Spatial dialectic and political poetics in Agnès Varda’s expatriate cinema

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delphine Bénézet
Keyword(s):  
Political Poetics

scholarly journals Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves

Prism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-196
Author(s):  
Yingjin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Art Photography ◽  
Political Poetics ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract This article examines ways of seeing China in Isaac Julien's nine-screen film installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010), which represents a migratory aesthetic based on evocative translocality and mobile spectatorship. As Julien reconstructs the legend of compassionate Mazu (played by Maggie Cheung) and memories of Old and New Shanghai (both enacted by Zhao Tao), his screen images and sounds enter a constant circulation and form an intriguing multidirectional dialogue across a variety of media and genres: cinema, art photography, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and star performance. In addition to evaluating new concepts and new techniques at work in the cross-fertilization of cinema and other visual media in the new millennium, this article complicates Julien's celebrated political poetics by highlighting his problematic reception by ethnic Chinese spectators and by reckoning with the specter of orientalism that refuses to go away despite his previously audacious repudiation of stereotypes and clichés and his professed engagement with cosmopolitanism and globalization.

Political Poetics: A Social History of Drama

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Augusto Boal ◽  
Charles A. McBride ◽  
Maria-Odilia Leal McBride
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Poetics

The Subject's Tragedy: Political Poetics, Feminist Theory, and Drama

1995 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Leanore Lieblein ◽  
Linda Kintz
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Political Poetics

Outside the republic: a visionary political poetics

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 975-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fisher
Keyword(s):  
The Republic ◽  
Political Poetics

Aesthetics in Islamic philosophy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Black
Keyword(s):  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Cognitive Foundations ◽  
Political Poetics

The major Islamic philosophers produced no works dedicated to aesthetics, although their writings do address issues that contemporary philosophers might study under that heading. The nature of beauty was addressed by Islamic philosophers in the course of discussions about God and his attributes in relation to his creation, under the inspiration of Neoplatonic sources such as the pseudo-Aristotelian Theology of Aristotle, a compilation based upon the Enneads of Plotinus. Considerations of artistic beauty and creativity were also addressed in works inspired by Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics, and Islamic philosophers also adapted some of Plato’s views on literature and imitation, particularly those expressed in the Republic. On the whole, Islamic philosophers did not view artistic and literary creativity as ends in themselves. Rather, their interest was in explaining the relations of these activities to purely intellectual ends. In the case of poetics and rhetoric in particular, the emphasis in Islamic philosophy was pragmatic and political: poetics and rhetoric were viewed as instruments for communicating the demonstrated truths of philosophy to the populace, whose intellectual abilities were presumed to be limited. The medium of such communication was usually, although not necessarily, that of religious discourse. Islamic philosophers also devoted considerable attention to explaining the psychological and cognitive foundations of aesthetic judgment and artistic production within the spectrum of human knowledge. They argued that rhetoric and poetics were in some important respects non-intellectual arts, and that poetics in particular was distinctive in so far as it addressed the imaginative faculties of its audience rather than their intellects.

Political Poetics and the Aristotelian Turn

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-284
Author(s):  
Rita Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Knight's Tale ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Political Poetics

If emotion is expressed through the persuasive form of the enthymeme, what are the fields in which we can find this activated? Chapter 6 turns to poetry itself, poetry written in the wake of De regimine principum and arising from the sphere of political thought. It focuses on three texts that can be read in the light of De regimine principum: Dante’s Convivio, with emphasis on tractate IV and its canzone, part IV of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, and Hoccleve’s Prologue to his Regiment of Princes. Two of these, Convivio and Regiment of Princes, engage directly and explicitly with Giles of Rome’s work. Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale carries the accumulated influence of De regimine without directly citing it; Chaucer’s intertext is Dante’s Convivio. While these texts express some of the greater themes of De regimine, their poetic arguments can be read as enthymematic, using a brevity of argument that is emotionally effective. In this way, these poetic texts reflect—via the mediation of Giles’ De regimine—the impact of Aristotle’s rhetoric of emotion.

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