scholarly journals Salman Rushdie's "The location of Brazil": the imaginary homelands of fantastic literature

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Silvia Albertazzi
Keyword(s):  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Minor Literatures ◽  
The One

In 1985, under the title "The Location of Brazil" Salman Rushdie published a long review of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, which today is to be found in his collection Imaginary Homelands. My essay shows how Rushdie's article can be considered a sort of manifesto of his poetics, pivoting on his idea of a political use of the fantastic and his concept of the migrant as a central figure of modernity. Rushdie's theories seem to anticipate on the one hand Deleuze and Guattari's ideas on minor literatures and, on the other, Arjun Appadurai's views on "modernity at large".

scholarly journals Interiorization Phenomenon within the Plots of the Fantastic Tales by F. V. Bulgarin (1820–1840s)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Margarita F. Klimentyeva
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The One

The paper focuses on the analyses of the interiorization phenomena in the fantastic (utopian and dystopian) tales by Faddey Bulgarin that he wrote and published between 1825 and 1846. The tales came out in such periodicals as Severnyy archiv, Literturnye zapiski, Syn otechestva. The study of the texts allows to assume that Rus-sian mass literature born within magazine prose was characterized by the interiorization of plots. The latter led to the formation of an adaptive hab-itus entirely assimilated by the Russian cultural and social discourses around the 1830–1840s. The study of the texts by Bulgarin (which in terms of genre can be identified either as journal manifestos or literary works of different genres) indicates his conscious orientation on the reader, the intended involvement of the reader into the literary and would-be-literary life of an artistic word. On the one hand, that could be the echo of the tradition established by the Enlighteners who educated the reader via literary words, thus shaping his or her ethics and esthetics. On the other hand, that could be the reflection of the interiorization phenomenon that is the structural transposition of a text (text structure) into the internal structure of the reader’s mind. We suggest that the interiorization phenomenon and the shaping of the mass literature are interconnected; the adaptive habitus born in the magazine prose in the mid-1820s – the early 1840s determined the energy of mind and the peculiarities of thinking of the mass reader. Despite almost no narrator addressing the reader in the fantastic tales, the reader finds him- or herself indirectly present throughout the texts as an addressee of the interiorization. The discursive strategy adopted by Bulgarin consists of the transformation of the reader’s mind patterns into the adaptive habitus of mass literature.

Ontological commitment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jubien
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Commitment ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Question ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Occam’S Razor ◽  
The One ◽  
Occam's Razor

A person may believe in the existence of God, or numbers or ghosts. Such beliefs may be asserted, perhaps in a theory. Assertions of the existence of specific entities or kinds of entities are the intuitive source of the notion of ontological commitment, for it is natural to think of a person who makes such an assertion as being ‘committed’ to an ‘ontology’ that includes such entities. So ontological commitment appears to be a relation that holds between persons or existence assertions (including theories), on the one hand, and specific entities or kinds of entities (or ontologies), on the other. Ontological commitment is thus a very rich notion – one in which logical, metaphysical, linguistic and epistemic elements are intermingled. The main philosophical problem concerning commitment is whether there is a precise criterion for detecting commitments in accordance with intuition. It once seemed extremely important to find a criterion, for it promised to serve as a vital tool in the comparative assessment of theories. Many different criteria have been proposed and a variety of problems have beset these efforts. W.V. Quine has been the central figure in the discussion and we will consider two of his formulations below. Many important philosophical topics are closely connected with ontological commitment. These include: the nature of theories and their interpretation; interpretations of quantification; the nature of kinds; the question of the existence of merely possible entities; extensionality and intensionality; the general question of the nature of modality; and the significance of Occam’s razor.

scholarly journals Màgia i fantasia al servei de les nobles nissagues: el cas de Nofra-dona Dolcina en la novel·la històrica de Vicent Josep Escartí

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Maria Àngels Herrero Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Fantasy Play ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Secondary Characters ◽  
The One

