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The Triumphs? Golden Age : a comparison between three European translations of Ilicino?s Commentary.
2020
During the last part of the fifteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth centuries, the dissemination of Petrarch’s Trionfi – the so-called ‘second wave’ of Petrarchism – was characterized by the extraordinary editorial success, in Italy as well as in the rest of Western Europe, of Bernardo Ilicino’s Commento on the Trionfi. By promoting an erudite, encyclopedic, and moralizing reading of Petrarch’s poem, Ilicino’s commentary effectively became a lens through which generations of European readers approached the text. Nonetheless, the dissemination of the commentary proved not to be immune from the influence of sixteenth-century lyrical Petrarchism, which started developing almost at the…
Strategische Zitate. Zu Friedrich Kittlers Heidegger-Lektüre
2014
The article examines the variant ways in which Friedrich Kittler quotes certain passages of Martin Heiddegger’s texts and especially of Heidegger’s seminal book Sein und Zeit (1927) over the course of his academic career. It argues that the telos of Kittler’s variant, non-philological quotation is the legitimation of German studies as well as cultural studies by telling a myth: Martin Heidegger, a philosophical authority, has consequently affirmed media technology. Thus, Kittler’s practice of citation reveals its strategic intention. A reading of literary texts that takes into account the apriori function of technological innovation is an appropriate method supported by Geistesgeschichte.
Sappho, Hegel and Michael Field: Paradox and desire in lyric III
2021
This article offers a close reading of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper’s lyric III in Long Ago, a Sapphic volume of verse published in 1889 under the collaborative nom de plume of Michael Field. This collection articulates a dramatic inquiry into the tragedy of unrequited love in a long cycle of lyrics whose third piece most effectively encapsulates the kernel of what the Fields reconstruct as Sappho’s ambivalent eroticism. The outcome of this reconstruction, as analysed in light of lyric III, is a consistent Hegelian view of desire that subsumes a complex system of tropes, myths, paradoxes and imaginative strategies under an overarching ideology of desire as a radical experience of appr…
The Prima Vista Line by Line Research Method
2012
In this article I argue for the justification of an experimental research method in poetry response in English as a foreign language. I claim that to exploit the resources of student readers in a better way, a method is needed to elicit uncensored primary responses that are often lost in the classroom. Unless student readers are allowed to encounter a poem personally and sincerely, and read it line by line, the primary reactions will be lost and language learning through poetry will be hampered. The primary reactions include the readers’ experiences in terms of knowledge of language and poetic devices, in addition to emotional and psychological reactions during the reading of a poem in Engl…
”Pitikö runouskin vetää ihan läskiksi?”
2015
The Affective Reception of Tytti Heikkinen’s Poem “Ryhavalaan tasoa” In this article, I analyze the reception of Tytti Heikkinen’s poem ”Ryhavalaan tasoa” (”On par with whales”) from the viewpoint of affectivity. ”Ryhavalaan tasoa” is a Flarf poem which means that it has been made of material found from the internet with weird search terms. Flarf poetry is also based on a kind of aesthetics of ugliness. The poem is a dramatic monologue in which the speaking I – a girl called ”Fatty XL” – talks unrestrainedly and vulgarly about fatness, sexuality and shame. Theoretically, the article relies mainly on Rita Felski’s and Sianne Ngai’s views on affectivity of reading. The research material consi…
Book and Radio Play Silences: Medial Pauses and Reticence in ‘Murke's Collected Silences’ by Heinrich Böll
2019
This article analyses silence at the interface between print and audio media by reading and listening to Heinrich Böll's short story ‘Murke's Collected Silences’ (‘Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen’) in its book (1958) and three German-language radio play versions (1965; 1986; 1989). Reference is also made to Benjamin Gwilliam's sound art piece (2007) based on the 1986 adaptation. The Böll story thematises silence and media in various ways, and has definite countertextual aspects, in the sense of technology, textuality, and materiality of language. In the printed story, silence is either verbally named or typographically indicated, whereas the radio plays present or perform it. The compa…
Activating Character Strengths Through Poetic Encounters in a Foreign Language—A Case Study
2016
The paper brings together two important issues related to effective functioning of foreign/second language learners, that is character strengths (one of the pillars of positive psychology) and the use of literary texts for language learning. The goals of using literary texts in a foreign/second language learning contexts and the goals of positive psychology converge. Both literature and positive psychology aim at enriching and expanding individual and social functioning and so they contribute to satisfaction and flourishing. The case study reported in the paper aimed at finding the participants’ opinions about the role of literary texts in foreign language learning and checking whether work…
Nietzsche descubre a Dostoievski. Notas sobre la lectura nietzscheana de La patrona
2009
Exposición del descubrimiento de la obra de Dostoievski por parte de Nietzsche, que tuvo lugar a finales de 1886 o comienzos de 1887, gracias a la lectura de L"esprit souterrain, curiosa versión francesa de dos textos del escritor ruso, la novela de juventud La patrona y una adaptación del relato de madurez Memorias del subsuelo. Siguiendo el magisterio de Joseph Frank y la senda abierta en 1973 por C. A. Miller, se argumentan algunas razones que motivaron la estima nietzscheana por aquella novela y su presentación como una pieza de música, muy extraña y muy poco alemana. In this paper I analyze Nietzsche"s discovery of Dostoievski"s work, which happened between the end of 1886 and the begi…
Being Itself and the Being of Beings : Reading Aristotle’s Critique of Parmenides (Physics 1.3) after Metaphysics
2018
The essay studies Aristotle’s critique of Parmenides (Physics 1.3) in the light of the Heideggerian account of Platonic-Aristotelian metaphysics as an approach to being (Sein) in terms of beings (das Seiende). Aristotle’s critique focuses on the presuppositions of the Parmenidean thesis of the unity of being. It is argued that a close study of the presuppositions of Aristotle’s own critique reveals an important difference between the Aristotelian metaphysical framework and the Parmenidean “protometaphysical” approach. The Parmenides fragments indicate being as such in the sense of the pure, undifferentiated “is there” (τὸ ἐόν)—as the intelligible accessibility of meaningful reality to think…
Literary critical narrative in latvian daily press
2013
Promocijas darba LITERATŪRKRITISKAIS NARATĪVS LATVIEŠU DIENAS PRESĒ Anotācija Promocijas darbā Literatūrkritiskais naratīvs dienas presē latviešu dienas laikrakstu literatūrkritiskie naratīvi tiek analizēti ar semiotiskā komunikācijas modeļa palīdzību. Literatūrkritiskie naratīvi veido daļu no mediju kultūras komunikācijas procesa un sastāv no zīmēm – semantiskām un sintaktiskām makrostruktūrām, kas radušās semiotiskas darbības rezultātā. Makrostruktūru klātbūtne un izvietojums tekstā nosaka laikrakstu literatūrkritiskā teksta tipus. Promocijas darbā analizētie preses teksti sistematizēti, veidojot sešus tipus: grāmatu recenzijas, īsās ziņas, intervijas, blogus, garākus avīžrakstus un inter…