bahare saghazade; Bahman Namvar Motlagh
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The present study tries to investigate "femininity" and its relation to "death" in The Balcony by Jean Genet, with the help of Julia Kristeva and Maurice Blanchot’s views. These two concepts have always been abjected as "other" in the history of Western phallogocentrique thought. According to Hélène ...
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The present study tries to investigate "femininity" and its relation to "death" in The Balcony by Jean Genet, with the help of Julia Kristeva and Maurice Blanchot’s views. These two concepts have always been abjected as "other" in the history of Western phallogocentrique thought. According to Hélène Cixous, the root cause of this abjection of women resides in language, the one which is based on binary oppositions. According to the researcher, the reason of death abjection should also be sought in language; Blanchot mentions this gap in his article "La Littérature et le Droit à la Mort" and considers the task of literature to give the reader the experience of death, and thus to fill this gap. In the play Balcon, Jean Genet, by crossing the boundaries of symbolic order, deconstructing the binary-based language, and relying on the semiotic mode of signification rather than symbolic mode, creates a new language that can be called "feminine" by Cixous and Kristeva’s criteria. With the help of the motherly features of its language and narrative, this work has been able to instill the experience of death as one of its main elements, and has fulfilled the task of literature, according to Blanchot, in granting the experience of death to the reader.
Hamid Hashemi Kohandani; Bahman Namvar Motlagh
Volume 15, Issue 21 , October 2019, , Pages 273-296
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The nostalgia for the past is one of the most influential concepts in the life of writers and poets, which occurs due to spatial and temporal distances and has an effect on their poems and stories. This research seeks to distinguish between the types of this missing, divided into nostalgia and melancholia, ...
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The nostalgia for the past is one of the most influential concepts in the life of writers and poets, which occurs due to spatial and temporal distances and has an effect on their poems and stories. This research seeks to distinguish between the types of this missing, divided into nostalgia and melancholia, and each one can be individually interpreted, and for this purpose we used Walter Moser’s theory who is an Ottawa university professor. We first read the definition of this thinker of what nostalgia is and examine its difference with another complication, which is also caused by sadness and neglect. Moser has introduced a set of conditions for the recognition of these two concepts, and we try to find these conditions among Nizar Qabbani’s poems to find examples based on which our argument will hold. Finally, we conclude two things. First of all, what kind of nostalgia is in his work and second, what is the use of this distinction to better understand his poems, because there is a sense of nostalgia in many poets’ and perhaps most poets’ works; it can even be a natural consequence of aging. This broad concept should be typified and used to understand each artist's poems more precisely.