Valérys Namen: Der Status des Lesers in der poésie pure

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-133
Author(s):  
Franziska Humphreys-Schottmann
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Function ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Rhetorical Figures ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Fundamental Tension

AbstractValéry’s dream of the creation of a poésie pure is determined by a fundamental tension between two contradictory aspirations. On the one hand, he inherits French rationalism when he tries to develop a poetical praxis based on a logical-mathematical calculus, in which anything vague and unclear should disappear. On the other hand, this strictly formalized language revolves around the notion of moi pur and therefore subscribes to a hypertrophied subjectivism. The paradoxical logic of personal pronouns described by Émile Benveniste is at the origin of Valéry’s project: The moi pur is both, the personal pronoun that identifies the concrete speaker and the structural function of the universal invariant. Ineluctably affected by this pronominal shifting, the reader is, above all, at stake in the poéésie pure. In an attempt to unfold the aporetical constructions resulting from this paradox, this textual analysis focuses on some of the main rhetorical figures of Valpoéry’s work. A close reading of Narcisse parle reveals the specific moments of permanent self-variation by which the popoésie pure constantly subverts itself. Poeisis resists any kind of rigid formalism, any subjugation of its rhetorical potential and any attempt to escape the ever-sliding sense of the metaphor. We can thus affirm that the aporias revealed by the popoésie pure evidence hence the conditions of poetical representation itself.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Ju Xian in Movie Farewell My Concubine

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1187
Author(s):  
Fu Ruomei
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

As the main female character in movie "Farewell My Concubine", Ju Xian was a brave, smart, worldly-wise but kindhearted woman. Even though she was a prostitute, she was longing for an ordinary life. She loved Xiao Lou, moreover, in order to engross Xiao Lou, she even tried to drive a wedge between Die Yi and Xiao Lou. She used her wisdom to save and protect Xiao Lou, but on the other hand, she was also the one who destroyed Xiao Lou and her own life. Article tried to through close reading analyze the character of Ju Xian and her relationships with Die Yi and Xiao Lou. Article revealed the inescapable tragic fate of Ju Xian.  

The True Perplexity: The Guide of the Perplexed Part II, Chapter 24

1991 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
Tzvi Langermann
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Third ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Guide Of The Perplexed

This chapter focuses on part II, Chapter 24 of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, which discusses the incompatibility of the models used by professional astronomers with the basic tenets of the Aristotelian world-view. On the one hand, the epicycles and eccentrics employed by astronomers seem to violate the principle that the motion of the heavenly bodies be uniform, circular, and about a fixed centre. On the other hand, the results achieved through the use of these very devices are startlingly precise. This, Maimonides says, is the ‘true perplexity’. The chapter then looks at three aspects of this true perplexity. It also compares the views expressed in the Guide with the rules laid down in the third chapter of the ‘Laws Concerning the Basic Principles of the Torah’, which forms the first section of the Mishneh Torah. It is particularly concerned with two questions: did Maimonides consider the true configuration of the heavens to be inscrutable? And can a close reading of both texts offer any clues about this true configuration? Finally, the chapter considers the views of some of Maimonides’ followers on these questions.

The Logics of Worldlessness

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-292
Author(s):  
Roland Végső
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Condition ◽  
The One

The final chapter provides a close reading of Alain Badiou’s The Logics of Worlds. It argues that the theoretical conflict between Being and Event and The Logics of Worlds plays out in the space defined by the tension between the ontological primacy of worldlessness and the phenomenological necessity of worlds. While the ontology of radical multiplicity introduced in Being and Event provides us with one of the most compelling arguments in favour of worldlessness, in the sequel to Being and Event Badiou turns to a novel phenomenology to account for the necessity of worlds. The chapter argues that it is the Heideggerian contradictions expounded upon in Chapter 1 that will help us make sense of a fundamental contradiction in Badiou’s philosophy: a conflict between the ontology of worldlessness and the politics of world-creation. To put it differently, in Badiou’s thought we encounter two forms of worldlessness: on the one hand, Being is worldless (which is a positive enabling condition) and, on the other hand, Capital is worldless (which is a negative historical condition).

