Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tanzania Tales - a Blog by Mirinda Gormley, Peace Corps volunteer in Makong'onda, Tanzania
Mirinda Gormley is working in the Peace Corps providing Health Care education in Makong'onda, Tanzania and HIV and AIDS prevention.
Her blog is phenomenal! Click here to check it out directly.
The beginnning of her 29 October 2009 post:
TOP TEN REASONS THESE BLOGS ARE SO LATE!
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Her blog is phenomenal! Click here to check it out directly.
The beginnning of her 29 October 2009 post:
TOP TEN REASONS THESE BLOGS ARE SO LATE!
10. TRANSPORT ISSUES. The open-ended truck with a roll bar and barely functioning brakes, which serves as the only transportation to and from Makong’onda, keeps leaving the village at 4 in the morning, instead of 5 when they are supposed to, thus leaving me in the dust (or leaving me waiting until 6am when one of the Mamas finally wakes up, laughs at me, says the car passed, and goes back to sleep (usually to the sounds of me swearing, LOUDLY).
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All Posts from "A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life" by Arnold Weinstein
Here are links to all seven posts from A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein..."a book about the power of literature to heal and interact with our experiences."
Post #1
Quotes from Chapter One, "A Scream Goes Through the House"
Post #2
Quotes from Chapter Two, "Living in the Body"
Post #3
More Quotes from Chapter Two, "Living in the Body"
Post #4
Quotes from Chapter Three, "Diagnosis: Narratives of Exposure"
Post #5
Quotes from Chapter Four, "Plague and Human Connection"
Post #6
Quotes from Chapter Five, "Saying Death"
Post #7
Quotes from “Concluding Thoughts on Depression: Hamlet and His Progeny”
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research
Post #1
Quotes from Chapter One, "A Scream Goes Through the House"
Post #2
Quotes from Chapter Two, "Living in the Body"
Post #3
More Quotes from Chapter Two, "Living in the Body"
Post #4
Quotes from Chapter Three, "Diagnosis: Narratives of Exposure"
Post #5
Quotes from Chapter Four, "Plague and Human Connection"
Post #6
Quotes from Chapter Five, "Saying Death"
Post #7
Quotes from “Concluding Thoughts on Depression: Hamlet and His Progeny”
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research
Simpático with Peace Through Fiction - more quotes from A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein (post #7)
Quotes from “Concluding Thoughts on Depression: Hamlet and His Progeny,” the last chapter of A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein..."a book about the power of literature to heal and interact with our experiences" and simpático in spirit with Peace Through Fiction.
“Depression seems to be nature’s scheme for letting us experience death ahead of time, for letting some of us experience it on virtually a chronic basis...I feel that depression tests my thesis as nothing else does. What is depression if not that unheard ‘scream that goes through the house’?” (373)
“We know that Shakespeare inherited a view of human inconstancy and indeterminacy from Montaigne, whose splendid term ondoyant (wavelike) perfectly captures the fluid nature of identity.” (380)
“I want to now characterize depression as a state in which one’s cogency and projects lose their validity, in which the things one has done, perhaps for decades, all of a sudden appear emptied out, mere constructs: one’s work, one’s relations, one’s beliefs.” (383)
“...depression turns reality into theater. Not theater as something multicolored and vital, but theater as hollowness and artifice, theater as unreality. . .One fine day you discover how theatrical your life is, how what seemed natural and spontaneous and self-evident is now somehow different: mechanical, a role, a construct. This can apply to everything: having a meal, loving a spouse, going to work, writing or reading a book.” (384)
“William Faulkner’s genius consists in finding a new narrative language for just this consciousness, the incessant thinking that can be a feature of depression.” (389)
“I do not know how to overstate this last point: art and literature provide for us a unique means of travel, of vicarious experience, of seeing the world with new lenses, of vacating—at least for a bit—the cramped quarters where we keep house. There can be no better medicine against depression.” (393)
“Shakespeare wrote that ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark,’ and I believe that what is rotten about modernity, what constitutes our own special plague, is excessive consciousness, a lifelong jail sentence in our own minds, the dreadful condition of being locked into our perceptual system and hence locked out of everyone else’s. This is the death of love as well as the shrinkage of life. This is poison in the ear and in the heart.
