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Über Widersprüche sprechen: Linguistische Beiträge zu Contradiction Studies (Contradiction Studies)
by Julia Nintemann Cornelia StrohDer Fokus des Bandes liegt auf Widerspruch als Gegenstandsbereich, unter den sprachliche Ausdrucksformen von Entgegensetzung, Paradoxie, Lüge und Einspruch ebenso fallen wie linguistische Methoden des Umgangs mit Widerspruch und Widersprüchlichkeiten in der sprachwissenschaftlichen Disziplinengeschichte. Dabei stellt sich die Linguistik nicht als homogene, sondern vielmehr als eine heterogene, vielseitige Disziplin dar, die es erlaubt, den Forschungsgegenstand aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln zu betrachten; die Beitragenden präsentieren insofern verschiedene innerdisziplinäre Schwerpunkte von linguistischer Widerspruchsanalyse, darunter der Blick auf Sprachhandlungen zum Ausdruck von Widerspruch in wissenschaftlichen, historischen, (post)kolonialen, narrativen oder alltäglichen Diskursen. Es werden einzelsprachliche Untersuchungen nicht nur europäischer Sprachen vorgenommen, sondern auch die crosslinguistische Vielfalt von widerspruchsindizierenden Konstruktionen betrachtet.
Über-Setzen: Mediendiskurse zwischen Transfer und Transformation (Medien – Aufklärung – Kritik. Schriftenreihe der Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung (INA) e.V.)
by Hektor Haarkötter Filiz KalmukDie Beiträge in diesem Band wollen einerseits die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Übersetzungsbegriff (und verwandten Konzepten) anregen, andererseits sollen Untersuchungen in den Mittelpunkt gestellt werden, die sich vertiefend mit einzelnen Aspekten von Transfer und Transformation in (digitalen) Mediendiskursen befassen.
Übersetzen im Wandel: Wie Technologisierung, Automatisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz das Übersetzen verändern
by Christoph Rösener Carmen Canfora Torsten Dörflinger Felix Hoberg Simon VargaDer Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (FTSK) Germersheim der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz feierte im Jahr 2022 sein 75-jähriges Bestehen. Dieses Jubiläum nahm der Germersheimer Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft sowie Translationstechnologie (ASTT) zum Anlass, im Rahmen einer Tagung 2022 einen Blick nicht auf die Vergangenheit, sondern die Zukunft des Übersetzerberufs zu werfen. Im Zentrum des Interesses standen dabei die Auswirkungen, die der Übersetzerberuf und die Übersetzerausbildung im Zuge des digitalen Wandels erfahren, der insbesondere in Gestalt der Maschinellen Übersetzung und der fortschreitenden Automatisierung von Übersetzungsprozessen die Branche zunehmend prägt.Welche Kompetenzen müssen Studierenden heute vermittelt werden, damit sie in der Berufswelt von morgen ihren Platz finden? Wie kann man sie mit einer positiven Haltung dem digitalen Wandel gegenüber ausstatten und ihnen somit eine aktive Rolle in diesemSystem ermöglichen?
Übersetzen in der Frühen Neuzeit – Konzepte und Methoden / Concepts and Practices of Translation in the Early Modern Period (Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit #1)
by Annkathrin KoppersDieser interdisziplinäre Open Access-Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Konzepten und Methoden des Übersetzens als zentraler und ubiquitärer Kulturtechnik der Frühen Neuzeit (1450–1800). In fünfzehn Einzelstudien werden gesellschaftliche Leitvorstellungen, Wahrnehmungsmuster und Kommunikationsformen erforscht, die seit dem 15. Jahrhundert durch Praktiken des Übersetzens etabliert werden und bis in die Gegenwart von prägender Bedeutung sind. Behandelt werden etwa jiddische und kymrische Bibelübersetzungen, tamilische und zapotekische Missionstexte sowie französische und arabische Kartenmaterialien. This interdisciplinary open-access collection addresses the multifarious concepts and methods of translation as a central and ubiquitous cultural technique of the Early Modern period (1450–1800). It features fifteen studies on the guiding principles, perception patterns, and communication forms that have taken root in society since the fifteenth century through the practices of translation and are still of defining importance today. The research spectrum encompasses such diverse topics as Yiddish and Cymric translations of the Bible, Tamil and Zapotec mission texts, and French and Arabic cartographic material.