scholarly journals Zhuangzi’s Theory on “Fate” and the Humanistic Spirit within

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Rongkun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Humanistic Spirit ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Conventional accounts of Zhuangzi’s concept of fate are limited to only a certain aspect of it. At the same time, they seem to be mutually contradictory. This essay investigates this concept afresh based on textual analysis and elucidates Zhuangzi’s real concerns about fate. This analysis reveals that Zhuangzi laid stress on the virtue demonstrated in confronting the unavoidable. More specifically, the important meaning of fate encompasses, on the one hand, a whole acceptance of the facts facing us by forgetting oneself, and on the other hand, responding positively to the facts by following the “Heavenly Way” until a spontaneous state is reached. We shall see as well how Zhuangzi’s views on the relation between Heaven and the Human, and on certain moral values, help to validate his theory on fate. Thus, through exploring his underlying thoughts and showing how their various aspects are logically connected, we shall show that Zhuangzi’s concept of fate is imbued with a humanistic spirit in the face of affairs in the real world.

scholarly journals Vladimir Solovyov’s Texts in the Anthology by S.L. Frank

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-87
Author(s):  
G.E. Aliaiev ◽  
V.V. Chernyshov
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
Editorial Process ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Press ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
The One

Originally published in English in 1950, A Solovyov Anthology, prepared by S.L. Frank, has already been reprinted three times, a fact that demonstrates a continuing interest in its content. This paper undertakes a textual analysis of the pieces contained in the Anthology in comparison with the original (second) edition of Solovyov’s works. This paper also makes use of archival material and Frank’s correspondence in connection with the preparation of the Anthology, and an overview of comments in the press upon its publication is also given. This paper also presents biographical information, which reveals the editorial process behind the Anthology, and an analysis of Frank’s choice of texts. The authors argue that Frank presented Solovyov, above all, as a religious thinker, and not as a theoretical philosopher. This viewpoint, on the one hand, is connected with Frank’s previous editorial work on An Anthology of Russian Religious Thinkers, and, on the other hand, can be explained by Frank’s own attitude toward Solovyov in the final period of his creativity. The authors also provide a critical survey of the main reactions and reviews that appeared in the English press upon the book’s appearance within the context of the influence of the book’s direction on the evaluation of Solovyov’s personality and creativity, particularly his Christian universalism.

scholarly journals Uniwersum poetyki. Prolegomena

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Ewa Szczęsna
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comparative Characterization ◽  
Rhetorical Figures ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One ◽  
Literature And Film

The article analyzes the influence of semiotic systems typical of various artistic discourses on the poetics of the text (especially the modeling of rhetorical figures) and the creation of textual meanings. The thesis put forward is that the comparative characterization of textual forms makes it possible, on the one hand, to extract universal mechanisms of creating meanings (constitutive features of figures – ‘genetic information’ of poetics), and on the other hand, to examine their many representations that determine the multivariance of poetics. Migrations of figure variants from one discursive environment to another cause a ‘semantic explosion’ and determine the development of discursive forms and, as a result, the dynamics of culture. This issue is shown on the example of the forms of an ellipse in art – the ways of realizing the unsolvable and solvable concealment in literature and film. Literary and cinematic procedures are analyzed, which transform the grammatical and rhetorical ellipse into an artistic strategy.

