Resuscitating the critical in the biological grotesque: blood, guts, biomachismo in science/education and human guinea pig discourse

In this response to Reis’s and Zuss’s responses to our meditation on the grotesque, we attempt to draw distinctions between positivist, empiricist, and realist (including grotesque realist) projects. We also, drawing on Bakhtin, consider the difference between dialogic and dialectic commentary.     

Embracing the Abject Other: The Carnival Imagery of Harry Potter

In Rabelais and His World Mikhail Bakhtin traces the history of laughter and the specific impact of Francois Rabelais upon that history, but more important it is the most definitive example of the carnivalesque available to Western scholars to date. By carnivalesque he refers to the traditional language and spectacle associated with folk culture within the carnival season, language and images that represent the universal truths of life, death, and renewal through the grotesque body. Bakhtin’s theories of the characteristics of unbridled freedom illustrate the universality and dissident effects of laughter. The revolutionary or subversive, carnival spirit displayed by the clash between official and unofficial culture bear particular significance upon the Harry Potter series. At the heart of carnival imagery is what Bakhtin defines as the three elements of laughter: “universalism, freedom, and… [their] relation to the people’s unofficial truth” (p. 90). These are the elements of laughter that most adequately characterize Harry Potter’s subjective view of what is good and right. He is at the most basic level an initiate of change who works within the realm of the carnivalesque to illustrate the subversive qualities of laughter in opposition to the official culture the muggle world represents with regards to race. The carnivalesque and grotesque in Harry Potter illustrates an appeal to social transformation through the power of laughter and the reversal of the dominant order of race and racial difference.     

论孔子与怪诞的矛盾关系

孔子与怪诞有千丝万缕的联系,在民间传说里他不但大量＂语＂了＂怪＂,而且他本人身上就包含了不少怪诞的因素。孔子也经常谈到和思考天、命、天命、鬼神、祭祀等神秘怪诞的问题,并对这些问题常常感到很迷惘。孔子对怪诞的心态是很矛盾的,一方面,他明确提出不语＂怪＂,对怪诞采取了尽力回避的态度,并将一些怪诞现象尽量进行历史化的解释;另一方面,在有些场合,他又对一些怪诞现象津津乐道。特别耐人寻味的是,在实际行动上,孔子不仅有时肯定了怪诞,而且常常把怪诞与实际生活联系起来,用以预测生活、指导生活。     

作为“新”审美形态的怪诞——评刘法民教授的怪诞美学研究

东西方自古以来都存在怪诞现象,但怪诞研究最早出现在西方。西方怪诞理论传入中国后出现偏差,刘法民教授的怪诞美学四书等著作给怪诞美正名,并用科学归纳法,概括出怪诞美的系列特征与本质定义,并将怪诞列为与悲剧、崇高、优美等并列的美学形态。     

论怪诞

通过对中外文学艺术作品中的怪诞现象的探源和浅析 ,认为怪诞是一个流变的概念。初步概括并分析怪诞的审美特征 :反常的构成原则 ;混合恐惧和滑稽的震惊感 ;双重性的功能价值。怪诞与滑稽的区别主要在于反常程度、创作态度和审美价值的差异上 ;怪诞与荒诞的区别在于怪诞更多作为一种创作手法 ,荒诞更主要是一种观念和意识。     

爱伦坡小说里的女性(英文)

Edgar Allan Poe,a writer of a Romanism,is well-known for his grotesque and grim style of writing.In most of his grotesque and grim works,describing females is his major method to express his own emotion.All of these women usually have a perfect appearance and passionate character,but are afflicted with mysterious illness.It is a conventional means of voicing feeling for Allan Poe to describe the heroes' deep pain and their yearning for the beautiful heroines.This thesis will introduce Allan Poe's legendary life and analyze the features of the females in his life and works under the background of the United States at Edgar Allan Poe's times.And this thesis will describe of his denial of the patriarchy.     

怪诞探源

通过对中外文学艺术作品中的怪诞现象的探源和浅析，笔者认为怪诞是一个流变的概念。文章初步概括并分析怪诞的审美特征：反常的构成原则；混合恐惧和滑稽的震惊感；双重性的功能价值。怪诞与滑稽的区别主要在于反常程度、创作态度和审美价值的差异上；怪诞与荒诞的区别在于怪诞更多作为一种创作手法，荒诞更主要是一种观念和意识。     

试论巴赫金的怪诞现实主义

巴赫金的怪诞现实主义观，从怪诞与民间诙谐文化，狂欢化精神的整体性出发，对怪诞作出了自己的阐释，他的观点已经自成体系，对今后的怪诞美学研究将具有重大的学术价值和方法论意义。     

怪诞的演变形态

怪诞审美形态演变的客观原因,是审美对象丑恶内容中的害与滑稽方式的反常性,主观原因,是审美主体善恶观念及生活经验的变化。怪诞演变最典型的历时形态有古代的传统的现代的后现代的,怪诞演变最鲜明的异域形态。是精神内核迥异的希腊文明希伯来（基督教）文明与儒道禅文化造成的中西方怪诞艺术。     

一种荒诞 两种人生

托尼·莫里森的《宠儿》和余华的《活着》都讲述了各自主人公痛苦的人生经历。虽然故事情节备不相同,但是其中的批判意蕴并无二致。从萨特的存在主义角度来分析两部作品,发现在两位主人公各自所处的荒诞时代,人并没有选择的自由,因此他们的一切痛苦都源于那个时代的荒诞。     

鲁迅作品怪诞艺术探析

鲁迅的作品内涵深刻,有不少篇章比较难以理解。造成这一状况的原因,除了斗争环境的恶劣使他的有些作品表现得较含蓄委婉外,更主要的是他大量借鉴怪诞、象征等西方现代艺术的表现手法,并不断创新所致。怪诞是鲁迅常用的一种艺术手法,他的小说、杂文和散文诗中的怪诞,已形成自己独有的特点。探究鲁迅作品的怪诞艺术,有利于更深入地理解他的作品蕴含的深刻内涵。     

