Zachary Sng
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Sng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Sng |
| SIGNATURE | SNG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"On Debt and Community in Tieck's "Der Runenberg
Kant's discussion of the sensus communis is embedded in a larger project of negative, subtractive thinking in the third Critique . I explore this project by tracing its resonance in two twentieth-century commentaries on community by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roberto Esposito, who associate community with deficit, exposure, and debt rather than the possession or sharing of common property. Finally, I turn to a romantic fairy-tale by Ludwig Tieck, "Der Ru…
Reading A Free Life
Reading A Free Life Zachary Sng (bio) In Ha Jin's 2007 novel A Free Life, poetry gets the last word. Over the course of 650 pages or so, the book tracks its protagonist, Nan Wu, as he searches for a place to call home. Having come to the United States from China as a foreign student, he decides in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre to stay. Joined by his wife and young son, Nan embarks on a search for a new life. His journey takes him throug…
Ablative Affinities
Ablative Affinities Zachary Sng Among the many remarks in Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams that speak to a special affinity between language and the unconscious, one of the most intriguing features a preposition: In a psycho-analysis one learns to interpret propinquity in time as representing connection in subject-matter [die zeitliche Annäherung auf sachlichen Zusammenhang umdeuten]. Two thoughts which occur in immediate sequence without…
Syncretic Sunshine
This essay reexamines the critical potential of the term “syncretism” by analyzing the cinematic metaphors of the South Korean director, Lee Chang-dong. I discuss the uncanny play of concealment and un-concealment that marks Lee’s films (with particular attention to the 2007 Secret Sunshine ), and then turn to recent work by Rey Chow and Susan Buck-Morss on universal history, common humanity, and other forms of community that might offer a more i…
Parenthyrsos
Parenthyrsos:On the Medium Which Is Not One Zachary Sng In the hands of the poet, a robe [Gewand] is not a robe at all, for it hides nothing from the imagination. It is therefore of little import whether Laocoön is depicted clothed or naked in his dying agony, since every part of his body—robed, exposed, or wrapped in serpentine bulk—reveals the same depth of intolerable suffering to the poetic gaze. This is what Lessing's Laocoön: An Essay on th…
The Poetics of the Middle in Kleist's “Michael Kohlhaas”
Heinrich von Kleist's story, “Michael Kohlhaas,” has been often read as a demonstration of literature's ability to cross over and intervene in a sphere other than its own. Kleist's text is, however, replete with instances of thwarted crossing, impassable borders, and diversion into errancy. I argue that this tension points to Kleist's profound ambivalence toward the logic of mediation and his doubts about whether language can function as a medium…
Not Forgotten
Not Forgotten:On Stifter and Peirce* Zachary Sng (bio) The reader looking for a coherent picture of the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter would probably be frustrated by the diversity and the heterogeneity of different Stifters available out there. This is true not only of writings in academic journals and learned monographs, where nuanced differentiations and paradoxical juxtapositions are perhaps to be expected, but also of the newspaper article…
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Not Forgotten
Not Forgotten:On Stifter and Peirce* Zachary Sng (bio) The reader looking for a coherent picture of the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter would probably be frustrated by the diversity and the heterogeneity of different Stifters available out there. This is true not only of writings in academic journals and learned monographs, where nuanced differentiations and paradoxical juxtapositions are perhaps to be expected, but also of the newspaper article…
Parenthyrsos
Parenthyrsos:On the Medium Which Is Not One Zachary Sng In the hands of the poet, a robe [Gewand] is not a robe at all, for it hides nothing from the imagination. It is therefore of little import whether Laocoön is depicted clothed or naked in his dying agony, since every part of his body—robed, exposed, or wrapped in serpentine bulk—reveals the same depth of intolerable suffering to the poetic gaze. This is what Lessing's Laocoön: An Essay on th…
The Poetics of the Middle in Kleist's “Michael Kohlhaas”
Heinrich von Kleist's story, “Michael Kohlhaas,” has been often read as a demonstration of literature's ability to cross over and intervene in a sphere other than its own. Kleist's text is, however, replete with instances of thwarted crossing, impassable borders, and diversion into errancy. I argue that this tension points to Kleist's profound ambivalence toward the logic of mediation and his doubts about whether language can function as a medium…
Syncretic Sunshine
This essay reexamines the critical potential of the term “syncretism” by analyzing the cinematic metaphors of the South Korean director, Lee Chang-dong. I discuss the uncanny play of concealment and un-concealment that marks Lee’s films (with particular attention to the 2007 Secret Sunshine ), and then turn to recent work by Rey Chow and Susan Buck-Morss on universal history, common humanity, and other forms of community that might offer a more i…
Ablative Affinities
Ablative Affinities Zachary Sng Among the many remarks in Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams that speak to a special affinity between language and the unconscious, one of the most intriguing features a preposition: In a psycho-analysis one learns to interpret propinquity in time as representing connection in subject-matter [die zeitliche Annäherung auf sachlichen Zusammenhang umdeuten]. Two thoughts which occur in immediate sequence without…
Reading A Free Life
Reading A Free Life Zachary Sng (bio) In Ha Jin's 2007 novel A Free Life, poetry gets the last word. Over the course of 650 pages or so, the book tracks its protagonist, Nan Wu, as he searches for a place to call home. Having come to the United States from China as a foreign student, he decides in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre to stay. Joined by his wife and young son, Nan embarks on a search for a new life. His journey takes him throug…
"On Debt and Community in Tieck's "Der Runenberg
Kant's discussion of the sensus communis is embedded in a larger project of negative, subtractive thinking in the third Critique . I explore this project by tracing its resonance in two twentieth-century commentaries on community by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roberto Esposito, who associate community with deficit, exposure, and debt rather than the possession or sharing of common property. Finally, I turn to a romantic fairy-tale by Ludwig Tieck, "Der Ru…
Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dream (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works)