Quentin Meillassoux: Supreme Human Value Meets Anti-anthropocentrism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Watkin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Value ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
The One ◽  
Very High ◽  
Quentin Meillassoux

This chapter continues exploring the contemporary permutations of the ‘host capacity’ account of humanity through a close reading of Quentin Meillassoux’s transformation of the human. The place of the human in Meillassoux’s thought is complex. On the one hand, he maintains a strong and consistent rhetoric of anti-anthropocentrism, and his fundamental philosophical project can be summarised as an attempt to break free from what he sees as the anthropocentric straitjacket of Kantian and post- Kantian ‘correlationist’ thought. On the other hand, however, Meillassoux can evince a very high view of the human indeed, not hesitating to call his philosophy a ‘humanism’ and asserting the value of the human as ultimate. The first part of the chapter argues that Meillassoux’s humanism is less humanist than he thinks and the second part shows that his attempt to disengage from anthropocentrism is more anthropocentric than he thinks. As in the case of Badiou, it is Meillassoux’s insistence on tethering the value of humanity to its capacity for thought that lies at the root of many of the problems of his anthropology.

scholarly journals The 1807 edition of The Book of the Duchess

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Simone Celine Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Title Page ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The 124-volume edition of The Poets of Great Britain, containing The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, came into being when, in 1807, a group of thirty-three London booksellers began publication of a work that claims, from its title page, to be a reprint of John Bell’s 1782 series The Poets of Great Britain. The reality, however, is somewhat different. In fact the works of Chaucer have been markedly revised and re-edited, a feature that until now had not been noted by scholars.The following article is a textual analysis of some of the most striking features to have emerged from an analysis of the 1807 edition of The Book of the Duchess, as compared with its predecessors. The Book of the Duchess has been chosen as a sample text for this consideration, primarily because it is of sufficient scope to offer, on the one hand, a substantial enough sample from which to draw conclusions, and, on the other hand, limited enough to be manageable. In addition to these particular reasons, The Book of the Duchess is a poem the authority of which has never been questioned, and thus it has appeared in every printed edition of the works of Chaucer, providing this study with extensive points for comparison.

scholarly journals Postcolonial Islam in My Son the Fanatic: From Deobandi Revivalism to the Secular Transposition of the Sufi Imaginary

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jamie S. Scott
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
The One ◽  
Minced Meat

Set in the early 1990s, Hanif Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic” (1997) dramatizes tensions between Parvez, a lapsed Pakistani Muslim migrant to postcolonial England, and his son Ali, who rejects the western secularity of his father and reverts to a strict form of fundamentalist Islam. If these tensions remain unresolved in the story, Kureishi’s film adaptation elaborates them. In so doing, though, My Son the Fanatic (dir. Udayan Prasad 1997) presents a very different picture. Renamed Farid, the film’s eponymous youth breaks off engagement to the daughter of the local chief of police and challenges his father: “Can you put keema [minced meat] with strawberries?” Metaphorically, this question articulates the deeper concern underlying the story: How might migrants in diaspora live an authentic Muslim life in the secular environment of the predominantly non-Muslim United Kingdom? A close reading of My Son the Fanatic reveals vying answers. Farid and Parvez both invoke the Qur’an, ultimate arbiter of value, meaning and truth in Islam, but thence their paths diverge widely. On the one hand, the film depicts the revivalist maslak of Deobandi Islam, though such missionary fervour may lead all too easily to the violent militancy of Farid and his cohort. On the other hand, My Son the Fanatic suggests conditions of possibility for a Muslim life of sacralised secularity by developing the love between Parvez and Sandra in terms of tropes and themes transposed from the Sufi imaginary to the postcolonial United Kingdom, most notably an ethos of iḥsān, that is, the cultivation of what is beautiful and good.

BEN JE WAT JE LEEST?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Bram Lambrecht
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Affective Bond ◽  
The One

ARE YOU WHAT YOU READ? E. du Perron’s ‘Notebooks of a reader’ This article offers a close reading of E. du Perron’s influential Notebooks of a reader (Cahiers van een lezer). It focuses on Du Perron’s self-representation as a reader and his ideas on reading. On the one hand, author’s notebooks confirm his reputation as a subjective reader. Du Perron cherishes an utterly emotional reading method, an affective bond with writers and books and a volatile literary taste. On the other hand, the Notebooks allow us to refine his subjectivism. They demonstrate the importance of reading as a communal activity and the exemplary function of Du Perron’s own reading experiences.

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