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Associate Prof. of American Studies MANAGING EDITOR Assistant Prof. of English Studies
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EYECORNER PRESS is an independent academic publishing house started as a collaboration between the universities of Roskilde and Aalborg in Denmark, Oulu in Finland, and Gainesville, Georgia, USA. THE PRESS focuses on promoting academic writing with an edge.
THE PRESS gives priority to works that
engage with rigorous thinking, but which are yet informed by a
creative style, and irreverent approaches to literature, culture, philosophy, and visual art. THE GENRES represented are academic interdisciplinary writing, poetry, aphorisms, fragments, and other borderline manifestations. The fiction manuscripts honor Raymond Federman's precepts for the writing of critifiction, the conflation of criticism with fiction. ALL MANUSCRIPTS undergo peer review. Readers include academics from both sides of the Atlantic. THE PRESS publishes works in English, Danish, French, Romanian, and bilingual editions.
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TYRANT OIDIPOUS:
A New Translation of Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus
(drama, criticism)
RACHEL POLLACK AND DAVID VINE
JUST RELEASED: March, 2012 ISBN: 978-8792633156
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Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus (also known by its Latin title Oedipus Rex) is one of the world’s fundamental works of literature, the model for Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, and the inspiration for Freud’s Oedipus Complex. This new translation, rigorously faithful to Sophocles’ words and images, reveals the play in all its dramatic and poetic power, the terrifying story of a man whose idealism and belief in his own ability to uncover secrets destroys himself and everyone he loves. Both a murder investigation and an exploration of the struggle between free will and fate—between rational choice and the oracles of the gods—Tyrant Oidipous takes us into the heart of our own deepest mysteries.
“A
double mystery, this fresh translation is a crime story and an
exploration of fate as Sophocles intended. Taking it back to
archaic roots in the original language, Pollack and Vine capture the
magnificence of the precise moment mortal lives intersect with the
intentions of their gods. ‘Oidipous’ the play is gorgeous in this
unique rendering. Utterly rational, purely poetic, fast-paced
storytelling compels the unfolding drama. Don’t miss the introductory
notes.” —Nor Hall, author of The Moon & the Virgin
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OUT OF SILENCE: Censorship in Theatre & Performance
(theatre, performance, criticism)
CARIDAD SVICH editor
JUST RELEASED: February, 2012 ISBN: 978-8792633149
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This
collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of
censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of
academics, practitioners and artist-scholars, among them Chantal
Bilodeau, Stephen Bottoms, Marvin Carlson, Tim Crouch, Stephen J.
Duncombe, Rinde Eckert, Randy Gener, Matthew Goulish, Baz Kershaw,
Joanna Laurens, Carl Lavery, Christopher Shinn, and Aleks Sierz.
Edited by playwright, scholar and activist Caridad Svich, Out of
Silence is an impassioned volume that focuses not only on governmental
censorship, but also on the self-censorship of theatre artists in the
process of theatre-making and performance. “This insightful book should be read by theatre practitioners and administrators, and especially by those who guide the future generations of theatre artists who hopefully will be able to help create a vital theatre.” – Ted Shank
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LA DIABOLIQUE TRAGÉDIE
(literature, philosophy)
MADAME X
December, 2011 ISBN: 978-8792633132
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En 2010 fut découvert une œuvre littéraire datant du début du XIXème siècle intitulée La Diabolique Tragédie. Au cours des deux siècles qui ont suivi sa rédaction, le manuscrit est resté aux mains des collectionneurs, principalement des collectionneurs d’éditions duodécimo de romans noirs datant de la fin du XVIIIème siècle et du début du XIXème siècle, avant que son possesseur actuel ne décidât qu’il était grand temps de faire connaître ce texte au grand public. L’œuvre a été créée par un faussaire de l’époque ayant adopté comme nom de plume « Madame X », et son intention, nous le savons, était de publier le texte en le faisant passer pour un authentique texte de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. L’idée de X, qui n’est pas inconcevable en soi, est que, à l’insu de ses contemporains, Rousseau avait écrit une réfutation du Paradis perdu de Milton dans laquelle il explorait jusqu’au bout les implications de sa propre conception de l’homme naturel, en incorporant dans le nouveau texte des extraits d’œuvres précédentes, principalement du Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes.
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TAROLOGY
(Tarot de Marseille, poetry, philosophy)
ENRIQUE ENRIQUEZ
JUST RELEASED: November, 2011 ISBN: 978-8792633125
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In Tarology Enrique Enriquez sees the Tarot de Marseille through the prism and science of pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. By following into the footsteps of Oulipian writers, he applies the idea of constraint and the rule of restriction to the surprisingly visual and gestural nature of Tarot. The result is not only illuminating but also enriching for all those interested in the history of Tarot and its divinatory practices. Enriquez develops a whole new method of reading cards, which combines careful considerations of chance with choice. By using a phenomenological and constructivist approach to the cards, Enriquez shows how the Tarot de Marseille speaks poetry and thus reveals some of our deepest concerns with language, with what we can say when we are at a loss for words.
