|
Showing 1 - 25 of
36 matches in All Departments
Cultural Text Studies is a research project initiated by the
Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics at Aalborg
University. The present introductory volume launches a series of
themed monographs which will be edited by researchers at the Dept.,
occasionally aided by friends and associates from other programmes.
The purpose of the series is to be a forum for the publication of
results of research in the broadly defined area of cultural text.
CTS -- An Introduction is a volume authored by present and past
members of the English programme's teaching staff in the fields of
culture, literature, and media studies. The essays range widely in
terms of the period, genre, and medium of the texts investigated.
Focus areas include Victorian literature and art; high modernism,
especially approached from the point of view of a centre/margin
discourse; and finally postmodernist aesthetics and its embedded
move from literary into cultural studies, as witnessed by essays on
world music, shoes, Hollywood, the post-ironic, the
deterritorialised, and the post-human condition as cultural texts.
The epistemic creative writer is not merely an expressive writer, a
writer who writes for creative writing programs at diverse
university colleges. Rather, the epistemic creative writer is the
writer who understands that in order to say something useful you
must step out of the space that engages your ego. Awareness of what
really matters comes from the contemplation of the futility of
words. Before the word there is silence. After the word there is
silence. But during the word there is knowledge that can be made
crystal clear. This book is about extracting what writing means to
a few writers who formulate ideas about creative writing without,
however, making claims to instruction. Can creative writing that
produces knowledge be taught without a method? Samuel Beckett,
Raymond Federman, Gertrude Stein, Jacques Lacan, Frank O'Hara,
Douglas Hofstadter, Brian Rotman, Herman Melville, Kathy Acker,
Friedrich Nietzsche, David Markson, Andrei Codrescu, and a host of
others, gather here to offer an answer. -- "Camelia Elias speaks to
the reader from that place where the language of the birds becomes
the language of silence." (Patrick Blackburn, Professor of Formal
Logic, Roskilde University)
In these 2 volumes Enrique gathers fresh voices and sharp tongues
to speak of the art of Tarot as the art of living magically.
Forty-seven tarot luminaries (readers, historians, philosophers,
magicians, and scientists alike) gather here to offer unique
perspectives on what we can think of as divination with bones,
human bones. Artists, deck creators, and modern-day neo-platonists
follow Enrique's lead, letting themselves be enchanted by the piper
at the gate of games. Some of the central questions that Enrique
deals with are: do we read for the symbol, or the image? Do we read
for the narrative that the cards create or their potential for
transformation? Do we read for the plot, the poetry, or the formal
properties? We find Enrique holding the torch and asking everybody
the same questions: how do we experience the tarot? Through
symbolic readings or through interacting with the image? While it
is clear that he goes with the latter, he gives everyone a chance
to state their preferences. But he doesn't stop there. He wants to
see what the argument is for such preferences. What are the
motivations in considering where images take us? How do the images
do that? Why do we go to fortunetellers? My own contribution to
this is to suggest that we read cards for the magic of narrative.
We go to fortunetellers to see others play with our lives. Here are
47 of them. -- CAMELIA ELIAS, "HE RECO ME: ENRIQUE ENRIQUEZ'S
POETICS OF DIVINATION"
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, …
DVD
R53
Discovery Miles 530
Barbie
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling
Blu-ray disc
R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
|