{"title":"Robinson, Rachel Elizabeth. Visual and Plastic Poetics: From Brazilian Concretism to the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde","authors":"W. Bohn","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42199346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sutherland, Kathryn. Why Modern Manuscripts Matter","authors":"R. Shields","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44181365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the interplay between socio-spatial environments, social control mechanisms and alienated subjectivities in the urban fiction of Spanish author Ray Loriga. It analyses how the search for an urban utopia intertwines in Loriga’s work with an attention to processes of commodification, consumerism and social control. These represented processes are read, in turn, as driving the dystopian production of dehumanized, objectified individual subjects. Focusing principally on the futuristic cities of Loriga’s 1999 novel Tokio ya no nos quiere, the discussion also draws on relevant elements of two subsequent works – El hombre que inventó Manhattan (2004) and Rendición (2017).
本文考察了西班牙作家雷·洛里加城市小说中社会空间环境、社会控制机制和异化主体性之间的相互作用。它分析了对城市乌托邦的追求如何在Loriga的作品中与对商品化、消费主义和社会控制过程的关注交织在一起。反过来，这些被代表的过程被解读为推动非人性化、客观化的个体主体的反乌托邦生产。本次讨论主要集中在洛里加1999年的小说《Tokio ya no nos quiere》中的未来城市，同时也借鉴了随后两部作品《El hombre que inventó Manhattan》(2004)和《Rendición》(2017)的相关元素。
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Marseille can be thought to constitute a singular urban complex – both marginal and transitional – within a broader French territorial imaginary and political discourse. Proposing successive readings of literary works by Emmanuel Loi (Marseille amor, 2013), Sabrina Calvo (Sous la colline, 2015) and Maylis de Kerangal (Corniche Kennedy, 2008), this article examines how such works mobilize aspects of this singularity in the development of striking and occasionally ambivalent utopian problematics, reframing the city with respect to a set of vectors (both temporal and spatial) that expose the subject to the troubling horizons of both individual and collective agency. The article reflects on the specific parameters of a ‘space of possibility’ in the urban context under discussion. Moving from this localized problematic, it argues for a version of cognitive mapping that incorporates varieties of affective disposition key to the relations of reason and emotion in a utopian perspective: melancholy, curiosity and disobedience.
马赛可以被认为是在更广阔的法国领土想象和政治话语中构成了一个独特的城市综合体——既边缘又过渡。通过对Emmanuel Loi (Marseille amor, 2013)、Sabrina Calvo (Sous la colline, 2015)和Maylis de Kerangal (Corniche Kennedy, 2008)的文学作品的连续阅读，本文探讨了这些作品如何在引人注目的、偶尔矛盾的乌托邦问题的发展中动员这种奇点的各个方面。通过一系列向量(包括时间和空间)重新构建城市，将主题暴露在个人和集体代理的令人不安的视野中。文章反思了在讨论的城市语境中“可能性空间”的具体参数。从这个局部问题出发，它提出了一种认知映射的版本，它融合了各种情感倾向，这是乌托邦视角下理性和情感关系的关键:忧郁，好奇和不服从。
{"title":"Literary City Limits: Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Marseille","authors":"Michael G Kelly","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Marseille can be thought to constitute a singular urban complex – both marginal and transitional – within a broader French territorial imaginary and political discourse. Proposing successive readings of literary works by Emmanuel Loi (Marseille amor, 2013), Sabrina Calvo (Sous la colline, 2015) and Maylis de Kerangal (Corniche Kennedy, 2008), this article examines how such works mobilize aspects of this singularity in the development of striking and occasionally ambivalent utopian problematics, reframing the city with respect to a set of vectors (both temporal and spatial) that expose the subject to the troubling horizons of both individual and collective agency. The article reflects on the specific parameters of a ‘space of possibility’ in the urban context under discussion. Moving from this localized problematic, it argues for a version of cognitive mapping that incorporates varieties of affective disposition key to the relations of reason and emotion in a utopian perspective: melancholy, curiosity and disobedience.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46686148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted both the importance of care and a global crisis in care. Since its beginnings in the US in the 1980s as a feminist theory within virtue ethics, care ethics has emerged from the margins of the domestic sphere in the West to become a species theory and a force for radical societal change. Influenced by Joan Tronto’s work, Alexandre Gefen has integrated the approach into literary studies in France as an interventionist reading strategy, offering therapeutic benefits to the reader as well. In a new intersectional approach, I argue that reading literature through a care ethics model can improve lives. I compare literary testimonies on either side of the patient/carer divide, Annie Ernaux’s pre-Covid-19 care home narrative and Michael Rosen’s Covid-19 patient testimony, which, read together, expand the field of medical humanities to promote a relational reconception of society over individualist neoliberalism.
