Christopher Kelen
Biographic Data
| ID | 382122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Kelen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelen |
| SIGNATURE | KELEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
They’d Eaten Every One”
A crucial and under-examined aspect of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the relationship between euphemism and atrocity in the dealings with the anthropomorphised entities that are – or are in danger of becoming – food. Based on a close reading of the poem, this article explores how aesthetics and ethics work in considerations of form and courtesy, which impact the lives of such anthropomorphis…
Liminal Encounters
This essay examines conceptions of animals and human-animal relations in the poetry of Denise Levertov, Wisława Szymborska, and Alice Fulton, with a focus on whether human thinking can take us beyond the limits of a poetic construction of animals as others
And ever give us cause’
This paper engages a close analytical reading of the lyrics of ‘God Save the King/Queen’ in order to understand what the functional survival of this song tells us about the rhetorical/affective investments of national devotion in the British sense. This study asks also how the lyrics of ‘God Save the King/Queen’ figure in the general definition of anthem and in the generic classification of anthems worldwide? Because of the song's international s…
Zdravljica” - toast to a cosmopolitan nation anthem quality in the Slovenian context
As with many states, in the case of Slovenia two songs principally contend for the position of national anthem. In this case an apparent ideological gulf masks perhaps a more essential temperamental divide: the bellicose army song versus the happy drinking “all together...” number. Vacillation between “Zdravljica” (“A Toast”) and “Naprej zastava slave,” (“Forward, Flag of Glory”) might be taken as reflecting the ambivalence with regard to potenti…
Of love and national borders
Croatia became a UN member only in 1992, after the violent break‐up of Yugoslavia. Its anthem is marked by historically founded ambivalences as to the nature and territorial extent of the nation in question. This article offers an interpretation of the current version of the anthem and an analysis of the narrative and imagery of the nineteenth‐century poem from which the anthem originates. Three of the anthem's four stanzas speak about the Croats…
Macao Monuments
How are city and culture—the space of the city and the “mind space” of the cultural artifact— connected or disconnected? Contemporary Macao poetry and installation art demonstrate that not only has local culture continued to thrive despite outside pressures on the city’s regional position (a part of “one China” with a localized function) but that the need to produce a critique of these pressures has itself been productive of a politically interes…
Resurrection
This paper presents a comparative study of two key contenders for Serbian anthem-hood, the royalist song ‘God of Justice’ and the pan-Slavic hymn, ‘Hey Slavs’. Drawing on the theorising of nation and representation, as developed by Benedict Anderson, Michael Billig and others, the purpose of the study is to compare the self-images these songs present to those they enjoin in unison, and to consider the role of those images and the identities they …
Crossing the road in Macao
A meditation on a particular problem in a specific place, this article ranges over a wide territory to consider the ethical and intercultural dimensions entailed in a simple act many would take to be the exercise of a fundamental human right – the right to safely cross the road at a place designated for the purpose. The place in question is East Asia's tiny city of Macao, former Portuguese territory and the newest part of China. As a long-standin…
Going Begging
Among the key themes of contemporary Macao poetry, chance and luck loom large, along with their figuration in Macao life through sites such as casinos and temples, through personae such as those of the gambler, the beggar, the prostitute. Macao as dot-on-the-map is likewise conceived as a site for all kinds of portal semiotics, as paradigm for cultural crossing and cultural shift. Macao may be regarded as a work enduring (in Brechtian terms) beca…
Global Positioning, Or, Telling Tales of Where We Are
This essay attempts to account for the author's present position—as an expatriate teacher of creative writing in Macao, China—a highly ambiguous place with impressively hybrid cultural credentials, now being made over as the Las Vegas of the East. Attending to the geo-political and historical dimensions of his work, the author briefly describes his mission in China under the rubric that 'everyone has a story to tell' and the world will be a healt…
Who am I? How is my Soul Stirred