Übersetzungspolitiken in der Frühen Neuzeit / Translation Policy and the Politics of Translation in the Early Modern Period (Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit #3)
by Annkathrin Koppers Felix HerberthAusgangspunkt dieses Konferenzbands im Open Access ist die Frage nach den Bedingungen, die dafür verantwortlich zeichnen, dass überhaupt und in welcher Form in der Frühen Neuzeit übersetzt wird. Anders formuliert geht es um die grundsätzliche Frage danach, warum bestimmte Texte, Bilder, Zeichenkomplexe etc. eine Übersetzung erfahren, während andere unübersetzt bleiben (müssen). Welche Faktoren nehmen schließlich – im positiven Fall – Einfluss auf die konkrete Ausgestaltung von Übersetzung im Sinne des Übertragungsprozesses von einem semiotischen und kulturellen System in ein anderes? In diesem Zusammenhang kommt ein doppeltes Politikverständnis zum Tragen: einerseits geraten Übersetzungspolitik(en) im Sinne des Konzepts der Translation Policy in den Fokus und mit ihnen soziokulturelle, ökonomische und interkulturelle Einflussfaktoren. Andererseits geht es – spezifischer – um Übersetzungen im Kontext politischer Verhandlungs- und Aushandlungsprozesse und somit um den Zusammenhang zwischen Politics und Translation. The point of departure for this conference volume is the question of what conditions are responsible for whether a translation happens at all. Why are certain texts, images, and sign systems translated while others (must) remain untranslated? And what factors influence the form a translation takes in the process of conveying words, images, or signs from one semiotic, cultural system to another? These questions concern both translation policy – that is, the socio-cultural, economic, and intercultural factors that influence translation processes – and the politics of translation in the specific context of political negotiation processes
Übersetzungsräume – Raumübersetzungen / Translation Spaces – Spaces in Translation (Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit #11)
by Annkathrin KoppersDer vorliegende Open Access-Band leuchtet den Zusammenhang von Übersetzung und Raum in spezifisch frühneuzeitlichen Untersuchungssettings exemplarisch aus. Dazu setzt er von zwei Seiten an: Erstens fragen Beiträge aus Germanistik, Judaistik, Latinistik und Romanistik sowie Kunst- und Philosophiegeschichte nach Übersetzungsräumen. Dadurch geraten jene kulturellen Transit- oder Kontaktzonen in den Blick, die durch Übersetzungs- und Mehrsprachigkeitsdynamiken geprägt sind. Zweitens fokussiert der Open Access-Band auf Raumübersetzungen. Hier stehen jene sprachlichen und kulturellen Übersetzungspraktiken im Mittelpunkt, die fremdkulturellen Begegnungen und Konfrontationssituationen erwachsen und sich in die kolonialen Diskurse der Frühen Neuzeit einschreiben. This open access volume illuminates the connection between translation and space in specifically Early Modern settings from two angles: Firstly the assembled contributions from the disciplines of German, Jewish studies, Latin and Romance as well as art, history and philosophy seek to identify translation spaces, those cultural transit or contact zones distinguished by high translation and multilingualism dynamics. Secondly, this volume draws attention to spatial translations. Here the focus is on linguistic and cultural translation practices that emerged from foreign-cultural encounters and confrontations and inscribed themselves in the colonial discourses of the Early Modern period.
Ιδιότητα Συγγραφέα: Δημοσιεύοντας το Βιβλίο Σας Μόνοι Σας
by Owen Jones Christiana Tziortziou GonzálezΑυτό το βιβλίο προορίζεται για τους συγγραφείς που θέλουν να δημοσιεύσουν τα βιβλία τους, είτε σε έντυπη, ή σε ηλεκτρονική μορφή, ή και στις δύο αυτές μορφές. Είναι κάτι το ικανοποιητικό για κάποιο άτομο να συλλάβει την ιδέα για ένα βιβλίο, να το γράψει και μετά να το δημοσιεύσει από μόνος του/μόνη της. Με τη βοήθεια αυτού του βιβλίου, αυτό ακριβώς θα μπορέσετε να κάνετε. Μάθετε τους τρόπους που μπορείτε να δημοσιεύσετε το βιβλίο σας σε όλους τους μεγάλους διανομείς, όπως: Amazon, iBookstore, Barnes and Noble, Lulu, Nook, Kindle, Smashwords και XinXii.
Дон Кихот [Don Kikhot]: A Dramatic Adaptation (Texts and Translations #29)
by Mikhail BulgakovWhen Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's ??? ?????, a stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author, whose novel ?????? ? ????????? would eventually bring him world renown, achieved this sleight of hand through a deft interpretation of Cervantes's knight. Bulgakov's Don Quixote fits comfortably into the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of idealistic, troubled intellectuals, but Quixote's quest becomes an allegory of the artist under the strictures of Stalin's regime. Bulgakov did not live to see the play performed: it went into production in 1940, only months after his death.The volume's introduction provides background for Bulgakov's adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth-century Spanish work.
