Jon Kertzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 227959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Kertzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kertzer |
| SIGNATURE | KERTZER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amitav Ghosh's zubben
Zubben”, Amitav Ghosh explains, is “the flash lingo of the East”. This article examines how his trilogy of historical novels supplements English with (at least) 23 other languages and invites readers on a verbal voyage in which interpretation is required but inhibited. The challenges of navigating through his rich prose expose readers to a verbal cornucopia, which feeds a series of related themes sustained by a narrative rhythm of convergence and…
Time's Desire
This essay examines how the logic and the spectacle of the law jointly respond to Nietzsche's concern that the one condition that baffles the will is the fact that the past is unalterable. The will cannot will backwards, but justice can, in W.B. Yeats's phrase, dream back by devising a temporality to symbolically redeem the past through a passionate knowledge expressed through haunting spectacles of pain (torture) and payment (punishment). The es…
Crossroads
A.M. Klein's Meditation on Life
Amitav Ghosh's zubben
Zubben”, Amitav Ghosh explains, is “the flash lingo of the East”. This article examines how his trilogy of historical novels supplements English with (at least) 23 other languages and invites readers on a verbal voyage in which interpretation is required but inhibited. The challenges of navigating through his rich prose expose readers to a verbal cornucopia, which feeds a series of related themes sustained by a narrative rhythm of convergence and…
A.M. Klein's Meditation on Life
Crossroads
Time's Desire
This essay examines how the logic and the spectacle of the law jointly respond to Nietzsche's concern that the one condition that baffles the will is the fact that the past is unalterable. The will cannot will backwards, but justice can, in W.B. Yeats's phrase, dream back by devising a temporality to symbolically redeem the past through a passionate knowledge expressed through haunting spectacles of pain (torture) and payment (punishment). The es…
Amitav Ghosh's zubben
Zubben”, Amitav Ghosh explains, is “the flash lingo of the East”. This article examines how his trilogy of historical novels supplements English with (at least) 23 other languages and invites readers on a verbal voyage in which interpretation is required but inhibited. The challenges of navigating through his rich prose expose readers to a verbal cornucopia, which feeds a series of related themes sustained by a narrative rhythm of convergence and…
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Amnesty (1 work)