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Eric Gans
Abstract: Martin Fashbaugh is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he teaches Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature. Martin has previously published three articles in Anthropoetics, one on George Meredith’s The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, another on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Epipsychidion, and a...The post Benchmarks appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:21:41 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: Abstract This article supports three interconnected points regarding James Joyce’s “The Dead.” First, the paper shows mimetic desire’s importance in the early formation of an aesthetic experience. Gabriel Conway’s realization that his wife Gretta has been harboring romantic passion for a long-dead, yet rival in Michael Furey, naturally stimulates jealousy, which is a consequence of...The post Gabriel’s Epiphany and the End of Resentment: Religious Feeling in James Joyce’s The Dead appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:01:08 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: Abstract In Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' the androids are the bioengineered mimesis of a human yet designed to lack empathy so as to serve more effectively as slaves. Drawing on the anthropological studies of Michael Tomasello, René Girard, and Eric Gans, this essay shows that mimesis as psychological identification...The post Mimesis in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 06:33:18 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: Abstract In this paper I explore the idea that Freud’s death drive, despite having its explanatory status and truth claims questioned, is an anthropologically astute concept that embraces the paradox of symbolic consciousness. Any theory of the human must accommodate the paradoxicality of human thinking, motivations, and cultural forms to generate useful theoretical insights. Even...The post Retrieving the Paradox: Freud’s Death Drive and the Originary Concept of Deferral appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:19:25 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: mschneid@highpoint.edu Tom Bertonneau, my dear friend and prolific Anthropoetics contributor, died peacefully on September 21, 2021. I met Tom 35 years ago, during my first year of doctoral study at UCLA, when we shared a teaching assistants’ office. We became friends almost immediately, via that alchemy through which people with overlapping interests and complementary sensibilities...The post In Memoriam Thomas F. Bertonneau, 1954-2021 appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:11:59 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: Ben Barber is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature Studies at United International College: Hong Kong Baptist University – Beijing Normal University. He teaches courses on literary theory, world literature, composition, and rhetoric. His previous publications in Anthropoetics have addressed nineteenth-century British poetry, early modern drama, and the work of Hunter S. Thompson....The post Benchmarks appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:45:12 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: United International College Zhuhai, China bbarb056@uottawa.ca Abstract The twentieth-century Romanian philosophical stylist Emil Cioran was fascinated by the apophatic mystics of the Reformation. They shaped his intellectual development, as he embraced—and then repudiated—Romanian nationalism, before labouring successfully to achieve success at the centre of intellectual life in post-WWII Paris. Apophatic (or negative) theology is scenic,...The post Emil Cioran’s Apophatic Anti-Poesis of Scenic Centrality appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:11:21 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: [Editor’s Note: This dialogue is a continuation of one that began at this year’s (Zoom) GASC Conference] Ian Dennis: Hi again, Chris! Our dialogue at the 2021 GASC Conference is now available on YouTube (https://gascwebsite.wordpress.com/ga-news/). But I think we agree we can take that discussion forward, in part because of what we’ve learned from the...The post Dialogue: GA and Politics: Further Thoughts on The Victimary and Other Contemporary Phenomena appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:11:21 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam.Katz@quinnipiac.edu It’s long past time for originary thinking to think technics, which is emerging, in the wake of the work of Gilbert Simondon and Bernard Stiegler in particular, as a term to refer to the co-constitution of the human with the “exteriorizations” through which humans act on...The post Mimesis, the Center and Auto-Immunology: A Review of Daniel Ross’s Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Toward a Metacosmos. Open Humanities Press 2021. appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 03:39:05 +000
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Eric Gans
Abstract: Kinjo Gakuin University Nagoya, Japan taylor@kinjo-u.ac.jp Abstract Jane Austen offers an outrageous satire of “sensibility” in her teenage burlesque Love and Freindship, then a more realistic treatment in Sense and Sensibility. Thus, two markedly divergent readings of Sense and Sensibility emerge, particularly regarding Marianne Dashwood, a serious one and a satirical one, and they are...The post Sensibility’s Double Take: René Girard’s “Two Audiences” and Jane Austen’s Gospel Hermeneutic appeared first on Anthropoetics. PubDate: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:11:21 +000
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