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Here, and Here: Essays on Affirmation and Tragic Awareness
Author(s): Vasilis Papageorgiou (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 115 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443816760
- ISBN-13: 9781443816762
Book Description
Important to the essays here is the possibility of using logos without the negative, restricting and violent aspects of logos. In this respect I speak about affirmation and about tragic awareness rather than about the tragic itself or tragic conflict, as I read texts of a literary democracy that is already here, texts by Don DeLillo, Tomas Tranströmer, John Ashbery and Thanasis Valtinos, or see arrangements by Lo Snöfall. Indeed it is all about arrangements, about knowing how to affirm and doing it rather than using language and its codes in order to transcribe, however accurate this might be. Arrangements say yes, since they do not raise any absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: it is a cosmos, where affirming is a tragically aware cosmetics. Cosmos is neither the world nor any ordering or embellishment of this world, but an openness as the incalculable accumulation of arrangements that say yes in their awareness that they do not amount to an ontology.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Vasilis Papageorgiou writes about my work with outstanding sharpness and brilliant analytical understanding that unearths unexpected dimensions in my texts. Moreover he does that within a theoretical context that I find unique and inspiring, a very substantial and groundbreaking way for affirming texts.”―Thanasis Valtinos, writer, member of the Academy of Athens”In this rich, eclectic and impassioned volume, ranging from Euripides to John Ashbery and Tomas Tranströmer (with constant but never merely dutiful reference to Jacques Derrida), Vasilis Papageorgiou opens up new and provoking ways of thinking about the tragic, loss and affirmation, translation and hospitality, democracy and the cosmetic.”―Professor Nicholas Royle, School of English, University of Sussex
About the Author
Vasilis Papageorgiou is Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University. His books include Euripides’ Medea and Cosmetics (1986) and Panta rei i Mjuka mörkret (2003). He is also a writer and translator, mainly of poetry.