नारीवादी कैसे बनें: अधिकारों और समानता के लिए संघर्ष हेतु महिलाओं की मार्गदर्शिका
by लॉरेन एलेक्सापुस्तक के बारे में – -क्या आप कभी अपने लिंग की वजह से हिंसा,घृणा,उत्पीड़न या पीड़ा के शिकार हुए हैं ? -नारीवादी होने या नारीवादी आदर्शों पर चलने का मतलब है उन चीजों के बारे में संघर्ष करना जो मायने रखती हैं । -यदि आप अपने अधिकारों के लिए संघर्ष के बारे में और जानना चाहते हैं और महिलाओं के अधिकारों के लिए संघर्ष में सहायता करना चाहते हैं तो यह मार्गदर्शिका आपके लिए है । -जानिये कि एक नारीवादी कैसे बनें -जानिये कि अपने अधिकारों के लिए संघर्ष कैसे करें -जानिये कि समानता और समान वेतन के लिए संघर्ष कैसे करें -और भी बहुत कुछ जानिये कि जहां आपकी बहुत अधिक ज़रुरत है वहां मनुष्यता की सहायता कर आप इतिहास में सही पक्ष के साथ किस तरह खड़े हो सकते हैं। अस्वीकृति इस पुस्तक की विषयवस्तु की सटीकता, पूर्णता और औचित्य के बारे में यह लेखक और, या अधिकारों के स्�
‘A Miracle of Learning’: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan
by Dáibhí Ó CróinínThis volume celebrates the work of William O’Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland, the place of the learned and literate in that world, and its relations with Britain, Europe and America. Some of these essays clarify technical problems in the making of famous manuscripts, and bring out for the first time their indebtedness to or influence over other manuscripts. Others provide unexpected new information about the reigns of Edward I and James I, Irish provincial society, the process and progress of religious change and the links between settlements in Ireland and North American colonization.
‘Post’-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror
by Pei-Chen LiaoWhile much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of uncanny terror through a close reading of four "post" -9/11 South Asian diasporic fictions.
‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Playhouses in Renaissance England: The Politics of Publication (Early Modern Literature in History)
by Eoin PriceAt the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have failed to attest to their variety and complexity. Assessing a range of evidence, from the start of the Elizabethan period to the beginning of the Restoration, the book overturns received scholarly wisdom to reach new insights into the politics of theatre culture and playbook publication. Standard accounts of the 'public' and 'private' theatres have either ignored the terms, or offered insubstantial explanations for their use. This book opens up the rich range of meanings made available by these vitally important terms and offers a fresh perspective on the way dramatists, theatre owners, booksellers, and legislators, conceived the playhouses of Renaissance London.
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960
by Bronwyn Lowe‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores the ways that parents, teachers, educators, journalists and politicians attempted to mitigate concerns about girls’ development through the promotion of ‘healthy’ literature. The book also addresses the influence of British publishers to Australian girl-readers and the growing importance of Australian publishers throughout the period. It considers the rise of Australian literary nationalism in the global context, and the increasing prominence of Australian literature in the period after the Second World War. It also shows how access to reading material improved for girls over the first half of the last century.
’Pataphysics Unrolled (Refiguring Modernism #36)
by Katie L. Price and Michael R. TaylorIn the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist "science of imaginary solutions," a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry "made the gesture of dying," Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor argue that it is time to take the comedic intervention of pataphysics seriously.’Pataphysics Unrolled collects critical and creative essays to create an unauthorized account of pataphysical experimentation from its origins in the late nineteenth century through the contemporary moment. Reaching beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries normally associated with pataphysics, this volume presents rich readings of pataphysical syzygy, traces the influence of pataphysics across disciplines and outside of coteries such as the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and asks fundamental questions about the field of modern and contemporary studies that challenge distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, high and low culture, the serious and the comic. Touching on disciplines such as literature, art, architecture, education, music, and technology, this book reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Charles Bernstein, Marc Décimo, Adam Dickinson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Catherine Hansen, James Hendler, John Heon, Ted Hiebert, Andrew Hugill, Steve McCaffery, Seth McDowell, Jerome McGann, Anne M. Mulhall, Marcus O’Dair, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Orchid Tierney, and Brandon Walsh.
