{"title":"Theory's Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy by Zahi Zalloua (review)","authors":"B. Chaouat","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"76 1","pages":"349 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81070529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politics and Poetics of Friendship ed. by Ewa Kowal and Robert Kusek (review)","authors":"B. Dillon","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"107 1","pages":"357 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81504677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines the collocation of the Dersim Rebellion (1937–1938) in Eastern Anatolia and Turkey's entry into the Korean War (1950–1953) in Erendiz Atasü's 1995 autobiographical novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain, 2000). Atasü writes in her "Letter to the Reader" that the protagonist Vicdan is based on her mother, who in 1935 climbed Mount Uludağ in Bursa with her brothers to celebrate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's foundation of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. Vicdan's unnamed daughter-narrator, however, idealizes neither her Kemalist mother, who supports the armed conflict in Dersim, nor her veteran uncles (Burhan, Reha, and Cumhur): Burhan's guilty conscience connects the causalities of the Korean War to his murder of the rebels in Dersim; Reha remembers the woman he raped in Dersim; the disabled Cumhur suppresses his anger at the government that forsakes lives in Korea for NATO membership. Atasü's circular narrative that travels backward and forward in time portrays history not as progressive but as repetitive due to Turkey's involvement in war. The Other Side of the Mountain narrates the silenced "other side" of the Republic by recalling Turkey's entry into the Korean War and the armed conflict in Eastern Anatolia.
{"title":"Narratives of Korea and Dersim in Erendiz Atasü's The Other Side of the Mountain","authors":"Ayşe Naz Bulamur","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the collocation of the Dersim Rebellion (1937–1938) in Eastern Anatolia and Turkey's entry into the Korean War (1950–1953) in Erendiz Atasü's 1995 autobiographical novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain, 2000). Atasü writes in her \"Letter to the Reader\" that the protagonist Vicdan is based on her mother, who in 1935 climbed Mount Uludağ in Bursa with her brothers to celebrate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's foundation of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. Vicdan's unnamed daughter-narrator, however, idealizes neither her Kemalist mother, who supports the armed conflict in Dersim, nor her veteran uncles (Burhan, Reha, and Cumhur): Burhan's guilty conscience connects the causalities of the Korean War to his murder of the rebels in Dersim; Reha remembers the woman he raped in Dersim; the disabled Cumhur suppresses his anger at the government that forsakes lives in Korea for NATO membership. Atasü's circular narrative that travels backward and forward in time portrays history not as progressive but as repetitive due to Turkey's involvement in war. The Other Side of the Mountain narrates the silenced \"other side\" of the Republic by recalling Turkey's entry into the Korean War and the armed conflict in Eastern Anatolia.","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"28 1","pages":"281 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74274675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Until the mid-1960s, two groups of readings of Melville's Benito Cereno represented the implied author's sympathies in opposite ways. According to one group of readings, the rebelling slaves and their leader Babo symbolize demonic evil. According to the other, the slaves are admirable freedom fighters. In the last generation, new interests and new interpretive methods have made the controversy obsolete. This article uses the controversy as an opportunity to attempt to explain what makes contradictory readings of an implied author's attitude possible and what prevents them reaching a compromise.
{"title":"Anatomy of an Interpretive Controversy: The Case of Benito Cereno","authors":"D. Avitzour","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Until the mid-1960s, two groups of readings of Melville's Benito Cereno represented the implied author's sympathies in opposite ways. According to one group of readings, the rebelling slaves and their leader Babo symbolize demonic evil. According to the other, the slaves are admirable freedom fighters. In the last generation, new interests and new interpretive methods have made the controversy obsolete. This article uses the controversy as an opportunity to attempt to explain what makes contradictory readings of an implied author's attitude possible and what prevents them reaching a compromise.","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"43 1","pages":"191 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90547394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:It might seem intuitive to say that attention is a matter of looking really closely at something, zeroing in on a particular object. In contrast to such an understanding of attention, it is here argued that attentive understanding of particular persons, things or events can only be apprehended by means of attending to the world in which they belong.Iris Murdoch's example of M and D is often described as a clear illustration of what "attention" is. I argue that the example is rather unhelpful, precisely because we get no description of the work of attention. There is, therefore, a hole in the argument. The strategy of this paper is to fill that hole by means of a reading of C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed. Here a clear view of another person is attained by attention to the world together with unearthing one's own prejudices—a view shared by Murdoch but missing in the reception of her thought.
