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Language at the Boundaries

Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture

By: Peter Carravetta

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Language at the Boundaries

Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture

By: Peter Carravetta

Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics? Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the history of science and technology. One can only come so close to fully possessing or explaining everything about the poetic act, and this book grapples with these limits by perusing, analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing creativity, implementing different approaches in doing so. Peter Carravetta consolidates historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the last several decades, some spurred by the modernism/postmodernism debate, and unpacks their differences--juxtaposing Vico with Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies, decolonization, indigeneity, committed literature, and critical race theory, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501363670

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9781501363672

Prefaces to the Diaphora

Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity

By: Peter Carravetta

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Prefaces to the Diaphora

Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity

By: Peter Carravetta

The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or difference, refers to the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy and signifies the movement between asymmetrical or heterogeneous forms of discourse that have, both historically and speculatively, borne the transfer of meaning from one semantic/hermeneutic field to another. The author focuses on the necessary risk and duplicity of criticism and develops nonagonistic models based on figuration and rhetorical dynamics. In two other chapters, the author steps back to reassess, in terms of the diaphora, the diverging notions of Postmodernity by the continental philosophers Lyotard and Vattimo. The collection ends with an essay on the long-overdue conversation between Vico and Heidegger.

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Purdue University Press

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1557530041

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Language at the Boundaries

Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture

By: Peter Carravetta

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1501363662

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The Humanist Project

Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico

By: Peter Carravetta

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The Humanist Project

Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico

By: Peter Carravetta

Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; moreover, recent technological developments have trapped humans in the maws of the information machine, where will, agency, and dialogue are constantly stunted and mediated, disclosing a nihilistic, dilated present. Against this panorama, Peter Carravetta argues that there is a need to recover the “human” in humanistic reflection, here described as a free social, creative, yet elusive being, caught between idealizations (utopias, concepts of society, autonomy of powers), the realities of survival (basic economics and geographies), and the dynamics of power (the languages and the praxis of actually running the society). The Humanist Project: Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico presents Dante as the first true humanist, with his stressing the preeminence of free will and individual responsibility in the life of the polis; Boccaccio’s later encyclopedic works as a philosophy of existence and history; Pico della Mirandola’s autopoiesis of the thinking and acting human in light of recent theories of interpretation, the self, and society; Machiavelli and the challenge of chance in determining sociohistorical patterns; Campanella as the last true utopic writer and first to conceive of a realist, world-scale political vision; and Vico as the thinker who identifies and describes the dialectic between historical recurrences and the free will of the individual.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666920371

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The Humanist Project

Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico

By: Peter Carravetta

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Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico

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Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity

By: Peter Button

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Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity

By: Peter Button

Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.

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BRILL

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9004170952

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9789004170957

Design of Hydrodynamic Machines

Pumps and Hydro-Turbines

By: Getu Hailu,Michal Varchola,Peter Hlbocan

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Design of Hydrodynamic Machines

Pumps and Hydro-Turbines

By: Getu Hailu,Michal Varchola,Peter Hlbocan

Design of Hydrodynamic Machines provides a broad, yet concise, theoretical background on the relationship between fluid dynamics and geometry. It covers the most important types of turbomachinery used in power generation industrial processes, utilities, and the oil and gas industry. Offering guidance on the hydraulic design aspect of different parts of turbomachinery, such as impellers, diffusers, volute casing, inlet and outlets, the book discusses how to conduct performance characteristics testing and evaluate performance parameters of the designed parts. It also covers aspects of CFD of turbomachinery. Readers will be able to perform hydraulic design of important turbomachinery parts using commercially available software. Intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in mechanical, civil, and aeronautical engineering, the book will also be useful for those involved in the hydraulic design, analysis, and testing of turbomachinery.

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CRC Press

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1000563189

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A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race

Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century

By: Peter G. Vellon

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A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race

Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century

By: Peter G. Vellon

Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices--slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills--perpetrated against Black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the European immigrant groups now considered white have also had to struggle with their own racial consciousness. In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and 'swarthy' race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Examining the press as a cultural production of the Italian immigrant community, this book investigates how this immigrant press constructed race, class, and identity from 1886 through 1920. Their frequent coverage of racially charged events of the time, as well as other topics such as capitalism and religion, reveals how these papers constructed a racial identity as Italian, American, and white. A Great Conspiracy against Our Race vividly illustrates how the immigrant press was a site where socially constructed categories of race, color, civilization, and identity were reworked, created, contested, and negotiated. Vellon also uncovers how Italian immigrants filtered societal pressures and redefined the parameters of whiteness, constructing their own identity. This work is an important contribution to not only Italian American history, but America's history of immigration and race"--Provided by publisher.

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NYU Press

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1479853453

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Prefaces to the Diaphora

Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity

By: Peter Carravetta

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Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity

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Purdue University Press

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Language at the Boundaries

Language at the Boundaries

Prefaces to the Diaphora

Prefaces to the Diaphora

Language at the Boundaries

Language at the Boundaries

The Humanist Project

The Humanist Project

The Humanist Project

The Humanist Project

Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity

Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity

Design of Hydrodynamic Machines

Design of Hydrodynamic Machines

A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race

A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race

Prefaces to the Diaphora

Prefaces to the Diaphora

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