...David Lloyd This essay discusses a remark on the eye and the mouth in Bersani and Dutoit’s Caravaggio’s Secrets that links Caravaggio to Samuel Beckett. Exploring the idea of the gaze and the voice as “things” rather than objects that confirm the subject in its place, and connecting Bersani’s...

...-place Romanticism, quite unlike any available version, a Romanticism of “unqualified negativity” and “aspiring openness” with an eye and an ear to unknown pleasures. [email protected] © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 Works Cited...

... of existentialist thought into play, particularly as they are fleshed out in Simone de Beauvoir’s treatment of oppression and its counterpart, freedom. Reading Dogville through Beauvoir’s eyes, it appears that oppression, being ambiguous, cannot be defeated by means that are not themselves oppressive. In denying...

... (or oppositions) might be. “Drifting Decision” seeks to open up this space in the novel, with an eye to its ethical significance for readers and writers alike. © 2008 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2008 stefan mattessich currently teaches English at Santa...

... and nibbles. Increased online visibility, this essay argues, forces the guild to face up to an expanded commons, the diversity of colors, the heuristics of the eye, and the nuances of viewing. The absence of color in the legal view of the countenance is a manner of refusing to countenance color as mattering...

...Briankle G. Chang As an extension of the eye, the camera writes the light according to its own inhuman, mechanical terms. The photographic ability to describe the world objectively not only renders indistinguishable the perceptible and the imperceptible but also makes visible the hidden commerce...

...Abigail Zitin Critics have identified William Hogarth’s correlation of beauty with desire as the most original idea that his 1753 treatise contributes to aesthetic discourse in the eighteenth century, an idea emblematized in the formulation that visual intricacy “leads the eye a wanton kind...

... of the Sublime and Beautiful . Ed. Adam Phillips. New York: Oxford up, 1990 . de Bolla, Peter. The Education of the Eye: Painting,Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain . Stanford: Stanford up, 2003 . Deleuze, Gilles. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque . Trans. Tom Conley. Minneapolis...

..., it is by that sweet word alone—by Ligeia—that I bring before mine eyes in fancy the image of her who is no more. And now, while I write, a recollection flashes upon me that I have never known the paternal name of her...

... : Palgrave , 2005 . 99 – 118 . Jay Martin . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought . Berkeley : U of California P , 1993 . LaCapra Dominick . History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2009 . Lispector...

... counters the house's dominant north/south axis by placing a veranda along the west side ofthe main house facing his son's Italian villa [fig. 5]. This new frontality reorients the Homestead toward the Evergreens, putting the two houses into close conversation. Whether the Homestead's new eye onto its...

... the loss of the eyes, turned to “stony orbs” or empty holes. This trajectory from erased self-knowledge to disfiguration is the trajectory of The Triumph of Life. (“Autobi- ography” 61...

... her shoulders the mantilla which was covering her head, and, by the obscure brightness rawhich falls from the stars l'obscure clarte qui tombe des etoiles], I saw that she was small, young, well built, and that she had very large eyes. (108) Like a curtain rising, her mantilla falls. Merimee...

... . Short Eyes . New York : Hill and Wang , 1975 . Ramos Otero Manuel . “ Descuento .” Pcigina en blanco y stacatto . Madrid : Playor , 1987 . 89 – 111 . Ramos Otero Manuel . “ Esta es la segunda parte del Ulysses .” El libro de la muerte . Maplewood and Rio Piedras...

... open-mouthed fish repeat the dumb grimace of its mouth, above which we see its tragic “eyes,” which would in fact be the gills of this fish. In the lower right quadrant of the picture we see a knife, which conceivably is the very one that gutted...

... with the corporeal thing. Strictly speaking, the corpse resembles nothing in itself or by itself, and it can therefore be used for comparison with other bodies without itself becoming a subject of reflection. Irigaray makes a similar claim in an essay called "And If Taking the Eye of a Man Recently Dead ," as well...

... not of negation pure and simple but of actualizing an unrealized potential, of creating space for a different possibility. Yet aesthetic refusal also has a specificity that distinguishes it. Aesthetic refusal, as refusal in the domain of culture, refuses the demands of perception. It refuses to give the eye...

..., eyeing a group of young Palestinian men across from us. The music seemed to be getting louder and louder as we drank on the patio of Jerusalem’s only remaining gay bar in the summer of 2014. The one other queer-identified club had closed relatively recently, morbid rumors circulating that the owner had...

...: The Birth of the Prison . Trans. Sheridan Alan . New York : Random , 1979 . Foucault Michel . “ The Eye of Power .” Power 146 - 65 . Foucault Michel . The Foucault Reader . Ed. Rabinow Paul . New York : Pantheon , 1984 . Foucault Michel . “ The History...

... on fire; petrol was poured into the mouths and eyes of people before lighting them with a matchstick; everything from chemicals, acid, cooking gas, petrol, diesel, kerosene, and electricity was used to burn bodies and buildings. In 2007, five years after the riots, I met a Hindu woman in one...