Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

Miłosz, Czesław

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“…From here, to better illustrate Classicism's influence on Pound's influence, we can also refer to Czeslaw Milosz's opinion in Native Realm: "Poetic discipline is impossible without devotion and wonder, without faith in the infinite layers of being hidden within an apple, man or tree..." (Milosz & Leach, 2002). Here, wonder turns out to be the force that drives the movement of thoughts reproduced by prior reading/translation and takes Pound back to Greek antiquity and Plato's dialogues to be inspired from and recreate with.…”

Section: Temporal Overlapping In Reference To Mythologymentioning

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Literary Time and Literary Space in Imagism and Ezra Pound’s Poetry

Shabani

Hamiti

2022

Acad. J. Interdiscip. Stud.

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The relationship between literature and philosophy has led to the inflow of 'small' literature from 'big' literatures within the interaction between literary time and literary space with a propensity to emerge ‘big' again in another literary time and space. The most influential factor in ‘making it new' or 'from big to small, and big again' turns out to be time on account of the fact that the literary creator, namely the poet, is mortal. Since the existence of a poet as a creator turns out to be ‘temporal’, ‘making it new’ turns out to be vital for the next temporality. Therefore, this paper, using the document research method, examines Pound's poetry refracted through the time and literary space of his creative existence, as the urge for translation became an influential factor for Pound himself as a ‘new’ author. Thus, the paper analyses ‘temporal overlapping’ under the inspiring influence of Pound's poetic re-creation, either as a conversion of translated matter or as its enhancement by the poets he read. The divergent takes on mimesis by Plato and Aristotle helps Pound's creative originality, whereas J. Hillis Miller’s reading of the theory of temporality of De Mann and Heidegger, as well as the time-space transformations, help clarify 'temporal overlapping'. These, in turn, make us believe that the creation of ‘new originality’ influenced by ‘old originality’ during the transformation of time into space brings about the immortality of the poet along with ‘the little big’ literature. Received: 7 October 2021 / Accepted: 29 November 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

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Literary Time and Literary Space in Imagism and Ezra Pound’s Poetry

Shabani

Hamiti

2022

Acad. J. Interdiscip. Stud.

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“…E. Ulčinaitė, A. Jovaišas). However, in many conferences and articles a critical look at the Grand Narrative emerged, and the reflections on how today's historical research could be methodologically updated became relevant (Samalavičius 1996, Sužiedėlis 1996, Putinaitė 2004, Jakonytė 2006, Miłosz 2002, Hutcheon 2002, Greenblatt 2002. A successful result of such reflections is the book Sovietmečio lietuvių literatūra: reiškiniai ir sąvokos (Soviet Lithuanian Literature: Phenomena and Concepts, 2019) written by scholars of the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute.…”

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Some Comments on the Changes, Contradictions and Connections of Literary Theories in Lithuania

Jurgutienė

2020

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The paper presents a brief history of literary theories that have been used in Lithuania for the last century (1918–2018). Certain general patterns of development are visible in Lithuanian literary studies: movements from positivist (M. Biržiška) to anti-positivist (V. Mykolaitis-Putinas) history and from Marxist history (K. Korsakas) to postmodern New Historicism. The mid-20th century marked the first applications of modern literary theories (first in exile, later among those who stayed in occupied Lithuania). A. J. Greimas became an eminent theoretician in exile, having established a world-famous school of semiotics in Paris. A large number of Lithuanian scholars worked in this field in Lithuania and abroad (J. Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis, Rimvydas Šilbajoris, Vytautas Kavolis, Bronius Vaškelis, Violeta Kelertienė, Ilona Gražytė-Maziliauskienė, Viktorija Skrupskelytė, Tomas Venclova, Vanda Zaborskaitė, Kęstutis Nastopka, Albertas Zalatorius, Vytautas Kubilius, Viktorija Daujotytė, Irena Kostkevičiūtė), but except for the Greimas Paris School of Semiotics, which created its own field, literary theories had mostly a practical and educational impact on interpretations of Lithuanian disciplines. After the restoration of Lithuanian independence in 1990, the renewal of literary theory reached its peak that lasted for about two decades. The J. Greimas Semiotics Studies and Research Centre (now the A. J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory) was established at Vilnius University in 1992, books written by A. J. Greimas were translated into Lithuanian and the publishing of academic journals “Semiotika” and “Baltos lankos” started. The so-called second wave of postmodern theories (intertextuality, narratology, feminism, postcolonialism, sociology, anthropology, new historicism deconstruc tion, reader response) has attracted the attention of literary scholars, bringing discussions about literature back to the fields of history, culture and politics (Nijolė Keršytė, Paulius Subačius, Irina Melnikova, Marijus Šidlauskas, Birutė Meržvinskaitė, Eugenijus Ališanka). Theories have updated the concepts and vocabulary of literary studies and reading strategies and helped literary scholars integrate themselves into international research more successfully. Along with the hermeneutics of trust, the hermeneutics of suspicion – questioning and complicating interpretations and identities of all texts, was taking an increasingly important place in Lithuanian literary research. Nevertheless, at this time the strengthened position of post-theoretical criticism cannot be anti-theoretical, ignoring the entire heritage of the 20th century.