{"title":"Care Narratives by Annie Ernaux and Michael Rosen in the Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Sarah Tribout-Joseph","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted both the importance of care and a global crisis in care. Since its beginnings in the US in the 1980s as a feminist theory within virtue ethics, care ethics has emerged from the margins of the domestic sphere in the West to become a species theory and a force for radical societal change. Influenced by Joan Tronto’s work, Alexandre Gefen has integrated the approach into literary studies in France as an interventionist reading strategy, offering therapeutic benefits to the reader as well. In a new intersectional approach, I argue that reading literature through a care ethics model can improve lives. I compare literary testimonies on either side of the patient/carer divide, Annie Ernaux’s pre-Covid-19 care home narrative and Michael Rosen’s Covid-19 patient testimony, which, read together, expand the field of medical humanities to promote a relational reconception of society over individualist neoliberalism.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43537269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the question of hope in dystopian urban spaces as represented in recent work from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by developing the concept of ‘the hole’ used by Congolese people to comment upon the quality of their lives. The more literal reading of ‘le trou’ in Sinzo Aanza’s 2015 novel Généalogie d’une banalité, set in the mining community of Lubumbashi, is compared to the vertical aspiration of ‘la tour’ in The Tower, a 2016 film by Sammy Baloji and Filip De Boeck, set in Kinshasa. The two works, representing a unique landmark and the excesses of extractive economies, provide the opportunity to reflect on fanciful ventures that, despite the material conditions that thwart dreams of a better life, have not foreclosed all spaces of hope.
本文探讨了反乌托邦城市空间的希望问题，正如刚果民主共和国最近的作品所表现的那样，通过发展刚果人民用来评论他们生活质量的“洞”概念。辛佐·阿扎在2015年出版的小说《gsamnbaloji d ' une banalit》中对“le trou”的字面理解与萨米·巴洛吉和菲利普·德·博克在2016年拍摄的电影《The Tower》中对“la tour”的垂直渴望进行了比较，该小说以卢本巴希的采矿社区为背景。这两件作品，代表了一个独特的地标和过度的采掘经济，提供了一个机会来反思幻想的冒险，尽管物质条件阻碍了美好生活的梦想，但并没有剥夺所有希望的空间。
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This article examines a series of novels by Italian writers, Luciano Bianciardi and Paolo Volponi, that capture the transformations brought about by the post-World War II economic growth in the urban-industrial society of Northern Italy. The analysis draws on utopia as, in Ruth Levitas’s words, a ‘desire for a better way of living and being’ and explores how the writers’ frustrated aspirations for social reform result in a dystopic portrayal of Milan and Turin, seen as sites of social injustice, anomie and authoritative power. Italy’s unprocessed past traumas reverberate through urban descriptions: the threat of totalitarianism lingers in industrial architecture and the ways in which urban spaces are organized. Textual analysis refers to Michel Foucault to explore how spatial organization may enhance individualism and productivity. As powerful economic centres, Milan and Turin are privileged locations from which Bianciardi and Volponi reflect on the idiosyncrasies of modernization and on their failed utopian ambitions for a more egalitarian Italian society.
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In the twenty-first century Latin America has become the most urbanized region on the planet and, at the same time, the one that has the highest level of inequality. This article discusses how this tension is expressed in cinema, an eminently urban art, through two case studies: the Mexican Nuevo orden (dir. by Michel Franco, 2020) and the Brazilian film Era uma vez Brasília (dir. by Adirley Queirós, 2017). Both works are independent films that deal with issues of urban violence and authoritarianism through a distinct style that combines the techniques of realist representation with fictional elements borrowed from dystopian and science fiction genres. While the two show a preoccupation with the economic and racialized inequality that characterizes urban space in the capital cities of Mexico and Brazil, they ultimately evoke two modes of utopian discourse. Whereas the first film can be considered anti-utopian, criticizing the impulse to seek social change, the second one, though pessimistic, retains a utopian call for political action.
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{"title":"Urban Utopics Writing the City in the Light of Utopia","authors":"Michael G Kelly, Mariano Paz","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48107743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article sheds light on both Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s aesthetic thought and his role in the emergence of modern ideas of littérature, by revisiting his novel-cum-treatise, Émile, ou de l’éducation (1762). Contrary to much scholarship that has minimized Rousseau’s interest in aesthetics, and in the visual arts in particular, the article reframes Rousseau as a fundamentally aesthetic thinker. With reference to Jacques Derrida’s concept (via Kant) of the parergon, it argues that Rousseau uses the image of the frame – literal or figurative – to delineate his ideas about the ideal visual and literary arts, and how they should affect spectators or readers. By reading Rousseau alongside Rita Felski, the article historicizes the affective turn in postcritique today. Focusing on Émile’s encounters with the literary arts, it shows that the modern idea of literature as aesthetically pleasing texts that (by dint of their aesthetic quality) induce an affective and ethical response, was attached to the French word littérature earlier than has been claimed, by an author often considered ‘anti-literature’.
本文通过回顾让-雅克·卢梭的小说兼论文《Émile，ou de l’éeducation》（1762），揭示了卢梭的美学思想及其在现代文学思想产生中的作用。与许多学术界贬低卢梭对美学，尤其是视觉艺术的兴趣相反，本文将卢梭重新定义为一位根本的美学思想家。参考雅克·德里达（通过康德）的parergon概念，它认为卢梭使用框架的图像——文字或比喻——来描绘他关于理想视觉和文学艺术的想法，以及它们应该如何影响观众或读者。通过与丽塔·费尔斯基一起阅读卢梭，这篇文章将当今后英国的情感转向历史化。聚焦于埃米尔与文学艺术的相遇，它表明，文学作为审美愉悦的文本（凭借其审美品质）引起情感和伦理反应的现代观念，早于一位经常被认为是“反文学”的作者所声称的那样，就被附在了法语单词littérature上。
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