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Lan­guage of ruin and con­sump­tion: on lament­ing and com­plain­ing
Laments and com­plaints are among the most ancient poet­i­cal forms and ubiq­ui­tous in every­day speech. Under­stand­ing plain­tive lan­guage, how­ev­er, is often pre­vent­ed by the resent­ment and fear it evokes. Lament­ing and com­plain­ing seems point­less, irrec­on­cil­able, and destruc­tive. Lan­guage of Ruin and Con­sump­tion exam­ines Freud’s approach­es to lament­ing and com­plain­ing, the heart of psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ic ther­a­py and the­o­ry, and takes them as guide­lines for read­ing key works of the mod­ern canon. The re-nego­ti­a­tion of older–ritual, dra­mat­ic, and juridical–forms in Rilke, Wittgen­stein, Scholem, Ben­jamin, and Kaf­ka puts plain­tive lan­guage in the cen­ter of mod­ern indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and expounds a fun­da­men­tal dimen­sion of lan­guage neglect­ed in the­o­ry: reci­procity is at issue in plain­tive lan­guage.
Lan­guage of Ruin and Con­sump­tion advo­cates that a fruit­ful recep­tion of psy­cho­analy­sis in crit­i­cism com­bines the dis­cus­sion of psy­cho­an­a­lyt­i­cal con­cepts with an adap­ta­tion of the hermeneu­ti­cal prin­ci­ple ignored in most philo­soph­i­cal approach­es to lan­guage, or rel­e­gat­ed to mere rhetoric: speech is not only by some­one and on some­thing, but also addressed to some­one.
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Ani­mals and their chil­dren in Vic­to­ri­an cul­ture
Whether a sec­u­lar­ized moral­i­ty, bib­li­cal world­view, or unstat­ed set of mores, the Vic­to­ri­an peri­od can and always will be dis­tin­guished from those before and after for its per­va­sive sense of the „prop­er way“ of think­ing, speak­ing, doing, and act­ing. Ani­mals in lit­er­a­ture taught Vic­to­ri­an chil­dren how to be behave. If you are a post­mod­ern posthu­man­ist, you might argue, „But the ani­mals in lit­er­a­ture did not write their own accounts.“ Ani­mal char­ac­ters may be the cre­ations of writ­ers’ imag­i­na­tion, but ani­mals did and do exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The orig­i­nal essays in Ani­mals and Their Chil­dren in Vic­to­ri­an cul­ture explore the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of ani­mals in children’s lit­er­a­ture by resist­ing an anthro­po­mor­phized per­cep­tion of them. Instead of focus­ing on the domes­ti­ca­tion of ani­mals, this book ana­lyzes how ani­mals in lit­er­a­ture „civ­i­lize“ chil­dren, teach­ing them how to get along with fel­low creatures—both human and non­hu­man.
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