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Sculptural object of desire: eroticism in Michel Leiris’s Aurora

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Trzeciak K.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2015

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issue 2(37)

105-114

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The article deals with sculptural metaphors presented in Leiris’s Aurora in relation to eroticism. Aurora is the name of the the surrealist novel’s central female figure, who appears in the stories of all the different male characters. All of the men ‒ the narrator and subsequent characters ‒ are searching for a point of stabilisation of their own subjectivities, which are losing their integrity and cohesion. The phantasm of Aurora, a Medusa‑like woman, is the only entity that guarantees petrification, and therefore can stabilise subjectivity. Eroticism connected to sculptural forms and Aurora’s ability to be at once a petrifying Medusa and an animating force of nature shows the paradoxical condition of the language and the illusory nature of any male character’s hopes for constructing stable subjectivity.

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El motín de la tierra. La « maquinaria divina » ctónica en la „Farsalia”

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Pypłacz J.

Collectanea Philologica

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2015

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vol. 18

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The present article discusses the presence and function of chthonic monsters in Lucan’s “Pharsalia”. While two of these, i.e. Antaeus and Medusa, belong to the mythical past and their function is only illustrative, Erichtho, whose name denotes “discord” and “earth”, plays the role of the representative goddess of the chaos and pointlessness of the Civil War. The Thessalian witch impersonates the wrath of the Earth caused by the mutatio solis, mentioned in the invocation, and strongly connected with the Senecan motif of fuga solis. This article has revealed that line 1.49, telluremque nihil mutato sole timentem, which has been the starting point of the whole analysis, anticipates the three chthonic episodes. It has also shown, quite unexpectedly, that this particular line, by equalling rhetorically the results of Nero’s apotheosis and the rise of Caesar, conveys the message that Nero is the moral successor of the same man whose actions Lucan depicts as being the trigger of the chaos described in the “Phrasalia”.

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Meduza, osłona i wysłannik niebios. Tajemnice Pieśni IX „Piekła” Dantego według nadinterpretacji Giulia Leoniego w powieści „I delitti dellaMedusa”

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Raczyńska A.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2015

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issue 12

129-140

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Giulio Leoni, a modern Italian writer, is the author of five crime novels inspired by the life and works of Dante Alighieri. He presents Dante as a detective who investigates mysterious crimes of the early 14th-century Florence, Rome and Venice. Although Leoni has gained an international fame, there are very few studies which examine the connections between the “Divine Comedy” and his books. My article aims to analyze the overinterpretation of Canto IX of the “Inferno” in the novel “I delitti della Medusa”.

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Another Form of Blindness – a Symptom of an Artistic Viewpoint: Glossing the Work of Marcel Duchamp

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von Graevenitz A.

Ikonotheka

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2019

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vol. 29

177-203

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Not blindness itself, but blindness as a symptom for an inner seeing and as a counterforce against a one-sided fixation on beauty and taste were the reasons why Marcel Duchamp from 1916 onwards was occupied with the theme of blindness. Two volumes of The Blind Man were displayed in 1917 on the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York. The second volume contained comments about the fact that Duchamp’s contribution of a Fountain, his now so famous ready-made Urinoir, signed “R. Mutt”, was rejected by the apparently jury-less committee. This means that the theme of blindness was expressed twice: no one could see the work and so his theoretical opposition against beauty and taste could not be illustrated by the Urinoir either. How Duchamp from then on also challenged the other senses, so as to avoid focusing only on the eyes, will be dealt with in this article as well. Arguments from the biography, philosophy, mythology, and iconography will be used to underpin the article’s main thesis. In this sense the question may be asked whether Duchamp was inspired in this group of his works by humorous etymological and literary references. In the end it will become clear that the theme of blindness in his work and artistic theory is highly paradoxical.

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Monstrosity – Illness – Wound: Uncanny Interconnections in Deborah Levy’s "Hot Milk"

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Kisiel A.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2023

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issue 47

199-214

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Sofię Papastergiadis, bohaterkę powieści Deborah Levy pt. Gorące mleko, zdają się otaczać liczne potwory i potworności. Po pierwsze, jej apodyktyczna, potworna matka cierpi na równie potworną tajemniczą chorobę, ze względu na którą kobiety decydują się na podróż do Almerii, w nadziei na znalezienie odpowiedzi i możliwej terapii. Po drugie, przebywając w Andaluzji, Sofia jest wielokrotnie atakowana przez meduzy; spotkania z nimi okazują się bolesne, ale i uzależniające. Po trzecie, Sofia mierzy się z własnymi wątpliwymi intencjami, pochopnymi decyzjami i mrocznymi fantazjami, ujawniającymi się, na przykład, w toksycznych, choć zmysłowych, romansach. Powyższe przykłady potworności zmuszają Sofię do przyjrzenia się jeszcze jednemu potworowi: jej samej. W niniejszym artykule, chciałabym podjąć się interpretacji nominowanej do nagrody Bookera powieści Levy, w której z użyciem psychoanalizy i krytyki feministycznej przyjrzę się temu, jak dyskurs choroby nakłada się z dyskursem potworności. Mając na uwadze, że w Gorącym mleku choroba i potworność uczestniczą w strategiach zaciemniania oraz objawiania znaczenia, pragnę zbadać, jakie mogą mieć one konsekwencje dla głównej bohaterki oraz jej relacji z innymi postaciami.

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Sofia Papastergiadis – the protagonist of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk – seems to be encircled by various monstrosities. First, her overbearing, monstrous mother suffers from an equally monstrous unidentifiable illness, because of which the two women travel to Almería, seeking answers and potential therapy. Second, while in Andalusia, Sofia is often attacked by Medusae/jellyfish, which is a painful, yet uncannily addictive experience. Third, the protagonist is puzzled with her own doubtful motivations, hasty decisions, and dark fascinations, resurfacing, for instance, in a pursuit of toxic, but sensual, affairs. All of these drive Sofia to investigate yet another monster: one residing inside her. In this article, I propose a reading informed by psychoanalysis and feminist criticism which aims at tracing how the discourse of illness interweaves with that of monstrousness in Levy’s Booker-shortlisted bildungsroman. Keeping in mind that disease and monstrosity engage in an interplay of secrecy and revelation in the novel, I wish to study the implications of that for the protagonist and her relationships with others.

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Sculptural object of desire: eroticism in Michel Leiris’s Aurora

El motín de la tierra. La « maquinaria divina » ctónica en la „Farsalia”

Meduza, osłona i wysłannik niebios. Tajemnice Pieśni IX „Piekła” Dantego według nadinterpretacji Giulia Leoniego w powieści „I delitti dellaMedusa”

Another Form of Blindness – a Symptom of an Artistic Viewpoint: Glossing the Work of Marcel Duchamp

Monstrosity – Illness – Wound: Uncanny Interconnections in Deborah Levy’s "Hot Milk"