Jean Baudrillard’s America and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49: Entropic Symbolism of Puzzling the Puzzled – International Journal of Baudrillard Studies

Jean Baudrillard’s America and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49: Entropic Symbolism of Puzzling the Puzzled ISSN: 1705-6411 Volume 12, Number 2 (July 2015) Author: Dr Abdullah H. Kurraz In The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon presents a postmodern society of a huge replication of puzzling, yet, entropic symbols and ciphers, which result in an immense number of interpretations and meanings. So, the authentic interpretative communities are both indefinite and chaotic. Crying...

Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

Symbol and Sacrament - Chapter 6 - Scripture and Sacrament

‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 6: Scripture and Sacrament | Alastair's Adversaria Menu Skip to primary content Search Alastair's Adversaria flotsam, jetsam, messages in bottles ‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 6: Scripture and Sacrament Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:I, Chapter...

Prosopography

Prosopography (idea) See all of Prosopography, no other writeups in this node. Prosopography From the Greek prospon, character and graphy, writing. Prosopography has been defined as the historical study of individuals as groups and groups as individuals.1 an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.2 a study that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or li...

Edith Wharton on How to Write a Vivid First Line ‹ Literary Hub

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Gender Dictionary - Genderlect

Fully: "GENDERLECT: A GENDER DICTIONARY, WORDS RECAST – GENDERLECT.COM IS A GUIDE IN A DICTIONARY FORMAT GEARED TO REDEFINE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, TO CLARIFY WORD MEANINGS USED IN RELATIONSHIP CONTEXTS, WORDS THAT MAY MASK TO SPEAKER AND LISTENER THE INTENT ARTICULA" Skip to content GENDERLECT: A GENDER DICTIONARY, WORDS RECAST GENDERLECT.COM IS A GUIDE IN A DICTIONARY FORMAT GEARED TO REDEFINE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, TO CLARIFY WORD MEANINGS USED IN RELATIONSHIP CONTEXTS, WO...

Council of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon was called in 451 CE by the Roman Emperor Marcian (r. 450-457) to settle debates regarding the nature (hypostases, "reality") of Christ that had begun at two earlier meetings in Ephesus (431 CE and 439 CE). The question was whether Christ was human or divine, a man who became God (through the resurrection and ascension) or God who became a man (through the incarnation, "taking on flesh"), and how his humanity and divinity affected his essence and b...

Uncertainty as a Constructive Principle in Literature: Margaret Fuller's "Summer on the Lakes, in 1843" by Marina Kizima :: SSRN

Uncertainty as a Constructive Principle in Literature: Margaret Fuller's "Summer on the Lakes, in 1843" Posted: 30 Dec 2021 See all articles by Marina KizimaMarina KizimaMoscow State Institute of International relations (MGIMO University) Date Written: October 28, 2021 Abstract Certainty and uncertainty have always been one of the basic dich...

Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy - RSS

[New Entry by Monima Chadha on January 3, 2022.] Selves and persons are often used as synonyms in contemporary philosophy, and sometimes also in the history of Western philosophy. This is almost never the case in classical Indian philosophical traditions. The Sanskrit term 'ātman' properly translated as self stands for whatever it is that is the essence of individual humans (manuṣya) or the psychophysical complex (pudgala) which includes the mind, body and sense organs. There is di...

Narcissus Flower Meaning Symbolism & Facts | Interflora

Clip source: Narcissus Flower Meaning Symbolism & Narcissus: Ultimate Flower Guide(commonly known as the Daffodil) - Meaning, Symbolism, Varieties and Care Tips. On this page you'll find everything you need to know about the narcissus - commonly known as the daffodil. Packed with meaning, symbolism, myth, legend and superstition, there's a lot to learn about these beautiful springtime flowers. THE MEANING OF NARCISSUSDaffodils are some of the first flowers we see in springtime and are a...