The key mythology for landscape and identity today is that of nation. The nation dreams itself, escapes from its sobriety or cruelty, from its banality, in the adulation of national moments. Affect is powerful in these evocations of the international landscape as a level playing field. Nations all have anthems. This paper investigates the evocation of place as home, so as to honour not the unquestioned devotion of patriotism, but rather the inter…
Anthems of Australia
This paper investigates, by means of various cultural archaeologies, the relative investments of three songs of significance in the ongoing construction of Australian national identity. They are respectively 'God Save the Queen' (the ex-anthem), 'Advance Australia Fair' (the official anthem) and 'Waltzing Matilda' (a quasi-anthem, with no acknowledged official status but often described as the 'national song')
Language and Learning Orthodoxy in the English Classroom in China
In China, the Last Picture of Yang Jingtao
(2001). In China, the Last Picture of Yang Jingtao. Peace Review: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 553-559
Ultimate trope
Viral Trope
Resurrection
This paper presents a comparative study of two key contenders for Serbian anthem-hood, the royalist song ‘God of Justice’ and the pan-Slavic hymn, ‘Hey Slavs’. Drawing on the theorising of nation and representation, as developed by Benedict Anderson, Michael Billig and others, the purpose of the study is to compare the self-images these songs present to those they enjoin in unison, and to consider the role of those images and the identities they …
Anthems of Australia
This paper investigates, by means of various cultural archaeologies, the relative investments of three songs of significance in the ongoing construction of Australian national identity. They are respectively 'God Save the Queen' (the ex-anthem), 'Advance Australia Fair' (the official anthem) and 'Waltzing Matilda' (a quasi-anthem, with no acknowledged official status but often described as the 'national song')
Of love and national borders
Croatia became a UN member only in 1992, after the violent break‐up of Yugoslavia. Its anthem is marked by historically founded ambivalences as to the nature and territorial extent of the nation in question. This article offers an interpretation of the current version of the anthem and an analysis of the narrative and imagery of the nineteenth‐century poem from which the anthem originates. Three of the anthem's four stanzas speak about the Croats…
And ever give us cause’
This paper engages a close analytical reading of the lyrics of ‘God Save the King/Queen’ in order to understand what the functional survival of this song tells us about the rhetorical/affective investments of national devotion in the British sense. This study asks also how the lyrics of ‘God Save the King/Queen’ figure in the general definition of anthem and in the generic classification of anthems worldwide? Because of the song's international s…
Macao Monuments
How are city and culture—the space of the city and the “mind space” of the cultural artifact— connected or disconnected? Contemporary Macao poetry and installation art demonstrate that not only has local culture continued to thrive despite outside pressures on the city’s regional position (a part of “one China” with a localized function) but that the need to produce a critique of these pressures has itself been productive of a politically interes…
Crossing the road in Macao
A meditation on a particular problem in a specific place, this article ranges over a wide territory to consider the ethical and intercultural dimensions entailed in a simple act many would take to be the exercise of a fundamental human right – the right to safely cross the road at a place designated for the purpose. The place in question is East Asia's tiny city of Macao, former Portuguese territory and the newest part of China. As a long-standin…
Who am I? How is my Soul Stirred
The key mythology for landscape and identity today is that of nation. The nation dreams itself, escapes from its sobriety or cruelty, from its banality, in the adulation of national moments. Affect is powerful in these evocations of the international landscape as a level playing field. Nations all have anthems. This paper investigates the evocation of place as home, so as to honour not the unquestioned devotion of patriotism, but rather the inter…
Language and Learning Orthodoxy in the English Classroom in China
Viral Trope
Ultimate trope
In China, the Last Picture of Yang Jingtao
(2001). In China, the Last Picture of Yang Jingtao. Peace Review: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 553-559
Language and Learning Orthodoxy in the English Classroom in China
Anthems of Australia
This paper investigates, by means of various cultural archaeologies, the relative investments of three songs of significance in the ongoing construction of Australian national identity. They are respectively 'God Save the Queen' (the ex-anthem), 'Advance Australia Fair' (the official anthem) and 'Waltzing Matilda' (a quasi-anthem, with no acknowledged official status but often described as the 'national song')
Who am I? How is my Soul Stirred
