In response to the four commentaries on ‘Cyborg uterine geography’, in which I argued normatively for reorganizing gestation on the basis of comradeliness, I grapple with three overlapping conceptual areas highlighted: the ethical and political affordances of the term ‘generosity’ in relation to care and pregnancy; the methodological questio…[Read more]

Este capítulo presenta de modo sucinto una introducción a la narratología estructuralista clásica, que seguidamente se aplica al estudio de la narrativa experimental de Beckett en el libro “Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva”. Se presentan los conceptos básicos de la estructura narrativa (tiempo, aspecto, voz, status, modo) definidos en relac…[Read more]

‘Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva’ es un estudio en profundidad de la escritura experimental de Beckett, en especial de la trilogía novelística ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone muere’ y ‘El Innombrable’, desde la perspectiva de la narratología estructuralista y las teorías estructuralistas sobre la enunciación. La introducción esboza un contexto estilí…[Read more]

In his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]

Este artículo clasifica algunos de los elementos metaficcionales más corrientes desde una perspectiva narratológica, según pertenezcan al nivel de la acción, del relato, de la narración, o del discurso del autor. _________________________________________________________________________________

This paper classifies some of the more commo…[Read more]

The Line of Control arbitrarily bifurcates Neelum valley, Kashmir into Pakistan and India. While the border attempts to constrain and categorize, the daily movements and flows of human and more-than-human bodies via “unofficial” routes and routines generate an understanding of Kashmir that is not dependent on geopolitics. Neelum as sculpted and…[Read more]

This paper examines some of Samuel Beckett’s late narratives (“Company”, “Ill Seen Ill Said”, “Worstward Ho” and “Stirrings Still”), with a focus on the evolution of his metafictional techniques, and more specifically the growing importance acquired by the thematization of the compositional process itself, as well as the attention paid to closure.…[Read more]

This is a study on the history of literary theory and on Samuel Johnson’s novel ‘The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia’ (1759). Johnson’s literary theory as formulated in the novel is examined in the light of the aesthetic thought of his age. Johnson’s relationships both with classicism and with empiricist pre-Romanticism must be int…[Read more]

Stanley Fish is a major theorist of post-structuralist reception theory in America, and an early adopter of the pragmalinguistic theory of speech acts in its application to literature. He is also well known for his critique of formalist linguistics and stylistics. This paper examines from a critical standpoint his theories on the arbitrariness of…[Read more]

Las novelas de Samuel Beckett son altamente autoconscientes y reflexivas en muchos sentidos; también en la manera en que interiorizan y ficcionalizan las estrategias de recepción y de interpretación usadas por los lectores al enfrentarse a la narrativa clásica. Este artículo estudia las diversas formas en que Beckett utiliza figuras de narrat…[Read more]

This essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]

Análisis desconstructivo de la voz narrativa y de las estructuras metaficcionales y reflexivas en la novela de Samuel Beckett L’INNOMMABLE / THE UNNAMABLE.

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A deconstructive analysis of the narrative voice and the metafictional and reflexive structures in Samuel Beckett’s novel L’INNOMMABLE / THE UNNAMABLE.

Seminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)

Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]

Se trata de un estudio de la novela “El Innombrable” de Samuel Beckett, en particular de sus aspectos reflexivos y metaficcionales, y la especialidad modalidad de estructuración narrativa y de clausura articulada en esta novela. Es una aproximación situada entre la estética, la semiótica y la fenomenología. Estudiamos aquí el sentido en que puede…[Read more]

Actuality is a border between the world that is and the future worlds that could be. Science- fiction stories look across the border, into the frontiers of ‘the future’. William Gibson did his part in the 1980s to invent cyberpunk fiction as a slick, stylish view into a bleak dystopian future, but by the turn of the century, much of what he’d…[Read more]