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Scenes from Argentina: Barbarism, Allegory and Power in La vida entera (1981) by Juan Carlos Martini / Escenes argentines: barbàrie, al·legoria i poder a La vida entera de Juan Carlos Martini / Escenas argentinas: barbarie, alegoría y poder en La vida entera de Juan Carlos Martini
El següent article estudia el funcionament de l’al·legoria, el fragment i la ruïna a la novel·la La vida entera (1981) de l’escriptor argentí Juan Carlos Martini. Aquests recursos serveixen com a operacions que permeten: 1) l’entrada del referent polític-històric en el text i la seva configuració com a mapa de les pugnes de poder i de la violència política desencadenada durant les dècades seixanta i setanta a Argentina; 2) qüestionar críticament l’esdevenir i la Història; i 3) afirmar la idea d’un temps cíclic (Nietzsche, 2002) a partir del qual els espais, els cossos, els personatges i la mateixa escriptura esdevenen marca i símbol bàrbar (Sarmiento, 1979).
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Escaping Plato’s Cave as a Mystical Experience: A Survey in Sufi Literature
This paper puts forward a mystical reading of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave by comparing it with some allegories from Sufi literature, Islamic mystical tradition. The paper argues that the determining parts of the allegory, such as escaping the cave as the world of shadows; seeing the sun/truth and becoming a philosopher; and the necessity of returning to the cave, have significant similarities to what Sufis have said about their mystical experience and spiritual enlightenment. The paper compares the Allegory of the Cave with some similar allegories in Sufi literature, focusing on the allegories of prison, hunting the shadows of a flying bird, dying before dying, and the elephant in the dark Room in Rumi’s works. After an introduction to the reception of Plato in the Islamic intellectual tradition and different interpretations of the Allegory of the Cave, this paper discusses four similarities between these allegories. Finally, the paper supports the mystical reading of Plato’s Cave by using Pierre Hadot’s thesis on Philosophy as a Way of Life, which challenges the sharp dichotomy of philosophy and mysticism in mainstream intellectual historiography.
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Light and death : figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton
\"Death, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Creating a national crime fiction through allegory translation: from Sherlock Holmes, the western detective to Relentless Avni, the turkish Sherlock Holmes
We aim to examine Ebussüreyya Sami’s Relentless Avni, the Turkish Sherlock Holmes, the first Turkish crime fiction series in the Turkish literary system published in the late Ottoman Era, with a focus on allegory translation in crime fiction. Despite being considered as original in the Turkish literary system, the series under investigation raises the issue of whether it is “original” due to its similarities to western crime novels. Studies on crime fiction translation show that the genre is an important tool for creating national allegories which can be transformed into other allegories through translation. We argue that the series, albeit having been considered “original” in the Turkish literary system, constitutes an example of allegory translation produced through creative mediation due to the absence of an established crime fiction tradition in the Turkish literature at the time. The comparative analysis of the series and their western counterparts reveals that Ebussüreyya Sami, the author-translator, transformed a Western-oriented allegory into a new national allegory for the readers to create a culture repertoire with a specific emphasis on Turkishness in line with the National Literature Movement and nationalist modernization in the Turkish target culture and the protagonist Relentless Avni, the Turkish Sherlock Holmes functioned as a contributor to “culture planning” by providing a role model of a nationalist modern Turkish citizen.Article highlights• Allegory in crime fiction is not static but can be transformed into an allegory of another culture through translation, which can be called allegory translation.• The first Turkish crime fiction series is in fact an allegory translation produced through “creative mediation.”• “Creative mediation” can be considered as a translation technique used to create a new national allegory for a target society.
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Fredric Jameson and film theory : Marxism, allegory, and geopolitics in world cinema
Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson's remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts-such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche-and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and complexities of neoliberal capitalism across the globe and explores world cinema's situation within these forces by deploying and adapting Jamesonian concepts, and placing them in dialogue with other theoretical paradigms. The result is an innovative and rigorously analytical effort that offers a range of Marxist-inspired approaches towards cinemas from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America in the spirit of Jameson's famous rallying cry: 'always historicize!'.
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