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    The Buried Scales of Deep Time: Beneath the Nation, Beyond the Human
 and Back?

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    I have found out a gift for my fair ;I know where the fossils abound,Where the footprints of Aves declareThe birds that once walked on the ground.[
]We’ll note, love, in one summer’s dayThe record of millions of years ;And though the Darwinian planYour sensitive feelings may shock,We’ll find the beginning of man,Our fossil ancestors, in rock ! Bret Harte, “Geological Madrigal” (1871) The poet’s mischievous invitation to his paramour to walk down geology lane has recently found unexpected ech..

    How the Earth Feels: A Conversation with Dana Luciano

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    CĂ©cile Roudeau: The starting point of How the Earth Feels, your new book project, provocatively appeals to the sensory, cognitive and agential capacities of the earth’s inorganic elements and proposes to gauge the emotional, corporeal and intellectual impact of this assumption on us, humans. One dimension of your project will intersect with the notion of “deep time” insofar as it considers how the agency of rocks, earth, water, may recast our beliefs in human agency across time. Could you tel..

    The Buried Scales of Deep Time: Beneath the Nation, Beyond the Human
 and Back?

    Get PDF
    I have found out a gift for my fair ;I know where the fossils abound,Where the footprints of Aves declareThe birds that once walked on the ground.[
]We’ll note, love, in one summer’s dayThe record of millions of years ;And though the Darwinian planYour sensitive feelings may shock,We’ll find the beginning of man,Our fossil ancestors, in rock ! Bret Harte, “Geological Madrigal” (1871) The poet’s mischievous invitation to his paramour to walk down geology lane has recently found unexpected ech..

    A Conversation with Peter Coviello

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    Peter Coviello has kindly agreed to have a conversation with us via email about the questions we have been discussing in our research group “History and Literature” based at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and UniversitĂ© Paris-Diderot. Peter Coviello is Professor of American Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the editor of Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War (2004) and the author of Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature (2005) and Tomorrow’s Par..

    Walt Whitman, chemins parcourus

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    To conclude, I announce what comes after me. Ainsi s’inaugure l’ultime chant des Feuilles d’herbe, salut du poĂšte Ă  son lecteur et compagnon de route, adieu et envoi mĂȘlĂ©s dans l’interjection finale, « so long », cri et priĂšre du prophĂšte marcheur, dont le regard arrimĂ© aux lointains s’attarde aussi, en mĂȘme temps, sur les chemins parcourus, Ă  l’instant de quitter le monde, c’est-Ă -dire de nous en lĂ©guer le texte. Ce texte, qui nous parvient Ă  travers l’étendue des ans, nous tient autant que ..

    How the Earth Feels: A Conversation with Dana Luciano

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    CĂ©cile Roudeau: The starting point of How the Earth Feels, your new book project, provocatively appeals to the sensory, cognitive and agential capacities of the earth’s inorganic elements and proposes to gauge the emotional, corporeal and intellectual impact of this assumption on us, humans. One dimension of your project will intersect with the notion of “deep time” insofar as it considers how the agency of rocks, earth, water, may recast our beliefs in human agency across time. Could you tel..

    Ross Posnock @ENS Ulm

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    Ross Posnock (Columbia University, New York), professeur invitĂ© Ă  Paris Diderot, interviendra dans le cadre du sĂ©minaire « La valeur et les signes: littĂ©rature et Ă©conomie » organisĂ© Ă  l’Ecole normale supĂ©rieure, le lundi 9 mai de 16h Ă  18h. La sĂ©ance portera sur Washington Square de Henry James et se tiendra en salle Beckett, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris. Contact: [email protected] Nous espĂ©rons vous y voir nombreux

    mercredi 20 juin 2018 - Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoue, 'Political Masculinities and Separatist Biographies in Cameroon'

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    Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoue (assistant professor of African history Ă  Baylor University) interviendra sur 'Political Masculinities and Separatist Biographies in Cameroon'. La discussion avec Jacqueline-Bethel sera suivie d’un Ă©change sur nos projets collectifs, prĂ©sents et futurs, avec nos collĂšgues de Paris 3 et Paris 13 et d’un pot. texte Ă  lir

    June 2018 - three A19 seminar sessions with Chad Luck (California State University at San Bernardino), invited professor at the LARCA

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    A19 is pleased to announce a seminar series around Chad LUCK. Chad LUCK is Associate Professor at California State University at San Bernardino. His research focuses on 18th- and 19th-Century American Literature and Culture; Literature and Philosophy; Critical Theory; Phenomenology and Phenomenological Criticism; Law and Literature; Property Theory. He is the author of The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession (Fordham UP, 2014). Chad Luck has also ..

    L’orbe du sens: les Ă©clipses d’Emily Dickinson.

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    International audienceEmily Dickinson knew of the dazzling advances of astronomy and shared her contemporaries’ facisnation with eclipses. In her poetry, this essay argues, eclipses are both an object of scientific investigation and a figure of poetic creation. Because they simultaneously tell of absence, of the terrifying progress of night, and of the longed-for glory of a full circumference, eclipses make palpable the temporality of poetic writing, between two blinks. The poetic act itself is pictured as an infinitely slow and always incomplete gesture; the shadow advancing on the radiant orb tells of nomination as approximation, of meaning as always provisional. In Dickinson’s poetry, eclipses are spectacles of definition and difference at work; the poem emerges both as a trace and a journey, a shadow of the poetic act imperfectly embodied in its ever labile contours.La poésie d’Emily Dickinson est traversée d’éclipses. Objets de la science ou de la poésie, les éclipses étaient souvent à l’ordre du jour dans l’entourage de Dickinson qui elle-même n’ignorait rien des fulgurantes avancées de l’astronomie de son temps. Dans sa poésie se lit ce qui, de l’éclipse, importe tant à Dickinson : l’éclat adamantin et le battement disparition/réapparition. L’éclipse y est à la fois factuelle, clairement référencée, et déjà figure (si ironique soit-elle) de l’intermittence et du doute. Si le continent américain, à la fin du XIXe siècle, se mesure, sous la dictée des astronomes, grâce au passage des soleils noirs, la poésie de Dickinson s’arpente à la lueur paradoxale du motif de l’éclipse, qui est aussi figure à peine offusquée de l’écriture.Gloire de la circonférence, victoire de la définition, saisie de l’orbe dans le tracé de la présence, l’éclipse est aussi figure de l’absence, de la marche terrible de l’ombre, une ombre qui avance, par degrés, et dessine d’un arc le passage et la différence – ainsi est rendu palpable le temps du poème, entre deux aveuglements. Cet article entend suggérer qu’il se dessine dans l’avancée de l’ombre sur l’orbe radieux, quelque chose de l’arc du sens, de l’acte poétique lui-même, le geste infiniment lent, et toujours inachevé, de la nomination comme approximation, découpe d’un sens hésitant, provisoire, rendu sensible alto relievo. Le poème, chez Emily Dickinson, devient alors spectacle de la définition et de la différence à l’Ɠuvre, le temps d’une éclipse, entre la gloire et l’offuscation, la certitude lumineuse de la présence et l’obscur du dieu caché. Ce que sa poésie désigne, c’est le poème comme trace et trajet, trait et retrait, ombre portée de la poésie même qu’il incarne, imparfaitement, dans son contour labile
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