Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception Charalabopoulos By Stacy Cacciatore Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi, 331. ISBN It is quite likely, as many scholars have suggested, that Plato used performance of his dialogues as a teaching tool in the … [Read more…]
Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato’s Sophist INTRODUCTION: BEING AND NON-BEING, TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD IN PLATO’S SOPHIST Notes by Stacy Cacciatore “Ontology is the theory of objects and their ties. ” “It provides criteria for distinguishing different types of objects (concrete and abstract, existent and nonexistent, real and ideal, independent and dependent) and their ties (relations, … [Read more…]
The homoerotics of the Phaedrus Page duBois “Plato’s Phaedrus, as a text of high seduction, aimed at drawing the reader toward erotic life and therefore toward philosophy, plays with the edges of the Greek definitions of male and female to liberate the reader to a paradoxical sense of the fluidity of boundaries,” (p 9) … [Read more…]
The motives of eloquence: literary rhetoric in the renaissance The motives of eloquence: literary rhetoric in the Renaissance Richard A. Lanham 1976 New Haven and London: Yale University Press The verbal style in the West: proceeded on the basis of a few simple premises: Every man possesses a central self; combine into a … [Read more…]
In the video Piéce touchée (1989) by Martin Arnold, I conducted a bit of research and found that this 16-minute film is based on an 18-second long segment of a movie from the 1950s. In Martin Arnold’s signature style, that we saw in the two previous films we watched in class (Alone. Life Wastes Andy … [Read more…]
Rape in Roman Culture By Stacy Cacciatore I visited Italy for the first time this summer, exploring Rome, Venice, Florence, Pompeii, Tuscany and Modena, an exploration of my husband’s Italian heritage (whose family is from Sicily). I love art and one of the highlights of the trip was visiting Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi. We had … [Read more…]
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan By Stacy Cacciatore The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan is a fascinating novel that centers on a bomb that goes off in the Delhi marketplace in 1996. This “small bomb”, which kills approximately 50 people, isn’t a huge event that gets discussed in the media … [Read more…]
While the City Slept by Eli Sanders By Stacy Cacciatore This book was written by a journalist who wrote about the murder of two women in 2009 by a young man who was mentally disturbed. The opening scene was riveting and the description of the scream, red house and white curtain billowing out of the window … [Read more…]
In Simulacra and Simulations, Baudrillard (1994) introduces us to simulacra, which is a copy of something that no longer has an original and simulation, which is the imitation of a real-world process (167). Baudrillard provides an excellent example of simulation by using Disneyland as an example. He states that Disneyland is a play of illusions … [Read more…]
2001: A Space Odyssey, functions as prophetic rhetoric. It’s pretty amazing to watch this film in the year 2019 and recognize the sheer number of technological predictions that came to fruition that had to have been far-fetched in the year 1968. When this film was made, we had not even gone to the moon yet, however, … [Read more…]