{"title":"“Boy, Girl, You Are a Sword”","authors":"Chloe Allmand","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.54.2.0161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.54.2.0161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70869154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric Color and the Phenomenological Gaze","authors":"Michael Powers","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.54.2.0298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.54.2.0298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70869349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sensorial, Biocentric Philosophy of Michel Serres and Michel Onfray: Rehabilitating the Human Body","authors":"Keith Moser","doi":"10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.1.0092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.1.0092","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Based upon their conviction that dominant thought paradigms in Western civilization are guilty of overrationalizing the human agent, the unorthodox contemporary philosophers Michel Serres and Michel Onfray attempt to rehabilitate the human body. These encyclopedic epistemologists, who have a marked predilection for scientific explanations of the world and our place in it, deconstruct extreme philosophical positions that correspond to the pervasive doctrine of rationalism. Adopting a rhizomatic vision of knowledge, Serres and Onfray maintain that the human body is one integrated organism in which everything works together in tandem enabling the subject to find meaning in a universe in which nothing has any pre-determined or fixed essence. Urging us to (re-)establish a direct, sensorial connection to the \"world of things\" to which everything including homo sapiens belongs by honing our deadened senses that have been numbed by the modern lifestyle and the ongoing evolutionary process they refer to as \"hominisation,\" Serres and Onfray advocate in favor of an all-encompassing sensorial, hedonistic, biocentric ethic. In the current Anthropocene epoch, both philosophers convincingly demonstrate that the implementation of an ecocentric ethos linked to somatic communions with the rest of the material world could hold the key to averting the impending anthropogenic crisis.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"53 1","pages":"110 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42077052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuums, Simultaneity, and Politics in Contemporary Latin American Authors","authors":"E. Spindler, S. Sieber","doi":"10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.1.0111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.1.0111","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article attempts to reveal larger patterns similar to those involved in chaos theory that are often overlooked in contemporary Latin American literature, described by literary critics as the most creative milieu of the modern period. The overt reference to modern quantum physics and chaos theory in the work of Jorge Luis Borges has long been recognized. However, it is the authors' belief that this focus on quantum physics and continuums has also long been a part of literary works that form part of the boom movement. The boom period also focuses on the political milieu, which surfaces in Latin American literature as a tradition of the fantastic, or magical realism. These elements are brought together through the kind of time that is only found in quantum physics: simultaneity.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"53 1","pages":"111 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43028793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ælfric, Alliterative Linking, and the Idea of a Vernacular Verse Line","authors":"D. Updegraff","doi":"10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.1.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.1.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Ælfric of Eynsham's use of alliteration within verse pairings and, more significantly, across line divisions, illustrating his technique of extra-linear alliteration within verse runs. This study touches on the Anglo-Saxon listeners' or readers' expectations for alliterative completion within the classical Old English verse line in order to demonstrate the truly unpredictable and exciting alliterative structure of the Ælfrician line and its neighboring verses, paying special attention to Ælfric's later non-hagiographic works Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo and Hexameron.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"53 1","pages":"23 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45916331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portrait on the Lost Coast","authors":"Lukáš","doi":"10.5325/pacicoasphil.53.2.0253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pacicoasphil.53.2.0253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"53 1","pages":"253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70869162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Indexed Land: Reading Regionalism in the Californiana of Dawson’s Bookstore Catalogues","authors":"J. Morton","doi":"10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.52.2.0274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.52.2.0274","url":null,"abstract":"The catalogues of Dawson’s Book Store, Los Angeles’s longest-standing antiquarian bookstore, established in 1905, show California’s figurative representation in texts and bibliography. The catalogues’ indexing of historical and literary works on California—dubbed Californiana—reveal a specific conceptualization of regionalism structured around topography, travel literature, and historical pamphlets, among other material. The catalogues acted as guidebooks for customers to imaginatively explore California’s colonial past. This understanding of California’s history was juxtaposed with descriptions of a rapidly modernizing Los Angeles, situating Dawson’s at the threshold between a telescoped past and an on-rushing future. The catalogues’ curation of regional space was mirrored by the physical space of the bookstore’s Californiana department. As the catalogues were indexes of the shop’s continually changing stock, they invoke and challenge the structure of libraries, archives, and bibliograpies. This article contributes to discussions surrounding book collecting, regional literature and history, and the intersection of antiquarianism and modernity in Southern California.","PeriodicalId":41712,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Coast Philology","volume":"52 1","pages":"274 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43706419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}