...Glenn A. Odom This article examines Yael Farber's Molora , an adaptation of The Oresteia , in the context of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a narrative form. I argue that, in performance, the play prevents the culmination of both reconciliation and the tragic form, leaving...

...Jeff Love The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature . By Kliger Ilya . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . ix, 245 p . © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 462...

...L. Maria Bo Abstract This article examines Eileen Chang’s 1953 translation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea into Chinese as Cold War propaganda for the United States Information Service (USIS). It argues that this translation, meant to show the truth of democracy through its high...

...-metaphysical scenario focused on presentation rather than representation and on truth as propitious event rather than individual property can we grasp the limitations of a metaphysical paradigm that writers like Marlowe unwittingly helped consolidate. Today, this scenario is best promoted by Badiou...

... of the Nazi genocide. Rawicz rejects moral and historical frameworks because they do not engage the Holocaust on the level he finds most salient: as a terrifying experience of ontological truths about the nature of God, subjectivity, and Being writ large. I situate Rawicz’s novel alongside his pronouncements...

... into Austerlitz's life story through visual and verbal references to the philosopher suggests certain Wittgensteinian themes and problems. These include the relation of ethics to aesthetics and of both to memory, of propositions to truth-making, and of the verbal to the visual arts as exemplified by the eighty-one...

... through the lens of Chilean-Argentine author Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden , its staging and reception in Johannesburg and its inscription into the 1998 Final Report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). By juxtaposing a case of literary remediation (TRC Chairperson...

... of the inventive engagements with gender to understand the relationship of ignorance to truth. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 Indian Anglophone novels Assam insurgencies gender epistemology Epistemology and ignorance—how could two such different things go...

... the ultimate moment of completeness and definitive truths. Rather, maturity is a process and practice that embraces change and the capacity to see life from different perspectives. The novel is a catalyst and medium of this practice because it stimulates our ability to think, question, and, as a result, change...

.... James Dawes Macalester College DOI 10.1215/00104124-1891450 The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature. By Ilya Kliger. University Park...

.... James Dawes Macalester College DOI 10.1215/00104124-1891450 The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature. By Ilya Kliger. University Park...

.... James Dawes Macalester College DOI 10.1215/00104124-1891450 The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature. By Ilya Kliger. University Park...

... is primarily geared not to eternal truths but to physical well-being and survival. Like a sharp pair of fangs, quick forelegs, or keen hearing, our adept mind has insured the survival of our species. For a Darwinist, conclusive proof that the mind is de- signed in accordance with natural selection...

..., and everything becomes clear. The formerly un- readable object is suddenly visible as a skull, an allegory of vanitas, while the rest of the painting is reduced to a blur. Death emerges as the truth of wealth, stat- ure, and modern science.1 1 Although this account has been pronounced unverifiable by more...

... . Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1973 . Print . Williams Bernard . Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2002 . Print . Christopher Braider Talking Like a Book...

... . Print . ———. Truth and Method . 2nd Rev. ed. Trans. Weinsheimer Joel Marshall Donald G. . New York : Continuum , 2004 . Print . Gourgouris Stathis . “The Simulations of the Center: Lorenzatos's Neohellenism Against the Modernist Phantom.” Layoun 59 – 80...

... and historical entity — and a sign of something outside of, and larger than, itself. Literary History without History Like Augustine, Auerbach essentially interprets history figuratively — that is, as a series of particulars that point to a larger narrative, to a “truth” outside of 2 In his 1952...

... . ———. “Libraries, Encyclopedias, and Rhizomes: Popularizing Culture in Eco's Superfictions.” Bouchard Pravadelli 129 – 45 . Print . ———. “On Truth and Lying: Umberto Eco and Algirdas Julien Greimas.” Capozzi 185 – 234 . Print . Chandler Daniel . Semiotics: The Basics . 2nd. ed...

... , Anderson refers approvingly to Renan’s emphasis on forgetting while quoting selectively to avoid the language of violence and truth-suppression ( 6 ). In his hopes for a gentler, positive construction of the nation through narrative, Anderson, like Renan, actively forgets the cost of forgetting, the fact...

... behavior is counter- rational (“Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires reason prevents one’s acceptance of spiritual truth (“The cheating knavishness of intellect” had brought him to a state of “studiously...