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Paths To The Dissolution Of Self: Solipsism And Spirituality In Byron’S Manfred, Elizabeth V. Wells Apr 2015

Paths To The Dissolution Of Self: Solipsism And Spirituality In Byron’S Manfred, Elizabeth V. Wells

Masters Essays

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The World In Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress", Tiffany L. Fajardo Mar 2015

The World In Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress", Tiffany L. Fajardo

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject …


Reading Aloud: Lord Byron's Prometheus, Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Reading Aloud: Lord Byron's Prometheus, Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

A reading of Lord Byron's poem, Prometheus by Eric Alan Weinstein. Penn Shelley Seminar Series, featured in OpenLearnings's Unbinding Prometheus MOOC on Percy Shelley. Part of The Great Poems Series. Unit 1, Module 2 (Prometheus Cluster), Video 2 Recorded at Van Pelt Library, Fall term, 2014.


Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Binding And Form: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Binding And Form: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein


Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Stanza 2 & 3: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Stanza 2 & 3: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. --- Eric Alan Weinstein