Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism This is a volume of papers from a conference held at Harvard University in 2010 to honor the American philosopher Stanley Cavell (b. 1926), and particularly to celebrate the publication of his autobiographical fragments, Little Did I Know (Stanford University Press, 2010). The theme of the conference, "Cavell and Literary Studies," is perhaps testimony to the fact that, apart from philosophers who were among his devoted students at Harvard (James Conant, Richard Eldridge, Richard Fleming, Timothy Gould, Stephen Mulhall, among many others), Cavell's most enthusiastic readers have been literary critics.[1] Still, the theme may seem a bit thin. During the last thirty years literary study has become less literary than social and political in its topics and debates. A short list of current critical approaches would include, under the rubric of "Cultural Studies," gender studies, ethnic studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and, more recently, cybernetics. Now they are resting
The story of the self Memory is our past and future. To know who you are as a person, you need to have some idea of who you have been. And, for better or worse, your remembered life story is a pretty good guide to what you will do tomorrow. "Our memory is our coherence," wrote the surrealist Spanish-born film-maker, Luis Buñuel, "our reason, our feeling, even our action." Lose your memory and you lose a basic connection with who you are. It's no surprise, then, that there is fascination with this quintessentially human ability. This is quite a trick, psychologically speaking, and it has made cognitive scientists determined to find out how it is done. When you ask people about their memories, they often talk as though they were material possessions, enduring representations of the past to be carefully guarded and deeply cherished. We know this from many different sources of evidence. Even highly emotional memories are susceptible to distortion. What accounts for this unreliability?
Flaubert lecteur : une histoire des écritures 1 Corr., t. II, p. 30 ; à Louise Colet, 16 janvier 1852. 2 Voir Luc Fraisse, Les Fondements de l'histoire littéraire, Honoré Champion, 2002. 1« Je sais comment il faut faire »1. Flaubert a enfin trouvé au cœur des livres sa poétique à lui. Dans la bibliothèque, au fil des ans, les ouvrages se sont classés en diverses manières d'écrire. 2Il est une première écriture étrangement, formidablement insouciante, relevant d'un temps où la question du « comment écrire ? 3 Corr., t. 3Les écrivains originaux représentent le mythe d'une littérature libre, contrairement aux classiques et aux modernes pris dans la mémoire des livres : 4 Corr., t. 4Filtrée par le moderne, la source-océan retombe à petit débit... 5 Schiller, De la poésie naïve et sentimentale, in Œuvres, traduction Adolphe Régnier, Hachette, 186 (...) 5Flaubert rejoint ici la réflexion de Schiller opposant poésie naïve et poésie sentimentale. 6 Corr., t. 7 Corr., t. 10 Corr., t. 8L'histoire des écritures est l'histoire d'une décadence.
A Reader's War “Thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires…civilization is now less cruel than when storytellers began to humanize life with their fables.” This defense, made by Mario Vargas Llosa when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature two years ago, could have come from any other writer. It is, in fact, allowing for some variety of expression, a cliché. But clichés, so the cliché goes, originate in truth. Vargas Llosa reiterated the point: “Without fictions, we would be less aware of the importance of freedom for life to be livable, the hell it turns into when it is trampled underfoot by a tyrant, an ideology, or a religion.” It would be hard to find writers who disagree with Vargas Llosa’s general sense of literature’s civilizing function. There was a feeling during the years of George W. His successor couldn’t have been more different. Any President’s gravest responsibilities are defending the Constitution and keeping the country safe. Mrs.
How to Stimulate Curiosity and Promote Learning Curiosity is the engine of intellectual achievement — it’s what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how does one generate curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, proposed an answer in the classic 1994 paper, “The Psychology of Curiosity.” Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one’s knowledge. (MORE: Secrets of the Most Successful College Students) Here, three practical ways to use information gaps to stimulate curiosity: 1. (MORE: How to Raise a Group’s IQ) 2. 3. This technique can be adapted to all kinds of settings: for example, colleagues from different departments could be asked to complete a task together, one that requires the identification of information gaps that the coworkers, with their different areas of expertise, must fill in for each other.
