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The following essay will look at the issue of neologisms and the ‘chains of Equivalences’ as well as ways of attaining jouissance in James Joyce’s book “Ulysses”. The vast amount of neologisms, syllogisms, allusions, which are utilized... more
Since the mid-1970s in American academia, a series of articles and books in Sinology (comparative literature) appeared with the attention to rhetoric, contending that the Western sense of allegory/metaphor is absent in Chinese poetics and... more
This paper focuses upon Adorno's critique of musical temporality-as found in his musical criticism and as implied by his philosophy as a whole. I shall contend that the two do not necessarily coincide. Adorno presents temporality in a... more
The question of ethics posits, at its core, an idea of the other. But what is this other? What is it made of? What is the meaning of its power over the human subject? The paper looks at the idea of otherness as its appears in Levinas and... more
Soren Kierkegaard Lucinda-kritikájának elemzéséből kiindulva azt vizsgálom meg, hogy miben különbözött Schlegel és Kierkegaard iróniával kapcsolatos trópus-használata, milyen metaforák mentén határolódott el a dán filozófus német... more
Na obra de Rainer Maria Rilke e de Clarice Lispector, fica sempre a impressão de que alguns gestos permanecem fora do lugar, como se, à deriva de significados desconhecidos, eles fizessem parte de uma linguagem que surge no instante em... more
Tesis para optar al grado de doctor en literatura latonoamericana.
Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
In Memoires for Paul de Man Derrida articulates a new model of mourning as an ongoing conversation with the dead who are both within us and beyond us and continue to look at us with a look that is a call to responsibility and... more
El texto que presentamos, Autobiografías visuales. Del archivo al índice, inició su andadura en el marco del programa de investigación Biography desarrollado en el Getty Research Institute de Los Ángeles (California) en 2003. En dicho... more
The task of the main character of J.L. Borges' short story "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is not very difficult, indeed, Pierre Menard decides to re-write word by word Cervantes' Don Quixote. However, he presumes to accomplish... more
The basic principles of the deconstruction theory and philosophy in Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man.
This project tells a history of allegory from late modernism into the present. It presents case studies of four sites of allegorical thought and practice in late twentieth-century American cultural production, with a focus on post-WWII... more
Selva: A Journal of the History of Art, issue 2 (Fall 2020): "Reactionary Art Histories." Edited by Rachel Silveri and Trevor Stark. An investigation of right-wing art history and criticism in the 20th century, with an emphasis on the... more
O presente texto surge como uma tentativa de “leitura” do ensaio “A Resistência à Teoria”, de Paul de Man, almejando uma compreensão dos princípios subjacentes ao texto damaniano, iniciaremos por uma reflexão acerca da sua concepção de... more
El trabajo reconstruye el concepto de ironía del crítico de origen belga Paul De Man a los fines de mostrar algunos supuestos filosóficos que emplea para su conceptualización. Concentramos el análisis en su conferencia de 1977 que... more
This article reevaluates Michael Fried’s antitheatrical aesthetics—expounded primarily in “Art and Objecthood” (1967) and Absorption and Theatricality (1980)—by constellating Fried’s work alongside Péter Szondi’s writings on modern drama... more
In his paper “The Return to Philology,” Paul de Man insists that philology and theory should not be in conflict, but should, rather, mutually enhance one another. This claim that the turn to theory is also a return to philology is... more
Analyse der La Grande Bellezza Sorrentinos, im Hinblick auf die Merkmale des zeitgenössischen italienischen Kinos und im Zusammenhang mit dem Begriff der “Allegorie des Lesens” interpretiert wird. Dieser Begriff ist mit den... more
Impossible Reading: Idolatry and Diversity in Literature argues that to welcome diversity necessitates resisting idolatry. Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, Impossible Reading begins with chapters exploring the... more
In the wake of Bertrand Russell’s contention that Lawrence’s ‘mystical philosophy of “blood”’ led ‘straight to Auschwitz’, academics have been dutifully unearthing evidence of latent, cryptic or proto-fascist ideas in his work. Several... more
But the course ‘literary criticism’, the reason why I am writing this piece, was unsatisfactory and the contents only kept us ‘outmoded’. We had Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, Arnold’s ‘The Study of Poetry’, Wordsworth’s... more
Text, vycházející z konceptu dez-interpretace Paula de Mana, si klade otázku po smyslu interpretace literárních textů. Zabývá se především dvěma významnými studie, které reflektují toto téma: esejí Susan Sontagové "Proti interpretaci" a... more
October 151 (Winter 2015): 43-61.
Everything Jack Lindsay wrote was about the past or saturated with historical consciousness. Plebeian experiences, rebellion, revolution, and progressive expectations predominate. It is therefore natural to think of him as a Marxist... more