Globalisation, identity, and nation: Australian and American undergraduates abroad

In this essay, I explore how two groups of undergraduates — Americans and Australians — participate in the reformulation of the “global imagination” through their experiences of studying abroad. Specifically, I question the assumption that the global imagination constitutes one shared, common experience that is the same across nations. In contrast, I demonstrate that though American and Australian students are certainly among the elite in global terms, their shared economic position does not necessarily correspond to a common global imagination. Instead, they have markedly different notions of both national and global identities. American students’ strong national identity often prevents them from exploring the possibilities of global affiliation. Australian students’ relatively weak national identity allows for a robust global sense of place, but is sometimes constrained by a limited tolerance for racial and ethnic diversity. In conclusion, I argue that the global imagination has not one, but numerous manifestations, which have the potential to both enable and constrain the enhancement of justice and democracy in a global context.     

The Practices of Mathematicians: What do They Tell us About Coming to Know Mathematics?

In 1997, an interview-based study of 70 research mathematicians was undertaken with a focus on how they ‘come to know’ mathematics, i.e. their epistemologies. In this paper, I discuss how these mathematicians understand their practices, locating them in the communities of which they claim membership, identifying the style which dominates their organisation of research and looking at their lived contradictions. I examine how they talk about ‘knowing’ mathematics, the metaphors on which they draw, the empiricist connections central to the work of the applied mathematicians and statisticians, and the importance of connectivities to the construction of their mathematical Big Picture. I compare the stories of these research mathematicians with practices in mathematics classrooms and conclude with an appeal for teachers to pay attention to the practices of research mathematicians and their implications for coming to know mathematics. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Dialectics, dialogics and other ways of reading us

In this response to Reis’s and Zuss’s responses to our meditation on the grotesque, we attempt to draw distinctions between positivist, empiricist, and realist (including grotesque realist) projects. We also, drawing on Bakhtin, consider the difference between dialogic and dialectic commentary.     

“怪诞”与“怪”

我国美学怪诞泛化的主要表现,是将中国文论中的"怪"当grottesco怪诞。怪诞是恶与滑稽按反常化方式构成的、既可怕又好笑的系统结构模式审美形态。怪是以反常化方式构成的、能使人惊异的一切对象。怪诞的构成成分是恶与滑稽,怪既可以是真善美也可以是假恶丑。怪诞的构成方式是反常化,怪是在常有、现实的反方向上制造陌生、超现实,本质上也是反常化。怪诞的接受反应是可怕与好笑的混杂,怪只是惊。     

Harry Potter and the Terrors of the Toilet

The Harry Potter series focuses upon the toilet as a site for heroic action and a threshold between worlds as well as a more traditional place for boys to be bullied and girls to weep. This article offers a Kristevan reading of the toilets as abject in Harry Potter, and shows how this concept helps us make sense of wider issues within the series, especially Harry’s uneasy relation to the maternal. Alice Mills is associate professor of literature and children’s literature at the University of Ballarat. She has edited two collections of scholarly essays, on the grotesque and the unspeakable, and a number of anthologies of children’s literature. Her research interests lie mainly in the psychoanalytic and Jungian interpretation of fantasy and the picture story book. Briggs, Fungus the Bogeyman Holzwarth and Erlbruch, The story of the little mole who knew it was none of his business Griffiths, The Day My Bum Went Psycho Griffiths, Zombie Bums of Uranus     

Teasing out repetition from rote: an essay on two versions of will

In some circles of mathematics education, repetition and rote are somehow conflated in terms of their pedagogical uses and ramifications. In this paper, I argue for the separation of the two, relying upon a framework suggested by Martin Buber’s I–Thou ontology. In the presentation of Buber’s ideas, I highlight the notion of will-as-would-join-with-grace, to be contrasted with plain will. The merit of repetition in teaching and learning, as I argue, is not in automaticity—the common rationale—but in fostering and supporting a deepened sense of connection and/or intimacy to the object under study.     

Grotesque Encounters with Adolescence: Reading Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding

This paper takes the grotesque as a model of subjectivity that offers compelling inroads to understanding adolescence. Bakhtin notes that the grotesque ‘seeks to grasp in its imagery the very act of becoming and growth, the eternal, incomplete, unfinished nature of being’. I argue that Carson McCullers' novel, The Member of the Wedding (1946 McCullers, C. 1946/1987. Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  [Google Scholar]), is largely about this ‘act of becoming’ in its heightened form, at the time of early adolescence, and I explore the ways in which puberty estranges 12‐year‐old Frankie Adam from her old body and her old self, resulting in encounters with the uncanny.     

“I think everybody is afraid of the unknown”: Early childhood teachers prepare for mainstreaming

Conclusion In conclusion, as early childhood teachers prepare to meet the “unknown” —mainstreaming—the early childhood community has an excellent opportunity to benefit from both past experiences and the research literature on mainstreaming and teacher change. This work suggests that teachers' feelings and attitudes about mainstreaming must be addressed in dynamic relation to their needs for information and skills as these change over time. Teachers, directors, and teacher educators need help in understanding that teachers' development and the development of the children they teach are inextricably linked. While these concepts have been explored previously, it is imperative that practitioners at all levels recognize their relevance at this critical juncture in the implementation of P.L. 99–457 and consider new and creative ways to translate them into practice. I feel... not just that I couldn't cope with it... but emotionally I don't think I could... Emotionally I think I would have a hard time, you know, going home and feeling good about myself when I know that there's this child [with disabilities in my classroom].