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“…In hindsight it was the qualities, shared between mathematics and poetics, of suggestiveness and inference that were alluring, along with two visions of the world that sometimes intersect, and at other times or from other perspectives, remain very separate. This thesis sets out to explore the basis underlying these reflections, showing three levels of poetic engagement with mathematics through the twentieth-century writings of Nobel literature laureate Czesław Miłosz (1911Miłosz ( -2004 and nationally highly-regarded poet Zbigniew Herbert , both of them Polish, and the Romanian mathematician and writer of poetry and poetics, Dan Barbilian (1895Barbilian ( -1961. In a different manner across all three cases, and indubitably in the case of Barbilian, any dialogue of mutual exclusivity between the two fields is called into question.…”

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“…Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz (1911Miłosz ( -2004) was a political poet, who witnessed and lived through some of the major historical events of the twentieth century in Eastern Europe. 284 The Soviet and Nazi wartime occupations of Poland, the Holocaust, communist rule and eventual transition to western capitalism, all had a significant impact on him and how he viewed A poor man, sitting on a cold chair, pressing my eyelids, I sigh and think of a starry sky, of non-Euclidean space, of amoebas and their pseudopodia, of tall mounds of termites.…”

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Relations between Modern Mathematics and Poetry: Czesław Miłosz; Zbigniew Herbert; Ion Barbu/Dan Barbilian

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<p>This doctoral thesis is an examination of the relationship between poetry and mathematics, centred on three twentieth-century case studies: the Polish poets Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) and Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), and the Romanian mathematician and poet Dan Barbilian/Ion Barbu (1895-1961). Part One of the thesis is a review of current scholarly literature, divided into two chapters. The first chapter looks at the nature of mathematics, outlining its historical developments and describing some major mathematical concepts as they pertain to the later case studies. This entails a focus on non-Euclidean geometries, modern algebra, and the foundations of mathematics in Europe; the nature of mathematical truth and language; and the modern historical evolution of mathematical schools in Poland and Romania. The second chapter examines some existing attempts to bring together mathematics and poetry, drawing on literature and science as an academic field; the role of the imagination and invention in the languages of both poetics and mathematics; the interest in mathematics among certain Symbolist poets, notably Mallarmé; and the experimental work of the French groups of mathematicians and mathematician-poets, Bourbaki and Oulipo. The role of metaphor is examined in particular. Part Two of the thesis is the case studies. The first presents the ethical and moral stance of Czesław Miłosz, investigating his attitudes towards classical and later relativistic science, in the light of the Nazi occupation and the Marxist regimes in Poland, and how these are reflected in his poetry. The study of Zbigniew Herbert is structured around a wide selection of his poetic oeuvre, and identifying his treatment of evolving and increasingly more complex mathematical concepts. The third case study, on Dan Barbilian, who published his poetry under the name Ion Barbu, begins with an examination of the mathematical school at Göttingen in the 1920s, tracing the influence of Gauss, Riemann, Klein, Hilbert and Noether in Barbilian’s own mathematical work, particularly in the areas of metric spaces and axiomatic geometry. In the discussion, the critical analysis of the mathematician and linguist Solomon Marcus is examined. This study finishes with a close reading of seven of Barbu’s poems. The relationship of mathematics and poetry has rarely been studied as a coherent academic field, and the relevant scholarship is often disconnected. A feature of this thesis is that it brings together a wide range of scholarly literature and discussion. Although primarily in English, a considerable amount of the academic literature collated here is in French, Romanian, Polish and some German. The poems themselves are presented in the original Polish and Romanian with both published and working translations appended in the footnotes. In the case of the two Polish poets, one a Nobel laureate and the other a multiple prize-winning figure highly regarded in Poland, this thesis is unusual in its concentration on mathematics as a feature of the poetry which is otherwise much-admired for its politically-engaged and lyrical qualities. In the case of the Romanian, Dan Barbilian, he is widely known in Romania as a mathematician, and most particularly as the published poet Ion Barbu, yet his work is little studied outside that country, and indeed much of it is not yet translated into English. This thesis suggests at an array of both theoretical and specific starting points for examining the multi-stranded and intricate relationship between mathematics and poetry, pointing to a number of continuing avenues of further research.</p>

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

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Literary Time and Literary Space in Imagism and Ezra Pound’s Poetry

Literary Time and Literary Space in Imagism and Ezra Pound’s Poetry

Some Comments on the Changes, Contradictions and Connections of Literary Theories in Lithuania

Relations between Modern Mathematics and Poetry: Czesław Miłosz; Zbigniew Herbert; Ion Barbu/Dan Barbilian

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