Literary Theory

El Principito

by Jorge Postlethwaite

Es un ensayo breve para un seminario de literatura de viaje e imaginacón. Es un ensayo breve para un seminario de literatura de viaje e imaginacón.

"Incurable Haunting: Saluting Michel Deguy"

by Kas Saghafi

“Impresiones y Paisajes o el descubrimiento personal a través del viaje”

by Pablo Valdivia

in Obra en Marcha. Essays in hommage to Richard Cardwell. ed. by Steven Roberts, Jean Andrews, Pablo Valdivia ( Nottingham : Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. Nottingham, 2009) ISBN 978-1-905510-20-7. 146-157. 3.

La recepción crítica del proyecto artístico y ético de Federico García Lorca: hacia una reelaboración de la historia literaria española del siglo XX

by Pablo Valdivia

en Literatura y Compromiso, Visor, 2011.

Literacy, culture and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal

by Andras Kisery

in: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2011, pp. 34-46.

The critical media of early modern texts

by Andras Kisery

European Journal of English Studies 4/2 (2000) pp. 125-139.

"Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality": a call for contributions to a proposed special issue of POSTMODERN CULTURE

by Matt Tierney

Co-edited with Mathias Nilges.

We invite submissions for a proposed special issue of Postmodern Culture entitled “Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality.”... more We invite submissions for a proposed special issue of Postmodern Culture entitled “Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality.” The issue aims to gather ways of seeing the term “medium” beyond current disciplinary frames. Rather than take the routes of literary or film studies, art history or communication theory—and rather than see media as discrete, pre-constituted categories of aesthetics or mechanics—we seek to put the category of medium into question, and in doing so, to facilitate approaches to the various mutually dependent media whose boundaries and frames might now seem less conclusive.

"You are exactly my brand of heroin(e)": Convergences and Divergences of the Gothic Literary Heroine

by Julianne Guillard

Girlhood Studies 4(1), Summer 2011

What brand of heroine can be found in the Twilight series? What discernible characteristics of a heroine can be found... more What brand of heroine can be found in the Twilight series? What discernible characteristics of a heroine can be found in gothic fiction and do these char- acteristics contribute to a social definition of girlhood/womanhood? In an analysis of the Twilight series’ protagonist as a gothic heroine in contrast to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, I claim that the author, Stephenie Meyer, con- structs a particular category of contemporary gothic heroine. Drawing on the statement made by the novel’s leading male character, Edward, to Bella that she is his “brand of heroin,” this article plays with the idea that Meyer merged elements of the bildungsroman1 and the Female Gothic to create her brand. This brand of heroine fulfills the three distinct categories of girlhood/ womanhood that characterize both the Gothic novel and the bildungsroman: a dependent stage, a caretaker stage, and a wife stage.

An Approach for the Study of Poetic Imagination

by Arezou Zalipour

Abstract of my PhD thesis that was completed in 2008. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested to know more about my PhD thesis. I am trying to publish it as a book. Your kind suggestions are most welcomed.

An Approach for the Study of Poetic Imagination

Arezou Zalipour, PhD
more An Approach for the Study of Poetic Imagination

Arezou Zalipour, PhD
arezouzalipour@gmail.com


This study examines notions of poetic imagination towards exploring its contemporary representations. It takes its initial point of departure with a historical and conceptual survey that traces the concepts and theories of both imagination and poetic imagination. The literature survey demonstrates that poetic imagination has not been featured in the theories of modern and contemporary poetry, barring the Romantics who celebrated the creative nature of imagination. Therefore, the existing concepts, ideas and theories of poetic imagination are largely unstructured and incoherent concepts inherited by contemporary poets. However, there are some researches on the concept of imagination in poetry in modern and contemporary philosophy and psychology. In the twentieth century, the use of poetic image in philosophical studies as well as the relations between imagination and reality have provided some insights into modern conceptions of poetic imagination. This thesis examines, discusses and collates the principles and concepts relevant to imagination to discover whether these notions can explain and define the nature of poetic imagination in contemporary poetry. Fundamentally, the thesis develops an approach for the exploration of contemporary notions of poetic imagination. The approach is drawn from the existing concepts and theories of imagination and poetic imagination. The approach is constructed featuring the elements of types of images, features of poetic imagination and modes of imagination.

