Going on beyond Modernism in Beckett's Texts for Nothing

The title of Samuel Beckett's thirteen minimalist prose texts from 1954, Texts for Nothing, contrasts strongly with the award of the Nobel Prize for literature and the canonization of the author in 1969. This prestigious recognition can clearly be regarded as a public act of Beckettian irony, as hardly any other author has done more to refute ideas of canonicity and to undermine the foundations of the institution of literature - not to mention principal philosophical positions. Beckett's failure to appear at the ceremonial event seems symbolic of the many elsewheres of his idiosyncratic imagination and the uncanny resistance in his texts to the demands of aesthetics and the claims of logics, to whose reconstructions his diversity of textual experimentalism has contributed so forcefully.publishedVersio

The Alphabet According to Paul Muldoon: To Ireland, I

Paul Muldoon. To Ireland, I. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).Paul Muldoon. To Ireland, I. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

The Language of Paul Muldoon

This book interprets the multifarious writing of the Irish-American word wizard, Paul Muldoon, who has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as ‘the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War’. Readership: All interested in poetry and writing from Ireland and the English-speaking world, and in the enigma of language

Bordering Binarities and Cognitive Cartography: What on Earth Does Literature Have to do with Border Transactions?

Although literature and poetry have numerous borders of their own,these are rarely assumed to have any significance for the world out-side the text itself. A number of reasons for this distinctive division certainly stem from the literary field itself. This paper intends to indicate the exclusivist stance of some theories of literature, and the inclucivist of others, before exploring the possibilities of bridging between borders in text and territory by reference to the life and literature of Oscar Wilde and a performative and imaginative analysis of Paul Muldoon's epigrammatic poem The Plot

Literature and Data-driven Learning

This article aims to examine how and why we can use digital storytelling (DST) to teach literature in the upper secondary classroom, and makes use of Mark Haddon’s complex, multimodal novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2004) as an example. DST is a powerful tool for the 21st century classroom, with the potential to help pupils to become empathetic, creative, inquisitive and critical thinkers. When applied to literature, DST allows pupils to continue the literary text in creative ways by making their own digital story using a basic video editing application such as iMovie or Microsoft Bilder. Such literature-based DST (LDST) distinguishes itself from ordinary DST use in school. The values, qualities and peculiarities of literature offer an imaginative point of departure for new ways of using digital media in school. The Curious Incident is an exceptionally appropriate novel to use with DST, because the novel and the method share numerous features, not least multimodal ones. The narrative structures and aesthetic dimensions of the novel overlap with characteristics of DST. Furthermore, the many hermeneutic dimensions of Haddon’s novel can also be explored by the imaginative possibilities of DST. The definitions and interrelations between literature, text and modality are discussed throughout the article with reference to both philosophers and school didacticians. LDST is remarkable in the way it encourages pupils to sympathise, to interpret, to think critically and to develop their own imaginative ability and language skills. This article argues that LDST is useful in upper secondary education by examining the corresponding educational qualities and possibilities of Haddon’s multimodal novel and DST, and by drawing upon the new education reform in Norway articulated in the Core curriculum of 2020 and the Curriculum in English. Furthermore, the article concludes with the presentation, analysis and assessment of a pilot LDST-project conducted in an upper secondary school in Troms County as part of an MA lector thesis at UiT The Arctic University Norway. Thus, this article’s wider aim is to bring new research perspectives to English education, with a special focus on the use of literature and active forms of learning

Acts of Literature

Despite the fact that literary theory has sought new orientations since Derrida´s biblioblitz in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this article claims that the French philosopher's multiple approaches to literatureindubitably mark a shift in literary hermeneutics. Although the questioning of philosophy, language, aesthetic institutions, and genre solidities per se spurs much of his intellectual analysis, Derrida responds to a great diversity of what is normally termed literature in his writing. Derrida´s Acts of Literature presents a point of departure for this article, which traces his engagements with literature in large parts of his oeuvre. Throughout discussions of his many subversions of literary traditions and reflections of the extensive dispute that surrounds his work, the authors seek to demonstrate the significance of his interrogations for the field of literary interpretation.Selv om litteraturteorien har beveget seg i ulike retninger siden Derridas biblioblitz på slutten av 1960-tallet og begynnelsen av 1970-tallet, hevder denne artikkelen at den franske filosofens ulike tilnærminger til litteratur utvilsomt har forandret hermeneutikken. Til tross for at skepsis til filosofi, språk, estetiske uttrykksformer og sjangersoliditet utgjør mye av hans intellektuelle analyser, undersøker Derrida i sin skrivning en rekke ulike typer tekster som vi tradisjonelt sett karakteriserer som litteratur. Derridas Acts of Literature utgjør et springbrett for denne artikkelen som prøver å perspektivere undersøkelsene av litteratur i store deler av hans produksjon. Gjennom å diskutere hans mange oppgjør med litterære tradisjoner og å reflektere over den omfattende debatten hans arbeider har skapt, har forfatterne til hensikt å påvise hvilken betydning hans litterære undersøkelser kan ha for litterær fortolkning

Multinational evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and management of gout: integrating systematic literature review and expert opinion of a broad panel of rheumatologists in the 3e initiative

