As we exchange remarks about the impetus and impact of time & place in the generation of ecocritical discourse, I am reminded of Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope. There is a certain imbrication of time, place and person and the question, for me, of who has access to the ecopoetical sublime and when. I wonder if the literary theory derived from…[Read more]

Thank you Rebecca Ruth Gold. The comparisons you draw between the novels of Thomas Hardy and Idris Bazorkin’s novel provide us with a picture of a complicated pastoral and sophisticated critique of colonialism (and, as you suggest, by implication the Soviet regime). At one point, the article contrasts Hardy’s “dense palimpsests of multiply…[Read more]

I really enjoyed the way the argument for a liquid poetics flowed so fluently from the presentation of examples. Given the place of Ralegh (as Ocean), I wonder if the boundaries might be breached in other fashion by calling in the paratext of the letter to Ralegh. Towards the end of the letter, Spenser writes “But by occasion hereof, many other…[Read more]

In the brief interview for Les Napoleons, Baroni challenges the idea that cross-modal narration no longer presents stories (“intrigues”) and presents worlds (“mondes”). He assures listeners that there is still a place for plot-driven narration and points towards a certain hierarchy among media. He also alludes, tantalizingly, to the need to…[Read more]

Christopher Edwards thank you for depositing On Being Dimensional. I am intrigued by the model that emerges from the traversal of the topology of the dimensions. I am wondering if the “dislocation” events can be likened to acts of reading. The paper mentions dislocation as the motor for moving from proposition to deposition to composition to…[Read more]

Manfred Engel, thank you for depositing the introductory essay to this collection. I am intrigued by your article on the German poets described as “Comparing the literaricized dream-report with the empirical one shows the workings of two different concepts of factual dream-notation: whereas the latter tries to remain faithful to the memorized…[Read more]

Interesting panel from which we take away that Bourdieu does not cite Proust in relation to temporality (unlike other authors such as Faulkner and Woolf). Bourdieu does draw upon Proust on the construction of pastiche as a form of incorporation of the habitus. Which of course opens up the question of the relation of pastiche to temporality.

Hello José Angel,

Where and how does one sign up for the Literary Theory Group? Some instructions would be helpful to a plodding soul like me. : )

I predict that the Literary Theory Group will grow by at least one.

François

Indexing to mentions of “oracle” on Berneval
https://berneval.hcommons-staging.org/?s=oracle

Quoting Donald Culross Peattie from An Almanac For Moderns (©1935; renewed 1963 )

April 7th

Man’s ultimate fate is not written in the works of Spengler or Veblen or Marx, but in the nucleus of his own cells; his end, if it be predestined,…

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I note that the order starts with Orientation ends with Drama (early 16th century: via late Latin from Greek drama, from dran ‘do, act’.) [Bottom-Up reading of the visual.] But as Turing taught us every state is an instruction. [Top-Down reading nets an understanding that every action orients] Note the mediating presence of the obs…[Read more]

I learnt how to truly smell by observing a cat catnip snack.

Learnt today about “smokeless smudge” — i.e. crush of bit of sage or other medicine in your palm and sniff. Be bold and smear over face.

Smell is indeed a two-way signal for stress.

Scents alert us. Scents soothe us.

One of my interlocutors notes that chèvre “it melts, damn it!” He reports incorporating it into a sauce that also involves Gorgonzola and aged Cheddar.

“Dissolves” and “melts” can be considered as two distinct processes. Both however are similar in outcome: a solid turns liquid.

Reminds me of a discussion with a colleague about “accurate”…[Read more]

The recipe translated into English:

Pâté Maison

Fresh meat

Ground pork 1 pound
Ground Veal 1 pound
Ground ham 1/2 pound
from 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of salt per pound of meat and a 1/4 teaspoon of pepper.
Ground pork fat 1/4 pound
1/2 cup of consommé
a pinch of thyme and a bit of parsley
1 beaten egg

Mix everything. Line a casserole with strips of…[Read more]