Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
-
- Comedia (2)
- French theater (2)
- Future (2)
- Gender (2)
- Jean Racine (2)
-
- 0819193577 (1)
- 17th century Mexican literature (1)
- 9780801423789 (1)
- 9780801480713 (1)
- 9780819193575 (1)
- Aegean (1)
- Archaeology (1)
- Auto sacramental (1)
- Belief (1)
- Belief states (1)
- Book review (1)
- Ceramics (1)
- Classical studies (1)
- Colonizacion (1)
- Comediantes (1)
- Contemporary critical theory (1)
- Cuba (1)
- Data transmission (1)
- Death drive (1)
- Destabilization (1)
- Divino Narciso (1)
- Economic impact (1)
- Economics (1)
- Economy (1)
- Ellison (1)
Articles 1 - 12 of 12
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer
Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, And The Ethics Of Understanding [Review], Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
We are still trying to sort out the complex legacy of romanticism. "We" here includes philosophers Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty, feminist critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and a remarkable variety of literary theorists, from Northrop Frye, M. H. Abrams, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom through Hazard Adams and Jerome J. McGann. Julie Ellison's important book, Delicate Subjects, focuses on an especially difficult problem we have inherited from the romantics: the problem of defining the ethics of interpretation. According to Ellison, male romantic writers worry that in literary interpretation, we murder to dissect (to paraphrase Wordsworth). Criticism, from …
Wittgenstein As A Modernist Philosopher, Michael Fischer
Wittgenstein As A Modernist Philosopher, Michael Fischer
English Faculty Research
Much attention has recently been given to Martin Heidegger and his disturbing relationship to fascism. I want here to look at another philosopher in this context: Ludwig Wittgenstein. As a source of insight into the politics of modernism, Wittgenstein would seem to have at least three strikes against him. His explicit political pronouncements are rare; his relationship to literary modernism is unclear; and the political implications of his philosophical writings are notoriously difficult to assess. Perhaps for these reasons, discussions of modernism usually omit Wittgenstein, and discussions of Wittgenstein usually ignore modernism. Stanley Cavell is an important exception to this …
The Electronic Comedia, Matthew D. Stroud
The Electronic Comedia, Matthew D. Stroud
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The rapid transmission of data in machine readable formats has for many years now been a staple of the business world. Now, in a number of fields, the same technology is being applied to scholarly subjects, including French and English literatures. The availability of primary texts ready to be read by one's own computer is almost as great a revolution in textual dissemination as the invention of the printing press. Other disciplines, in which scholars can exchange texts either on diskette or by uploading and downloading to a network, are far ahead of Spanish literature, but there is both a …
The Desiring Subject And The Promise Of Salvation: A Lacanian Study Of Sor Juana's El Divino Narciso, Matthew D. Stroud
The Desiring Subject And The Promise Of Salvation: A Lacanian Study Of Sor Juana's El Divino Narciso, Matthew D. Stroud
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
Both Sor Juana's El divino Narciso and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic writings deal with the nature of humankind and the nature of God. This article examines the play and its religious philosophy in light of Lacan's imaginary, symbolic, and real registers, as well as Lacan's important concepts of the Other, the divided subject, jouissance, and the death drive. Ultimately, both Lacan and Sor Juana arrive at the same conclusion, that the basis of the religious experience is grounded in the "lack" in both the subject and God, and that only death can bring the promised state of purity.
