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Meir B. Elijah Of Norwich And The Margins Of Memory, Miriamne Ara Krummel
Meir B. Elijah Of Norwich And The Margins Of Memory, Miriamne Ara Krummel
English Faculty Publications
"Meir b. Elijah of Norwich and the Margins of Memory" is a study of Meir of Norwich's use of acrostics to record his English Jewish identity. In the face of the 1290 Expulsion, which follows upon many episodes of anti-Jewish violence and antipathy, Meir attempts to have his name recorded in perpetuity. This essay details some of those moments of violence in order to give voice to Meir's world and to clarify Meir's desire to be remembered.
Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, And The Postmodern Sublime, Andrew Slade
Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, And The Postmodern Sublime, Andrew Slade
English Faculty Publications
Samuel Beckett's texts are populated with characters who have been so deprived of their humanity that humanity appears as essentially absent from his texts. The characters' presence in the diegesis is marked by unmistakable absences-absence of vision, of mobility, of sense, of name. Beckett's characters are often without: without hair, without teeth, without foreseeable future. The human character is at the limit of humanity and runs the risk of passing over into the grey zone of the inhuman. They lose track of their place, of their time, of their names. They frequently belong to no time and no place. When …