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FIGHTING THE ANGEL: BIBLICAL AND MYTHICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH DEMONS AND DEITIES
(literary, cultural, and psychoanalytical criticism)
MARIA KARDAUN
September, 2011 ISBN: 978-8792633118
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As the Biblical patriarch Jacob, after twenty years
of exile, is about to cross the river that separates him from home,
he gets into a nocturnal fight with a supernatural figure,
traditionally referred to as ‘the angel’. As a result of the
wrestling match Jacob is injured, however he also receives a
blessing and a new name: from now on he is called Israel. The
present study proposes a Jungian reading of this famous episode in
Genesis. The focus is on the intriguing identity of Jacob’s
enigmatic adversary: who or what is that figure on the riverside and
what does he want from Jacob? Parallels from other mythological
tales are discussed and it will be shown that Jacob is by no means
the only character in world mythology to get into a conflict with a
demon or deity, even though his attitude towards unwilling divine
powers is rather special. Reading like a detective story, the book
takes us on a journey that slowly but steadily unlocks the true
nature of Jacob’s mysterious opponent. The surprising outcome adds
to our understanding of the figure of Jacob-Israel. Moreover, it
makes us aware of a number of hitherto overlooked characteristics
that modern Western society inherited from its Judaeo-Christian
past.
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THE WAY OF THE SIGN: CULTURAL TEXT THEORY IN TWO STEPS
(literary, cultural, and visual criticism)
CAMELIA ELIAS
August, 2011
ISBN: 978-8792633101 READ A FRAGMENT ABOUT THIS BOOK HERE
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This is a book about extraction, about reducing
methods of inquiry to the bare bones. It guides students through 10
schools of theory and criticism. The focus is on ‘asking’ each
theory to give its best in the simplest way, by making us see what
is at stake and how we might respond to it. In simple Socratic
dialogue, Elias invents scenarios: ‘What is happening?’
Deconstruction asks. And we answer with it: ‘We are buying a
mythology.’ ‘How does it make us feel?’ ‘Dumb.’ ‘What is happening?’
Marxism asks. And we answer with it: ‘The rich cheat us.’ ‘How does
it make us feel?’ ‘Angry’. By posing such simple questions, the book
brings out the complexity of the ideas formulated in different
approaches to texts, and the joy at discovering that some theories
are mighty simple, and therefore also beautiful. The book’s aim is
thus to contribute to every student’s ‘aha’ experience. Make it
richer, so that they themselves can start asking questions.
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AURORA RESURGENS (history, poetry, criticism)
ANTHONY JOHNSON
April, 2011
ISBN: 978-8792633057
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This book is an inédit presentation of three different texts. One discussing a Finnish sawmill in the form of a prose poem which brings the reader into a world of Sanskrit etymologies and the legend of 'The Shining Ones'. Another is a libretto for the Opera ‘The Clavis Magna of Giordano Bruno’. In search of a lost text by a great Renaissance magus, the libretto offers an investigation of memory theatres, alchemy, religion and magic in the Sixteenth century: juxtaposing them against a contemporary story which closes on the cusp of the new millennium and the 400th anniversary of Bruno's burning. The third set of texts is a selection of poems, ‘Running with Dogs’, including 'Tangram' a seven-part work inspired by the Italian disaster at Seveso in 1976 and its aftermath. At the heart of the book is the idea that loss can be conceptualized not only in thaumaturgic terms but may also become a means of generating a redemptive alchemy of its own.
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TOWARDS A GENEALOGY OF SPECTACLE (theater criticism & philosophy)
YUNUS TUNCEL
March, 2011
ISBN: 978-8792633071
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This book is an exploration of contemporary experience of spectacle in its multiple layers, as it attempts to expose the forces that are at work in the making of spectacular events. The book first makes a heuristic distinction between inner and outer forces of spectacle and later brings them together into genealogically sensible ideas, while reflecting on the problems of spectacular experiences and relations. It sets before itself two goals: to understand the language of spectacle, the signs that it emanates and the affects that it distributes, and to dissect the pathos of spectacle of contemporary society. In an age that is saturated with technology and the products of mass media, it aims to show how and why grand artistic spectacles are needed for the life and health of a culture.
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WORD MADE FLESH (theatre criticism)
GEORGE HUNKA
March, 2011
ISBN: 978-8792633088
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Collectively, the entries here are not a manifesto nor a theory. This is neither an academic treatise nor a textbook. What destruction is sought is a destruction of received consciousness, not a bomb thrown into a building or a classroom. They describe a theatre that does not exist, that may never exist except as an imaginative possibility in the mind of the dreamer.
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WRITING WITH BLOOD (philosophy, criticism)
DAVID KILPATRICK
March, 2011
ISBN: 978-8792633095
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Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine. The process of dramatization that exposes this crisis places the subject and language at risk. Writing with Blood explores the birth and death of the tragic subject in antiquity and the modernist reanimation of the sacrificial in Nietzsche, Bataille and Mishima.
