Predicaments of humankind are endless as one cycle ends the other begins. A series of predicament include personal, cultural, social, and natural causes. Both natural and man-made calamities cause great sufferings to human beings. It is... more
Predicaments of humankind are endless as one cycle ends the other begins. A series of predicament include personal, cultural, social, and natural causes. Both natural and man-made calamities cause great sufferings to human beings. It is evident all along the history of humankind that both the natural and man-made calamities have put humankind down, yet they struggle against them with an undying will to go on. The reflection of the same can clearly be seen in the works of arts of many kinds. Literature is one of those expressions which symbolize the predicaments of man during hard times like pandemics. The gruesome events depicted in literature of pandemic often accompany the macabre element. The present article analyses Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death as a story with macabre element in the context of pandemic. The short story uses pandemic settings that depict the coexistence of the macabre and pandemic situation.
The following essay sketches varieties of imagination operative in the best architectural work. It was published in Warehouse Journal, a student-edited journal produced annually by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba.... more
The following essay sketches varieties of imagination operative in the best architectural work. It was published in Warehouse Journal, a student-edited journal produced annually by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba. Student editors for Warehouse 25 were, Alena Rieger and Ally Pereira-Edwards.
A note on Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the concept of history, written for Sophie Carapetian's show 'Refuse to Collaborate' at the Stadtgalerie Bern.
What is the American scholar? Is there such a thing? Taking Gabriel Marcel's firsthand impressions of the American spirit as its point of departure, then turning to Ralph Waldo Emerson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, and others,... more
What is the American scholar? Is there such a thing? Taking Gabriel Marcel's firsthand impressions of the American spirit as its point of departure, then turning to Ralph Waldo Emerson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, and others, this essay reflects on those questions.
This chapter explores the imaginative play of Leonora Carrington's writings in the context of her collaboration with the Mexican film-maker Juan López Moctezuma. Carrington acted as art director and costume designer for his film The... more
This chapter explores the imaginative play of Leonora Carrington's writings in the context of her collaboration with the Mexican film-maker Juan López Moctezuma. Carrington acted as art director and costume designer for his film The Mansion of Madness (1972), based loosely on Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' (1845). The mise-en-scène is resplendent with recognisable iconography from both her stories and paintings. Moctezuma considered the camera a magical instrument that allowed for the creation of other worlds, and The Mansion of Madness enters a marvellous asylum through the fairytale trope of the mysterious forest. Carrington took a playful role in the creation of this world, populating it with her signature ideas in the form of objects, and advising on innovatively staged and choreographed scenes that trouble the male gaze. The temporal, spatial, and physical aspects of this collaboration are of interest to studies in film and surrealism, as the film serves as both real and virtual archive of Carrington's creative practice. This chapter considers how Carrington's cinematic adventures cast a new light on the recurring fears and desires in her wider work.
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The impact of Persian literature on world culture and literature is undeniable. Persian poets such as Firdowsi, Sa’di, Hafiz, Rumi and Khayyam who deal with universal themes beyond a particular place and time are among the most widely-known literary figures of the world; their works are translated into different languages. Despite the fact that there are different translations of Persian literature in English, it is still not clear whether Persian literature has gained its appropriate place in the world. We study the reception of Persian literature in general and classical Persian poetry in particular in Britain and The United States to see whether it is rightly introduced to these countries or not. A close study of the reception of Persian poetry in Anglophone world in general and in Britain and The United States in particular reveals that while Persian literature is introduced and taught in these countries, it is still far from being truly known there. Those who have been familiar with Persian literature have mainly known it through translations by western scholars, and this has led to problems and misconceptions. As Edward Said argues in Orientalism, the orient is never truly depicted by the west. The best way would be to have Persian scholars of English literature translate Persian works into English.
Keywords: Classical Persian Poetry, Anglophone World, Translation, Britain, The United States.
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