…[Read more]Meili Steele deposited The Philosophical Importance of Henry James’s Late Style in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 7 months agoWhen speaking of the philosophical importance of James’s late style, critics and philosophers have taken two broad approaches. One route, exemplified by Martha Nussbaum, attributes this style to the sensitivity of the characters. The other, exemplified by Robert Pippin, attributes the writing’s complexity to the ambiguities of the moral codes dur…[Read more]
Saskia Fischer deposited „Der Wunsch die Augen nicht zu öffnen“ – Kunst, Medialität und Schuld in ‚Die Habenichtse‘. In: Der Deutschunterricht 2 (2019). Verfilmte Gegenwartsliteratur. Hg. Susanne Kaul, S. 46-55. in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoDie Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 in New York und damit das einschneidende ‚Medienereignis‘ nach der Jahrtausendwende bilden den Ausgangspunkt von Katharina Hackers Roman Die Habenichtse, für den sie 2006 mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis geehrt wurde. Da es sich um einen Text handelt, der stark von digitalen Erzählverfahren inspiriert ist un…[Read more]
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Saskia Fischer deposited Poetische Ritualität und Schuld im Theater nach 1945 – Nelly Sachs, Mary Wigman und Pina Bausch. In: Kunst-Rituale – Ritual-Kunst. Zur Ritualität von Theater, Literatur und Musik in der Moderne. Eds. S. Fischer et al. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 39–62. in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 8 months agoDer Text widmet sich dem dramatischen Werk von Nelly Sachs, das bislang in der Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden hat. Vor allem wurde die Brisanz der Ritualität ihrer Dramen noch nicht gesehen: Im Wissen um die nationalsozialistische Instrumentalisierung ritueller Formen im Dritten Reich sind es gerade sie, auf die Nelly Sachs nach dem Ende des…[Read more]
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Saskia Fischer deposited Poetische Ritualität und Schuld im Theater nach 1945 – Nelly Sachs, Mary Wigman und Pina Bausch. in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 8 months agoDer Text widmet sich dem dramatischen Werk von Nelly Sachs, das bislang in der Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden hat. Vor allem wurde die Brisanz der Ritualität ihrer Dramen noch nicht gesehen: Im Wissen um die nationalsozialistische Instrumentalisierung ritueller Formen im Dritten Reich sind es gerade sie, auf die Nelly Sachs nach dem Ende des…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Lectures on Patañjali’s Mahābhāshya Volumes IX and X Kuppuswami Sastry Research Institute Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2014 in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoLectures on Patañjali’s Mahābhāshya Volumes IX and X Kuppuswami Sastry Research Institute Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2014
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