Allegorical Approach Research Articles

Notes, Queries on Marco Breuer's Notes, Queries

Research Article| September 01 2006 Notes, Queries on Marco Breuer's Notes, Queries Jeffrey DeShell; Jeffrey DeShell University of Colorado at Boulder jeffrey.deshell@colorado.edu Jeffrey DeShell is the author of three novels, S & M and In Heaven Everything is Fine (FC2), Peter: An (A)Historical Romance (Starcherone), and a critical book, The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction. He has co-edited two collections of fiction by American women, Chick-Lit I: Postfeminist Fiction and Chick-Lit II: No Chick Vies (FC2), and was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Budapest, Hungary, 1999–2000. He is currently an assistant professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Marco Breuer; Marco Breuer Bard College marcobreuer@mindspring.com Marco Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New York Public Library; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany. His publication SMTWTFS received wide critical acclaim and a photo-eye Award for Best Photography Book of 2002. Breuer received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2006. He is represented by Von Lintel Gallery in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Matt Siber; Matt Siber Columbia College (Chicago) matt@siberart.com Matt Siber is a Chicago-based artist who works in the media of photography and digital imaging. Originally from the Boston area, Matt received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2003. He is represented by galleries in Chicago, Madrid, and Reus, Spain and his work is part of the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Contemporary Photography. Images from Matt's projects have been published worldwide in periodicals such as ArtForum, Flash Art and EXIT Magazine. Matt is also on the faculty at Columbia College Chicago teaching beginning and advanced digital imaging. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jim Goldberg; Jim Goldberg California College of Arts and Crafts solidoro@earthlink.net Jim Goldberg is an artist and writer who has been involved in long-term, in-depth collaborations with mostly invisible or misrepresented groups of people. He is best known for his award-winning photographic books and multi-media exhibits and video installations, among them Rich and Poor, Nursing Home, Raised by Wolves, and most recently Hospice. Jim Goldberg has received numerous awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts awards, a Eureka Fellowship, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Fellowship, and most recently both the Hasselblad and ArtCouncil Awards. He is currently working on two new books—one, a fictional autobiography, and the other, a project on the immigrants of Greece. He is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Amerika Mark Amerika University of Colorado Mark.Amerika@colorado.edu Mark Amerika is an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His net art works have been exhibited all over the world including the Whitney Biennial, the ICA in London, and the Walker Arts Center. He has published two novels, The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood (FC2: University of Alabama Press). Amerika is the founder and publisher of the Alt-X Online Network, a net art and new media writing site started on the Internet in 1993 (www.altx.com). His forthcoming book of artist writings, titled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics, will be published by The MIT Press in 2007. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 135–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-44.2.135 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey DeShell, Marco Breuer, Matt Siber, Jim Goldberg, Mark Amerika; Notes, Queries on Marco Breuer's Notes, Queries. English Language Notes 1 September 2006; 44 (2): 135–142. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-44.2.135 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEnglish Language Notes Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen (review)

Book Reviews 163 both permitted and limited the radicalism, and if so, what is its significance? Thomas Aquinas was far from a friend to Jews; his writings mark the presence of the new scholastic enemy to the Jews, but also contain thresholds beyond which the thinking can hardly be considered "Catholic." As far as one can establish from the study, figures such as Petrus Venerabilis, Duns Scotus, or Johann Eck (thank goodness) do not play a role in the Catholic discourse of the nineteenth century. Abraham a Santa Clara, however, found favor. Why one and not the other? Was there no model other than the expressive baroque Jewish enemy for the shepherd to follow on the path through the tribulations of modernity? A further examination oftraditional adaptations could shed light on such questions as which aspects ofthe Catholic anti-Judaism were old, which were "modem," and, importantly, which were both simultaneously-and which ones were, in the final analysis, compatible with non-Catholic models ofargumentation. This might illuminate the elements enabling the 20th-century radicalization of hostility toward Jews, which led to genocide. Johannes Heil Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung Technische Universitat Berlin Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen, by David J. Levin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 207 pp. $29.95. David Levin's study offers an important contribution to two ongoing and equally heated debates: the controversy among music historians and cultural historians on Wagner and antisemitism-I mention only the excellent study by Marc Weiner, RichardWagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination-and the extensive writings on representations of Jewishness, and the Jewish body in particular; here Sander Gilman's work on stereotypes (e.g., in Jewish Self-Hatred) has been very influential. Levin focuses on the Nibelungen material in its reworkings for the operatic stage and the silent screen and enlists the iconography of antisemitism in a detailed analysis of more basic problems ofrepresentation. By describing what he calls the ideological trajectory ofthe material in aesthetic terms, he not only reformulates the underlying questions ofidentity, power, and community within and through the domain of the aesthetic, but through his allegorical approach he also forges an alliance between aesthetic and ethical questions that allows him to reconstruct the transferences from aesthetics to politics that, in his view, fuel the antisemitic imagination. Following an introductory discussion ofthe proliferation and problematization of narration in the original Nibelungenlied, the study sets out to trace the continuous dissemination ofthis famous epic into the highly conflicted terms ofGerman modernity: Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's two-part 164 SHOFAR Spring 2000 Vol. 18, No.3 silent film classic Die Nibelungen. Two-thirds of the book deals with Wagner and his struggle with dramaturgical questions (musical concerns remain largely absent); onethird is devoted to the film adaptation and the necessary translation of the central problem of narration into the terms of vision and visuality. Motivated perhaps by the desire for greater relevance, the postscript extends some ofthese ideas into contemporary film culture (e.g., Michael Verhoeven's The Nasty Girl), a somewhat puzzling and not entirely convincing move. The individual readings are largely informed by theoretical concerns and focus on the multi-layered reflection in the texts on the act of narration, whether in relation to specific representations, including ofcharacters coded as Jewish (e.g., Mime, Alberich, Hagen), or to the respective formal means (e.g., Wagner's use of language and his concern with dramaturgy, Lang's and Harbou's ambitions to tum film into the modem folk art). Here Levin relies heavily on psychoanalytic concepts (e.g., Freud on interpretation and reiteration), and, an almost obligatory reference in cultural studies today, Zizek (e.g., on fantasy and ideology). The author's insistence on locating the discourse of antisemitism in aesthetic registers offers a welcome departure from, and necessary complement to, more traditional studies that tend to focus on representations rather than representation as such. Therein lies the study's contribution to the study of antisemitism and, more generally, the discursive functions and aesthetic effects of alterity. The comparative perspective adds much to our understanding of the elusiveness ofracialized fantasies in high culture as well as...