These three categories shape the components of the theoretical framework and also form the three levels of the analytical procedure of the approach. In level one, we look at types of images in a poem which leads us to draw conclusions about features of poetic imagination in level two. In level three, the findings in levels one and two will then help us to determine the apparent and dominant mode of imagination in the poem/text. What should emerge by the end of the analysis is a special opportunity to look at how (creative) imagination is manifested in a poem/text. The approach was applied to a corpus of contemporary poetry in order to show the application of the approach and the way analysis is carried put. The assessment of the approach on a corpus of contemporary poetry was also in an attempt to elucidate the dimensions of relationships between the imagined, the imaged, and the real.

The research identifies that imagination in contemporary poetry moves more towards imaging rather than poetic imagination. In other words, imagination shows greater affinity to imaging in contemporary poetry. The significant contribution of the thesis is that it offers a continuum called Imaginiuum with one end as imaging, and poetic imagination as the other. Imaginiuum is a paradigm that describes contemporary notions of imagination in poetry.

"The Chase: Rivalry and Conjuration"

by Kas Saghafi

"The 'Passion for the Outside': Foucault, Blanchot, and Exteriority"

by Kas Saghafi

"The Ghost of Jacques Derrida"

by Kas Saghafi

"Salut-ations"

by Kas Saghafi

Seguiremos al pendiente: Anselmo Guiú como pretexto en la obra de Guillermo Sheridan

by Raúl Bravo Aduna

Guillermo Sheridan no es sólo un académico y ensayista notable; es, también, un humorista capaz de poner en entredicho... more Guillermo Sheridan no es sólo un académico y ensayista notable; es, también, un humorista capaz de poner en entredicho la supuesta solidez de los géneros literarios y periodísticos. En este ensayo, Raúl Bravo Aduna elabora un análisis minucioso de estos rasgos de la obra de Sheridan en la figura de un personaje tan mordaz como jocoso: el reportero Anselmo Guiú.

Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated Portmanteau to the risus purus

by Suzanne Buchan

Buchan, Suzanne, "Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated Portmanteau to the risus purus," in: Horton, Andrew and Joanna E Rapf (eds) A Companion to Film Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (forthcoming October), ISBN: 978-1-4443-3859-1

From Poetics to the Romantics: Conceptual History of Imagination In Poetry

by Arezou Zalipour

The starting point of the history of imagination in poetry can be traced to the early attempts to define poetry, as in... more The starting point of the history of imagination in poetry can be traced to the early attempts to define poetry, as in Aristotle’s Poetics. My investigation in the studies on imagination shows that there is no comprehensive work on the conceptual history of imagination in poetry. However, there are some comprehensive books that provide a chronological survey of the idea of imagination as it appears in various other disciplines. This paper aims to explore the general developmental trends in the concepts of imagination in poetry up to the Romantic period. The concepts are organized according to features that I consider significant to the conceptual history of imagination in poetry. The survey of available literature in the studies of poetic imagination will manifest the various treatments that poetic imagination receives over different periods of time. In the process, this paper will convey mainly in an indirect manner, the gaps and inadequacies in the studies of poetic imagination in an inside-out history of some of the most significant developments in the concepts of poetic imagination.

Phenomenological Studies of Imagination in Poetry: An Introduction

by Arezou Zalipour

Published in 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, July 2010

The broad and dominant discipline of phenomenology has produced many studies of imagination. Phenomenological studies... more The broad and dominant discipline of phenomenology has produced many studies of imagination. Phenomenological studies examine imagination as a dimension of language
and explore the creative role of imagination in the creation of new meanings in language. This exploration has many implications in poetry where language is used creatively and
new meanings emerge from the creative and unexpected use of language by the poet. This paper aims to describe a phenomenological account of  magination in poetry by introducing the concepts that appear most relevant to imagination in poetry within the domain of phenomenological studies. In order to do this, the study focuses on the main tenets of phenomenological studies relevant to imagination in poetry, namely the concepts of ‘metaphor’ and ‘intentionality’. The discussion highlights the level of creativity of imagination in poetry in comparison with the reduction of imagining to perceiving in language. Likewise, the poetic image in poetry is also introduced as an image which is not a resume of the old meanings of perception. Phenomenology of imagination in poetic creation takes us beyond the pervious analyses of the characteristics of imagination as a creative faculty and helps to establish a link between creativity, meaning and imagination.

Reading Grotesque Material: Bakhtin, Bataille, and Transgression in Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror

by Andrew Kingston

Sarah Kofman's Art of Affirmation, or the Non-illusory Life of an Illusion”

by Pleshette DeArmitt

Ironic Representation, Authorial Voice, and Meaning in Qohelet

by Carolyn Sharp