The key mythology for landscape and identity today is that of nation. The nation dreams itself, escapes from its sobriety or cruelty, from its banality, in the adulation of national moments. Affect is powerful in these evocations of the international landscape as a level playing field. Nations all have anthems. This paper investigates the evocation of place as home, so as to honour not the unquestioned devotion of patriotism, but rather the inter…
Global Positioning, Or, Telling Tales of Where We Are
This essay attempts to account for the author's present position—as an expatriate teacher of creative writing in Macao, China—a highly ambiguous place with impressively hybrid cultural credentials, now being made over as the Las Vegas of the East. Attending to the geo-political and historical dimensions of his work, the author briefly describes his mission in China under the rubric that 'everyone has a story to tell' and the world will be a healt…
Crossing the road in Macao
A meditation on a particular problem in a specific place, this article ranges over a wide territory to consider the ethical and intercultural dimensions entailed in a simple act many would take to be the exercise of a fundamental human right – the right to safely cross the road at a place designated for the purpose. The place in question is East Asia's tiny city of Macao, former Portuguese territory and the newest part of China. As a long-standin…
Going Begging
Among the key themes of contemporary Macao poetry, chance and luck loom large, along with their figuration in Macao life through sites such as casinos and temples, through personae such as those of the gambler, the beggar, the prostitute. Macao as dot-on-the-map is likewise conceived as a site for all kinds of portal semiotics, as paradigm for cultural crossing and cultural shift. Macao may be regarded as a work enduring (in Brechtian terms) beca…
Resurrection
This paper presents a comparative study of two key contenders for Serbian anthem-hood, the royalist song ‘God of Justice’ and the pan-Slavic hymn, ‘Hey Slavs’. Drawing on the theorising of nation and representation, as developed by Benedict Anderson, Michael Billig and others, the purpose of the study is to compare the self-images these songs present to those they enjoin in unison, and to consider the role of those images and the identities they …
Macao Monuments
How are city and culture—the space of the city and the “mind space” of the cultural artifact— connected or disconnected? Contemporary Macao poetry and installation art demonstrate that not only has local culture continued to thrive despite outside pressures on the city’s regional position (a part of “one China” with a localized function) but that the need to produce a critique of these pressures has itself been productive of a politically interes…
Of love and national borders
Croatia became a UN member only in 1992, after the violent break‐up of Yugoslavia. Its anthem is marked by historically founded ambivalences as to the nature and territorial extent of the nation in question. This article offers an interpretation of the current version of the anthem and an analysis of the narrative and imagery of the nineteenth‐century poem from which the anthem originates. Three of the anthem's four stanzas speak about the Croats…
And ever give us cause’
This paper engages a close analytical reading of the lyrics of ‘God Save the King/Queen’ in order to understand what the functional survival of this song tells us about the rhetorical/affective investments of national devotion in the British sense. This study asks also how the lyrics of ‘God Save the King/Queen’ figure in the general definition of anthem and in the generic classification of anthems worldwide? Because of the song's international s…
Zdravljica” - toast to a cosmopolitan nation anthem quality in the Slovenian context
As with many states, in the case of Slovenia two songs principally contend for the position of national anthem. In this case an apparent ideological gulf masks perhaps a more essential temperamental divide: the bellicose army song versus the happy drinking “all together...” number. Vacillation between “Zdravljica” (“A Toast”) and “Naprej zastava slave,” (“Forward, Flag of Glory”) might be taken as reflecting the ambivalence with regard to potenti…
Liminal Encounters
This essay examines conceptions of animals and human-animal relations in the poetry of Denise Levertov, Wisława Szymborska, and Alice Fulton, with a focus on whether human thinking can take us beyond the limits of a poetic construction of animals as others
They’d Eaten Every One”
A crucial and under-examined aspect of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the relationship between euphemism and atrocity in the dealings with the anthropomorphised entities that are – or are in danger of becoming – food. Based on a close reading of the poem, this article explores how aesthetics and ethics work in considerations of form and courtesy, which impact the lives of such anthropomorphis…
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