When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within Derek Amato stood above the shallow end of the swimming pool and called for his buddy in the Jacuzzi to toss him the football. Then he launched himself through the air, head first, arms outstretched. He figured he could roll onto one shoulder as he snagged the ball, then slide across the water. It was a grave miscalculation. At the edge of the pool, Amato collapsed into the arms of his friends, Bill Peterson and Rick Sturm. It would be weeks before the full impact of Amato's head trauma became apparent: 35 percent hearing loss in one ear, headaches, memory loss. Without thinking, he rose from his chair and sat in front of it. Amato played for six hours, leaving Sturm's house early the next morning with an unshakable feeling of wonder. Amato searched the internet for an explanation, typing in words like gifted and head trauma. the results astonished him. The neurological causes of acquired savant syndrome are poorly understood. In the weeks after his accident, Amato's mind raced.
Christopher Ricks · In theory · LRB 16 April 1981 Is there an honourable, thoughtful alternative to literary theory? Literary theory at present dishonourably pretends that there is not. So the case against literary theory begins with its overbearing insistence that there is no genuine case for anything else. The advocates of theory often declare that we are all theorists whether we realise it and acknowledge it or not. This stratagem is an easy extension of the announcement that we all have an ideology whether we realise it or not – an announcement which has had too easy a ride, since the choice of the word ‘ideology’ is itself the reflection of an ideology. The theory-missionaries who find it convenient to practise baptism with a hose are clearly running a risk, since in theory they are running another argument: that these days we urgently need more literary theorists. Geoffrey Hartman of Yale, whose advocacy of literary theory (rather, of one rampancy of it) is impassioned and learned, is not personally an arrogant man.
The London Psychology Collective Cover-moi: French Versions of English Hit Songs Cover-moi: French Versions of English Hit Songs Songs you know and love, that you can sing along with, by artists you've probably never heard of, in a foreign language. Monsieur Tom is the tour guide on this excursion through one of pop music's least known regions. In the Fifties, French popular music was Piaf, Aznavour and Charles Trenet, and songs in the French chanson tradition that told stories, with plots usually wrapped around amour, written for grownups. When rock and roll caught on, French teenagers, like kids everywhere, wanted a style of music that was their own. To fill the demand for rock music, and to counter the flood of import albums destined for French record shops, the French record biz fell back on translated versions of songs from the American hit parade. Of the artists who defined ye-ye, or American rock French style, Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan became the king and queen of the cover song. Johnny Hallyday Sylvie Vartan Claude François Tony and Nanette
No More Indiana Jones Warehouses - Do Your Job Better By William Pannapacker In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones—perhaps the last heroic professor to appear in a major Hollywood film—survives a series of adventures involving spiders, snakes, treacherous colleagues, and countless Nazis who are determined to recover the ark of the covenant for their Führer. Apparently the ark has mystical powers: If you open it with the wrong intentions, it will melt your face or explode your head. Ultimately, Jones recovers the ark: He really delivers on his grant. That's what happens to the majority of undergraduate projects in the humanities. Fortunately, we are living at a moment when our students can undertake a far wider range of learning experiences than was possible when the traditional research paper was the gold standard of scholarly production. The digital humanities, or "DH," encourages scholars and students to use the Internet to present their work to a global audience. The situation was worse for undergraduate researchers.
All About Psychology Many thanks for taking the time to check out my psychology website. My name is David Webb and I've had a passionate interest in studying and teaching psychology for over 20 years. I have a first class honors degree in psychology and a Masters in Occupational psychology from the University of Sheffield (UK). For a number of years, I was a lecturer in psychology at the University of Huddersfield (UK). In 2003 I moved to sunny Spain with my family, where in addition to writing and hosting the All About Psychology Website, I also work as an online tutor and research dissertation supervisor. The All About Psychology website ( was launched in March 2008 and is designed to help anybody looking for detailed information and resources. The Psychology Journal Articles Collection: Get completely free access to classic full text journal articles, including material from the most eminent and influential psychologists of the 20th century.
50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45.