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Alex Haber
Cornell University
“This reform of the self whose criterion is a nature – but a nature that was never given and has never appeared as such in the human individual, whatever his age – all naturally takes on the appearance of a stripping away of previous education, established habits, […]
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Passages of the Self: Georges Perec and the Infra-ordinary
December 11, 2009 – 12:30 am
Altered Spaces: Calvino, Fenoglio and the Odyssey of the Italian Partisan
December 11, 2009 – 12:29 am
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Barry Ryan
University College Cork
The central argument of Italo Calvino’s brief 1946 essay “Omero antimilitarista”[i] is “the Marxist line that the Iliad represents the criticism of the troops against the officers arrogant quarrels, and the Odyssey portrays the problematic return that awaits all soldiers and partisans” (McLaughlin 30). Of equal […]
For a New Poetics of the Site [i]
December 11, 2009 – 12:28 am
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Bruno Bosteels
Cornell University
On two very different occasions, Gilles Deleuze offered an evaluation of the philosophy of Alain Badiou as it is summed up in Being and Event. The first of these evaluations covers two dense pages of What Is Philosophy?, written in collaboration with Félix Guattari. Here, long before […]
Haussmannization and the Conquest of Place: Configuring Parisian Global Influence in the Second Empire (1852-1870)
December 11, 2009 – 12:26 am
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Niamh Sweeney
University College Cork
Paris of the Second Empire, habitually characterized as a site of transition where the unsettling of social, cultural and spatial boundaries announces the tensions of early modernity, is irrevocably associated with the process of urban renovation known, after Engels, as Haussmannization (1:559). Indeed, this process, whose […]
Depurar la poesía de la poesía misma: poesía, política y muerte en Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño
June 7, 2007 – 3:24 am
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Ángeles Donoso
Washington University in Saint Louis
Esta es mi última transmisión desde el planeta de los monstruos.
No me sumergiré nunca más en el mar de mierda de la literatura.
En adelante escribiré mis poemas con humildad y trabajaré para
no morirme de hambre y no intentaré publicar.
(Belano en Estrella distante)
Los que tienen […]
Erasing the Invisible Cities: Italo Calvino and the Violence of Representation
June 7, 2007 – 3:24 am
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John Welsh, University of Virginia
The unabashed “literariness” of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities makes it an easy target for critics who claim that “wholly literary” worlds cannot be moral ones. Alessia Ricciardi believes that Calvino’s late career represents an abandonment of his earlier sense of duty as an intellectual: “Sadly,” […]
El discurso cinematográfico contemporáneo como metáfora política en tres muestras de cine rural violento español.
June 7, 2007 – 3:23 am
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Pablo Martínez Diente
Vanderbilt University
Si los hombres del campo tuviéramos las tragaderas de los de las poblaciones, los presidios estarían desabitados como islas.
—Camilo José Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte.
Apenas treinta años separan Pascual Duarte (1976) Los santos inocentes (1984) y El 7° día (2004), películas que sirven tanto de […]
“Cuando el mundo se vuelve mundo”: La prueba de César Aira y caminos del acto
June 7, 2007 – 3:23 am
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César Barros
Washington University in Saint Louis
San Agustín dijo que sólo Dios conoce el mundo, porque él lo hizo. Nosotros no, porque no lo hicimos. El arte entonces sería el intento de llegar al conocimiento a través de la construcción del objeto a conocer; ese objeto no es otro que […]
Roundtable - Rated R(epresentation): Violence in Romance Literatures and Cultures
May 14, 2007 – 2:59 am
Welcome to our second Working Papers roundtable discussion. In this issue our papers explore representations of violence and the violence of representation in literary media. The questions these papers propose, and the answers they venture, involve a complex nexus of issues. To what extent are textual practices violent acts? How are violent images deployed to […]
Roundtable: Wikidemia? Scholarly publishing on the World Wide Web
November 13, 2006 – 3:01 am
Welcome to the first Working Papers roundtable discussion. Our field of inquiry in the inaugural issue of our graduate journal is online publishing. A number of questions spring to mind when one considers the role of online publishing in academia. First, is it a relevant vehicle for academic writing? How will it affect […]