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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jay Griffiths - Forests of the mind Eros is coursing through the forest. The forest is mewing with its jaguar life. Life is spiralling into poetry. I am in the other world, I thought, at once in the actual forest and in the forests of the mind where the visible world is not denied but augmented. I had gone to the Peruvian Amazon seeking treatment from forest doctors for an episode of depression so long and so severe that I had worked out how I was going to kill myself (length-wise, in the bath). What I experienced was more than the healing of this desolate madness, it was a sense of the raw, green-eyed, lustrous sacredness of life which has never left me, and which came through a sense of identification with other creatures, the knowers of the forest. At times, I felt a hot sexuality coursing through me as if, in pelt and paw and breath, I could feel from within my body a radical love for the earth as strong as the gravitational force. This was shape-shifting. Placebo effect, a cynic may might say.
La chanson francophone en cours de FLE. Carmen Vera Pérez. Your browser does not support script Faites dérouler le menu pour trouver la chanson de votre choix. Conceptrice: Carmen Vera Pérez.Docteur en Philologie française.© 2003-2022. Choisissez une chanson La grammaire par les chansons Le vocabulaire par les chansons L'orthographe dans les chansons La phonétique par les chansons Exercices de discrimination Dictées chansons de Noël Chansons populaires Compréhension écrite Civilisation Sujets de débat Chansons de films Chansons pour les enfants Classement par date de sortie Classement par type d'activité niveau débutant niveau moyen niveau avancé chansons populaires chansons de films Chimène Badi Agnès Bihl Jacques Brel Patrick Bruel Carla Bruni Benabar Pierre Bachelet Bébé Lilly Berry Je vais te chercher Entre nous Ne me quitte pas Quand on n'a que l'amour Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux? Trois ans et demi d'amour Au bout de la marelle Pour la vie Adieu Héros Quelqu'un m'a dit... la dernière minute Le toi du moi Raphaël le toi du moi Dis-lui oui À notre santé Politiquement correct If
Elif Batuman reviews ‘The Programme Era’ by Mark McGurl · LRB 23 September 2010 The world of letters: does such a thing still exist? Even within the seemingly homogeneous sphere of the university English department, a schism has opened up between literary scholarship and creative writing: disciplines which differ in their points of reference (Samuel Richardson v. Jhumpa Lahiri), the graduate degrees they award (Doctor of Philosophy v. The central claims of The Programme Era are beyond dispute: the creative writing programme has exercised the single most determining influence on postwar American literary production, and any convincing interpretation of the literary works themselves has to take its role into account. I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Like many aspiring writers in America, I enrolled in graduate school after college, but I went for a PhD rather than an MFA. McGurl appears to believe that ‘point of view’ was somehow invented by Henry James. The analogy is as brilliant as it is implausible.
A Quick Guide to Reading Shakespeare Probably the number one complaint about reading Shakespeare is that it doesn't always read like "normal" English. It's a natural and legitimate accusation. Shakespeare wrote for an audience over 400 years ago. Think about how word meanings and expressions change over a relatively short time; four centuries bring with them a lot of alterations. The Elizabethan era was a particularly volatile growth spurt in the English language. So how can a reader today bridge that gap between then and now? Word Usage First and foremost, there have been numerous vocabulary changes in English since Shakespeare was writing. Grammar This is where the flexibility of Shakespeare's English is often most apparent. Wordplay Some of the most difficult passages of Shakespeare occur when the Bard is purposely playing with language. Versification One issue often overlooked is that Shakespeare's plays were written as dramatic literature-meant to be performed and heard aloud, not silently read.