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　　本期作家，张定浩 　　《小说与事件》摘录 　　文/张定浩 　　在特里·伊格尔顿的近作《文学事件》中，对“什么是文学”的重新思考，意外地从追溯一个古老的经院哲学问题开始，即实在论和唯名论之间的争议。“对唯名论阵营而言，对事物的抽象在个别事物之后，它是一种从个别事物派生出来的概念；实在论者却认为，抽象先于个别事物，是一种使个别事物如其所�...

Optimismo desadaptativo Vista de HuescaMariano Olivera TERRY Eagleton, que ha desarrollado interesantes teorías del humor como un exceso, esgrime la dificultad de discutir con un optimista radical, porque es capaz de deformar la verdad con tal de que encaje en su visión. O sea, es un ventajista con fe ciega. Lo que el psicólogo Erik Erikson califica como “optimismo desadaptativo”, que no reconoce los límites de lo posible y es propio de los niños. El problema surge cuando traspasa a ...

Literary critic who defended traditional values against campus radicals

Imagine you are in the Paris Opera House, circa 1831. Take a look at the crowd. They look like regular opera-goers, just like you, but some of them are not as they appear. See that row of men clapping wildly in the front row, and crying “Encore, encore?” They’re actually employees of the theater, just like the musicians. That woman dabbing tears from her eyes? By day, she’s a professional mourner; by night she brings her talents to the opera house, in order to increase the impact of th...

modernism Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:56:05 Modernism was the dominant force in 20th century (western) art, music and literature. The dominant characteristics of modernism were the emphasis on experimentation and formalism and objectivism - Much modernist work consisted on an investigation of, or experimentation with the formal aspects of art - such as James Joyces reworking of the structure of the novel in Ulysses, or the cubists exporation of geometric shape in painting. Welcome to Modernism. This m...

  April 29,2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Media Lens — Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: ‘One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive hi...

by Media Lens / April 19th, 2021 Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into Manufacturing Consent, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because h...

This work offers an account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles of the four nations that inhabit the British Isles. Raphael Samuel is interested by the face that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of "Britons" thriving today just as its object has become problematic? The book conveys the mutability of natio...

Graham Greene (left) and Maria Aurora Couto | Photograph of Maria Aurora Couto by Frederick Noronha. At 19, I was obsessed with a man I did not know. Graham Greene’s novels were among the works prescribed for my Master’s degree. My admiration for Greene’s writing was clouded by irritation with critical assessments that labelled Greene a “Catholic” novelist (along with Evelyn Waugh). These analyses, often misguided, I believed, by highly structured theological argume...

On this day in Black History... Feb 22, 1841 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born The athlete and boxer Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ was born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California – On this day in 1888, legendary painter Horace Pippin was born Feb 22, 1898 Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life in Lake City, S.C. – On this day in 1911, poet, activist, and social reformer Frances Ellis Watkins Harper died Robert Smalls...