scholarly journals Nabokov’s Telephone. Phoning into Existence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Romero Jódar
Keyword(s):  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Postmodern Art ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
Recurrent Patterns ◽  
Late Modern

El teléfono en la literatura contemporánea “occidental” ha adquirido una cierta relevancia metafictional tras los períodos tarde-modernista y postmodernista. Como ejemplo de esta interpretación cabe mencionar las obras de Vladimir Nabokov, donde se pueden encontrar modelos recurrentes a través del simbolismo metafictional del teléfono. El objetivo de este ensayo es el análisis del teléfono en el mundo literario nabokoviano considerándolo dentro de ese estado simbólico de aparato metafictional y metafísico. El simbolismo telefónico se puede leer en términos del miedo existencialista – Angst – hacia una comunicación imposible en un espacio literario donde se confunden los límites entre realidad y ficción.Abstract:The telephone in contemporary “Western” literature may be said to have acquired a certain metafictional relevance after the late-modern and postmodern art forms. One example of this interpretative approach can be found in the works of Vladimir Nabokov’s, where recurrent patterns can be perceived through the metafictional symbolism of the telephone. The aim of this essay is the analysis of the telephone in the Nabokovian literary world inside that symbolic status of a metafictional and metaphysical device. The symbolical telephone can be read in terms of the existentialist Angst for a disabled communication in a literary space where the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred. 

Considérations sur la véritable synesthésie dans l’art et la musique

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Berman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Artists ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
David Hockney ◽  
Recurrent Patterns

This essay focuses on the phenomenon of synesthesia. In an attempt to differentiate between genuine synesthesia and metaphorical synesthesia, I have searched for shared traits among synesthetic visual artists, as well as among composers and performing musicians. The field of synesthesia has been rife with misunderstandings. Though ever increasing numbers of exhibitions, books, and articles have used the title or subtitle, “Synesthesia in art and/or music”, few of these adequately define synesthesia. The major cause of the problem is that art and music historians and curators, as well as artists and composers themselves, have confused the desire to intermingle various art forms with the phenomenon of genuine synesthesia. I show the existence of recurrent patterns of artistic response to synesthetic experience, the evidence of shared characteristics, by taking the examples of Carol Steen, Marcia Smilack, Joan Mitchell, David Hockney, Messiaen. I also present the results of my investigation on the synesthetic perceptions of the pianist Joyce Yang.

The concept of “estate”in the autobiographical prose of Vladimir Nabokov

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-245
Author(s):  
Nadezhda S. Stepanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Knowledge

The article is devoted to the study of the role and participation of the Russian noble estate as a way of life in the formation of personality on the material of the Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiographical prose. In the literary space of the writer’s texts the world of the Russian estate appeared as one of the key symbols of Russia, as a lost value and an integral part of Russian culture, literature, philosophy, history, necessary for self-identification, self-knowledge and self-preservation.

scholarly journals From soil in art towards Soil Art

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-132
Author(s):  
C. Feller ◽  
E. R. Landa ◽  
A. Toland ◽  
G. Wessolek
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Abstract. The range of art forms and genres dealing with soil is wide and diverse, spanning many centuries and artistic traditions, from prehistoric painting and ceramics to early Renaissance works in Western literature, poetry, paintings, and sculpture, to recent developments in cinema, architecture and contemporary art. Case studies focused on painting, installation, and cinema are presented with the view of encouraging further exploration of art about, in, with, or featuring soil or soil conservation issues, created by artists, and occasionally scientists, educators or collaborative efforts thereof.

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’.

Colonialism and the Highland Clearances

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Mackinnon
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
New Approach ◽  
A Site ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Imperial State ◽  
Late Modern

This article employs a new approach to studying internal colonialism in northern Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries. A common approach to examining internal colonial situations within modern state territories is to compare characteristics of the internal colonial situation with attested attributes of external colonial relations. Although this article does not reject the comparative approach, it seeks to avoid criticisms that this approach can be misleading by demonstrating that promoters and managers of projects involving land use change, territorial dispossession and industrial development in the late modern Gàidhealtachd consistently conceived of their work as projects of colonization. It further argues that the new social, cultural and political structures these projects imposed on the area's indigenous population correspond to those found in other colonial situations, and that racist and racialist attitudes towards Gaels of the time are typical of those in colonial situations during the period. The article concludes that the late modern Gàidhealtachd has been a site of internal colonization where the relationship of domination between colonizer and colonized is complex, longstanding and occurring within the imperial state. In doing so it demonstrates that the history and present of the Gaels of Scotland belongs within the ambit of an emerging indigenous research paradigm.

La Traviata Affair

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Roos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Colored People ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Group A ◽  
La Traviata ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
The Way

Opera, race, and politics during apartheid South Africa form the foundation of this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a so-called colored cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Time of Apartheid charts Eoan’s opera activities from its inception in 1933 until the cessation of its work by 1980. By accepting funding from the apartheid government and adhering to apartheid conditions, the group, in time, became politically compromised, resulting in the rejection of the group by their own community and the cessation of opera production. However, their unquestioned acceptance of and commitment to the art of opera lead to the most extraordinary of performance trajectories. During apartheid, the Eoan Group provided a space for colored people to perform Western classical art forms in an environment that potentially transgressed racial boundaries and challenged perceptions of racial exclusivity in the genre of opera. This highly significant endeavor and the way it was thwarted at the hands of the apartheid regime is the story that unfolds in this book.

ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT OF POSTMODERN ART PRACTICES

2020 ◽  
Vol 155 (5) ◽  
pp. 1169-1174
Author(s):  
Anna CHYRVA
Keyword(s):  
Art Practices ◽  
Postmodern Art
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