Ian K T Tan
Biographic Data
| ID | 10209284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian K T Tan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian K T |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan |
| SIGNATURE | TAN I K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1474-8717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
To give the literary event
This essay explores the poststructuralist concept of the ‘event’ as an unforeseen and incalculable surprise, reading its theoretical significance in two ways: as an occurrence that has already taken place (divided at its source) and an occurrence that opens up the impossible consideration of futurity. By linking the thought of the event with the phenomenological notion of the gift, I aim to explore how literary narratives perform the happening of…
Ian McEwan’s Aesthetic Stakes in Adaptation as Political Rewriting
This essay will examine two of Ian McEwan’s recent novellas as political rewritings of William Shakespeare and Franz Kafka. McEwan’s Nutshell (2016) repositions the avenger figure in Hamlet as an unborn child whose melancholic awareness of the condition of modern existence allows him a mode of ironic commentary about the possibilities of moral and political choices in a world soon to be destroyed by climate change and nuclear apocalypse. The Cock…
The Sense of the Visible
This essay will read the poems in Wallace Stevens's Harmonium together with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in order to examine how Stevens imparts philosophical gravity to his use of language in the early poetry in a Heideggerian way, through grounding the self in a fundamental attitude of worldly openness
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Ian McEwan’s Aesthetic Stakes in Adaptation as Political Rewriting
This essay will examine two of Ian McEwan’s recent novellas as political rewritings of William Shakespeare and Franz Kafka. McEwan’s Nutshell (2016) repositions the avenger figure in Hamlet as an unborn child whose melancholic awareness of the condition of modern existence allows him a mode of ironic commentary about the possibilities of moral and political choices in a world soon to be destroyed by climate change and nuclear apocalypse. The Cock…
The Sense of the Visible
This essay will read the poems in Wallace Stevens's Harmonium together with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in order to examine how Stevens imparts philosophical gravity to his use of language in the early poetry in a Heideggerian way, through grounding the self in a fundamental attitude of worldly openness
To give the literary event
This essay explores the poststructuralist concept of the ‘event’ as an unforeseen and incalculable surprise, reading its theoretical significance in two ways: as an occurrence that has already taken place (divided at its source) and an occurrence that opens up the impossible consideration of futurity. By linking the thought of the event with the phenomenological notion of the gift, I aim to explore how literary narratives perform the happening of…
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