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Existential Kepesh and the Facticity of Existential Roth: The Breast, The Professor of Desire, and The Dying Animal

01 Jan 2017-Partial Answers (Johns Hopkins University Press)-Vol. 15, Iss: 2, pp 369-390
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Roth's Kepesh saga, The Breast (1972), The Professor of Desire (1997), and The Dying Animal (2001), dramatically morphs, with regard to sexuality and imaginative flight, Sartre's account, in Being and Nothingness (L'etre et le neant, 1943), of the origins and possibilities of consciousness and their relation to desire.
Abstract: The article argues that Philip Roth's Kepesh saga — The Breast (1972), The Professor of Desire (1997), and The Dying Animal (2001) — dramatically morphs, with regard to sexuality and imaginative flight, Sartre's account, in Being and Nothingness ( L'etre et le neant , 1943), of the origins and possibilities of consciousness and their relation to desire. Indeed, desire, the dominant theme of Roth's trilogy, corresponds to Sartrian outlooks on transcendent possibility or existential freedom. In Being and Nothingness , moreover, Roth appears to have located, identified with, and artistically transformed outlooks on consciousness and artistic creativity. Roth's inspiration for imagining a character who exists as a breast, sans body, may also have emerged from Sartre's treatise, the outlooks of which allow for better appreciation of the concerns and fictive possibilities suggested by The Professor of Desire and The Dying Animal .
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TL;DR: A bibliography of Philip Roth-related texts published during 2017, including critical works (books, book chapters, journal essays, and special journal issues) is presented in this paper.
Abstract: What follows is a bibliography of Philip Roth-related texts published during 2017, including critical works (books, book chapters, journal essays, and special journal issues). All entries will reflect the format as defined in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook (2016). All sources are arranged in alphabetical order according to the author’s last name. Individual essays included in edited collections are grouped in “Book Chapters” and are crosslisted according to MLA style. Digital book editions, such as those designed for Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook readers, are not included in this listing. Given the recent growth in e-book technology, digital versions of Roth’s texts are becoming standard practice. This being the case, none of these e-book versions are included in this bibliography. Readers and researchers can easily visit online booksellers to find digital editions.

6 citations

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TL;DR: Roth's Why Write? as mentioned in this paper is a collection of nonfiction collected from 1960-2013 with the same title and related concerns as Sartre's "Pourquoi écrire?" ("Why Write?").
Abstract: Abstract:What might readers infer from the identical titles and related concerns of Sartre's "Pourquoi écrire?" ("Why Write?") and Roth's Why Write?, his collected nonfiction, 1960-2013? Some of the concerns of that volume appear to link the more pervasive synthesis of nothingness and possibility in Sartre's Being and Nothingness (1943) to Arthur Koestler's advocacy, in Insight and Outlook (1949), of "bisociative" cognition. At stake, for Roth, when reading himself and others, are incisive rejoinders to "insensate readers" who, ignoring the difference between personal identity and imaginative excursion, surrender personal responsibility while denigrating artistic prowess.
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01 Jan 1927
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an interpretation of Dasein in terms of temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being.
Abstract: Translators' Preface. Author's Preface to the Seventh German Edition. Introduction. Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being. 1. The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being. 2. The Twofold Task of Working out the Question of Being. Method and Design of our Investigation. Part I:. The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being. 3. Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein. Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein. Being-in-the-World in General as the Basic State of Dasein. The Worldhood of the World. Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being-One's-Self. The 'they'. Being-in as Such. Care as the Being of Dasein. 4. Dasein and Temporality. Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death. Dasein's Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness. Dasein's Authentic Potentiality-for-Being-a-Whole, and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care. Temporality and Everydayness. Temporality and Historicality. Temporality and Within-Time-Ness as the Source of the Ordinary Conception of Time. Author's Notes. Glossary of German Terms. Index.

16,708 citations

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TL;DR: The Pursuit of Being as mentioned in this paper is a well-known approach to the problem of being in the world, where the goal is to be "for itself" and "for others".
Abstract: Translator's preface, Introduction, The Pursuit of Being, Part 1. The Problem of Nothingness, Part 2. Being-For-Itself, Part 3. Being-For-Others, Part 4. Having, Doing and Being, Conclusion, Key to Special Terminology, Index

1,305 citations

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01 Jan 1877

704 citations

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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Antonio Barbagallo's poems in this collection convey a simple, honest, passionate engagement of the many dimensions of human existence, as well as an ardent, but also sweet and playful, eroticism.
Abstract: Machado's words help us appreciate the work of contemporary poets like Antonio Barbagallo who speak about matters of life and death and who insist that life and death matters. Barbagallo's poems in this collection convey a simple, honest, passionate engagement of the many dimensions – and particulars – of human existence. The poems capture a rich variety of moods, impressions, and observations. Many different kinds of love and grief find expression, as well as an ardent, but also sweet and playful, eroticism. His images – many drawn from his native Sicily, from Spain, and from the Northeastern United States – are striking, and the rhythms of the poems are robust and compelling. There is in Barbagallo's poetry a simple love of nature and of the pastoral as in the poem that hails the "white-washed villages of Andalucía" (9), the poem that grants us a vista of the Vermont countryside (10), and the poem that invites us to return with the poet to his native Sicilian landscape (29). Yet, the poet is also mindful of nature's honest sternness as in the lines describing the farmer's relation to the land:

399 citations