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The Buried Scales of Deep Time: Beneath the Nation, Beyond the Human⊠and Back?
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.[âŠ]Weâll note, love, in one summerâs dayThe record of millions of years ;And though the Darwinian planYour sensitive feelings may shock,Weâll find the beginning of man,Our fossil ancestors, in rock ! Bret Harte, âGeological Madrigalâ (1871) The poetâs mischievous invitation to his paramour to walk down geology lane has recently found unexpected ech..
How the Earth Feels: A Conversation with Dana Luciano
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 earthâs 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 âdeep timeâ 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?
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.[âŠ]Weâll note, love, in one summerâs dayThe record of millions of years ;And though the Darwinian planYour sensitive feelings may shock,Weâll find the beginning of man,Our fossil ancestors, in rock ! Bret Harte, âGeological Madrigalâ (1871) The poetâs mischievous invitation to his paramour to walk down geology lane has recently found unexpected ech..
A Conversation with Peter Coviello
Peter Coviello has kindly agreed to have a conversation with us via email about the questions we have been discussing in our research group âHistory and Literatureâ 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 Whitmanâs Memoranda During the War (2004) and the author of Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature (2005) and Tomorrowâs Par..
Walt Whitman, chemins parcourus
To conclude, I announce what comes after me. Ainsi sâinaugure lâultime chant des Feuilles dâherbe, salut du poĂšte Ă son lecteur et compagnon de route, adieu et envoi mĂȘlĂ©s dans lâinterjection finale, « so long », cri et priĂšre du prophĂšte marcheur, dont le regard arrimĂ© aux lointains sâattarde aussi, en mĂȘme temps, sur les chemins parcourus, Ă lâinstant de quitter le monde, câest-Ă -dire de nous en lĂ©guer le texte. Ce texte, qui nous parvient Ă travers lâĂ©tendue des ans, nous tient autant que ..
How the Earth Feels: A Conversation with Dana Luciano
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 earthâs 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 âdeep timeâ 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
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 lâEcole 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'
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 dâun Ă©change sur nos projets collectifs, prĂ©sents et futurs, avec nos collĂšgues de Paris 3 et Paris 13 et dâun pot. texte Ă lir
June 2018 - three A19 seminar sessions with Chad Luck (California State University at San Bernardino), invited professor at the LARCA
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 ..
Lâorbe du sens: les Ă©clipses dâEmily Dickinson.
International audienceEmily Dickinson knew of the dazzling advances of astronomy and shared her contemporariesâ 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 Dickinsonâs 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 poeÌsie dâEmily Dickinson est traverseÌe dâeÌclipses. Objets de la science ou de la poeÌsie, les eÌclipses eÌtaient souvent aÌ lâordre du jour dans lâentourage de Dickinson qui elle-meÌme nâignorait rien des fulgurantes avanceÌes de lâastronomie de son temps. Dans sa poeÌsie se lit ce qui, de lâeÌclipse, importe tant aÌ Dickinson : lâeÌclat adamantin et le battement disparition/reÌapparition. LâeÌclipse y est aÌ la fois factuelle, clairement reÌfeÌrenceÌe, et deÌjaÌ figure (si ironique soit-elle) de lâintermittence et du doute. Si le continent ameÌricain, aÌ la fin du XIXe sieÌcle, se mesure, sous la dicteÌe des astronomes, graÌce au passage des soleils noirs, la poeÌsie de Dickinson sâarpente aÌ la lueur paradoxale du motif de lâeÌclipse, qui est aussi figure aÌ peine offusqueÌe de lâeÌcriture.Gloire de la circonfeÌrence, victoire de la deÌfinition, saisie de lâorbe dans le traceÌ de la preÌsence, lâeÌclipse est aussi figure de lâabsence, de la marche terrible de lâombre, une ombre qui avance, par degreÌs, et dessine dâun arc le passage et la diffeÌrence â ainsi est rendu palpable le temps du poeÌme, entre deux aveuglements. Cet article entend suggeÌrer quâil se dessine dans lâavanceÌe de lâombre sur lâorbe radieux, quelque chose de lâarc du sens, de lâacte poeÌtique lui-meÌme, le geste infiniment lent, et toujours inacheveÌ, de la nomination comme approximation, deÌcoupe dâun sens heÌsitant, provisoire, rendu sensible alto relievo. Le poeÌme, chez Emily Dickinson, devient alors spectacle de la deÌfinition et de la diffeÌrence aÌ lâĆuvre, le temps dâune eÌclipse, entre la gloire et lâoffuscation, la certitude lumineuse de la preÌsence et lâobscur du dieu cacheÌ. Ce que sa poeÌsie deÌsigne, câest le poeÌme comme trace et trajet, trait et retrait, ombre porteÌe de la poeÌsie meÌme quâil incarne, imparfaitement, dans son contour labile
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