“And this is why literature matters. Art is that other place that can become ours, those other selves we also are. The experience of art is a precious exercise in freedom, in negotiating subjectivities and lives that are not our own. Strange as it may initially seem, Faulkner’s tortured novel [The Sound and the Fury] about a tortured young man is therapeutic and liberating along just these lines: as a magic venture out of our own precincts and into something rich and strange.”(394)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
Join the discussion at Twitter Readers Bookclub
“Depression seems to be nature’s scheme for letting us experience death ahead of time, for letting some of us experience it on virtually a chronic basis...I feel that depression tests my thesis as nothing else does. What is depression if not that unheard ‘scream that goes through the house’?” (373)
“We know that Shakespeare inherited a view of human inconstancy and indeterminacy from Montaigne, whose splendid term ondoyant (wavelike) perfectly captures the fluid nature of identity.” (380)
“I want to now characterize depression as a state in which one’s cogency and projects lose their validity, in which the things one has done, perhaps for decades, all of a sudden appear emptied out, mere constructs: one’s work, one’s relations, one’s beliefs.” (383)
“...depression turns reality into theater. Not theater as something multicolored and vital, but theater as hollowness and artifice, theater as unreality. . .One fine day you discover how theatrical your life is, how what seemed natural and spontaneous and self-evident is now somehow different: mechanical, a role, a construct. This can apply to everything: having a meal, loving a spouse, going to work, writing or reading a book.” (384)
“William Faulkner’s genius consists in finding a new narrative language for just this consciousness, the incessant thinking that can be a feature of depression.” (389)
“I do not know how to overstate this last point: art and literature provide for us a unique means of travel, of vicarious experience, of seeing the world with new lenses, of vacating—at least for a bit—the cramped quarters where we keep house. There can be no better medicine against depression.” (393)
“Shakespeare wrote that ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark,’ and I believe that what is rotten about modernity, what constitutes our own special plague, is excessive consciousness, a lifelong jail sentence in our own minds, the dreadful condition of being locked into our perceptual system and hence locked out of everyone else’s. This is the death of love as well as the shrinkage of life. This is poison in the ear and in the heart.
“And this is why literature matters. Art is that other place that can become ours, those other selves we also are. The experience of art is a precious exercise in freedom, in negotiating subjectivities and lives that are not our own. Strange as it may initially seem, Faulkner’s tortured novel [The Sound and the Fury] about a tortured young man is therapeutic and liberating along just these lines: as a magic venture out of our own precincts and into something rich and strange.”(394)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
Join the discussion at Twitter Readers Bookclub
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Twitterkids of Tanzania
"This week, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt. Meru, a group of schoolkids discovered Twitter. A year ago, Shepherds Junior School hadn't even been built yet and students who didn't even have access to a library couldn't have imagined that they would be able to communicate with the whole world through donations from social media.
"That's where a U.S. nonprofit called Epic Change came in..."
Click here to read the full story on Huffington Post.com
"THE TWITTERKIDS OF TANZANIA
"Hujambo from Tanzania! I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt. Meru, Shepherds Junior School was connected to the internet for the very first time. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude
Click here to read the full post on Epic Change's blog.
Click here to follow the #twitterkids meme on Twitter."THE TWITTERKIDS OF TANZANIA
"Hujambo from Tanzania! I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt. Meru, Shepherds Junior School was connected to the internet for the very first time. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude
Click here to read the full post on Epic Change's blog.
Click here to followthe aggregated @ShepherdsJr account on twitter
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Simpático with Peace Through Fiction - more quotes from A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein (post #6)
Quotes from Chapter Five, "Saying Death" of A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein..."a book about the power of literature to heal and interact with our experiences" and simpático in spirit with Peace Through Fiction.
