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Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World
Encountering an ancient text not only as a historical source but also as a literary artifact entails an important paradigm shift, which in recent years has taken place in classical and Oriental philology. Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, and classical philologists have been pioneers in supplementing traditional historical-critical exegesis with more-literary approaches. This has led to a wealth of new insights. While the methodological consequences of this shift have been discussed within each discipline, until recently there has not been an attempt to discuss its validity and methodology on an interdisciplinary level. In 2006, the Faculty of Bible and Biblical Interpretation at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Heidelberg invited scholars from the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Israel, and Germany to examine these issues. Under the title \"Literary Fiction and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Literatures: Options and Limits of Modern Literary Approaches in the Exegesis of Ancient Texts,\" experts in Egyptology, classical philology, ancient Near Eastern studies, biblical studies, Jewish studies, literary studies, and comparative religion came together to present current research and debate open questions.
At this conference, each representative (from a total of 23 different disciplines) dealt with literary theory in regard to his or her area of research. The present volume organizes 17 of the resulting essays along 5 thematic lines that show how similar issues are dealt with in different disciplines: (1) Thinking of Ancient Texts as Literature, (2) The Identity of Authors and Readers, (3) Fiction and Fact, (4) Rereading Biblical Poetry, and (5) Modeling the Future by Reconstructing the Past.
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Disorienting fiction
This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology’s concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bront, George Eliot, and others as \"metropolitan autoethnographies\" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects.
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Ugly White People
Whiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive
complacency of white self-consciousness
White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever
before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound
racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing
themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or
human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white
racialized behavior-from staunch antiracism to virulent forms of
xenophobic nationalism. Ugly White People explores
representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white
American authors, revealing white recognition of the ugly forms
whiteness can take.
Stephanie Li argues that much of the twenty-first century has
been defined by this rising consciousness of whiteness because of
the imminent shift to a \"majority minority\" population and the
growing diversification of America's political, social, and
cultural institutions. The result is literature that more directly
grapples with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly
assumed norm. Li contextualizes a series of literary novels as
collectively influenced by changes in racial and political
attitudes. Turning to works by Dave Eggers, Sarah Smarsh, J. D.
Vance, Claire Messud, Ben Lerner, and others, she traces the
responses to white consciousness that breed shared manifestations
of ugliness. The tension between acknowledging whiteness as an
identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities
that have proliferated from this founding injustice is often the
source of the ugly whiteness portrayed through these
narratives.
The questions posed in Ugly White People about the
nature and future of whiteness are vital to understanding
contemporary race relations in America. From the election of Trump
and the rise of white nationalism to Karen memes and the war
against critical race theory to the pervasive pattern of behavior
among largely liberal-leaning whites, Li elucidates truths about
whiteness that challenge any hope of national unity and, most
devastatingly, the basic humanity of others.
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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature
Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung’s theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, this book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand understanding of modernist uses of language.
This book is an innovative exploration of modernist literary creativity under a Jungian lens, spanning both the literary and scholarly Jungian field. The literary works of Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats are read in light of Jung’s central theme of an “alchemical marriage” with attempts at developing a related alchemical model, a Jungian poetics, which serves to expand the reader’s understanding of modernist uses of language. This provides a fresh new lens through which modernist literature is viewed and seeks to revaluate the role of Jung in the humanities, namely in the field of modernist literature, an area from which Jung has long been shunned.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, literary theory, and cultural studies.
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Displacement and the somatics of postcolonial culture
\"Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture is Douglas Robinson's study of postcolonial affect--specifically, of the breakdown of the normative (regulatory) circulation of affect in the refugee experience and the colonial encounter, the restructuring of that regulatory circulation in colonization, and the persistence of that restructuring in decolonization and intergenerational trauma. Robinson defines \"somatics\" as a cultural construction of \"reality\" and \"identity\" through the regulatory circulation of evaluative affect. This book is divided into three essays covering the refugee experience, colonization and decolonization, and intergenerational trauma. Each essay contains a review of empirical studies of its main topic, a study of literary representations of that topic, and a study of postcolonial theoretical spins. The literary representations in the refugee essay are a novel and short story by the Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat; in the colonization essay a short film by Javier Fesser and a novella by Mahasweta Devi (translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak); and in the intergenerational trauma essay novels by James Welch and Toni Morrison and a short story by Percival Everett. The first essay's theoretical spins include Deleuze and Guattari on nomad thought and Iain Chambers on migrancy; the second's, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and theories of postcolonial affect in Bhabha and Spivak; the third's, work on historical trauma by Cathy Caruth and Dominic LaCapra\"--Page 4 of cover.
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The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays
Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that, if we pay attention, can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. Readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal position of Hamlet, the poet and his calling, the Oedipus complex, intrapsychic conflict, the battle against paranoia and the homosexual compromise. By using psychoanalytic techniques in analyzing his plays and characters, the author reveals more about Shakespeare's hidden motivations and mental health.
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