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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/renascence20207212
Christine L. Grogan
Contributing to the uneasy question of race in Flannery O’Connor's fiction, this article performs a rereading of the last story she penned—“Parker’s Back”—and argues that her final protagonist may have been a product of miscegenation. It discusses the implications this would have on our understanding of this spiritually rich story, and, perhaps even more importantly, of O’Connor’s views on race at the end of her life.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/renascence20207225
J. Curran
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE202072414
James Mayo
This essay addresses the connections between Emersonian and Wordsworthian concepts and Norman Maclean’s novella A River Runs through It, specifically those ideas of the Knower, the Sayer, and the Doer from Emerson’s “The Poet,” Emerson’s concept of what constitutes poetry and “The Poet,” as well as Wordsworth’s notions of poetic creativity. As discussed in the essay, Emerson’s concepts of the Knower, the Sayer, and the Doer line up with the three central characters of the novella—The Reverend Maclean, Norman Maclean (both the author and the narrator), and Paul Maclean respectively. It is the unique blending of Romantic poetic leanings and religion that make all three the characters they are, which the author represents through the use of fishing as metaphor. The difficulties faced by the Sayer, as he tries to relate the story of past events and “spots in time,” are central to my argument, as they present the central conflict of the novel and offer the readers a contradiction as well, as the character who’s known as the Sayer should have no trouble expressing himself. However, it is with Wordsworth’s notion of ideas reflected on in tranquility that allow the Sayer to tell the story of his brother, the great poet/artist in a Romantic sense.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/renascence20207211
S. Knepper
In recent decades, the philosopher William Desmond (1951-) has offered both insightful readings of individual tragedies and a striking reformulation of old Aristotelian standbys like hamartia and catharsis. This reformulation grows out of his wider philosophy of the “between,” which stresses humans’ fundamental receptivity or “porosity.” For Desmond, tragedy strips away characters’ self-determination and returns them to porosity. The audience is returned to porosity as well, a process of exposure that can be harrowing, and at times leads to despair, but that can also lead, in Desmond’s take on catharsis, to a renewed sense of the worth of fragile beings. Both tragic “being at a loss” and catharsis are important for philosophy because they resist determinate conceptualization. Tragedy reminds philosophy of its limits, and it challenges philosophy to attend to the intimate and the singular. This essay situates, synthesizes, and extends Desmond’s many reflections on tragedy. It focuses in particular on Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE202072413
Sunil Macwan
Identification as the anti-establishment force, dedicated to restoring power to the powerless, bolsters the populists' public image. [...]professing an "aspiration . . . to dislodge the ingrained interests of the power-elite . . . as the re-embodiment of Saint George slaying the elitist dragon, [or] David defeating Goliath," enables them to win popular support in politics (Bufacchi). [...]an analysis can inspire similar studies with contemporary texts, bringing into critical conversation both the imaginative narrative of the text and the historical background of the context. [...]an in-depth analysis of Elizabeth's apotheosis - examined from a new historicist perspective through Marlowe's characterization of Tamburlaine - becomes relevant in the present context wherein populist leaders seem to have reached the limits of their charisma in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic. If there is nothing identical with the Other, improvisation is impossible;similarly, if there is nothing different in the Other, improvisation is unnecessary. [...]it is the partial resemblance with the outsider or alien that necessitates improvisation. [...]the improvised self always bears the marks of a certain amount of deformation and deterioration, resulting from the refashioning encounter with the Other.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/renascence20207226
Franklin Arthur Wilson
This article explores Walker Percy’s use of Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of “Thirdness” as an interpretive tool in connection with Percy’s use of the Bible in his novel, The Second Coming. In this context, Peirce’s “Thirdness” may be understood as that which mediates between a word (say, w-a-t-e-r, spelled out in Helen Keller’s hand) and a thing (the stuff called “water” simultaneously flowing over Helen Keller’s other hand) as, indeed, Walker Percy defines “Thirdness” in his essay, “The Delta Factor” (The Message in the Bottle, 3-45). As such, C.S. Peirce’s “Thirdness” serves Percy as a model for understanding the function of “triadic” (human) language in the operation of relations both human and divine.
这篇文章探讨了沃克·珀西在他的小说《耶稣再临》中使用查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯的“第三”概念作为一种解释工具。在这种情况下，皮尔斯的“第三性”可以被理解为介于一个词(比如，海伦·凯勒手中拼写的w-a-t-e-r)和一件事(叫做“水”的东西同时流过海伦·凯勒的另一只手)之间的东西，事实上，沃克·珀西在他的文章“Delta因素”(the Message In the Bottle, 3-45)中定义了“第三性”。因此，C.S.皮尔斯的“第三性”为珀西提供了一个理解“三位一体”(人类)语言在人际关系和神性关系运作中的功能的模型。
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/RENASCENCE202072415
William Tate
Richard Wilbur’s poem “Lying” considers two kinds of lying. He addresses the traditional accusation that poets tell lies, but he gradually exposes boredom as a subtler and more dangerous form of lying. The essay draws on insights from the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion and considers analogues in Scripture and Hamlet and Paradise Lost in order to draw out the significance of Wilbur’s claim.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/renascence20207213
A. True
Community is the framework for the Christian experience. The Greek text from which the English bible is translated uses the ἐκκλησια, which means “assembly,” “assemblage, gathering, meeting,” and in the earliest text, “the universal church to which all believers belong.” Thus, the very idea of Christianity after Christ suggests community. Robert Southwell trained to contribute to a very particular portion of the Christian community in Elizabethan England, but the lyric poetry he produced during this time represents community as flawed and as a potential hindrance to salvation. His poetry responds to the orthodoxy of community by representing real, lived community as spiritually counterproductive and juxtaposing it against the necessity of individual experience and salvation.
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