Spanish abstract: Reseño aquí el capítulo “In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne’s Cabinets of Curiosity”, de Claire Preston, publicado en el libro de estudios mediáticos retrofuturistas ‘The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print’ (ed. Neil Rhodes y Jonathan Sawday, 2000). Los sabios y est…[Read more]

The Connections between ancient approaches to rhetoric, as found in Plato and Aristotle, the prime ancient theorists of rhetoric, and modern linguistic approaches to register and genre theory, as in Hallidayan linguistics, show continuity of thought across the centuries. They also suggest that there may be such things as universal rhetorical…[Read more]

हिंदी कवि अरूण कमल से प्रमेाद रंजन की यह बातचीत पटना से प्रकाशित जन विकल्प के प्रवेशांक (जनवरी, 2007) में प्रकाशित हुई थी। साक्षात्कार के लिए अरुण कमल को प्रश्न साैंप दिए गए थे, जिसका उन्होंने लिखित उत्तर दिया था।

इस साक्षात्कार में अरूण कमल ने जिन प्रश्नों के उत्तर दिए हैं, उनमें मुख्य निम्नांकित हैं :

1. आपको २०वीं सदी के एक महत्वपूर्ण क…[Read more]

How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]