"Thinking about death and dying brings life into focus as nothing else can. (...) I contend that the renditions of death and dying in literature and art are food for the living." (291)
"Any traditional view of maturity and aging as a form of wisdom—a view that has to fight for its life anyway in youth-centered cultures like America—seems particularly vulnerable when physiological deterioration starts to speed up." (307)
"I am hardly prescribing dosages of Proust for heartache, but I'm saying that his depiction of a dreadful common event—no one is without loved ones who will die—is at once visionary and practical..." (314)
"(T)he public decrees of life and death have zero binding power. What lives is whatever we think about, whatever we give life to." (317)
"In [Proust's] dispensation, we are networked creatures, linked by our loves and ties, doomed to be emotionally and morally online as long as we live. True, our electronic culture enables us to log on, to check our e-mail, to travel that new highway wherever we choose. In Proust, no electricity is required (unless it be electricity that fuels heart and brain), but the connections are stupendous in their immediacy." (321)
"(T)he socioeconomic dimensions of dying constitute one of America's great unaddressed problems." (332)
"One of the ironies of modern culture is its peculiar treatment of high art. Either we subject it to the rigors of modern critical theory. . .or we piously commit it to the scholar's care...It would be better if we taught our students to view all art as fair game, to approach the most formidable and hermetic works as an aspiring thief might: with intent to break and enter, to discover, steal, and possess what is there." (334-335)
"Writing opens what seemed closed, grants us a measure of freedom within the prison our bodies inhabit." (371)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
Join the discussion at Twitter Readers Bookclub
"Thinking about death and dying brings life into focus as nothing else can. (...) I contend that the renditions of death and dying in literature and art are food for the living." (291)
"Any traditional view of maturity and aging as a form of wisdom—a view that has to fight for its life anyway in youth-centered cultures like America—seems particularly vulnerable when physiological deterioration starts to speed up." (307)
"I am hardly prescribing dosages of Proust for heartache, but I'm saying that his depiction of a dreadful common event—no one is without loved ones who will die—is at once visionary and practical..." (314)
"(T)he public decrees of life and death have zero binding power. What lives is whatever we think about, whatever we give life to." (317)
"In [Proust's] dispensation, we are networked creatures, linked by our loves and ties, doomed to be emotionally and morally online as long as we live. True, our electronic culture enables us to log on, to check our e-mail, to travel that new highway wherever we choose. In Proust, no electricity is required (unless it be electricity that fuels heart and brain), but the connections are stupendous in their immediacy." (321)
"(T)he socioeconomic dimensions of dying constitute one of America's great unaddressed problems." (332)
"One of the ironies of modern culture is its peculiar treatment of high art. Either we subject it to the rigors of modern critical theory. . .or we piously commit it to the scholar's care...It would be better if we taught our students to view all art as fair game, to approach the most formidable and hermetic works as an aspiring thief might: with intent to break and enter, to discover, steal, and possess what is there." (334-335)
"Writing opens what seemed closed, grants us a measure of freedom within the prison our bodies inhabit." (371)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
Join the discussion at Twitter Readers Bookclub
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Ethiopia Reads Newsletter, September 2009
Ethiopia Reads is an organization that works to improve literacy and create a culture of reading in Ethiopia, in order to bring hope, vision and educational skills to a new generation of Ethiopian children. It has established its own libraries for children in local schools, publishes books in local Ethiopian languages and trains teachers and librarians to nurture a love of reading.
Click here to view the Ethiopia Reads website.
Click here to read their September 2009 newsletter.
Masresha Kibret works with Ethiopia Reads. He was a delegate to the 6th Pan African Reading For All Conference in Dar Es Salaam in August 2009, and is a great inspiration to me.
Click here to view the Ethiopia Reads website.
Click here to read their September 2009 newsletter.
Masresha Kibret works with Ethiopia Reads. He was a delegate to the 6th Pan African Reading For All Conference in Dar Es Salaam in August 2009, and is a great inspiration to me.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Donkey Mobile Library visits village in Ethiopia
I met Mr. Masresha Kibret at the 6th Pan African Reading For All Conference in Dar Es Salaam in August. He is a tremendous inspiration to me.
