VOLUME 8(3) • 2020
In search of essences: Phenomenology and Poetics
ABSTRACT. Phenomenology and poetics are two epistemological approaches which aspire, each in its own way, to apprehend reality by getting access to its primary essences. While poetics, from Aristotle to postmodernism, has endeavored to identify the laws according to which literary texts function as ..
The Latent Image
ABSTRACT. Inspired by the accidental impression of a photograph from Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida on a negative left (forgotten) inside the book, this article dwells on the idea of ‘latency’ in photographic and psychological writings. Taking Barthes’s image analysis as a starting point we show how..
Melancholia. The Case of George Bacovia
ABSTRACT. With half a mind to George Bacovia (1881–1957), melancholia is hereby associated with dysthymia, anhedonia and alcohol binges, and complicated by episodes of major depression in 1913, 1928, 1930, 1936 – at such grim times the diagnosis being “double depression.” And yet, notwithstanding su..
The Journey from the Underground to the Heavens: Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
ABSTRACT. This paper proposes to explore Toronto’s cultural heritage through an analysis of Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion. Through various narrative perspectives, we assist, in this novel, at the construction of the city and of various immigrant identities. The city’s memory is deeply ent..
Thinking Suicide
Our biopsycholiterary approach deals with the case of Sylvia Plath and works on the assumption that her diaries, short-stories, poetry and fiction come as one coherent, unifying body. We consequently drew on each of these sources in order to more adequately and more convincingly show that the poet’s..