Many of Akutagawa's storiesーKonjaku monogatarishū-derived "Yabu no naka" (In a Grove, 1922) includedーcan be understood in terms of sekai-shukō 世界 / 趣向: “world” and “conceit,” the conceptual binary central to the art & literature of the Edo period. Sekai refers to the...
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... established historical or literary framework that serves as the starting point for a new work, while shukō denotes the innovation or variation by which a writer revitalizes that familiar foundation.
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The authors of the Nō do not pique themselves on originality. They are in the habit of conveying ... snatches of Tanka, texts of Buddhist scripture, or striking phrases supplied by their memory from older writers, stringing them together... in a way which does much credit to ...
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Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
Replying to @beorcan
James B. Jordan had a blog post bemoaning how Reformed theology had become completely irrelevant
Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
So if I have this right, three days after the attack on a church in Jordan that killed nine people, the security services have the terrorists. Well done indeed.
Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
Replying to @mobymartin
For sure; the key is to make the term definitions book-specific; if the definitions are just wiki-like explanations, there's no point. explain what the terms mean *for / in the context of* your monumental-humble tome.
What did those petulent children of Paris 1968 have against de Gaulle, who had given so much to the nation and to European civilization? #I stand with de Gaulle.
Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
The funny thing about Yarvin is he says nothing controversial; he simply makes explicit what is already implicit in NPR America's belief system. He tells them what they already think, using unfamiliar language. A kind of defamiliarization 異化, or ostranenie as the Russians say.
You call your monograph a "monumental-humble tome" and you don't even have a ten-page Glossary of Japanese Terms? Get outta here
I don't know if Christopher Lasch [born in Omaha at same hospital my father was born at] ever read Hegel, but he is [in my humble view] America's greatest right-Hegelian thinker of the last half century; here he is on Sittlichkeit and limits.
Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
Replying to @xenocosmography
You're naive if you think Trump ❨or any POTUS for that matter❩ has the power and agency to do any of that. Trump sits in the potus seat because the progressive deep state ok'd it and put him there ❨albeit willy-nilly❩.
Dance with me in the sunshine, / Dance with me before they [the pharmaceutical regime, the managerial state, the media, the universities, the cathedral] drug our minds.
Zoh Amba is rock and roll at its purest, its truest.
Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
Jordanian Christians are among the most non-violent and peaceful Christians in the world. More than half of those killed for their faith are Jordanian Doctors, my Godfather is a Jordanian Doctor. These were men of God whose only mission in life was to use their hands to heal, slaughtered by men who use their hands to kill.
Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 retweeted
Replying to @tanyanb13
with the abolition of "ibid" we've reached the end of the pseudomorphic cycle.
This is the way. *The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang*. Translated by Stephen Owen and Wendy Swartz. De Gruyter, 2017. Full PDF Online: library.oapen.org/bitstream/…





























