... in a hopeful call for openness. Copyright © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 Michel Foucault being of literature analytic of finitude anthropological reflection return to the body What need is there in literary studies today for a return to the writings of Michel...

... Quentin Meillassoux speculative materialism References Adorno Theodor W. 2004 [1973] Negative Dialectics ( London : Routledge ). Badiou Alain 2008 Preface to After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency , by Meillassoux Quentin , vi – viii ( London...

... processes, evoking holistic cognitive processes (as opposed to analytical ones), and stimulating emotional effects. (36) One important conclusion Tsur draws from his study is that romantic and symbolist poetry employ similar poetic codes to effect the perception of ecstatic transcendence (32...

... narrative surprise.” Part II surveys and com- pares other approaches to humor in/and narrative. In the philosophical and psycho- analytic study The Odd One In (2008), Zupančič suggests that comedies involving unhappiness deserve more attention than they have received. The idea that come- dies...

... modes of inquiry and discourse, by nonstoried forms of investigation and reportage. Narrative models were so far outside the disciplinary paradigms that they were literally inconceivable, at least as analytic tools. Story may have...

... fully understood, as his moments of insight never add up to a picture of the whole. Indeed, Hall’s choice of an “obsessed, alienated, vulnerable, pursued” narrator — which is typical of noir fiction — underlines the insufficiency of the merely ratiocina- tive and analytic approach that was customary...

...” (Collinson 2009 : 29). Although thematically related to Collinson's research, my data and analytical interests differ from his in significant ways. Data for this article stem from extensive ethnographic fieldwork (qualitative interviews and participant observation) in various social and geographical...

...” of unconscious basic drives sig- naling a distance between a patient’s phenomenology, assumed to be pre-­ cognitive and inaccessible to language, and the analytic “insight” that will identify and name the affect’s causes and narrate them to the patient (ibid.: 89). Some recent psychoanalytic theory has...

... analytic response is to attend to the ways in which such films produce experiences, and call for responses, at the edge of the knowable. Such an approach begins with abandoning methodological certainty; the spiritual film demands an alignment of perception that cannot be contained by a predetermined goal...

.... This is the style of the waves, since they attempt to erase the boundary between objects and people, engulfing the humanized world into an ocean of indistinctness. In contrast, the separative is characterized by the binary logic of traditional analytic philosophy: it is the style of Mrs. Ramsay’s reading...

... that the landscape is possessed solely by this mind and no other, that its existence outside the mind can no longer be independently con- firmed. The departure also reinforces the reader’s impression that the self has lost that sense of its finitude and outwardness, not only as a body extended in space...