8 articles in this issue
Sowon S. Park
Introduction to the special issue "Beside Thinking".
Terry Eagleton
"Bodies as material objects are not greatly in fashion in these dogmatically culturalist days. Even so, it is worth pointing out that whatever else human beings are, they are in the first place natural lumps of matter, and that anything more sexy or glamo... see more
John Zilcosky
"an understudied short Kleist piece...entitled “Von der Überlegung” (“On Reflection” or “On Thinking Things Over”) and subtitled “Eine Paradoxe” (“A Paradox”) makes the point most powerfully and succinctly, in a total of eight sentences, through the figur... see more
Péter Hajdu
"In the Ars poetica Horace’s persistent questions about the social standing of the poet come together with one of the basic questions of that particular poem, namely about the sources of poetic greatness, in the case of the ‘inspired’ mad poet that receiv... see more
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
"The purpose of this paper...is to explore the nature of thought and non-thought vis-a`-vis language through the life and works of Osip Mandelstam in his confrontation with Soviet mind control and in relation to the psychologist/linguist Lev Vygotsky....M... see more
Marko Juvan
"the devices of “the art of mania” that I have analyzed in romantic and surrealist texts figure as islands of paralogism in the discourse of the literary field. This demands that literary actors, the media, and institutions produce, distribute, and consum... see more
Stefan Willer
"detective fiction makes manifest a paradoxical relation between logic and the actual art of resolving problems: the detective figures as a key agent both inside and outside the framework of rational thought. In so doing, detective fiction opens up toward... see more
Walid Hamarneh
On the representation of deserts in the works of Jordanian-born author Abdul Rahma¯n Muni¯f and Libyan Tuareg author Ibrahim al-Koni.