We aimed to develop evidence-based multinational recommendations for the diagnosis and management of gout. Using a formal voting process, a panel of 78 international rheumatologists developed 10 key clinical questions pertinent to the diagnosis and management of gout. Each question was investigated with a systematic literature review. Medline, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL and abstracts from 2010-2011 European League Against Rheumatism and American College of Rheumatology meetings were searched in each review. Relevant studies were independently reviewed by two individuals for data extraction and synthesis and risk of bias assessment. Using this evidence, rheumatologists from 14 countries (Europe, South America and Australasia) developed national recommendations. After rounds of discussion and voting, multinational recommendations were formulated. Each recommendation was graded according to the level of evidence. Agreement and potential impact on clinical practice were assessed. Combining evidence and clinical expertise, 10 recommendations were produced. One recommendation referred to the diagnosis of gout, two referred to cardiovascular and renal comorbidities, six focused on different aspects of the management of gout (including drug treatment and monitoring), and the last recommendation referred to the management of asymptomatic hyperuricaemia. the level of agreement with the recommendations ranged from 8.1 to 9.2 (mean 8.7) on a 1-10 scale, with 10 representing full agreement. Ten recommendations on the diagnosis and management of gout were established. They are evidence-based and supported by a large panel of rheumatologists from 14 countries, enhancing their utility in clinical practice.AbbVieAustralian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Hosp Gen Univ Elda, Dept Reumatol, Elda 03600, SpainHosp Gen Univ Alicante, Dept Reumatol, Alicante, SpainUniv Camilo Jose Cela, Fac Ciencias Salud, Madrid, SpainUniv British Columbia, Div Rheumatol, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, CanadaRoyal Melbourne Hosp, Parkville, Vic 3050, AustraliaUniv Hosp Southampton NHS Fdn Trust, Southampton, Hants, EnglandNIHR Wellcome Trust Clin Res Facil, Southampton, Hants, EnglandCtr Hosp Univ Liege, Liege, BelgiumMaastricht Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Internal Med Rheumatol, Maastricht, NetherlandsAtrium Med Ctr, Heerlen, NetherlandsUniv Toronto, Div Rheumatol, Toronto, ON, CanadaRepatriat Gen Hosp, Rheumatol Res Unit, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaFlinders Univ S Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, AustraliaMed Univ Vienna, Dept Internal Med 3, Div Rheumatol, Vienna, AustriaUniv Toronto, Dept Hlth Policy Management & Evaluat, Toronto, ON, CanadaMt Sinai Hosp, Univ Hlth Network, Toronto Gen Res Inst, Div Clin Decis Making & Hlth Care, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, CanadaCabrini Hosp, Monash Dept Clin Epidemiol, Malvern, Vic, AustraliaMonash Univ, Dept Epidemiol & Prevent Med, Malvern, Vic, AustraliaUniv Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Dept Clin Immunol & Rheumatol, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, NetherlandsUniv Med Ctr Utrecht, Dept Rheumatol & Clin Immunol, Utrecht, NetherlandsUniv Nova Lisboa, Fac Ciencias Med, CEDOC, P-1200 Lisbon, PortugalEPE Hosp Egas Moniz, CHLO, Dept Rheumatol, Lisbon, PortugalHosp Gen Mexico City, Rheumatol Unit, Mexico City, DF, MexicoKarolinska Univ Hosp, Dept Rheumatol, Stockholm, SwedenKarolinska Inst, Stockholm, SwedenGhent Univ Hosp, Dept Rheumatol, Ghent, BelgiumUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Div Rheumatol, São Paulo, BrazilSt Georges Healthcare NHS Trust, Dept Rheumatol, London, EnglandState Hosp Stockerau, Ctr Rheumatol, Lower Austria, Stockerau, AustriaUniv Pavia, IRCCS Policlin S Matteo, Cattedra Reumatol, I-27100 Pavia, ItalyUniv Giessen, Kerckhoff Klin, Dept Rheumatol & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, GermanyCopenhagen Univ Hosp, Ctr Rheumatol & Spine Dis, Copenhagen Ctr Arthrit Res, Glostrup, DenmarkMenzies Res Inst Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, AustraliaColumbia Univ, Med Ctr, New York, NY USALeiden Univ, Med Ctr, Leiden, NetherlandsUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Div Rheumatol, São Paulo, BrazilWeb of Scienc

Going on beyond Modernism in Beckett's Texts for Nothing

The title of Samuel Beckett's thirteen minimalist prose texts from 1954, Texts for Nothing, contrasts strongly with the award of the Nobel Prize for literature and the canonization of the author in 1969. This prestigious recognition can clearly be regarded as a public act of Beckettian irony, as hardly any other author has done more to refute ideas of canonicity and to undermine the foundations of the institution of literature - not to mention principal philosophical positions. Beckett's failure to appear at the ceremonial event seems symbolic of the many elsewheres of his idiosyncratic imagination and the uncanny resistance in his texts to the demands of aesthetics and the claims of logics, to whose reconstructions his diversity of textual experimentalism has contributed so forcefully

Imagining Northern Norway : Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst

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Borders and boundaries in Northern Ireland and the poetry of Seamus Heaney

This essay discusses the borders and boundaries between the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Laureate from Northern Ireland, and the Troubles of the border-riven society from which it stems