“Looking at Him, How it Hurt”: Tsiolkas’s Merciless Gods and Conjectural Literary Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nicholas Birns
Keyword(s):  
Literary Space

The Computational Sublime in Nick Montfort's ‘Round’ and ‘All the Names of God’

CounterText ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Aquilina
Keyword(s):  
Computer Code ◽  
Computer Programs ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Text Generation ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Literary Space

What if the post-literary also meant that which operates in a literary space (almost) devoid of language as we know it: for instance, a space in which language simply frames the literary or poetic rather than ‘containing’ it? What if the countertextual also meant the (en)countering of literary text with non-textual elements, such as mathematical concepts, or with texts that we would not normally think of as literary, such as computer code? This article addresses these issues in relation to Nick Montfort's #!, a 2014 print collection of poems that presents readers with the output of computer programs as well as the programs themselves, which are designed to operate on principles of text generation regulated by specific constraints. More specifically, it focuses on two works in the collection, ‘Round’ and ‘All the Names of God’, which are read in relation to the notions of the ‘computational sublime’ and the ‘event’.

Temps du deuil, temps du récit. Le renversement du temps dans La première année de Jean-Michel Espitallier

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Despina Jderu
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
French Writer ◽  
Recent Activity ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Denial Of Death ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims to analyze the nature of time as identified in the narrative structure built by the French writer, Jean-Michel Espitallier, in his novel, La première année. We are considering how the author perceives the relationship between time and mourning through the ability of literary space to provide a compensatory universe. We are looking to observe recent activity in French mourning literature through the lens of this particularly novel, namely its perspective on processing mourning and trauma. This paper also highlights a prominent feature of French mourning literature: how the narrator’s literary discourse is used to fight against the passing of time. The fight against time is an implicit denial of death and mourning.

scholarly journals Aethetic value of Rostislav Dotsenko’s literary translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Olena Pavlenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Literary Space

The article gives a brief outline of Rostislav Dotsenko’s translation activity focusing on the translator’s contribution into Ukrainian literary space of the second half of the twentieth century, highlights aesthetic value of his Ukrainian interpretations as well as defines the basic principles of the artist’s translation concepts.

Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Literary Space

This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known. They therefore had a dimension of spectacle to them, as the volume demonstrates. Against this backdrop, the different chapters deal with a plethora of spaces and spatial installations: the wunderkammer, the spectacle garden, cosmoramas and panoramas, the literary space, the temporary museum, and the alternative exhibition space.

Enclosed Exhibitions : Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Haklin
Keyword(s):  
Department Store ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Spatial Confinement ◽  
Visual Effect ◽  
Exterior Space ◽  
Spatial Framework ◽  
Literary Space

This chapter examines spatial confinement in the eponymous department store of Émile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames. A close reading of one of the novel’s sale chapters reveals that the store director mobilizes several strategies to engender a suffocating atmosphere at the temporary exhibition. Linking literary space and publicity, the chapter argues that the store’s promotional balloons act as ephemeral, yet dynamic advertisements that dismantle interior and exterior space. The balloons instantiate the ephemeral quality of the sales since, in spite of their brief duration, they produce a lasting visual effect that problematizes a spatial framework opposing interior and exterior spaces. This reading suggests that publicity contributes to the claustrophobia of commerce in Zola’s fictional ephemeral exhibitions.

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