Browsing by Subject "Poiesis"
Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
- Results Per Page
- Sort Options
Item Making a change : Aristotle on poiêsis, kinêsis and energeia(2011-05) Chen, Fei-Ting, 1974-; White, Stephen A. (Stephen Augustus); Hankinson, R. J.; Woodruff, Paul; Mourelatos, Alexander P. D.; Koons, RobertI examine the relation between the action of producing a change (kinêsis) in something else and the action of exercising one’s nature or craft (energeia). I call for the distinction between kinêsis and energeia by arguing that in Metaphysics IX.1-5 change should be construed as a transformational change that is still characterized in accordance with the categories, whereas in Met. IX.6-9 the action of exercising of one’s nature or craft should be construed as the presence of a state or an action that exhibits one’s nature or craft, which is meant to be a way of characterizing that-which-is (to on) that goes beyond the categories. Instead of the conventional patient-centered account of change, I argue that Phys. III.3 and V.4 suggest a non-patient-centered account of change and that the agent’s acting-upon (poiêsis) should also be construed as a non-self-contained change, just as the patient’s being-acted-upon (pathêsis), and therefore cannot be conflated with exercising one’s nature or craft. I also point out that a genuine Aristotelian event cannot be composed of the agent’s acting-upon and the patient’s being-acted-upon. I argue that Phys. VII.3 suggests a two-way relation between the action of producing a change in something else and the action of exhibiting one’s own nature, based on which I outline a hylomorphic proposal that a genuine Aristotelian event is composed of the action of producing a change in something else as the material part of the event and the action of exhibiting one’s own nature as the formal part of the event. While the former provides the material necessitation force from the bottom up to the occurrence of the event, the latter provides the formal constraint force from the top down to the occurrence of the event.Item Tectonics of the poietic self : the formation of Juan Larrea and Lorenzo García Vega(2015-05) Manning, Sean O'Malley; Salgado, César Augusto; Fierro, Enrique; Wolitz, Seth; Sutherland-Meier, Madeline; Reed, Cory; Jato, MonicaThis dissertation examines the literary discipleship and poetic formation of Juan Larrea (Spain, 1895-1980) and Lorenzo García Vega (Cuba, 1926-2012) through a multidisciplinary model of poietic tectonics that brings together geological, psychoanalytical, and artistic structures of creation. As writers of complex prose works, Juan Larrea’s cultural hermeneutics and Lorenzo García Vega’s fragmentary testimonies appear to have little in common. However, when their trajectories are placed in parallel, a shared evolutive sequence becomes evident. This study concentrates on the first of a proposed two-cycle transformation process, tracing each poet’s psychic and writerly growth from pre-literary adolescence to the publication of their first works. The four chapters correspond to four tectonic stages in magma production as they occur within the geological subduction zone. The first explores the oceanic plate period that I describe, using Harold Bloom’s terminology, as a framing darkness characterized by national crises, unsatisfactory religious educations, and psychological suffering. Compelled to seek a guide out of these environments, the next chapter considers the period of convergence and subduction between the oceanic and continental plates describing the encounters between Larrea and Vicente Huidobro, and between García Vega and José Lezama Lima, as well as the completion of their literary apprenticeships to these maestros. At a certain point during its descent the oceanic plate releases essential elements that initiate an ascent into a magma chamber, equated with Larrea and García Vega’s respective appearances in the literary magazines Favorables París Poema and Orígenes, and a reconciliation of influence with instinct through psychological individuation. The cycle concludes when the magma reaches at the Earth’s surface, and similarly, the publication of two small books of poetry, Larrea’s Oscuro dominio (1934) and García Vega’s Suite para la espera (1948), signaled the eruption of each poietic self, prepared to continue their growth into the writers that they would later become. The multiple points of contact between the two poets and the methodology for identifying such commonalities provide a unique approach to the formation of the artistic personality and offer dialoguing exegeses between the works of two significant, yet understudied authors.Item Transcending immanence : poetic reason and mysticality in twentieth century Christian and Jewish Latin American poetics(2016-05) Malak, Stephanie Anna; Lindstrom, Naomi, 1950-; Salgado, César Augusto; Reed, Cory; Roncador, Sonia; Newman, MarthaThis dissertation considers the notion of “mysticality” in the works of Cubans Fina García Marruz and Cintio Vitier, Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and Argentine Jacobo Fijman, (the latter two both born Jewish in Russian-controlled territory). The present research engages with mystical, gender, and poetic studies in Latin American literature; broadly, I look at the way religion is incorporated into Latin American post-modern poetics. I analyze how Latin American writers use mystical language to address high-stakes secular issues, such as political revolution, feminism, and cultural identity. I will also discuss female writers whose poetic product is an exploration of a feminine Latin American lineage. Following the work of Spanish philosopher, María Zambrano, I develop her theory of poiesis, showing how these Latin American poets conflate the Divine and the quotidian in order to “divinize” aspects of everyday life. I contend that this poetic strategy of rhetorical divinization reveals both the profane and transcendent nature of their poetics.