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Research paper thumbnail of Mann to Mann: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in Thomas and Klaus's Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of Inhabiting the Discourses of Belonging; Franz Kafka and Yoko Tawada

Undergraduate Research Journal, 2016

This piece examines the role of language in creating the identity of the foreigner in German pros... more This piece examines the role of language in creating the identity of the foreigner in German prose. Writing at opposite ends of the 20th century, Kafka and Tawada serve as harbingers for a broader sense of alienation that comes with writing as an Other. Using lenses provided by Spivak, Butler, Said and Deluze, this essay surveys the broader cultural concepts and theoretical implications of the notion of the metaphorical subaltern that can be created in prose, and the particularities presented by the German language in creating and articulating this identity. This essay examines six texts, three by Kafka and three by Tawada, placing them in contrast with one another. Ultimately this essay seeks to shift the hermeneutics of reading the Kantian Ding an sich of subaltern as hopeless, rather to see the these six texts as a plea for understanding. Writing is born from and deals with the acknowledged doubt of an explicit division, in sum of the impossibility of one’s one place... it remain...

Research paper thumbnail of Cyanotypes : Photography's Blue Period

" Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period will trace the rise of these "blueprint pho... more " Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period will trace the rise of these "blueprint photographs" beginning with the botanical photogenic drawings printed by Anna Atkins in the 1850s. The exhibition will also feature contemporary artists who have recently revived the process manipulating the medium to varied expressive effects. " -- Publisher's website.

Research paper thumbnail of Mann to Mann: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in Thomas and Klaus's Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of Inhabiting the Discourses of Belonging; Franz Kafka and Yoko Tawada

Undergraduate Research Journal, 2016

This piece examines the role of language in creating the identity of the foreigner in German pros... more This piece examines the role of language in creating the identity of the foreigner in German prose. Writing at opposite ends of the 20th century, Kafka and Tawada serve as harbingers for a broader sense of alienation that comes with writing as an Other. Using lenses provided by Spivak, Butler, Said and Deluze, this essay surveys the broader cultural concepts and theoretical implications of the notion of the metaphorical subaltern that can be created in prose, and the particularities presented by the German language in creating and articulating this identity. This essay examines six texts, three by Kafka and three by Tawada, placing them in contrast with one another. Ultimately this essay seeks to shift the hermeneutics of reading the Kantian Ding an sich of subaltern as hopeless, rather to see the these six texts as a plea for understanding. Writing is born from and deals with the acknowledged doubt of an explicit division, in sum of the impossibility of one’s one place... it remain...

Research paper thumbnail of Cyanotypes : Photography's Blue Period

" Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period will trace the rise of these "blueprint pho... more " Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period will trace the rise of these "blueprint photographs" beginning with the botanical photogenic drawings printed by Anna Atkins in the 1850s. The exhibition will also feature contemporary artists who have recently revived the process manipulating the medium to varied expressive effects. " -- Publisher's website.

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