{"title":"Perception and Prejudice: Attention and Moral Progress in Iris Murdoch's Philosophy and C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed","authors":"Niklas Forsberg","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:It might seem intuitive to say that attention is a matter of looking really closely at something, zeroing in on a particular object. In contrast to such an understanding of attention, it is here argued that attentive understanding of particular persons, things or events can only be apprehended by means of attending to the world in which they belong.Iris Murdoch's example of M and D is often described as a clear illustration of what \"attention\" is. I argue that the example is rather unhelpful, precisely because we get no description of the work of attention. There is, therefore, a hole in the argument. The strategy of this paper is to fill that hole by means of a reading of C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed. Here a clear view of another person is attained by attention to the world together with unearthing one's own prejudices—a view shared by Murdoch but missing in the reception of her thought.","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"387 1","pages":"259 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77679629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The paper traces the quest of Max Aue, the perpetrator-narrator of Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, for his lineal origin, sexual identity, and wholeness through an "inner experience" à la Bataille. This quest, and his attempts at merging with the Other by producing a pristine unity with his sister or by obliterating others, is futile. The paper demonstrates, on the one hand, the subversive ways in which alterity returns in the novel, and on the other hand, the ways in which Aue's claims to a unique identity are undermined: Aue's character, which on the first reading may seem homogenous and univocal, turns out to be built upon inter-texts and quotations that bring heterogeneity to the fore. Conversely, his endeavors to distinguish himself from other Nazi perpetrators are invalidated either on the plot level and or the narrative level by comparisons, repetitions, and paraphrasing. Unable to reach unity and identity by erasing alterity, Aue remains in a maze where he can only deteriorate morally and psychologically in an endless cancrizans.
{"title":"Cancrizans: The Quest for Origin and the Assault on Alterity in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones","authors":"Orit Yushinsky Troupin","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper traces the quest of Max Aue, the perpetrator-narrator of Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, for his lineal origin, sexual identity, and wholeness through an \"inner experience\" à la Bataille. This quest, and his attempts at merging with the Other by producing a pristine unity with his sister or by obliterating others, is futile. The paper demonstrates, on the one hand, the subversive ways in which alterity returns in the novel, and on the other hand, the ways in which Aue's claims to a unique identity are undermined: Aue's character, which on the first reading may seem homogenous and univocal, turns out to be built upon inter-texts and quotations that bring heterogeneity to the fore. Conversely, his endeavors to distinguish himself from other Nazi perpetrators are invalidated either on the plot level and or the narrative level by comparisons, repetitions, and paraphrasing. Unable to reach unity and identity by erasing alterity, Aue remains in a maze where he can only deteriorate morally and psychologically in an endless cancrizans.","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"63 1","pages":"315 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90345814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Iris Murdoch Matters: Making Sense of Experience in Modern Times by Gary Browning (review)","authors":"Yue Jianfeng","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"5 1","pages":"351 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75359427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy by Vivian Liska (review)","authors":"N. Pines","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"38 1","pages":"175 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76162247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer (review)","authors":"L. Toker","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"14 1","pages":"182 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82479782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' is more than a tribute to life at sea, but the novel's sympathetic portrayal of a multi-national group of physical laborers paid a meager wage, living in harsh conditions, and performing repetitive and physically debilitating work, is significantly understudied. The present article considers Conrad's compelling representation of the life of British merchant sailors for a middle-class literary audience. I demonstrate how Conrad makes his readers listen to the voice of the sailors, reflect on the value of their work, and appreciate the importance of seemingly menial, physical labor—such as serving coffee during a storm.
{"title":"The Heroism of Serving Coffee: Joseph Conrad and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'","authors":"J. Warodell","doi":"10.1353/pan.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pan.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' is more than a tribute to life at sea, but the novel's sympathetic portrayal of a multi-national group of physical laborers paid a meager wage, living in harsh conditions, and performing repetitive and physically debilitating work, is significantly understudied. The present article considers Conrad's compelling representation of the life of British merchant sailors for a middle-class literary audience. I demonstrate how Conrad makes his readers listen to the voice of the sailors, reflect on the value of their work, and appreciate the importance of seemingly menial, physical labor—such as serving coffee during a storm.","PeriodicalId":42435,"journal":{"name":"Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas","volume":"80 1 1","pages":"51 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90937581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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