The Curious Symbolism of Autumn in Literature and Myth

Autumn is at once symbolic of plenty, ripening, harvest, and abundance; and, at the same time, a symbol of decay, decline, old age, and even death, with associations of things being past their prime. To understand this we need to look at how writers have depicted autumn in poetry and other literature. In classical Greek mythology, the goddess of autumn was Carpo, who was part of the Horae or Hours, three goddesses who were the offspring of Zeus and Aphrodite and represented the three se...

K as symbol for baseball strikeout - and O as a richly layered historical letter

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Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. ‹ Literary Hub

Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. By Book Marks October 18, 2021, 3:11pm On the occasion of its 170th publication anniversary, here are the very first reviews of Herman Melville’s leviathan-sized opus of obsession, revenge, and meticulously detailed whaling practices. * "To convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible i...

The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...

Female poets of ancient Hellas

We have all heard of Sappho, but did you know there were many other female poets whose work survives to this day? I'd like to share some of them with you today--and about the women who wrote them. Anyte of Tegea Anyte of Tegea (Ἀνύτη Τεγεᾶτις) was an early 3rd century BC Arcadian poet, was the leader of a school of poetry and literature on Peloponnesus, which also included the poet Leonidas of Tarentum. Antipater of Thessalonica listed her as one of the nine earthly muses. At least ...

TLS on TLS in Literature - hyperreflexivity perhaps

The article mentions several examples of the times literary supplement being included in stories that are published and perhaps later reviewed by the times literary supplement itself -zas

What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra - A Philosophical Confrontation

Silas Marner

Introduction to Silas Marner Written by Mary Ann Evans, the popular George Eliot, Silas Marner first appeared in England back in 1861 and reached the United States quite later. Despite its initial popularity, the novel lost its worth to her later popular novels, Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss. However, later the story proved its worth when it became popular. The novel tells the story of a simpleton, a weaver, who after being robbed, leaves the area but later proved highly supportive...

Guide to The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and his crew escaping the Cyclops, Polyphemus. Credit: Wikipedia/ Public domain. Homer’s Odyssey is the quintessential quest that relates to our passage through life and the importance of love, family and home. Odysseus’s adventures have influenced everyone from Batman to Bob Dylan. By Chris MackieThe Odyssey of Homer is a Greek epic poem that tells of the return journey of Odysseus to the island of Ithaca from the war at Troy, which Homer related in The Iliad. In the Greek tradition...

Polyphemus and words - a profound observation in a quote in Lexicon by Max Barry

The Secret of Poetry

When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011, the audience members clearly expected a mischievous performance. In his first lecture, Hill had promised a future evaluation of contemporary British poetry, and in the subsequent oration he did not hold back, appraising creative writing as a neoliberal efflorescence of a doomed literary culture, with its ‘plethora of literary prizes’ and false evaluation of its own health. Anti-élitist ‘accessibility’ was the b...

Superhost

The vacation rental industry is just weird. We go into homes owned by other people with security cameras through which they can watch us and act like it’s no big deal. This inherently discomfiting situation was unpacked well in Dave Franco's ambitious "The Rental" last year and it returns as the center of Brandon Christensen’s effective "Superhost," a story of two vloggers who stumble into the wrong rental. It’s slight even in its short run time, but it’s anchored by an impressively unhinged ...

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

"He entered the park at the North Gate and swallowed mouthfuls of the heavy shade that curtained its arch. He walked into the shadow of a lamp-post that lay on the path like a spear. It pierced him like a spear." The above is from the beginning of the second chapter of Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, a brief and brilliant novel set in late-Prohibition New York; the arch and lamp-post mentioned belong to Washington Square Park. I remember, in my twenties, reading this sentence for the f...

You’re Food and Drink to Me - A Letter From Henry Miller to Anais Nin

In 1932, months after first meeting in Paris and despite both being married, celebrated Cuban diarist Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller—the hugely influential novelist responsible for writing the sexually explicit  (for  the times) novel Tropic of Cancer (1934), which Nin helped to finance—began a fiery love affair. The liaison would last for many years, a situation further  intensified by the fact that Nin also had an openly discussed affair, albeit brief, with Miller’s then-wife, June, as their ow...

Signs of the True and Pseudo Apostles

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