Shannon Dowd
Biographic Data
| ID | 228766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Dowd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowd |
| SIGNATURE | DOWD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Niagara University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Glyphs and the Afterlives of Theory
In the book Criticism and Truth, Roland Barthes asks, “How, without bad faith, could criticism be interrogative, optative or dubitative since it is writing and to write is precisely to encounter the categorical risk, the unavoidable alternative of true/false?” (1987, 93). A translator's note to the English edition I read points out that the word “categorical” renders “apophantique,” not the negative theology of “apophatic” but rather the Aristote…
Moth-Eaten Maps and Empty Wells: Augusto Roa Bastos, Augusto Céspedes, and the Chaco War Archive
Unable to come to an agreement on where the border lay, Bolivia and Paraguay sought to define the boundaries of the northern Chaco in the 1932–1935 Chaco War. This article shows that the Chaco is a symptomatic case of the difficulty of defining borders and representing them textually. In particular, through an examination of classic Chaco War texts like Augusto Roa Bastos’s novel Son of Man and Augusto Céspedes’s story ‘The Well’, alongside lesse…
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Moth-Eaten Maps and Empty Wells: Augusto Roa Bastos, Augusto Céspedes, and the Chaco War Archive
Unable to come to an agreement on where the border lay, Bolivia and Paraguay sought to define the boundaries of the northern Chaco in the 1932–1935 Chaco War. This article shows that the Chaco is a symptomatic case of the difficulty of defining borders and representing them textually. In particular, through an examination of classic Chaco War texts like Augusto Roa Bastos’s novel Son of Man and Augusto Céspedes’s story ‘The Well’, alongside lesse…
Glyphs and the Afterlives of Theory
In the book Criticism and Truth, Roland Barthes asks, “How, without bad faith, could criticism be interrogative, optative or dubitative since it is writing and to write is precisely to encounter the categorical risk, the unavoidable alternative of true/false?” (1987, 93). A translator's note to the English edition I read points out that the word “categorical” renders “apophantique,” not the negative theology of “apophatic” but rather the Aristote…
Archaeology (1 works) · Argentine historical studies (1 works) · Cartography (1 works) · Categorization (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Craft (1 works) · Criticism (1 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 works) · Education, Philosophy, and Society (1 works) · Geography (1 works)