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Late-Victorian Novels, Microsociology, And Bad Dialogue, Amy Wong

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

This essay argues that a separation between dialogue and talk has been enforced since the rejection of mimetic realism in the late nineteenth-century art of fiction debates. Both the institutionalization of formalist methods and poststructuralism since Derrida have resulted, moreover, in continued suspicion about ontological claims made about any category of "orality." Yet what has been lost in the name of poststructuralist sophistication is an appreciation of talk as an embodied, relational, and sociologically mediated form. This essay contends that revisiting dialogue with a view toward such elements—from gestures and other physiological productions to "invisible" social dynamics—unfolds ethical dimensions of …

Moon Dog [Translation], Judy Halebsky (Translating Author), Tomoyuki Endo (Translating Author), Mizuho Ishida

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

A Japanese to English translation of the poem Moon Dog originally written by Mizuho Ishida

The Poetry Of Delight: Lessons From Chana Bloch, Judy Halebsky

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

The frst thing I learned about poetry from Chana was delight—delight in the world around us, pain and all. I studied with Chana at Mills College in Oakland, California, from 1996 to 1998, in the Master of Fine Arts in English and Creative Writing Program. For a period, our work-shops met at her house in the East Bay hills; I remember her living room with ornate red decorations and dark foor- to- ceiling bookshelves. We would sit in a circle as we read and discussed poems. However, the real focus of our class was on Chana’s stories, anecdotes, and words …

Three Poems: "Shameless Things" | "Lunch Poems @ Dokkyo" | "Yosano Akiko On Jikkan", Judy Halebsky

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

Three poems by Judy Halebsky:

• Shameless Things
• Lunch Poems @ Dokkyo
• Yosano Akiko on Jikkan

Haiku's Reception And Practice In Contemporary North American Poetry, Ayako Takahashi, Judy Halebsky

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

In the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the Meiji government implemented a wealth and military strength policy. This policy invited employed foreigners from western countries to Japan in order to modernize the nation by importing western laws, technologies and systems. Through these employed foreigners, Japanese literacy and literature were abruptly introduced into western countries. The translation of haiku in French influenced Symbolist poets and the translation in English also greatly influenced Imagist poets in England and the United States. The term haiku, it has been used since Shiki Masaoka. Before him, the words of haikai and hokku were brought into use …

Remix Perspective: Transdisciplinary Insights For The Art Of Writing, Marianne Rogoff

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

How do creative writers transform the complexity of life into literature? Remix Perspectives presents a bricolage synthesis of transdisciplinary insights for workshop leaders and creative writers, appropriated from selected artistic and literary voices from more or less the last hundred years. Seminal concepts from arts such as painting, poetry, dance, music, and photography are gathered here as they inform the arts of literary fiction and creative nonfiction. Thinkers from philosophy, psychology, literary theory, complexity, and metaphysics address the inner and outer realms where the work of the writer is generated and goes forth.