VOLUME 4(1) • 2021
In search of the creative process
ABSTRACT. This essay is an attempt to explore the delicate interface between creativity and the human mind that senses the impermanence of all being. The poetry of William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats are analyzed, with a view to understanding how the idea of time, ageing and creative tension interven..
The universe of John Keats: the life and the literary revolution
ABSTRACT. The following research – published, at the time of the bicentennial of John Keats’s death, as a tribute to the memory of one of the greatest poets to date – is an attempt to sketch the “universe” of John Keats (1795–1821) by exploring the life and the literary works. We start by looking at..
Zelazny’s AIs: humanity’s ghost in the machine?
ABSTRACT. The following paper aims to examine the nature of the relationship between myth and science as the American writer, Roger Zelazny, envisioned it in the interaction between man and machine in his science fiction stories. For a Breath I Tarry (1966) and Home is the Hangman (1976) are two exa..
Many ecologies of the self: inner and outer spaces in the poetry of Kamala Das / Surayya – an ecofeminist reading
ABSTRACT. Kamala Das / Surayya (1934–2009) was one of the most sensitive yet outspoken of the Indian writers writing in English. She has been read most often as a feminist, whose poetic themes were primarily concerned with herself – her own body and mind, and the politics of what it meant to be a wo..
Zen in the art of bicycling: philosophers on the bicycle
ABSTRACT. Bicycles have a great future in view of the crises ahead. They have also raised interesting questions relating to the relationship between body and mind. Hence philosophers and writers, from Mark Twain to Bertrand Russell and Simone de Beauvoir have been inspired to think about this ever r..
Richard Kearney on touch: recovering our most vital sense
ABSTRACT. The following is a review of Richard Kearney’s new volume Touch: recovering our most vital sense (New York: Columbia University Press; 2021), in the context of his recent wave of creative publications on poetics and carnal hermeneutics. Keywords: anatheism; incarnation; excarnation; tact;..
Thomas Kuhn and the cognitive matrix: the thousand faces of science and art
ABSTRACT. Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), one of the most popular philosophers of science of the 20th century, has been celebrated as the founder of science studies (Ian Hacking), but it has also been pointed out that his seminal book entitled The structure of scientific revolutions (1962) embraced and eng..