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Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source

From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Poesía hispánica japonesista

Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, 1996
This article briefly describes the characteristics of the most typical poetry from the Classic Japanese Literature. It also gives data about the influence of this poetic modality on the Hispanic Literatures, particularly on the Spanish and Catalan ones ...
José María Balcells
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[Review of] Farida Karodia. Coming Home and Other Stories [PDF]

, 1991
In Coming Home and Other Stories, Farida Karodia, South African born author now residing in Canada, has written a classic text which I recommend for use in African, contemporary, world literature, and women\u27s studies ...
Kafka, Phillipa
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Un étrange objet littéraire : le conte en vers au xviiie siècle

Fééries, 2017
Unduly mistaken for “a poetic wasteland”, the 18th century is imprinted both by a spawning fleeting poetry and a flurry of fairy tales. No surprise then that these two genres should meet to produce a hybrid literature, a genuine trend related to a ...
Stéphanie Bernier-Tomas
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The Persistence Of Romanticism: Essays In Philosophy And Literature [PDF]

, 2001
Has Romanticism been superseded by realism, modernism, and postmodernism, all of which are often taken to acknowledge reality more fully than Romanticism? What is it that Romantic thinkers and writers do? Why does what they do matter?
Eldridge, Richard Thomas
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Helen Epigrammatopoios [PDF]

, 2009
Ancient commentators identify several passages in the Iliad as “epigrams.” This paper explores the consequences of taking the scholia literally and understanding these passages in terms of inscription.
Elmer, David Franklin
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For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado, Francisco Martínez, Eeva Berglund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classic Russian Poetry in Spanish: An Essay on the Experience and Problems of Translation

Ибероамериканские тетради
It is thanks to translation, which is a challenging yet indispensable task, that Russian literature has come to be well known among the peoples of Latin America and has had a positive influence on their culture and spiritual development.
M. A. Cornejo Ubillús
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