VOLUME 1(3) • 2013
The romantic poet in his pride
ABSTRACT. The romantics revolutionized world literature when they undertook the project of fully identifying with the unity of being – a dangerous way, tasted, among others, mostly and fully by poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Shelley, and Byron. All of these, in their own way, took t..
Life into art
ABSTRACT. Identifying order, and finding meaning in human history are central to The Education of Henry Adams. An Autobiography (AE). In spite of the author’s a passionate response to human spirituality and an equally intense faith in science, and the circuitous route he sets out, the quest ostensib..
Ebbing away with the flow
ABSTRACT. This essay, in search for the creative process and drawing on William Wordsworth (“From love, for here / Do we begin and end, all grandeur comes, / All truth and beauty, from pervading love, / That gone, we are as dust”) and William Butler Yeats (“The world is full of magic things, patient..
It’s a wonderful night for eyebrows
ABSTRACT. Why is a raven like a writing desk? This puzzling question was first introduced by Lewis Carroll in his first Alice book and has piqued the minds of a great many number of readers and thinkers. Yet the author himself acknowledged in a later commentary that the riddle was originally invente..
Humor and (mental) health
ABSTRACT. Clinical research seems to be focusing mainly on mental illness, with hardly any consideration for the role of sanity. And one could notice how the inability to mourn and overcome loss plays a central part in the health equation, whereas the inability to use humor or laughter does not rais..
That is not what I meant at all
ABSTRACT. One of the most baffling aspects of T. S. Eliot’s poetics is the way in which it revises structures and techniques of the past in order to obtain a paradoxical semantic synthesis made up of contradictions and ambiguities. The impersonal poetic self is continually torn between memory and de..
Shaping many into one
ABSTRACT. Without a shadow of a doubt Edgar Allan Poe is much more than the skilled craftsman of grotesque tales and romantic fantasies. His gothic, ratiocinative and cryptic works clearly do not fit into the mythic models on which classic American literature was based but it is precisely Poe’s sync..
Postmodernist creative thinking, utopiawise
ABSTRACT. Unconventional, asymptomatic, fragmentary, parodical as it looks like, postmodernism cannot be completely decoded in the context of Lyotard’s definition, that of distrust in totalizing narratives, in the symbolism of Baudrillard’s simulation, not even in the complex interference between ar..
Game, play, art: the never return home
ABSTRACT. This essay, capitalizing on one of Emil Cioran’s unforgettable statement (when you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble of proving it) examines several theories in relation to play and game, seen as formative of culture and id..
Law-giving discourse
ABSTRACT. The basic idea of this article is the need to admit of the occurrence of norms in discourse-making, some of which are embodiments of the norms of language, others customizing both at the level of the discourse, in general, and for each type of discourse, in particular. From this point of v..
Frankenstein: the myth of dark creation
ABSTRACT. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley created in her Gothic masterpiece the myth of the mad scientist who, after trying to play God by creating a humanoid being from body parts, is forced to reject his own creation, thus bringing only misfortunes and deaths upon his beloved family and friends. pp. 1..
Constructing characters
ABSTRACT. D.H. Lawrence’s particular ways of building up characters is tackled here from a linguistic perspective, the focus being placed on the study of various narrative voices. Their distinctive nature is analyzed in terms of the linguistic forms that individual characters currently use in the fo..