Resum: Dos dels elements més identificables en la novel·la històrica de Vicent Josep Escartí són, per una banda, el component màgic i fantàstic i, per una altra, l’existència de dues nobles nissagues: els Roger i els Arcàngel de Sant Esteve. De fet, la primera ja s’apuntà subtilment en «El fill de Gepa» i es desenvolupà en «Epistolari del Comte de l’Hortxà», primer i segon relat de Barroca mort (1988). Posteriorment, s’estengué a Dies d’ira (1992) ?Days of Wrath (2013)?, Els cabells d’Absalom (1996), Nomdedéu (2002), Naumàquia (2004) i El mas de les ànimes (2019). Amb Espècies perdudes (1997) sorgí el segon llinatge, que continuà en L’abellerol mort (2009), en les quals els Roger també s’endinsen enginyosament. Però, si hi ha un enllaç directe entre ambdues nissagues i que, alhora, encarna el joc fantàstic amb què Escartí impregna la seua obra, són els personatges ?secundaris? de Nofra-dona Dolcina. L’objectiu de l’article serà fer un recorregut per la seua novel·lística gràcies a aquests personatges femenins, els quals serviran per constatar-hi la importància de la màgia i la fantasia. Amb el protagonisme d’una dona en la seua darrera novel·la, El mas de les ànimes, ho torna a posar de manifest.  Paraules clau: novel·la històrica valenciana, Escartí, nissagues, personatges femenins, màgia, fantasia.Abstract: Two of the most easily identifiable elements in Vicent Josep Escartí’s historical fiction are, on the one hand, the magical and fantastic component and, on the other hand, the existence of two noble lineages: the Roger family, and the Arcàngel de Sant Esteve family. In fact, the first one subtly appeared already in «El fill de Gepa» and developed in «Epistolari del Comte de l’Hortxà» ?the first and second story within Barroca mort (1988). It subsequently spread to Dies d’ira (1992) ?Days of Wrath (2013)?, Els cabells d’Absalom (1996), Nomdedéu (2002), Naumàquia (2004) and El mas de les ànimes (2019). Espècies perdudes (1997) marked the emergence of the second lineage, which continued in L’abellerol mort (2009), where the Roger family are ingeniously introduced as well. Nevertheless, if a direct link exists between both lineages which simultaneously embodies the fantastic play that pervades Escartí’s work, those are the ?secondary? characters of Nofra-dona Dolcina. This article has as its purpose to make a tour of his novels thanks to these female characters, which will help verify the important role that magic and fantasy play in them. Escartí stresses this once again through the prominence of a woman in his latest novel, El mas de les ànimes.  Keywords: Valencian historical fiction, Escartí, lineages, female characters, magic, fantasy. 

scholarly journals THE INTERPLAY OF ULTRAHIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS AND EXTRA DIMENSIONS

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (13n16) ◽  
pp. 1133-1136
Author(s):  
JE-AN GU
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Large Extra Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ultrahigh Energy ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
The One

Regarding ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) as a probe and extra dimensions as a possible ingredient of the fantastic ultrahigh- energy world, we discuss possible interplay between them. On the one hand small extra dimensions and KK bursts present a feasible way to the origin of UHECRs. On the other hand large extra dimensions may change various interactions between particles at ultrahigh energies and therefore impact on air showers created by UHECRs. Conversely, UHECR data may tell us secrets veiled in extra dimensions.

Marsyas the Satyr and Apuleius of Madauros

Ramus ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Finkelpearl
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The One ◽  
Old Roman ◽  
Provincial Identity

memet professus sum…seminumidam et semigaetulum (‘I publicly described my self…as half Numidian, half Gaetulian’).ApuleiusApologyApuleius…qui nobis Afris Afer est notior (‘Apuleius…who as an African is better known to us Africans’).AugustineEpistle138I pass much time in the excellent company of a Moroccan writer of the second century AD, Lucius Apuleius, a colonial of the old Roman Empire.Salman RushdieTravels with a Golden AssApuleius of Madauros was a Romano-African, a provincial from Africa Proconsularis who, most of the time, conveys the impression of being fully assimilated, more steeped in Graeco-Roman culture than his contemporaries in the cultural centre, disdainful of his countrymen who know no Latin, and even an agent of Romanisation. Yet, given the new ways of thinking about provincial identity and centre vs periphery under the Roman Empire, it may be time to revisit the complicated hybrid and fluctuating identity of someone who, on the one hand, actively imparted Roman culture to his homeland and, on the other, pronounces his allegiance to Carthage (over Athens and Rome) and who, at least in certain contexts, refuses to be ashamed of his Numidian-Gaetulian roots. Weighing both Apuleius' few explicit statements about his allegiances to his homeland (and rejection thereof) and his fictionalised portraits of cultural outsiders, this essay argues that Apuleius expresses a dual and conflicted sense of Romano-African identity. ReadingFlorida3 (Marsyas and Apollo) against the grain of current scholarship, I argue that Apuleius is not simply an Apollo, but both a Marsyas and an Apollo, with implications for a reading of what might be provincial and African in his works.