Masresha works with Ethiopia Reads, an organization that works to improve literacy and create a culture of reading in Ethiopia, in order to bring hope, vision and educational skills to a new generation of Ethiopian children. It has established its own libraries for children in local schools, publishes books in local Ethiopian languages and trains teachers and librarians to nurture a love of reading.
Their current project, Rural Library and Literacy Expansion, supports the growth of the Awassa Reading Center and the Donkey Mobile Libraries Program. The project is sponsored by American Jewish World Service.
The slideshow below shows pictures of a recent inauguration of a new school library in an Ethiopian village, including a visit from the donkey mobile library.
Masresha works with Ethiopia Reads, an organization that works to improve literacy and create a culture of reading in Ethiopia, in order to bring hope, vision and educational skills to a new generation of Ethiopian children. It has established its own libraries for children in local schools, publishes books in local Ethiopian languages and trains teachers and librarians to nurture a love of reading.
Their current project, Rural Library and Literacy Expansion, supports the growth of the Awassa Reading Center and the Donkey Mobile Libraries Program. The project is sponsored by American Jewish World Service.
The slideshow below shows pictures of a recent inauguration of a new school library in an Ethiopian village, including a visit from the donkey mobile library.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Simpático with Peace Through Fiction - more quotes from A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein (post #5)
Quotes from Chapter Four, "Plague and Human Connection," of A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein..."a book about the power of literature to heal and interact with our experiences" and simpático in spirit with Peace Through Fiction.
"What interests me in this chapter is the amazing scope of what I want to call the plague-text: a story of epidemiological disease, a story of mysterious transmission, a story of community responses and resources, and—last but not least—an individualist story of initially concealed and finally exposed secrets, secrets of moral transgression and taboo." (p213)
"Plague-texts are about more than bacterial transmission: they are about the deeper riddles of human connection and social fears...[and] explore the ramifications of physical, emotional, sexual, and political interactions." (p215)
"These matters can be figurative as well as literal. It would be possible to devote this entire chapter to the metaphor of infection as it is used to connote the reach of human interactions, the reality of 'human transmission.' Is it accidental that Shakespeare repeatedly images lying in terms of poison in the ear?" (p216)
"And why limit these toxic transactions to speech? Why not consider the images we see, the music we hear, all of the cultural sights, notations, formulas, and assumptions that come our way via family and society? Don't all of them invade us, in some unseen, unseeable sort of way?" (p217)
Regarding Charles Dickens: "In Bleak House (which I take to be the author's supreme work) plague comes packaged in its more modern and invisible form: the off-limits slums and ghettos where disease flourishes." (p243)
"We are all familiar with the idle question, what book would you want if you were a castaway on a desert island? But what about its opposite number, what would you read if plague or nuclear war struck?" (p.258)
"Angels in America is indeed a visionary text about the millennium. Tony Kushner makes us see that the plague theme reveals the absolute centrality of the body in all human affairs: love, death, politics. Plague leads to an encounter with otherness: with another form of sexual behavior, with a new set of family alignments, with a radical reconception of individual identity...But the old does not disappear: love and loyalty remain as a kind of human syntax that nothing can disrupt." (pp287-288)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
Join the discussion at Twitter Readers Bookclub
"What interests me in this chapter is the amazing scope of what I want to call the plague-text: a story of epidemiological disease, a story of mysterious transmission, a story of community responses and resources, and—last but not least—an individualist story of initially concealed and finally exposed secrets, secrets of moral transgression and taboo." (p213)
"Plague-texts are about more than bacterial transmission: they are about the deeper riddles of human connection and social fears...[and] explore the ramifications of physical, emotional, sexual, and political interactions." (p215)
"These matters can be figurative as well as literal. It would be possible to devote this entire chapter to the metaphor of infection as it is used to connote the reach of human interactions, the reality of 'human transmission.' Is it accidental that Shakespeare repeatedly images lying in terms of poison in the ear?" (p216)
