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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Roger Sedarat. Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years agoThrough the case of Emerson’s appropriation of Persian poetry this volume provides a thought-provoking example of how the literary founding father of a nation is cosmopolitan and receptive of foreign cultures in what might seem a purely “nationalistic” agenda. It will appeal to those in the field of Persian literature, comparative liter…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Ayat-Ayat Cinta’ (Verses of Love): Versículos de amor in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoEnglish abstract: ‘Verses of Love’, an Islamic film on the extended couple, features a melodramatic plot in which love triumphs after many difficulties, and the virtuous protagonists Fahri and Aisha are happy in their marriage, having shown the value of their Islamic faith amidst the trials of life—accepting these with sumbission, which is the s…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Prospección, Retrospección, Retroproyección, Retroalimentación in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: La cibernética, la neurología, la semiótica y la narratología han de emprender conjuntamente el estudio interdisciplinar de la consciencia entendida como la circulación retroalimentativa compleja entre distintos sistemas y circuitos cerebrales—así como entre distintas modalidades de representación en el cerebro. Se entender…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Deuda Metódica in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: ‘Modernidad Líquida’ de Zygmunt Bauman ofrece perspectivas iluminadoras para la interpretación de muchos fenómenos característicos de cultura y la economía del siglo XXI. Leemos a su luz la política de endeudamiento y déficit sistemático de los estados nacionales, y en concreto de España, promovida en años recientes por el establ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Contagio (De virus y rumores) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: La película ‘Contagio’ (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011) pertenece al género ‘catástrofe – multiprotagonista’, aquí potenciado por varias circunstancias. La catástrofe es mundial y creíble, una epidemia de una gripe mortífera, como la Peste Negra, o como la Peste Escarlata de Jack London. Y la catástrofe se difunde por las relacione…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Contagio (De virus y rumores) in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: La película ‘Contagio’ (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011) pertenece al género ‘catástrofe – multiprotagonista’, aquí potenciado por varias circunstancias. La catástrofe es mundial y creíble, una epidemia de una gripe mortífera, como la Peste Negra, o como la Peste Escarlata de Jack London. Y la catástrofe se difunde por las relacione…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Improbable Modes of Being in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoThis mini-essay was published as part of a “dossier” of authors discussing various forms of “queer inhumanisms.” In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault’s 1981 interview, “Friendship as a Way of Life.” These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited All That Remains Unnoticed, I Adore: Spencer Reese’s Addresses in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoAn commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece’s “addresses” in his book “The Clerk’s Tale: Poems” (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson’s work on the “apostrophe” in her book chapter “Toys R Us,” in her book “Persons and Things” (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman’s…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Explicitando al autor implícito in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: El concepto de ‘autor implícito’ (implied author) lo difundió Wayne Booth en ‘La Retórica de la Ficción’ (1961) pero, como veremos, algo apuntaron al respecto con anterioridad otros autores. Aquí señalamos más en concreto el precedente de Hegel. ______…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Viendo el mundo con la mente in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: El inmaterialismo del siglo XVIII nos enseñó que el mundo que habitamos no es de naturaleza física sino básicamente informacional o semiótica. Yendo más allá del constructivismo psicológico y de la fenomenología, nos sugieren Berkeley y otros que el mundo es una construcción mental—que habitamos, sin sospecharlo, en una realida…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Persian Huck: On the Reception of Huckleberry Finn in Iran in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years agoFirst translated into Persian in 1949, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the most popular works of American fiction in Iran. Although the anti-US policy of the post-1979 political system has tried to erase the manifestations of the previous period’s American influence, Iranian interest in Huckleberry Finn has been inc…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited همه چیز در خدمت شعر نو: خوانش نیما یوشیج از پدر شعر آزاد امریکا in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years agoنوگرایی شعری در کشورهای مختلف با پذیرش والت ویتمن، پدر شعر آزاد امریکا همراه بودهاست. روندی مشابه در شعر فارسی نیز مشاهده میشود. آشنایی فارسیزبانان با ویتمن به زمانی برمیگردد که شعر فارسی در آستانة تحول بود. نخست یوسف اعتصامالملک در سال ۱۳۰۱ بخش کوتاهی از شعر ویتمن را ترجمه و در مجلة بهار منتشر کرد. بعدها پروین اعتصامی در شعر «جولای خ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Baring the Device of Reality: A Note on Unamuno’s Metafiction in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoA note on the existential significance of Miguel de Unamuno’s metafiction. His novels question the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ which is the bedrock of workaday human reality. (A retropost from 2011).
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Martin Janello deposited Philosophy: Mending a Broken Promise in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years agoAn article (20 p., PDF) about the claims and reality of traditional spiritual and rational philosophy, how they have set back, damaged, and obstructed improvements of the human condition, and how we can overcome these impediments to a thriving existence and find a new beginning.
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Andrew Newman deposited ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’: The Great Gatsby in the 1980s in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis essay illustrates the application of reception study, the subfield of literary history that emphasises the historical experiences of readers, to pedagogical contexts by investigating the teaching of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) in American high schools during the 1980s. Focusing on the episode in which Jay Gatsby leads Nick a…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman deposited Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoLiterary historical overview of the genre of the captivity narrative in colonial North America.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Love for Share’: Historias de mujeres y de sumisión in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoSpanish Abstract: Una película indonesia sobre la pareja heterosexual en el ambiente social indonesio, sobre el patriarcado atmosférico—y sobre el Islam (valga la redundancia). Poner tierra por medio, o mejor no casarse si aún estás a tiempo, es la recomendación de la directora para las mujeres. Ay, si fuera tan fácil… Pero en su context…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group
American Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Vae terrae et mari! in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoVae terrae et mari! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Pruritus Migrans deposited WARNING! in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWARNING! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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