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Authot of critical essays on James Joyce and related aspects of modernism, postmodernism, 'French Theory' (especially poststructuralism, deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, the work of Hélène Cixous), posthumanism and digital gaming, autofiction (the work of Chloé Delaume).
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Barthes Studies
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August 1985 - June 1992
August 1984 - May 1985
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Derrida’s ‘Le facteur de la vérité’ in The Post Card is memorable for being the philosopher’s most systematic dissection and critique of Lacan’s appropriation and allegorization of literature – in this case Edgar Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ in his inaugural ‘Seminar’ (1956) – to reveal the ‘Truth’ and meaning of psychoanalysis in his ‘return to Fr...
This is the Introduction to the issue: What Remains Today – Jacques Derrida.
This is the Introduction to our newest volume on Speculations of the Unconscious: Encounters between Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Arts. Editors Arleen Ionescu, Laurent Milesi and Edward Waysband. Online at http://jlsl.upg-ploiesti.ro/No_1_2023.html
CONTENTS
Introduction: Speculations of the Unconscious:
Encounters between Phil...
This academic interview with contemporary poet Andrei Codrescu (dating July 2022) examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry and poetics, the relevance of American poetry schools that dominated the latter half of the 20th century, effects of this post-humanistic turn on the poetic discourse(s). It also whether the public condemna...
This is the introduction to the volume.
This is a review article that discusses Timothy Yu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
While play has always constituted an important aspect of human activity, the advent of video games, in tandem with the development of computer technology, has revolutionized our everyday lives to such an extent that digital gaming has become not only a crucial form of entertainment but also, increasingly, an educational means of addressing current...
This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, a...
This essay will look at Ivanescu's acclaimed Romanian
translation of Joyce's novel from both a practical and a
theoretical perspective. Following a general survey of its and
the translator's place within Romanian culture and history,
among inchoate earlier attempts by other writers, it will then
focus on several "cruxes" or themes (structural discr...
Humanity does not exist at all yet or it barely exists.' French historical figure Jean Jaurès's statement, famously echoed by Jacques Derrida, then by Bernard Stiegler, provides a fittingly provocative starting point for my reflections on the present condition and future of the 'humanities', envisaged both as the pluralization of what differentiate...
While play has always constituted an important aspect of human activity, the advent of video games, in tandem with the development of computer technology, has revolutionized our everyday lives to such an extent that digital gaming has become not only a crucial form of entertainment but also, increasingly, an educational means of addressing current...
Starting with a recall of the overwhelming feeling, voiced by many thinkers, that the post-WWII era brought about the ‘sense of an ending’ of history as Mitsein (being-in-common), the essay explores the renewed necessity to re-learn to be together in the wake of the worst modern pandemic by appealing to Jean-Luc Nancy’s imagination of a community w...
Starting from Nicholas Zurbrugg’s dismissal of the negative ‘B-Effect’ in postmodernism, which he associates with ‘Benjamin, Brecht, Beckett, Barthes, Baudrillard, and Bourdieu’, this essay examines the common rationale behind convergent affirmations of a neutrality or minimalism, often mistaken for nihilism, at key junctures in the works of Samuel...
The essay puts to the test Darwinian evolutionist theories, especially the key concepts of adaptation, natural selection and survival of the fittest, in the reading of several plots and fictions (some of them Ark-related animal fictions) concerned with evolution, trauma, adaptability, mimicry/mimesis and survival: Julian Barnes’s Flaubert Parrot an...
Cette étude a pour but de retracer comment l’écrivaine née Nathalie-Anne Abdallah a mis en œuvre un nouveau moi identitaire dans son œuvre autofictive ainsi que dans les diverses vignettes d’autoprésentation sur son site web personnel. Genre littéraire d’origine française aux limites encore instables, l’autofiction se définit dans la pratique propr...
The essay explores the dense etymological nexus that structures Jacques Derrida’s critical examination of religion in ‘Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” at the Limits of Reason Alone’, with specific attention to the themes and motifs of abstraction versus subtraction, absolution, ‘flection’ (and other words related to prayer, such...
Call for Articles, vol. 9 (2019): Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
Derrida's treatment of Chinese script as essentially non-phonetic in Of Grammatology has been a recurrent leitmotif among several sinologists and scholars of Chinese origin, particularly in Rey Chow's famous 2001 essay 'How (the) Inscrutable Chinese Led to Globalized Theory'. Despite forceful refutations of this misconception, the accusation of a f...
Using the precedent of Charles Bernstein’s spoof on Charles Olson’s ‘Projective Verse’ poetics manifesto as part of a long contextual introduction on issues of literary filiation, influence and intertextuality, this essay analyses the recent exchanges between conceptualist poetry (Vanessa Place, Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘uncreative writing’) and ‘flarf’...
Deceptively reduced to a trajectory ‘from Marx to Derrida’ in its subtitle, Arthur Bradley’s timely study offers a self-styled ‘critical genealogy of Derrida’s theory of originary technicity’ (p3), which he minimally defines as ‘the empirico-transcendental condition of life itself ’ (p14). This first comprehensive reconstruction of a Derrida-inspir...
The first in-depth engagement with and close reading of Anankè, this essay focuses on how Cixous's novel plays with and rewrites psychoanalytic concepts and practices. The critical elaboration of her own ‘cixanalysis’ in this fiction-as-becoming and journey, which reinvents psychoanalysis as it gives free creative rein to woman's desire instead of...
The critical assumption behind this chapter is that The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark revolves around scenes whose parallel wording turns them into fateful, ironic counterparts unbeknownst to the characters, as befits the essence of a tragedy.1 Most crucially, the play hinges on an ‘existential distance’ between Hamlet’s famous ‘to be or not...
Framed within a discussion of what constitutes the limits between an uncritical joke and a serious argument, this essay revisits the polemic between Jacques Derrida and John Searle which ensues from the French philosopher's initial criticism, in "Signature Event Context" ("Sec"), of Austin's exclusion of non-serious utterances in his attempt to ske...
To say "Ralph Cohen" is to evoke Virtue, and the virtues of Friendship par excellence, whose other name is Hospitality, attentiveness without end, subtlety of hearing, the quiet repetition of a promise.
What gathers and forms itself, like an inner landscape, made up of a profusion of times and images, is extraordinarily clear and peaceful. I think...
