scholarly journals Criza Corporalităţii În Poetica Lui Ilarie Voronca

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Alexandru Foitoș
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to highlight the vanguardist poetical universe of Ilarie Voronca, focusing on the construction of corporeal representations. The poetics of corporeality is associated with the concept of “crisis”, the latter being reverberated in the vanguard lyrical works as an effect of the historical and social context of the 20th century, which is the First World War. As a result, the consequences of this context bring to the vanguard writers poetical substance, which encapsulates the body and the disease, these two being transposed into several eerie, radical and shocking images in Ilarie Voronca’s poetics. This paper is going to demonstrate the existence of several corporeal representations in Ilarie Voronca’s poems, which are mainly represented by the vulnerable body, viewed as a limit and as the diseased/the suffering, proving that the crisis of corporeality is the effect of the historical conflagration at the beginning of the 20th century.

scholarly journals “Like being trapped in a drum”: The Poetics of Resonance in Frances Itani’s Deafening

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-232
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Theoretical Reasoning ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This paper considers how Frances Itani’s Deafening imaginatively rethinks our understanding of the Great War in the age of postmemory. Seeing as the novel is set in Canada and Europe during the First World War and takes as its protagonist a deaf woman, the poetic attention given to the senses as a horizon of phenomenological experience magnifies the moral bonds that the characters establish in defi ance of both deafness and death. Guided by the theoretical reasoning of Marianne Hirsch, Elaine Scarry, and Alison Landsberg as well as contemporary phenomenological thinking, most significantly that of Edward S. Casey, Steven Connor, Michel Serres, and Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper examines how the novel’s attentiveness to the materiality of the body in regard to the ethical collisions of sound and silence as well as life and death contributes to a poetics of resonance that generates prosthetic memories, turning the anonymous record of war into a private experience of moral endurance inscribed on the ear of historical legacy.

Hassen mit allen Sinnen

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Silke Fehlemann
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
Structural Problem ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First World

Abstract The mode of irreconcilability was a structural problem of the Weimar Republic. The violent experience of the First World War had intensified the emergence of new patterns of perception which appeared to be almost obsessively related to the body. This development was accompanied by an upswing of visualization opportunities. Using the example of leading Weimar politicians, it can be demonstrated how sensory mobilization could represent gateways for anti-democratic agitation. These practices could destabilize the republic by reviling its representatives by visualization. The early Nazi press expanded the arsenal of sensory mobilization. The destabilization of the moral, political, and aesthetic order worked through a clear radicalization and dynamization of traditional revilement strategies down to the local level.

Time on the Pulse: Affective Encounters with the Wristwatch in the Literature of Modernism and the First World War

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Cedric Van Dijck
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Affect Studies ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Object Studies ◽  
First World

Time is a constitutive feature of modernism, which developed in a period when the stability of the self was disintegrating. This paper considers the link between modernist temporality and affect by looking at the wristwatch, the first timepiece worn on the body. I focus on its emergence in World War One and go on to discuss two encounters with the timepiece in Siegfried Sassoon's ‘Attack’ (1918) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). In these texts the figure of the conflation of wristwatch/ticking and wrist/pulse articulates a loss of individual mobility and agency in the modern world. The wristwatch symbolizes the way in which oppressive systems of time were lived and internalized. Situated at the crossroads of affect studies, object studies, and the study of modernist time, my argument posits that the object informed an understanding of temporality in corporeal terms. Because of that focus on affect, the wristwatch suggests how the First World War may be seen as a vital part of the modernist timescape.

‘This age is the age of associations’: committees, petitions, and the roots of interwar Middle Eastern internationalism

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Arsan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Political Entrepreneurs ◽  
Post War ◽  
First World

AbstractThis article examines three diasporic campaigns orchestrated by Middle Eastern political entrepreneurs in Paris, New York, and Cairo, in the years bookending the First World War. Mobilizing across borders, their organizers were exemplary denizens of the transnational public sphere created by Ottoman migrants from the 1880s onwards. Exponents of globalism, they regarded the body politic as a diasporic construct unconstrained by territory. Furthermore, they saw the associations that they founded both as instruments of civility capable of reforming society and as practical political vehicles, mouthpieces for the claims that they communicated to the ‘community of nations’ through petitions and telegrams. Such strategies of appeal suggest that many of the features of ‘interwar’ Middle Eastern internationalism emerged not in response to the post-war settlement but in the last decades of Ottoman rule. This article therefore contributes to our understanding of the histories of globalism, the practices and perceptions of public life, and the engagement of non-Western people with international society.

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