’Pataphysics Unrolled (Refiguring Modernism)
by Katie L. Price and Michael R. TaylorIn the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry “made the gesture of dying,” Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor argue that it is time to take the comedic intervention of pataphysics seriously.’Pataphysics Unrolled collects critical and creative essays to create an unauthorized account of pataphysical experimentation from its origins in the late nineteenth century through the contemporary moment. Reaching beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries normally associated with pataphysics, this volume presents rich readings of pataphysical syzygy, traces the influence of pataphysics across disciplines and outside of coteries such as the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and asks fundamental questions about the field of modern and contemporary studies that challenge distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, high and low culture, the serious and the comic. Touching on disciplines such as literature, art, architecture, education, music, and technology, this book reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Charles Bernstein, Marc Décimo, Adam Dickinson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Catherine Hansen, James Hendler, John Heon, Ted Hiebert, Andrew Hugill, Steve McCaffery, Seth McDowell, Jerome McGann, Anne M. Mulhall, Marcus O’Dair, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Orchid Tierney, and Brandon Walsh.
‚Europa‘ im Literaturunterricht: Didaktische, fachwissenschaftliche, schulische und curriculare Perspektiven (Deutschdidaktik)
by Ivo Theele Jennifer Pavlik Paul BräutigamDer Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse einer Tagung, auf der Fachdidaktiker:innen, Fachwissenschaftler:innen, Lehrer:innen und Vertreter:innen der Bildungsverwaltung diskutierten, wie europasensibler Literaturunterricht aussehen könnte. Die Beiträge knüpfen an den Beschluss der Kultusministerkonferenz „Europabildung in der Schule“ an, differenzieren und spezifizieren diesen für den Literaturunterricht. In unterschiedlichen Perspektiven werden Potentiale einer Europabildung mit ästhetischen Medien, die curriculare Verankerung derselben sowie Möglichkeiten der Etablierung einer langfristigen Europabildung im Unterrichtsfach Deutsch erörtert.
‚Rückkehr aus dem Exil‘: Katholische Diskurselemente in der Kultur der Weimarer Republik (Studien zu Literatur und Religion / Studies on Literature and Religion #10)
by Florian Bock Moritz StrohschneiderDie Kultur der Weimarer Republik begeisterte sich in besonderem Maße für solche religiösen Ideen, von denen man sich Hilfe beim Umgang mit den allgegenwärtigen Krisenerfahrungen erhoffte. Auf diese Weise wanderten zahlreiche genuin katholische Überzeugungen und Positionen in den öffentlichen Diskurs ein und prägten gesellschaftliche Semantiken und Praktiken. Solche katholischen Diskurselemente, die außerhalb des gesellschaftlichen Teilsystems Religion, aus dem sie eigentlich stammen, und damit auch jenseits der katholischen Milieus wirksam und einflussreich waren, stehen im Fokus dieses interdisziplinär angelegten Bandes.
“All Will Be Swept Away”: Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)
by Wit PietrzakThe book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon’s mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like "Yarrow," "Incantata" or "Sillyhow Stride" but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon’s entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of Muldoon’s poetic landscape in order to show the complexity with which he approaches the themes of death and mourning. Using archival material as well as a vast array of theoretical apparatuses, the book unveils the psychological, literary and political undertones in his poetry, all the while attending to the operations of the poetic text: its form, its music and its capacity to console, warn and censure.
“I Will Walk Among You”: The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 1–3 in the Book of Leviticus (Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement #21)
by G. Geoffrey HarperThe well-known parallels between Genesis and Leviticus invite further reflection, particularly in regard to the rhetorical and theological purpose of their lexical, syntactical, and conceptual correspondences. This volume investigates the possibility that the final-form text of Leviticus is an indirect reference to Genesis 1–3 and examines the rhetorical significance of such an allusion.The face of Pentateuch scholarship has shifted dramatically in the last forty years, resulting in the questioning of many received truths and the employment of a host of new, renewed, and often competing methodologies by biblical scholars. This study sits at the intersection of these recent interpretive trends. G. Geoffrey Harper uses insights from the fields of intertextuality, rhetorical criticism, and speech act theory to create a methodological framework, which he applies to three Leviticus pericopes. Chapters 11, 16, and 26 are examined in turn, and for each the assessment of potential parallels at lexical, syntactical, and conceptual levels reveals a complex web of interconnected allusion to the creation and Eden narratives of Genesis 1 and 2–3. Moreover, Harper probes the theological and rhetorical import of these intertextual connections and explores how Leviticus ought to be understood in its Pentateuchal context.This comprehensive study of the connections between these two sections of the Hebrew Bible sheds light on both the literary artistry of these ancient texts and the persuasive purposes that lie behind their composition.