"And why limit these toxic transactions to speech? Why not consider the images we see, the music we hear, all of the cultural sights, notations, formulas, and assumptions that come our way via family and society? Don't all of them invade us, in some unseen, unseeable sort of way?" (p217)
Regarding Charles Dickens: "In Bleak House (which I take to be the author's supreme work) plague comes packaged in its more modern and invisible form: the off-limits slums and ghettos where disease flourishes." (p243)
"We are all familiar with the idle question, what book would you want if you were a castaway on a desert island? But what about its opposite number, what would you read if plague or nuclear war struck?" (p.258)
"Angels in America is indeed a visionary text about the millennium. Tony Kushner makes us see that the plague theme reveals the absolute centrality of the body in all human affairs: love, death, politics. Plague leads to an encounter with otherness: with another form of sexual behavior, with a new set of family alignments, with a radical reconception of individual identity...But the old does not disappear: love and loyalty remain as a kind of human syntax that nothing can disrupt." (pp287-288)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
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University of Dar Es Salaam – campus scenes at 6th Pan African Reading For All Conference, August 2009
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"Languages as Bridges: Building network against linguistic feudalism and Darwinism" By NGUGI WA THIONG’O
TODAY, four of the five languages of the UN Security Council, are European. They dominate in the production and dissemination of ideas; they dominate in publishing and distribution and consumption of knowledge; they control the flow of ideas. Intellectuals who come from the supposedly lesser languages find that, to be visible globally, they must produce and store ideas in Western European languages, English mostly. In the case of most intellectuals from Africa and Asia, they become visible on the world stage but simultaneously invisible in their own cultures and languages...
Click here to get the full article: "Languages as Bridges: Building network against linguistic feudalism and Darwinism" By NGUGI WA THIONG’O
Click here to get the full article: "Languages as Bridges: Building network against linguistic feudalism and Darwinism" By NGUGI WA THIONG’O
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Simpático with Peace Through Fiction - more quotes from A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein (post #4)
Quotes from Chapter Three, "Diagnosis: Narratives of Exposure," of A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein..."a book about the power of literature to heal and interact with our experiences" and simpático in spirit with Peace Through Fiction.
“Kafka is, admittedly, the most slippery of all authors, and yet his tale (‘A Country Doctor’) is cautionary in its warning about deceptive appearances. These issues have a long history. Medicine and literature are, in some important sense, enlisted in body-reading and mind-reading activities; they are cultural institutions with a mission...” (p152)
“(I)t seems clear that both literature and medicine have long served...as torchbearers illuminating the dark human mind, along with the body that houses it, we may add.” (p155)
“What the Internet is today (an information highway) the novel was for [the nineteenth] century...” (p152)
“You might argue that there are only strangers in the world, in that everyone is opaque when you get down to it. Getting down to it really is the issue, since these matters seem idle as long as we go our merry way and tend to our own affairs (who cares if the taxi driver or the checkout person is opaque?), but what happens when we absolutely need to know more?” (p154)
“(A)s dramatist, Ibsen gradually shifts his focus from secrets themselves to the complex dance of those with secrets, a dance he wonderfully terms the life-lie, expressing the view that our dodges and illusions and fantasies are the fuels that get us through life.” (p168)
“(W)hat is literature if not a diagnostic carnival, a nonstop exploration of human motive, a culturally sanctioned version of going inside?” (p208)
“I’d claim that literature constitutes a peculiar form of cerebral hemorrhage, a bleeding printward of all that is in the brain (and heart) of its characters.” (p208)
“I said at the beginning that it takes a lifetime to process what one has absorbed, that the famous Jamesian ‘figure in the carpet’ does not jump out at us like an epiphany, but rather is the pattern on the loom that we ourselves must discover and make and alter and rediscover over time.” (p209)
“The books we love resist on-the-spot illumination, because they live in time, release their secrets over time, become different as we become different, are ultimately mobile and mysterious.” (p209)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
Join the discussion at Twitter Readers Bookclub