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THE WINDS OF ILION (philosophy, literature, criticism)
STEVEN JOYCE
March, 2011
ISBN: 978-8792633026
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When Novalis declared that “the world must be romanticized,” that it must be restored to its plenary “meaning, magic, and mystery,” he, like Friedrich Schlegel touts the fragment as the vehicle of this restorative art. The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira. The many different creative threads composing this work weave a fabric of variegated meanings whose scope extends to the disparate events and marginal circumstances both of literary and everyday life.
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THE ACOLYTES (a novel)
RAINER J. HANSHE
December, 2010
ISBN: 978-8792633064
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"The connection between the aesthetic and the religious realm in the term "acolyte" is important for Rainer J. Hanshe's novel as it subtly links his story of masters and disciples in the thespian and literary arts to the contemporary crisis in the Church. In the acolyte's realm the cults of art and religion converge. Hanshe's novel also illuminates, in beautiful and also horrifying ways, the many-nuanced nature of "love." In a deeply poetic subplot it shows the oneness of two beings in and with each other as an evocation of cosmic unity. The novel is a riveting, slightly surreal portrait of the bohemian underworld of New York and it exposes the sinister underside of the ever-beckoning dream of art. It shows with fascinating nuance the multi-faceted nature of artistic ambition, illuminating a range from lofty yearning to diabolical craving for power." (Walter H. Sokel)
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RENATI THE KING (drama, criticism)
GIAN DiDONNA
November, 2010
ISBN: 978-8792633040
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Renati the King is a play that explores the final hours of Rene Descartes. It is also a play about the perennial question of how love is addressed, who embodies it, and at what level of mastery it is exercised. Baroque and android-like characters intersect each other's fates, and it is suggested that if human love is impossible in terms of constancy, then that of the posthuman is not. Rainer J. Hanshe offers an illuminating counterpoint to this idea by situating the play in a wide context that includes careful considerations of the ancient Greeks, court politics, Nietzsche, and a host of poets ranging from Aristophanes to Genet and Beckett, and tracing the implication of philosophers becoming dramatists.
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THE LOGICIAN (memoir, prose poetry)
CAMELIA ELIAS
October 22, 2010
ISBN: 978-8792633033
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This is a book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense of how to be grateful for the experiences in life that can be said to be not only beautiful but also significant in form. The author's own mother, a logician, emerges as a powerful woman who has things to say to people she encounters through mediation: mathematicians, prophets, lovers, and fools. The introduction to the collection is an informative memoir which entangles the personal essay with the formal properties of writing that can be said to be both epistemic, creating a certain kind of knowledge, and also creative in terms of approaches to narrative.
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NIGHT CAFÉ: THE AMOROUS NOTES OF A BARISTA (philosophy, fiction, criticism)
GRAY KOCHHAR-LINDGREN
September 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-8792633019
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Night Café is a book for the senses that think. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren takes us through a history of coffee as recorded for and by the thinkers of the 19th and 20th century. The Night Café brings together prominent critics, artists, and intellectuals in an encounter which the author describes as a meeting between epistemo-lovers who are equally into rigorous mathematics and the architecture of the tastes. Here's some coffee according to Walter Benjamin, Vincent Van Gogh, Hemingway, Rilke, Ovid, and others.
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COARCTATE: ANTIGONE'S RETURN AND SELECTED POEMS (drama, poetry, criticism)
MARK DANIEL COHEN
August 12, 2010
ISBN: 978-8792633002
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In this volume, Mark Daniel Cohen offers, in the first part, a fresh and intelligent look at Sophocles, re-writing Antigone almost as a Beckettian version of Tristan and Isolde. The modern-day domestic drama is continued in the second part of the volume, in which selected poems aptly combine the trivial and the sublime, the mark and measure of every great classic. Camelia Elias writes the introduction under a contaminated spell.
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PULVERIZING PORTRAITS: LYNN EMANUEL'S POETRY OF BECOMING (criticism)
CAMELIA ELIAS
January 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-8799245680
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Pulverizing Portraits provides the first book-length study of contemporary American poet Lynn Emanuel. Emanuel’s poetry is significant because it situates itself in relation to current debates about the state of poetry, creative writing in the academia, and the importance of drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to poetry via visual aesthetics, poststructuralist literary and theoretical perspectives, and philosophy. Elias traces the power of Emanuel’s writing and looks at her subtleties in combining intrinsic and formal constraints in poetry with extrinsic and socio-historical methodologies.
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JAGGED TIMELINE (poetry)
ROBERT GIBBONS
March 15, 2010
ISBN: 978-8799245673
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This bilingual volume introduces the work of American prose poet Robert Gibbons to a transatlantic audience. The volume shows how multifaceted a poet he is, effortlessly exploring political, aesthetic and emotional themes, such as war, poverty, exile, work, love and the archives of Time. Presenting Danish translations of 64 of the poet’s best pieces, juxtaposed with the American original versions, the book also contains a lengthy scholarly introduction by the editor and translator, Bent Sørensen, forming the first sustained academic study of Gibbons’ work.
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