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Infanticide And The Anxious Silence Of “Language As Such”, Kevin Godbout
Infanticide And The Anxious Silence Of “Language As Such”, Kevin Godbout
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
No abstract provided.
Pasolini's Laugh: Joyful Ignorance In The Decameron, Andrea Privitera
Pasolini's Laugh: Joyful Ignorance In The Decameron, Andrea Privitera
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
In this paper, I discuss Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and its 1971 film adaptation by Pier Paolo Pasolini. To be more precise, I focus on the fifth novella of the sixth day, the one about Giotto and Forese, and its audiovisual re-elaboration, which can be seen as a very brief and at the same time very vivid example of Pasolini’s ideas on society, language and communication.
"Duchamping In Game Making": An Analysis Of Pippin Barr's Parodic Computer Games, Devin A. Wilson
"Duchamping In Game Making": An Analysis Of Pippin Barr's Parodic Computer Games, Devin A. Wilson
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
Devin Wilson analyzes some of Pippin Barr's subversive videogames, examining the methods by which they parody game design conventions.
"Words, Words, Words": The Idea Of The Absurd As Method In Hamlet., Anthony Faber
"Words, Words, Words": The Idea Of The Absurd As Method In Hamlet., Anthony Faber
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
In this paper I explore the idea that Hamlet develops the notion of the absurd as a method with which to confront his world: however, as art imitates nature, Hamlet's discourse of "an antic disposition" suggests, that he in fact embodies the absurd as constituting a meaningless existence.
Class Movements In The New South Africa: Post-Colonial Politics, Neocolonialism, And Mimicry In Pieter-Dirk Uys’S Macbeki A Farce To Be Reckoned With, J. Coplen Rose
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
This paper uses Homi Bhabha’s theory of colonial mimicry to analyze Pieter-Dirk Uys’s MacBeki: A Farce to be Reckoned With. In doing so I posit MacBeki is a colonial mimic, a character who comically imitates European gestures and language. MacBeki’s behaviour throughout the play highlights the dangers of greed and corruption in post-apartheid South Africa and encourages the play’s audience to respond with ridiculing laughter. My paper concludes by arguing that Uys’s play should be read as a hybrid text that draws on European dramatic styles and South African political events, staging a critical response to national uncertainties ahead …
Laughing It Over Inside-Out: How Comedy Casts Its Spell In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Sarbani Banerjee
Laughing It Over Inside-Out: How Comedy Casts Its Spell In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Sarbani Banerjee
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
It was an educative event where I met professors and students from other universities and got to participate in some fetching discussions on topics of my interest.
Turkish Shadow Puppetry And The Carnivalesque, Anna (Raff) Miller
Turkish Shadow Puppetry And The Carnivalesque, Anna (Raff) Miller
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
No abstract provided.
Georges Bataille, Philosopher Of Laughter, Troy M. Bordun
Georges Bataille, Philosopher Of Laughter, Troy M. Bordun
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
Why is it that when we laugh – not at jokes or to patronize – but when we laugh ecstatically and drift away from the self that seemed to constitute the majority of waking life, we feel free, at ease? And why is it, asked Georges Bataille, that after this ecstatic moment we come back to the mundane everyday with the feeling of a new and ineffable knowledge about human existence?
In this paper I present Bataille on laughter and its merits as a philosophical project. Laughter is an experience to be theorized and a praxis aiding in our pursuit …
Crónicas De Un Nómada: El Humor Como Estrategia Del Recuerdo, Ana Chiarelli
Crónicas De Un Nómada: El Humor Como Estrategia Del Recuerdo, Ana Chiarelli
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
La primera novela del venezolano A.A. Álvarez, Crónicas de un nómada, memorias de un inmigrante (2009), es la historia contada en primera persona de Carlos Rodríguez, un joven que a temprana edad decide que la emigración es la salida perfecta para escapar de un país que parece derrumbarse ante sus ojos.
La historia de Carlos es contada desde una transterritorialidad que no es sólo espacial, sino que abarca también lo cultural y lo lingüístico, ofreciendo una oportunidad para acercarse a la realidad de los procesos migratorios a través del humor como estrategia para sobrellevar las dificultades de la adaptación, pero …