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Source: futurefeed | Muriel Rukeyser as Major Figure: Imaginative Poetics as Praxis
Sappho of Lesbos. Painting by John William Godward.
“Women’s desire for one another is still characterized as a girlish and feverish drive thought to wear itself out by adulthood. America’s patriarchal and homophobic lens simultaneously hyper-sexualizes the physical connection between lesbians while dismissing their capacity for love.”
Ann Lauterbach (photo: © Marina van Zuylen, 2018, courtesy Penguin Random House)
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
To demonstrate the working of poetic language, Kristeva engages in a detailed study of nineteenth-century avant-garde poetry (notably that of Stéphane Mallarmé and the Comte de Lautréamont). The supreme irony, Kristeva argues, is that the most challenging (and to many, the most obscure) avant-garde writing (Joyce, for example) is indebted to childhood experience, an experience of universal scope.
Source: Julia Kristeva and thought in revolt | Footnotes to Plato
Towards the end of Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes’s study of contemporary myths, he claimed: “I have tried to define things, not words” – surprising perhaps, given the philosopher’s popular association with language, communication and meaning. It is not that words are not also things; but the comment suggests an important corrective to the understanding of his work. Barthes was not (simply) an aesthete interested in forms, but a theorist who tried to understand how these forms constructed our imagination.…
Source: Footnotes to Plato | Roland Barthes: Things not words?
Archer, Republic of South Africa, Korf Hoeks Farm, 8,000-2,000 BCE. Watercolour by Maria Weyersberg,Courtesy Frobenius-Institut Frankfurt am Main
Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions and associations
Source: Imagination is such an ancient ability it might precede language | Aeon Essays