“Kafka is, admittedly, the most slippery of all authors, and yet his tale (‘A Country Doctor’) is cautionary in its warning about deceptive appearances. These issues have a long history. Medicine and literature are, in some important sense, enlisted in body-reading and mind-reading activities; they are cultural institutions with a mission...” (p152)
“(I)t seems clear that both literature and medicine have long served...as torchbearers illuminating the dark human mind, along with the body that houses it, we may add.” (p155)
“What the Internet is today (an information highway) the novel was for [the nineteenth] century...” (p152)
“You might argue that there are only strangers in the world, in that everyone is opaque when you get down to it. Getting down to it really is the issue, since these matters seem idle as long as we go our merry way and tend to our own affairs (who cares if the taxi driver or the checkout person is opaque?), but what happens when we absolutely need to know more?” (p154)
“(A)s dramatist, Ibsen gradually shifts his focus from secrets themselves to the complex dance of those with secrets, a dance he wonderfully terms the life-lie, expressing the view that our dodges and illusions and fantasies are the fuels that get us through life.” (p168)
“(W)hat is literature if not a diagnostic carnival, a nonstop exploration of human motive, a culturally sanctioned version of going inside?” (p208)
“I’d claim that literature constitutes a peculiar form of cerebral hemorrhage, a bleeding printward of all that is in the brain (and heart) of its characters.” (p208)
“I said at the beginning that it takes a lifetime to process what one has absorbed, that the famous Jamesian ‘figure in the carpet’ does not jump out at us like an epiphany, but rather is the pattern on the loom that we ourselves must discover and make and alter and rediscover over time.” (p209)
“The books we love resist on-the-spot illumination, because they live in time, release their secrets over time, become different as we become different, are ultimately mobile and mysterious.” (p209)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Dar Es Salaam -- lovely delegates, lovely dresses at the Pan African Reading For All Conference
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Dar Es Salaam -- Bashir, Mr. Iddi, and I visit Slipway on the Indian Ocean
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Simpático with Peace Through Fiction - more quotes from A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein (post #3)
Quotes from Chapter Two, "Living in the Body," of A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein..."a book about the power of literature to heal and interact with our experiences" and simpático in spirit with Peace Through Fiction
"I want to examine the body as a kind of cultural grammar"(p111)
"(B)odies serve as parchment, slate, clay, record, text, the place where culture's story is told." (p111)
"(C)ertain kinds of damage are written on and into the body...injuries will eventually show, and the violence or abuse you have been subject to, far from disappearing or remaining just a dirty secret, comes out in the flesh." (p111)
"We assume that characters in both books and life do things, such as speaking, eating, loving, murdering, etc., but what about the ways they may be routinely penetrated and invaded: by air, by disease, by others' words, by images, by culture itself?" (p116)
(In) "Franz Kafka's dark story 'In the Penal Colony' (...), Kafka has devised a kind of fleshly semiotics that aims at no less than a miracle: the production of a language that would be one with what it says...Try to imagine a language that is immediate, so that the letters 'l-o-v-e' actually become 'love' rather than a word designating love." (p121, 123)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
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"I want to examine the body as a kind of cultural grammar"(p111)
"(B)odies serve as parchment, slate, clay, record, text, the place where culture's story is told." (p111)
"(C)ertain kinds of damage are written on and into the body...injuries will eventually show, and the violence or abuse you have been subject to, far from disappearing or remaining just a dirty secret, comes out in the flesh." (p111)
"We assume that characters in both books and life do things, such as speaking, eating, loving, murdering, etc., but what about the ways they may be routinely penetrated and invaded: by air, by disease, by others' words, by images, by culture itself?" (p116)
(In) "Franz Kafka's dark story 'In the Penal Colony' (...), Kafka has devised a kind of fleshly semiotics that aims at no less than a miracle: the production of a language that would be one with what it says...Try to imagine a language that is immediate, so that the letters 'l-o-v-e' actually become 'love' rather than a word designating love." (p121, 123)
Arnold Weinstein links ~
Arnold L. Weinstein, Brown University Research Arnold Weinstein, Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Book discussion ~
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