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The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and DiasporaFrom academic sojourners to settler migrants: "scholarship boy" and girls in the kitchen -- Eating in public as performance of assimilation, diaspora, or ethnic belonging -- Mapping the new south(west)ern home -- Expats in love: recipes for belonging abroad -- Diasporic inventions: reclaiming family culinary traditions -- Conclusion: Talking turkey: the Thanksgiving holiday as the measure of assimilation.
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Sexuated Topology and the Suspension of Meaning: A Non-Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to Textual AnalysisThis study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of sexuation integrated with his work in discourse theory and topology. Part I places this study into context by examining scholarship from the established fields of hermeneutics, phenomenology, (post)structuralism, aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis in order to extract out their respective theory of meaning. These theories reveal that an historical struggle with meaning has been underway since the Reformation and reaches near crisis proportions in the 20th century. On the one hand this crisis is mollified by the rise of Heideggerian-Gadamerian hermeneutical phenomenology which questions traditional epistemological approaches to the text using a new ontological conceptualization of meaning and a conscious rejection of methodology. On the other hand this crisis is exacerbated when the ubiquitous nature of meaning is itself challenged by (post)structuralism's discovery of the signifier which inscribes a limit to meaning, and by the domains of sense and nonsense newly opened up by aesthetic theory. These historical developments culminate in the field of psychoanalysis which most consequentially delimits a cause of meaning said to be closely linked to the core of subjectivity. Part II extends these findings by rigorously constructing out of the Lacanian sexuated formulae a decidedly non-hermeneutical phenomenological approach useful in demonstrating the sexual nature of meaning. Explicated in their static state by way of an account of their original derivation from the Aristotelian logical square, it is argued that these four formulae are relevant to basic concerns of textual theory inclusive of the hermeneutical circle of meaning. These formulae are then set into motion by integrating them with Lacan's four discourses to demonstrate the breakdown of meaning. Finally, the cuts and sutures of two-dimensional space that is topology as set down in L'étourdit are performed to confirm how the very field of meaning is ultimately suspended from a nonsensical singular point known in Lacanian psychoanalysis as objet a. The contention is that by occupying this point the subject frees himself from the debilitating grip of meaning.
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Myśl i SłowoAutor wstępu opisuje poezje metafizyczne i biografię twórczą Leszka Elektorowicza (ur. 1924- we Lwowie), polskiego poetę metafizycznego, przyjaciela Zbigniewa Herberta (1924-1998). Nota edytorska zawiera kompletną bibliografię wszystkich źródeł przedruków wierszy Elektorowicza. Ponadto pierwsza bibliografia zawiera listę wszystkich publikacji książkowych Elektorowicza z lat 1957-2012, ale nie tylko książek poetyckich. Osobna bibliografia zawiera wybrane publikacje Elektorowicza w niepolskich antologiach i czasopismach zagranicznych z lat 1959-2008. Kalendarium biograficzne zawiera najważniejsze wydarzenia z jego życia. Fakty tam zawarte, podobnie jak i wszelkie dane bibliograficzne w tej książce, były autoryzowane bezpośrednio przez Leszka Elektorowicza.