Great Trek and Long Walk: Readings of a Biblical Symbol

AbstractDiverse South African readings of "the exodus" offer convenient access to the complex processes of "meaning-making" which are currently under scrutiny in many disciplines. This essay investigates several diverse appropriations of the biblical text in order to read the classic journey story-particularly the moment of encountering the Canaanites-and to sort some of the methodological issues. First, a pair of opposite versions: white South African (Boer) and black South African (represented by Archbishop Desmond Tutu); second, a triad of critical approaches, but with different emphases (historical-critical, text-centered, reader-focused); and third, my own construal of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, as yet another appropriation of liberation texts. In each case, the valuable questions to ask are how the interpreter has proceded and what has been the result, both for the understanding of texts and for the methodological discussion. The allegorical approach (Boer and Tutu) seems totally inadequate. The scholarly critical readings, with their behind-, within-, and before-the-text emphases are illuminating. But Mandela's construal, or at least my version of it, offers additional and fresh insight into the dynamics of liberation.

The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction

The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction

The peculiarity of literature: an allegorical approach to Poe's fiction

The Peculiarity of Literature argues that Poe's fiction, and literature in general, is ultimately peculiar, that is, it remains outside the jurisdiction of any critical gaze. Unfortunately most critical readings of Poe ignore this resistance to interpretation and work to incorporate his fiction as examples of theories and concepts that have little or nothing to do with literature and writing.

Juan de Mena's Ovidian material: an Alfonsine influence?

Juan de Mena's Ovidian material: an Alfonsine influence?

Milton and the Renaissance Circe

ABSTRACT Milton's lifelong preoccupation with the Circe myth has not previously been given comprehensive analysis and, where noted, has been misjudged through exclusive reference to the allegorized Circe of Renaissance mythographers, an allegorical approach to brutishness Milton uniquely associates with political and psychological tyranny in his prose and continues to employ similarly in his last three major works. But the Renaissance literary tradition of Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser went directly to the Homeric source, which depicted not merely the archetypal, swinish metamorphosis but two additional and progressively less embruting temptations, the second temptation of effeminating sex and the third of enervating idleness. Milton's primary use of Circe follows this tradition in distinguishing the three Homeric temptations and focusing upon the higher appeals, which his successive treatments reformulate in increasingly elevated moral terms. Elegy I defines the second, sexual temptation, its rural setting reappearing in L'Allegro, Lycidas, Paradise Lost (Satan's reaction to Eve), and Paradise Regained; the third temptation is defined as festivity and mirthful art in Elegy VI and as ignorant happiness in Prolusion VII. In Comus, these temptations are reformulated to include marriage and a devotional enjoyment of worldly good. Comus' temptation approximates Adam's Unfällen condition in Paradise Lost, and uxoriousness now constitutes the Circean temptation to needed patience. Finally, in Samson Agonistes, the regained patience which redeemed Adam becomes the ultimate temptation of Circe, a figure who has primarily embodied, for Milton, the temptation to renounce higher obligations for the simpler fulfillment of ordinary humanity.

Allegorical, typological or neither? Three short papers on the allegorical approach to Beowulf and a discussion

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PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IN PROSPECTING FOR OIL

It is my privilege to extend to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, on this celebration of its silver anniversary, the felicitations of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The contemplation of twenty‐five years of sound and progressive history is no doubt a source of deep satisfaction to those who founded the Association and to many others who helped to make it grow. Simultaneously, the Society which I am here representing is celebrating its tin anniversary. When this coincidence first came to my attention, I hoped to find that the alloying of silver and tin, a noble and a base metal, produces a product with useful properties not possessed by either component alone. The rhetorical advantages which would have followed are obvious. The metallurgical literature, however, dashed this hope so that this allegorical approach to my subject had to be abandoned.

Partnership Between Geology and Geophysics in Prospecting for Oil

It is my privilege to extend to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, on this celebration of its silver anniversary, the felicitations of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The contemplation of twenty‐five years of sound and progressive history is no doubt a source of deep satisfaction to those who founded the Association and to many others who helped to make it grow. Simultaneously, the Society which I am here representing is celebrating its tin anniversary. When this coincidence first came to my attention, I hoped to find that the alloying of silver and tin, a noble and a base metal, produces a product with useful properties not possessed by either component alone. The rhetorical advantages which would have followed are obvious. The metallurgical literature, however, dashed this hope so that this allegorical approach to my subject had to be abandoned.