The Destabilization Of The Future In Racine's Iphigénie, Nina Ekstein
The Destabilization Of The Future In Racine's Iphigénie, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The action of Racine's Iphigénie is only a prelude, a pretext, to a much greater future event. The Trojan War looms large before the entire dramatic universe, drawing the characters inexorably forward. The force of the future in this play has long been evident: Georges Poulet discussed it in relation to the weight of the past in Andromaque: "[o]uvrant ou fermant un récit, le moment de l'action perd donc presque entièrement sa valeur propre, sa qualité de seul moment 'présent.' . . . Sa 'réalité' n'est pas assez riche en soi pour triompher d'un passé ou d'un futur. Le …
El Caso Cubano: Exportación E Independencia, Pedro Fraile Balbín, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci
El Caso Cubano: Exportación E Independencia, Pedro Fraile Balbín, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
En su Memoria sobre qué colonias debían ser retenidas por España y cuales deberían abandonarse, el conde de Aranda Argüía que la isla de Cuba debería seguir siendo parte del lmperio. Aunque, como opina Arthur Whitaker, la Memoria de Aranda haya sido menos cierta de lo que se piensa, la realidad le dio la razón. Una de las notas mas destacables de la historia hispanoamericana del siglo XIX fue, en efecto, la ausencia de Cuba en los procesos independentistas de principios del siglo XIX. Un conjunto de circunstancias especiales mantuvieron una difícil y peculiar lealtad cubana a la metrópoli en …
Las Consecuencias Económicas De La Independencia Mexicana, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci
Las Consecuencias Económicas De La Independencia Mexicana, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
Los historiadores están de acuerdo en que las consecuencias de la independencia de Latinoamérica fueron profundas. El colapso del imperio español produjo una anarquía institucional (por la inexistencia de programas firmes de administración y gobierno), que fue la causa inmediata de un pobre rendimiento macroeconómico, es decir, de un crecimiento retardado de la renta nacional y del empleo. Las guerras, la inestabilidad política (cambios de régimen irregulares e imprevisibles) y el militarismo ( empleo del ejército para efectuar cambios de régimen) también alteraron las pautas de inversión y consumo, impidieron una eficaz distribución de los recursos y dificultaron la acomodación …
Incised Marks (Post-Firing) On Aegean Wares, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld
Incised Marks (Post-Firing) On Aegean Wares, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld
Classical Studies Faculty Research
The practice of incising potmarks into LH and LM III vessels after firing is not only distinctive but also a peculiar and limited Cypriot phenomenon. A close examination of the types of vessels marked in this way and their distribution should provide some clues to patterns of trade between the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. The work I present here is still very much in progress, and I welcome suggestions and criticisms.
Belief States And Narrow Content, Curtis Brown
Belief States And Narrow Content, Curtis Brown
Philosophy Faculty Research
A discussion of four incompatible theses about belief and other propositional attitudes.
Genre And Lack In The Comedia, Matthew D. Stroud
Genre And Lack In The Comedia, Matthew D. Stroud
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The history of genre studies is almost a textbook case of critical self-deconstruction. Beginning with Aristotle himself, we are faced with irreconcilable differences between description and prescription, literary cause and psychological effect, the written Poetics and the promised but lacking sequel on comedy. The temptation to compromise on a definition (or multiple definitions) of a genre has been met with startlingly rigid manifestos for limiting our use of a word such as "tragedy" only to those plays that fulfill the particular narrowly- conceived requirements of one critic or another. Given Jacques Lacan's penchant for jumping into the middle of thorny …
The Weight Of The Future In Racine's Theater, Nina Ekstein
The Weight Of The Future In Racine's Theater, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
The future has a curious status in the theater. Like the past, it cannot be represented on stage, but is limited to the field of discourse. The future can be spoken, but not literally pre-figured. Purely textual, lacking any referent, concretized or otherwise, the future appears essentially alien to the theater. For Anne Ubersfeld, "le problème fondamental du temps au théâtre est qu'il se situe par rapport à un icimaintenant ... le théâtre est ce qui par nature nie la présence du passé et du futur. L’écriture théâtrale est une écriture au présent." Yet the future constitutes an important …
Language, Power, And Gender In Tristan’S La Marianne And La Mort De Sénèque, Nina Ekstein
Language, Power, And Gender In Tristan’S La Marianne And La Mort De Sénèque, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
Power is a central issue in both Tristan L'Hermite's Marianne (1636) and La Mort de Sénèque (1644). I propose to examine the articulations of power in Tristan's theater and the power struggles at the heart of both plays. On the most basic level, Tristan illustrates the power of tyranny. Furetière defines a tyrant as an "usurpateur d'un Etat, oppresseur de la liberté publique, qui s'est emparé par violence ou par adresse de la souveraine puissance"; tyran "se dit aussi d'un Prince qui abuse de son pouvoir, qui ne gouverne pas selon les lois, qui use de violence et de cruauté …