“I Will Walk Among You”: The Rhetorical Function of Allusion to Genesis 1–3 in the Book of Leviticus (Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement)
by G. Geoffrey HarperThe well-known parallels between Genesis and Leviticus invite further reflection, particularly in regard to the rhetorical and theological purpose of their lexical, syntactical, and conceptual correspondences. This volume investigates the possibility that the final-form text of Leviticus is an indirect reference to Genesis 1–3 and examines the rhetorical significance of such an allusion.The face of Pentateuch scholarship has shifted dramatically in the last forty years, resulting in the questioning of many received truths and the employment of a host of new, renewed, and often competing methodologies by biblical scholars. This study sits at the intersection of these recent interpretive trends. G. Geoffrey Harper uses insights from the fields of intertextuality, rhetorical criticism, and speech act theory to create a methodological framework, which he applies to three Leviticus pericopes. Chapters 11, 16, and 26 are examined in turn, and for each the assessment of potential parallels at lexical, syntactical, and conceptual levels reveals a complex web of interconnected allusion to the creation and Eden narratives of Genesis 1 and 2–3. Moreover, Harper probes the theological and rhetorical import of these intertextual connections and explores how Leviticus ought to be understood in its Pentateuchal context.This comprehensive study of the connections between these two sections of the Hebrew Bible sheds light on both the literary artistry of these ancient texts and the persuasive purposes that lie behind their composition.
“Kamikaze” Syndrome: How Fake History Crushes Democracy and Ignites War (SpringerBriefs in Political Science)
by Yoshikazu MikamiThe world was shocked when Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine: how could a war break out in Central Europe in the 21st century? But it happened. Why? One key to understanding this atrocity lies in Putin's twisted vision of Russian history, a past that glorifies his motherland. Such examples of the glorification and misuse of history can be seen elsewhere, but most clearly in Japan during World War II, when suicide attacks were called "Kamikaze". In reality, the term "Kamikaze" refers to events some 700 years ago when Mongol fleets attempting to invade Japan were blown away by a miraculous typhoon. This historical event profoundly shaped Japan, leading to the naming of suicide missions during World War II as "Kamikaze" in a desperate attempt to turn the tide of the war in Imperial Japan's favor.The selective misuse of history for political gain by autocratic governments, also known as the "Kamikaze" Syndrome, can also be observed in countries such as China, Myanmar and in President Trump's America. His political slogan "Make America Great Again" or MAGA, resonates an idealized and conservative version of a nostalgic past, which shares some similar traits with the memory politics of China and Russia. "Kamikaze Syndrome: How Fake History Crushes Democracy and Ignites War" examines Russia, China, Myanmar, and America as comparative case studies of the &“Kamikaze&” Syndrome and memory politics and explains why this syndrome has the power to destroy democracy and ignite wars. It is an essential reading to understand today&’s turbulent world, where the superpowers like Russia, China and America pursue the rejuvenation of their past greatness and, if necessary, would use military force and violence to achieve their goals.
“Music Makers” and World Creators: The Forms And Functions Of Embedded Poems In British Fantasy Narratives (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
by Michaela HausmannMany works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph analyses the various forms and functions of embedded poems in major works of fantasy literature. The choice of authors and texts shed light on the development of fantasy as a genre that frequently mixes prose and verse and thus continues the long tradition of prosimetric practices after the Romantic period. Not only does the analysis of the embedded poems allow for a new understanding of the individual works. It also promises insights into shared literary-historical roots, cross-influences between the authors and the role of the mix of poetry and prose for the imaginative and subversive potential of fantasy literature in general. Providing comprehensive case studies of the forms and functions of embedded poems in fantasy literature, this volume illuminates the emergence of modern fantasy and its impact on contemporary fantasy.
“‘Faith’ is a fine invention”: Dickinson’s Performance of Doubt and Belief
by Regina YoongThis book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties. Studies on her exploration of faith are ample, but in this book, the author uncovers Dickinson’s playful role-play in enacting solemn themes of religion, death, and the unknown. Dickinson’s creativity encompasses not only her use of language but also her poetic personae and self-created poetic stages inviting readers to question, contemplate deeply or even poke fun at life's absurdities. By using performative roles such as the rejected outcast, passive supplicant, and playful warrior, Dickinson unveils--through a paradoxical framework of belief and unbelief-- a line of inquiry that is multifocal and erratic to “tell all the truth and tell it slant.”