The One Who Burns Herself for Peace

Hypatia ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheyney Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Catholic Worker ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Dorothy Day ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Catholic Worker Movement ◽  
The One

Alice Hertz was a woman who, in J965, burned herself in protest against the Vietnam War. 1 first became aware of her through studying the writings of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and a central figure in the history of nonviolence. In this essay I reflect on how Alice Hertz's action and Dorothy Day's vision of nonviolent commitment can each illuminate the other.

scholarly journals Camões e a literatura húngara do século XIX

2019 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Ferenc Pál
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Camões, because of his romantic,life and the patriotism that reflects his masterpiece, Os Lusíadas, became very popular in nineteenth-century Hungary. On the one hand, it was the romantic feeling of the time that consecrated him a prominent poet and, on the other hand, the political and mental conditions of Hungary fighting at that time for the mental and political independence of the country. That is why frequent references are made to both his figure and his work, and the poet appears several times as a central figure in Hungarian works of fiction and poetry.

scholarly journals Die neuen Solo-Selbständigen zwischen Unternehmergeist und Prekarität

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (150) ◽  
pp. 65-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Candeias
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Management ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
Class Interest ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The One

The entrepreneur is the central figure in the neoliberal discourse. The trend towards selfemployment is therefore interpretated as a sign for entrepreneurial thinking becoming the basis for general interest articluation, far beyond particular class interest. But in fact the real situation of most of the self-employed clearly points to a social position as independent workers, entangled in contradictions between self-management and a new sense of freedom on the one and harsh dependencies and self-exploitation on the other side. The article tries to elaborate on specific differences and common elements between workers and self-employed. It becomes clear, that the independent workers are part of the rising precariat and could share common interests with other precarious workers. What is needed is to overcome the very individualistic habits of the self-employed. Far from beeing sufficient, new forms of collective organisation such as the Euromayday or an Italian union for precarious independent workers are pointing into this direction.

Schelers anthropologisches Denken und die frühe Rezeption in Spanien

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-202
Author(s):  
Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Phenomenological Anthropology ◽  
The One

This essay examines the early reception of Scheler’s anthropological thought in Spain. The article traces the two main ways of reception of Scheler’s work in the School of Madrid and the School of Barcelona. I argue that, on the one hand, the Spanish translations of the works of the early phenomenologists – Scheler was a central figure among them – contributed to the diffusion of Scheler’s thought; and that, on the other hand, the Spanish authors subjected Scheler’s thought to a critical assimilation and further developments. Scheler influenced the Spanish philosophy of the human affectivity, in which the capacity to feel, the values and love as a kernel of the human being occupy an exceptional position. This reception shows the originality of Spanish authors that incorporate Scheler’s ideas to their anthropological interest and develop these ideas in the direction of their own phenomenological anthropology.

THE DELUSION OF BEING HUMAN: FANTASTIC MOTIVES IN THE MOVIE ANOMALISA (2015) BY CHARLIE KAUFMAN AND DUKE JOHNSON

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Azmi Kartika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Internal Factor ◽  
Fantastic Literature ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov

This study aims to analyze the fantastic motives that lay inside a movie titled Anomalisa. The background of choosing this movie as an object is caused by the unique concept where all the other characters except the main character named Michael have the same face and the same voice, no matter what gender they are. However, there is one exception which when Michael met a girl named Lisa, who is the only person ever in Michael’s world to ever has a different voice and face. This leads to a problem statement; whether the phenomenon of facial and voice uniformity is a fantastic event that is experienced directly by the character due to external factors or internal factor such as psychological intervention. This study uses qualitative method and in order to answer this question, the writer uses Todorov’s fantastic theoretical framework. The results show that the fantastic motives presented in Anomalisa is included in the fantastic uncanny category. The fantastic motives are present due to the delusion of Fregoli experienced by the main character, Michael Stones. Delusions experienced by Michael according to the author are triggered by a sense of boredom and loneliness experienced by Michael. Key words: Anomalisa; Fantastic literature; Film analysis; Tzvetan Todorov

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